Perpetually irritated by how expensive it is to need to make full use of my eyeballs.
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Cass Morris
Профиль VivelyAuthor: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA linktr.ee/cassrmorris
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Worldbuilding for MasochistsToday! Worldbuilding for Masochists is taking part in @tbrcon.bsky.social, an all-virtual, all-streaming sci-fi/fantasy/horror convention. We’ll be chatting about our “choose, don’t presume” ethos and general approach to worldbuilding. Tune in on YouTube at 5pm ET! youtube.com/live/GeF4zvq...
Newsletter! Haven't put one out since April, so this one is FULL of updates, upcoming events, and reading recommendations.
July 2026 NewsletterWell. Camp season is finally over. And I get my brain back. News And just in time, too, because I have just handed Shattered Souls over to brilliant editor...buttondown.com#PretendPanel July 31: There's still a little over a week to vote for the Hugo Awards! And I'm going to keep pushing that Worldbuilding for Masochists is up for Best Fancast for our SIXTH year in a row! worldbuildingformasochists.podbean.com
Lizzie BlackwoodIt's been a privilege hosting for you all this month, #PretendPanel! As is tradition, this final Friday of July is a Freebie Friday! Share or ask anything you like, and make sure to check other people's responses and answer their questions as well. 💜 See you in August!
Yeah so how is this anything other than price gouging?
Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas pricesEnvironmentalists renew calls for windfall tax to support households after Q2 earnings rise to almost $10bnwww.theguardian.comWhich is a particular bummer because the system is SO GOOD If I wanted to play a D&D system, I’d play D&D. 🙄
X-Wings & HistoryGenerational fumble of the license by Fantasy Flight Games (et all). Star Wars released six movies and I don't even know how many television series while they had the license, and their only release taking advantage of any of it was a beginner game set before TFA.
jfc "Over a period of two months last year, Cigna doctors denied over 300,000 requests for payments using this method, spending an average of 1.2 seconds on each case, the documents show."
ProPublicaInternal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
#WIPSnips July 30: I have closed all my Shattered Souls docs so that I stop trying to fiddle with it while it's with my editor. Until I settle in to a new project, I'll likely be pulling snippets from the Star Trek ttrpg vignettes I play around with when bored. I would so go to this club.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share TagThe #WIPSnips word for July 30th is "relax" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#WIPSnips July 29: Been playing around with some custom themes in Ellipsus. Not fully happy with any of them yet. 😅 They're very fiddly -- but it's the sort of fiddly I could sink a lot of time into playing with. Anyway this is from some ephemera.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share TagThe #WIPSnips word for July 29th is "century" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. WijnendaeleNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Oooooh, excited to listen to this. Because no, I have no plans to shut up about this series anytime soon.
Science FridayTom Hiddleston first visited Pompeii at 17 and never forgot it. Now he's returned as host of National Geographic's "Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston" to piece together the lives of the thousands of people who once called it home.
::bangs pots and pans:: This is what I've been trying to tell all y'all!
Larry OstermanI don't normally do book reviews, but I'm going to make an exception because I need to write about the Maradaine Saga by @mrmaresca.com (who responded to a "Pitch your books" skeet several weeks ago with a link).