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sportsketball: i wish there were words like "girl" and "boy" and "man" "guy" "lady" etc to refer to nonbinary people besides just "person"...

sportsketball:

i wish there were words like “girl” and “boy” and “man” “guy” “lady” etc to refer to nonbinary people besides just “person” bc sometimes i dont feel like gendering myself when i want to say stuff like “guess who just slipped and fell in the mud while walking the dogs. this girl/guy.” because “guess who slipped in the mud while walking the dogs. this person” makes me feel like i am a robot or an alien trying to integrate into human society without being noticed and is not doing it quite right

What about “bod”? Short for “body”.

I know it’s still a little depersonalising, but it scans roughly the same as girl/by/guy/man/lady…

Cons: Can be mistaken for ‘bot’. May still need explaining. Aforementioned depersonalisation.

Pros: At least it sort of fits with language as it exists?

I don’t know. We might have to invent a word.

ARGH D:<

Okay, so you remember how I was trying to make more earrings for the fantastic Miss Isabella Bennett…

I’ve hit a snag.

Namely, that pierced studs no longer have a flat bit I can just clip the stem off and then that stud is mine to play with… nope. They have a fucking NIPPLE on the back now for no reason whatsoever.

It basically means that I can’t glue ex-studs to the clips, any more.

I have tried

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internutter: internutter: I can't art. It's obvious. Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never...

internutter:

internutter:

I can’t art. It’s obvious.

Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never pay me back.

My usual design consultant [aka best-beloved SO] is too busy to help me before the October 4 publication date.

So. Speaking as someone who lacks design skills to everyone who actually has them: What do I need to do to make this cover look cool?

My goal is simple, but slightly “off”. Like a

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internutter: I can't art. It's obvious. Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never pay me...

internutter:

I can’t art. It’s obvious.

Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never pay me back.

My usual design consultant [aka best-beloved SO] is too busy to help me before the October 4 publication date.

So. Speaking as someone who lacks design skills to everyone who actually has them: What do I need to do to make this cover look cool?

My goal is simple, but slightly “off”. Like a Penguin

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I can&rsquo;t art. It&rsquo;s obvious. Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never pay me back. My...

I can’t art. It’s obvious.

Alas, I also lack the resources to purchase pro-level art for a book that will never pay me back.

My usual design consultant [aka best-beloved SO] is too busy to help me before the October 4 publication date.

So. Speaking as someone who lacks design skills to everyone who actually has them: What do I need to do to make this cover look cool?

My goal is simple, but slightly “off”

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Building Bitzer part 8 This interesting little gizmo is a Clicker. That&rsquo;s my official name for it. dakhur tore down a rattling toy...

Building Bitzer part 8

This interesting little gizmo is a Clicker. That’s my official name for it.

dakhur tore down a rattling toy gun, and a couple of non-functioning toy cars to build this nifty little device.

It’s up to me to figure out how to make it work. And I have the gear-sense of a dead whelk. I have gears, thanks to a secret cache of asthma medication thingies [I know, so technical] and only the vaguest

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Well, shit

I got an email this morning from the very nice people at Bespoke Book Covers telling me that I can have my deposit back.

Science fiction is a little more complicated than your mainstream book covers, I guess.

I bear them no ill will. Working on the covers for the Hevun’s Child trilogy was more than a little frustrating. On both sides. I did my best to be nice about it and I completely understand why they decided to not

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YO! Beta-readers!

You have until THIS FRIDAY to get back to me with anything.

Then, after I finalize the premiere edition, I will be sending out the second book.

In the meantime: I would very much appreciate pithy little quotes I can attach to the cover art via twitter so I can advertise the fuck out of my own book.

I would appreciate even more, folks reblogging the cover-art shill I’m doing on a daily basis here on Tumblr.

Must generate buzz.

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A call for volunteers

You’ve had some free samples of my writing [check the #story tag in my posts] and now I’m looking for Beta Readers because it’s just occurred to me that handing out stories for free before I try to sell them might just be a bad business plan.

So. Does anyone out there with sharp reading eyes wish to subject themselves to the alpha drafts of whatever the heck my warped mind concocts next?

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A polite request

I’m trying to raise some moneys for my next trip to Thailand [ticket price $2500] by selling my written works on/via Smashwords.

They need covers.

I have the artistic skill of a distantly-deceased moose.

So. Therefore, I must ask kindly for someone to design front covers for RTFM, Nor Gloom of Night and perhaps Good Boy if I can get it somewhere where I like it a bit better.

I might even publish a fantasy story I’ve

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Technically technical difficulties

Okay, so here’s the scoop.

While I was over in Thailand, I used a (gasp) foreign chip so I wouldn’t be landed upon by positively ginormous roaming charges. And so I could, you know, call home without also gathering a huge debt.

Now that I’m home and back on my regular chip, my computer refuses to recognise that there’s photos in there at all. And I know for a fact that I have almost

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Almost there!

Okay, so I’ve almost transferred all my files and folders from the dying laptop to my new lunchbox Mac. Yay.

I’ve installed Minecraft - essential!

And now I’m trying to find where the save games are so I can get on with the MathMagician Adventure Map.

Alas, things have changed and I can’t find the bugger.

I know it’s in ~/Library/Application Support… but I can’t remember where I

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