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CatFoxBirdLady

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i. Aspiring published writer. Horribly mixed STEM/humanities past
ii. Here for #poetry #flashfiction #speculativefiction #CreativeNonfiction #sff
iii. Owned by a bunch of cats
iv. But they'll have to share me soon
v. Because raptors
vi. Sadly no foxes. yet.

all sorts of ND. She/them

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CatFoxBirdLady, to random
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5/10: Do you know any good sources for publishing information?

ChillSubs
→ Write Or Die

https://authorspublish.com/

18+ AimeeMaroux, to writing
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Aphrodite / Demeter . I am pleased with this dialogue.

"I bow to no husband and I still take my pleasure with men and I get nothing."
"How about you forget about gods and men and take your pleasure with a goddess instead?" Aphrodite purred.
A cute, pink blush crept over Demeter's cheeks.
"Is… is that an invitation?" she asked.
Aphrodite gave her a wet kiss on the lips.
"Do you need one?"

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@AimeeMaroux

Please tell me there's more to that.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to 13thFloor
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Trying to determine if Admetus and Alcestis is too well-known a story to include in my Forgotten Myths book... 🤔

#mythology

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy

That's interesting. How do you do that?

anderlandbooks, to random German
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17.4.
Verleihst du Figuren manchmal absichtlich eine Vorliebe, die sich sehr von deinem eigenen Sinn für Schönheit, Geschmack, evtl. auch Attraktivität unterscheidet?

Jein. Ich versuche das durchaus, immerhin sind es nicht meine Klone.
Aber so gänzlich konträr zu meinem Geschmack, das ist schon selten.

Anders, sicherlich, immerhin schreibe ich Männer und Frauen, und viele haben andere sexuelle Vorlieben als ich - aber dass jetzt jemand Spinat mag...

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@anderlandbooks

Mehr für meine Figuren...😂

CatFoxBirdLady, to random
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16/01:Do you have any writing rituals?

Yes? I've been answering and prompts rather religiously but my WIPs are suddenly at a place where the prompts actually interrupt my writing flow 😐 .
Thinking about whether I should or should not answer every morning isn't much better.
So that's probably it for the time being.
(Or rather, let's see how long it/I will last😁 .)

TarkabarkaHolgy, to EarWorms
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🎶 For the past 5 years, every morning I wrote down what song was stuck in my head on a loop when I woke up.

🎶 At the end of every year, I have been posting the statistics on my blog. And featuring the top 5 earworms of the year.

🎶 Here is this year's post:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2023/12/290-earworms.html

🎶 Do you also wake up ? Do you tend to write them down? What were yours this year?

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy

Oh, other people have them too! But is anybody else reading them like fortune cookies???

CrescentSays, to bookstodon

Hey
Any recommendations for books with nonbinary or transmen main characters? Feeling like I could really use the representation, but all I'm finding are transwomen, and that's... not me. As long as it's fiction, any genre is okay.
@bookstodon

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@CrescentSays @bookstodon

Raven Tower by Ann Leckie comes to mind, if you want fantasy.
The protagonist of Witch King by Martha Wells is technically a demon who is gifted a human body but their female body is killed and they have to switch to a male in the book. Also fantasy.

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@EVDHmn @CrescentSays @bookstodon

Witch King is a standalone. Wells's current and very well received series is Diaries of a Murderbot which begins with All Systems Red

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@EVDHmn @CrescentSays @bookstodon

Witch King is not part of a series at all so read it anytime, if you think you will like it (I did).
If you want to read the Murderbot series (also fits the original question as the MC insists that they are an "it") then the first Book, All Systems Red, is a good starting point. If you would rather read a short story first before deciding about the books there is Compulsive, which is also the earliest story in the internal timeline of Murderbot.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Do not spin flax during the Twelve Nights of Christmas, for this will invite the Devil to visit you.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devils-works-39490270

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore

It's nice to read folklore from further north. In the Alps region women must not do chores of any kind during that time or the Truden (Wild Hunt) will pay them special attention.

GelatDeTramussos, to bookstodon Catalan
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Currently in the middle of this dystopian science fiction novel, written by Mary Shelley and set at the end of 21st century. It's 2090's but the flavour is quite 19th-century-ish: people are still using carriages and there's conflict Greece-Turkey, as if we were still in 1919.
Have you read it?
@bookstodon

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@GelatDeTramussos @bookstodon

I was not even aware it existed but it sounds like something I'll enjoy.

drinkswriter, to 13thFloor
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Working on a idea for a change and could do with help for a pregnancy timeline.

Young couple - just kids really - fool about and she gets pregnant. Let's say that's late summer, end of harvest maybe.

