Gloria Frimpong

just a writer over here She/Her

[ettawritesnstudies]

Runaways is on Sale!

OK SO I haven't been super active on tumblr lately because I couldn't get into my account on destop until yesterday and my day job has been kicking my ass BUT I HAVE EXCITING NEWS. FOR YOU.

My YA Faerietale fantasy novel Runaways got nominated for two categories in the Indieverse Awards ("The Vibes are Right" and "Irreplaceable Sidekick". That would be Hannah's weasel animal companion - KitKat). Voting is going to take place in October, but right now, the event has organized a sale with a TON of the nominated titles. Including Runaways!

Between Today (June 14th) and Wednesday (June 17th), my paperback will be discounted to $12, my hardcover will be discounted to $15, and my ebooks will be discounted to $0.99 (everywhere but kindle). And you can shop all the other participating titles on the Indieverse site.

Synopsis: When Cecelia disappears into a storm on the night before Halloween, her older sister Hannah must venture into faerieland to bring her home.

Armed with their father’s green coat, a steel pocket knife, and a red friendship bracelet, she stomps into the woods in search of clues. Soon she finds herself on an extraordinary and dangerous adventure, navigating between the Seelie and Unseelie courts. But secrets await in the woods, and Hannah only knows stories, not the truth about the threat that stalks their family.

Will she be able to rescue her sister and return home before it’s too late?

Runaways also has EIGHT gorgeous full page black and white illustrations done by my friend @siarven @siarvenart ! These aren't in some exclusive special edition, they're in every book, including these discounted ones. We wanted to bring the world of faerieland to life and Quinn did an incredible job.

forgive me for doing a self promotion on tumblr, I know we all hate ads but 1) you get cheap books, 2) this is the first time my book has been on sale since it released so if you haven't bought it yet now is a really good time to do that, and 3) This is my debut novel and I got nominated for awards so this is kind of a big deal to me. If you read Runaways now, you can vote for me in October!

Even if Runaways isn't your thing, the Indieverse awards is an event to promote Indies. None of us have publishers to help with admin or propping us up with marketing budgets. A book lives or dies based 100% on reviews and support from readers. If you can spot me a reblog, that make my day <3

Thank you for your time!! I will now be diving back into my editing hidey hole before my next deadline finds me!

[ettawritesnstudies]

This sale ends tomorrow!

[determinate-negation]

actually super basic archival preservation for your personal belongings

label and date everything

dont use adhesives on important stuff they degrade really quickly and can damage things

some paper is much more acidic than others and will degrade and damage things touching it. newspaper and construction paper are the worst and will mess up other papers theyre next to

printed photographs have chemicals that can react really badly to temperatures and dampness and you should keep them separate from other materials

soft and thin plastics also degrade really quickly (unless theyre archival grade) and are the worst to deal with

keep a copy of digital files in at least one separate location (flash drive or hard drive)

personally i think everyone should do this because its worth having a record of your life

[determinate-negation]

a few more things

some inks will fade over time or bleed onto whatever theyre on. archival ink is a thing but there are also just some inks that are more stable

rubber bands break within a few years, paper clips and staples will rust and damage the paper if theyre not made of the right material

exposing photos or any material with colors to light for a while will obviously degrade them over time and theres not much you can to do restore them at that point

you lowkey should print out digital correspondence or materials if you want to keep them long term and be able to find them regardless of what happens to that email domain, website etc. its not uncommon to have printed out email threads in archival collections

these seem to have been more common in the 70s-90s but those photo albums with thin plastic and slight adhesive pages are terrible and will damage your photos and make them stuck forever

this is what acidic paper does to anything its touching after a few decades so watch out

[kropotkindersurprise]

home-burned CD's/DVD's degrade in like 10 to 20 years. flash drives/SSD's need to be powered up now and again to be able to retain their data without getting corrupted (they generally only guarantee data for 1 year without power, although data might stay uncorrupted for a lot longer). Hard drives are more reliable over a longer time of storage.

(i transferred all my old school projects and photos and data and pirated stuff from binders full of burned dvd's to hard drives a few years back and only like half of the files were still recoverable after ~15 years).

