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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 2h

I just want to write something sprawling and fun, honestly. Not serial fiction, not something that'll pressure me w/ countless episodes but no conclusion while I wonder if I'm going to survive this fucking condition. Just one overly indulgent world to escape into while I see if I can write again.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 2h

He starts with a hit list. Transitioning that into a different format is probably going to be the toughest part, unless the pattern is broken up early. There's also just a bunch of characters that, once accounted for, will be moving the plot in ways the characters (and I) get to discover.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 2h

structures, family structure of a dynastic heir, and where magic and battle fit in the mundane, not just the big moments. The weekly mystery monster format never interested me to write (fun to read). I'd rather it be the character's job, not a predictable plot device. Which might bite me later...

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 2h

More world building today. I don't know why I bothered trying to base this in a simple premade universe; it's refusing to stay contained. Figured out the majority of the character development, relationship arc, and key plot points through the story. Now it's just fleshing out the world, the social

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 12h

Dizzy and dim. It's not the full body weakness but it is the fatigue. I don't think enough blood is getting to my brain. Something about digestion makes the dysautonomia worse. Trying a combo of vagus nerve stimulation + muscle pump w/ rebounder, but it's like moving underwater for how my brain is.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 15h

Unintentionally under eating again. It takes a lot to force feed every damn day, but absolutely easy AF to backslide and just not.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 04/10/2026

So then it becomes about problem solving each scene as I go, finding something that brings creativity so the mundaneness of writing isn't so boring. Writing requires you to sit for hours daydreaming + writing it out. If my body worked, I never would have chosen this as a career. Too boring + still.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 04/10/2026

Unfortunately, the problem solving of stories is usually what drives me to show up and write. So there's always this push and pull of if I do all this initial problem solving, will I become bored to tears with the actual writing. Usually it's a yes, totally bored.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 04/10/2026

Forgot how much I enjoy using Scapple to plot complex stories. It's so easy to create color blocks for story arcs, move things around, write notes that don't have a spot until they do. It's really like designing a puzzle and then solving it.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 04/10/2026

Wondering if I'm going to need a doctor. My muscles are becoming very prone to cramping. It's not as bad as when I had the hypomagnesia, but it's bad enough I'm noticing. Refeeding can mess with electrolyte balance. Burning heat lately too, night sweating, which dehydrates, losing electrolytes.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 03/10/2026

Damn, now a splitting headache. I told myself I needed to get those migraine supplements refilled, but just haven't yet. Can I please have one day pain free? I'm almost regretting the TTFD cuz it repairs whatever nerve damage that was taking away a lot of the pain.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 03/10/2026

Slowdown mid grocery shopping. My endurance is completely gone. As long as I don't move, I can pretend that a month of barely eating didn't destroy me. Second I try to function, it all falls apart.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 03/10/2026

That piece of shit Neal just sent out a flyer claiming the Independent was a vote for Trump. Neal, who voted to THANK ICE, thinks someone who wouldn't is pro Trump. What a fucking scumbag. He has far more funding. He has poured so much money into the primary and now the general. It's disgusting.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

Today is another day where my memory fails + I have to let go of certainty. Forgot a place changed its name, and is in a different town than I remember. Which would be fine but I communicated the wrong info to a doctor. Can't even feel embarrassed anymore; I've been too sick to expect continuity.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

Oh, I do like the reasons I came up for a culture to bury their powerful artifacts... Still has nothing to do with the world building I need to write this other character though. 🙄 I forgot how much discipline writing requires. The brain wants to be entertained, but the story needs structure.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

I want to be shallow, w/o thoughts, w/o cares beyond what is interesting + what isn't. I don't think my brain will let me, though. Why would anyone bury powerful artifacts w/ their dead? It was economically devastating for the Egyptians. Maybe things don't need to make sense when people don't?

