Hello! Is this where we live now? I remember this place!

[dira]

...Mind you, although I feel a bit weird about it, after years of making Tumblr posts, I have finally switched to the Rich Text posting page over here on Dreamwidth. o.O

Anyway. Hi! I'm here! Sorta! Although I am in between publishing one book last week and publishing another (much shorter one) next week so uhhhh I am also kinda nowhere/commuting to my actual life from Stardew Valley, which has made this whole thing extra bewildering and surreal. 

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[christycorr]

Hi there! *wave*

[fox]

HELLO! We're glad you're back! ♥

[reginagiraffe]

But you posted many of your tumblr posts here, don't you?

I have to admit it's taking me a moment to remember how to code things.

[dira]

Yeah, I was never ENTIRELY gone, but definitely a lot more active there than here. :D

[green]

enjoying the hell out of the new book!

always glad to see you, wherever you are.

[dira]

Thank you! :D

I am currently beating my head against the keyboard trying to figure out how to open the sequel, but I swear I will figure it out sooner or later.

[kungfunurse]

I keep trying to hit a heart or a kudos button or something so you know I was here and just saying hi. Good lord. Gotta brush off the old typing skills again.

[basingstoke]

I knowwww it's so weird. I've been posting <3 in lieu of actual comments, just to send a little hi, howarya to ppl.

[kungfunurse]

Oh what a great idea! I wonder if the DW folks would be able to implement a kudos button like on AO3?

[dira]

Yeah, honestly, I just need a little heart button. (And then there actually IS a heart button but it has a totally different function, which is extra confusing.)

[kungfunurse]

Agreed. I don't want to bug the DW staff, but I wonder if it would be a big code change to add a kudos button? Maybe I'll ask...

[sheafrotherdon]

Hurray!

[perspi]

HI HELLO so glad you could come from the Valley to visit us here, and congrats on your books!!

[dira]

Thanks! Too much time in the Valley has done my wrists in, so I'm taking a break from farming for now. :D

[vass]

commuting to my actual life from Stardew Valley

Congratulations on getting the bus running again! Say hi to Sebastian for me.

[dira]

I will chase him down by the lake with a plate of sashimi, just for you. ;)

[izzybastone]

You play Stardew Valley? That is such an awesome game!!! Except for the fishing. I can't do the fishing right. It defeats me every time.

[basingstoke]

it's all about rhythm! I'm great at it, which is bizarre, because I clap on the white ppl beat.

[izzybastone]

That explains it then. I have NO rhythm to speak if. :)

[dira]

I don't know that it's rhythm, exactly--I don't have any either--so much as just persisting in it over and over until you level up and it gets easier? You get little bits of XP even for catching seaweed and trash, so you'll progress even if you keep getting fish that are uncatchable at level 0.

[izzybastone]

thanks for the encouragement! I'll have to just keep swimmi--trying! :D

[notlucy]

Hello yes I'm trying out this 'comment' thing.

[dira]

hello hi! you're doing great! :D

[rmc28]

New book? New book!

(Last week's book was SO good - I had a mostly restful weekend, which I sorely needed, and quite a lot of it was spent with Casey and Adam)

[dira]

New! Book! On Thursday!

And meanwhile I have now found the seventeenth way not to write the first chapter of the NEXT new book, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to find the way to write it, sometime soon.

[emyrys]

*waves*

[iamshadow]

Hey dira!

I am still an html girl. Since my angelfire days. I never went rich text on Tumblr, so I'm hoping this will be a snap.

[dira]

Coding links, for some reason, is the one thing I've gotten totally spoiled about. :D

[iamshadow]

I don't think I ever stopped coding links, so that is one area I'm fine.

[kath_ballantyne]

Hi!
I will never go rich text. It hurts my soul. My biggest problem though is actually typing all the letters in a word. I've been typing on my phone for so long and it finishes things for me. I've got lazy.
Good luck with the books.

[dira]

Thanks!

[brancher]

were you never an LJ person? just reviving my account here has made me remember how much more conducive to discussion this format is ...

[dira]

Oh, no, I was on LJ starting back in 2001 or so, though I deleted my first couple of LJs and have let the most recent lapse into inactivity.

[tozka]

I can't get a hold on the rich text posting options, but neither can I remember how to link to users and comms lmao. Luckily I retained most of my HTML knowledge...

Congrats on your new book, btw! I have it on my TBR after I finally finish grad school in a week. <3

[dira]

Thanks! And congrats on your imminent escape from grad school!!

[trcunning]

Yo. <3

[dira]

Hi! :D

[scrubjayspeaks]

Heya! I'm joycesully from over on Tumblr--frequent reblogger, occasional interacter. And oh man, I need to get caught up on your books!

Stardew is the only reality I am currently accepting. This other life I think I have is just, like, a fever dream brought on by accidentally eating a red mushroom and passing out in the mines.

[dira]

Truly, it is the best place. Although I'm getting far enough in my current playthrough that I'm starting to get the itch to start up a new one...

[sperrywink]

Hiya!

[dira]

Hi!

[slybrarian]

Congrats on the book!

[dira]

Thank you!

[velociraptorerin]

*waves*

[toujours_nigel]

You're baaack. ♥

[the_shoshanna]

Hee, I've been reading your posts here that were crossposted from Tumblr, so I had a moment of "but...you were always here?" Hi!

I am so looking forward to your latest book(s)! Haven't read anything yet because of a blizzard of Other Crap To Deal With, sigh.

[dira]

Yeah, I never ENTIRELY left, but. Clearly need to shift a little more focus in this direction.

And, oof, I know the Blizzard of Other Crap feeling! I hope it lets up soon! (Or, uh, has let up, in the last... three weeks.)