[kropotkindersurprise]

also, this is more for artists in my line of work (or software devs) and less for the general public, but something i learned early on from a great New Media and Video Art archive here in the Netherlands;

if you actually want to archive something that (possibly) relies on specific software to run, for example an interactive installation or some generative art program or even web-art or plug-ins made for a specific browser, you have to archive an entire (hardware) computer with the OS and the programs installed on the hard drive that can run it!

There is very little guarantee that you can get all the necessary drivers and old versions of the software running on new hardware even if you can still find the installers and files 20 years later. Almost nothing is made with backwards compatibility in mind.

Make sure you have installed cracked versions of the software if possible and not something that relies on a subscription either, because those won't work a decade later.

[ceruleanheaven]

brought nothing to the gun fight. whatever man

[agoraphobe]

[redstonedust]

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

[gracklesong]

From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):

Donate to Help Bring My Father Home from ICE Detention, organized by Jorge V

Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31,… Jorge V needs your support for Help Bring My Father Home

[donniehaspronouns]

this might piss some people off but I don’t think some of you actually ever tried to unlearn your hatefulness. you just came out as queer and decided your new targets really truly deserve it this time.

[donniehaspronouns]

you. you get it.

[butt-rice]

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

[gloriafrimpong]

Tumblr eats first

[plastiboo]

[gloriafrimpong]

there’s a breath of fresh air in my lungs

[arc-angel-o]

If you're 20 or younger, and you want a binder, need a new one, get one now.

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce sweeping measures to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth

The Department of Health and Human Services announced new proposals that would effectively block gender-affirming care for trans youth acros

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Morebinders is a program created to get free chest binders (gender affirming clothing) into the hands of transgender, nonbinary, two spirit,

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[gloriafrimpong]

my sanctuary

[elumish]

One of my biggest pieces of advice for writing--or, really, for anything--is to learn to love the mechanics of it.

This is not to say that you need to love every second of every part of writing to be a good writer, but I find people who dislike the actual act of writing don't usually make good writers.

I think that this is, in part, where the AI stuff comes from--people who like the idea of writing but don't like (or know how to do) the mechanics of writing choose to rely on AI because they see it as handling the mechanics, which they see as the less important part.

But the mechanics are a huge part of it. The plot, the characters, the world, the idea--all of that is important. But writing is also about the paragraphs and the sentences and the words. It's about playing around with wording or sentence structure or phrasing to see what works best. It's about literally writing the sentences--all of the sentences. It's about choosing where the paragraph breaks are, where scenes end, where chapters end.

And if you hate doing the mechanics of it--if you hate putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard or however it is you draft--you will hate writing, and you will come to hate your writing. Because you will resent the actions required to do it. You will hate having to sit down and do the writing, because you hate actually writing.

There's nothing wrong with not enjoying actually writing. You can tell stories in other ways. Record a podcast. Sing. Tell stories to your friends.

Or teach yourself how to enjoy writing. Figure out what parts of it you do like and make those a bigger part of your process. Is text to speech easier? Do that to start. Do you not want chapter breaks for your first draft? That's fine.

Anyway, tl;dr: you will be a better writer and have a better time at it if you enjoy the mechanics of writing.

[gloriafrimpong]

one of my joys of this year is creating simple study/sleep music

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[gloriafrimpong]

Fried rice and seaweed in my belly

Rejections are really a badge of honor when you’re submitting your work to places. It’s the best way to view them since they’re so unending. So far, just 3-4 rejections for my short “Kid City”.

Logline? A primordial guide with an aversion towards the concept of time gives you a tour of Kid City.

Little excerpt!

It’s the ticking, really, that makes everyone so anxious in the other world. You’d be wrong to think it just lives in the clocks. It really starts in your chest, that thing in the ribs. Deeper, even. There’s ticking in the stitching of your flesh. Your atoms want freedom.

I’m proud of this story. Because it’s experimental and I’ve never written anything like it! Which makes it more interesting to me that I’d started it in high school. No idea where I even got the initial idea from.