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A dime that's top of the line. Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. They don't love you like I love you. She/Her. https://www.violetallen.love/

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · Oct 12

Hater Mode Activated.
Pleasure Is the law.
L'art pour l'art.
Not a dream, not an imaginary story.
No crying until the end.

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hello this is the website of science fiction and fantasy writer VIOLET ALLEN (on the computer) let's be friends, okay?

www.violetallen.love

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4h

I've only heard it pronounced primmer in old movies.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

Large immobile epidermis.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

I'm pretty sure this means that, according to JK Rowling, skin is a woman now.

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat infertility and enable gay couples to have genetically related children.

www.npr.org

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

large immobile epidermis

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

Hate it when low sugar/sugar-free treats are marketed as "guilt-free" or are otherwise negative about the abstract concept of eating sugar. I am not eating these because I feel guilty about eating candy. I am eating these so that my blood does not get mad at me.

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 16h

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 18h

Love in the New Millennium is really good.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 18h

Aww, I was rooting for Can Xue.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

It's bad idea for totally different reasons.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

Yes I had this idea because Estragon sounds kind of like Etrigan, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

Hear me out: Alex Winter as Jason Blood, Keanu Reeves as Etrigan.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

This post is a good example of why you need editing sometimes.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

I like that this has gotten popular when I because mostly just complaining about a book I don't like, not trying to spread wisdom. Being a hater works.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

They are doing you dirty, dolls. They should not allow you to be writing this bad. Their job is to help you.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious debut?

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I am made painfully aware that some people, even people who write books, do not take any delight from the per se act of reading.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

Going from reading Sontag to this was a mistake.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

This book sucks, dog.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

Worst case of Firstchapteritis (when a book's first chapter is better written than the rest because it has been worked over the most) I have seen in a long time. (I say this as someone whose book has, imo, a mild case of Firstchapteritis)

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I miss most about Twitter is that I could post things like this and my DMs would be filled with other bitchy authors who wanted to know who I was subtweeting. The Golden Age.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

Dog, this book sucks.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe it's not the amount of books but a certain reading style.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there is a real gap between people who read novels a lot and people who don't on whether a book feeling like a movie is good or not.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

My enemies deserve scorn for their sins against taste but not for basic stylistic choices.