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gaaneden · 4 days

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Thank you.

It's over and done. "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980" earned $8000 and hit 2 stretch goals. Thank you everyone. So much. I appreciate each and every one of you.

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gaaneden · 4 days

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It's the final 16 hours for "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980!" Last chance to back a cozy ghost story told by postal mail. It's the gift of escape tunnels, ghosts, and adventure told over 24 letters that will ship worldwide. Won't you be my penpal? #ProjectWeLove #DearPenpal https://bit.ly/dear_penpal

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gaaneden · 7 days

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It's the Final Stretch! Just 3 days left in Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980! As a special treat, I've recorded an unpublished YA ghost story, "Hide and Seek Forever." Looking for something unusual for you or a loved one? How about a cozy ghost story told by postal mail? It's the gift of escape tunnels, ghosts, and adventure told over 24 letters that will ship worldwide. https://bit.ly/dear_penpal

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gaaneden · 12 days

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Blog: Which One is for You? With just one week left to go in the "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980" #kickstarter campaign, I thought I’d talk about some of the different packages and who each is for.

ProjectWeLove #DearPenpal http://www.jenniferbrozek.com/blog/post/2024/04/17/Which-One-is-for-You

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gaaneden · 17 days

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"Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980" is 92% funded. It has only 12 days left. We will fund! But I really hope we get to some of our cool stretch goals! Thank you everyone who has already backed my passion project! Won't you be my penpal? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/266104651/dear-penpal-belgium-1980

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gaaneden · 17 days

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I don't know why, but I like the idea of humans being to aliens, what cats are to humans...

Alien1: hey, when did you hire a human?

Alien 2: we didn't. They just wandered aboard one day, saying they wanted to "hitch a ride." Then they never left. I think they like it here.

Alien 1: the human distribution system has chosen.

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Alien stares at the human, who has climbed up a very high shelving unit.

Alien: Human, get down before you hurt yourself.

The humans response is to climb higher.

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Alien is secretly filming their human, who is spaced out and just staring at nothing.

Alien (whispering): I think the human is about to intercept the brain cell. (Laughter) don't worry human, if it tingles that means it's working.

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gaaneden · 18 days

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I've seen this before, but it's been years and it just came across my Twitter in its dying days. The words are from a favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater, and they are the words I most need to hear when it comes to dealing with chronic pain and illness. I didn't need this the first time I saw it, six years ago. I need it now. Maybe you do, too.

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gaaneden · 25 days

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gaaneden · 26 days

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Woo-hoo! "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980" is 70% funded! (I really want someone to take one of the big packages so we can figure out if I'm mentoring someone for a year or teaching a home school class or running co-working sessions with your writers group or who knows!) Won't you be my penpal? bit.ly/dear_penpal

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gaaneden · 1 month

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It’s alive! My kickstarter, “Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980” from March 26th and ends on April 25th. Please spread it far and wide!

“Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980” is a cozy, middle grade-appropriate, ghost story, loosely based on fictionalized me at ten years old while living in a 300-year-old manor house in Belgium. The story will be told through 24 physical letters (already written) over a one-year period. This is the kind of odd project I could never sell traditionally, so I’m rolling up my sleeves and doing it myself.

#dearpenpal #dearpenpalbelgium1980 #snailmail #snailmaillove #kickstarter #cozyghoststory

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gaaneden · 1 month

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reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

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gaaneden · 1 month

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Want to know more about my new passion project: "Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980"? Won't you be my penpal? https://bit.ly/dear_penpal

#belgium #belgium1980 #yaauthor #snailmaillove #snailmail #snail mail #cozy ghost story #kickstarter

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gaaneden · 1 month

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I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.

“A scam” people are fucking wild.

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gaaneden · 2 months

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gaaneden · 2 months

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Tubthumping | music by Chumbawamba | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Content notes: none

"If the existing plan fails, I make a new plan."

"So you make plans that fail."

"No!"

Premiered at VidUKon 2023! Downloads and more info here at Dreamwidth

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gaaneden · 2 months

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gaaneden · 2 months

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I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.

You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.

I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”

Happy Valentine’s Day.

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