Lora Durance

I climb and narrate with C-PTSD. #Writing hopeful slow-burn #fantasy, @lroseriver on IG

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

🧩 Rock climbing teaches me trust, teaches me that even in insecure places and times, when I’ve spent all I have, there’s somebody at the other end of the rope. 💖 🧠
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“Trust Falls” | Utterance Journal 🚀 Read or scroll ⬇️ to listen. 🔗 https://t.co/4Sb8jq35Jo

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

There is a documented phenomenon in
CPTSD research called "betrayal trauma theory," developed by psychologist Jennifer Freyd. It proposes that trauma caused by people on whom the victim depends for survival produces a specific kind of cognitive adaptation. The child cannot afford to know what is being done to them because knowing would threaten the attachment they require to survive. So the knowing gets blocked. Not as a choice. As a survival mechanism.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@digitalskywx Any way to buy outright? DM if so! Thanks

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@entertheunseen Nesting canyon wren is very much my favorite 🥹

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

When a work has been generated by AI, there *is* no unifying intelligence.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

Wouldn’t it be ironic if this American President’s ill-conceived war on Iran makes him go down in history as the guy who saved the planet from fossil fuels? Listen, I’d take it.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

Real talk: Em dashes are my Swiss Army knife, and I am not going to be shamed or cowed into not using them. It’s apparent when I’m reading AI gen. It’s apparent that I don’t write with AI. I don’t need to fear that my em dashes will suddenly expose me. There’s nothing to expose

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

Operation Epic Failure

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

Oh good, goodbye Boundary Waters. At least I get another chance to rant at my worse-than-useless congressman.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

Oops. Trump forgot to post graphic footage of “Lucifer” stabbing 3 people on a Manhattan subway platform

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@MegTrast @LLMadridWriter Sounds great, Meg!!

[Anna Gazmarian @anna_gazmarian]

I'm back at @TheSunMagazine working as the Outreach Coordinator for the Editorial Team which is a fancy way of saying that I'm querying writers and actively looking for new work. Reach out to me about who you'd like to see us publish.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@kativanovwrites Got my wisdom teeth out via a paid double-blind pain pill study...got the placebo, unfortunately. At $200 a tooth? Definitely not worth it

[Wisconsin Sass @WisconsinSass]

Once, a guy fucked the crease between my thigh and labia, thinking he was in my vagina, and when he finished he asked if I got off. I had to break it to him that he just fucked my leg. This is what I think of when men act like they’re equipped to make laws about women’s bodies.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

"Reproductive coercion against intimate partners is a form of intimate partner violence" https://t.co/XmIsB9Ay42 If you've been living under a rock, the US Supreme Court is actively engaged in violence against ppl who can get pregnant #coercivecontrol #intimatepartnerviolence

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@ElizabethH_WI Absolutely me! I love it but I’m intimidated by all the unknowns and decisions and also knowing that it will spend spoons I won’t then have to give to other people/projects—so writing is for me a form of taking up space. Challenging emotionally but oh so important and worth it.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

Partner's 9yo niece getting super frustrated that people keep referring to Pokémon as "he" when "obviously they're nonbinary!" My heart.

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@mcrane_12 When, after Roe v Wade was overturned, I reached out in kindness about being a voice of compassion in a community where I no longer have a foothold and all they saw was an attack: I realized they saw me only as a threat; there was no longer a friendship, only painful memories

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@TeamYouTube YouTube Team, we're still waiting on support. This is really critical to our operations. My manager's knee-jerk is to pull all our operations out of YT. I'm trying to calm them down. Could you please advise how you're going to fix this?

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@YouTube During a domain transfer, YouTube's servers corrupted a YT video critical to our company's operations (audio and video sync issue). How can we get in touch with a tech admin to fix this issue asap?

[Lora Durance @lroseriver]

@TeamYouTube We have sent a feedback report from our creator account, but since we haven't gotten a response there yet, and this issue has been going on since October, we need to get the attention of someone at YT who can help and will not simply send us back to help articles.