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Toastie, 17 days ago to washington

1924: an #Indigenous man hunts a deer on treaty-reserved land. Gets criminally convicted.

The ruling said tribal nations are not sovereign or independent, "the Indians being mere occupants of the land.”

The hunter died decades ago. The family member who continued his case died in 2007. But a tribal attorney kept pushing to get the unjust, demeaning conviction reversed.

On Thursday, nearly a century later, the #Washington state Supreme Court admitted it was wrong.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/wa-supreme-court-reverses-century-old-yakama-decision-an-injustice/

amberage, 17 days ago to random

Another problem with writing is that I would love to write stuff set in a modern world, but I don't want to write about Germany (boring, shitty country, too close to home, German names are ugly) but don't have enough knowledge to write about America or the UK.

Writing anything set there would put off my readers within ten pages by being grossly inaccurate.

Writing anything set here would put off my readers within ten pages by being grossly German.

Damned if I do, damned if I don't...

#AmWriting #AmNotWriting

JoeUchill, 18 days ago to random

Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

ixtlidekami, 18 days ago to writing

#WordWeavers #Writing 24 While drafting, do you avoid or binge watch similar material?

I don't deny myself the pleasure of watching/bingeing media of any kind when I'm writing. Not that there's many similar things to my writings. I always can stea…get inspired by those creations. Right now I'm re-watching the first seasons of Chicago Fire, an excellent source of ideas for making the characters experience unnecessary pain and suffering…=)

WanderingInDigitalWorlds, 18 days ago to random

#WordWeavers 18: What kind of dragon would your MC be?

Zomazar- I looked at the dragons which exist in Material World legends; They are not what I would be: Strange in form and shape, carrying upon my body a large Garden of Decay. A serpentine creature possessing many maws and heads, who most humans might believe resembles a biblically accurate angel. Though most of the time you'd never see me, as those of the Subtle Art are rarely seen by those ungifted in that Strand Art.

LisaSBaker, 18 days ago to Animal

Bison ~~ Newly available here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/bison-lisa-s-baker.html

#bison #animal #wildlife #art #artwork #arte #painting #watercolor #mastoart #mastodon #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #southwest #nativeamerican #buffalo #bovine #artforsale #buyintoart #AYearForArt #spring #summer #artmatters #artgallery #beautiful #animal #pastel #whimsical #creativetoots #spirit #spiritanimal #mystical #magical #spiritual

EvilBunnyPottymouth, 18 days ago to random

NASA’s Psyche Fires Up Its Sci-Fi-Worthy Thrusters - NASA

The spacecraft already is beyond the distance of Mars and is using ion propulsion to accelerate toward a metal-rich asteroid, where it will orbit...(more)

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/psyche-mission/nasas-psyche-fires-up-its-sci-fi-worthy-thrusters/

MarjoleinRotsteeg, 18 days ago to books Dutch

I can hardly wait until the release of 'The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Volume 5', with haiku, poems and a short (fictional) story by me. Pre-orders of this beautiful e-book until 3 June for just $ /€ 4,99 instead of $/€ 9,99.

https://books2read.com/pama-5

https://abpositiveart.com/blog/

#books #bookstodon #book #literature #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #haiku

@bookstodon @writers @poetry @haiku @writingcommunity
@abpositiveart
@haikushack @haikushack

juliebihn, 18 days ago to random

June's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! If you write time travel, or will in the future, please join us. (Someone on Twitter is answering about an audio script!) #WritingCommunity

grickle, 19 days ago to Cats

#grickledoodle #cats #hairless #shaving #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

yurnidiot, 19 days ago to random

when your cat identifies as a Roomba

#Caturday

cat in upside-down laundry basket moves toward a wad of paper and sticks its paw through the handle hole to grab it

br00t4c, 18 days ago to google

Next up in Google's dramatic overhaul of search: AI Overview ads

#google

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2026600

sfwrtr, 20 days ago to 13thFloor

#PennedPossibilities 322 — What piece of advice, as an author, did you once receive but hadn’t followed? Looking back on it now, you might wish that you had.

Advice: Don't only write novels. Write lots of shorter pieces.

When I started I saw that you could only make a living if you sold novels, so I wrote novels. That completely discounted the fabulous practice you get completing lots of smaller stories. Completing a novel takes lots of time and there's a mounting anxiety that in the end the plot will fail or no publisher will be interested. Yeah, true with short fiction, but the investment is far lower (or should be if you're doing it right). There used to be lots of magazines you could sell short fiction to... for pennies a word, but it was something, and it offered a chance to build a brand name and a following. Such notoriety could help you sell novels, too.

