So I’mma do a recap of what I remember of recent events. This is something for me, but you can enjoy(1) it too. Don’t expect citations; this is for me.
It’s like the memory game:
So the basics are:
President promises much needed supplies for hospitals + decides companies will magically donate those supplies = doesn’t place order for much needed supplies.
Lacking supplies and protective equipment = nurses and doctors hitting craft stores to make their own face shields = public sewing and donating masks + public 3D printing ventilator parts = big company threatening litigation.
I hope the other planets are holding us in their thoughts. It’s like someone pointed out, life has been terrible ever since Mercury entered retrograde.
These elementary school students in Taiwan are fighting the novel coronavirus with a disinfectant robot they built themselves. pic.twitter.com/18rjYG2oDB
Remember when that lady wanted to clean that painting of Jesus and it was a practical lesson on leaving certain jobs to the professionals? Yeah. This guy is amazing.
In attendance were dozens of invited guests representing companies and organizations from North Carolina.
According to federal records, those companies or their political committees donated more than $100,000 to Burr's election campaign in 2015 and 2016. https://t.co/juWROSOIvz
I love her. I’m sorry if you don’t. But I love her.
I honestly enjoyed Birds of Prey. You should watch it if you haven’t seen it. (And if you’re interested, somewhere on the Internet someone’s posted the recipe for Harley’s beloved egg, bacon, and cheese sandwich.)
Kojima in 2019: this game is set in a near future where people live in self isolation hiding from an invisible threat, as a delivery man you play a key role in keeping society alive Everyone: haha ok kojima
— 🌹 Hal is in the air tonite 💝 (@halphelt) March 19, 2020
Kojima is a visionary. We should have him pick the lotto numbers.
If some millionaire out there wants to buy me like a ton of these, I promise to put them to good use and I’ll even post pictures. Because these solar panels are amazing. It makes me wanna weep.
Why don't they feed them?!? In China, they gave their tourist monkeys steamed buns. I mean, eventually tourists are gonna come back, and they're gonna wanna see their little smoking, drinking monkey pals again, so like take care of them #duhhttps://t.co/BitVV66Hmb
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 20, 2020
In the video I saw from China, they were walking around with big pans of steamed buns and passing them out to their tourist-monkeys.
I haven’t kept up with this story the way I should have. I hope those monkeys are doing well ;_;
THREAD:
On January 26th, we were all tweeting about Kobe’s death and Rogan’s endorsement of Bernie. Meanwhile, US Senators were dumping stock after a closed-door meeting on coronavirus.
This thread makes me want to weep… from RAGE. Some people seriously need to be punished, like ay-ay-ay-ay!
An eye-opening thread. Like WTF.
Definitely a wake-up call.
By the way is there any fellow archaeologists out there who want to admit to accidentally opening up something a few months ago that an old woman in a caravan warned them not to while thunder rolled in the skies?
The last time I remember them suspending constitutional rights in this country during a national emergency, I was 5 years old. I was sent to an interment camp with my family, without trial or due process, for four years. #NeverAgainhttps://t.co/RX2riVH6oj
If you do not see your health care provider wash their hands, tell them to. If they do not wipe down their stethoscope before touching you with it, ask them too.
There is nothing quite so disturbing as a doctor walking in, handling your parts, and never once washing their hands. And no, I don’t that disinfectant foam really counts for much.
But what do I know. I’m not a doctor.
[Batman at McDonald's] What's your chicken sandwich called? -A McChicken And the rib? -A McRib [pulls out his batwallet] I like your style.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 1, 2015
Batman believes in branding. He went to school with Cobra Commander.
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 23, 2020
When you realize the CEO of Fox News ordered the Fox News offices disinfected, installed hand sanitizer stations around the office and boldly canceled the company’s major ad sales event BEFORE former painting handyman @seanhannity was calling covid a hoax. https://t.co/twFL7DOAIH
— Formerly Known as ALT-immigration 🛂 (@ALT_uscis) March 23, 2020
isn't it weird that people living paycheck to paycheck are supposed to have months worth of savings for emergencies while billion dollar corporations are so poorly managed they're on the brink of bankruptcy after a week of reduced profits
I’m still curious whether Russia really released lions in their streets to maintain the curfew. I mean, on one hand, idk, and on the other… Idk. Seems legit.
