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A couple of posts in the Wiscon community blog, one looking for participants in what looks like an interesting writing project and one talking about the fact that the onus of educating those who've spewed hate speech should not rest on the main subjects of that hate speech (eta: the latter post is locked; you have to be a member or watcher of the community to view; sorry.)
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Little big cats:
Lions at the National Zoo
Snow Leopard in the wilds of Bhutan 
Florida panthers with some Texas twang
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Deep Terrain is just shy of 80k; I figure another 10-12k for draft. If I didn't have a dayjob and an autoimmune disease, would I have finished this novel ages ago? Oh well, we are where we are. I do expect the fill in, fix, and spruce-up process of the redraft to go much much faster.
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Speaking of the autoimmune disease, currently choosing to have a pounding headache in order to treat that fingertip, which has been aching like the worst sore tooth a hand ever had. Or something.