LK Nesse(she/they)

Okay, this makes sense now! Thank you!

I keep seeing mentions of interactive stories, but I don't know where they are. Is this because I only use the app?

It's been fascinating for me to see that they already have the shape of the big leaves, but so itty bitty!

Is it possible that one of them is just sucking up all the minerals in the water and the other isn't getting enough? All the videos I've seen are of people putting a lot more seeds in the water, but I know what minerals are in water can change depending on where you live.

Bots are not the friends Younger Me thought they'd be while reading Asimov and watching Star Trek. And algorithms don't like me because I have no patience with their games. I greatly value the community we have here instead of Typical Social Media Stuff.

I agree, and this is why I'm honest with kids when I don't know something or it turns out I was wrong. I want to be an example of not having all the answers does not make you a failure.

Look up neurographic art. It was developed by a psychologist as a type of art therapy. Really easy to do and you pretty much can't mess it up.

Depending on how you feel about doing a retelling of something, that's an option to give you characters and basic structure. You'd have a lot of room for doing your own thing with it, though. For example, a modern retelling of "Hamlet" from Ophelia's point of view could be a psychological thriller that is so different from the original that readers wouldn't know what to expect.

This tickles a few of my interests and weaves them together. I'm looking forward to reading more!

After I read @a-p-murphy 's Lovecraft poem, I realized I had never shared mine here.

Definitely the community! It's a safe place to do whatever. We support each other, and I feel truly welcome here. Having the badges for posts really helps with that, I think. It's not always easy to have the words for a meaningful comment. The badges give us a way to show support and help people find stuff they'll be interested in.

Wild birds aren't known for posing, and candid shots can be refreshing when there's so much focus in posting pictures on getting everything "right".

Yes! He's an African sand boa and spends most of his time down under the sand, so I had to call him my sand worm!

The head-throbbing stopped last night, and I have some energy today!

Suspicions about identity now confirmed! I love this story!

It's like a broken heart/meet a fairy hybrid. I love it. Read it three times, and got something different from it each time.

I'm doing much better today!

Thank you. I'm hoping my body adjusts soon. Sometimes it just takes a few weeks before it remembers Spring can be rough.

We could summon the spirits of Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, and Hedy Lamarr to bite people. Like modern furies avenging women in STEM!

Go ahead! Glad to be helpful!