Mere Rain

Mere Rain is an author and artist from the West Coast whose interests include surrealism, mythology, speculative fiction, and romance.

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

🥳 to me! AND to my new 7k romance! pre-order
Cat Snacks and Comebacks...
OR, Love Has No Boundaries, charity antho 4 Intl Inst MN support of immigrants. 22 stories!
https://t.co/IswcTPh2wE....

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@ElliottBlackwe3 Sorry. I hope your father does well and can join you for a birthday do-over in May.

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

How one French distillery is decarbonising the recycling process for wine by-products and dealcoholisation https://t.co/GHQhPyqqK7

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

Dismantling Independence: Legal, Compositional and Normative Erosion across Federal Boards and Commissions https://t.co/yYUMyDutDy

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

New & pre-orderable writing of mine, including a LGBTQ+ charity antho supporting immigrants in Minnesota.
https://t.co/999T4ezcaR
https://t.co/JE5DfPndTo

[ALOCASIA @GAY_ALOCASIA]

ALOCASIA #17 is here w/ queer planty writing as winter writhes into spring!

w/ Christopher Phelps, Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Erin Mizrahi, Nikki Wallschlaeger, wallamide, Zoe Adrien Lapa, Tara Labovich, oleg olizev, & Aaron El Sabrout

https://t.co/EuLXa3L1QS

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@KMWoodauthor Ah, me too! HBD!

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@Plotwist_ing No more books after I finish the books I've already started writing!
...all 2000 of them.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood” (Is 1:15).

[Flame Tree Press Team @flametreepress]

It's time for another open art call! We're inviting illustrators to submit line drawings for inclusion in the next two anthologies in the Romantic Fantasy series: The Tarot of Love and Of Blood & Petals! 🥀🌞
🔗 Full submission guidelines: https://t.co/X5vyje8oll

[Tatsuya Tanaka 田中達也 @tanaka_tatsuya]

ストレンジャー・ストリングス

#ストレンジャーシングス #ヴェクナ
#StrangerThings #Vecna

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@serialsemantic Yes, although I identified with Sara from A Little Princess more. Maybe because she was so into books and telling stories.

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@Wisteraverse @BruceRF1 She's a conservative Christian who likes Elon Musk. I don't think you need to worry about her opinions.

Also, she was just posting about how she forgives everyone, so if she's upset with you she's a hypocrite.

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@LindaMeadWrites @Wisteraverse I drank with my dad when I was like 12. He wanted to make sure I knew how before I started getting offered booze by other teens.

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@Wisteraverse A lot of Americans seem convinced that 18 is an innately significant age that is recognized universally.

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@serialsemantic I'm not, but I was obsessed with Celtic mythology for several childhood years. I'm using some for a novella now!

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@booklycatz @serialsemantic I dated someone Irish long enough to get him in the habit of calling everyone "dude" 😂

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@ElfordAlley Maybe it's a hoax to get all the rich Olds to support science research?

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

@jms-books.com is having a 45% off sale for St Patrick's Day.
I don't have any Irish or saintly books to promote, but here's a romance that's greenish and set in spring.
Feel free to drop seasonal recs.
https://t.co/999T4ezK0p

[Mere Rain @mere_rain]

Further evidence that having a pleasant and cooperative disposition is not going to work in your favor.

Use your claws, frens.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

This is Félicette, a stray cat that became the first feline launched into space on 18 October 1963, as part of the French space program. Weighing just five and a half pounds, she was chosen for her calmness and resilience, making her the perfect candidate for the mission.⁠
In October 1963, a black-and-white stray from Paris named Félicette made history as the first and only cat to travel to space. Selected by French scientists for her calm demeanor, she soared 154 kilometers above Earth on a suborbital flight and returned safely, securing her place in space exploration history.

Yet Félicette’s story is as tragic as it is groundbreaking. Just two months after her successful mission, she was euthanized so researchers could study the effects of space travel on her body. Her sacrifice yielded little scientific insight, and for decades, her name faded into obscurity.

That changed in 2019, when a statue was unveiled in her honor at the International Space University in Strasbourg, depicting her gazing toward the stars, a long-overdue tribute to a small cat who helped expand humanity’s reach beyond Earth.