Mixeduppainter
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You may know me as the one who kept writing monster romances (and also won't stop talking about Beyond Evil) Writing as J. Emery Spiritual Successor out 2024
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Hello friends of bluesky and welcome to: My Books!

First up we have

An Offering of Plums
- it's short
- it's got a hot agender demon
- and flirting by way of fruit!

So if that sounds like something you might dig, please come right this way:
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Available now at your favorite digital store!
An Offering of Plums by J. Emery
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Self-care is taking yourself out to go see a horror movie.
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And now back to The Grudge
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I was kinda glad a few other people were in the theater tho. I was sad no one else had gotten tickets last I checked

*bangs on table* watch my old favorite movies, people. I have good taste
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Perfect Blue has been viewed on the (medium) big screen

I love that it was promoted as a new 4k transfer tho. Like this movie is 30 years old. It's not going to stop looking like it's 30 years old no matter how many transfers you do 😂

I still enjoyed it mightily tho
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I am so tired of people equating "edge" with "good" writing, and people implying I can't be a serious writer because of the things I love. Bradbury himself inoculated himself early against such foolishness. Love what you love. Write what you love. Tell everyone else to fuck the fuck off.
“Friends made fun. I tore up the Buck Rogers strips. For a month I walked through my fourth-grade classes, stunned and empty. One day I burst into tears, wondering what devastation had happened to me. The answer was: Buck Rogers. He was gone, and life simply wasn’t worth living. The next thought was: Those are not my friends, the ones who got me to tear the strips apart and so tear my own life down the middle; they are my enemies.
I went back to collecting Buck Rogers. My life has been happy ever since. For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction. Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

Ray Bradbury. “Zen in the Art of Writing.”
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The fact that our internet has been out for the majority of the last day is exactly why I'm so glad I'm handwriting this novella draft. I can't lose access to a book that's sitting on my desk
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I hope you're able to get some sleep after this. That sounds rough 😑
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Yeah we have amassed a small video store's worth of DVDs over the years and I refuse to part with them. Our internet is unreliable and streaming services drop things too often for me to ever rely on digital only
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And of course our internet just went out so we can't use tubi anymore

See. This is why I just buy every movie on DVD
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This is actually mildly creepy. I'm impressed
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We couldn't make it to Perfect Blue tonight so it's time to watch the remake of The Grudge instead

I haven't seen this since it was new so this should be interesting
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I mean, I WAS writing a gothic about a drowning ghost. But that was before. Now I'm writing the gothic about a cult
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To be fair, I was sick on Monday so I spent all day at work yesterday absolutely sure it was still Monday. Because it was the first day I worked this week and so: Monday

My brain refuses to adjust any further
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We're going to the movie theater to see Perfect Blue later tonight so I will probably stop trying since my work time is limited. Maybe I'll just treat myself to a drink while I'm out instead
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Oh dear. My brain has decided we should try new music while writing today. Mostly this has just left me dissatisfied and with no words
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It will be remembered fondly. It wasn't the best cup I ever made but it was tea
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This is exactly why I tell my father to IGNORE whatever the salesman is saying at the phone store or anywhere else because unless you get lucky they don't care what you want, they just want to make a sale and will tell you whatever they have to to achieve that
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I hope you do. And get screen shots of course
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On one hand, one less gnat to fly into everyone's faces but on the other... my tea 🥲
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Well apparently I am not meant to have tea while I work today. First it got cold immediately from the draft coming in the window. Now a gnat has drowned in it

So

No tea it is
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It's not a word so much as a geographic point but I can generally clock where someone is from by how they say Des Plaines river
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What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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It's always worth celebrating no matter where it happens.

I made a novella free and it hit top 10 in one of their very hyperspecific categories and I still celebrated for the brief time it was there. It's nice to have that tiny validation
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reposting for the evening crowd with the fact that it is, in fact, Wednesday 😂
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It's Tuesday morning, the baby is refusing to nap, and I need to do something productive or I'll scream! SO! Have a list of BOOKS ON SALE!

These are all affiliate links, which means I get a small cut of the retailers profits. These books may be on sale other places I don't have links. Click away!
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Last but not least, you can get any of my paperback books (or anyone's, really) with FREE SHIPPING today only from Bookshop!

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All of these books were written by yours truly! Come and get them!
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