I need to figure out:

  • How soon she realises
  • How long she keeps it hidden
  • How quickly the parents can arrange a wedding for these only-just-old-enough kids to preserve some social standing

For context, this is 1890s, small town in Northern England.

@writers

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@drinkswriter @writers

Noticing is a question of knowledge and character. Will she notice her first missing period, will she understand what it means, she take it seriously? If the answer to all of this is a yes and the parents on both sides are not given to drama then they can get their license, have their banns read and marry before she's more than 12 weeks along.

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@drinkswriter @writers

Slow off the mark opens endless possibilities to torture that character. For example, she'll probably be irregular, being young, but it might well be painful enough that she'll notice the absence of pain, even if she manages not to notice any other changes.
If you want the families to have a chance to preserve some face she needs to built up a good panic before the four month mark.

anderlandbooks, to random German
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Nov 28th: How do you approach a fight scene or other high-action scenes?

With brevity. I don't like to read fighting scenes for the sake of fighting alone, and I don't like to write them either.

Only things that are important for the plot, please.

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@anderlandbooks

I do try to talk my plots out of action scenes but I don't always succeed, more's the pity.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to 13thFloor Hungarian
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Today's obscure Greek mythology fact:

Echo had a daughter (with Pan) who used her knowledge of magic to take revenge on Hera for her mother's death.

It's the revenge sequel no one talks about...

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy

The Homeric (and Orphic? I am not entirely certain which one is quoted in the Daphnis and Chloe retelling) version of Echo is gorier but brutality seems preferable to Ovid's spitefulness.
Mind you my issues with Ovid are so bad I sometimes wonder about reincarnation.

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy

Roughly: Echo is so musical that the muses teach her several of their arts. Pan is jealous, especially as Echo is not interested in men, women or Pan. He makes some humans manic and they murder her by dismemberment. Gaia absorbs the pieces of Echo's body and sort of keeps her alive but can't fully restore her voice, hence echo.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to 13thFloor
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Antoninus Liberalis keeps on giving. Today's favorite myth is "Hercules talks a himbo into dumping his abusive boyfriend."

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy

I am a bit, or really very very miffed that I had not heard of him until very recently.

CatFoxBirdLady, to random
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Nov 1 —What's the best writing advice you've heard or read?

Every piece of advice that boiled down to embracing imperfection and a gradual process. All advice that helped me re-frame inspiration as something that comes with writing instead of being the mysterious force preceding it.

anderlandbooks, to random German
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Oct 30. Did the education system inspire you or put you off writing?

The German system did nothing to inspire me. We weren't taught creative writing, and we mostly read classics in school.

My year in the US was different. I was encouraged to write, praised, and taught basic skills. If this had been the case in my homeland, I might have gone for a different career path.

But who knows if I had been happier as a full-time writer?

CatFoxBirdLady, (edited )
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@anderlandbooks

But did you read classics or did you dissect their embalmed carcasses?

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@anderlandbooks

Goethe is that interesting case of classic who can, in one and the same work, prove that he was a master and also a complete arse, even for his time.
I posit that a critical reading of Wahlverwandschaften could be the well deserved stake into the heart of sentimental romance.

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@anderlandbooks

Goethe is the patron saint of deeply toxic MLIs and a fascinating study in how social prestige works. And that's what I mean by saying that reading him critically would be extremely educational.

anderlandbooks, to random German
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Oct 13: Antagonist POV: What would a perfect day be like for you?

Uhm. There's no true antagonist in . So, I'll have to pass on that one 😔

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@anderlandbooks

I tend to give my MCs plenty of irritants but rarely anybody who does enough to be a true antagonist.

There is one short story with an antagonist that the MC was not even aware of. One WIP was supposed to have an entire cadre of villains but
i. I don't know enough Americans to feel comfortable writing them
ii. my MCs create enough issues just being themselves.

Antagonists are a popular concept, I am beginning to wonder why I hardly ever use them.

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CatFoxBirdLady,
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@ljwrites @writers

No need to hide anything, working as a software engineer means being surrounded by people with low-number-of-tracks minds.

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@ljwrites @writers

👍

ottsatwork, to books
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Book 2: “Cat Burglar Black” by #RichardSala.

I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.

Someone stitched together all the “#InvisibleHands”. The voice acting is 🤌🏽 https://youtu.be/n5sP4yRb8Mw

#Bookstodon #Books #Animation #LiquidTelevision @bookstodon

Panel 1, someone in bed, their head covered in bandages, eyes staring and teeth bared. A weak whisper: "Come closer, Katherine. Let me see you..." Panel 2 a severe looking older woman with her hands around the shoulders of a tentative, white-haired teen: "Don't be shy. Say hello to your aunt."

CatFoxBirdLady,
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@ottsatwork @bookstodon

I've been meaning to read more short story collections as a quicker way to discover new authors. This one sounds good.

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