Chris Limb

Writer SFF. #ActuallyAutistic. They/them.

Urban fantasy music biz novel Comeback out on @Unbound http://comeba.co.uk

eBook 99p: http://mybook.to/Comeback

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2024-08-17 10:33:04

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@npub1zxz…8jtz I'm more
Anyone: NSFW
My brain: New South Fucking Wales

2024-07-05 09:33:51

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I am sure smarter people than I am probably know WHY the bulk of media has such a thirst for fascism and can explain with diagrams.
But supervillains don't really need concrete motivations in OTT movies. They just need to be stopped. HOW is what I want to know.

2024-07-05 09:22:52

The Green Party's 4 seats are far more impressive than Refash's 4 because they managed it without the entire media setting up camp in their back passages and giving them wall to wall 24 hour coverage for the past 5 years.

2024-06-01 10:16:14

I really must stop saying "probably" when I mean "definitely" and "I think" when I mean "I know".

2024-05-31 09:45:28

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@npub18p3…03wh Oh I didn't see that! Must have gone to spam. I don't use it enough to subscribe to Adobe CC (hence need for reinstallation).

2024-05-31 08:55:17

Just reinstalled the copy of Adobe CS6 I bought 11 years ago. The serial number verification service no longer exists so it will stop working in a week.
FFS, when I spend THAT MUCH on something I expect it to last!

2024-05-11 09:40:22

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@npub18p3…03wh Good lord.

2024-04-22 10:44:30

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@npub18p3…03wh It always makes me think of Out Of Body Experiences (OOB) as well which sends my mind off down the idea of setting an Out Of Body automatic reply.

2024-03-13 08:45:21

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@npub1kkp…5sfx To write Doctor Who. Not necessarily the TV series; I'd be happy with an expanded universe novel or Big Finish audio drama.

2024-03-12 08:47:25

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@npub1kkp…5sfx Yes, that's what I thought at first - then a UK narrator surprised me with shone-pronounced-as-shown! (Maybe sanitising their accent for the US market?)

2024-03-12 08:42:38

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It wouldn't surprise me if I've been wrong all along - I always pronounced "worry" to rhyme with "lorry" but it turned out it should rhyme with "hurry". Or so I was told.

2024-03-12 08:38:46

Am I pronouncing the word "shone" wrong? I always rhymed it with "gone" but I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks recently and the narrators all rhyme it with "own".
And they tend to all pronounce "shown" itself as "show-earn"

2024-03-09 11:35:29

Meanwhile 50 years ago the Doctor beats AI. #DoctorWho
https://youtu.be/F2xZzeZAdbQ?si=T8uxqa-MJ-JT_BHt

2024-03-02 11:17:36

Plazebo (n.): small roofed garden structure that gives the illusion of providing shelter through the power of suggestion.

2024-02-29 09:15:26

Where was I last leapday?
Heading into the pandemic.
And the one before that?
Heading into The Year of Hell (Brexit, Trump etc).
Let's not this time, eh?

2024-02-14 10:41:53

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@npub18p3…03wh It's alway worth me reminding myself that 99.99% of the time people aren't thinking of me anyway and have their own motivations.

2024-02-14 10:13:07

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@npub18p3…03wh Ha! Yes - and I need to stop with the "What did I do?" self questioning.

2024-02-14 09:32:30

Slightly disappointing when people I was mutual with on Twitter don't follow me back when I follow them on another platform.
But fair enough! I guess I was being annoying over there but they were too polite to unfollow.

2024-01-31 09:21:06

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@npub18p3…03wh Thank you. (Admittedly a lot of this is my own overthinking and worrying - most other people are probably too busy with their own stuff to be judging me!)

2024-01-31 09:02:38

Sometimes it feels as if human interaction is a Goldilocks thing - I'm either being not expressive enough or being far too expressive.
However, perhaps I'm being precisely as expressive as this person called me is supposed to be and that's just right.

2024-01-22 12:00:47

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@npub18p3…03wh Yes. It felt as if there was a hidden "Look just make an effort!" message.

2024-01-22 10:06:42

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@npub18p3…03wh Yes, true. I do need to question my assumptions.
I was reacting more to memories of "Emotional Intelligence" courses I've come across or been on in the past, the goal of which seemed to me to be "Try to be less autistic!"

2024-01-22 09:12:41

I've never been comfortable with the term "emotional intelligence" as it implies un-intelligence on the part of #ActuallyAutistic people like me who feel emotions too strongly and find them overwhelming.
Implies we're somehow less human.
I feel a lot of emotion very easily. It's hard to control so I over the years I have become very practiced at doing so. Acting to minimise potential negative emotional impact on people.
I don't think that makes me unintelligent! Or any less human.

2024-01-17 09:25:40

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@npub18p3…03wh I have a similar problem with using "I think" when in actual fact I *know*.
I have trained myself out of writing "it felt like" and "it seemed like" in fiction so I know I can change my ways when it comes to words.

2024-01-17 09:16:03

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@npub18p3…03wh It's definitely a bad habit I've got into that I've been trying to break myself of recently.
Oddly I NEVER use it when whatsapping with siblings so maybe it is a confidence thing.

2023-11-04 12:31:55

When I was a kid my dad was a continuity announcer at the BBC. "This is BBC1" etc.
Occasionally* he took me & my sister to work when my mum was also busy.
The continuity studio was next door to the weather forecast studio (up on the top floor of TVC Wood Lane) so I got to see the _actual_ weather symbols which were made of the magnetised rubber you used to get in the 70s.
Still quite a clear memory of their odd weight...
*maybe once or twice but you know what childhood memories are like
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