Was talking today and ended up reminiscing about "chickenpox parties." Remember those? When one kid caught chickenpox, and our parents would arrange a playdate? "Better to catch it when you're young" they'd say. // And now we're all gonna get shingles. #StayTheFHomepic.twitter.com/AsOAn0WSus
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 23, 2020
I have a couple of chickenpox scars. I don’t want to get shingles.
The future seems like a dark and dismal place, filled with itching and childhood regret.
DO NOT stockpile WIC approved foods. People are starving because of it. #SignalBoost
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 24, 2020
It’s terrible to think of mothers and children going hungry because people panic-bought a bunch of food they otherwise wouldn’t have touched with a 10-foot pole. So now people are stocked with food they’re not going to eat–because stores are restocking daily, though everything might not be available–and people that live on those WIC and SNAP approved foods can’t find anything they can buy.
That ending is such a surprise. Maybe a little disturbing. But I think the message is clear… Physical distancing is the thing to do in this time of pandemic.
My sister’s a nurse. The idea that any nurse would quit their job and go on unemployment right now, in the middle of a national pandemic, is just beyond insulting. https://t.co/9LnalVKOWa
Listed as ADULT. Tho that makes it sound like there's a lot of sex, when really there's a lot of violence and murder and just "Oh shit!" levels of angst. HFN/HEA. // "Allies & Enemies" by Harper Kingsley at #smashwords currently $2 with coupon code AGB60 https://t.co/W5MK4Pr1iLpic.twitter.com/9WIYIOj7cy
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 26, 2020
I still gotta put out the canon Behemoth scene. (In "Allies & Enemies", Warrick returns home with a rebar sticking out of him(?) after getting winged in the Behemoth fight.) Two Scenes: Kanon-verse: pt 1 https://t.co/Kc3t5aHBYL and pt 2 https://t.co/ptbMubhrQi
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 26, 2020
…I thought Tom Nook was a US politician because I saw people on my feed occasionally complaining about him
it took a tweet from a mutual today for me to realize this bastard was actually A RACCOON LANDLORD FROM ANIMAL CROSSING
I hate you all
— Rin Chupeco (THE EVER CRUEL KINGDOM out now!) (@RinChupeco) March 26, 2020
Everyone is playing “Animal Crossing: New Horizons“, and I’m kind of super jealous, but also kind of not because I really don’t need to get obsessed with a game that has no clear ending. Because I would play and obsess FOREVER and none of us want a repeat of the whole Farmville thing.
Still, if you’re not a weirdo like me, you should try the two games I really want to play but probably shouldn’t: “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” and “Stardew Valley.”
Why do they give an alternate opinion to the truth? I mean, if it’s an alternate opinion to the truth, then it’s complete nonsense and the people spouting it should be told to sit down and educate themselves because they are being the problem.
I am just so tired. Like. Ugh.
Elizabeth Warren, who ended her 2020 campaign on March 5 (three weeks ago!), went almost immediately from presidential campaign to coronavirus crisis work in the Senate.
I'm told her husband Bruce, who campaigned alongside her — is now driving her to and from Capitol Hill.
New York City EMS received 6,406 medical 911 calls yesterday. It was the highest volume ever recorded in the city, surpassing the record that had been set on Sept. 11, 2001.
One thing I’ve learned so far in quarantine is that my husband refuses to microwave anything for 45 seconds, he always does 44. When I asked him why, he said, “For Obama.”
My fandom bicycles: Xander Harris. Harry Potter. Tony Stark. Buffy Summers. Taylor Hebert. Fandom love: Hannibal and most especially Hannigram. pic.twitter.com/Bu7mMqlsST
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 28, 2020
Yeah, I don’t really recommend following my Twitter unless you want a bunch of nonsense and news.
I’mma try to post a Twitter recap here every week or so. It seems my speed 🙂
My "Dafuq you say" turned into "I feel you man. NTA." // Might be time to make a post about fighting the boreds at home https://t.co/8c2nbwiMps
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 28, 2020
I hope his wife didn’t get offended and that he was able to clearly and kindly explain himself. Though his hours of working seem really grueling, and maybe his boss should give him a more humane 9-5 schedule because geesh.
remember what they said would happen under socialism?
