#3GoodThings
1. The lady who dinged my parked car could have just driven off, but instead she went to a fair amount of trouble to find me and give me her contact and insurance info
2. I cooked enough over the weekend that we can mostly coast on leftovers during the week
3. Made an appointment with HR to arrange retirement
#ScribesAndMakers May 12 - Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?
I do! Right now I'm only in one regularly running game, which is a Star Trek Adventures group I've been playing with for around seven years. But I'm a D&D girlie, I'm in a paused Invisible Sun game, and my favourite system of all time is Fate.
#WordWeavers ~ What role does romantic love play in your story?
I actually think it's the driving force, though readers tend to disagree. Lucy changes the course of the resistance out of love for Tobias, Maya betrays Ian out of love for Shadi, and the entire series is a slow burn (like 20 years of slow burn) between Ian and Jonah. It's just that none of the characters prioritize romance above more immediate survival.
#WritersCoffeeClub May 12 - If not in your current format (novel, play, music, etc.), in what format would you write?
I've written plays in the past, and since I'm a podcaster, I think a radio play would be really fun. I'd love to do a serial one day. Probably at some point I'm going to want to write a novella because we all love novellas.
RE: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116560303161393950
LOL my series is about a magical bureaucracy, that seemed hilarious to me and if it does to others, buy my books. :)
This is 51: slushing and embroidering. :D
Vile Lady Villains is now out in the US!
If you live in the US, you can now (listen to me) read Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou, wherever you get your audiobooks!
Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers.
This week's theme was all about flowers, so I looked at flower elements on covers, and was surprised by how uncheerful some of them looked!
https://breathesbooks.com/2026/05/12/top-ten-tuesday-may-flowers/
Tell Me Something Tuesday: May 12, 2026 – Master of None
https://twimom227.com/2026/05/tell-me-something-tuesday-may-12-2026-master-of-none.html
Had to steal a different seat for the viee but worth it (ComfortJet Prague - > Děčín)
inable to move
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/6-books-with-jordan-kurella.html
At the NOAF blog, Jordan Kurella tells https://mastodon.social/@chloroform_tea@mastodon.social about his Six Books
Both garlic and I are thoroughly flomped.
Barry B. Longyear (1942-2025) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?242
L, Kevin Eugene Johnson, 1984; R, John Rush, 1980
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Recently published, a fantastic new novel from Peadar Ó Guilín. Never trust the dead, you have no idea what they might be planning. "magnificent and original” — Adrian Tchaikovsky
https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/books-by-peadar-o-guilin/the-sword-garden/
Philip Wylie (1902-1971) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?262
L, uncredited, 1956; R, uncredited, 1964
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Artist David Pelham (1938-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?26191
L, 1972; R, 1977
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
I’d much rather be very early and having to wait than risk being late
I have a medical appointment in 50 minutes. It is a 6 minute drive away, and the appointment reminder clearly states that I should be there no more than 10 minutes early. This is really messing with my usual plan for medical appointments, which would have me leaving now
I dropped something that rolled under my bed, so I moved my bed to get it. The bed moving was apparently outside of Stitch’s idea of how the world works.
He went and fetched Purl to come inspect this concerning development.