It's finished! I hope this brings you all some #queerjoy this morning.

Who's in the mood for some queer joy?! 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈 Watch this space later, I'll post the finished piece in a reply when it's done. #art #queerart #queerjoy

This is a KAPOW-punch of a story exploring the deep well of frustration which comes from simple accommodations not being met. A well deserved nomination! #Amreading #Superhero

This void was so perfect I had to paint them immediately. #art #catart

Another day of #dragon painting. As at last night there were 25 shiny dragons, and another 41 to go. But they are getting smaller! I hope to finish today. #art #fantasyart

The Dragoning has begun! This video shows over two hours of dragon painting, and there are still over 40 dragons to go... #art #fantasyart

Work in progress - a logarithmic spiral of dragons. It's dragons all the way down! So many dragons! 🐉🐉🐉 #art #fantasyart

This is the kind of news I'm here for today: "It shouldn't be allowed to ride on the coat tails of the finest pudding in the world" - a searing indictment in this two part piece on the Sticky Toffee Pudding Pizza. I love you @stpguy3.bsky.social,you are my new hero. Journalism at its finest.

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I stg if you want to see books like this in your local bookshop, the absolute best way to make it happen is to buy the fuck out of them when they're indie, because publishers only sign what they think will sell and won't take chances without data. Back this project. Provide that data!

The kickstarter for The Fall of the House of Valenziaga has dropped! If you know @trip.bsky.social you know this is going to be ✨fabulous✨ Go take a peek. Go! Go now! #Booksky #Writersky #Amreading www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

This makes me so happy.

Sighing, she retrieves the milkshakes from her yard. Another day, another disappointing haul. A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks. She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come on in."

The worst fruit is indubitably the blackcurrant. Tiny little balls of evil just designed to dry the inside of your mouth instead of being all juicy as advertised.

Me trying to get back to sleep at 3am.

I love the things I find randomly on Bluesky. This is an excellent article on the categorisation and taxonomy of dragons (and other fantastical beings) from @typebarmagazine.bsky.social

This is utterly fascinating. I got stuck around 1300.

Everybody loves a rewilding project!

I am definitely here for poly disaster mages. Bring it!

We're marking World Pangolin Day by remembering that Roman soldiers would routinely dress as pangolins before going into battle.

A beautiful and timely piece of #foodfiction from @fadingbetty.bsky.social ☕️

The bouba-kiki effect is one of my favourite weird lil things about the world.

Don't look now @bsfa.bsky.social members, but you only have a couple more hours to get voting for the shortlist in the BSFA Awards! There are some amazing works in the longlist - make sure you take a look before the chance slips by.

It's official - my debut art exhibition will be at this year's @easterconuk.bsky.social 🥳 Come and see fun UV paintings, space octopuses and adorable robots. I will also be selling some jewellery and clay pieces. #eastercon #art #spaceart #wirewrap

Important thread on hot moths.

I had a wonderful and highly productive day's writing retreat yesterday with @writershq.bsky.social - thank you to @stillsquirrel.bsky.social for a fabulous day, and for my stars! 🤩

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

The reason! Rawr. #fantasyart

I'm studying old images of Godzilla (for reasons) and found this gem of a film I didn't know about - Invasion of Astro-Monster! Godzilla and Rodan are captured by flying saucers from Planet X, and taken back there to battle King Ghidorah (a three headed dragon) (1965) Now to find a copy...

This has been a real labour of love. Captain Henrik Krakenson, space octopus! #SpaceArt #Octopus 🐙🚀

I love this book soooo much! And it's @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social's birthday today so a good time to share the joy and buy yourself a copy.

Helpful Nyx so helpful with my painting!

What a magnificent weekend cooking and eating my way around #Bruges! Stunning architecture, culture and ambience interspersed with beer tasting and waffle and praline making. I am replete.

A bit of tentacle painting this morning. 🐙 #SpaceArt #Octopus

Thank you @janetanderson.bsky.social and #SeedTalks for an entertaining and inspiring mermaid lecture this evening. There is always something new to learn! 🧜🏻‍♀️

Many of you know and love Helena, a tireless convention volunteer, St John's volunteer and all round superb human being. Her partner of more than 20 years and father of their two boys passed away unexpectedly just before Christmas. Please help in any way you can - even just reposting. Thank you.

Ooh, look what arrived! I'm very excited about this one @catamaroon.bsky.social! Hopefully see you at @srfantasyclub.bsky.social next week for your squiggle.

This whole issue is deeply ironic to me, because I couldn't work out how to use em dashes until people started defending their use against accusations of AI abuse. And I love them! Now I use them all the time. To be clear, my writing is 100% by me—no AI needed. #Amwriting

More UV space octopus art today! #spaceart #tentacles

It's very rare you get to read something so astonishingly beautiful. I'm in tears. Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social 💙

Let's start 2026 with as much creative freedom as possible. #Amwriting #Writersky

I love this time of year, when @runalongwomble.bsky.social tries to cut down my TBR instead of adding to it for once! Maybe next year I will read more books than I purchase... 🧐🤩🤣 #amreading

This is my kind of nerdery - absolute attention to detail. And given the number of people who will now be watching both intently to make their own comparisons, possibly the best Rickroll of all time, where you know it's happening but you feel compelled to do it anyway. Bravo. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

And yet, there is more beauty to be found not five minutes from my house. 🍄‍🟫 #momentofbeauty

I spent Christmas on the Jurassic coast, and had a wonderful hike on Boxing Day. There were still a lot of funghi to be found, so please enjoy each tiny #momentofbeauty 🍄🍄‍🟫

On the 2nd day of Christmas, the Peppermint Man crawls through the labyrinth of tinsel-lined cardboard boxes he's worked on the past month. He can't remember what's at the end of the labyrinth but he shudders when his mind brushes the thought. He fights the urge to chew through the cardboard walls.

Season's greetings from my favourite library - the one in my mum's house 🥰📚🎄💝✨

I've just finished Cage of Stars by @frasierarmitage.bsky.social - what a fantastic novel, huge in scope but still feels like an intimate journey. Highly recommend.

Journal entry 314. We have taken respite on the gas giant Arisia. I float in an atmosphere filled with charged particulates, basking in the glow of Arisia's three suns. My chromatophores soak up the light, and my skin ripples with gold and magenta and origin-coral orange. I am at peace here.

My second outing to Bridge Command, acting as First Officer and piloting the shuttle. We absolutely did not blow up the UCS Havock, not even a little bit, honest. #BridgeCommand