Jenny Moser Jurling

Copy editor and writer. Fantasy and science fiction are my favorite genres. Science and health are my favorite topics. She/her.

[Jenny Moser Jurling @jenmoser]

@WhiteHouse This is cruel and horrific.

[Tempest is 𝕏ing herself off of this site @tinytempest]

This is apparently something a lot of folx (esp. BIPOC) needed to hear, so I'm posting it again & will keep on RTing it cuz I never want any marginalized writer to feel like if they can't do it like Stephen King or Thoreau, they're not a real writer. NOPE

https://t.co/UBDAlY6iqN

[Rosie C 💙 @gaswomancometh]

The mole thread (QT) got some love yesterday and many have asked what happened to the mole.

Here is the concluding part of the story, the moral of which is that you should ALWAYS trust your ODP.

They’re never wrong 🧵

[Jenny Moser Jurling @jenmoser]

@gothspiderbitch I'm well over 30, and I remember reading a newspaper article about a trans couple when I was about ten years old. (In today's phrasing: a trans man and a trans woman, married to each other. I forget the exact terminology the newspaper used. Almost certainly not the same wording.)

[Jenny Moser Jurling @jenmoser]

@QuestingHeroes @AuthorAnnait I write TK along with the missing scene notation. (Like "TK-Birthday Party-TK"). TK is journalists' slang, because it's uncommon in English words & easy to search for. If you train yourself to use it & always Ctrl+F for TK before submitting, you're golden.

[Jenny Moser Jurling @jenmoser]

@maryhelenehall Seanan McGuire

[Andy Weir @andyweirauthor]

Ten years ago today that The Martian hit shelves. I owe everything that happened since then to my readers. I can't thank you enough. So, for the hell of it, I wrote some additional content for The Martian.

The Martian: Lost Sols
https://t.co/jj86gMfxly

[Steven Spohn (Spawn) @stevenspohn]

Retweet if you are any of the following:

-Hungry
-An alien
-Funny
-A Swifty
-Enjoy the color blue
-Bi
-Sleepy
-A gamer
-An email found you but you killed it
-Like to pretend you don't receive text messages
-Horny, but for nachos

Grats! No one knows what you admitted to.

[Tailsteak📎 @tailsteak]

If I write fiction where Theseus and the minotaur fall in love
And then someone else takes my fic, swaps out the labyrinth for a coffeeshop setting
And then someone swaps the minotaur for another monster
And then someone swaps Theseus for another hero
Is it still the same ship?

[The Tweedy Mutant @the_tweedy]

As part of my research, I asked participants to share a single photo of their cat and also WHY they picked that particular photo. The commentary is *priceless*. My synapses are flooded with serotonin. I want more. I *need* more!

Show me your cat pic and tell me why *that photo*.

[Jenny Moser Jurling @jenmoser]

@shikokusue I would not, because I have only one hand that works well enough for using a phone, and I'd want that hand free for safety-related tasks.

[Bex Burgess- Ceasefire NOW @theorah]

Many people tend to think of Asexual romance as being... something that just doesn't exist (ie. People assuming a couple in a movie aren't a couple until they make it official with a big kiss!)
But really, Asexual Romance can look something like this:

[Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama]

My closest encounter with the mafia is I went to a starkly empty pizza place in Rhode Island once, they seemed utterly confused that I wanted a pizza, it took 45 minutes to make, they gave it to me for free, and it was the best pizza I’d ever had.

[Ada Palmer @Ada_Palmer]

When tackling the "All we need is STEM!" attitude, my response: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem--which did we fail?

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

Another random phrase I wrote down on my phone at some point. I wonder what sort of fortunes she tells.

[Jenny Moser Jurling @jenmoser]

@Alexa_Seidel @gailcarriger Yes! I was coming here to suggest Space Opera!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

babe, what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

[🇵🇸 Permanent Intifada 🇵🇸 @heyMAKWA]

i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:

plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you

[TTBenjamin @TTBenjamin1]

Tarot reader: in the first space I see the two of swords. Is there a decision you're trying t-

Me, pulling from my own deck: I play the Page of Pentacles in defense position and draw. The Page allows me to also play a minor arcana so I place the Three of Wands in attack position