Friend 1: Look at these prom pictures!

Friend 2: College Acceptance #3!

Friend 3: My 5yo just played her first violin recital!

Me: My kids gave me the breakdown of the musical Epic and then explained Omega from the Bad Batch as "Not 'dun-dun-da-dun' but defeats them like 'done-done-done-da!'"

TL;DR of my threads today...

Abortion bans are inhumane and slavery.

If you really want to prevent abortion and save kids you will be advocating for ways to make pregnancy safe, welcome, and affordable while ensuring no one has an accidental pregnancy.

If your concern is unwanted pregnancies and saving the children:

- mandatory vasectomies for every penis out there (those are reversible)

- free birth control

- free healthcare for pregnant people

- free healthcare for all children

- a child stipend that starts with a positive pregnancy test

Pregnancy is risky. It's dangerous. It can destroy your body.

If pregnancy is not optional, it becomes criminal to ask anyone to get pregnant. It becomes forced labor on a battlefield.

(and I'm saying this as a mom of four who nearly died twice during pregnancies)

I really, REALLY, cannot understate how bad it would be if you were Christian and thought pregnancy was a punishment for sex while trying to believe that Mary was a virgin and pure and holy but that she also had a pregnancy before being legally wed.

Pregnancy is not a punishment for having sex.

If pregnancy were punishment for bad behavior, it follows that children are likewise a punishment. That gets really theologically complicated really quickly. Especially if your religion calls god Father.

Pregnancy is not the natural outcome of sex.

Ask any couple visiting a fertility clinic and they'll explain that to you.

For the first time in weeks I woke up with a scene in my head (after a day away from the keyboard, talking to my bestie about my stress, and checking in with my crit partners) so I got up to write... and realized I don't have a playlist for a mermaid book.

Give me some recs!

#Mermay #AmWriting #AmWriting #CoSoWriters

I went for a massage. My massage therapist said I should see a doctor so I got to have the fun experience of trying to explain rib subluxation and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in my very broken Korean. My massage therapist is horrified, but I feel better.

A friend has pointed out that multiple books on my writing docket qualify as "I Survived And Now It's Definitely Your Problem" as well as "Fake Hating".

I'm not apologizing for this.

Okay, fine, I'll make my own choices.

... I'm going to go see if my sewing machine works so I can sew together a pirate coat and embroidery it while I watch Bridgerton (it's getting a treasure map, dragons, sea monsters, and a Chinese junk on it).

Hello, internet, I need to use you as my brain this morning.

WHAT AM I WORKING ON?

- I Survived And Now It's Definitely Your Problem
- I'd Cross The World To Find You
- Ren Faire Pirate Coat (not a book)
- Update The Blog
- Fake Hating
- Started Out On The Bottom And Now My Enemies Perish

Random Internet Person: I'm introducing myself to [Author Liana Knows].

Me: Oh! You'll love them! They're so sweet! Are you going to the [favorite brunch place] with them?

Random Internet Person: I meant I'm going to start reading their books... o.0

Me: Oh... kay. Start with [Book 1].

I'm disabled all the time. If you see me putting up memes and making jokes, it's because I'm having a really bad pain day and laughing at the brokeness of my body makes it easier to stay alive.

Part of the Spoonie Life is getting to explain to befuddled doctors that, no, that medicine will not actually work. Explaining that I can't take the standard array of pain meds to new drs is always super, super fun. I guess they don't cover disabilities in med school.

I have been informed there will be a street festival this weekend with lumpia. If you aren't familiar with lumpia, you need some Filipino friends who love you enough to feed you.

Okay, [group name for people on this website], it's 9am, let's check the to-do list and see what needs doing. I strongly suspect I need to spend the morning finishing the book that's due to my editor in a few weeks. So. Fun.

*goes to pay bills instead*

The local radio DJ announced a quote in English from "F---ing Snooze" and it took me a good couple of minutes to realize they were trying to say "Fox News".

So, anyways, that's how my day has been. How are you?

I was today years old when I learned it was OBFUSCATE (aub-fuss-kate) and OBFUSTICATE (aub-foos-ti-kate).

But actually!!!

Fun stuff, both are legitimate words. It's just the one that I've always used is not the common term, it's the archaic.

#FunWithWords