Clarissa C. S. Ryan

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I guess I'm here now? But also wandering.shop? Where are any of us, really?

🏳️‍🌈🚀 sf/f writer, artist/designer, fan of things. GW2 player. Forever temporospatially disjointed. Ozarks→NorCal→Southern Tier NY. She/her, ish.

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Everyone. Please consider voting for Strange Horizons. They’ve never won the Hugo despite being brilliant every single year.

This is the last week of Hugo Award voting and we would like you to consider Strange Horizons for Best Semiprozine. For over 20 years, Strange Horizons has been publishing weekly issues filled with new stories, poems and non-fiction. Here are some more reasons you should vote for us below!

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Overtime baby!

Overtime? Although the Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes campaign officially ends at 12 - each pledge creates a 10 minute backertrain to keep the campaign alive! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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A STAR!? Thank you, Publishers Weekly! Ingrid just leveled up. And I celebrated by making a graphic on Canva. Authors know how to party.

ah, the human urge to cut out some cool little animals and fold some colored paper into something pointy www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Paper Cuttings Made by 17th-Century Schoolgirls Discovered Beneath Floorboardswww.smithsonianmag.com The fragile cut-outs are going on display at Sutton House in London, which was once a boarding school for girls

Have you tried *deep breath* turning it off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and—*gets inhaler* www.404media.co/to-fix-crowd...

To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Sayswww.404media.co The advice, which is specifically for virtual machines using Azure, shows that sometimes the solution to a catastrophic failure is turn it off and on again. And again.

At least our lighting has improved since that Newsweek cover

happy 29th birthday to Bisexuality!! 🥳🍾🎂

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We have interior art! Can we get to the shipping discount? No, not that kind of shipping…

Beating Hearts and Battle-Axes brings six sizzling sword & sorcery stories by by @slhuang.com David C. Smith @brynhammond.bsky.social @valerievaldes.bsky.social @brentclambert.bsky.social + T.A. Markitan. Add-ons available until campaign ends this Sat 20th at 12pm: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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We're coming up on 2/3 of the way there! Gonna need all of the shouting and support we can get for this one. The original goal was $4k but after some research inflation pushed that up to $6k. 😬 I have high hopes that we can get to it together! Every little bit counts. #Art #PoseRef #Resources

OMG it's happening!! Everybody IT'S HAPPENING! AdorkaStock & Friends Group Poses for Artists is now LIVE. Pls help us make day one the strongest launch possible. We have 3 tiers: $10, $30, & $100. ❤️❤️ www.adorkastock.com/group #Art #PoseRef #Crowdfunding #Artist #References

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This is an incredibly cool idea for resources, and I would like to beg everyone to consider doing something similar for their locations.

archiveofourown.org/works/574592... So, @thefourthvine.bsky.social and I went ahead and wrote this thing several of us were talking about on one of her posts--feel free to spread the link to anyone who might find it helpful.

Fic Set In LA: A DIY Guide - sinead, thefourthvine - Resources For Fic Writers [Archive of Our Own] archiveofourown.org An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

ok, this Puerto Rican arroz con gandules is a next level rice dish. I almost didn't order any with my pastelillos because, like, when something comes with rice & beans I always ask for double beans instead, and I'm very inexperienced with Puerto Rican food. $3 EXTREMELY well spent

lately it's just constant NWS texts like HEAT ADVISORY severe thunderstorm warning HEAT ADVISORY severe thunderstorm warning HEAT ADVISORY tornado watch HEAT ADVISORY (repeat) it's giving Arkansas not NY

Because someone asked me about this recently: Yes, you can still buy molecular home covid tests. They're expensive, though. Lucira by Pfizer COVID-19 & Flu tests and Aptitude Metrix Covid-19 tests are two that are available in the US.

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"other things" 👏👏👏 anyway, I hope everyone who needs a spinning fan and a basin of ice water today has them

In honor of this seriously bullshit heat, I translated a favorite passage from Chapter 27 of the late-Ming novel Jin Ping Mei, which is mostly remembered for other things: "There are in this world three sorts of people who fear the heat, and three who do not." www.burninghou.se/p/the-heat

The Heatwww.burninghou.se Critical support for Comrade The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling

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New York is voting for equal rights this November, and so can you, by supporting Congressional reps and Senators who want to affirm the ERA as the 28th Amendment! Understand more about the ERA here: www.patreon.com/posts/106934...

