Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

This is definitely premature, I can almost guarantee that by mid-February we're going to be back in the negatives, but welcome, we're coming back to 'it's winter, so the only thing Aurora talks about is the weather.' It's been warm. If you're not from the Midwest area, you might see my 'it's twenty-three degrees at seven in the morning' and be like "Excuse me," but it's the end of January and it's twenty-three degrees at seven in the morning. We're supposed to hit like, thirty-nine this weekend. The roads are slushy and the Interstate keeps getting icy because it rains and then it gets cold at night (which is awful, I need to go to Fargo today to catch the Jay & Silent Bob Reboot Roadshow), and you look outside and it's like, it looks like March out there. Don't get me wrong. There's still a ton of snow everywhere, and we've got lows coming up in the negatives in the next couple weeks. But the highs...

NOTES: Welcome to, hey, here's a short story I wrote a while ago, am no longer submitting to lit mags, and would just like to share. Possibly there will be more of these in the future, I have a lot of them and I only keep them on submission for a year because to tell you the truth, I am BAD AT SHORT STORIES. But enjoy.

I'm not talking about Homestuck fanfiction, done that, we're not doing that anymore, I promise . I'm talking, I'm re-reading Homestuck currently (as I've been saying for a while, so you might be thinking 'still?', and if you are thinking 'still?' you are clearly not familiar with the sheer fucking length  of the thing), and dear God is it just fucking awesome. What really makes me want to create from Homestuck is the plot. I mean, I love the characters, and Homestuck worldbuilding is maybe the only worldbuilding I really give a shit about out of pretty much anything, but how just... convoluted the plot is makes me really happy. The time travel bullshit and the alternate universe bullshit and why-is-Gamzee-here??? bullshit: all of that bullshit makes me happy. I don't know how much of this was planned out. You know that the first couple of acts are sheer by-the-seat-of-his-pants kind of shit, and also by-the-fan-polls-that-used-to-be-a-thing kin...