Writer's Area

Let's start this off with the fact that I'm not going anywhere. I've said it before, I'll say it again, I will go down with this ship.

But that doesn't mean I want to lose the awesome people I've met here. Y'all have been a community that I've sorely needed for over the last decade in a way I can't describe.

So where can you find me?

Social Media: Tiktok (art and personal), Dreamwidth (super new, WIP), Instagram, Facebook, Ao3, this Discord Server, Goodreads, Storygraph, Youtube (this is a podcast with friends, but I would love to have you join us)

You can also find me on Twitter, but I'm not super active. Twitter (art and personal)

Shops: Threadless (actively updated) , Redbubble (not actively updated)

My Link Tree

And if you haven't thought about buying my book, I'm going to make a plug for it on Bookshop (my first suggestion), Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.

Art email: [email protected]

Y'all are my faves.

(Picture of me at the age I joined Tumblr in 2011 (15) v like a month ago at 27)

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

And the many other variations of the rainbow pride flag!

Redbubble: Design 1, Design 2, Design 3, Design 4, Design 5, Design 6

Threadless Pride Collection

Okay. Grammar lesson!

"People of color" is a noun. So use it as a noun.

"I am speaking about people of color."

People who are of color. People. People is a noun.

It is not, as the Internet likes to use it, an adjective!

"POC characters!" is the color blind racist equivalent of "colored characters!"

Do you want to call me colored? Is that the racism we really want to use? Old 1960s racism? Shall I go to the colored water fountain next? I'm sorry- the POC water fountain?

If you are talking about all non-white people as a group, use "People of Color".

"White people are used to being the default- which is why they get to be White and the rest of us are People of Color. The Other."

If you are talking about a specific group of people, and you KNOW that, then SAY their group and NOT "people of color".

"I am not just a person of color, I am Black. Antiblackness is about Black people, not all people of color. Otherwise, I'd just say racism. Words have meaning!"

Further resource:

This is probably my largest pride flag piece at three feat by three feat, featuring nearly eighty pride flags with Baker’s 2017 pride flag in the middle. The 2017 flag has an extra stripe of lavender to signify the diversity of our community as well as the eight original stripes Gilbert Baker put together in the first place.

The paperback version of my Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags is now officially available!!! While the hardback is $53.99, the paperback is $25.99!!! I'm so excited I was able to bring this down to a price that I hope more people can access.

So where can you get it?

IngramSpark directly from me (cheapest at $20)

Bookshop (affiliate link, supports indie bookstores)

Barnes and Noble

thriftbooks

Request it at your local indie bookstore!

Amazon

As always, you can also get the hardback too!

IngramSpark (Cheapest at $36)

Bookshop

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

Or request it at your local indie bookstore!

Gale has gotten an upgrade with new boots!

I was never totally satisfied with my original ones - I thrifted them before I knew how much Gale would mean to me, and while they’re very nice boots, they’re just not up to snuff these days.

So I decided to treat myself as a belated birthday gift to some Armstreet boots, and then promptly took them apart to modify them 🤣 Changed the shape a little, re-did all the tabs/lacing, added some contrast colour.

Having these much more accurate (and comfortable) boots really feels like I’ve filled in a missing piece of this cosplay, and I’m thrilled with how they turned out.

The arospec pride flag :)

Threadless

Did you know I wrote a coffee table book of pride flags? You can order here:

IngramSpark (the cheapest option)

Bookshop

Amazon