I Write Things

Personal blog, writing updates.

[byjillianmaria]

It’s finally HERE!

I’m so pleased to announce that my new horror novel, A Colder Home, is up for preorder! Amazon and Ingram are both being a bit fussy at the moment, so the ebook and paperback are linked separately, and the paperback isn’t showing the cover yet 😅 I’m working to get that sorted, but for the time being both are listed on my website. You can also sign up to receive an ARC if you’d like to support but are short on funds at the moment!

This book had a very long journey to get to you all. I’m so pleased that it’s almost there.

Amateur cinematographer Cleo Moss hasn’t tried to make a film since her father’s death three years ago. Her cousin Noah, a director, is convinced that her latest script is the perfect opportunity to try again, but Cleo is less sure. Those reservations grow when a blizzard nearly runs them off the road on their way to the shoot, and again when they discover that the house they’re filming in has a tragic past to rival Cleo’s own horror-filled writing. By the time she starts seeing ghostly shadows out of the corner of her eye, she’s convinced that the production is doomed. At first, filming moves forward in spite of an unreliable camera battery and Noah’s surprise casting of Isobel, Cleo’s not-so-former crush. But as the worsening snow traps cast and crew in the house overnight, the strange shadows escalate into horrifying, dangerous specters. While the rest of her friends fight to find a way out of this nightmare, Cleo can’t help but be drawn to the ghosts she captures in her viewfinder—just as she can’t help noticing how similar their story is to her own past…

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[incognitopolls]

If you crochet, how do you typically do a DECREASE?

Basic decrease (yarn over in 2 stitches, then pull yarn through all loops)

Invisible decrease (hook through front of 2 stitches, pull yarn through both)

Secret third way

I crochet but I never do decreases/don't know how

I don't crochet

Voting ended onJul 16, 2025

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[oneheadtoanother]

[leebrontide]

Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future" is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

[screampotato]

I never thought I'd have to say this, but climate change is... not actually as bad as people are saying it is. That's not because it's got any less bad, it's because people have become so immoderate in their hyperbole that young people are growing up thinking the world will literally end during their lifetimes.

It's not the End Times. It's not Armageddon, it's not Ragnarök, it's not the Heat Death of the Universe. It's climate change. We need to slow it, stop it, and eventually find ways to reverse it. It's the biggest single challenge our species has ever faced, needing cooperation and problem solving on a global scale - which we *are doing*. Not perfectly or smoothly or linearly, but how could we expect that? Figuring this out will be our crowning achievement as a species, it was never going to be easy!

But it's not going to end us. Humans will still be here in 1000 years, still humaning. The world will have changed a lot, for all sorts of reasons, but the sun will still rise and set. People will still be drinking cold beer and eating warm bread fresh from the oven, babies will still be gripping people's fingers with their tiny hands, people will be singing songs around campfires as the sun sets.

I live in a place that has been ravaged over millions of years by rising and falling sea levels, ice sheets, supervolcanoes - these hills look like they've always been here, but they are the ruins of previous aeons. They're covered in scars. That's what the world is. It dies, it's born, it goes on.

This is NOT the end.

[notallmensheviks]

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

NOT WHAT HE SAYS

[astronomical-bagel]

[inatcanids]

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Observed by irkuem, CC BY-NC

[foxpost-generator]

where the fuck did you get that

[veterinaryshitposting]

it fucken squishy

[many-gay-magpies]

i think my favorite thing about the old guard was how much and how obviously they all LOVED each other. like. the balaclava scene. those first hugs between andy, nick and joe. andy cradling booker's face while she begged him to wake up, and the tender forehead-touch when he did. how they all (barring andy, who i assume was taking a guard dog-like position) slept so closely together in the church. how quick they were to all surround andy when they found out about her mortality. how KIND andy was, even when coming out to tell booker what his punishment would be. how they waited and looked to each other in relief every time they died—and how the first thing they thought of when they felt nile's presence was that they had to help her, because they all knew how scared and alone she would be feeling right then. hell, even booker's motivation for his betrayal wasn't the typical scheming double-crosser's motivation; he just wanted to help, to try and give the rest of the guard (mainly he and andy) a means of control—a way to REST. to decide when to stop on their own terms. they weren't just a team of badass immortal soldiers dedicated to protecting the earth; they were friends, with relationships centuries in the making, and it showed. they were a family.

[v-for-fili]

Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

[jv]

This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

[dathen]

This is how the Donner Party happened

[shithowdy]

About six years ago I went for a hike to the NELA hilltop at Debs Park in LA. the sun was setting soon and I was descending the hill, and for reasons that I can’t remember, I decided to follow a trail shown on google maps that was different than the one I had taken up (I think it showed as coming out closer to the street I would use to walk home). About halfway down the hill, I realized the “trail” I had taken had been washed out with a mudslide at some point so long ago that there wasn’t even signage of its closure anymore. it had gotten dark and I wasn’t sure if I could safely navigate my way back up the hill, so I basically sole-surfed my way down the hillside through the brush until I stumbled back out into flatter and more familiar terrain.

Debs Park is a preserve smack dab in the middle of LA, surrounded by urban housing on all sides. It’s hardly “wilderness”. I nonetheless could have been in very real danger if I had encountered dangerous wildlife, or caught my leg on something and broken it, or fallen down the hill, or any number of other dangerous things that can happen when you elect to stray off the beaten path. If I had been in actual wilderness without city lights to guide me the right direction, I would have been terrified.

But that path was on the map. And I believed it, like a dumbass. And if LLMs are pulling from data like that, there are going to be a lot more people with a lot less outdoor experience than me getting themselves into a lot of trouble at best and killed at worst.

[butchfagminotaur]

i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

[softwaring]

[ronoken]

My God, what if someone was trapped in the pool?

[keenbugg]

living a day as a fat preteen girl would break the spirit of most fully grown men

[ljmoorewrites]

When the writing inspiration finally hits the minute you close your eyes.

[wolfythewitch]

When I say a character has done nothing wrong, I say it with whimsy and humor in my heart. When some of you say it, I fear you truly believe it

[yippeeimmentallyill]

Fun fact: When I say that narcissistic abuse isn't real, I mean the term. Because it stigmatizes NPD. I believe the abuse you went through is very much real. The emotional abuse you went through.

[sapphling]

listen to me right now: stop wasting precious time waiting to dress sluttier until you're smaller. you have a limited number of slut hours before you die and barring cosmic interference you will Never obtain more of them. wear the crop top

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[sigeel]

i needed this kind of energy today. thank you