do urself a solid 2k16: this year should be full of doing favors for ur future self. if ur super tired but u still have homework, outline what u have to do so u can finish it faster in the morning instead of leaving urself with a blank page and more stress. figure out what u wanna wear tomorrow the night before so u have more time in the morning to do others stuff. if u see a snack u like get it and save it so u can have it later when u forgot u even bought it. the best moments are the ones where ur like ¨damn i really came thru for myself.¨ be ur future self’s best fren
Here’s the thing: if I’ve ever liked or reblogged something of yours, or left comments or kudos on AO3, I love you. I really do. You have brightened my day. You have brought a smile to my face, or made me shed tears, or both (sometimes in the same piece).
But I’m one person. If I haven’t done any of these things, it may be because I was busy, or because I didn’t see it, or because I meant to but got distracted. Our interests may not entirely overlap. Vast swathes of my dash go by without me seeing them these days. And that’s not even beginning to touch on the number of people I can’t follow because of time constraints. There are so many people out there doing so many amazing things, making fandom what it is, providing almost endless content for free. You are amazing. You are so, so amazing. Yes. You. Especially the ones who are shaking their heads right now and saying, “Not me, it can’t be me.”
Have you ever created anything, and put it out there for others to see? Ever? You’re amazing.
I love seeing love, I really love seeing love, (and please, please, please don’t take this post as a criticism, because keep on loving out there; I mean it) but I also feel a great sorrow for people who, instead of feeling loved this week, feel left out and sad, who feel like some people get all the attention while they get none. My heart breaks for those people, even when I don’t know who they are by name.
I’ve made a lot of friends through fandom. Hopefully you know who you are, and you know I love you. I hope time will bring me more friends in fandom; that’s the joy of this place, these interactions.
It can be incredibly discouraging to work really hard on something; to shed blood, sweat, and tears; to love something, and feel like it vanishes into the un- or under-appreciated void. If that’s how you’re feeling this week, I am so sorry. If you create anything, I am so proud of you. No matter what anyone says, it is brave to put yourself out there, and braver still to pick yourself up after disappointment and keep on trying. I don’t know all of you personally. Many of you create things I don’t personally get the chance to see. I wish I were more present, that I had more time. But please, keep creating. Please.
For my part, I resolve to keep creating, too. And I resolve to keep leaving comments and kudos, to keep liking and reblogging and recommending, whenever I get the chance. I resolve to keep trying to be a good friend, to support those who come to me looking for support, to keeping sending anon love (because who doesn’t love anon love?). I resolve to love all the artists I love, and to constantly love new ones, too.
This fucking awesome statue in London is called “she guardian” and supposedly symbolizes maternal protection.
Naturally people complained about it being “hideous” and “terrifying” because they are big baby weenies.
Unfortunately its creator is an asshole about homeless migrants sleeping under it. Who wouldn’t feel better sleeping under SHE-GUARDIAN? They should really just add comfy benches and maybe a free restroom for them.
The cover’s not entirely finished yet – it’s going to take a few more days in Poser / Daz3D Hell for that to happen – but nonetheless it’s safe enough to announce this now.
When the renowned saurian Species Archivist to the Powers that Be summons young wizard Kit Rodriguez to participate in an urgent off-planet intervention intended to save many millions of lives, Kit’s hardly going to say “no.”
He soon discovers that not only he, but his wizardly partner Nita Callahan and her sister Dairine, his friend Ronan Nolan, and tens of thousands of other wizards from Earth have also been drafted in to intervene on the distant world called Tevaral. There the planet’s single huge moon Thesba has become tectonically unstable and will very soon tear itself apart, its massive fragments smashing down onto the surface of Tevaral and utterly destroying it. The wizards’ mission: to extract Tevaral’s hominid population and “raft” them off-planet to new homeworlds before the apocalyptic disaster begins.
There’s only one problem: the people of Tevaral don’t want to go.
Kit, Nita and their thousands of fellow Earth wizards must now race against time to find a way to save the Tevaralti despite their near-symbiotic relationship with their beloved world and its unique life forms. As doomsday inexorably draws nearer, hope is fading fast, and it seems like it’s going to take a miracle to keep the people of Tevaral from being wiped out. True, wizardry is all about miracles. But will one turn up in time?…
Young Wizards: Lifeboats is a 30,000+ word canonical work in the Young Wizards universe, and is set in February 2011, shortly after the events of the two preceding YW short novels, Not On My Patch and How Lovely Are Thy Branches. These three works together constitute a “transitional trilogy” preceding the events of the forthcoming Games Wizards Play.
The ebook version of Young Wizards: Lifeboats will be available in all the major e-reader formats at the Ebooks Direct store some time between June 12th and 15th. (The uncertainty is due to local logistics: we’re about to go on the road for a bit, and work issues associated with the road trip make the actual availability date uncertain.)
The day the ebook becomes available, an announcement with links to the order page will be posted here on Tumblr, at DianeDuane.com, on the main DD blog, “Out of Ambit,” and on DD’s Twitter and Facebook pages.
Meantime, until the ebook becomes available, as a warm-up event,all ebooks in the Ebooks Direct store are 60% off (so you can pick up the two previous short novels for a truly absurd price: not to mention the 9-volume box set of the Young Wizards revised New Millennium Editions, equally absurdly discounted). The sale will end as soon as Young Wizards: Lifeboats becomes available for purchase. Spread the word, as we will not be offering this deep a discount again until Black Friday in November!
So watch this space for further developments. (And you might want to bookmark this post, as we’ll also update it when YW: Lifeboats is released.)
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