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A Dark Matter is the first in Doug Johnstone’s Skelfs series. The Skelfs are three women: grandmother, mother, & daughter who, upon the death of the paterfamilias, find themselves running an Edinburgh-based funeral home & private investigation service. Dark, funny, thrilling. ⚡️📚💙
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A photograph of the British paperback edition of Doug Johnstone’s novel A Dark Matter, sitting on a cozy wool blanket: perfect cold weather reading material.
Now that spooky season has descended upon us again I decided it was time to pick up this Stephen King omnibus I picked up in a charity shop ages ago and finally read the next story; "Carrie". I read "The Shining" last Halloween and while I enjoyed it I certainly felt like it outstayed it's welcome. "Carrie" on the other hand is a much shorter and pacier read with a great sense of momentum and building pressure. I've never seen any of the film adaptations but might have to check one out.
Some of the language is certainly dated and problematic, casual racism and a few instances where Mr. King is guilty of writing female characters "titting down the stairs", but given how generally awesome he's been during America's descent into fascism I'm happy to file those instances of questionable writing down to novel being over 50 years old. "Different times" rather than problematic opinions. Will probably also read Misery this season, but might switch to another author in between.
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A photo of a hardback copy of a collection of three Stephen King novels in one. They include The Shining, Carrie, and Misery.
7) Narrative Voice I'll share a snip from my short story collection (that one that comes with my newsletter). It's one of the few times I write in first person. And if you're thinking "Silver, this sounds like Ace Attorney with Dragons," I say "Yes, and?" From "Turncoat": #LitHodgePodge
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“What do you want?” A young cave dragon stood before me. Very young, barely more than a child, with pure white scales. And she needed my help. “I’m here to defend you.”
The child looked up at me. Her eyes were pink. A true albino, then. She was unusual, in more ways than one. “That can’t be true. They told me no one would defend me. That defending me would be career suicide.” “Well, regardless, here I am. My name is Alistair.” She looked back down and mumbled. “Crystal,” I caught. Of course I already knew her name. What I didn’t tell her was that I was a rookie defense attorney and this was my first case. I didn’t have any career to ruin by taking her on. Was I crazy? Probably. But I could not stand by and let her face her accusers alone. That’s what defense attorneys were for! I opened my case notebook. “We don’t have much time. The trial is tomorrow. Can you tell me what happened?” The young dragon looked down at her claws. “Well, I couldn’t sleep last night…”
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The next morning, I entered the lobby right on time. It wouldn’t do to be late to my first trial! I looked around for my client and found her in the corner.
Her wings were tucked tightly against her back and she had wrapped her forearms and tail around herself. She looked so small and scared. I slowly slid up next to her and cleared my throat to announce my presence. She flinched and didn’t look up. “You ready?” I asked her. Just then, the bailiff came into the room to fetch us for the trial. I walked beside my client into the courtroom. My eyes swept around as we took our places at the defense bench. My heart sank. Presiding over the trial was Rockayus: the High Dragon himself. This case was indeed as bad as I’d heard. The High Dragon did not involve himself in everyday, ordinary cases. This one had become an overnight sensation, and the High Dragon was treating it with due gravity. What had I gotten myself into? Rockayus banged his gavel on the podium. “Court is now in session for the trial of Apprentice Mage Crystal. Is the prosecution ready?” From the other side of the well, the prosecuting dragon nodded. “The prosecution is ready, High Dragon.” Before I could contemplate my opposition, the High Dragon continued. “Is the defense ready?” “The defense is ready, Your Honor, I mean High Dragon.” I felt my face flush as I cursed myself for my blunder. Rockayus peered down at me. “Defense, approach the bench, if you would.” Wincing, I bent down to whisper to my client. “Don’t worry, I’ll be right back,” and did as I was bid. I stood in front of the High Dragon, trying not to betray how badly I was shaking. Be strong for your client. Never let them see your fear, I repeated my lessons to myself.
This is a fantastic investigation of this series. Good read
First time seeing either Off the Reservation in the wild OR these B&N exclusives. Very cool. Signed em up. And the rest of the SGJ stuff. In Fairfax, I think? I see “12193” on the door. Anyway, this was a short walk from Chipotle. That being after I DoorDash’d some chipotle to the wrong hotel.
#Bookmail! My project to own fewer things is going great!
He was born 92 years ago today. He's the architect of the Black Arts Movement, poet, scholar, radical, playwright, essayist, and survivor of the 1967 Newark Rebellion. Born Leroi Jones, he changed his name to Amiri Baraka after Malcolm was assassinated. He's also the father of Ras Baraka
I’m not a huge sci-fi reader and have abandoned more series than I’ve finished, but when it’s good, it’s as good as reading gets. Iain M. Banks’s Culture series is exactly that. While you can skip Consider Phlebas, the rest of the series is astonishingly great.
Satantango by 2025 Nobel Literature Prize winner László Krasznahorkai (which I read last year) features spiders, spider webs, ghostly bells, collective dreaming, also continuous rain, lust, drunkenness and despair. “So amazingly bleak that it’s often quite funny,” said the Guardian.
this is still kinda wild to me — a few years back, our friend Gerard put a young British graduate student named Gabriel Duckels in touch with Tina to talk about about the AIDS movement in SF in the 80s and 90s. a number of conversations were ultimately incorporated into a chapter about Tina in Gabriel’s The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America, written with YA author David Levithan. they wanted this book to be a way to tell the story of AIDS for young people, and it is fantastic. there is one chapter that tells the story of loss through 18 obituaries from SF’s Bay Area Reporter, all from a single month (January 1990). that was a time when most newspapers would not print the word AIDS in an obit. The Fight of Our Lives made the long list for the National Book Award’s Young People’s Literature, and just today it was announced as one of the five finalists for that award.
My most anticipated book of the year has arrived!! And in classic Tad Williams fashion, I am charmed before the book even begins. "Harold the Tree" had me in stitches. Looking forward to ignoring all responsibilities for a while as I read The Splintered Sun. Priorities! #booksky
My first academic journal article came out in Anarchist Studies four years ago. It has long since been posted on the Anarchist Library where you can read it for free: "From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)" theanarchistlibrary.org/librar… Abstract: After almost a century of Marxist predominance, how did anarchism develop from a marginal phenomenon into a force at the centre of the anti-globalisation movement? This article explores how anarchism was reborn in a counterrevolutionary age.
Part one investigates how the New Right’s post-1960s counterrevolution defeated the New Left and remade US society, including by recuperating potentially liberatory elements of social movements. Part two examines how a new generation of radicals critiqued the failures of Marxism-Leninism and popularised the anarchist analysis and principles that provided the foundation for the anti-globalisation movement. The article discusses five examples of the development of anarchist theory and practice: Black/New Afrikan Anarchism, anarcha-feminism, eco-anarchism, punk anarchism, and revolutionary social anarchism. Ultimately, the article argues that anarchism was revitalised in the late twentieth century because it provided compelling answers to the new problems posed by the neoliberal counterrevolution and the crisis of state socialism.
Just finished 'The Ruby in the Smoke' by Philip Pullman. This is an enjoyable YA novel with a plucky young heroine in Victorian London, who finds herself enmeshed in a murder-filled mystery connected to the opium trade. Apparently the first novel in a series, I'll have to hunt the others down. 💙📚
Even mermaids have to deal with scammers, it seems. Elis Montgomery's poignant poem today isn't just a shout of rage for a stolen voice, but also at the passage of time: smallwondersmag.com/piece/a-se…
"It is a known fact that some people grow to be old, while others become birds or panthers or beasts." Set in the 1990s Bogotá queer underground Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You by Julián Delgado Lopera is a rich and vibrant read. A finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction.
#AmReading #Helm by #SarahHall. A bewitching, raucous novel about a wind, specifically the Helm wind in Cumbria, and the people who challenge, fear, and love Helm. It’s an audacious concept for a novel, and Hall carries it off brilliantly. Her writing is miraculous, and Helm is a gloriously mercurial character. #Bookstodon #books #BlewMeAway arcade.kofflerarts.org/article…
Baked a citrus and Ube marble cake for work for my birthday this Friday. Fellow librarians loved it. #baking
Four stars. Dense with names and dates but the payoff is real. The sharpest look at Cold War MI5 you'll find in one book. #books #bookreview #TooSecretTooLong #nonfiction smpl.is/ane0t
A world of Ballardian abandoned aerodromes and Shakespearean body counts, where everyone has a terrible time except the reader. Me on Eoin McNamee’s The Comets, which might appeal to fans of David Peace, James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy;
New book review! I finished reading EVERYONE IN THIS BANK IS A THIEF and rated it ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out of 4). david.reviews/books/everyone-i… #books #bookstodon #review #davidreviews #davidreviewsbooks
I recently got Part 2 of DC Finest's Crisis on Infinite Earths collection, and seeing this panel from #5 reminds me that the appeal of these busy images filled with hundreds of characters isn't that far off from Martin Handford's "Where's Wally/Waldo" books.
I am now 78 books into this year, and this will be the next one that I will be allow in to escape from the teetering tower of my to be read pile onto the security of my bookshelves #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #DavidYallop #ToEncourageTheOthers #DerekBentley #ChristopherCraig #PCSidneyMiles #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #MiscarriageOfJustice
I had to venture forth to get the new Erikson book yesterday, and on my way saw this charming piece of graffiti which really brightened my day,
Last was “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope” by Brandon M. Terry, who brilliantly dissects narratives and simplistic analyses of the Civil Rights movement, demonstrating how they fail to confront that history in its context and grapple with its revolutionary, imperfect philosophy and goals. Highly recommend hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742… (5/5)
the fun thing about doing this when the special interest in question is printing and bookmaking and Cool Old Books is that sometimes the book you check out about bookmaking is, in itself, a Cool Old Book
This can be an interesting case to watch. "Taiwan Travelogue" won the 2026 International Booker Prize for English translation of fiction. It was translated by Lin King 金翎 from the Mandarin Chinese novel "Táiwān Màn Yóu Lù" 《臺灣漫遊錄》 of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 楊双子. It is a question about "relay translation" that in this case a third-language translation being published based on the English translation of Lin King without her consent. ~~~~~ "Statement on the copyright infringement of the English translation of Taiwan Travelogue" 《臺灣漫遊錄》英譯本著作權遭侵權聲明 instagram.com/p/DeJ12J8kZf_/
@beetlemoses.bsky.social Hardcover arrived & it's gorgeous, congrats once again on a physical release! Not an ad or anything, I just really loved The Far Side & this perfectly carries that torch to me It's honestly banger after banger, from heartfelt to absurd, often both. Hell yeah
Hermes was a bad god, a shifty fellow, a liar, a thief, a teller of the future (with dice, of course), a musician, herald and messenger of the gods… —Norman MacCaig, “Hermes-Mercury” published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MACCAIG (Birlinn, 2009) birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem… #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #Hermes #Mercury #Wednesday #Roman #Classical
One of my favorite minor creative decisions Bill Watterson made was picking a specific white-collar career for Calvin's dad (patent attorney) It almost never explicitly shows up (except one strip where he reads some of his casework to Calvin as a bedtime story) but it somehow informs so much more
My mother brought this book to me when I was a kid...apparently a new "collected Moebius fantasies" had appeared in the comics shop. The cover was amazing. Apparently Le Major's face here is based on Clint Eastwood. I held it in my hands and was a bit shocked about how thick it was. There had to be double or three times the amount of drawings in here than in the other ones. I felt intensely blessed at that moment. You see these books were essentially made of pure magic to me. I just lay there holding it for a while....without even opening it. I was stunned, just by the weight of the book. I could never understand the story of this one, it didn't made sense to me. It had been made a few pages at a time, Moebius would just evolve the story for each new issue from where he left off. It ended up being a bit incoherent and so on. It's fine I'm telling you...it's totally fine...once you see the drawings. #comics #fantasyart #moebius
On what I was going to call "a lighter note" before realizing it really isn't, I just finished Chris Jennings's sweeping END OF DAYS, about Ruby Ridge and the apocalyptic faith that fueled it. I really enjoyed it! It's a great look at the conspiracy-brained history of this country.
Having just finished a re-read of The Lord of the Rings, I'm struck by the realisation that the most important factors in the success of Frodo in his quest to destroy the ring were, in order of importance 1) Lembas 2) Gollum 3) Orcish squabbling ... 99) Sam 100) Frodo #books #bookstodon
Love these books so much, but bought the ebooks of the third and fourth. Currently reading the e-arc of book 5. Graveyard of Perfection by @aptshadow.bsky.social is amazing. I need to find the hardcovers of all the books to have the whole series on the shelf with these utterly stunning covers.
Thev Used the Profits to Replace Us (2025) #poem #poetry #spokenword During the 1986 Pacific Northwest timber strike, Aberdeen mill workers marched over 100 miles to save their communities from corporate concessions. Much like the Luddites, they targeted bosses who weaponized automation to devalue labor rather than technology itself. By exposing how companies like Weverhaeuser blamed global competition to mask profit-driven layoffs, the movement proved that economic fate is a corporate choice rather than an inevitability.
Can somewhere be loved to death? My new novel ‘Bridge of Sighs’ is a fast-paced contemporary murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. Balnakeil Bay, in north-west Sutherland, offers a superb beach leading to Faraid head, seen in the distance. It plays a background role in the story. Find out more on my website: kenlussey.com/bos/index.html #Books #Bookstodon
#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 6: What might an inattentive reader miss in your work? The serious subtext and research behind the humor. "The Wine and Cheese Pirates" is a romp, but it also explains the economics of grey markets in the presence of unreasonable tariffs. There are unintended consequences when one chooses to implement economics that went out of favor in the 1800s with good reason. If one irrationally sets tariffs too high it creates an incentive for smuggling otherwise legal goods to profit on the arbitrary profit margin created by the tariff.
I would be astounded if this isn't going on all over the world right now. The inherent danger is that once the grey market logistics are in place it becomes easy to use off the books supply chains to ship black market goods, as well. That too is probably happening right now. In "The Adventures of [Unfortunate Panda-Face] Wilson in the First Dimension**" I look into the differences between logographic symbolic languages and alphabetic languages using Emojuese, a language consisting of symbols with culturally agreed upon idiomatic meanings, Emojis, and Angstlish as it was spoken before the advent of the cerebral cortex InnerNet allowing people to communicate directly in most cases without text or vocal intermediation. This of course results in a pidgin language that attempts to combine both languages in ways that often impeded communication. The difference in the level of terror associated with Emojuese:🗡️ 🥷 ❔[Dagger][Ninja][Question Mark] and the alphabetic Angstlish: "Nobody Knows, Inc., LLC of the Isle of Man" is orders of magnitude greater for Emojuese users in part because rather than being spoken or written the symbols just appear inside their heads. There is a lot of comparative linguistics going on in the background that has little to do with the plot, but is there just because I find it interesting. The clown car has a lot of very sophisticated moving parts under the hood in most of my writing.
Book 73: Villain. Picking up where Hench left off, sort of a "What kind of person becomes a villain, and what motivates them to do evil things?" novel where the protagonist is the hench person to a villain named Leviathan who is partially insectoid. Things get complicated when he defeats his rival (in the last book) and loses a sense of purpose. Then they get somewhat involved. Then they fight the good guys. Not as good as the original (to relationship-angst for my tastes) but clever and fun.
The model is less sure these belong here, so they sit outside the ranking.
Al and crummy sequels has me off the 31in31 horror movie challenge this year. Instead I am trying to read 31 pages of horror a day for Oct (I'm averging higher but 31in31 sounds good). So far I've read @tkingfisher.com M Kliewer and my fav horror author @stephengrahamjones.com
He addressed this subject beautifully in The Fifth Risk and I'm really looking forward to his new book.
wanderhome's furry setting uses large insects to fill the role of animals, livestock, etc.; there are also sparing mentions of cicada emergence events. taken together this seems to imply that sometimes you're trying to go on a therapeutic walk but everything is screaming bugs the size of motorcycles
Ok is anyone on here into the #classics or #hellenism? Cause what is the deal with Achilles? Like, he seems to operate in a totally different social context from everyone else. 1. He’s the only man who expresses any sense of like “why would I fight in this war? My life has value” 2. When he does fight he’s fucking bonkers 3. Then he does these games where he resolves all these conflicts peacefully, makes sure everyone feels valued, which doesn’t seem like a thing anyone else sees as worth doing Or am I misreading? Totally possible. But he seems like an enigmatic figure to me, not just an angry pouting rage-aholic. Also if there are good scholarly discussions of him as a character I would love a source or two! #literature #ancientGreece
I just watched Fahrenheit 451 in my local public library. The room was surrounded by shelves of books and it felt slightly subversive. I walked home and a helicopter was hovering overhead. It is still there.
I noticed the Edinburgh Bookshop's display of banned books and grabbed a couple of snaps. I've left them at full resolution to aid legibility. edinburghbookshop.com/
This book is very good, totally accessible to anyone with no pre-requisite readings, and is available as an audiobook on all the usual platforms (including Libby and Hoopla). If you wanna know how we got from Nixon to Trump, I can’t think of a better book to orient you to the US counterrevolution
Roll for initiative, folks: The Monsters Know What They're Doing is back, and it's REMONSTERED! All the battle plans you've relied on for years are freshened up for the 2025 Monster Manual, accompanied by brand-new tips to make every fight more exciting. Get it now! spyandowl.com/remonstered #DnD
Midnight X-Men is a great first issue with an amazing hook, great action, and some set up that makes me excited to see where this story goes. Also feels like they forgot to add the infographics Hickman is famous for, but they definitely kept the script for one.
No ghosts or hauntings ever materialized across our twenty years at Rosslyn despite two centuries of inhabitants. And yet this happy home shares her history, her unique perspective, her narrative. A story as intimate as it is meandering. Rosslyn braids past, present, and future into an enrapturing experience, home as spatial storyteller. Spatial Storyteller (Art: Geo Davis) Rosslyn as Storyteller Four old buildings, unerased by time, ever evolving, hum harmonies out… rosslynredux.com/spatial-story…
My artist, @emily-jack.bsky.social, sent along the sketch for the second volume of A Dragon For Darius. It's going to be gorgeous. I even wrote a few lines. #ScribesUnited. Maybe 100 words today.
Now I'm working a fantasy, I call a character Vh-Uee. How would you pronounce that? What's the silliest name you've ever used? #writing #characters #AmWriting #fantasy
I've been short-listed for an award for the first time ever! It's "writer of the year" at the PPA awards. Here are the three pieces I submitted >>> ppaindpub.co.uk/2026/en/page...
It depends on several factors: your needs, your wishes and your habits, also the complexity of the text. Say, if it's a standard book in English, maybe a machine translation will suffice. I usually read quite long pieces of text in computer Braille (because my knowledge of English Grade 2 is crappy) and it's OK. However, if you want to either read something fancy like well-formatted poetry, or texts with citations in different languages, rare in particular (Judaist or Christian texts with citations in biblical Hebrew or koiné Greek, texts about Hinduism with citations in Indian languages like Sanskrit, texts about Native American cultures, again with citations in various languages); fancy
maths; music Braille or texts with musical excerpts; or you just want to get aesthetical pleasure from reading properly formatted literary Braille, — in those cases transcription is mandatory. Also, there are some languages (like German or Russian for example), where machine translation doesn't achieve higher levels of accuracy. #Braille
Today in DC History: Oct. 8th v2 - 22/23 2016 – The Ghastlytrump Tinies by Mike Selinker, with music and audiobook read by The DCs. CONTENT WARNING: This entry deals with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and depicts the aftermath of what a T presidency could look like.. See comments for more.
25 days from now (10/31), I will have survived another solar cycle by some miracle. As usual, your well wishes and continued support have always meant the world to me, however, if you *want* to gift me something this month, here are a few suggestions: 1) Amazon Wishlist: a.co/0cnsJbdj I keep my Amazon wishlist pretty well updated with gift ideas. I know that Amazon is evil so if you prefer to buy something off the list from somewhere else and need my mailing address, you can DM me. 2) Patreon: www.patreon.com/lbbryant It would mean the world to me to get some new subscribers on my Patreon. Even if you only sign up for the "free" level right now, more eyes on my writing works would really cheer me up.
Coming to FantasyCon? Come say hi! I love to met new people, and I also baked SNAKESTONE COOKIES. Here's my schedule.
Sea Smoke in January Sea smoke drifted over the harbor on January 12. The water was black glass, the air thin and salty. June Tam stood on the dock and watched the vapor rise from the lake. June had not expected to feel anything about the smoke. She felt something about the smoke. sigridsong.neocities.org/notes…
I'm slowly working through my manga TBR for this month. I read manga way faster than manhwa especially physical manga. So I don't think it should take too long to finish these. The artwork on this is still a WIP. I am trying to get back into using this journal again. #MoonBoiReads
When I worked with PCS back then (side gig), my superpower was — unlike most comics bloggers — I had zero interest in working in the industry. I was just a revitalized fan who ended up finding a community I clicked with. It helped me avoid so many hassles, and when my passion eventually faded, I just moved on because I could. Randomly ending up in the industry (kinda) years later was totally unexpected, and it definitely made things harder at times. I don't regret it, but I'm glad to move on.
neat, now we can marshmallows :D yay! they probably couldn't sell them so they gave it away for free. should have buried all the copies in the desert tbh. Its rude to just give trash to random people 🙄
Black Autonomy vol. 3 no. 1 anarchistfederation.net/black-…
“This guy’s cursing me up. I better reconsider my decision”, said no editor ever…
The Autumn issue of 2600 is now out!! 2600.com/content/autumn-issue-…
Published today - "Herrschaft kommunizieren Versammlung und Beratung im Früh- und Hochmittelalter", a set of essays edited by Matthias Becher and Phillip Merkel. www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...