Every single member of our union committee was fired. Anyone that currently showed public support of the union with a union slack avatar was fired. Everlane is using this pandemic as an excuse to gut our movement.
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 28, 2020
I am never going to win this game. It is kicking my ass.
MagiCat on Nintendo Switch is too much for me. This cute little cat just keeps dying and I’m not even past level 2 and I’ve put like 14 hours into this game spread out over months and months, but still, 14 HOURS.
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 29, 2020
*sigh*
Just a quick primer on the issue here: The Mashpee Wampanoag want to build a casino in Taunton, MA. This casino would be in direct competition with two nearby casinos in Rhode Island. Both those casinos are run by people with ties to Trump. https://t.co/QQ8hMga5qk
This whole administration is such a turd sandwich. // Do you remember that they CUT DOWN protected cactuses/cacti to build the ridiculous wall? Like, people are sitting in prison today for accidentally crashing their cars into one, yet these a-holes chopped down so f’ing many. LIke… ugh.
So… He’s got casino interests, so he’s going to stomp on the rights of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, and he thinks we’re going to let it happen because he bungled the Covid-19 response? Seriously, what drugs is he on?
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 30, 2020
Is this a moodboard? Is that what this is?
Am I supposed to write a story featuring these four archetypal characters? Is that what you want me to do?
One thing I'm noticing about the newly mobilized "Authors Are Cops And Landlords And Also Landlord Cops" Twitter: mostly they don't seem to know anything about the initiative that prompted the conversation they're so eagerly having. They think it's just about the IA.
Anyway. If you're just catching up, the Internet Archive has not simply pointed that they've got a lot of archived stuff people can read, they have chosen to use this opportunity to test (or re-test, some commentators say it's already been thrown out in court) a legal theory…
So like, the Internet Archive is trying to circumvent copyrights, which they got called out on previously. I don’t know why they would try this bs right now, but seriously dudes: Cut it out.
The strings they cut now also gives other jerks room to cause trouble nobody needs at the moment. The world is battling a pandemic, and 45 is tryin’ to kill us all for profit.
Stop poking the bear.
Our daily update is published. We’ve tracked a total of 831,351 tests, up 95,647 from yesterday, the lowest number since 3/25.
Note that we can only track tests that a state reports. And not all states report all tests.
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) March 29, 2020
Yikes.
Heavy thoughts for single parents and pet owners #SomethingNeedsToBeDone // Covered-dish meal deliveries like in the Meals-On-Wheels commercials #HintHint#Restaurants. People can pay for so many meals, and the meals are delivered to the doors of people who sign up. // No shame. https://t.co/UFzY3SSd24
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 30, 2020
Definitely things to think about. People are going to need more help than ever, especially if this administration continues on this path of decimation.
This is a plane load of Drs and Nurses flying to NY to help out❤❤❤. Send them some love and if you pray, pray for these people🙏 they are putting their lives on the line for us and I love them for it❤❤❤❤❤ pic.twitter.com/zjOsmzZOSw
It’s definitely inspired me to contemplate a what-if prompt. I mean, months ago I mentioned something about “What if ‘Yesterday’ is the Harry Potter universe, and that’s why the books don’t exist there.” Or “What if ‘Yesterday’ is the Buffy universe in another Wish-fic or fic involving a Wish with a capital ‘W’?”
And the idea that there’s any universe without Coca-Cola, the Beatles, Harry Potter, or Oasis… It’s probably the world without shrimp.
How do we get medical workers the supplies they need?
If someone with knowledge was in charge, we wouldn’t be having these problems. Since everything is pretty much madness at the moment, we need to figure out how things are being done and not let ourselves be cheated out of our health and happiness.
I feel like throwing snake emojis around. Seriously. Madness.
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 30, 2020
I recommend reading “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. And then read the Cyteen series by C.J. Cherryh. (Goes to add link, finds out Cyteen isn’t available on Kindle. Freaks the fok out, because why isn’t it available on Kindle?!? What madness is this? And the price for Brave New World? Yikes.)
— The Pragmatic HarperWCK/Harper Kingsley 2 the best (@HarperKingsley0) March 30, 2020
I like number 2 because it’s airy and bright, plus the tile floor is nice.
