Joan Albright

Storm Leader, novelist/screenwriter/illustrator, amateur linguist and general polymath. She/her. :horde:

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2026-05-06 16:52:12 UTC

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Debilitating is the better word. At some point the adrenaline kicks in and takes away the sleepy, but your judgement is impaired and the higher reasoning just isn't there.

2026-05-06 12:55:11 UTC

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That sounds like me when I first got migraines from daylight temperature bulbs. Took months to find the culprit.

2026-05-05 00:31:56 UTC

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I've never heard it spoken, but my Spanish language instincts tell me it must sound different than hombre. 😆

2026-05-04 19:08:45 UTC

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I for sure thought it was the other one.

2026-04-23 15:11:16 UTC

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The Wheel of Time series connected me with so many of the people who "get" me, including my husband. Almost all of my hobbies now were in some way inspired by it.

2026-04-06 14:17:43 UTC

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I have a villain like that. She rules a commune with an iron fist in the middle of a demilitarized zone. All my skills, none of my compassion.

2026-02-25 06:12:10 UTC

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Happy birthday!

2026-01-21 07:14:06 UTC

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Jealous. I can't eat the spicy trees raw anymore. (Do they taste spicy to everyone else? Or is that another thing like my celery/bell pepper allergy?)

2026-01-11 02:08:58 UTC

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My husband cannot distinguish most colors in that range from each other. We will argue about what color a thing is until one of my daughters walks in and agrees with me.

2026-01-05 14:25:21 UTC

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She absolutely could have done better

2025-11-13 14:29:25 UTC

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FB has been actively suppressing left-leaning posts for a decade or more, from my own experience.

2025-11-13 14:02:47 UTC

Can't afford bagged ice this month, but I realized that if I filled a bunch of Solo cups and froze them, the resulting ice block is just right for my 64oz jug (that I empty several times a day). I may continue to do this even if SNAP gets resolved.

2025-11-11 20:54:51 UTC

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I too find myself wanting to write in that cinematic way, jumping around. I have restrained myself for my current novel, because I know editors hate it and I'm going to try trad pub, but later books I will do whatever I want.

2025-10-29 15:38:32 UTC

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I have definitely noticed myself doing this. Almost got in trouble for it one day, had to have been 2005ish.

2025-10-27 19:41:30 UTC

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Go early. It's projected to be pretty bad.

2025-10-21 15:47:37 UTC

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Yup. One time in particular, my friend's post I'd been commenting to went viral, and while most of the people replying to the Reply Guy were on my side, it was stressful to see a new notification show up once or twice a week and remind me about it.

2025-10-18 19:03:39 UTC

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OK I actually have heard it as Wooster before. Probably while I was in Ohio.

2025-10-18 16:03:18 UTC

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1: Worster
2: Wah-burn
3: Bih-LAIR-ih-cuh
4: A - as in cat, thol - rhymes with ball

2025-10-14 17:35:29 UTC

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I randomly meet legit cousins of mine all over the state. My ancestors changed the spelling when they moved here like 6 generations ago.

2025-10-11 03:16:23 UTC

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Same for me, at least with everything that's not an NSAID.

2025-09-23 21:54:17 UTC

No, do not let some fascist convince you that Tylenol, the only pain medicine safe to use during pregnancy, is suddenly not safe during pregnancy. Everything else is worse (including taking nothing), and also they're lying.

2025-09-13 17:21:17 UTC

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Not really. Many of them did this to themselves. The others get a happily-ever-after that they never would have seen if they hadn't endured all of this first.

2025-09-09 23:10:32 UTC

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My alarm goes off at 6am every morning, even weekends. (It then goes off every 15 minutes thereafter until I actually wake up enough to risk turning it off. 😆)

2025-09-08 17:08:24 UTC

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It's not like a panic reaction, more like my stomach clenching and a prickle along my skin. It's not too bad, it just ... you know, exists.

2025-09-08 17:05:04 UTC

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I don't have this, but if my character is at the edge of a cliff in game (while not on a flying mount), I will have a physical reaction to it.
It's less of a problem on my rogue, because I have my fake-a-soulshape macro (Potion of Gusts + Ardenweald toy) and several slow-fall toys on her bars, and she can also shadowstep to safety if there's any mobs down below, which is probably part of why I never play anything else. I think it's also been mitigated by the number of times I purposely jumped off that tower in Valdrakken and hit the soulshape macro right before I went splat.

2025-08-31 14:32:57 UTC

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I'm pretty sure that was their marketing jingle in the 90s, actually.

2025-07-27 16:47:30 UTC

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Lantana?

2025-07-13 19:15:58 UTC

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That was the thing that got my kids stuck though, was the printer there not working. That and my husband didn't listen when I told him how early to be there.

2025-07-13 02:28:55 UTC

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All this. When my kids flew to Florida, the gate closed WAY before the plane took off. Print your ticket at home, don't trust their machines to work or anyone to be at the gate to scan your code. Be prepared to get all up in someone's business if they don't accommodate you; they don't like negative PR.
Don't trust that they'll feed you when they say they will, and always have cash on hand for meals and a hotel room in case they have to reroute you. Call your bank and let them know you'll be traveling, but also don't trust them not to push a wrong button and leave you without debit access.
If you can get away without checking any bags, do that. Never put anything in a checked bag that you can't live without for a week.
Oh, and never fly Spirit Airlines.
(I really hope you're not flying with Spirit Airlines. I didn't sleep for two whole days both times my kids were in transit, because there were that many issues.)

2025-07-13 00:55:41 UTC

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I have no skill at this.

