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Vicki Marklew

@vmarklew.bsky.social

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Expat Brit still bemused by life in America. Avid reader, SFF & mystery fan. Sometimes I write stuff. Occasionally blogging at www.AbroadInTheUSA.com Querying Guardians of the Weave. She/her

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 9d

Redrafting: Guardians of the Weave

“No-one can confront the darkness alone; every story is needed.”

• Found Family
• Ace/Aro rep
• Characters from different times & places
• Mental health struggles
• Ordinary people saving the weave of life

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 1d

Ok sure.
Wait…
What?!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Gauld in The Guardian.

Ideas seller to customer: WHERE WRITERS REALLY GET THEIR IDEAS
I'M ALL OUT OF MIND-BLOWING CONCEPTS AND HEART-RENDING NARRATIVES, BUT I'VE GOT AN ACERBIC OBSERVATION, AN UNEXPECTED OUTCOME AND A COUPLE OF AMUSING NOTIONS
DEAS
TOM GAULD

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Dems! See this? This messaging? This is what we need. Once again wishing I could vote for this guy.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 1d

Wow this whole thread was a fascinating read, thank you!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 3d

Or not 🫤

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 3d

Spouse risking repetitive stress injury this eve mashing the remote as he toggles between #Phillies and #Eagles games on TV.
Helluva night to be a Philly sports fan.

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 3d

The alt text on this photo is just a work of art ❤️

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 3d

The video I didn’t know I needed today but that I ABSOLUTELY NEEDED TODAY!

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 4d

Belvoir Castle
(Locals pronounce it beaver, to the incandescent fury of my French sister-in-law)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 4d

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression”

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 4d

I’m gonna have to mute you today or I’m gonna get spoilers!

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Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 5d

Me too 🫤

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 5d

Jfc this second shingles vaccine shot is a bitch. 24 hours in & feels like flu + tetanus-shot levels of sore arm…
Wait, I mean yay! #Science is awesome! #Vaccines are great! 😱

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 6d

Oh gods I think it’s an episode of West Wing. This is a bad sign…may have to deploy whiskey to fend off his horrors.

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 6d

Sitting here enjoying my dinner and idk what spouse has on the TV in the other room but the plaintive sound of Cohen ‘s Hallelujah is the background music and I may have to go and stage an Intervention.

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 8d

Squeeeees in excitement…realizes that’s the exact time my writing group meets … 15 miles away … and it’s my turn in the tell-me-all-the-problems-with-this-piece hot seat … bangs head on desk in despair.
Heavy, heavy sigh.

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 8d

5+ hours of solid writing. About 4,000 words, good ones!
And I am Wiped. Out.
Poleaxed.
Barely coherent.
Why is writing fiction so exhausting?!

But also, that was 5+ hours spent utterly oblivious of whatever the hell is going on in the news.
Win-win.
#Writing #writerLife

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 9d

😢🫂

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 9d

Omg he has the BEST comms org and I almost want to move to NYC just to be able to vote for him!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 9d

Or possibly procrastination via index cards 😏

Vicki Marklew @vmarklew.bsky.social · 9d

And so the rewrite begins…
So much fun keeping track of multiple POV characters.
#Writerlife
#Writing

Large white poster board with a collection of different colored notecards pinned on it, all covered in dense script

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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