I don’t really have a reason for saying all this. Just kinda felt necessary. People deserve to see themselves in stories. Full stop.

The same goes for things like blood quantum. By all accounts, my percentage of “Cherokee blood” could be seen as disqualifying. But I’m a card carrying member of the tribe. And I want my people to see themselves in stories, regardless of “how Native” they are.

It’s a good goal to have 🤭

Thank you! This is what happens when I get mad at one couple for being a slow burn and not kissing until 70k in. The next work gets a kiss at 35k lmao

The casual horrors are what make cyberpunk as a concept imo. It also helps to drive the 'it doesn't have to be this way' point home once they get to the solarpunk region and see how it thrives without the influence of cyberpunk megacorps.

The desperation 🤌🏻

“We doubled back and went weird routes a lot to lose the cyberpunk private security chasing us. You just didn’t notice because you were asleep!”

I thought it would take over a week to drive across the united states in you were going 24 hours. It takes less than two full days. I had to come up with excuses lmao

Either one or two months. I’ve participated in November’s writing challenge for so many years doing more that that feels odd to me lol

When I was learning Russian, my voice tended to pitch lower.