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  • November 27, 2025

    This Update is Scattered

    Okay, Lord of the Black Mountain is going to be slightly stalled due to doomscrolling due to a) the government shut down b) everything related to the shut down c) horrifying levels of second hand embarrassment. Doomscrolling is generally a bad idea! However I could not look away as I kind of depend on services…

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      Updates, Writing
      genre: fantasy, genre: science fiction, lord of the black mountain, writer: jacob steven mohr, writer: Juliana Pinheiro, writer: martha wells, writer: sierra branham, writer: suzanne palmer
    • November 19, 2025

      Like to Charge, Reblog to Cast

      This was inspired by the “your body my choice” meme from 2024. In nearly twenty years of marriage, Ann had never been the big spoon. She also had never had morning wood. (Her nose had never been buried in the nape of a woman with dark brown hair who was her mirror image.) So of…

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        Original Fiction
        genre: fantasy, short fiction
      • November 11, 2025

        Book Review: Constituent Service by John Scalzi

        John Scalzi has a talent for understated humor, and a gift for putting characters into capital-S Situations. In this case Ashley, Our Protagonist has landed a job as a community liaison for a human-minority district in an unnamed city. (District Three is inhabited mostly by sophonts from other worlds.) Her job is solve minor problems,…

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          Book Review
          genre: science fiction, writer: john scalzi
        • November 6, 2025

          Queen Demon Memes!

          Many of these are going to be more than a little spoilery.

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            memes
            genre: fantasy, series: the rising world, writer: martha wells
          • October 24, 2025

            The Plow and Mule Story (As Vaguely Remembered by Someone Who Got Yelled at For Not Thinking It Was Funny.)

            So, apparently there was a situation with a mule, a plow and my Uncle Bo when he was a kid. This situation that transpired was my uncle being unable to plow in a straight line. This was then followed by further complications that resulted in my paternal grandfather shouting, “that mule is worth more than…

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              dysfunctional families, the fam
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