Casserole (cat, idiot) notices that the door to Outside is open. Gallops out. Does a full Tokyo drift 180 on the ice. Gallops back in.

Setting sail (sitting at my desk) again this day to hunt the white whale (write 5000 words.)

Halflings are basically bipedal hamsters, right? 🐹 Store excess food in their cheeks. 🐹 Need to gnaw to control their endlessly growing teeth. 🐹 Eat their babies if they got too stressed.

Boy, I tell ya. #pixelart

Whoever decided to advertise the new Lorwyn Magic the Gathering set with a Labyrinth-esque muppet music video: Good call.

It is wonderful to be back at my desk after the holiday.

I am going to be part of the SPFBO judging panel for the Fantasy Hive this year. If your book does not make it through to the semi-finals, it is probably because of me. Please direct all wrath appropriately.

He had to. Ptolemy V was collecting Tyranids.

Ah oysters, the pistachios of the sea.

Ah pistachios, the oysters of the tree.

10 hours left to enter #spfbo.

This image may look like I'm suggesting that this coming year is going to be better. More correctly, I'm suggesting that I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.

To celebrate Tolkiens birthday, here’s one of my LOTR crushes. It’s what JRR would have wanted. #ivolunteerasentwife #monsterromance #lordoftherings #tolkien #booksky #happybirthdaytolkien

Still blinking as I emerge into the dazzling light of the new year's dawn, but I'm hopeful that things are going to be good this year...

Can your book join the #SPFBO champions? Entry to the 11th annual contest opens tomorrow! It's free... 🙂

A special thank you to Reedsy, whose adverts have been so prolific and annoying that I am now paying for YouTube Premium just to avoid ever hearing another one.

Happy New Year! It's the first day of a new year, & at the Hive that means one thing - looking forward to all the new reads we can expect in the year ahead! So gird your TBRs, we've rounded up our contributors to bring you a huge list of titles to look out for in 2026. More: tinyurl.com/bdd4mzw2

As I'm liable to fall asleep before the day's end (because I'm old) I shall say it now: Happy New Year!

In discussing the environmentalist/fisher king aspects of the Lord of the Rings, I'm drawn back to the destruction of the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom as being supremely symbolic. The world itself destroying the shackle a tyrant tried to set upon it.

My child sent me this, unprompted, and I feel weirdly seen?

Finally got Glamdring mounted on the wall. Featuring bonus Frodo.

At some point in the present-buying process, my wife decided that she was going to sacrifice her own wellbeing and make me even more insufferable. Gifts include: a series of essays on the history of food, a sourdough starter, and a lyre.

If you or a loved one received a Kindle or eReader this holiday season, please make the sensible choice and load it up immediately with the r/fantasy yearly megasale. megasale.yrliu.com

Merry seasons whatever, everyone.

This would fix me, I think...

Nerdy monsters meeting up to play Humans and Houses. Full moon? Daylight savings? Low tide? Scheduling nightmare.

Werewolf that can be paralysed in terror by saying the word "bath" regardless of what form they're in

Is blushing at a vampire equivalent to flashing a bit of extra skin to a human?

Savage Dominion is the perfect Christmas present for everyone. It has a himbo hero, and a lizard wizard in a blizard. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

I was not the most popular member of my 90s girl group, but I was the most honest about my appearance.

Buy my Kobold. Kristmas kobold gift. Very good. www.amazon.com/Drop-Hat-Hum...

If you're ever under attack by were-deer you can just flash you high-beams at them and they freeze in place.

Ever hear about the warlock who summoned wings of demon blood, only for the purifying light of the sun to burn them away, plunging him to his death? Ichorous.

Desperately trying to shove your arm into a werewolf's mouth so you don't ever have to answer an email again.

Chuck E Cheese animatronics repaired on the cheap by inserting a slip of paper with a fragment of God's name into their creepy robot heads.

Good morning! This week im reading THE new Romantasy publishing has decided is the hot new thing: Alchemised. Getting a weird sense of deja vu from it, making me wonder if I read the fanfiction it's based on back in the day, or maybe it's just the familiarity of the style? Regardless, solid book.

Urban fantasy is great, because instead of killing the villain with a magic sword you can 100% slay a dragon with a Toyota.

It is launch day, my dudes! More sapphic romance, cosmic horrors, informational terrorists (aka freelance librarians), and alien battle arenas! Get it HERE: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3JBJMLN #litrpg #lgbt #booksky

Gnomes are essentially energy drinks for vampires. Fast, easy, lots of weird chemicals inside that you wouldn't really choose to drink but, oh well.

Snow golems screaming from the moment that they're animated as their every part is perpetually melting.

Vampire makeup YouTuber who is invisible to the camera until they layer on the foundation.

Werewolves seem an odd choice for erotica to focus on, given that you can't use the word "bone" around them without causing immense confusion.

Do you think that somewhere out in the multiverse, there is a place where printers work with regularity?

Talked myself into being excited about Starfleet Academy. Will the Doctor fail Jay-Deng for refusing to dissect a Tribble in AP Biology? Will Sam be called out for cheating in her astrophysics exam after uploading the whole database to her holo-matrix? Will Caleb pledge at Alpha (Quadrant) House?

Have you picked up a copy of CALYPSO by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social yet? ✨ Experience the Hugo and BSFA award-nominated, truly unforgettable lyrical eco-fiction masterpiece, now out in paperback! Order now: https://tinyurl.com/mrx2tdxx

Good morning! This weekend, I'm reading Welcome to Neverbury by Chris Lynch. Too early to have any strong opinions yet.