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Urban Fantasy author, cello student, nerd version 2.0 - Faster, better, more makeup. www.margaritagakis.com

[margaritagakis]

Imma need a moment to talk about the Bee Gees

Imma need a moment to talk about the Bee Gees

Peeps. I need a moment to talk about the Bee Gees. For REAL. I’ve always loved them and periodically I fall back in love and go on a big kick and listen to them non-stop. This week, a friend posted a video where the Foo Fighters have done a vinyl album of Bee Gee covers (under the name the Dee Gees) and my Bee Gees love is reignited again! You should be Dancing – the Dee Gees So, I’m back to…

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[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

[spitzonthefritz]

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[henrycavilledits]

HENRY CAVILL  JUSTICE LEAGUE | Behind the Scenes

[brightlotusmoon]

If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.

[spooniestrong]

Straws aren’t killing the planet, its animals, or people. They’re a microscopic fraction of an iota of a percentage of the problem. You want to do something? Ban plastic fishing nets. Anything else is just a hollow feel-good gesture at the expense of real living disabled people.

[indigorally]

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocean-plastic-fishing-waste_n_5bc47dc9e4b0bd9ed55c1f60

[lake-shark]

i have an environmental degree and i’ve been saying this since this straw ‘debate’ started: its all a tactic by those in power to distract people’s attention from bigger issues such as fishing waste. don’t fall for it. and don’t be a dick to disabled people who need straws to make their lives easier.

[cambrian-creature]

I saw a tweet once that said that “not using straws is the ‘thoughts and prayers’ of plastic pollution” and I think that sums it up pretty well. 

[officialgritty]

Gritty making it rain this St Patrick’s Day

[randomnessofamind]

[big-gay-mike]

[randomingoftherandomness]

I don’t know who these people are but this made me smile haha

[shesmydoct0r]

A comedy in 3 acts

[tiktoks-we-like]

[margaritagakis]

The only thing to fear is fear itself?

The only thing to fear is fear itself?

So, with my depression and anxiety, I have done a lot of reading and therapy and what not and part of the stuff I’ve learned is that you have to know what you’re feeling and then try to figure out why. And that doesn’t make the feelings go away, but sometimes you get insight or figure out what to work on. And, as previously mentioned, I’m trying to regularly work on Book 6 and as I was doing…

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[margaritagakis]

Weekly Check-in Thingy

I’m back for my weekly-ish check-in. Still hanging in there and getting my writing done 6 out of 7 days this week, which I feel pretty good about. I’m done editing what I had already written and now working on new stuff for Book 6. Some days, my word count doesn’t appear like it’s made my 250 goal, but that’s because I’m deleting stuff that wasn’t working as I go. I may end up writing 500 words,…

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[margaritagakis]

Working away....

Working away….

Again, trying to post more regularly to keep the momentum going. I’ve been working on book 6 as discussed and it’s slow going, but it’s at least going. I have a very small and modest goal of 250 words a day and I managed that 6/7 days this week, so I’m happy with that! I’m editing my way through what I’ve already written and was mostly making minor changes, but now I’ve reached the last two…

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[margaritagakis]

Book 6 - more detailed update

Book 6 – more detailed update

In an effort to maintain accountability, I thought I’d pop in and put up some notes on where Book 6 is and what’s happening. So, way back in, like, 2018? 2017? IDEK anymore, I had written a large chunk and book 6 was sitting at about 48000 words. And then, I didn’t know where it was going or how to get where I wanted it to go. I had my high-level plot point, but didn’t quite know how to get…

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[margaritagakis]

I don't even know what to say?

I don’t even know what to say?

As advertised, I’m not even sure what to say. It’s been well over a year, nearly two, since I last posted on this blog and I wish I had ground breaking news or something earth shattering to report, but I don’t. As I’ve posted about before, I struggle with depression and anxiety and it’s been a long slog. If I look back, I can sort of pinpoint the end of 2015 where things started to take a slide…

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[margaritagakis]

Book 6 - update

Book 6 – update

*cough cough* Is this thing on *taps mic*

Soooooo, long time no post? Honestly, I don’t know where time goes. It’s like it all gets sucked into some weird vortex called OH YEAH REAL LIFE.

So I’m still here! and still writing! But as you may have noticed, I’m woefully behind on book 6! If I followed my normal timeline, book six should have been out in June 2018. Well. that didn’t happen. I…

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[margaritagakis]

HalCon and traveling as an introvert with social anxiety!

HalCon and traveling as an introvert with social anxiety!

YOU GUYS! I’m in Halifax for HalCon! I’m super excited to be here! I’ll be speaking at three panels and have some book signings (gulp). My schedule is: Friday, September 22 4:45pm – Getting Over Creative Hurdles 6:45pm – Margarita Gakis Signing Saturday, September 23 11:30am – Margarita Gakis Signing 1:00pm – Women in Media Sunday, September 24 12:00pm – Margarita Gakis Signing 1:45pm – Author…

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