Bit late to the party here but The Correspondent is pretty good, isn't it. Certainly feel inspired to barge my way into an English Literature seminar
Still not feeling great today, but did work on editing. #writinglife #SFFwriter #disabilitylit #queerlit #dystopianlit
Might stay up late to work on writing I wrote kinda a vent poem already because I was thinking about my online best friend again I had but we grew apart after getting married and it left me feeling lost but writing and reading books has made me feel better a lot. Friendship breakups sucks
Hansry Fluff Zine Contributor Spotlight! Introducing brittnodo on Tumblr #kcd #hansry #hansryfluffzine
Reading more pages of LN right now while listening to chill music on a spotify playlist and there are tracks from Aria… man i forgot how relaxing the OST was from the anime and S2, gonna remind myself to continue watching the rest of the series..
i am addicted to purchasing used books i fear . picked these up from the thrift store for 5 bucks total
Calling all Static Shock fans! Static is back in the DC universe and @wegotissues.bsky.social breaks down why this is bigger than you think! ►iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... ►Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5f31... ►YT: youtu.be/ya6gDFH7sL8?... ►SC: on.soundcloud.com/jBo7tGQ22un9...
6,007 words today on writing/re-writes. Editing report - 16 pages edited, and 344 words removed. No art today as my fingers have been cramping and I've been dealing with the shakes. That's easier to fix in digital artwork, not as easy with pencil. #amwriting #writerslife #writesky #amediting
Whether in her everyday civilian guise or full Red Tornado gear, Ma Hunkel always makes sure to show the police the respect they deserve.
This was a creepy and delightful start to Spookymonth! I can't wait to share it with you. 🫀
"And so, having cracked and shattered beyond repair, Hope split herself into countless tiny shards, so that each and every soul could carry her with us into the great struggle we call Life." —The Start of All Things
today in Draw Steel the werewolves went on a ✨girls' trip✨ and they hated it lol. evil scarecrows...evil plants...another hero's fiance(?) maybe involved in a kidnapping...had to climb a mountain...last hope of lycanthropy cure might be evil...it's hard out here
YOU: Do you have a favourite Mark Twain book? ME: Yea, I like that one "Huckleberry Hound" RS
Just read a post saying fiction about bad people has to show them feeling bad for being bad or else it's bad writing and wow did I hit that block button fast.
Every day I sigh about how much I miss beefleaf even though I have multiple fic WIPs for them and talk about them at least once a day to my gf + several of my friends
We're delighted to announce that our first edition Issue One is now 'live' to read at corollarysf.com Please take a look. We are now collecting submissions for Issue Two, which is scheduled for release in January 2027.
This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇
Get a free copy of Machines of Consent! 🥰 prismata-press.itch.io/machines-of-...
Cliffjumper was going to head to his hab for the night, but it seemed his work wasnt done. He sighed, going through this thread and the others. Censoring content and context from the Cybertronian populace. As he did everytime it came to one of the higher ups. Last time it was for Ultra. -
@charmazine.bsky.social readers, you should know this post put a mental image in my head that found a home in one of my contributions to the zine! If you know, you know. If you don't... You have until Oct 10 to get your copy and find out! :D
Don't mind the decay Forest floor fragrance afoot An unawkward path #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #decay
Another week, another bookmark. This week it’s for the book we are reading in my church book club, which so far is a great book. It’s not specifically a Christian book for anyone who might want to read it. Don’t make fun of my little silver sheep blobs please
"Sages say #sin is disobedience; immoral selfishness. Sin led to downfall. Looking from the other side, downfall was gravity, motion, direction. Without down, no up. Sin is to create, decide, shape, choose," he waved me over, "Come look from here. You decide. Who's guilty? Vote up or down?" #vss365
33k now. Keep going, Coven Thing, you can do it. #Amwriting #Writingcommunity #writesky #WIP
good day to everyone but esp my friend who surprised me by snagging the last copy of the special edition of my horror elderitch toxic yaoi novel that i thought i missed out on
Bright dawn contrail People going somewhere while I remain content #haiku
Setting up a thing so I can do writing comms via vgen and MMMMMMM god it sure is a thing to see how drastically folks are under-charging for writing If you're charging for your writing, $0.10 should be the lowest you go!
"Spider-Man horror straight sho[REALLY LOUD STATIC] comic" feels like a bunch of words plucked out of my brain at random but y'know it does kinda work