2025-07-09 01:27:43 UTC

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I think Osaka-ben is the one where you'll hear them say "arahen" in place of "arimasen".

2025-07-09 01:25:39 UTC

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It's a thing I've seen animes do to represent like Osaka-ben I think it was. Usually it's just a few characters, and the rest they subtitle with the more traditional spellings.

2025-07-09 01:20:08 UTC

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They might be trying to imply a specific dialect of Japanese.

2025-07-01 12:47:23 UTC

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Probably the rest of us are all broke too

2025-06-24 22:40:23 UTC

Fiber internet is out for a significant portion of the city. One of my kids' friends has hiked over to continue their Discord conversation in person.

2025-06-12 21:53:00 UTC

An honest person will never simply assume you're lying to them. A liar will never simply assume you're telling the truth.
#WritingThoughts

2025-06-10 03:06:22 UTC

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You could definitely walk down that and find a TARDIS.

2025-05-30 15:10:20 UTC

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Without breaking a sweat.

2025-04-26 16:16:56 UTC

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No point keeping it.

2025-04-23 01:51:53 UTC

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Today's task was to (attempt to) fix the neighbor's fence before it falls on someone.
I THOUGHT that it was breaking because their dog used to slam against it trying to get to our chickens. It's REALLY breaking because some genius decided to lay several hundred pounds of rocks against the other side to block the dog from digging under.
The fix involved me digging enough dirt out from under the panels so the rocks they'd piled up would fall into my hole where I could reach them, then pushing the panel back into place and burying half the rocks on my side instead of theirs to brace it.
I only got 1 of 3 panels done, but frankly it's amazing that I was out in the sun as long as I was without suffering heat exhaustion. (At 70 degrees Fahrenheit, because yeah, my body is dumb like that.) I then had to drink almost 64 ounces of ice water and eat a tablespoon of honey straight off the spoon before I had the energy to wash my feet off so I could lie down, so maaaaybe I won't do another of those tomorrow.

2025-04-23 01:31:55 UTC

Trying to figure out why I'm sunburned beneath the collar of my shirt, then finally remembered that I changed my shirt after I finished working in the yard. 🙃

2025-03-28 19:55:31 UTC

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I too have taken away character growth from one of mine. Not because the character wasn't redeemable in my case, but because she's not that self-aware and needs a bit more time to get the rest of the way there. 😆

2025-03-26 04:40:57 UTC

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Not even my husband sees draft 1. At best, he gets draft 1.5.

2025-02-23 03:35:40 UTC

I try not to think too hard about the ghosts of all the words I've deleted over the course of my writing career. Do you think they haunt me?

2025-01-30 03:46:09 UTC

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I don't know if anyone will ever replace Janeway.

2025-01-25 14:13:37 UTC

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Whatever feels right at the time. You can scroll through some of my posts to read examples.

2025-01-25 14:08:33 UTC

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I will put in both. It's more important to describe the purpose of the image than to include every detail.

2025-01-16 05:15:24 UTC

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Seriously, make sure they check if it's something the antibiotics won't cover. All it took for me was some basic Nystatin which has zero side effects and can be taken by almost anyone.

2025-01-14 21:02:15 UTC

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Last time I had it, it didn't go away completely until I took my anti-fungal medicine that I keep on hand for my IBS. 3 separate doctor visits (including the ER), and I still had to cure it on my own.

2025-01-12 20:31:14 UTC

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Hey that's still better than my puffy circle trees. 😅

2024-12-03 14:16:50 UTC

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"... and Penny will see the evil me
Not a fake, not a joke, not a failure.
And she may cry, but her tears will dry
When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia"

2024-12-03 14:14:17 UTC

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"That you're gonna die."

2024-11-27 18:26:13 UTC

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Out there slinging arrows of truth today.

2024-11-27 05:53:48 UTC

Hey, does anyone have a list of resources for someone who is rapidly losing their sight and isn't aware of anything like screen readers or other blind accessibility software? I can suggest a few things I've heard about, but it would just be the two of us googling, really. #Accessibility

2024-11-25 21:36:40 UTC

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If only, Pascal. If only.

2024-11-22 01:01:49 UTC

Made more progress toward getting my office/workshop into the corner I actually need it to be in. Did not manage to clear enough space for my workout today, alas, which means I'll only get 2 this week. Hopefully I've done enough other work to stave off the insomnia. 😅

2024-10-19 19:02:24 UTC

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Allergies can potentially change as frequently as every 7 years. It's unlikely, but not impossible.

2024-10-05 03:35:07 UTC

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Was only a matter of time.

2024-09-16 19:00:39 UTC

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Not really, but I constantly find things I was sure were written in my outline already.

2024-09-16 04:55:57 UTC

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This is exactly my process.

2024-09-06 15:51:37 UTC

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It stank to high heaven, made me gag if I had to go near it. My mother-in-law was surprised that my own compost pile was so odorless.

2024-09-06 14:36:39 UTC

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And by all that is holy, do not toss your kitchen scraps in a pile (like my mother used to) and call that composting. You need dirt on top of that stuff to start the compost action; otherwise it's just going to rot and mold.

2024-09-06 00:18:02 UTC

I'm not like a huge #LinkinPark fan, but the harmonizing near the 1/3 mark of the new single is GORGEOUS.

2024-08-25 00:57:00 UTC

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It's a conspiracy or something. Even at Joanne's if they have it it's like $10/yd.

2024-08-16 02:22:56 UTC

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A reflection?

2024-08-16 02:22:01 UTC

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A fire

2024-08-16 02:21:28 UTC