About my wife of 32 years:

In this @sfwa #Nebulas issue, Obviously, to anyone paying the slightest attention, the word was not meant sincerely or offensively. The issue is with the word, not the woman, but the woman is who is available to shred, & the teeth are shiny. 1/ People who mean well are being whipped up over the word, & they are trying to educate or punish her. This was someone taking a hit at her, & using others to do it more. 2/

My commentary, friends, based upon the life & work of Mercedes Lackey & me, prompted by this very good advice.
A thread.

https://twitter.com/michaeldfuller/status/1394058908000415746

Misty & I know what we're about. We work w/a purpose, & we have intent.
We know what we do well, & what we don't. We own that.
The work we do is intended to be entertaining for a recreational reader, but lifesaving for someone desperate. 1/

My next books will be late.

I am devoting time to designing & fabricating new PPE & #3Dprinting medical devices.

If you can do #cosplay, #props, etc., please make masks, PPE gowns, face shields & esp. PAPR.

PAPR can be fabbed w/PC fans, phone rechargers & shower caps. Look up "homemade papr" & there are many videos. Also check .stl sites for masks.

Please focus reusability & comfort. Bad PPE can mangle a caregiver's face, making them open to infections.

Just as valuable, make QoL things for them, too. Get kids to make them thank-you notes.

Everyone,
My wellbeing is used up. I’ve given my best to friends & strangers, helping them survive 2020, while coping w/my own intense pain & loss. I’m past redline. I’m broken. I hope you'll remember me while I can't give as much. I hope y'all help each other prosper. IOUs to body, heart, & soul demand payment eventually. I hope to be thought of by new generations as... someone who risked much to get us here. Medically, emotionally, I have had enormous losses... but I know I won't give up.
I still have 1,000 strategies to fight for love.

@likesevenspoon @Owen_Stephens Deep History of Gaming prompt!

I was a founding member of The Hobbit Cavaliers, Fayetteville/Ft.Bragg/PopeAFB's first TTRPG group. Well-known in the early days of gaming. 1/ @likesevenspoon @Owen_Stephens A distinguishing trait of THCav was that you earned respect if you knew what your character knew. So, we shared knowledge about all KINDS of things. This is why I have so many fields of expertise. 2/

@supership79 She's also talking about a LEAD character. We've had numerous enbie, ace & trans characters, but nailing the emotions in a trans, internal PoV lead--it's too much for her. What would actually help: a token trans PoV done badly, or excellent non-PoV characters? @supership79 Misty is a very tired old lady. The amount of emotional hammering an author takes is astounding--a level of intrusiveness & danger that's horrible for someone who just wants to write some nice stories to help people feel better. She's a person, not a panacea.

Ours was a highly-specialized society. It was built, decade upon decade, towards further refinement & specialization of what kind of citizen it would create. It was fine-tuned to make us what we are now. The variable, the ever-elusive-to-quantify-factor, is individual motive.
1/ This intensive norm, the baseline citizen, was hammered on by some, shaved away at by others, heat-treated by yet more. Who & what we were was machined into being. We were all made to fit tolerances, & when needed, a few shims were added, so we'd run through the machine well. 2/

@SilvShadowSpark Hey here's the thing. When you're starting out on artwork, like when you're really young, say, & you get these ideas of cool stuff but you only know what's in your head & what others have done, you don't know the processes yet for getting 1/ @SilvShadowSpark what is in your head onto a page, "as good as" the people you admire. So let's say you get a ream of nice, acid-free paper. You have 500 sheets there for maybe $5. Pencils are cheap, too. So you go at it. You give it a try. 2/