Rae Loverde

@raeloverde

🗡️SFF author & graphic novel writer rep'd by @jenazantian.bsky.social 📚Publishing speaker/scout/coach 🖋️ Editor & ghostwriter @ Whitrock Creative ✨Jedi. Trekkie. Gamer. Anime nerd.🔥bender. 🏐 🇦🇷 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙 pro site: bleedinginkinc.com

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Rae Loverde@raeloverde· 6h

Lisa Frank: bedazzling school supplies since 1987 (the fact that this company promising rainbows and dolphins and unicorns was so fucked up behind the scenes is a little too on the nose for the millennial experience 💀)

a plethora of Lisa Frank school supplies

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· 8h

and if you mean the first one I remember listening to . . . BEHOLD 1987 OG cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· 19d

mission successful 🙏

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· 23d

the miscreants in question (both of whom have apparently decided they felt left out from all the attention their big brother got when I didn't sleep for a month 💀)

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· 25d

if you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses (how on earth was this 10 years ago????)

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Jul 17

hmmm I wonder if my mom's trying to tell me something 🤔 (no, this isn't her -- just a thing she reposted)

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Jul 17

you know it's World Cup time when the fam group chat starts popping off like

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Jun 30

*snort*

League Classic doesn't specifically interest me personally, therefore no one should like it Humo self.leagueoflegends

X submitted 5 hours ago by LOLItsRyan

League Classic is a bad idea because I don't like it. Nobody else should be able to play League Classic because I don't want to. League Classic existing is detrimental to my personal experience of League because other people will get to experience something that I have no interest in. I'm not going to play it so no one else should have the opportunity to

/s

Seriously though there's nothing wrong with it. Play it. Don't play it. Doesn't matter. Just stop shitting on the concept of it. Let people enjoy things, it won't affect you at all

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· May 27

trying to explain root canal edits to a non-writer like

lyrics to the Valorant song "You Call Me Reckless"

"Veiled in static, the shadows cast Cold reflections on shattered glass No path is sacred, the hand is dealt Where chaos beckons, I'll unleash hell

You turn to face me, I've forged ahead Your plot unravels, I pull the thread I've torn out the pages I knew by heart You call me reckless, I call it art

You call me reckless, I call it art"

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· May 7

remember to check *every time* Office or Windows updates a lot of users (many unknowingly) have all Microsoft product updates tied to regular Windows updates -- you can decouple them in Settings if you like (shown below) you can also just tell Office not to update, but no promises on the stability

Windows settings menu

the item "Windows update" is highlighted on the far left at the bottom of the list

the user has chosen "advanced options"

the first option at the top -- "receive updates for other Microsoft products" -- is toggled to "off" (along with other unrelated settings)

the unrelated "active hours" displayed confirms this user is a vampire

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Apr 8

tfw you replay comfort games to distract you from the impending apocalypse and then

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Apr 4

lol looks like somebody's been playing FF7 on an all-nighter again

that's not an enemy city

that's an entire sector top AND bottom of Shinra's own city

(we evacuated a lot of people, but the death toll is still insane)

(humans mass murdering other humans, all for money)

(no alien god can scare me more than that)

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Apr 3

was explaining to a friend why I call Tr*mp "Orange Caligula" and happened upon this delightful passage 🫠 (the source quoted is "Barrett, Anthony A. (2015). Caligula: The Abuse of Power (2nd ed.)")

Caligula was preoccupied with his own survival. Given near limitless powers to use as he saw fit, he used them to feed his sense of self-importance, "practically devoid of any sense of moral responsibility, a man for whom the tenure of the principate was little more than an opportunity to exercise power". Caligula "clearly had a highly developed sense of the absurd, resulting in a form of humour that was often cruel, sadistic and malicious, and which made its impact essentially by cleverly scoring points over those who were in no position to respond in kind."[270]

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Mar 24

🙏

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Mar 20

WHAT YEAR IS IT (and don't ask me why a triple-A 2017 remaster/upgrade of a triple-A 2006 game doesn't have a quest log 💀)

a rudimentary map of a video game dungeon and a list of monsters to hunt

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Mar 14

who wants to tell her about writing a manuscript pre-sub

a text conversation between two people:

I'm probably going to have a late night, so if I'm still asleep when you come to pick up the paperwork, I put the folder with all of {redacted} in it on the bench by the stairs/front door

ok cool. have fun. Will see you soon!