Today, I'm writing lots of short fiction.

[Author retains copyright (c)2024 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion

caointeoireacht, 20 days ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub 24-05-22. If someone were to write your autobiography, who would you want to write it?

Why would someone want to write about my car?

One moment I'm getting a call.
🎶 Obnoxiously squelchy sounding hold music 🎶
Alright I have just been informed that isn't what 'autobiography' means.

This might be a bit unexpected given I frequently write about people dealing with tragic stories, but I won't write an autobiography nor condone a biography about me.

My story is an unfortunately common occurrence. Without the backdrop of SciFi or fantasy, the reality of such a story tends to be just depressing rather than interesting

farbel, 20 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub

22. If someone were to write your autobiography, who would you want to write it?

This is a trick question, right?

NathanBurgoine, 21 days ago to writing

Oops.

#Writing #AmWriting #WritersCoffeeClub

TheAuthorVivian, 21 days ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 321

Did your SC once admire their parents?
(Who else did they admire growing up? What about today?)

Darlene did admire her parents, especially her Father. He was the inly man who could provide the townsmen with all the needed necessities for their life, and never took advantage of that.
But this changed at once right after… (way too many spoilers here) …and it never changed back to how it was before.

KPED, 21 days ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub May 20: When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

Can't say there was a time when I consciously thought this. I have kept a journal for 30 years, had some CNF stories published, wrote a couple nonfiction books... but it's only been in the past few years I accepted the title of "writer."

I've always been an editor first.

#AmWriting

ChadGrayson, 21 days ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub May 20 -When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

So early I don't even remember. I think it was when I realized that the books I loved were written by actual people and that I could do it too.

CandaceRobbAuthor, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to climate

I am going to be pondering this quote for a long while:
"She fears that present-day deforestation might result in the loss of that traditional knowledge.
"'The forests have always been our pharmacy, but they’re killing them as if they were people,” Pachaka said of the nearby settlers."
#ClimateChange

from: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/19/nothing-left-how-climate-change-pushes-indigenous-people-from-their-land

ruralgloom, 21 days ago to comics

Things like "Jail-Jamas" are why all of our parents divorced. #comics #romance

jik, 21 days ago to PersonalFinance

After listening to https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1197959049/zombie-second-mortgages-homeowners-foreclosure , I think this #PSA is needed:

1. If a lender tells you a loan is paid off or forgiven, demand written proof, ideally the original, signed loan document marked "paid in full." Verbal assurances are worth the paper they're printed on.
2. If a debt collector tells you they own a debt you owe, demand written proof. If they can't prove they own it, it's illegal for them to collect in it (in the US at least). When in doubt consult a lawyer.
   #PersonalFinance

ixtlidekami, 22 days ago to writing

#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 20 Whatever

Imagine being left in a planet with no liquid water. You have to find a plant (?) that looks like the child of a cactus and a fever-induced eldritch abomination, which burns your skin if you touch it, open it and eat whatever the thing that's inside it to get water in your body. Then you have to run so the people (?) caring for those plants don't eat you.

Maistro experienced this once, when he tried to escape from the time-ship. He learned the lesson…

ixtlidekami, 22 days ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities #Writing 320 Worst event of your MC's childhood?

—The Latinamerican Tower Earthquake. I was 9. It's called that because the legendary Latinamerican Tower, a building that had resisted many earthquakes fell. It even resisted the return of the lake. Lots of people died and many parts of the city were destroyed. We lost our house and survived by pure luck. Just thinking about this scare me. The tower was rebuilt and made to look exactly as the original…

Our Hero

18+ nautilebleu, 1 month ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub 01/05/2024 OMG! What happened to your MC's parents?

1. Esther’s father was one of the richest golden boys of his time. For most, he was a successful business angel...
2. For his family, he was a demon: Obsessed with social recognition, we must be tools to help him rise higher and higher.
3. Remove a small brick from the building, and the whole building is ready to collapse

[Illustration: 3 excerpts from Inktober 2023]
#fediart #mastodonart #mastoart #creativetoots

Excerpt from Inktober 2023 day 17 Esther’s father beating his son, in front of the rest of his family
Excerpt from Inktober 2023 day 26 After doing too risky investments, Esther’s father is forced to bankrupt. All newspapers have a field day with the news