K.A.Teryna

@k-a-teryna.bsky.social

writer and artist, used to be a fox, a text, a radish, a snowflake /Clarkesworld, Asimov's, Reactor, Analog, F&SF/ collection BLACK HOLE HEART AND OTHER STORIES

PVA glue shares the same abbreviation in both Russian and English because it stands for polyvinyl acetate in both. But in Russian, the abbreviation PVA can also refer to a very specific plot term: "by the author's will" (Po Vole Avtora). All I can find in English is "duct tape plotting."