lol unfortunately it's not that kind of late night -- I'll be up working 💀

well ok it's something. you ate getting paid

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Mar 12

my #1 "most-anticipated sequel" that released on Tues 🙏 (the author, unfortunately, has informed me she is not able to pay for my therapy bills 💀)

two books by June CL Tan -- Darker By Four and Brighter Than Nine

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Mar 9

of all the inspirational things I have done in my life, this still ranks near the top

okay this is the weirdest DM but you inspired me to put two times the normal amount of garlic in my dinner just now thank you

I was hovering over the clothes and I was like no no this is enough this is normal then my brain was like no Rae put in like 18 cloves or something

and it is delicious. that is all

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Mar 9

damn, Rumiko Takahashi was really on to something, huh?

a panel from the manga Inuyasha in which the MC is describing Inuyasha as "like an infant. he's violent. he's selfish. he has no self-control."
to which both of her female friends respond silently "he's an AMERICAN???"

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 20

making a breakthrough on your stalled project in the year of our lord 2026 be like

. . . . . . did it really have to take me crashing out over the Epstein files and the ICE raids and the Pelicot rape case to realize this

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 18

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

a screenshot of zoom with an arrow pointing to "settings"

a screenshot of zoom settings with "my account" highlighted and a circle around "view advanced features"

zoom on a web browser, with an arrow pointing to "AI Companion" and the first 3 of many AI features listed

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 14

ooooh yes let's play this silly-looking little gacha game it looks so cute and--

a still from the game Zenless Zone Zero -- Zhao (a tiny pink corporate bunny girl) is telling Xiao'Guang (a toxic positivity mythical creature girl): "This world is hell. If you can't see it that way, maybe it's because someone built a lovely, comfy glass dome for you to live under."

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 12

anywho I shall leave off on a positive note -- one of my favorite moments from my time as a reporter covering college sports 🙏 (said youngest kid grew up to be an absolutely stellar person and pro athlete and let me tell you when I say I'm proud 😭)

Was walking w/a trio of college athletes when youngest one turned around to blatantly check out a girl passing by and maybe catcall-- --and both of his friends *immediately* smacked him upside the head like BRO, NO. HAVE A LITTLE RESPECT

and let me tell you the kids are all right

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 12

if you'd like to hear the description of the events, which took place between 1034 and 1041 AD, from our man Skylitzes himself, here is John Wortley's translation (w/alt text) (this passage can be found on pg 372 of "John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057: Translation and Notes")

In that year something else worthy of note took place. There were some Varangians dispersed in the Thrakesion theme for the winter. One of them coming across a woman of the region in the wilderness put the quality of her virtue to the test. When persuasion failed he resorted to violence, but she seized his Persian-type short sword, struck him in the heart and promptly killed him. When the deed became known in the surrounding area, the Varangians held an assembly and crowned the woman, presenting her with all the possessions of her violator, whom they threw aside, unburied, according to the law concerning assassins.

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 11

for no reason whatsoever, I am bringing out my favorite 12th-century illumination today, which depicts 1) a Thracesian woman killing a Varangian Guard who tried to assault her and 2) his comrades praising her and giving her all of his stuff for her very understandable and justifiable actions 🙏

a scene from an illuminated manuscript by John Skylitzes in which a woman is stabbing a man with a spear in the first panel. In the second panel, a group of men are handing over various things to the woman who stabbed said man in the previous panel

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 4

communal emotional support kitten demands that when you stop to admire his beauty, you take a deep breath and drink some water before you resume scrolling all right, carry on

extremely cute siamese kitten tangled in a bathrobe sash

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Feb 2

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally.

an Instagram post that says "I survived because the fuck it we ball inside me burned brighter than the it's so over around me"

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Jan 31

not sure if you're looking for actual responses to this (and 1000 apologies if you're not), but I know my agent-sister Judit Mallol sold an artbook that just recently came out -- she might have more insight? www.instagram.com/p/DPeUVu5DPO...

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Jan 30

same for Bad Chancla in Seattle! awesome ppl over there

Rae Loverde@raeloverde· Jan 28

20) okay, breaking my own rule and posting a snippet bc even though it's a few years old, it's become darkly amusingly relevant (and sickening) as a certain group of fascist thugs 🧊 has been thrown into the spotlight (formerly online serial now turned project: "His Heart is the Cruelest Hunter")