poet @poetfox@scalie.club

#introductions
Hi! I'm poet! I'm an old (at heart if not reality) writer transwoman who runs a library and teaches writing classes and then uses all her skills to write very good queer stories involving 1) dragons, 2) moms, or 3) older butches, often all three at the same time!

For the past forever, I've been writing Dragon Moms, a serial story about queer moms having adventures and family problems! http://www.dragonmoms.com

You can find my other stories and novels here: http://www.poetfox.com

*doing her morning run on the treadmill set to a high incline at the gym* I am powerful, I am dangerous, I cannot be stopped.
*leaps off the treadmill to dance and lipsync to the chorus of Wacha-Mocha Pettan March (https://youtu.be/3ns6Gg2YKsY) then hops back on and continues running*
Masculine, powerful, serious, intimidating, yes.

My race today was cancelled because there was supposed to be an ice storm, but there's no ice outside! So now I'm grumpy and have to go run in a warm gym in comfort. Boooo.

I won't bother you with it, but please assume I'm still crying about how much I love Wings of Fire for the rest of the day cause it's going to stay stuck in my mind.

Please read Wings of Fire if you like kid lit at all, they are so well done and a master class on how to approach tough subject matter while still aiming towards the Target audience. I love these dragon kids so much, they're all my precious children, thank you.

Sutherland cutting DEEP in this book. Some of the things Cricket is dealing with is extremely ouch. In a good way. Really felt for her.
I love Blue as well. He's such a sweetheart, and he's so femme! Cricket keeps calling him beautiful! I love it! Kids need characters like him!
And Sutherland finally did it! Sundew is canon gay! Though it's setup in this one. We'll see her and her girlfriend in the next book, clearly.
Love these so much, geez.

Husband got me a new Zojirushi on sale so I am equipped with all the tea today. Very exciting.
Gonna destroy this day!

So I keep seeing this ad for this horrible looking phone game where the ad starts with someone being disappointed with a bad pull.
Uh.
That honestly seems really odd? To say "Our game will disappoint you, especially if you put money into it."

Tickets to JenniferConference (also known as JenCon or GenCon) purchased!
Had to miss last year due to medical stuff, so I'm pumped to go this year...!

Going to be doing a lot of travelling this year, I think. Kind of weird to think about. But exciting, too.

(To be fair, I did a lot of travel last year too, but hey, this time it's for fun stuff)

Say what you will about this season, but every time I hear the theme I go "Fuck I want to write a story that feels like that."

I also really like Lincoln. He's a criminal, sure, but he has this charisma and appeal that I just don't think I've seen in a game, at least not recently. He feels like more than a generic shoot man. He's very earnest and recognizes what he's doing. What's more, he feels very much a character not for me, the white player, and I honestly love that. Give me more of that. I'm thankful I was not thought about when writing him.

The Agent 9 stages made me go "I haven't played a shooter in a while." I was sitting on this, so it seemed like a good time.
I'm in love with how this game presents itself. The way the cutscenes are set up like a documentary is genius and lets them do fun foreshadowing. And I love how the game is willing to go there and represent real racism. I'm very white so I guess I can't really judge what it gets right, but it's refreshing to see it represented for something other than shock value.

The snow seems to have knocked out the TV reception in the gym which means I don't have to work out with Fox News all around me! Nice!!!

Decided I wanted to mess about in ESO tonight.
"Oh, there's some PVP event, maybe I'll try that" I told myself.

Wow, what a confusing, ridiculous thing ESO PVP is, huh?
I'm sure there's something cool in there but I was just confused and immediately killed over and over, so I think I'll go back to just, you know... soloing all the story content and doing crafting writs.

And Spyro 3 down! I don't know if I have anything to say, really, other than I really enjoyed every game. I can tell if I tried to 100% them all I'd probably get angry at them though... so I won't.
Highly recommended you play this though, if you missed the originals like me.

I'll probably never be an actually good chess player because even after quite some time of playing regularly I still call my knights my horsies.

Set 🔥 To 🐈

*picks a first level in Spyro 3, suddenly isn't Spyro*
Oh.
So that's what this game is then, huh.

Finished the second game. It was still a lot of fun! For sure the "easy" way to do a sequel, but I finished the first game and just wanted more levels, so I'm not complaining! It was fun.
Onto the third!

Clean Dorg

Started the second one and it's immediately what I had expected the first to be. Upgrades, powers, etc. Which is fine! I'm sure I'll enjoy it. But dang, the first game felt so simple and polished. A shame they had to put more on. Understandable, but a shame.
But hey, met that Faun girl everyone had been talking about, she seems cool.