![Raven Oak is pictured with various hash marks all over their face due to counting the number of times they have seen The Silence. (It's a Doctor Who reference to the episode The Impossible Astronaut.) They have blue and purple shoulder-length hair and are wearing a black, sleeveless shirt.](https://www.ravenoak.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_4151-scaled.jpg)
Impossible Astronauts
Happy Impossible Astronaut Day! If you see them, take note. The Silence is everywhere.
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Zelda + Eerl = WIN
Zelda + Eerl = WIN. Or at least it does for me. For those of you who missed my reading at Norwescon 40, I opened by reading from The Legend of Zelda manual (the original one from the NES days) Read More…
![Amaskans Blood by Raven Oak](https://www.ravenoak.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/final_v10_4web-1.jpg)
How to Pronounce Amaskan
I’ve had a lot of readers, reviewers, and other folks asking me in the past year how to pronounce the word “AMASKAN,” so I made a video. Yes, I know the video is mirrored and thus, the text is backwards. Read More…
![Schizophrantic Sunshine Kitty](https://www.ravenoak.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/schizo.jpg)
Schizophrenic!
Apparently I was tired enough this morning that instead of saying schizophrenic to my husband, I said, “schizophrantic.” Why isn’t this a word yet?
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Top 5 Songs to Write to, but Never to Drive to
Ever had a song come on the radio that was so good, you found yourself doing 70mph in a 55? Where you realized you weren’t a NASCAR driver as the police officer pulled you over? Yep. Me too. Oddly enough, Read More…
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Flashback Friday: Cats & Netflix
This week’s Flashback Friday: Cats & Netflix Cats & Netflix…not really a Flashback Friday so much as a Flashback to last week. I have no real reason to have this categorized as a Flashback Friday other than my want to Read More…
![Riley is frisky](https://www.ravenoak.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/riley_goof_6-e1439504776248.jpg)
Typical Writer Afternoon
So amidst the chaos of moving before they gut the condo to repair the flood damage, I’m trying oh-so-hard to get work done. I thought it was time that I share with you the typical writer afternoon…with cats. I want Read More…
![I am so black thumbed that I killed a cactus.](https://www.ravenoak.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/cactus-e1438976793402.jpg)
Dead Gardens are Dead
I’ve never liked the phrase green thumb in regards to gardening. It reminds me of fungal infections gone wrong, of which I could post some gruesome photos. You get the idea. I’m not a green thumb by ANY means. If Read More…
![Anxiety Girl](https://www.ravenoak.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/anxiety-girl-header2.png)
Sinking like the Titanic
This week’s plans have been sinking like the Titanic…or my floors (more on that momentarily). I’m supposed to have a Flashback or Flashforward Friday today, but I’m still swimming in contractor and insurance hell while juggling too many other things Read More…
![DiNozzo Takes Down A Wildebeast](https://www.ravenoak.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_7980-e1433548384696.jpg)
Taking Down a Wildebeest
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about how my cats are assholes. I love my cats, don’t get me wrong, but DiNozzo is a psychopath at times. If we died in our home, he’d be the first kitty to Read More…
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