What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess? - Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS 💬📚

Okay, I’ll do the 10 year challenge.

Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS

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Yesterday I interrupted my kid’s marathon viewing of BLIPPI and transformed it into a marathon viewing of PHINEAS AND FERB, I am the best at parenting, AMA

Currently reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I have so much respect for how dark Bardugo is willing to go with these fairytales. The twist is consistent but shocks me each time.

My workplace harassment training is promoting person-first language, but ends with “Ultimately, it is important to treat everyone as an individual and respect the words with which they define themselves.” Wish that part was up front. Person-first v. identity-first is so fraught.

Wisdom from my blog archives: What if everything I am - everything I’ve tried to improve in this particular, optimizing, tool-utilizing way - is just fine? (It’s my half birthday. Happy half birthday, me!)

No YOU’RE thinking about writing a fanfic that’s just an IRB application for a xenoanthropology dissertation at Starfleet Academy.

Now that I’m gainfully employed, mosts of my discretionary spending is going to creators in little $5/mo increments.

Me: If I were going to write fiction, what genre should I write?

Brain: YA high fantasy.

Me: does analysis by genre & market of the last 20 books I read

Analysis: YA high fantasy.