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do people have no shame anymore?

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I read a lot to my mum (mostly fanfic, but also novels), since we birth enjoy it. And our current pick is Spock‘s World (which I already read SO OFTEN, because I love it), and we are having a ton of fun. Still at the very beginning, but the details about how Starfleet works here, the tech, the politics… Damn, it’s great. And just - the Vulcan chapters??? They live in my head rent free.

Usually I only get to leave comments like this with fanfic, but I remembered your tumblr, so - thank you very much from me AND my mother, we are having a great time with your work

You're very kind! Thank you. I'm glad the both of you are enjoying my stuff!

...Not least because I've frankly got a soft spot for that book, despite it causing me a lot of trouble. ...Though possibly also because it caused me a lot of trouble. I'm assuming you may have heard the story (full version here: tl:dr version follows) about how, while I was (I thought!) finishing it up a couple of weeks before its turn-in date, lightning struck a transformer in our little housing estate. The resultant voltage surge fried my computer and all the document backups then in its drive(s). I wound up having to rewrite about half of that book from memory—because there were no printouts of most of that material—and then write from scratch, and polish, the remaining 20K or so needed to complete the book. All in two weeks. (Because the pre-pub publicity for the book was in place, and the pub date was set in stone, with no wiggle room.)

So I got the book in under the wire... but my back's never been quite right since then. Sure, when the book came out it spent eight weeks on the NYT list... but the moral of our story remains: Never speed-rewrite a novel in a straight-backed chair. 😏 [ow, ow, ow, ow...]

Meanwhile, those Vulcan chapters: Those are probably my favorite parts too. It made my heart bleed when, due to length/timing issues, I had no choice but to exclude all of them for the audiobook.* However, at least I got to hear Leonard Nimoy reading the dialogue I wrote for him—and George Takei reading everything else. If somebody had traveled back in time and told sixteen-year-old me, then descending into full-on Trek fannishness, that some day Spock himself (and Mr. Sulu) would say things I told him to... I'd have passed out cold in amazement. Or dismissed it as delusion. (smh) What a world we live in.

Anyway: thanks for the nice words! And do enjoy the book. :)

*It does a bit more bleeding when I consider that had that production been happening now, the extra length wouldn't be considered an issue. But audiobooks were just getting started then, and no one wanted to spend more on them than necessary. (shrug) Just one of those things...

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GOOD OMENS FANS

((A not-so-long long-post))

We are all having very big feelings about filming and continuing this project.

However, what we are not going to do is invalidate everything that the Terry Prachette Estate has done for the Good Omens fandom and the interest of Terry and everyone involved in production of Good Omens.

We are not going to panic just because filming has supposedly wrapped up in 5 weeks for a 90 minute movie. This seems to be a decent number for a production of this size. We also have to remember that we had sets that were already built and waiting and that post production exists. We had staff on stand by and most characters cast as this is a sequel.

Yes, we had some scenes in other places and those take time and they did them. Now we go into post.

Post is where the magic happens. Post is gonna take a hot minute because we are dealing with a production on the mythical side. Which means we deal with a bunch of CGI, especially when coming to an epic conclusion like a potential face off with Heaven (and possibly Hell).

So what I want us all to do is breathe.

Take a deep breath through your nose, hold it in for a couple seconds, and slowly let it out.

Get a hug from your favorite hug person.

Eat your favorite snack. (No, not you, you eat your second favorite snack so that you don't have to use an epi-pen!)

Then try and relax while we wait for teasers and trailers to come out. The last few months have been turmoil. We are in the home stretch. Now is the time to relax in the knowledge that all scenes have been filmed. (Minus any reshoots).

Be kind to yourselves and others. We are all in this together.

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Eyes

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saw someone say "an 11-year-old isn't even supposed to know what sex is and if you do something horrible must be happening to you and you need to get out of there" like can we be for real for a moment. have some people honest to god never heard 11-year-olds making sex jokes in their life

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I’m trying to get into drawing more again, and his face is just my favorite thing. You’re all my inspiration, your talents makes me want to do more things ❤️

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HIYA.

So a lot has gone on in the last little bit. NASA recently was ordered to scrub their site of women's contributions to astronomy and astrophysics, even took down their page celebrating women's history month and all the contributions they've made to NASA. So I did a thing and crawled through the wayback machine to find some articles, and decided to put this right here because fuck the government, fuck the orange in charge who told them to scrub their site, and fuck NASA for throwing their people under the bus and bowing to this authoritarian nonsense. This version of the site still has articles on some important figures like Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle, and ISS chief scientist Jennifer Buchli and chief deputy scientist Meghan Everett, who, in their words, "-provide the science strategy and make science recommendations for the International Space Station program, and help make sure all of the science on the International Space Station goes smoothly, from preparing for launch to conducting research on the space station with the scientists and astronauts and returning the science to Earth."

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Fem-Crowley

（2020）

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Soft Smile

The holiday break has been good for my productivity: I completed three paintings in one week! This is my favorite, of Aziraphale the adorable.

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little short snake crowley

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Whatever you do, don’t do this with a bow!

(Bows are not firearms, and can’t be ‘fired’, but you absolutely should not dry-fire one)

Patreon - everything else

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In honor of Season 3 finally filming, here's a pouting Crowley from Season 2.

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day... 💔 

Ready to break up with Google?

So are we!

We’ve rounded up a bunch of privacy-centric alternatives for everything Google.

Check out the full list over on the blog!

- The Ellipsus Team xo

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hilarious that the headline isn't "israel breaks terms" but at this point what else do you expect

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Happy Valentine's day! 🌦️💙