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You can vote on the Hugo Awards, even if you don't plan to go to the Worldcon. A $50 WSFS membership gets you voting rights on the Hugo Award. It also usually comes with ebook copies of finalists. We'd certainly love to see more people voting (and would also love your vote for fanzine this year.)

I really enjoyed interviewing Lexy Hudson at @srfantasyclub.bsky.social tonight Her first ever author event, so I was happy to be able to make it as smooth as possible for her It's a great book too, check it out!

if you are an old school historical romance reader, i am taking you ungently by the cravat and looking deeply into your eyes when i say: read this

Voting is now open for this year's British Fantasy Awards, but get in quick! You can vote if you: ✅Are a BFS member ✅Have a ticket to this year's Fantasycon in Glasgow in October ✅Had a ticket to last year's World Fantasycon in Brighton Full details: britishfantasysociety.org/voting-opens...

I've been a fan of @emmanewman.bsky.social 's work since the Split Worlds came out, so it was a delight to be able to do her Guest of Honour interview yesterday at Eastercon We talked about how she tortures her characters, writing neurodivergence, about hope in dark times, and much more #eastercon

Forthcoming Eastercons Seated: 2027 - Glasgow 2028 - Birmingham Bids: 2029 - Chester 2030 - Birmingham 2031? - Belfast

And here's my Eastercon schedule Also my dragons will be in the art show, with prints on sale too #eastercon #eastercon2026 #iridescenceeastercon #dragons

she's in a head to toe spangled bodysuit with mesh panels why are you in black pants and a t-shirt with three (3) rhinestones

Something compelled me to make this

Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours

Help Helena gofund.me/3c76f16db If you're in the uk con scene you probably know Helena. She unexpected lost her husband right before Xmas and could use some help making ends meet for her and her two boys

My books of the year list, now that it's 8pm and I realistically won't finish any more this year! #books #booksky #bookrecs 1/n 🧵

I'm, um, a recently fired high scholar turned detective and contestant for the throne (The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson) And I'm a master inventor? (The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien, counting Feanor as the main even though he died early as he drives so much plot)

If they aren’t a registered charity and they aren’t registered with the Fundraising Regulator (example logo below), it’s probably one of these scammy orgs where the ‘profit’ is a tiny fraction of the money you handed over and some bastard gets rich on your good intentions. Give to a real charity.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

I think Transactual put it best (in reference to the girl guides) and now Labour too: "There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done." All to appease the right, who hate them anyway - shame on them.

This is the way.

This is genuinely massive, like earth-shakingly big in terms of pushing back the anti-trans exclusion drive. The anti-trans movement have lost a case they didn't expect to lose and really couldn't afford to. I can't imagine them not appealing (near infinite money) but now the precedent exists.

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:

Eastercon is the UK's annual science fiction convention for book lovers & writers Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

Good governance and financial controls are an ethical issue and protect your employees, not some sort of overreach of authority or mistrust of them

quick question which category do the AI psychosis and suicide cases fall under

I am very excited that ALL OF US MURDERERS has been picked as one of Kobo's Best of the Month! It's out everywhere today, in e at all platforms, in print at all good bookshops (it's the BA Indie Book of the Month!) and in audio read by Sonny Archer. Have at it! books2read.com/u/mloE7q

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

I want to popularize a term of art for this particular litfic genre trope: the Sad Boner Professor. It's a novel about a Professor (usually of American Literature). He is Sad. Also, he has a Boner. His boner is inordinately interested in the sexy, sexy student: also, he's sad because: wife. /1

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3

Women from all walks of life are joining together to say: Not in Our Name. We are a diverse group — women of faith and none, women of colour, disabled women, queer women, working-class and professional women standing up in support of the trans+ community. ✍️ Sign our letter at change.org/nion_women

Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate

ICYMI here's my essay on navigating the queered spaces of fandom, pro writing, and complicity with power

I've just finished reading this, having gone straight on to it after reading the first one Lovely lead character, gentle and gentlemanly with huge respect for the people (and cats) around him, and quietly determined to find the truth

Amplifying that last repost. I don’t get people who don’t understand that anti-trans hatred is only secondarily about controlling trans people. Its main purpose is to control you. Anti-trans weirdos want a world in which they get to police everybody’s gender conformity, every minute of every day.

Happy International Cat Day from Zephyr and Thistledown #cat #cats #catsky

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

Lord of the Rings by Tolkien: foundational to my love of the genre Dragon series by Anne McCaffrey: teenage awakening to character driven plot Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson: you can DO that? Essalieyan series by Michelle West: depth and breadth and spectacle with compassion 1/

More people are considering AI lovers and we definitely should judge #murderbot #leebeebee

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

When you're benefitting from others' cultures, the least you can do is to try and get it right in the #representation. #culture youtube.com/shorts/Ni7M1...

if you see this, quote with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE (Ok this one is a TV show) #outlander