Ankaret Wells

Plus guest stars. How about you, what projects are you working on at present?

... Ismae the very conscientious half-elf paladin, who copes with her strong paladin feelings about everything by cleaning everything in sight, and Hraegardr, who is originally from another plane of existence and is presently incarnated as a mechanical kobold on wheels.

There's The Scholar, the pov character, who is a bit fussy and unadventurous but turns out to care a lot about justice; Kettler, a goblin rogue on a quest to get her platonic life partner back from the fae; Fletch the ranger, a reformed horse thief, and his ooze companion Pickles...

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

Cranford, but it's a D&D party.

#amwriting Kettler stopped by a stall selling little hand-carved wooden signs with mottos like Leaves, Laugh, Love and It's Elven Cordial O'Clock! Have you got one, she enquired, that says Intruders Will Be Escorted Politely Off The Premises, Book Thieves Will Be Shot?

OK, this is really fun!

I have a lot of family oriented, hard working and entrepreneurial relatives who would heartily agree with Hannah Spencer's acceptance speech though probably not vote Green. Some of them *might* have voted Labour in 1997, but otherwise it's no more on their radar than visiting the local gurdwara.

Though I may be feeling particularly sensitive about this given that today has been yet another iteration of 'I had this explained to me at some point before I was twelve, why has the literal Health Secretary apparently not heard of it?', this time with regard to the concept of the dignity of risk.

'relationships matter more than abstract rights' gave me a chill down the spine. Rights aren't abstract when you're up against the lack of them or the pressure not to use them.

Thank you! I'm already using The GIMP so at least that should just be a case of adapting to a newer version.

I'm planning to move to Linux when the middle-aged PC I use for (a) writing, layout and covers for ebooks and (b) playing Sims and CK3 kicks the bucket, so I'm very interested to hear about your experience with it.

My mother is 80 and her reaction to a relative's partner transitioning was
'well I think better of her for sticking by (relative), she's a very attractive woman these days and all (relative's) side of the family are unfortunate looking'.

I broadly agree but I do want to take a hammer to his convictions that young people were broadly safe from covid and that there is a consensus among older people against trans rights.

I just realised while putting together a proverb in a quick and dirty conlang that I was tring to make it the same meter as the opening of Beowulf. Well, at least now I know what I'm doing?

The plumber doesn't cometh. Possibly he has been elected to Parliament?

Andy Serkis as Gollum from the LOTR movies looking as if he is about to poke someone in the eye.

I can only think of one former hobbit and he's not really a role model.

Picture of a fat middle aged white woman with dark hair wearing a hoodie reading 'Grumpy Old Crone: Unabashedly Opinionated' and looking very pleased with herself.

In my crone zone. Hoodie from www.grumpyoldcrone.co.uk.

Me too, and now I'm hoping to forget again as soon as possible.

Elder sister of two brothers. Everything is my responsibility, but I baseline expect that men will take me seriously and see me as people.

christ he's just waiting to play rfk in the biopic isn't he

He has hidden depths.

Sherlock and Mycroft, two fluffy pale ginger cats, are lying on a bed with a red gingham cover. Mycroft is very relaxed whereas Sherlock is a bit more awake.

I just somehow managed to hit 'AI overview' by mistake and it confidently identified this as a picture of a white dog and then spouted some extremely random factoids about the history of gingham.

Please excuse the laundry, we are still without a washing machine due to building work.

Mycroft, a fluffy pale ginger Maine Coon cat, sticks his snoot in the camera. Some of the legs in the background belong to his brother Sherlock.

Attempts to photograph the cats were thwarted

Streeting nervously twirling telephone cord hoping RFK Jr will finally return his calls Wes Streeting is currently waiting by the phone hoping fellow health secretary Robert Francis Kennedy Jr has finally noticed what a special little evil boy he is, according to political sources. Stree...

Evergreen:

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I met a traveller from a distant land
Who said: that there in Oxford is a floof
With smoke-grey fur luxuriant to the hand
And amber glance, intemperate yet aloof.

It really has.

Entirely fair.

Apparently so. 😬