Goodreads: "We no longer want to be a book social network, we're just a funnel for Amazon purchases. Fuck you."
"Why are you removing multiple features on Goodreads?"
The alternatives are looking better each day.
https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/Why-are-you-removing-multiple-features-on-Goodreads
Funny thing, when you start exercising your boundaries in small ways, it gives you the strength and skill to do it in larger ones.
You have a finite amount of energy and time. People who will shit over both aren’t worth knowing.
You absolutely don’t need to give strangers on the internet a chance. They’re screaming out their car windows, not sitting in your living room. Block at will—hell, block at random if you want to.
Goodnight, gods bless, let’s all get through tonight as best we can because hoo boy, tomorrow’s on its way.
Fortunately I am more stubborn than he is by several orders of magnitude and I shall certainly succeed just as soon as I stop informing the internet of my intentions.
“These are young women who know they’ve been completely and utterly failed by institutions…Their stories are far more interesting than a boy who doesn’t like facing the consequences of his own actions.“ https://jessica.substack.com/p/consequences-are-good-actually
Move over Pitch Perfect, it’s VIVALDI SEASON. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxs5O6hMBvg
“A meeker queen would have been cowed by Hugh and stood helplessly by while her husband took away her lands and rights, but not the She-Wolf of France.” https://longreads.com/2022/06/21/queens-of-infamy-isabella-of-france/
Now I have to do some fine-tuning of the Industrial Revolution’s effects in this particular alternate-Victorian London, and look over the day’s work for large glaring holes. But…it’s not bad.
NO, AUTOINCORRECT, I DO NOT MEAN PIROGUES.
…of course this is an easy mistake to make, given my verbal proclivities. I’d be surprised if a stray ship didn’t work its way in. My dictionaries are exhausted by my bullshit.
Black sheep of the von Schtupp clan, maybe pterodactyl, actual Lady. I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry.