Notices by Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com), page 6

Morning Walk Report: Grey skies, cool breeze. A few last roses on sheltered bushes. Rudbeckia and coneflower both losing petals. Dogwood (I'm told) scattering fruit. Boxnoggin deliriously drunk on smells in ivy and along the bottom of sprinkler-wet foliage.

Today's run was slow and steady, since I'm nursing an aching ankle. Joey Fehrenbach on repeat. A small dog in a very natty blue jacket, gleefully walking his human. A lady with a battery-operated leafblower at the park, scowling--leave her alone, she's got work to do.

I do not speak about some things/events because I find them distressing, they are private, it's not my lane, or I simply don't want to. Coming into my feed and *demanding* I give a statement on the news cycle is a good way to earn a block.

That is all.

Good heavens, the morning's been a scramble. Time to unplug, make some more coffee, and take a deep breath or two.

I swear I will start those damn revisions today.

I have a Patreon! Weekly serial chapters (currently, epic fantasy) and/or weekly peeks behind the writing curtain. (Right now my patrons are getting to see the Julius Caesar werewolf motorcycle story...) https://www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow

I only intended to get the bare bones of this scene in the serial down before turning to other work.

2k words later, a scene and a half done and the last segment of the book set up, and I'm blinking as if I just emerged from a nap. Whew. That was a bit intense.

Honestly, why would I farm this out to spicy autocorrect? This is the *fun* part. Creating scratches a deep human urge, and I love what I do. I simply do not understand why I would skip this with some techbro's ecology-wrecking plagiarism vomit.

I genuinely do not get it. Not when the raw, real, intense pleasure of actually creating something, making something, is *right there*.

"This latest leak marks the third time in a year that 404 has reported on CMG's shady voice targeting service." https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

And that was D&D! The paladin found goat (cheese), the rogue is making mental lists, the druid gave a piggyback ride, the bard found cooking supplies, the cleric displayed an air of menace, and we almost, ALMOST adopted a waif.

So far things are going *very* well. #ItsDnDTime

"Each of Craven’s partners embedded themselves into varying marginalized communities." https://www.ign.com/articles/a-prominent-accessibility-advocate-worked-with-studios-and-inspired-change-but-she-never-actually-existed

Oof. I am in a HECKUVA mood this morning, my friends. I’m about to do a double-filtered pour-over and see if I can’t shake these blues.

Very little is as injurious to society as seeing rich bastards (and their private armies) lie, cheat, steal, and kill without consequence.

The ongoing moral injuries compound, and the bill—especially after the first few efforts at accountability fail—is violently high.

The ongoing, absolutely obscene lack of consequences for bad actors simply because they’re rich, white, and/or male is detrimental to anything we can call civilization.

Baby, the only reason you think a writer is "apolitical" is if you agree with them about something rancid.

"Writers lose readers by being political." You know what? I don't *want* the chuds who think I'm merely an escaped womb reading the stories I tore from my guts with sheer love and dedication.

"And still, my research showed me that the history of the IQ test informs our world in so many urgent ways. Goddard’s bigotry seemed alarmingly familiar to me." https://lithub.com/On-the-Dark-History-and-Ongoing-Ableist-Legacy-of-the-IQ-Test

Sure, I could keep poking at this story which clearly doesn't want to move today, or I could dose myself with gallons of tea on the couch while reading about Oliver Cromwell.

Decisions, decisions.

And no, I can't read about Cromwell without hearing Monty Python. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBPf6P332uM

"The aggressor wishes to eradicate all evidence of the attacked people and their links to the land. The destruction of libraries and archives – repositories of a people’s history and the records of their land and property ownership – ensures this." https://lithub.com/what-the-deliberate-targeting-of-libraries-reveals-about-the-nature-of-war/

I shall add that not every war is accompanied by gunfire. Library destruction is a core feature of the authoritarian war upon the human soul.