Thank you. It's good to see you too and to be here when I can.

~ma and thoughts for Cagney and beekaytee.

I forgot to post my good thoughts, but they are out there. For Shir and bee, both. Just be careful not to send the dog thoughts about the middle EAst and puppy thoughts to Israel. My challenge today will be to send constructive feedback to someone in my workshop that has written something that is just *phenomenally* ableist. The story isn't exactly *about* that, but he did get his protag in an accident, probably thinking "What a neat challenge," as rookies do.(I never thought anything would make me miss the spate of collegiate "OMG, the stick's blue," pregnancy-test stories that populated Creative Writing 102, but I would kill for that right now, even if they mostly showed me how little my male-presenting classmates understood the girls they boned.) College me might not have said much about this, beyond possibly that the phrase "confined to a wheelchair" gave her the ick in her mid-section, but I am feeling more responsibility now. I think maybe what I'll write is that I feel that there is a lot of bias in that section and that I'd recommend questioning assumptions and doing some research.

Because,of course, I don't want to write his story for him, although the temptation to do a savage line-edit is often there for me doing work like this, but I think that is where the idea(Helped along by monied interests who don't care how we interact, natch) that there would be Leftist Thought Police might come from. Don't wanna be that person, either, though, I know from experience that some of us do, you know, slide into self-loathing from time to time, though it's not the greatest look from a first- person protagonist. in my opinion, of course. Though I will die on the hill that "confined" is not cromulent current usage and must be banished forthwith. What I want to see from the story is that it not accept or condone unchallenged an ableist perspective, is my point.

Yeah, I bet drawing the line between unpaid-sensitivity-reader and workshop-colleague is hard but necessary

Welcome to Thursday, Buffistae! It's going to be 68 in SF today and the flowers are already popping.

If you've been wondering what's happening with Dichen Lachman's career since Dollhouse, she's the lead in a new cheesy vampire movie that smells like Van Helsing/Underworld: [link]

I started to watch a series on Amazon when it came out and it was good, but it was 2022 and I was busy with home buying and then cancer, so it dropped by the wayside.

I've returned to it though and it's really good, The Peripheral based on Wm. Gibson's novel, starring Chloe Grace Moretz: [link]

A lot of it was prescient as drones figure heavily in the storyline, and also The Very Rich Are Evil.

It's going to be 68 in SF today and the flowers are already popping

Can you feel the power of my envy all the way from the still-frozen Ohio River Valley?

There's yet another new baby in the family, born yesterday. To Tim and me, she's a great-great niece. Healthy and tiny and cute.

The Peripheral

I enjoyed that series too.

Can you feel the power of my envy all the way from the still-frozen Ohio River Valley?

I'm basically a Taunting Vampire who thrives on envy and resentment. Just about the weather though.

I haven't finished watching The Peripheral, but man I love those books (I was enjoying the show but I got distracted after a couple of episodes and then I forgot. My TV watching attention span is tiny). Gibson is an honest to goodness genius.

I am wanting to get rid of Prime but I have stuff that is available there I still want to watch and a bunch Kindle Unlimited books that I haven't read yet, I don't know if I can do it. Not ordering stuff has been pretty easy and I never got the hang of their music services, but losing the video streaming would be hard. Ugh, and Audible, I "own" a lot of audiobooks and there are Audible Originals I won't want to miss out on. My annual membership is up in a couple of weeks so I need to figure this out.

Welcome to the world, great-great niece! (how can you have so many greats, Tep? Not that you aren't great-great, so I don't know why I am even asking, forget I said anything)

I can't bring myself to watch trailers while I'm supposed to be working, but I like the name of that Dichen Lachman thing. Good for her.