The color of number 4 caught my eye, but it seems too warm for this time of year. Number 1 seemed a bit too cozy for me, though I like the color palette.
It’s Sunday morning. 23 states have enacted shelter in place to protect their citizens and save lives.
Arizona isn’t one of those states.
The data shows that enacting shelter in place statewide slows the spread of the virus, eases the burden on our hospitals, and saves lives. pic.twitter.com/9SvSJUXXtY
The world has become a crazy place, we're screaming through our skins, struggling against the very air to breathe, refusing to let it in. Though some react with disgrace, pointing fingers, screaming "You're not my kin!" the most of us are pooling our needs, drawing together as family and friends.
Sometimes I wake up, drag myself out of bed–knocking the poor cat off my butt, where she curls up to sleep–and I look out the window and I feel blank.
It feels like there’s a pane of glass between me and everything around me. I exist in my own little world.
Which should be sad. Except the real world is currently terrifying.
The love is burning in our hearts, we're just waiting to catch the flame, I'll hold your hand through dark and light, if you promise you feel the same.
I like that cats and faces and different things just kind of appear under the pen as I’m drawing. My subconscious mind is a beautiful, cat-filled paradise.
I uh, turned the background a pale pink color, and now I’m coloring over it. As a result, my eye is immediately drawn to more psychedelic color patterns as I’m filling in the spaces.
It’d be cool if you shared your colored versions with me if you decide to color “Scrolled”–that’s the name I’m using for the pic. My twitter is : HarperKingsley0.
So, because of “Allies & Enemies” on Smashwords, they sent a bunch of my old stuff for a Premium Catalogue check, which was like a reminder that “Oh, these things exist.”
I think I’m going to rewrite my Of Blood-universe stuff. I know I was super obsessed with the vampires and were-things for a while there, but I haven’t even looked at that stuff in forever.
It’s all teenaged wangst, and “We have to save the world, but we’re probably going to die”-stuff.
Like, even my Buffy-stuff is newer than that old stuff.
I have like three other novels packed away from that time. A teleporter-time travel bit of nonsense; a vampire lord origin story; and my immortal mage first-person POV ego project.
I might have to break those guys out of cold storage for a rewrite and posting. I want those character backstories already set before I throw them into the middle of a story.
Plus, I left Talon stranded on an alien planet. Stefan is in a dimension trap left by a witch; and those trapped with him don’t realize they’re his emergency food supply. I started an intergalactic war in Blood Wine–which more and more is a bridging novel between Reality, and when everything later gets rewritten(1). Rue is on the way to prove his brother’s (lack of) innocence. And Prince Onyx is going out of his mind.
I’ll post some for free, but I’m poor. Patreon patrons’ll get a bunch to enjoy (along with my downloadable coloring pages!) as will some PayPal people and “Thanks for helping me! Have some free stuff”-people (M!) but I can’t generous myself out of the money by giving it all away.
I gotta hold the facts in my mind:
Enough patrons(*) = Free stuff for everyone = I can afford webhosting, food, clothes, multiple paperback proofing copies of my books to make them look good (sorry), a comfortable home life = Be able to offer print coloring books because I could pay someone to figure the bleed formatting for me because ugh, wtf? Right.
Current situation = I owe Dreamhost money = Looking at WordPress domain hosting but it would be a while = Didn’t list my websites in my coloring book because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the future is uncertain.
I got a lot on my mind. I think pretty much everyone does at this moment.
So Imma post some cool (and maybe not-so cool) stuff for you to enjoy.
If you’ve got some spare money you want to send my way, I’ll post some stuff for you and all our Internet friends to enjoy. Quarantainment at its best. Or if you’re gonna shop on Amazon or Smashwords, please consider clicking through my referral link so I can nectar collect the spare change they’ll toss my way.
If you’re poor like me (Hi, class-friend!) but you still wanna help me out, please consider sharing my book links and letting people know I exist. In fact, if everyone could do that, that would be great.
Imma edit and republish some older novels. Imma transfer and publish some other novels. And Imma be finishing some stories that need writing.
