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The Akira Soundtrack is probably our oldest piece of writing music. We've been listening to it to write since we were in high school in the early '90s. Lately, it's been a lot of Metric, Mary Lambert, Lenka, Chappell Roan, Santigold, Franz Ferdinand, and the Nimona Sountrack. We try to make...

We got very lucky there, we think. We posted chapter updates to a discord server with likely readers in it, and a couple of them became very enthusiastic and supportive. We only have at most 150 readers of our story, and only the one proofreader has commented regularly past the first six...

Wrote this in 2015 Skulking Monsters The world may have been made for dragons But the very breath of it sears us to our hearts Each rain drop reflecting visages terrifying Every struggle filling our souls with sparks Wingless now, we’ve spent too much time among the humans We’ve given our...

Stories of revolution of some sort. Doesn't have to be military or all that political. It can be a personal revolution, a change in a person's life. Or it can be about overthrowing the school board, or breaking up with an ex, or whatever. But that discovery that there's a better way and then...

popularity is a weird thing to care about

We cannot recommend that you attempt to imbibe our bodily fluids. It would be hazardous. Points against such an attempt include: 1. we not mortal 2. we not human 3. what we have for "blood" is likely toxic to earth life. if the chemistry doesn't get you, and the xenophages don't attack you...

We "like" every chapter, and we leave comments on individual chapters as compelled by the narrative (if something really sticks out and we feel we need to tell the author about it how good it is). Then, at the end of the book, we leave a final comment thanking them for writing it. If a book is...

Gaslighting is a specific kind of abuse. It requires repetition and intent, along with careful use of technique. A lie is not inherently gaslighting. A string of lies specifically intended to make another person doubt their own sense of reality is what gaslighting is. An illusion that there...

The rules that you are complaining about will be different depending on which book you look in and who it was written and published by. Dictionaries and style guides published in the UK are going to say something different than dictionaries and style guides published in the U.S. And even...

Current book we're writing, our character's main weapon is a thagomizer. Her tail, with four spikes sticking out of it. Named so in honor of Gary Larson. Unlike her mom, who's main weapon is a biologically produced napalm-like substance, she hatched with it.

Not in regards to this site, but in regards to all of literature, yes. Systems' Out! and the whole Sunspot Chronicles is written specifically because there are so very few books out there with more than one plural system in them, and with those systems as the heroes. We wanted something where...

First computer game? Pong. On an Atari Pong console, on a 9" b/w TV. Not sure about board or card game, though. Probably War or Go Fish. Technically, Peek-a-Boo is a game.

Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like by Mercer Meyer and Jay Williams. It influenced our artwork profoundly, it captured out imagination and we could vividly visualize the story without looking at the artwork and gave us such a taste for that, and it lay the groundwork for our understanding...

In the kink and online scenes, "squick" is the traditional term for it, specifically. But "ick" definitely works.

Yeah, we're not no we are not looking that up. We have no idea what it meant before. But the sound of it already fills our head with such visions. We don't need to add to them with reality.

Wrapping Roy Orbison in cling wrap and dragging him around in zero G on the Star Ship Enterprise.

So, fungus is actually relatively close to meat plants. Like, animals are more related to fungus than to plants. So, while we think of mushrooms as a form of plant, they really aren't. They're their own thing and sort of what animals branched off of. In your world, it could be even closer. So...

Green, Pink, then Purple

Oh, OK, so. We're a trans woman. We also have endometriosis. It's not quite the same as having a full blown period from your uterus, but with HRT we do have a cycle, and (cn: gore) Suffice it to say, you are not wrong at all. Mind you, non-endomtriosis periods are much more mild, we're told.