FFVII first came out approximately seven confederacies ago 🤷🏻‍♀️

oh delightful!!!

"I am 77 pages in to Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation and I am still in the intro. I should pick up a new book for my flight tomorrow." - me, a fool the new book: a 330 page work in translation with 81 pages of historical context before the text starts (& a 40-page bibliography at the end) T_T

so I picked up a copy of the translated fin de siecle queer Czech fantasy novel Manfred Macmillan at WorldCon, and... la plus ça change, huh?

yesssss I love this book, one of my all-time favorite scifis 👀👀👀 biker gangs! hot & Troubled ladies! labour activism turned deadly! immigrants getting jobs done!

...well I somehow completely missed this going up BUT LOOK! CREEPY MUSHROOM MANDRAKE STORY!! who doesn't love a little body horror on the first day of fall!!! :D

is it possible to have TOO much Restrained Summer Fun 🤔 anyway yes I now own an Extremely Tiny copy of Alan Turing's original essay on machine intelligence, citing Ada Lovelace. (because I made it, as one does) once one learns to make things into books truly the Sky becomes the Limit

so I had long decided what my Book present would be but, one cannot precisely just go out and Purchase One, so I have been waiting... and watching... ever vigilant... and I have WON 😱😍 look how pretty it is! how large & strong!! I'm gonna crush SO MANY books into good behaviour with this beauty 😈

😱 it is announced!!!!! 👸🧟🗡️🔥💀

just in time! I'll have three copies of each with me today, so if you're at #worldcon and like poetry (and flash!), come say hi!

soon... >:D

sneak preview~ 😱 getting set for WorldCon - who's gonna be in town next week? say hi if you are!

aaa I forgot to repost! but! I made some little books! these are the ones I was sewing at 4th Street and I'm in love, every book should be 4.25 inches tall, we can all just get bifocals it'll be FINE 😍

swimmy

love 2 squish a tiny book 😊

okay I'm proud of this one 😁

hello mountain 💙

family portrait: the four books bound at this year's @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social , ready to pack away for the journey home 💙

number four! this one's an exposed-spine Coptic, though, since I ran out of printed text blocks 😅 probably the last for now 😁

and that makes three! I'll have to get a family portrait later, the tiny ones are back in my room 😅

tiny book number two! pierced and sewn in panel one - these things knock out fast once you get the hang of it 😂

managed to get my first @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social tiny book bind done before midnight 😈

this was so much fun!!

prepping real flapjacks for 4th St Fantasy survival purposes - this time with raspberries!

making kits >:D at this point I have enough left for three more people, so think fast!

Hey, if you're at 4th Street on June 13th and you're not at the seminar, give a thought to @macey.bsky.social's introductory bookbinding class, starting at 10 AM! $15 for materials. Sign-up sheet here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Start automatically typing "-ai" at the end of your search queries. We're at magic incantation levels here.

many reasons to enjoy taking Monday morning meetings from home...

this is what public spaces are for

crowd chanting led by @jayapal.house.gov

hard to convey how crammed Seattle Center is right now - the park layout has a lot of roped off areas which leads to sparse photographs - but it is FULL

anyway new craft hobbies are extremely fun and good I think

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...I don't know whether to be bewildered or appalled. it's hard to imagine being MORE indie than these two anthologies. AND YET.

(it's SO GOOD 😍💀😭🔥)

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Sunrise above the fog in Slovenia.

⏳ LAST CHANCE! ⏳ Time is almost up—nominate for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award, Astounding Award, and the Special Hugo Award for Best Poem before it's too late! Deadline: March 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PDT Nominate now: buff.ly/3QcUTw6 #HugoAwards #SciFi #Fantasy

Anyway, in the spirit of Seattle Worldcon's reminder today that Worldcon members shouldn't forget about this year's SPECIAL POETRY HUGO, here are some of my 2024 poems that I'm kinda hoping you don't forget regardless of whether or not they get nominated:

oh gosh what is time - hugo noms close tomorrow!!! if you have space on your ballot for this year's special Poetry Hugo, please consider 'pockets full of stones' for nomination? this little poem means a lot to me, & I'm very proud of it ☺️ 🐋🖤💀🚀 www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pock...

book haul!! with recs from @jennlyons.bsky.social, an @byzantienne.bsky.social novella I completely failed to notice being announced, a fascinating-looking translation of a Romanian fantasy novel, and the most adorable tiny print copy of Le Guin's Carrier Bag essay 😁

this mug @chelseacounsell.bsky.social made still makes me happy every time I use it 🪿😁

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it's true! 🧙🏻‍♀️🌲🦴

An ephemeral moment in Scotland’s ancient Caledonian forest. #scotspine #highlands #naturephotography #landscapephotography

one time for UChicago Scav I wrote a sonnet in C that compiled and printed a haiku. in my accent, it read in full iambic pentameter. and rhymed. 💅🏻

We've updated our health policy to reflect our expected final version—unless significant changes in circumstances, public health directives, or laws arise before the convention. Please review it and plan accordingly to help minimize infection risks at the event. Details here: https://buff.ly/4haH5xI

1 like = 1 thing I love it is very sunny here, and it has been a week of the worst kind of 'surrounded by tech dudes' at work, as nearly all my women eng colleagues have quit. so let's do nice things instead!

Milky Way rising over Crater Lake, Oregon #landscape #photography #nature