Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

A new dress, and an oversized tee I'm finishing tonight, in Nani Iro cotton lawn. Plus the rust red cotton gauze shirt, and pyjama pants. And that's the holiday sewing.

Waiting for 2025 to end like

The way my run and swim times just collapse in embarrassment after a week of a cold like my body saying, who, WHO

Oh so we're *not* done with Northeast Monsoon yet? YESS.

You read the series and now you can role-play in this world.

Finally finished listening to THE BUFFALO HUNTER over a series of trail runs. Best soundtrack ever.

Managed to skip out on an extended family do yesterday and made the shirt. This will be my lunar new year and elder birthday shirt for the next ten years.

If you would like to get a taste of my writing (and some of my art). www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf... #Singlit #SFF #globalsff

Pre-order Luna Novella 2026! In This City, Where it rains by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social In an alternative Edinburgh, Maggie is haunted by ghosts that only appear in the rain - and it always rains in this city. ☔︎ www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella

Me, when I forget to blink while writing.

POV: looking at Past Me in horror and asking WHY I thought volunteering to chaperone the kids to the oceanarium on boxing day morning was a good idea then, or at any point.

I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤 Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready. We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.

Christmas morning micro triathlon: swim 1k, run 7k, polish a short story.

Happy Christmas to the older lady harvesting wild pandan at the quarry wetlands into a Gucci backpack, as nature intended.

Sticky's pick for the Christmas-New Year black hole.

Over-compensating for my lack of festive cheer (and for being the only Buddhist in-law, and even then tenuously so) by making a gigantic apple and walnut crumble steeped in Mauritian rum. Apple and walnut crumble is Christmas, no?

“As a writer…you are the freest person that ever was.” Don’t let genAI ever take away this freedom.

Check out my review of “The Villa Once Beloved” by Victor Manibo, a modern gothic horror story set in the Philippines about the terrible crimes people will commit to obtain and maintain wealth and power. diversityhorror.com/2025/12/20/t...

Sticky playing the piano and I at the sewing machine--because one needs new pyjama bottoms in chambray, obviously--like a scene out of Little Women.

If you want more historical tailoring, in a fantasy story, check out my magical short "Hems and Hexes" in 《Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite》from @starsandsabers.bsky.social ✨️🪡 What happens when a grumpy tailor has to share *only one* worktable with a haughty geomancer?

Came back to this! Historical tailoring bookmail is the best bookmail ✨️🪡 And a few metres of organic double gauze for toiles.

A house that wakes? 👀🏚

Compartmentalising via different names, signatures and email addresses for my personae, and then having to check multiple inboxes on web browser while on vacation.

The mud soup is outrageous here. 🦀

I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper (1/?)

I'm on vacation, and I was *supposed* to start planning this Newest Thing from my *detailed* notes. Except my notebook is still my desk at home. Let's start this thing from the ground up then.

‘Where do you get your ideas from’ that authors often dread focuses on this misunderstanding. Ideas are easy. Ideas spring from ideas. Ideas create a more complex ecosystem that prompts the evolution of…

I try not to read CLUB CONTANGO reviews (not hard, there aren't many) but a special nod to the guy who rated 5 stars with the caveat that the high functioning dystopia of CC is too plausible such that the plot was an afterthought 💀 Read CLUB CONTANGO this holiday, before it's current affairs!

Reading this now and it is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

KAP'S NEEDLE! 🔥🚀

It is DONE. Sticky and I have built our first proper model of wood glue, various fiddly bits and paper skins. This is an old street in Guangzhou. We're supposed to close and seal it as a book nook but we're leaving it open so Sticky can play with it. Might get the Jiangnan canal street model next.

Naming a short story by randomly opening "Otherwise Than Being", and putting a finger down, eyes closed.

On point on so many things, as always. But most of all, the world NEEDS that Dorian Grey Bollywood take.

Get it! 🚀🌕

Sticky and I haven't done much this week, but the youtiao stand is now installed in a new shophouse.

Here to remind you that 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️ is coming for your TBR. Cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords via @starsandsabers.bsky.social. And Zaqy pulling kopi, dishing kaya toast, and saying it as it is. (Until then read CLUB CONTANGO🚀🎲)

Thank you @thesuiway.bsky.social!! I was hooked by the opening when I first read it, can't wait to jump back in 💀🚀🔥

And here's one we made earlier! My short story, OPEN JAW (2,495w) is about identity, and the lives of other people. www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

Electronic Brain #1 is officially out today bookshop.org/a/197/978196...

Each time someone reviews Uncertain Sons, there's little moves in the books. There are like 7 people on reddit, no idea who they are, who talk about it. That moves the needle too. They say "is anyone talking about this, I like it," but they are the ones talking. Hope they find eachother/become buds.

My year-end current reads are chaos across genres. But two nonfic books I'm working through now are, "Phishing for Phools" (Akerlof and Shiller. Meant to read this forever) and "The Great Beanie Baby Bubble" by Zac Bissonnette, an interesting pairing on market manipulation and behavioural econs

That thing that the SF writers said to not do; let's make and monetise it. Here's CONTANGO, a short story I wrote about outcome prediction trading, for Dark Matter mag in June '23. (p.s: I'd love to reprint this story without an AI art cover. DM/email me) darkmattermagazine.shop/blogs/issue-...

Impulse purchase baguette is the best baguette. Sticky and I had it with egg curry and 25 cent market glut persimmons because Singapore girl dinner

Sticky and I did not spend much time on the model street today, but hey, I got the wiring right!

Started pounding a new batch of raw sambal and then added green chili because we have it, and now it resembles a mazavaroo, which should technically be fried, but we like our chili sauces raw.

The more bitter the durian (i.e. the better), the bigger the hive outbreak. I know this. And yet. 🦒🤒

ICYMI

Adding In This City, Where it Rains to the shelf, and that's all my longer works together, from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social , @lunapress.bsky.social and @tenebrouspress.bsky.social! Dark sci fi, weird nautical horror, Scottish folklore, and gothic horror...what will the next addition be? ✨️📚🖤

Where can I place a story reprint about betting on---and influencing--real human outcomes like CNN is about to enable people to do via Kalshi, and the "moral" of the story is this is BAD bad not good?