I’ve struggled all my life with being an outsider. Overlooked, unseen. Any crumb of praise or attention from a teacher was a godsend. Most of the time, though, I was just one of dozens, if not hundreds, that each teacher saw on a regular basis. Even as an only child, I was often forgotten. Left sitting outside the dark Girl
Back in 2016, the first book in my planned Changers trilogy was published by Evernight Teen (under the name M Pepper Langlinais). Sadly, I wasn’t able to finish the trilogy at that time, and I eventually had the rights to the book returned to me after the contract ended. Now I’m happy to announce that Manifesting Destiny will be republished
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A while back, I began to notice a specific kind of YouTube cinema coverage. These videos begin as a “review” of some film but then become the YouTuber’s “fan fix-it.” Like, what they really want to do is rewrite the movie, but they’re too lazy (or untalented?) to sit and actually write anything, so they make a video telling everyone
Over on Bluesky, I’ve been participating in a “game” (trend?) of posting—once per day for 20 days—the fictional characters I would invite to a dinner party. I’ve made some rules for myself in this, such as not choosing any of my own original characters and not allowing more than one character from a fictional world (with one key exception). And
It has been pretty popular lately for Democrats/Liberals/Progressives/General Dumpster Haters to crow about his tanking approval ratings. And I am as happy as anyone to see them continue to fall. But I don’t think they’re as important as most people believe (or hope), or at least, not for the reasons some might think. The majority of commentary that I’ve seen
A few weeks ago, I received an unsolicited email from someone offering to make me a Wikipedia page. However, based on his description of why he thought I deserved to have a Wiki, this person seemed to think I was some combination of a chef and humanitarian. In short, he either had the wrong person or was fishing (phishing?), so
Ever since my last post about John Mulaney’s live show, the show has improved. I won’t take direct credit, but I’m glad to see someone took the advice of having fewer callers. BUT. He just mocked and hung up on Dr. Jack Horner, and that’s not okay. And I’m pretty sure Chuck Tingle is on the line right now? HOW
I’m writing again, hopping from project to project, but I think this is finally the one I’m going to focus on. It’s set in AElit (see the tab above for context) and the working title is The Lost God. Below are excerpts I posted on Bluesky for various prompts. They’re not in any particular order in terms of the chronology
Our family loves John Mulaney’s comedy. We quote him regularly, and middle child actually does a pretty solid impersonation. We’ve seen him live. And we got a real kick out of the week-long Everybody’s in L.A. series on Netflix. A lot of people did—so many that Netflix returned to that well and created a weekly live talk show in the