Oh. Hey, Bluesky.
Life got so chaotic, and I took on a new job position to improve my mental & physical health (psst, it's working!).
But I finished my 3rd book & sent it to my editor.
So... maybe I'm back?
Mother Trying Her Best To Project Same Amount Of Insecurities Onto All Her Daughters
Mother Trying Her Best To Project Same Amount Of Insecurities Onto All Her Daughters
theonion.com/mother-...
Oof.
Beautiful!
As a mom and someone who works full time in the sports industry (& has a chronic illness) there are times when I'm totally hands-off with writing/editing/etc. I also have found those moments of chaos helpful because when I do come back to it, I'm "fresh brained"
Writing this book series was healing in ways I can't describe. I never dealt with many of the deaths in my life, juat shoved them down & kept going.
Writing gave me the outlet I needed to face the losses. And heal.
Now lazy fuckers are stealing it.
Yes. I'm pissed.
And it's 100% rightfully so.
WHY am I so upset over Meta stealing my work to train their Generative AI?
1. It's MY fucking work.
But because I know that's not enough...
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2. My MMC was modeled after my best friend that died our senior year. To know that someone can now easily take those precious bits and pieces of him that I briefly brought back to life for this story, and use however they want - IT HURTS.
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Other ideas for other ways to fight back. If you don't know where to start, pick one of these and do it.
My AuDHD isn't late onset.
It was years of being told I was too loud, too sensitive, too dramatic, etc.
It was all in my head. I made my own issues.
I was such a procrastinator.
My final dx at 38 was a weight off my shoulders.
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I always wonder at the life that would have been if I'd just been heard the first or second time I spoke up.
At how many times I could have drawn a full breath & taken even just one day of rest when a flare had my over the toilet, puking from pain before going to class/internship/work.
I'm seen as successful because I have college degrees, including a masters.
I'm an award winning writer & photographer.
A published author.
Yet...
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I am not "high functioning" anything.
It was either push through the pain or fail (& face consequences [childhood])
Push through or go hungry.
Push through or be homeless.
Push through the pain over & over because I had no village. No help.
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do you ever think about the large percentage of walmart employees that qualify for SNAP and how we subsidize the waltons billionaire lifestyle for some reason and also that democrats never point this out
The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated over 1,400 employees.
I just want someone to tell me what to eat & how much in this new stage of perimenopause causing havoc on my body.
For less than what I pay for my mortgage.
Because why so $$ if they're not coming & cooking my food FOR ME? Just telling me what to eat?
I have a nutrition degree & spent 15 years working w/clients.
Can I do my own? Yes. Absolutely.
But I don't want to. My schedule is jam packed & my mental capacity is tapped.
In less than a month, my second novel will be out in the world.
Yet, I find it hard to celebrate because *gestures at my country on fire*
Asking the Dems to be more like Jasmine Crockett is not asking them to be like MTG. Some Dems need to grow up.
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
I read fiction to escape reality - NOT as a handbook for reality.
#booksky
A full 2 months away from my manuscript, and I know what the problem was.
That's all I needed. Complete disconnect from it.
Now... to figure out how to remove a dozen chapters to nix this one character's POV 🤔
#writersky #authorsky
LMAO, unelected bureaucrat Elon Musk accidentally admits that unelected bureaucrats who aren't "responsive to the people" are bad.
Fucking tool.
Nobody elected him.
So... I guess I'm not getting my 3 training sessions in this week...
My next block still hasn't posted, and starting Thursday, I'm on the road non-stop, with zero access to weights, for the next week and four days during tournaments.
Debating on disputing the charge from my PT that hit this AM 🤔
All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.
Great point.
When someone tells you that they're unavailable for something, no matter who they are to you, don't just make the appointment anyway.
Then get mad that they really are FOR REALLY REAL unavailable to be there.
Any time that 18 year old, fresh-faced heroine with a chip on her shoulder and is THE CHOSEN ONE wants to come and save *gestures wildly to the US* us would be greaaaaaaaat.
And if you don't give in - she throws paws! (She's a cattle dog, and means business 😤)
If it's not my son, it's my dog 😂😭
