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Today I made bitter molasses brownies. They're pretty ridiculously healthy for something designed to convey carby chocolaty goodness. And because I used Blackstrap molasses, they have potassium and protein. Recipe here

I cannot stress enough how not sweet these are. If you want a sweet brownie that also has some nutritional value, modify accordingly. But if you're a crazy person like me who's abstaining from sugar whilst PMSing, they're pretty handy.

Fish with hands. Fish. With Hands. I for one welcome our new fishy overlords.

And they're available in purple!

A new character study is up at the Necromancer blog, complete with music and visual aids. Any requests for who to do next?

I am not actually dead, though I did manage to sleep for 13 hours last night.

Over at Diana Peterfreund's blog she has updated cover art for Brave New Love, and the list of contributers. It's pretty spiffy.

I've finished the proposal for TWR/TAT, at least until someone tells me how awful the synopsis is and makes me fix it. Now I can go back to picking at Dreams for the rest of the month. As soon as I finish typing up my notes for this crit novel.

It is entirely sovay and handful_ofdust's fault that I want to replace all the characters in Dreams with anthropomorphic cats. I'm not saying it would improve the book, but it couldn't make it any worse.

Okay, little cartoon byakhee and nightgaunts would definitely be an improvement.

jimhines provides several links relevant to OSC and Hamlet's Father, including Card's response. I appreciate Card's clarification, since the conflation of homosexuality and pedophilia induces eye-twitching rage in me faster than about anything else, and I'm very glad to learn that was not his intention. If he really wonders why people might jump to the wrong conclusion about his opinions, though...well that only induces eye rolling.

If you prefer to read the work of an author who can articulate the difference clearly, may I suggest Andrew Vachss*. (Watch out, website makes noise.)

Not unrelatedly, many people have already linked to an agent's attempt to straighten YA. I would just like to take a moment to express my appreciation for my agent and my editor, who are completely wonderful in this regard. Also, I really really really want to write (the book that will probably not be called) Monster Garden.

But first I have to clean all the things, and eventually rescue Dorothy Medusa from the horrors of the groomer.


*I didn't mention Vachss during #buyabiggaynovelforscottcardday, but his straightforward and compassionate treatment of trans characters was, if not the first example I found in fiction, definitely the most memorable.

britmandelo is editing a reprint anthology of bisexual and genderqueer speculative fiction for Lethe Press. Details here. Please stop by and recommend your favorite queer stories, or submit a reprint if you have one. I may dust off "Flotsam."

I just read saladinahmed's "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela". This story is beautiful and beautifully written, and I wish to sing its praises across the internets.

Now all my ghouls are sad they don't have hooves.

Via caprine:

Superhero Therapy.



These pictures and their story kick so much ass.

I bring you this because I love you.



Part 1 of an unsold 1958 television pilot starring Vincent Price and Peter Lorre as crime-fighting art dealers. There are not enough exclamation points in the world to convey my love for this. I want to travel immediately to the alternate dimension in which this show was filmed for five seasons.

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkgusb...

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV58HY...