Happy Pride Month! This bundle highlights some of the amazing bisexual & pansexual authors in indie publishing, also featuring my novella 'Their Village, Their Fortress'. Go check out these books! itch.io/b/3742/bi-pa... #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Pride2026

My own terrible version of the Reflecting Pool, done in Paint. And this time the Doctor will not save them.

"And you're sure you smeared the honey all the way along the ropes?" "Look - you can see the ants marching along right now." #GirlsOwnCC

Plants and cyanobacteria use antenna complexes to collect sunlight for photosynthesis. A lineage that branched off 2 billion years ago has an antenna shaped like a paddle, which is worse at gathering photons than the more modern fan shape. www.quantamagazine.org/an-early-ste...

Happy Bloomsaday, all!

"Cook, I thought you said we'd run out of meat for the pies." "We had. So I sent for the stableboy. That fat one, who's really good for nothing. Turns out I was wrong. He was useful after all." "Oh, did he find you some filling for the pie?" "In a matter of speaking ..." #GirlsOwnCC

Drop something BLACK & WHITE 🖤🤍

What will you wear to the street party when it happens?

"Goodness, Miss Amy. However did you manage to get your cat to sleep on your head so securely, even at a canter?" #GirlsOwnCC

I don't know: the 'free tacos" tempts me to join in...

Just when it seemed the world was ready for Edgar's Wood-Grain menswear, the Duke of York acquired a splinter in an unfortunate location. (From His Nibs) #GirlsOwnCC

"Gerald! Whatever it is, we can make amends." "I don't think so, Alice. I am damned. There is no forgiveness possible for what I did, ever." "Why? What did you do that was so heinous?" "I ... I was two minutes late in feeding the cats." *Alice goes silent and starts backing away* #GirlsOwnCC

Mr Alopex snuggled into.his favourite armpit. (He loves it there) #CatsOfBluesky

Book Blitz: "The Last Gift-Knight" information and first chapter excerpt. readingnook84.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/b... #BookSky #AuthorSky #blog #excerpt #WritingCommunity #fantasy #sff

"Yes, it was a giant piece of broccoli, and no, Mr Holmes was *not* pleased to see you." (From His Nibs) #GirlsOwnCC

"Five shillings and thrippence to bring him up and pretend he ain't yours? Miss, you've got a nerve. Them foundling homes charge a tenner for a "no questions asked" handover." "You're right. A guinea and you never saw me here." "Deal. He'll be a chimney sweep afore y'know it." #GirlsOwnCC

I miss CASSANDRA-FM. Great stuff, but no-one was listening.

archiveofourown.org/works/83672471 The Value of a Life - WWII Swallows and Amazons, Unsent Letters. John Walker, seconded to the Australian Navy, is captured by the Japanese. These are the letter and articles kept by the family and presented at an (fictional) @BBC_ARoadshow episode.

Wooooot!

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You've just had @randyrainbow.bsky.social sing a song to you - now I KNOW you're the man. (I know you can't endorse it, but I also know you're rocking along to it behind the scenes. Enjoy it - you deserve it).

Painted Jim recently with watercolours

Unbeknownst to her chaperone, Miss Lovelace evaded detection of her less platonic sentiments by encoding them into the music. "What a score!" said Mr Babbage. (From His Nibs) #GirlsOwnCC

But why *shouldn't* I be alarmed? Bustles are expensive, and have no business being in hedgerows. This song is very silly, and no-one in their right mind will like it. #GirlsOwnCC

The thought of a pet triffid had seemed compelling at first, but Lady Montague-Smythe was beginning to tire of having to read all its correspondence to it. All the other triffids had to say was "Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap" From His Nibs #GirlsOwnCC

"Of course! The best way to get the Editrix to accept my poetry is to set it to my own music then *sing* it to her!" #GirlsOwnCC

Quiet Mother's Day, playing "Cats Knocking Things Off Ledges"

The Jane Austen Society of Australia asked me to speak, so I did. Even My Mother Reads Fanfiction. One hour of general and specific info about Fanfiction. Enjoy! jasa.com.au/even-my-moth... #JaneAusten #Fanfiction

Rocky outcrops, trees with strange hollows, foxes sitting just too nonchalantly beside either.

"What do you think these two will do, Daphne, when they find out all we wanted them for was their skills with the oars?" "I shouldn't worry, Amy. I'm fairly sure they row for the other team, just as we do." #GirlsOwnCC

@flowerofcarrots.bsky.social I am somehow feeling the need to write a story where a certain Philly Icon is in Pittsburgh, and ends up injured and at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Yes, I'm feeling the call to write a Gritty /The Pitt crossover. I'm blaming you.

Were they tipped off by the fact that trans athletes weren't a problem for all of human history until conservatives started purchasing every major media institution in 2013 or so

"I'm mending things, Amy, and Val, your sister, is practicing her scales. What are *you* doing?" "Thinking hard and supervising. Someone has to do it!" #girlsOwnCc

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

If you're also a published Canadian and looking to raise the profile of your work, please join me in this showcase. fictionfest.ca/author-faq/ #CanadaFictionFest #CanadianAuthors #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Given we had Velociraptor Awareness Day. Did you know, many species of famous theropods were named after Polish women in palaeontology. Velociraptor osmolskae & Citipati osmolskae are named after Halszka Osmólska, a Mongolian dinosaur expert, responsible for describing Deinocheirus and Gallimimus.

I bribed St Peter, falsified records, and stole the keys to the Pearly Gates to come down to earth to meet you, and all you have for me is a handful of grass? Sorry, Fred. Heaven ain't going to miss this angel, no sir. #GirlsOwnCC

Take the wrong lesson from a movie: Gigi. Perfectly reasonable to groom your granddaughter for sex work. After all, you did, your sister did ...

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast.

From His Nibs: "Today we're playing _Tory MPs_." #GirlsOwnCC

"It was a *line* dance, Emily, not a *lion* dance. Please put the whip away and promise you won't use it on us any more." #GirlsOwnCC

Hey @ritamitsuko.bsky.social - was at a Comedy Festival event tonight which was an Auslan comedy event - and the Auslan interpreter was the one for the Supernatural reading at the Fanfic night at Hares and Hyenas that we met at!

WRYTE WEIRDE BOOKES

Dinner with students end up being maths time anyway. ([,,@asherwolf.bsky.social's kid on left)

(From His Nibs) "Still no luck finding them cobras then?" "Actually, it's just the one." #GirlsOwnCC

"Ethel, you were supposed to decorate the bonnet to look like a chicken, not *with* a chicken!" "Sorry, Alice, but the other option was a bunny, and it just wouldn't stick to the hat, even with hot glue." #GirlsOwnCC

To my beautiful, wonderful, real, amazing trans and non-binary friends - I see you, I believe you, I love you. Closeted or out, you exist. Your true selves make this world more real. And your existence threatens nothing except some people's mistaken beliefs. #InternationalDayOfTransVisibility

"Recite the lesson, Alice." "_Maybe_ means _no_, _Perhaps_ means _no_, _I'll let you know_ means _no_." "Thus when you asked Miss Jones and her family if they would come to morning tea, and their response was _We'll get back to you_?" "Ohhhhhh." "Exactly." #GirlsOwnCC

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

🧵Spotted at a Multicultural Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand: A couple (teens) are sitting crossed legged, facing each other. Love hearts face painted on their cheeks. Passing a mug of masala chai between them as they chat. (1)

Want.