Dude just now was musing about cold-blooded animals, and how weird it would be to have to give that.

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Dude just now was musing about cold-blooded animals, and how weird it would be to have to give that much thought to your temperature regulation. Wouldn’t it suck, he posited, to have been, like, caught off-guard by a sudden drop in temperature, and so you didn’t turn up the thermostat, and then it got cold so you went into torpor– imagine, like, just being stuck like that until suddenly it was spring and you woke up.

and then he laughed so hard he had a coughing fit, and when he could speak again, he kind of squeak-gasped “i cracked myself up” and went off again.
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Grab your free Asexual detective novel now.

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Murder of a Working Ghost is currently at #27 in all the Kindle store, at #1 in “Traditional Detectives,” and #2 in “Cozy mysteries.”

If only that was in the paid lists, but alas, I put it on free for a week to try to boost its visibility. In that, it absolutely seems to have worked!

It was downloaded by 4,250 people yesterday. I really hope at least some of them leave me reviews :)

Still, I can call myself an Amazon bestseller, which is always nice, and what’s nicer is that people seem to be reading it and then coming back to buy Murder of a Straw Man, the first in the series. This is the one with the asexual sleuth and the gay sleuth who are housemates.

So far the cozy mystery audience seem to be much more open to reading books with LGBT characters than the SF/F audience.The “OMG, why is everyone gay?” comments on the mysteries are much less vitriolic than the ones I’ve been getting on Cygnus Five.

Anyway - enough waffling. If you are interested in getting Murder of a Working Ghost for free, grab it now, as the promotion only lasts until the 9th.

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Working-Ghost-Mystery-Detective-ebook/dp/B07J2MCZJG

I didn’t mention that I’d changed the cover, did I? Also I changed the cover ;)

This was the one I boosted on Halloween– it is lovely!! If for any reason you find yourself wanting a distraction from today you should pick this up and read it! 
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kodachromism: tiny-librarian: “Kazul’s

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tiny-librarian:

“Kazul’s not my dragon.“ Cimorene said sharply. “I’m her princess. You’ll never have any luck dealing with dragons if you don’t get these things straight.”

Dealing With Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede

I love this book!!
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Confession time. The Home Out On the Wind series is basically my favorite fanfic. It is entirely the reason I joined Tumblr because of the snippets of content that would get previewed here.

!!! Sorry I just saw this. What! Oh no I’m sorry to have dragged you into this hellsite. 

But hello, I hope it was worth it, LOL. And thanks for saying hi! And honestly I really needed that confession right about now, I’ve completely forgotten how to write and it’s goddamn tragic.

I’m glad that’s the series I’ve ever managed to mostly-finish in my life. :) 
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Walked to work. It was pouring while I got dressed, but by the time I stepped out the door, it had..

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Walked to work. It was pouring while I got dressed, but by the time I stepped out the door, it had stopped raining. I hope that’s some kind of omen, it would be nice. I dithered over clothes, and decided that wearing a red dress would be a poor auspice, so I’m in blue, with Wonder Woman underpants and leggings. (I own a lot of her merch, it seems.) (I wish there was good Captain Marvel merch but I can wait.)

Planning to vote after work; didn’t want to chance going beforehand and having it run long. (Also it was pouring fucking rain. No thanks.) But Dude said if we wait, he’ll come with me after work, and then we can go to the library, which is nearby and is open until 9pm, to finally pick up my holds, which arrived yesterday. (It feels like that was forever ago, but it was really Thursday that he made the requests, so it’s less than a week, I shouldn’t complain.)

Then after that we can go out to dinner, which will be pleasantly diverting. I’ve only just realized it’s Diwali, so Indian food would be festive. There are like, five places in the northtowns where you can get Indian food, so I’m sure we’ll find something good. 

Now… I just have to make it through today without driving myself literally insane watching the news, so. I refreshed Twitter one time exactly and now I am not going to look again.

Some post I’ve seen 4,000,000,000 times today said “remember how you felt on election day 2016″ and I’m like, bitch, have I forgotten for one second? I stayed up all night in my best friend’s guest bed by myself glued to my phone feeling sick. I have not forgotten that for one instant, nor have I ever really stopped feeling sick, on some level, for even a moment, since that night, so. I’m super over the helpful reminders and I’m really fucking over all the non-US people constantly reblogging US political stuff like you know what, I’m not saying our politics don’t affect you but I am saying you’re probably not contributing a ton of nuance to the discussion. And I’m working super hard on being chill and taking everyone’s well-intentions exhortations to vote as they’re intended, but I’m really goddamn sick of all of it at this point. No, I’m not going to post a cheerful selfie with my sticker at the end of this; if for no other reason than there’s no goddamn way they’re gonna have any stickers left by 8pm tonight. (I hope it’s not that late; I’ve waited in line before but it’s not typical. I have a tiny district and absolutely 0 of the elections in this district are tight. But it matters, I get it. I’ve literally never voted in a close election, you guys. Understand that. Some of this rings super hollow because I have never. Ever! Ever voted in a close election. I’ve been voting since 1998 and I’ve never once cast a decisive ballot. Understand how politics works in NY. Understand I’m doing it anyway. And leave me the goddamn hell alone already.)
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… Glad it’s not just me that wears wonder woman knickers.

There’s a great photo of me aged about 18 months, with my sister aged about three, and we’re both wearing a full set of Wonder Woman Underoos, the underpants and the undershirt set. They were popular at the time, circa 1981, and I remember outgrowing them and being sad about it. At the time, they didn’t make them in larger children’s sizes, and certainly not in women’s adult plus sizes.

I then went about 35 years without any Wonder Woman-themed attire at all, but a couple of years ago Torrid started carrying them in my particular size of Fat Lady, so I’ve gleefully resumed my Wonder Woman Underpants habit of yore. 
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danaxscully:Why, Mulder? Why would they intentionally create a...

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danaxscully:

Why, Mulder? Why would they intentionally create a populace that destroys itself?
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