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Sunny
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✨Writer of overly epic epic fantasy where the characters won't shut up & the word count doesn't matter! (Until I try to publish)
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I'm attempting to make some gluten free goodies for a friend I get to see once a year who just discovered she has Celiac, and...

This texture ain't right, y'all. I make a lot of yeast bread and gluten free dough gives me the heeby geebies. Wish me luck with the baking😬 Surely it'll be better then.
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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For WIP purposes, if there was a Golden Boy Hero bloodline that ran for Perseus of Medusa killing fame to the modern day, who would you include? I'm looking for brawn based "heroes" who believed their own hype with oversimplified morals. Teddy Roosevelt? Fabio was secretly a monster slayer?
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Whyyyyy did my Alexa just try to convince me to ask for a Harry Potter audio book when I asked about the weather? I don't want it advertising at all, but Harry Potter??
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
For WIP purposes, if there was a Golden Boy Hero bloodline that ran for Perseus of Medusa killing fame to the modern day, who would you include? I'm looking for brawn based "heroes" who believed their own hype with oversimplified morals. Teddy Roosevelt? Fabio was secretly a monster slayer?
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Google isn't helping me much, possibly because this might be a stupid question.

If I make a lemongrass hard candy and grind it up so I can use it like flavored sugar, anyone know how to keep it from clumping?

I've made caramel sugar kinda like this and it likes to turn into a delicious rock.
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I'm trying to figure out how to format the story whose outline I'm currently expanding. If I did this as a bunch of little novelas that usually end in cliffhangers would y'all find that format interesting or annoying? Assuming I wrote them all before publishing & released them in a timely fashion?
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It's less than a
2 months until Christmas, also known as Extreme Speed Crocheting Time for many crafters.

One year I'll start making presents in July.

This is not that year.
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I keep spending all day doing chores then when I can finally sit down to relax and write the POTS keeps knocking me out and it is not great for morale. It feels like being heavily sedated then waking up having been run over by a dump truck as my heart rate and blood pressure try to normalize. Blah.
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Ever start flushing out your outline & expanding character profiles & start realizing your little dozen or so page original outline is going to be a massive doorstop of a series? This thing is gonna have to be HUGE to go from point A to point B.

Oo, I wonder if I can do it in short almost novelas?
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
✨fighting with people on Facebook writers groups about AI✨

It's not inevitable! Using it makes it more so! Why! Use! It! If! You! Think! You! Have! To! Justify! It!

Having no money to pay an editor just means you don't get one! I know! I don't have money! That's just how it works! Stop stealing!
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I did too much today and kicked my own butt, now the POTS is mad and I can't see very well and my face feels like I have a fever. This is a stupid condition. I was just trying to catch up on chores.
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I don't want to hear shit about how Newsom is standing up to Trump. A judge has issued a stay preventing the feds from yanking the CDLs of legal immigrants but @governor.ca.gov is going forward with it anyway. Just like he's persecuting trans people anyway.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The number of times I walk through a cloud of dog fart a day is at least 10 times too many.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
There are few things as good as getting brain worms for a new project.

Metaphorical brain worms. Just to be clear to the universe.
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Started on research and character profiles for Drops of Gold, an urban fantasy of very unknown length, with a mostly silent MC. Why do I have something like that for every MC that makes them harder to write? I dunno, that's a question for therapy, but it makes for interesting books!
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I do not remember this many pop up ads & flashy side bars last time I tried to do a research deep dive. It is very annoying and really dulls the fun. No one is voluntarily clicking the ad that pops up on top of the text we're reading! That is not making anyone money! We just now hate the advertiser!
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Now that I'm done drafting the Calamity's Leftovers duology it's on to the next story or I'll lose my mind! The next step is research for Drops of Gold, an urban fantasy I have loosely plotted.

So.

Anyone have book recommendations for folklore creatures & cryptids? I want to be respectful and-
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I apparently have two types of ideas for book titles: esoteric, vague, deep, dramatic meaning, or puns and jokes. The genre has no effect.

Most of my titles just appear in my brain. When they don't...woof, this is difficult and quickly devolving into silliness, my default setting.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I just finished drafting book 2 of the year, the second book in the Calamity's Leftovers duology.

If only publishing was as easy as writing. I have so many books. But the business side makes my brain buzzy. I'm working on it, I'll get there eventually. Slowly. But in the meantime, I'm writing.
a black and white drawing of stacks of books and papers
Alt: a black and white gif of stacks of books and papers piling up
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November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
POTS is so weird. What do you mean I couldn't stay conscious, was out for between 30 & 50 minutes, woke up feeling like crap, rebooted & am now fine? This is a ridiculous condition, how am I supposed to manage or plan for this?

2 stars this round, b/c sometimes I hallucinate the whole time I'm out.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I've got about 3 paragraphs before I finish drafting this book, but it's really late and they're really important paragraphs and I don't want to rush it.

I could lament the horrors of being responsible but I've well passed that time wise. It's REALLY late😬
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Whyyyyyyy would Ibis Paint decide to add a new vector layer every few minutes? That is not helpful! It was also switching which layer I was on WHILE I WAS DRAWING. THAT IS NOT HELPFUL EITHER.

I'm going to go write instead, where if I screw up it's at least usually my fault.
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
One of my hobbies is telling of Facebook writers' groups when people come in trying to get approval for using 'just a little' AI. Just for ideas, just when they get stuck, etc. I list all the moral problems with AI they're normalizing while they're busy trying to decide if it's 'real writing'.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The things I need to do, the things I want to do, and the chronic illness flair that doesn't want me to do anything are currently fighting it out in an arena, and the chronic illness has a folding chair.
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM