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Research for new novel. One should have one's mind blown open whenever possible.

I am so completely awful at tumblr that I 1. didn't notice the message window and 2. spent three days wondering how to reach out to people. My own stupid makes me so tired. 

Help me fill my tumblr feed with fabulous!

I can't wait to talk to you! 

I'm interested in talking to people - not that one person can express the thoughts/feelings of the world, but that they cna help me create a character who feels read. 

You are my hero! Thank you. Yes yes yes. Should we just messsage here? Or can we skype? 

I'm a writer looking for help. I'm sick of novelists writing only cis characters. The job of a writer is to explore the world, and if you limit yourself to the cis world, you're being 1. dishonest and 2. discriminatory. But we need to educate ourselves. I'm doing a ton of that, and am at a place where I need help. If you don't mind answering stupid Qs, if you enjoy the idea of helping blow my mind wide open, if you want to see more characters who reflect your world on the bookstore shelves (or on the kindle home pages), get in touch with me! I'm interested in talking to anyone, particularly genderfluid, non-binary, DMAB folks.

Cool video trailer for Heidi Julavits's new book. 

You can just call me Leila Garrity. 

If you send me these shoes in a size 5.5 to wear to the John Carter Premiere, I will hold Taylor Kitsch hostage until he sucks on my toes on camera. 

This film footage of Jerusalem in 1896 blew my mind. 

This is how I've been getting around lately. I wonder how long it will take me to get flattened by a car? 

This is so completely my hair today!

Because no exercise is worth it without humiliation, I bought a set of these spazzy things and I'm setting out right now to make an ass of myself on the streets of Berkeley. 

Missing the old girl tonight. What a sweet, sweet dog she was.