CHERAE thank you 💖😭

congrats!!

I was on my way to a flawless victory today until I failed to count to five correctly

omg the angled lower shelves are genius, why have I never seen that before?!

they should consider running faster

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And that, I think, is the true magic of workshopping, of any sort of creative collaboration. Even after it’s over, the voices of your classmates stick with you. They’re a part of everything you write. Thanks for letting me try that jacket on, Celeste; I’ll never forget your voice. 💖

But being around her made it impossible to have thoughts like that for long. She was warm and funny and above all she saw the simple humanity in everyone around her. On our last day in Seattle, she told me she wanted to internalise each of our voices in her head, to carry the workshop forward.

I firmly believe that all copies of the secret history come into the world with that cover & with that level of wear. never seen a counterexample.

GOOD LUCK, love the vibe of returning to it the year after Official NaNo implodes

co-signed, I went after glasgow worldcon & I was thus at max covid-precaution levels & the host took one look at me in my N95 and made an outdoor table happen

but what secrets do they hide inside their husks...

I might defend "bitter as seawater", depending on context, but the second one is what you get when you think everything needs to be a simile. sometimes a thing can just be in constant motion it's ok.

they now have little hot-swappable expressions like a nendoroid and you have to squint to see who's frowning

I spent a solid thirty seconds staring at “I have the most boring neighbours” trying to figure out if it was some new category of clue

YES me too. my brain just refuses to accept that they’re sometimes meaningful.

counting is my biggest challenge in this game not gonna lie

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