NEW: The Equal Rights Amendment is back on the New York ballot this November! The state's high court has affirmed the judgement of a lower appeals court reversing a recent opinion by a Western New York judge who had thrown out the ballot question on procedural grounds

The ERA Guidebook | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBluewww.patreon.com Get more from Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue on Patreon

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TOMORROW IS BITTERBOUND DAY Y'ALL

No quality data (yet???) but here are options for getting away from Stickermule

all I had to do was click on one sticker ad on IG and suddenly my feed was full of other sticker ads. I clicked on them all and did the math for you. The best small-run samples pricing is at SlapCo; best overall pricing is at Sticker Cyborg or Sticker OG Factory. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Sticker Pricingdocs.google.com Sticker Pricing Sticker Size/Type,Qty, Price , Price Ea. StickerMule,3 x 3 (Samples),10, $ 9.00 , $ 0.90 StickerMule,3 x 3 (Typical Vinyl),100, $ 94.00 , $ 0.94 StickerMule,3 x 3 (Typical Vinyl),2...

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It's my birthday! I don't have a book on pre-order for the B&N sale, but I do have a new release out if you're so inclined. The third in a now ✨complete trilogy✨! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/megan...

The Bound Worldswww.hachettebookgroup.com Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award‑winning author Megan E....

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General PSA that we need pretty much daily here: unless someone says "I need advice", it is probably safe to say they do not need advice. I know folks like to be Helpful. *I* have that tendency too! But I practice not helping unless asked, especially with strangers/acquaintances.

I have good media news for you ICYMI: * They're making a second season of Deadloch! * There's more Mystery Menu with Sohla and Ham! The first one is already up

well, no Bluesky for me until I can log on and not see that gross pickup wrap three times on every screen I scroll down. good grief I do wish tagging uspol were a thing here!

Congratulations to @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social for winning the Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction with her story "The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word!” Well chosen.

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If you need a break from...everything...there are so many bears on the bear cam right now: www.youtube.com/live/d1YoGAx...

Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2024 powered by EXPLORE.orgwww.youtube.com **Chat rolls are on 7am - 5 pm PT from Monday through Sunday.Brooks Falls is on solar power and will be live whenever we have enough sun. Brooks Falls in Ala...

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It's RIGHT NOW and I didn't hear about it until RIGHT NOW.

REMINDER this is tomorrow! It contains an one (1) me, a large bugge, and an one (1) @mattfnwallace.bsky.social , who is tiny and dainty and wee. We will be discussing war, writing, publishing, and whatever else we can think of! Free, virtual, 12 pm MT/7 pm BST! www.crowdcast.io/c/nhd6hu6mb8ay

My partner has just discovered that Merriam Webster and the OED both claim that in *American English* the words "cloth" (the noun) and "or" (stressed) have the same vowel sound. what. (Wiktionary does not.)

mysterious yet inarguable Wikipedia statement of the day:

CONFIDENTIAL TO NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SUMMER SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER COMPATRIOTS (summer-lovers and people still in school, don't look): I just got the first "back to school" ad in my inbox of the season. Just keep hanging on!

Listen to Bree!!! #MyLadyJane And also go read the book 👀 books2read.com/u/bWlrrx (It's in KU right now! And the book IS available in paperback/hardcover at Amazon and through your local bookstore too; it just might have the original cover)

I want my legacy to be the person who made everyone watch the Tudor horse man show

Available now at your favorite digital store!books2read.com My Lady Jane: My Lady Jane Series Streaming Now by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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Behold, a bloggening has occurred, in which I talk a little about writing the Bloomburrow story for Magic: the Gathering candleinsunshine.com/new-magic-th...

New Magic: the Gathering story!candleinsunshine.com Mabel gets the party started I am so excited to finally share my story for the Bloomburrow set for Magic: the Gathering! When I was first approached to work on this, everything about it appealed to…

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This Sunday in Cambridge, MA! Join me, Elizabeth Bear, A.T. Greenblatt, John Wisell, and Max Gladstone for a post-Readercon panel at Pandemonium Books & Games: pandemoniumbooks.com/products/pos...

Post-Readercon Panel With John Wiswell, Max Gladstone, Scott Lynch, Elpandemoniumbooks.com Did you know about Readercon this year, but for whatever reason couldn't make it? Never heard about it, but wish you had? Have you had one Readercon, yes, but what about second Readercon? Look no furt...