HolzmanTweed @HolzmanTweed@aleph.land

You are allowed to do stuff just because you want to.

Even if it uses up all your spoons/matches.

Even if it leaves your exhausted and broken the next day.

Even if you need to let other stuff slide a bit while you recover.

You are allowed to have fun, to go out, to take a day once in a while and do what you want with it.

Being #disabled, or #chronicallyill, or a #parent, etc doesn't mean you can't take time for you.

(I needed to hear this today, so I figured other folks might too.)

If you want #steampunk that showcases people and places that are Not Europe, here is a list: http://silver-goggles.blogspot.com/p/reading-list-primary-works.html

This #steampunk Haiti by NK Jemisin still uplifts me: http://nkjemisin.com/2010/01/a-story-for-haiti-the-effluent-engine/
Also because it has #lesbian spies and inventors.

EVERFAIR by Nisi Shawl is like a #steampunk novel par excellence. People can't get into it because it is multiple POV (13 viewpoint charas, I counted) and like a series of short stories but that's really the best way of doing a truly multicultural novel--it has to be polyvocal; single viewpoints will fall short.

If someone shows you how to use Mastodon, you are under their toot-elage

And of course, for mobile apps. The last Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type book I read was Margaret Killjoy's WHAT LIES BENEATH THE CLOCK TOWER, about an English fop who discover a class struggle between goblins and gnomes under Paris. They were not allowed to call it Choose-Your-Own-Adventure either; that's trademarked. So it is "An Adventure Of Your Choosing."

Just came across this neat tool:

https://bridge.joinmastodon.org

Plug in your Mastodon and Twitter accounts and it'll point out any of your Twitter follows that are already on Masto.