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Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026

, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.

La Bene Vita

The (Tentative*) Topic Rotation
Self Sundays: Personal blogging days about family, leisure, work, and health. May be boring.
Music Mondays: Commentary, articles, and links highlighting music, theory, and ed topics.
Writing Wednesdays: Discussion on the art and business of writing.
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Thursdays: A weekly original short story submission.
Friday Reviews**: Every Friday, I will review a minimum of one short story on WDC.

* I reserve the right to change the topic of the day at any time, at least until I acquire a million followers and gain official "influencer" status, at which point I shall be more consistent in order to meet the expectations of my adoring public.
** I can only commit to one review per week. If you would like your short story to be in my reviewing queue, please send me a WDC review request.

Check out my public reviews

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Storm Machine

a day ago
In response to "Tone, Whimsy and an Editing Verb Bank Idea"

hoMEOWner

One possibly issue among asking AI to quantify your verbs for flavor is that it is also trained on the internet, which is the worst of all possible bullies. Whimsy isn't necessarily a good thing to it. AI can be introduced to brain rot by reading twitter but they haven't figured out how to fix it afterward.

Robert Waltz

Jan 28, 2026 at 11:35am
In response to "Tone, Whimsy and an Editing Verb Bank Idea"

Ever notice how "home" and "house" are near-synonyms, but "homework" and "housework" are completely different things?

All of which is to say: I ain't doin' either one.

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Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026

Jan 27, 2026 at 2:18pm
In response to "A Novel Idea"

Robert Waltz

- Bah-hahahahahahahahaha

Robert Waltz

Jan 27, 2026 at 2:17pm
In response to "A Novel Idea"

Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026

- Come on, now. What kind of music school are you running? Tomato totally rhymes with staccato.

1 Like

Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026

Jan 27, 2026 at 2:15pm
In response to "A Novel Idea"

Robert Waltz

- Is that really necessary, though? Everyone knows that the only word that rhymes with tomato is potato, and, well, you know.

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Robert Waltz

Jan 27, 2026 at 2:13pm
In response to "A Novel Idea"

My sources tell me that the pronunciation of "query" depends on what country you're from.

As with many other British / American pronunciation issues, it's never really that clear-cut. There are also regional differences.

Now do "tomato."

Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026

Jan 27, 2026 at 10:19am
In response to "Soup! and maybe a bit of politics..."

TJ says, "keep on keeping on!"

- Sometimes you just have to let it out because you had bean soup yesterday.

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TJ says, "keep on keeping on!"

Jan 27, 2026 at 8:58am
In response to "Soup! and maybe a bit of politics..."

Sometimes you just have to let it out. For example, I want bean soup now.

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Jeff

Jan 26, 2026 at 11:57pm
In response to "Soup! and maybe a bit of politics..."

I saw a post on Twitter the other day (originally from a few years back) that said, "I'd much rather be 'too sensitive' than whatever the fuck has happened to half of humanity." Sadly, I think of that quote often these days...

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Anni Pon

Jan 26, 2026 at 8:01pm
In response to "Soup! and maybe a bit of politics..."

My day has been similar. Snowed in and writing about the same events.

STATIC

Humanity

(ASR)
The writing on the wall
#2353702 by Anni Pon

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