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@HAmorata Here’s my not-so-young puppy playing in the snow the other night 😍

Yes Kobo I’m the one who scheduled it but thank you

@3dprintcats Thank you! (I say, 3 days late, as I’m still wading through notifications 😅)

Sorry I’m just now seeing this—I was inundated with notifications the other day! Thanks for your purchase! 😊 And I’ve been avoiding naming names just because I didn’t want people going and dogpiling this author and causing more problems. Just trying to take the high road in the situation. I do know she was one of the SPSFC judges this year, though I’m not sure what team she was part of.

Ope, sorry I’m just now seeing this—I was inundated with notifications the other day lol. If you’ve been following the drama surrounding this year’s SPSFC, I expressed my support for the authors who have withdrawn their books from the contest in solidarity with Devon Eriksen and free speech. Apparently this makes me a nazi apologist 🤷🏼‍♀️. Who knew? This person who was running the promo was also an SPSFC judge and likely one of the primary instigators behind Devon’s removal.

@shubzilla8 Thank you!

Me: <is actually diligent about stretching> My hips and back: <stop hurting> Me:

@SFbookclub Go ahead—I did just get your email 👀

I love my internet grammar mug, but this one from @PendletonWM is truly my favorite. A warm beverage is definitely called for today.

@timelesshalls00 Yesterday the sun *gasp* actually came out for a while and it DID feel almost balmy, at least in comparison to other recent temps lol

You were at the Seattle show right? I was thinking I remembered you commenting on my Facebook post about it. It’s so fun getting those little inside stories between pieces—all the flutes/recorders in that score are so perfectly thematic, you’d think people wouldn’t have any trouble recognizing it. But it’s also nowhere near as popular as stuff like Dune, Interstellar, Dark Knight, etc.

She also gives me way too much credit lol. I don’t know that it’s describe myself as being “in a place” of any kind. Write what you want.

Someone else made a great point—back in the day, when sets were all more practical, the lighting looked better because of the tangible props and objects, so they had to work harder to make any CGI bits match. Now when *everything* is CGI, the lighting tends to be all over the place. Gladiator II is worth skipping, imo. I may watch it again sometime with a clearer head—the original is my all-time favorite movie so I went into the new one basically WANTING to be critical and picky. But the overall premise basically seemed like “lol jk we flushed everything the characters accomplished in the first one down the toilet so we’d have plot material for a new one” 🙄

@J0hnADouglas My novella is 2.99, and it’s only about 18,000 words, so it’s actually barely squeaking in as a novella. I’d probably still price it that way up to 30,000 words or so, then bump it to 3.99 for anything between 30 and 50.

@carlylandry Yesss. During that opening sequence it was like awkward green screen.

Fantastic point about the lighting on practical props and forcing any CGI to match. I’ve been watching a lot of movie reactions lately, and during the T-Rex escape scene in the original Jurassic Park, sooo many people comment on how real it looks. Yeahhh that’s because it *is* a real practical animatronic with cleverly-spliced CGI.

@MichaelFKane There are a few things I can think of where the CGI looks pretty janky these days just because I think they tried to do *too much* with it when it was still relatively new. But for the most part, I agree. A lot of older stuff looks way better than what we see today.