I completely understand. I could never do for example Seanan's amazing hair.

The good news is, to maintain it after you have a licensed professional put dangerous chemicals on your head, you don't have to go back to the salon. When I had the blue hair i.e the hair in my icon, I used to use Rusk Deepshine Direct which is a semi-permanent dye that you can get online.

Dive rolls like James T Kirk.

I took a stage combat class with my ex and scared the absolute shit out of him for six consecutive Wednesday nights by just flinging my body around with great abandon and speed.

When I was illustrating the covers for the InCryptid short stories featuring Antimony--and then again when I was designing her dingbat for the novels--I did a serious deep dive into Derby girls. I didn't want anyone reading the books to point at the skates or gear and go 'those aren't right'.

I must have been channeling my Candice; she is the irrepressible punster in our home. After 15 or so years, she's rubbed off on me...

I think it was for the Silver Screams-- Princess Leia-you-out.

ok that's fantastic I wish I'd written it.

One of the greatest joys of my life was sending Seanan Maguire a list of potential derby girl names for the Final Girls, and one of them actually making the cut! possibly more than one but definitely one that I remember as being mine.

please tell me it was me. I really really want to know I am not kidding.

that does explain Darcy Lewis and Howard The Duck's daughter Birdie, tho.

I absolutely have an opinion. All the opinions. Opinions for DAYS.

I never did find out which cover you were talking about but now I am dead curious...

THAT IS EPIC and now I need to go find the penguin classics cover generator so that I may wreak as much havoc as humanly possible

The mistake is believing that it's Chicago. It is very much Chicagoland. Specifically Kenilworth or Evanston, I believe.