Eva (writes stuff)

@NickTaber Yes

Being able to throw around the “mentally ill” label, which psychiatry facilitates in our culture, directly enables abusers and manipulators.

@corrupt_touch Ohhh. Brilliant!

Nightly This Dean & This Cas While stargazing, Cas Novak accidentally makes contact with a hostile alien force, but no one believes him when he says the Earth is about to be attacked, except ex-soldier Dean Winchester. Dean and Cas are about to save the world and each other

@HooklandGuide Goodnight, Guide. Thank you.

Goodnight from Tess Salthouse, packing her rucksack with Kit Kats, wire cutters and a DIY EMF detector for a night at RAF Nook’s abandoned rocket base. Goodnight from Tom Lodge, spitting in the wake of St. Arilda’s phantom nun to ward against her ill luck. Goodnight from Hookland

@NickTaber Customer for life?

"We caught it early." A 5-year-old diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and medicated. Before they could question it. Before they could read about it. Before they had any framework to understand what was being done to them. Early intervention? Or early industrial capture?

@AnotherHomoCon Don't. Feed. The. Grift.

Y’know, my 𝕏 experience became a lot nicer when I started blocking/muting/ignoring Leftists rather than engage with them. They just want to be bullies and discourse with them is pointless since they spend the entire time pretending to not know what words mean.

@HarmeetKDhillon Lovely

Current hat, by popular demand. I have some travel coming up and am choosing some knitting and needlepoint projects. Next might be a spring t shirt in merino for myself.

@AnotherHomoCon Good morning.

Top of the mornin’ on this lovely Thursday. Just remember that it’s all about the little victories. Now, give us all a GM back, or there’ll be no little victories.

@AnotherHomoCon GM

@stepha_henson That's a terrible thing for anyone to say. I'm so sorry.

“Why, at your age, do you think you can become some real author?” Not gonna lie guys, that one stung. Yes, a real comment - in real life, not just online …. but to my face. It’s not pretty sometimes when you chase a dream.

@corrupt_touch Oh my

Nightly This Dean & This Cas Dean Winchester has spent too long in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Cas Novak is guilty of every crime he was accused of. And when the two break out, Cas promises to help Dean get revenge on everyone who played a role in Dean’s conviction

@HooklandGuide Goodnight, guide

Goodnight from Viv Greene, so sick of her husband’s constant nattering about occult perils she wishes Cold Flame cultists would disappear him. Goodnight from Ingrid Hoff, puzzled by the fact her bedroom suddenly smells of decaying leaves and uprooted moss. Goodnight from Hookland

@DrMcFillin Yes

SSRIs don’t "treat depression." They numb people. They blunt emotion, alter personality, and disconnect them from themselves. And we keep prescribing them to kids, teens, and pregnant women as if nothing could go wrong.

@DrMcFillin No. Not at all.

Once they put you on psych drugs… there is no plan to get you off. Not by accident

@AnotherHomoCon GM. I dont see your good morning posts in my timeline. Verra frustrating. Have to hunt you down to say good morning.

It’s Wednesday, dawn patrol. Be sure to get plenty of sunshine and drink a lot of water because you’re all basically a house plant with way more complicated emotions. Now, greet the crew back with a GM, or you’ll either like a rose when the pH is slightly off.

@annbauerwriter Yes. 💯

Avoid drinking in a noisy bar Never make a financial decision under pressure Chaotic situations lower inhibition. People are made reckless. Every car salesman understands this. Right now, AI content is one big chaos storm. Go slow. This is mostly a reminder for myself.

@BasedPsychMD Depression correlates to existential frustration or lack of purpose in life. But purpose in life doesn't make money for an industry. Cheers!

Depression correlates with low serotonin in some studies. Therefore SSRIs fix depression. That's the logic we built an industry on.

@orsonscottcard I very much appreciate you.

Addendum: How I did it -- once. My only start-quick novel was Ender's Game. I had had some traction with the novelet “Ender's Game,” and I had already committed to its main character as the protagonist of Speaker for the Dead. I needed a novel version of Ender's Game to properly set up Speaker, so readers of the EG novel would be prepared to pick up the story 3,000 years later. (Time dilation in lightspeed flight allowed frequent travelers to live through millennia.) I already knew, from expanding Mikal's Songbird into the novel Songmaster, that you don't novelize a short story by tacking twenty chapters onto the end. If the short story works, you start way earlier, developing characters and situations leading up to the same climax and resolution that worked so well in the short form. (If they did not work well, why are you novelizing it in the first place?) So to set up the story of EG, which began when Ender was given command of his own “army” in the orbiting Battle School, I went back to when he was chosen, and chose, to be taken out of his childhood home at around the age of six. Rigorous testing had led to Ender Wiggin being one of the most promising young recruits (draftees) to be trained to fight the invading hive queens. To show Ender's childhood family, I handled it quickly by putting Ender in my own family, back when there were only three of us kids. In my family, my sister was eldest, and a four-year gap between me and my older brother made us anything but close. So Ender grew up with a hostile older brother and a protective and kindly older sister — both of whom had come close to being drafted themselves. Every vile thing Peter did to Ender, my own brother had done to me. Every in-joke between Ender and Valentine was based on real memories shared with my sister. In this tiny cell, the parents seemed as distant as prison guards, quite unlike my own parents, who were in the main much more nurturing and involved. 1/3 🧵 ➡️