Oh yeah, ParaShift2 is gonna be posting here (if it’s still here) and on Patreon (unlocked, public accessible). The first stuff is still on LJ, but sorry, I don’t post there no more because Russia.
I am so sad how everything we love gets ruined once it’s sold away from its purpose.
*. Patrons? Yeah. You don’t gotta get a Patreon account to be a patron of my (so-called) arts. Buying my book helps me out. So does using my affiliate links to buy stuff you’d already be buying anyway.
1. Vampires and Others reveal themselves to fight the aliens, only to have a member of the Vampire Council rewrite the attacking species out of existence, thus rewriting Earth history.
The attacking species have their entire history rewritten, resulting in them being “friendly” telepathic aliens when a human passenger liner gets lost in their space.
They have the same language as the attackers. (I wish I still had the translation dictionary I made 🙁 But I used an old program to make it that no longer exists. Boo. Tho, thinking about it… The Ilemani may have spoken Demoncarne, my demon language, because they have historical ties.) They have some physical similarities. But in all, they’re a humanoid, hermaphroditic people that classify their place in society by the strength of their psionic abilities.
Excerpt: I wrote this in a notebook based on some super cute stickers. Sorry there’s no pictures. =>
HOLLAN BAINES
Hollandaise assumed she’d had a normal childhood. She’d been happy at least. She’d loved her family and they’d loved her.
She’d been an adorable toddler. Cute enough that her parents hadn’t hesitated to get her into modeling and eventually commercials.
The two of them had met in college and there was an instant connection between them. She’d heard the story her whole life and accepted it as fact: her parents were soulmates.
She’d never seen their Marks, but she was sure it was true. They belonged together.
Someday she hoped to find a love as pure as theirs. Because even though it had taken them months to meet, eventually it had happened. It was inevitable that they meet.
Papa never used the word “soulmate” after the once when she was a girl. He took her to the wildflower fields and let her play for hours before sitting her down for “an important discussion.” All she’d known was that he seemed sad.
That was the day she began wondering if there was a soulmate out there for her. His careful phrasing on the subject made it seem she was a Mateless. She could see his doubt about her and it hurt her.
That small ache grew as she did. Some days it felt like she was in the deep end of the pool and her whole body was getting tired and she couldn’t keep herself up. Those were the days she spent in her room with books and music. Papa had given her an old radio and she had a plastic tub full of chapter books and picture books.
Her favorite books were those featuring soulmates. It became her obsession. One that she hid from her parents.
Papa thought she was a Mateless, she knew it. And Mama… she was strange. She would listen to Hollandaise’s babble about soulmates and there would be a misty smile on her face. It was Mama’s boundless life joy and ever expanding serenity that made Hollandaise think that being in love was the greatest experience of all time.
She could survive Mateless and live without love–but she didn’t want to.
Mama believed in soulmates and she told Hollandaise that it would be a happy day when she found her other half. But there were also days when she would snap at Hollandaise to “Shut up with that trash!” and those were the bad days.
Mama went away during one of her bad days. Hollandaise was 19 at the time. She’d never believed that Papa would have Mama committed; she was wrong.
***
As a teenager, Hollandaise bloomed into charming beauty. Adults would see her sweet girlhood and wish that she was their child. It created job opportunities and she appeared in hundreds of magazines and commercials.
Without knowing it she became a celebrity. People liked the way she looked and spoke. They wanted to see more of her.
Hollandaise had a brief appearance in a drama show as a girl that dies in a car accident. It was her first television appearance and the beginning of her new life as a STAR.
Over the course of five years she played innumerable orphans and adorable daughters. She received awards for her role as a kidnapped girl rescued by a neighbor with a hidden violent past.
It was then that she began learning aikido and gun training.
Her next few roles could only be described as “fluff,” but the public loved her movies. And she got to play with the cutest, friendliest baby deer she’d ever heard of. She’d loved White Tail nearly as much as she’d come to love Moko the Penguin.
Though her love for White Tail was pure, her love for Moko was also a love by association.
Moko was well-trained as well as being a genuinely friendly penguin. He knew how to play several games and loved to eat. He was adorable and he’d made a perfect co-star for their movie.
Their movie.
Hollandaise would always love Moko for the simple fact that he brought her together with her soulmate. Her co-star and movie sibling Reynard Baines.