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

One robs magical artifacts from tombs... There's really no getting around history being fully fleshed and established, from burial rites to security, to emotional + family connections around death. They come from a culture that steals from another + claims ownership of it... I'm tired of parallels.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

their history bastardized for the interest of artists who want to make something "new". Humanity and its horrors are just exhausting after a while, the longer one thinks... So I should think less + just do what has to be done to build something stolen from many someones + called my own.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

Pocket realms were established in Hellcat. I could just concept design straight into a mix of demon + human colonialism that bastardizes that, but when I think of the concept art I grew up w/ + creating a vocabulary around it, every piece comes from a culture that already exists,

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

while any step you take is a burial ground from genocide of the indigenous population. History is so ugly here, built on devastating inequality while trying to write something quirky. You really can't dig w/o revealing the grotesque. It's not supposed to be that type of story.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 02/10/2026

Musing on world building today. I'm unwilling to write this character until I decide how the culture is represented when formal... And maybe the Hellcat universe isn't best for this idea. Anything set in the US (even fantasy US) is dead/stripped of culture, everything bastardized, commercialized

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 01/10/2026

Well the knee pain has somehow set off the sciatica pain again, but also a nerve in my right elbow is also going numb? Maybe I need more magnesium...

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 01/10/2026

Walked maybe 20 feet to the garage and back and now my knee has decided it's in pain and I have to hobble. This damn body. Didn't do anything to it. Didn't trip, twist, knock into anything, but my knee has decided it can't handle the weight of walking w/o pain. The hypermobility did something.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 01/10/2026

I'm hoping the undereating is the last problem in all this. I don't have a lot of energy to invest in hope, but it's there. Mostly bedbound these days. When I do have energy it's a little more than before—I'm seeing improvement. But it's slow + September sucked the life out of me.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 01/10/2026

Supposedly, if I can keep up my calorie intake, in about a month the energy currently going into repair might finally hit my muscles and let me do things again. I'm at a stage where I'm keeping little areas clean, but it's nothing like how I'd be ill, then stop being ill + clean the entire house.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 01/10/2026

Trying to get a feel of what to expect going forward. Finished a short story—I can complete things, although quality is iffy. I'm tired. Like bone weary tired + I don't know why. Maybe it's part of the refeeding. I feel like all I'm doing is eating, but I'm not sure it's enough calories yet.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 30/09/2026

Watching my sweet Harleybug whip around the chipmunk corpse. 😔 All of them are going to need flea treatment, the entire house hit with enzyme cleaner, but only once she grows tired with her prey. I'm hoping Arcane will eat the damn thing. The kittens don't seem to understand their kills are food. 🙄

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 30/09/2026

Thankfully I still have lidocaine from the last time my sciatica flared, but I either used way too much this time, or not eating has really messed up my body's resilience to pain, cuz I've been knocked out for hours. I have to grocery shop today... Maybe I can do an order for pickup...

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eastern Carpenter Bees stealing nectar from the Azure Sage. Their passionflowers aren't blooming a lot now that the weather is changing, so they have to make do. #bees #nativeplants #BlueTuesday 🌱 #gardening

The same bee, seen from behind grasping another salvia flower and drinking from the top of it. Her wings are a little frayed on the edges.

An extreme closeup of another carpenter bee drinking from a sage flower. The holes they make are usually hidden under the edge of the calyx.

A closeup of a Salvia azurea flower with some visible holes in it from carpenter bee feeding. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 30/09/2026

Combo of nerve and muscle pain. Shit, this body doesn't do anything in half measures.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 30/09/2026

Tripped over something displaced by the cats running around chasing the chipmunk. Thought I hurt my foot, might have instead seriously fucked up my back. Like a hot knife going through my lower back on one side. 😔

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 29/09/2026

It's the chunkiest chipmunk I've ever seen as a cat owner. They used to be skinny running from the cats outside, but since we brought the cats in when bird flu was running wild, the chipmunks are thriving. Not looking forward to all the holes they leave in the lawn.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 29/09/2026

When I saw all 3 cats on the porch, Harleybug w/ a giant chipmunk in her jaws, I questioned locking them out there since the weather was getting cold. If only I had anticipated that Harley would bring the damn thing into the bedroom and RELEASE it so that they could play. 😩

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 29/09/2026

What was the point of all this? I gave them my paperwork w/ 3 weeks to spare. They never interviewed me, never tried to. Closed my account when they ran out the clock. And if I hadn't called them repeatedly to do the bare minimum of their job, daily, they wouldn't have. A month w/o food for what?

