Author of the speculative Clova Mysteries with an amateur sleuth who time travels *from* a matriarchal hunter-gatherer culture 5000 years ago #amquerying
A unique find in Europe:
A 4,000 years old necklace, made by people of the Moriš/Maros culture. It was found in a woman's grave, in one of their settlements in Serbia.
The beads are made of deer, sheep and cow bones, while the central pendant is a HUMAN rib...
love how being an author is literally just making up these unhinged fake little people and then convincing readers to obsess over them as much as you do
We don’t know what life was like for our ancestors. Not really.
What we do know is what life is like today: messy and complicated and loud, manufactured and stressful and artificial. It’s cerebral and social and a consequence of our society, even as we shape that society.
I wanted her to look like she should have a notepad on her at all times. I wanted her to be feminine, and soft-voiced, and all the things that we’ve been told are “weak”. Because honestly, fuck that.
#Wings. Many woody plants are specialized for wind dispersal and have formed winged #fruits. The #wingnuts of the walnut family, the maples of the sapindaceae or ptelea from the citrus family. #botany#nature
I wrote hundreds of thousands of words this year, threw out nearly all of them, and barely published anything. It’s fine! It happens often. These bleak, dry, fallow years are necessary for the good work to begin to take shape in the periphery.