Mishell Baker
Author of the Arcadia Project trilogy etc. Terminal cancer, incurable optimist. Currently 32% Novelist 20% Polyglot 48% Dungeon Master
Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better.
- My favorite picture that my landscapers took of my newly-planted back garden.
- Matt just pointed out the Service to SFWA Award on my desk and noted that when I received it two years ago, I could barely walk (I did not take my cane onstage for my acceptance speech & was nervous about it), and this morning I briskly walked 1.2 miles on the treadmill.
- Daily "I am alive and well but utterly uninterested in social media at present" post. Love to all. ❤️
- Got in my treadmill time AND my word count today! 💪
- “You want me to rat on my mole? Like a snake?” 😂 #PokerFace
- Uh guys, Mass Effect Legendary Edition (three entire games, some of the best ever made, remastered etc.) is currently SIX DOLLARS. This is not a drill.
- Should I choose to accept it...
- Thread. Functioning democracy requires educated citizens. They gut education to make democracy untenable. They want full control by rich white men, not the combined voices of everyone in America. They must "prove" anyone not rich/white is inferior by rigging the system.
- I was cooling off on Marvel and I was like WELP I'm back in
- Taking only this out of that entire article is pure ragebait. Please read the entire article, which contains: 1) A direct apology for using one (1) Chat GPT query and an explanation of why it was wrong 2) Explanations of how this lone query never got to have any impact on selection and will not.
- I can't stress enough how much this kind of reply means to me, because the very thing that has kept those tumors stable is the thing that is making me miserable today and will again tomorrow. It's vital to know that pushing through this every 14 days matters to more than just me.
- You really don't want that. The only reason any pictures are taken of me these days are to see if my doctor thinks I should get that checked out.
- I was in that play. :) (Cecily) Good times.
- I am so grateful for Mekka saying this. (Also for so much else he says). I was also guilty of only sharing my feelings with One Special Person for most of my life. Lost all of those people. No one can be that. Diversity is not just for the workplace. Any All-Eggs Basket gonna break.
- The only correct way to do an Elden Ring movie if you want to capture the true vibe of the game is to have a character in the film turn directly to camera to tell you how worthless and disgusting you, the viewer, are - then come through the screen every few minutes to kill whoever's still watching.
- Felt like staying in my Fortress of Solitude all day on the couch, but received a semi-panicked DM from my younger girl: first period. Good reason to move my body. Told her she handled it perfectly, advised about cold water for bloodstains. She said, "This is just good advice generally." 😈
- Latest scan still looks "very stable." Tumors remain present, but look exactly the same as they did a year ago, pretty much. This is best case scenario for me. I expect to be here through the end of the year unless something drastically changes, and there's no obvious reason for it to.
- "Coffee has good properties!" "Wine has good properties!" "Chocolate has good properties!" Thousands of iterations, clicks and reposts, roars of vindication and rage that science is covering this up "Eating vegetables can literally save your life!" Dies in darkness
- When a study says "coffee is good" please read "caffeine + antioxidants are good" and "Tea probably does the same without wrecking your breath and your teeth, but we know we get more clicks if you feel vindicated for being addicted to coffee" I said it but don't wanna fight with coffee addicts, so.
- I have a deep enjoyment of delicate, subtle, classy things, which I got from my father. I have a deep love for salt-of-the earth, simple, basic things that I got from my mother. Glad for both. Sad for those who, like my parents, tend to love one and feel contempt for the other.
- I love this so much, because I see so many writers holding themselves up as brave world-changers and at the same time expressing contempt for popular fiction. The more people read you, the more change you can make. Readers are the real potential agents of change. You're just giving them a push.
