mangomeowl
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What’s been your experience with asking for chapter critiques as you progress through your first draft? Worth it or wait?
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amwriting
February 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Need a white guy to walk confidently into a federal building and delete all the student loans files
February 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this.

Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
February 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Besides the age of the protagonists, what is really the difference between YA and adult? What if you have two MCs in different age groups? I may have written myself into another pickle #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amwriting #BookSky
February 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
February 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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California Attorney General Bonita enters the fray.
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Rorry arrives at the noble manor where he’ll be taking magic lessons and is accosted by a guard. The whole experience feels a little unreal, but surely it’s because he’s so unaccustomed to the fineries of plateau life. Surely, that’s all it is.

#WIPSnips
#BookSky
#WritingCommunity
February 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
After completing, with some difficulty, his first thieving “job” at his new housemate’s behest, Rorry, a refugee, asks if there’s no way to survive in Iridan without stealing from people. Bilge bitterly explains his reasoning.

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#BookSky
February 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
February 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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"Defendants' actions in this case potentially run roughshod over a 'bulwark of the Constitution' by interfering with Congress's appropriation of federal funds." OMB "attempted to wrest the power of the purse away from the only branch of government entitled to wield it."
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In Iridan, the upper class have built themselves up on a massive plateau overlooking the city proper. To Rorry, who is new to the city, the plateau’s shadow seems an inescapable darkness—but it’s still better than the fires of Belethlian.

#WIPsnips #WriteSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity
February 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Everyone please check on your trans and immigrant friends they are very worried about tomato prices.
You’re worried about tomato prices.

Wait till Trump’s Mexico tariffs raise your tomato prices.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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🖋️ “Elon Musk is not elected & should not have access to government computer systems” hit 3,000 signers!
Elon Musk is not elected & should not have access to government computer systems
The reported actions by Elon Musk and his associates to gain control over critical government IT systems and processes is extremely concerning and represents a severe overreach of power. As a private citizen, Musk holds no elected office or other legitimate authority to interfere with the operations of federal agencies like the Treasury Department or the Office of Personnel Management. Allowing unauthorized individuals to access sensitive data and systems that manage trillions in funds and contain personal information of millions of federal employees is a reckless violation of security protocols. This flagrant disregard for proper procedures jeopardizes the integrity of government functions and public trust. Immediate steps must be taken to revoke any access Musk or his affiliates have obtained and reinstate full control to the career civil servants intended to operate these systems. Unelected private citizens should never be permitted to exert undue influence over core government operations in this manner. Prompt action to address this unlawful intrusion is imperative to uphold the separation of powers and defend democratic norms.
resist.bot
February 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:

“What a weird thing to say”

“Do you hear yourself right now?”

“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”

“I won’t let you talk to them that way”

“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”

“Shut the fuck up, dude”
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
The responsibility for resisting and correcting this behavior shouldn’t fall solely on a specific gender. If you’re a man of conscience and you see another man mimicking Nick Fuentes, fuck him up on sight before the women even get a chance. I mean that.
November 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
First time doing a #WIPSnips

Rorry meets another refugee from a mountain city. The rasp in her voice is from smoke inhalation, but not from any ordinary smoke. This smoke came from the fire that ravaged a forest deeply steeped in magic — the forest Rorry once called his home.
February 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What do you do with your “unmarketable” passion projects if you’re still unpublished and unknown? When you love it too much to abandon it, but just can’t find a place for it in the market?

#BookSky #WritingCommunity
February 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".

The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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"We have to allow this [org/shelter/hospital/school] to erase the trans community and comply to save everyone else"

Absolutely not.

I will not allow my community to be jettisoned to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.

But we are all in this together.
January 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.
January 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Making art is so embarrassing. Oh, you had a feeling and wanted to express it? You tapped into the divine creative stream and let it flow through you? Grow up, dude.
January 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Great news.

A transgender woman will NOT be transferred to a men's prison facility and forcibly detransitioned, at least for now.

Trump administration has been enjoined from doing so by a judge.

First win in court, as the case continues.
January 31, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM