#ScribesAndMakers Feb 1: What's one creative thing you'd like to get done this month?

#ScribesAndMakers Feb 13: How well do you sing? If you don't consider yourself a good singer, do you sing anyway?

I *yearned* to sing for most of my life and believed I couldn't, and then I sang a song in front of someone, and they complimented me, and so I sang my kids to sleep for years, but then they got tired of it, and now I'm out of practice, but that voice is there when I want to pull it out. If there were more hours in the day, I'd take lessons.

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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 14. How are things going for you this month, creatively or otherwise?

Meh.

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#ScribesAndMakers 15: Cake?

Please!

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There's enough here for everyone. I'm getting a sugar high just from looking at these pictures.

#ScribesAndMakers Feb 16: Do you have a favourite decade of music? Which one(s)?

Not so much favourites. Different eras hit me emotionally. Sixties music, which includes early the 1970s, reminds me of my childhood but in association with my parents. Eighties music reminds me of being a kid. Nineties and 2000s music is my own youth, so that can make me very nostalgic. And that's kinda when I stopped listening to contemporary music.

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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 17: Share a fun memory from a past SAM prompt.

Can people remember those individually? Wild.

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@orionkidder I sure couldn't. I had to go back and look through old posts for a while until I found something.

@kagan Yeah, sounds like work. I write these off the cuff. That's what's fun for me.

@orionkidder Entirely reasonable.

@kagan @orionkidder my posts self destruct after a week. It doesn’t help that all the various games bleed into one.

@Emmacox Self-destructing posts is one of my favourite features of Mastodon.

@orionkidder Same. I hate leaving digital clutter.

@Emmacox So well put. That's it exactly. I close browser windows the *second* I don't need them any more.

#ScribesAndMakers Feb 18. Our next featured creator has done her own book covers. Have you ever or would you ever do your own cover?

No, never. Not only can't I draw or draft, but I have no sense of design. In my head, I can see an old 60s-style cover. A background of space with recognizable constellations, in the mid-ground is a portion of Jupiter (the planet), and then foreground but still quite distant is a space station: three rings spinning around a dock in the centre.

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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 19: Our featured creator is an avid gamer. Does gaming affect your creativity?

D&D has profoundly affected my sense of storytelling, in good ways and bad ways. The good way is that I'm an improviser. The bad way is that I sometimes think in terms of "encounters," which isn't the same as *plot*.

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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 20: The alpha male is a misconception perpetuated in popular media. What's a misconception that bothers you?

That one. That one, specifically. Every time I hear it invoked, I immediately go into a speech I've given many times about how it's an utter bullshit concept that *certain people* are attached to bc they think it justifies them ACTING LIKE ASSHOLES.

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