Clarissa C S Ryan

@wintersweet

Writer, adjunct professor, sun-hater. || sff, geekery, rambling, odd opinions. She/her. || VP20 || Blog posts at 🌈🚀

Hot and Windy, California, USA
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Joined May 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    10 Nov 2016

    To the "it'll be okay!" brigade: Sit down and listen. The fears of your friends are coming from their experiences, not their imaginations.

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  2. 15 minutes ago
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    I'm on a traaaaaain. There are power outlets everywhere and the seats aren't caked in poo and the conductor has a moogle on his brass key

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  3. 23 minutes ago
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    Also there is food and AC here in the station, like in a civilized country. Amaze.

    1 reply
  4. 48 minutes ago

    These are ✨

    This has been a complete grab bag of brain debris but I emerge the other end thinking about alt history and methods of world building Thread
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  5. 51 minutes ago

    I'm in a train station bathroom and I don't feel like I need to scrub my skin off as soon as I enter. WEIRD

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    24 hours ago
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    Same Dude: Anyway, here's my fifteenth novel about a royal family and its adjacent aristocracy that literally made up <1% of society.

    4 replies 56 retweets 251 likes
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    24 hours ago

    Dude: OK, fine, there WERE brown people in medieval Europe. But not enough of them to justify depicting them in my historical fiction.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jul 17

    Plz help me get the word out about this grant to women/of color doing science/engineering/tech. Email the link & nudge people to apply.

    NASA is offering funding to visionary ideas that can be applied to transforming the future of space & aeronautics:
    8 replies 1,819 retweets 865 likes
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    Jul 7

    if I get 20k retweets on this before Aug 1 I will release my antebellum Southern fried chicken recipe to the world.

    16 replies 999 retweets 285 likes
  10. Retweeted
    Jul 18

    Expanded revised Wonderbook out next summer. Taught Wonderbook? What worked well/less well? vanderworld @ hotmail dot com. Happy to consider

    8 replies 17 retweets 92 likes
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    Jul 18

    Like my work? You can help me write and pay bills (instead of one or the other) with a tip via PayPal. Thank you!

    1 reply 5 retweets 3 likes
  12. 16 hours ago
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    >Something to keep in mind. Diversity on various axes has a real effect on people's experiences! More of that please. (The end.)

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  13. 16 hours ago
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    > Goes for museum & park staff, medical personnel, librarians, anybody teaching anything... (And CON STAFF. Absolutely for con staff!)

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  14. 16 hours ago
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    >The more visitors who can find a person who looks approachable and safe, the more visitors who'll enjoy and benefit from an experience.

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  15. 16 hours ago
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    >I felt an amazing sense of relief to have someone _safe_ to ask. She gave me great advice, plus I learned a bunch of cool stuff from her.

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  16. 16 hours ago
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    > Normally I'd be too embarrassed to ask a staff member where to do things in AC. But there was a woman around my size, using a cane.

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  17. 16 hours ago

    Hire diverse staff: today at Mystic Seaport I wasn't doing so great, between heat/humidity + a suddenly bad knee (I blame the rental car) >

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  18. 19 hours ago

    You know those annoying fanboys who just Won't. Go. Away. at cons? Well, they exist at museums and national parks too. Alas.

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    20 hours ago

    Hypothetically, say you heard about a FIYAH workshop for Black SFF writers. What would you want from it? (Survey coming soon... for reasons)

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  20. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    This may be relevant to some of my friends' interests:

    Introducing the Doctor Who RPG Book Bundle! Pay what you want for RPG sourcebooks and more from
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  21. 21 hours ago

    Apparently "small plates" means something different out here...(yes, I already ate one piece of the scallop flatbread)

    4 replies 3 likes

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