My copy of @70sscifiart.bsky.social ‘s “Worlds beyond time” arrived. Beautifully put together, it’s full of classic covers and illustrations.

#birds An Australian Pelican, Little Black Cormorant and Eurasian Coot

Dear algorithm, please connect us with readers: 📚 Whose idea of the “perfect day” consists of visiting their indie bookshop. 📚 Who try to shop small whenever they can. 📚 Who love audiobooks. 📚 Interested in Digital Rights Management. Oh, and people who are looking to divest from Amazon/Audible 😏

Periodic reminder I have books. You can buy them. Still the only nonfiction book on love, sex, gender, H. P. Lovecraft, and the Mythos he helped create. www.amazon.com/dp/1614980888/

Age yourself with gaming

7) Michael Moorcock deserves a statue. Dude is still alive and writing. Whichever town he's adopted should build a black sword about thirty feet high engraved with runes that casts a shadow like an enormous sundial counting down to the end of days.

I may have a new favourite horror from @tkingfisher.com . Up there with The twisted ones at least. Reminds me of that “Alone in the bush - panic for no reason” feeling IYKWIM.

🧵Out Now! Tiny Moments of Joy: Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand It's officially live! Today's the launch day for Tiny Moments of Joy and we couldn't be happier to share the news with you. You can get your copy here: www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments... (1)

Unbothered moisturised in its lane. (I’m guessing it’s an Eastern long-necked turtle)

The Darter is a local, but it’s only the second time I’ve seen a heron around here.

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

A spooky fun scifi read by @byzantienne.bsky.social

⚔️Enjoy this pic-heavy update featuring our advance copies of the new issues: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... Pre-Order them here: new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... 📚

For October I decided to draw one panel of a #comic per day. Here’s what I have so far.

Welcome to Bluesky, new users! I'm Jon, Bluesky's third most famous squirrel trainer. I have trained over five squirrels. Everyone here knows me and I'm very cool

Here is my cursed ogre zine: Gormand's Larder Grab the digital copy here: evlyn.itch.io/gormand-larder #TTRPG

Periodic reminder that I have books you can buy. Still the only nonfiction book on love, sex, gender, Lovecraft, & the Cthulhu Mythos. www.amazon.com/dp/1614980888/

I used to work a place that had a wearhouse with lights that worked off of movement sensors. To be clear. You couldn't turn the lights on or off. They came on when they sensed movement and went off when movement stopped...

Looking southwest from Mt Stranger Canberra. Suburbs are 200m behind me

3rd Voice Small Press Expo Table J-12 This Weekend www.smallpressexpo.com

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Today’s mail. Two new (Kudos @zackdavisson.com and @richardkadrey.bsky.social) and an old friend.

Film critic David Stratton has died David Stratton, the Australian film critic and long time host of At the Movies opposite Margaret Pomeranz has died at the age of 85, the ABC has reported. RIP 5 Stars

Is anyone hiring for writing or illustration or comics or game show hosting or game show contestanting or reaching something off a high shelf (5'9" by the way)? I'm so excruciatingly available for work ✨I'm so good at doing jobs please hire me to do a job kendrawcandraw.com

A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

Hey authors and publishers, if you are producing work that uses no AI whatsoever, you should promote that! I hate AI with the power of a million suns, so even if it's the most boring thing in the world, I'll boost your Master & Commander fanfic or w/e to my ~20 followers to the best of my ability 🫡

6 days to go: we're 40% funded! Please keep reposting and back the campaign if you can! 💚 We won't be able to keep doing this unless we get 100% funded. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

do people post comics here... anywho! a really old one! Dragon Whiskers (2019)

COMICS ABOUT KILLING PEOPLE! 130 pgs, 19 stories, FREE to read on GLOBALCOMIX #comics #globalcomix #comicsky tinyurl.com/yw46jut6 Reposts are appreciated😌 A collection of some of my short stories, with almost 30 pages of brand new material! It's about comics and how great it is to read them!

The new Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel arrived in Australia 📖😍 @silviamg.bsky.social

Today the nationwide "youth radio" is counting down a publicly-voted list of Top 100 Aussie songs, so my stereo is pumping. In honour of that: Australians we have published! 1. "Nice Safe Emotions" @joanneanderton.bsky.social - yes, it's about Murderbot. Available to subscribers.

"We have just folded space from Legoland. Many playsets in Legoland. New playsets. Better than those at Playmobil."

The other day I drew a subway-style map for The Hobbit, and it was very well received. Some of you asked if I could do one for LoTR, so I have! Forgive the eel watermark; I'm working on making these something you can buy, if you like.

This week, we look at Princess with a Cursed Sword and see why it is consistently in the top 10 of Solo RPGs on Itch. We are also joined by the game’s designer @cyborgurl.bsky.social, who shares her motivations for creating Princess, other games she has made and what she has in the hopper!

Time for a #writingcraft thread! Let’s talk about analeptic passages in present tense narrative. This is a very, very common issue. I’m confident it’s come up in 100% of present-tense manuscripts I’ve edited.

THE BEWITCHING is out today. A tale of supernatural suspense across time, from Mexico in 1908 to Massachusetts in the 1990s. "In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror.”—Tananarive Due www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...

#reading is #witchcraft

The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

It's #PortfolioDay and though I am a self-employed cartoonist I'm not actually looking for work, but please go read my graphic novel memoir about my month in a mental hospital! It's just $5. www.patreon.com/posts/71578543

Meditation of the day: Has Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein succeeded or failed?

Every Junji Ito anime adaptation showcases how comics aren't some throwaway stepping stone to animation and cinema, and that we should stop treating them as such. Comics, like prose novels, are their own medium that can convey things animation and video cannot.

16 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So:

👁️👄👁️Insanity alert 👁️👄👁️ "The Comic that makes you go Insane if you read the Ending: remastered" #comics #lovecraft

If you like murderbot, read this! Nhi would like to be left alone to read her books and cultivate. Sadly she has to deal with people--even worse, said people are her peers and *someone* will have to take charge before everyone get themselves killed. Nhi: I don't want to but I've got this

I was looking forward to it anyway, but the 3 month delayed Australian release of @taylor-robin.bsky.social ‘s Hunger’s bite has only sharpened my appetite

New comic magic from @badmachinery.com