Rowyn @Rowyn@wandering.shop

*writes down what she's eaten today*

*looks at total*

I have not done a very good job of fooding today.

I woke up early today and have already written almost 1000 words of Fellwater, so that was nice.

I am at Pretend Coffee Shop but Pretend Barista is out of Coke so I can't have a coke float, oops. Kinda debating whether Pretend Barista should go out and pick up more or if I'll just have something else. I could make a smoothie or a milkshake instead, for instance.

The roof and the gutters will also be spendy. (Especially new roof).

I need to decide whether I'm going to get a home equity line, or cash out some of my retirement savings, or beg for money from my parents. None of which are great options but, y'know, I have options and that's good. -_-

I am trying to get some long-postponed work done on my house. Today I contracted a roofing company to replace the roof and the extremely sad gutters. I also talked to a siding company about replacing the siding which is falling off the exterior walls, especially along the extensions roofline.

Apparently my siding is asbestos which means removing the decaying siding will be spendy. x_x

But for now, bedtime.

I did eventually get 1900 words of the Lord rewrite done today, so that was good. Most of the way through the new material, still have to do a bunch of massaging on the existing text to make it fit.

I have written ~500 words so far today, 300 on my ridiculous kink erotica novel, and 200 re-writing the climax for Lord. I relocated to Pretend Coffee Shop and got a Coke float from Pretend Barista with the intention of doing more, but I'm just staring at social media instead.

Until then, you can browse through the cards here:

http://egypt.urnash.com/tarot/

(The book that came with the deck is available on that page as a pdf download, and contributes heavily to my own enjoyment of the deck as a whole, btw.)

Peggy's Silicon Dawn tarot deck is an absolute delight, btw, so please do encourage her to get it reprinted. 💖

https://dragon.style/@anthracite/104417412125768559

But it's just so tiring, you know? To hear about these cis white men who have harassed dozens of women in this banal, everyday way, and so many people just go "well, it wasn't that bad, right? I can still be friends with them, right? It would be cruel to resent them when they've apologized. What more can they do?"

...

It would be nice to see them really do more.

I don't know.

Like on the one hand, the callouts (that I've seen) have been a very banal sort of cruelty, the kind of harassment that Hollywood has long lionized and rewarded in films.

And they apologized and did not try to squirm out of blame, and appear sincere. Why should I wish them ill? What will it change if they are punished?

I never followed either one of them, but I've seen a lot of tweets from them because a lot of my Twitter friends follow them. Like, 25 for Cole and 29 for Sykes, as of this morning.

Last night It was 27 for Cole, so a couple of people unfollowed.

I don't know how I feel about this.

There's been a lot of talk on my Twitter feed about two SFF writers, Myke Cole and Sam Sykes (more the former than the latter).

Both men, after being called out for sexual harassment, acknowledged the truth of the claims, apologized, and asked their followers not to defend their actions.

I think, but I don't know, that the incidents in question happened some time ago.