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Writer of stuff. Thirtysomething old fuck. Weird Baltimore person. Just realized I could do this. Bask in my computer illiteracy: https://books2read.com/ap/nEJQpv/Zofia-Warwick Lover of most things puppetry related, offbeat, and anti-establishment.

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 4d

With the upcoming Indigenous People's Day on October 13 I want to link a paper for everyone's perusal: datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/addressing-n....

This is a breakdown of the risk of homelessness among native populations within urban areas and what organizations are active in providing aid.

Addressing Native Homelessness with Culturally Appropriate Housing | Data-Smart City Solutions

datasmart.hks.harvard.edu

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

Suffice to say it's condoning revisionism.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

It feeds into Clean, Pretty, Reliable culture. Fiction apparently has to abhor messy, even if messy is more interesting. (How much better if fiction was messy and reality wasn't, am I right?) Can't show bad behavior in fiction, have to excuse bad behavior in reality. If publishing is doing *this*...

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

Characters being likeable is marketability pap. Change mah mind.

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

Saw this and since I'm on an unstoppable tear I'm just going to have to ask: do you, though? Asking because I read Antigone, and Things Fall Apart, and Where Angels Fear to Tread and there's just no likeable characters outside of Ezinma and Antigone.

inventingrealityediting.com/2016/11/16/h...

How to make your main character likable

Among the major challenges facing fiction writers is creating a protagonist who readers will like. After all, if readers loathe the character, they probably aren’t going to continue with …

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

I love you for this hot take.

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

Haven't read it sadly, but read Calvin's polemical ahem. "treatise" and it's the stuff of catastrophized nonsense. Sounds like a good recommendation.

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Marie-Pierre Cleret @marie-pierre.bsky.social · 18h

#PSA

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

RIP George, Breonna, Atatiana, Trayvon--and too many more.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 15h

Like the blood on the hands of Lady MacBeth, American justice cannot rinse clean the stains caused by two-tier policing.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 16h

In a nutshell, every writer/poet/lyricist has a telltale flow, almost like a fingerprint. You can change meter but you can't change the way your thoughts spill out of your head and how you channel them. There's something just a bit fishy about esteemed dead editor/writer/poet EA Poe's 'The Raven'.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone want to read some Edgar Allan Poe rage bait? Could have posted this on here a week ago but just didn't. A lot going on.

Anyway, if you're familiar with the concept of flow, I should probably have expanded on that in greater detail.

#dreaddeclarations #poe

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Sometimes You Feel like a Nut (and Some Days, You Don't) | Zofia Warwick's Page of Oddities

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 16h

If you were stranded in a deconstructed everyone dies fantasy world but it also had entirely too many puns:

Would an Andy Weirwood give you good tips on orbital mechanics?

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 16h

It's amazing how one's brain immediately goes to 'Wonderwall' in that second sentence without any further contextual dialogue.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 16h

If the character in question had fish in his wetsuit and went on to become a minor sea deity, does that count or no?

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 17h

One was possessed by an 18th Century ghost during a road trip.

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, fashioned a bucket list (desperately depressed) and am going to share it. Feel free to add your own! The crazier the better is what I say.

#depressionmeansbucketlist

Bucket list! Items are in no special order:
Get drunk and wander through a Hands (Japanese stationary store.)
Iceland! (Sign says Iceland.)
Sell...soap? Books? (Vending!)
Live by a Sea (waves!)
Grow Beer (hops!)
Eat this on all foods and not die (Buldak 2X Spicy sauce)
World Peace (abstract, but beachy)
Kayak like Paul Theroux (kayaking in pristine potentially Pacific waters)
Parent well (a kid blowing bubbles in silhouette)

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely concur that the emoji barrage on one of our wonderful bluesky book ads just confuzzles me most of the time. Happier when I see a blurb--I know where I stand with it. (Also, see this handy list of undeciphered writing systems--nearly all pictographs! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecip...)

Undeciphered writing systems - Wikipedia

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 1d

Like, you are the reason you never see your family. You are the reason you're constantly tired and your body is aching. Does your paycheck look all that better, even? Oh, you think 'taxes' are what ate it all. Hmm.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 1d

At this stage of the game I feel like anyone signing up for overtime in a vacated position is just scabbing in another form and drank far too much of the hustle culture Flavor Aid, and my patience with the soap operatic pathos associated has worn very, very thin.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 2d

You and me both. 😂

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 2d

Tracks? Hmm. October--nice, kind of a David Sylvain thing going for it. U2 at this time? Not The Police. Album cover? Adam Clayton's hairspray could hold up bridges.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 2d

This is the bi-monthly reminder that I did a few things that are available for cheap. To reinforce this, I shall include both a link to commercial items and a song that summarizes my feelings.

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#horror #comedy #otherstuff #books

Cheepnis (Live At The Roxy, Hollywood/1973)

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

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zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 2d

Teppanyaki Grill on Washington Boulevard is sadly dead, but you could put an awfully suspicious amount of prawns with heads on in a Styrofoam container while it lasted.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 2d

There have to be some of these bootlickers that are effectively tired of this chaos.

zofiawarwick.bsky.social @zofiawarwick.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, I'm a wee little humanities major and not a civics instructor, but the current rules on any motion to oust the speaker of the house requires a mere nine Republicans. Maybe we can get some face-savers to join the resistance and get that parasite Mike Johnson out. Anyone? Bueller?

#motiontooust

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