@Sadacus@sarahreesbrenna "In Other Lands" is just wonderful. Sarah writes such fantastic characters. Even when she's trying to essentially piss-take and parody she ends up with such emotion and heart infusing her stories 😊
The Last Binding is eligible for the Hugo for Best Series, and so I'm going to present it rather unhumbly (I'm proud of it! I think it's great!) for your consideration.
I’ve many stories about being mocked or dropped for having cancer: here’s one. An editor talked about wanting to publish me. Another editor: ‘Can we get someone like Sarah Rees Brennan not at death’s door?’ Anyway, LONG LIVE EVIL is out July 2024. I lived. https://t.co/tI5muyoXQg
Word of the Day (because it’s about time) is ‘respair’, from the 16th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. One of too many lost positives we could do with bringing back.
Wishing everyone a gruntled, gormful, ruthful and feckful New Year, full of respair.
But what you don’t know is that that Coke can is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Pepsi introduced a product called Pepsi Blue. 1/3
And then I think it was Mountain Dew...wasn’t it, who rolled out Baja Blast? I think we need a blasting here. And then the blue hues quickly showed up in the collections of eight different beverage lines. 2/3
And then it filtered down through the grocery stores and then trickled on down into some tragic college dormitory vending machine, where you, no doubt, used your laundry quarters to purchase it as a mixer 3/3