Riv is writing about queer gangsters😈

Reader, writer, grump. I love schmoozing about YA fantasy, pirates, and what to make for Shabbat dinner.

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@MetroNorth Thanks. What stops is it making?

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@MetroNorth Is there any way to track schedules for the new haven line out of williams bridge? The app doesn't have anything bc it's an unusual route. (What other stops is it making?) TY!

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Just got a push notification that my coworker hit a new milestone in DuoLingo so I KNOW he's ignoring my slack messages.

[Dan Mahboubian Rosen @thedanrosen]

People wonder why Jews are neurotic. It’s because the chill ones didn’t make it. Every Jew you meet is the descendent of a Jew 200 years ago who was like “yo, the vibes are off. Let’s get on a boat.”

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"Touch the Sky" is a BOP no i will not take further questions

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Making this the epigraph when I finally have time for my 1910's Sapphic bundist/mobster novel.

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@piratkitten @bookishmaddays I once told myself I would never write historical fiction because the research is overwhelming. Held tight for years and years and now here I am, doing it anyway, drowning in niche artifacts and drenched in my own regret.

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@cassbeewrites Salt and blood.
The smell suffocated her.
She had done this.

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@chamomeriam Heterosexuals. 🏳️‍🌈

[Allison K Williams @GuerillaMemoir]

I say this with love in my heart: Every time an author says "My book doesn't have any comps" I think one of two things: 1) You don't read very much, do you? 2) You haven't done even the most cursory of websearches on your topic.
HERE'S HOW TO FIND YOUR DAMN COMPS:

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Doing character work for my ensemble cast of pirates by playing Cosmo's "most likely to" to flesh out all their characterization.

Most likely to shoplift? The twelve year old powder monkey.
Most likely to get lost in their own hometown? The token white himbo quartermaster.

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@daniellekrage Good luck!

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#aestheticboard but for researching your historical fiction novel
follow me if you like

-opening forty wiki articles
-being too overwhelmed to write for weeks
-panic buying five niche books written a century ago
-closing all forty wiki articles and starting over
-self doubt????

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Why would I work on my NaNovel when I can make an aesthetic board? Come for:
-enbies and POC (pirates of color)
-an mc afraid to dream + a romantic interest fleeing a dark past
-beating the shit out of slavers
-cottagecore? on a pirate ship?
-did i mention enby pirates omg

[Ruthie Writes @ruthiewrites91]

Boy I don’t know what I did to deserve an era of pirate renaissance in my 30’s but I will TAKE IT

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@chamomeriam A dagger, a slingshot, a barely legible note full of secrets, a sword stained with too much blood

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@cassbeewrites "Captain?" Alice whispered into the dark. "Who was that man who started the fight?"
Nunca shifted, rolling onto their back. "You know, these are the sorts of questions you're supposed to ask 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 you request to join a pirate crew."

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@nadianoorx Is group chat full because I'm in dire need of memes this month

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@kowtharshi Oh my I'm—

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@chamomeriam I wasn't originally planning to but then I started working on a sapphic historical YA about a nonbinary pirate and their motley crew/found family of anti-authoritarian abolitionists who struggle with duty and selfhood??? So yeah let's nano!