Happy 1-year-versary to Dark Crescent!! It's been such a joy to bring it to life with @lunapress.bsky.social and so glad it's still finding readers of Scottish folklore! Highlights: events like Cymera, seeing it in bookshops, doing cool podcasts & now it's a BFA finalist! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌙✨ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

a man who rides a horse is called a horseman

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www.change.org/p/stop-devel... they're trying to build a data center right where I live, please stop them!!! Sign and share if you have 20 seconds to spare

We have a stunning line-up for Cymera Event Horizon - Sat 6th June. Dan Collins Rachel Plummer Danielle Farrow reading the winning story from our short story competition Goldy-Looking Blanket EM Faulds MC for the evening is Pippa Goldschmidt www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

I'm out and about in June and July, come find me. For tickets and more details, head here dougjohnstone.com/events/ @orendabooks.bsky.social

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Love to get a rejection from a magazine I'd forgot I submitted to.

Art by Agnes Xantippa Boman Design and visuals by Esther Clayton Out May 29th! Pre-order here: www.extrateeth.co.uk/shop/issueel...

So beautiful!!! I got an actual jump scare when I turned the page and saw the figurine there on its shelf 😆😆😆😆😆😆

Bee's covers for my first three books were striking, memorable, and gave my nonfiction especially an identity and presence. I really appreciated her help, and her instincts when it comes to indie publishing are top-notch.

Tomorrow! I’ll be at GZF, providing freaky little story zines about a lovelorn Minotaur, a hermit crab that is too big, interdimensional cephalopods, cishet plagues, head transplants, retro alien invasions, the literal garden of Eden hidden down a cave in the Scottish Highlands, and rats rats rats!

We're so fucking back

I heard they’re modeling dobby’s dick and balls in the new show. they won’t show it but his junk has got physics and everything and it’s causing real problems for the vfx team because he jumps around a lot

And for those of you in Edinburgh we will be launching at @portybooks.bsky.social on the 5th of June! Ft readings from: Deborah Chu Rachel Ashenden @erisyoung.bsky.social Blessedly wine will be provided once again by Smith & Gertrude

I met PP at a fundraising event in 2014 and she was very chatty and fun, added me on Facebook....where she posted anti-Muslim screeds every other day. Islamophobia was her first love, the TERF train came later.

In just months, Zohran Mamdani has shown what politics looks like when leaders actually try governing for ordinary people instead of donors and cable news panels. Affordable housing, childcare, transit, workers’ dignity and immigrant protection are not “radical” ideas.

When you get your twelve pinned emails down to six and it feels like dragging yourself ashore after swimming the channel

A dangerous moment in the UK, where the #Palestinesolidarity movement and broader democratic rights are under sharp attack. www.counterfire.org/article/ban-...

Your new record-breaking group of 15 Scottish Green MSPs!

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

All you motherfuckers voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party get ready to have your faces et

While we're announcing things im very excited to finally be able to say my debut lesbian vampire novel HUNGER IN THE BLOOD is coming out with @torbooksuk.bsky.social next May!! HitB is a queer, dark, crunchy, gory novel that I hope you will enjoy!! www.thebookseller.com/rights/tor-u... now go vote!!

Get out and vote today bitches

If this film isn't about a eunuch working his way up some sort of social or maybe athletic hierarchy well I'll just be very disappointed

!!!YES!!! Very happy to be joining the Cool Kids Club and publishing a story in Extra Teeth!!🦷 I'm super proud of my nasty, faggy, creepy and I think maybe sensual????? contribution to this issue xxx

Man @lothianbuses.bsky.social why do ur USB ports never work 😭 sitting here for 10 minutes before I realized my phone is still dying

please read my insanely embarrassing piece in the NYT "It's Bad—Why I Revised My Thoughts Regarding Poo Poo" that I was paid $90000 to write

i can only hope that if I was a Bimbofied Husband i too would have a wife who loves & supports me & sucks on my comically enormous fake tits

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Hello friends. 👀 It's time for a ✨Tales & Feathers Kickstarter Campaign!!✨ It's all thanks to YOU, wonderful readers, that we've been able to publish our little magazine, and now we need your support to fund Year 5 and beyond. 💚 Sign up below to be notified the moment the campaign goes live!

To put it another way, are you okay if The New York Times only interviewed white people 80% of the time when they covered Black people? This is intentional and systematic. If you don't want trans people to suffer, the two lowest hanging fruits you can do right now is to quit Substack and NYT

www.autostraddle.com/7-new-trans-... this article by @nicanstett.bsky.social besides being an excellent reading list articulates my frustration with #transrightsreadathon; a collective unwillingness to define what we MEAN by a "trans book", and in what way the campaign is actually meant to

New pride flags just dropped

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

lighthousebookshop.com/events/arian... 🔥🌹🔥🌹🔥 queer poetry event at @lighthousebks.bsky.social for THE ROSE by Ariana Reines 16 April! 🌹🔥🌹🔥🌹

Hey, did you know we're doing a subscription drive right now? It's true! Subscribe now, and get access to the subscriber's corner on our shiny discord, stories and poems in your inbox on the regular, and the joy of supporting poetry and short fiction! store.smallwondersma...

Newsflash everything is political And if you can afford to say you don't write political, it means you're in the segment of the population society and politics cater to It's not a source of pride, but an indicator you can afford to remain oblivious because everything is in sync for you

Consider the Greenland Shark www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 💕💕💕

Pacing as Moral Choice I loved this article about where and how writers invest reader attention, and its implications to power dynamics! By Sabyasachi Roy at @authorspublish.com authorspublish.com/pacing-as-mo...

The failure of so many ppl (notably tech bros and not aspiring writers) to understand that "Being A Writer" can't be extricated from the actual fucking work of writing. Baffling.

Eating pasta salad in the bath to cope with fascism. Hbu?

"The number of ICE detainees in Kentucky jails has more than doubled, and almost three-fourths of them have no criminal record or pending charges, according to an analysis by the League of Women Voters of Kentucky." kentuckylantern.com/2026/03/16/m...

I loved my chat with queer feminist artist Ilana Halperin who shares a birthday with an Icelandic volcano. We spoke agates, geological time, elderly parents, boiling milk on sulphuric springs, lava bombs… I wrote a short piece for @thelistuk.bsky.social @fruitmarket.bsky.social shorturl.at/8JDol

#Writers, do you read fiction while working on a novel? On the advice of @catrionaward.bsky.social I've decided to try stopping reading novels/short fiction until I have a proper draft of the thing I'm working on. Do you do this and do you feel it makes a difference?

And it's the first day of the Queer Liberation Network Fundraising Auction today! Tons of signed books, calls with agents, manuscript critiques and more! Including the illustrated edition of Murderbot, hardcover Witch King & Queen Demon, mass market Raksura: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Come see me and @suchmayer.bsky.social TONIGHT in #Edinburgh @argonautbooks.bsky.social discussing BAD LANGUAGE - the politics power and radical potential of language!! 👄✊️

Morning all, please consider filling this in. I want my kids safe online but I'm against age verification generally and especially for VPNs. better to enforce against the companies creating an environment of harm, radicalisation and enshittification I would think, yes? www.gov.uk/government/c...