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Lynn rambles about… why articles about asexuality are so bad at including aromanticism

  A frequent complaint asexual and aromantic people have to articles about asexuality is the way it often conflates asexuality with aromanticism and assumes aromanticism is kind of a subset of asexuality. It’s not; they’re two different concepts. But we, and society in general, are kind of used to treating these orientations as either the […]

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Lynn rambles about… why there are articles about asexuality so bad at including aromanticism

  A frequent complaint asexual and aromantic people have to articles about asexuality is the way it often conflates asexuality with aromanticism and assumes aromanticism is kind of a subset of asexuality. It’s not; they’re two different concepts. But we, and society in general, are kind of used to treating these orientations as either the […]

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Week 38 Update

Weekly Accountability Hi, everyone! It’s that time again! Weekly updates delivered every Friday! Completed Projects September is, I predict, going to be the month of Fail. Goal Updates 11/12 books 0/1 completed proper paper 457/5,000 words of fiction written Writing Updates This Week’s Fiction Wordcount: 457 This Week’s Non-Fiction Wordcount: 4,575 DemiPrincess: Look! Words! They […]

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Review: Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow

I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow as an e-ARC. Content Notes: Deals with grief over miscarriages (seen through the eyes of a sibling, but affecting the whole family), childbirth gone wrong, bullying, allusions to transphobia and some brief descriptions of transphobic bullying, suicide ideation. […]

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Lynn rambles about… Asexual Fairy Tales by Elizabeth Hopkinson

We’re trying something new this time around: Lynn Rambles, but with a backdrop for YouTube. What! I don’t know if it’ll work, but it’d be a nice way to get into booktube somewhat and to make use of YouTube’s auto-captions for the podcasty thing. YouTube description, minus superfluous links. Earlier this year, I supported a […]

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Week 37 Update

Weekly Accountability Hi, everyone! It’s that time again! Weekly updates delivered every Friday! Completed Projects N/A Goal Updates 8/12 books 0/1 completed proper paper 0/5,000 words of fiction written Writing Updates This Week’s Fiction Wordcount: 0 This Week’s Non-Fiction Wordcount: 5,083 Wow. This week was. It was. A lot. It feels like I wrote easily […]

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Guest Interview: Lisa Jenn Bigelow on Hazel’s Theory of Evolution

Today I’m interviewing Lisa Jenn Bigelow about her upcoming middle-grade novel, Hazel’s Theory of Evolution, a delightful and heartwrenching story about friends, family and growing up. Also, to the best of my knowledge, the very first middle-grade novel with an a-spec protagonist. I’ve been lucky enough to get a review copy (thank you, Lisa!) and […]

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Review: Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor

Disclaimer: I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor as an e-ARC. Also, Rosiee and I are friends, so take grains of salt accordingly. Content Notes: Emotional and verbal abuse, allusions to physical abuse, death of a child, surgery, parental death. Nathaniel is my precious son and […]

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Week 36 Update

Weekly Accountability Hi, everyone! It’s that time again! Weekly updates delivered every Friday! Completed Projects None! Goal Updates 2/12 books 0/1 completed proper paper 0/5,000 words of fiction written Writing Updates This Week’s Fiction Wordcount: 0 This Week’s Non-Fiction Wordcount: 4,676 Life And Other Such Important Matters Aaaaaaaah! Birthday season is upon us! Well, upon […]

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August Wrap-up

August Newsletter Hi, everyone! It’s that time again! Monthly news and accountability! Life And Other Such Important Matters August has been… Well, I’m not going to lie. It hasn’t been pretty with family drama taking centre stage. I started the month off, bummed that I couldn’t make it to Worldcon, before settling into vicariously living […]

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