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"That the expression of anger in some of Elizabeth’s letters was crafted by her male secretaries reveals that, far from being overly emotional or irrational, the queen strategically deployed emotion to achieve particular political goals."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-wrote-elizabeth-is-most-scathing-letters-new-research-suggests-the-tudor-queens-male-secretaries-revised-her-correspondence-to-emphasize-her-temper-180989565/

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790690523

Frog, Leapt Free
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2026/09/frog-leapt-free/

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790634177

The code "PUMPKINSPICE" at checkout will get you 50% off a year's subscription to the Latte's Worth and Crow's Nest tiers of my Patreon, until Sept 30!
https://www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790306219

If you like Westerns, killer cyborgs, and a furious mother, SHE-WOLF AND CUB is Kindle Monthly Deal, $3.99USD (and CAD) in ebook at Amazon until 9/30. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHL48T5C

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790292776

"A boy who used to come to my JUNIOR book club comes into the shop because he’s back from university and now he has a BEARD. I am creaking towards the grave."
https://lithub.com/the-joy-of-eavesdropping-as-a-bookseller-in-an-english-seaside-town/

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790289956

Spelled "diaphanous" correctly on the first try; the day probably will not get any better than THAT feeling so I'm considering packing it in and taking some military history to the couch.

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790288576

The code "PUMPKINSPICE" at checkout will get you 50% off a year's subscription to the Latte's Worth and Crow's Nest tiers of my Patreon, until Sept 30!
https://www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790284976

"With no reward remaining, people will stop creating those resources. And in the end, blinded by short-term quarter-to-quarter thinking, the search tools will collapse as well.

Because there won’t be enough human-generated content left to steal."
https://secret.works/blog/b6rvd8wopq5urg4xy1uwrkf1s81fr5

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Lili Saintcrow @Lili Saintcrow 1790280147

I wish they weren’t simply the best of a bad bunch of distribution aggregators. *sigh* If a decent aggregator DID come along, it could eat Amazon’s AND D2D’s lunch in short order.

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790280092

Have cleared a LOT of the to-do list. As a result, I will reward myself with another quadshot and some short while spent staring out my office window.

Lili Saintcrow · 1w

For the afternoon crew: Today's Forecast, Dance https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2026/09/todays-forecast-dance/

Lili Saintcrow @Lili Saintcrow 1790278589

In which verticality is a chore, I suspect worse than slopcode, and avocado is a certainty.

Lili Saintcrow

@Lili Saintcrow 1790277957

For the afternoon crew: Today's Forecast, Dance
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2026/09/todays-forecast-dance/

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