@orsonscottcard I really appreciate you.

“How can I get a quick start on writing a new book?” Embrace cliches. You don't have time to develop your characters or milieu, or set yourself any challenges as a writer. Getting crap on paper is your primary goal. Still, try to do a good job of writing — snappy dialogue, quirky minor characters, a compelling dilemma (to which you already know the solution). Writing better takes a little longer. Invent more deeply. Complicate your storyline. Disguise your use of commonplace tropes. Your goal was to start quickly — but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to create a positive reading experience. As for the topic? Choose a character who suffers greatly, undergoes great challenges, and doesn't die. Set her in a milieu that you know well enough to write without much research. Create a few characters who do not just exist for your convenience, but have agendas of their own. Give your main character a reason to keep going despite all dangers and risks. Give your main character a job. Even if she hates her job, we need to see her working.

@alt_w_v_g Best. Ever!

Update: I am now trending above geopolitics Above Iran Above Congress My wife said "this is not something to be proud of" I disagree My analyst has requested a promotion I said no But I respected the timing Make Common Sense Common Again

The follow-up parent/teacher conference was yesterday My wife went alone I watched her pull out of the driveway Then I called my analyst He was already in his car Parked in the alley Engine running I wore cargo shorts Six pockets Pocket three had the school handbook Pocket five had a highlighter We arrived at 3:42pm Three minutes early My wife saw my analyst in the hallway before she saw me She stopped walking Then she saw me She said "why is he here" I said "support" She said "for what" I said "the meeting" She said "this is a parent-teacher conference and you aren't supposed to be here" I said "every meeting is a negotiation" She didn't move I held the door The teacher was waiting She was not alone The principal was seated beside her Arms folded They brought backup So did I My analyst sat down and opened his laptop He asked for the WiFi password The teacher said "we don't give that to visitors" He said "no problem" and turned on his hotspot I taught him well My wife put her head in her hands The principal introduced himself Firm handshake Said he wanted to "make sure we're all on the same page" I said "I love alignment" My wife looked at the ceiling The teacher pulled out a folder Same color-coded tabs as last time I respected the consistency She said our son has made "some improvements" but there are still "areas of concern" I said "can you quantify that" She said "it's not really a numbers-based assessment" I looked at my analyst He looked at me We didn't say anything The teacher said he still "challenges classroom structure" I pulled the school handbook from pocket three Page 34 Section 2.7 Parent Rights and Student Evaluation Standards I had highlighted six lines The principal looked at the handbook Then looked at my cargo shorts Then back at the handbook The teacher said there was an incident with a multiple-choice question She pulled out the test I pulled my copy from pocket two The teacher stopped talking My wife closed her eyes The question listed fifteen gender options My son selected none of them He wrote "Not applicable" Below that he wrote "Identified: Chromosome XY" Below that he wrote "Source: Biology textbook, page 217" With a footnote My wife looked at me She said "oh my god he's becoming you" I said "thank you" She said "that wasn't a compliment" The teacher said "that's not how multiple choice works" I said "was his answer correct" She paused The teacher looked at the ceiling Why does everyone keep doing that The principal stepped in He said "the concern isn't accuracy. It's compliance." I said "interesting. My auditors say the same thing." My analyst typed something I didn't ask what My wife looked at the ceiling again The principal said he thinks our son would "benefit from learning to work within established frameworks" I said "he will. And then he'll spend his career fixing them." Nobody spoke The teacher closed her folder The principal didn't shake my hand My analyst asked if there would be a follow-up The teacher said "I hope not" In the parking lot my wife said "you wore cargo shorts to a school meeting that you weren't invited to" I said "I needed the pockets" She didn't argue She said "we need to talk about this at couples therapy" I said "only if I can bring my analyst" She got in her car My analyst sent me his notes before I got to mine Formatted Bulleted With action items There were none Except for Plz Fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@_The_Prophet__ I hope so

⚡️May the signal find you, signal-bearer.