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 29/09/2026

The DTA put my retro in my account a little before noon. The anger hasn't faded. It's the 29th of a 30 day month + they just gave me my foodstamps today. I'm supposed to let this go + move the fuck on, but they broke me. The enamel is disintegrating off my teeth from malnutrition + I'm still angry.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 29/09/2026

Another day of fuck the poor + disabled from the Massachusetts's Department of Transitional Food Assistance. Need to eat this month? Nope. They can't figure out how to fix anything, especially their own mistakes, w/in a month's time. It would be laughable if it wasn't so fucking devastating.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 29/09/2026

Monday has come + gone, yet still no retro foodstamps added to the account. Pretty sure these people lied to my face AGAIN. I should have started w/ a lawyer the second they closed my account due to their inaction. But finding a lawyer to take on this for free isn't easy. I'm fucking exhausted.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 28/09/2026

Ffs, I think my heat intolerance is being triggered by digestion. 🙄 This ridiculous body.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 28/09/2026

DTA sent out a letter about the COLA adjustment, calculating based on the emergency amount, not the verified amount I'm supposed to get. So, what, did they decide from me speaking up that they're just removing my foodstamps permanently now? Incompetence is indistinguishable from maliciousness.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 28/09/2026

I swear eating more leaves me feeling weaker, but I think that's the fatigue of digestion. Maybe also less adrenaline jolting through me from low blood sugar...

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 27/09/2026

Maybe it's unrealistic to think my system will ever eat normally again after getting MCAS. It has been years of digestion stopping, nausea taking over + burning through my gut just from triggering scents + foods. Maybe eating is always going to be a struggle + I need to treat it as such.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 27/09/2026

I'm looking at low histamine, sugary sauces, not for calories, but b/c they seem to increase hunger + allow me to eat more. I don't really feel hunger + food tastes dead, so it's finding ways to trick my body until it remembers how to eat properly. Stress is the enemy. It stops hunger + digestion.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 27/09/2026

Thinking of a cheap rice cooker next month for grains to pad out meals. I don't have energy to cook, likely from lack of food. When my body couldn't handle oils or fats, it depleted my ability to eat higher calorie foods. But I've been testing this weekend + butter isn't causing issues atm.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 27/09/2026

This month has forced me to look at calories instead of my default of just trying to eat MORE in amount + frequency since months of being bedbound. Apparently a 120 calorie yogurt feels like a meal, but isn't helping anything. Tired of basic things being needlessly difficult... but that's life.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 27/09/2026

Every time the orange felon pulls some new shit, the Internet reminds me that most Americans have no clue that the Judicial Branch is enforced by the Executive Branch + holds no ability to do shit if our corrupt Executive Branch says nope to our laws. This isn't new. It's the design.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 27/09/2026

If every government on the globe attacked Musk the way he dismantled the US government through DOGE, it would be a much better place.

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Glass Io (aka Sadie Sins) @sadiesinsbooks.com · 27/09/2026

Always tickled when I hear modern music with a pedal point. Music theory classes are long behind me, but that always stuck with me. open.spotify.com/track/36eihl...

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Kingdom of Welcome Addiction

IAMX · Kingdom of Welcome Addiction · Song · 2009

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Joe Harkness obituary

Writer, teacher and naturalist who explored the effects of the natural world on neurodivergency

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