KJ Charles
@kjcharleswriter
She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI.
It ISN'T FUNNY Suleikha, you are making light of a REAL and SERIOUS PROBLEM
My current work environment. Writing shed is intolerable even with fan; deep shade outside is very pleasant. So I am sat with my back against a hundred year old oak tree, doing plotting on the Remarkable and brushing off the odd grasshopper.
(shared with permission from the Vote Binface subreddit that already exists)
Berries from the garden for a summer pudding. Blackberries in July, wtf
The experience of being copyedited is grinding no matter how good the edit (and this is my second MS in like three weeks, God help me) so I genuinely cannot convey how much this sort of comment gets me through. Honestly, CEs, please do this, it helps so much.
Con Air: in which a bunch of Americans get it backwards as the world burns.
This stuff infuriates me. It's blithely reinforcing the idea that periods are shameful and have to be hidden and euphemised n case anyone ~finds out~. Just say you sell tampons goddammit. Doubtless at a 400% markup since it's a train.
The collective noun for jackdaws is a train, so where else would they be
And thassit for the Dales Way. Miles walked: 81 apparently Blisters: 0 Freezing river swum in: 1 Black pudding portions consumed: 4 Bites of random horrible fly things: about 50 each Cow/sheep confusions: 1 Pints: many, good Incredible views with nature and silence: infinite.
Then it rained so much we couldn't see the famed view of the Lakes...and stopped just as we got to the end at Windermere.
Sheep. Not, as you are thinking, cows. Definitely sheep. It's sodding confusing up here.
Countryside "Try not to be weirdly sinister in isolated places" challenge failed again
Mr KJC: Oh look, a tarn. Me: That's not big enough for a tarn, it's a mere. Mr KJC Mr KJC Me: 'A MERE WHAT' jesus christ do I have to do everything round here myself
Sweet baby Jesus it rained today. Water sloshing round inside shoes, waterproofs surrender, why not just jump in the river and have done, wring your bra out rain.
Also if there is a better cottage garden than this I would like to see it
For a very tiny village, Dent's museum provokes a number of questions.
I'm really only doing this so I can have black pudding for breakfast