Love that the nintendo direct just dropped a bombshell with 0 warning and then did not comment on it any further.

idk how to do image editing but good news everyone!

i met a lot of friends through nanowrimo and would never have grown into the writer i am without it. i'd never come across any event that celebrated the joy and messiness of writing quite like nanowrimo. the first drafts of every novel i've ever written (other than the one i started as a literal child) were written during nanowrimo. i was a ML in my hometown for a spell and loved it. but the last few years have been like getting punched repeatedly in the face by an old friend every time some new controversy was unearthed. and now it's shutting down. idk. mixed feelings. if anyone still wants to write thousands of words in november together without the use of generative ai i'm down

Hi everyone it's trans day of visibility!! If ya feel like it, I'd love if you shared my work.. My name is Rachamim and I make personal queer fantasy work inspired by my Greek Sephardi background.

It's what always kept me going through my hardest periods of illness and instability and I feel very lucky to still be here sharing with y'all.
If ya want links of where/how else you can support my work they're all here!! Thank you!

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked

“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”

To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”

I sincerely hope she is recognized more than she currently is.

She won a Nobel Prize! (02 October 2023)

i met a lot of friends through nanowrimo and would never have grown into the writer i am without it. i'd never come across any event that celebrated the joy and messiness of writing quite like nanowrimo. the first drafts of every novel i've ever written (other than the one i started as a literal child) were written during nanowrimo. i was a ML in my hometown for a spell and loved it. but the last few years have been like getting punched repeatedly in the face by an old friend every time some new controversy was unearthed. and now it's shutting down. idk. mixed feelings. if anyone still wants to write thousands of words in november together without the use of generative ai i'm down

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Can't believe NaNoWriMo just did this, but literally.