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

Oh, to be cosy as a sleepy seal pup! (📸 by me 2009 at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, 200mm lens)

This is my new favourite bottom-dwelling carpet shark. Isn't nature grand.

Very happy with the blending on this one. It's the perfect partner to the other piece, though a bit of work to do still on the glow in the dark paint so will come back to that later. #art #spaceart #spacejellyfish

My kitten Nyx being super helpful with today's painting... #art #spaceart #spacejellyfish

Being off work with exhaustion is difficult for someone neurospicy who likes to be busy all the time. So I bought myself a bunch of acrylics. It turns out it is just as fun now as it was when I was a teenager, especially if you play with glow in the dark paint! #art #spaceart #spacejellyfish

HELLOOO! I appear to have a flurry of new followers! Welcome lovelies! Here you will find writing news and musings, reading recommendations, maybe some art, #momentsofbeauty and probably some cats. I'm hella queer and neurospicy. I love posts (or replies!) that teach me new things or make me think.

Ooh, I do love an ocean themed list! I've read most of these, but my sonar is pinging a few lovely books I've not come across yet... 🧜🏻‍♀️ www.scifinow.co.uk/books/gazing...

On the first day of Writermas my hard work gave to me: - Five recipes! - Three flash fictions - Two new novellas - Two short stories - and one piece of poetry! ✨🍓 Seven years in the making, the manuscript for my food themed genre collection 'Taste' is submitted! 🍭✨ #Writersky #Booksky

breaking wave — I keep teaching myself to surface #haiku #poetry

Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events. #Folklore #Booksky #Writersky

Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means: The second half of 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈 Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!

I finally felt able to write a bit today, and have just finished typing up all five recipes to go in 'Taste', my WIP food themed genre collection. Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on! #Booksky #Writersky

I got to the end of this and could barely contain my grief. This is so crisply, starkly perfect @mattkendrick.bsky.social milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...

I was once told that this book - Magic, Maps, and Mischief - written by an autistic person about the autistic experience, did nothing new. I didn't agree, and put it down to people judging worth differently. 1,600 sales later since October 24th, I'm glad people agree with me ❤️

Before she died, Alice Wong was kind enough to give me an interview for my book, Who Wants Normal? Here’s her wonderful advice to disabled women (from the Guardian extract): www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Ok @shonak.bsky.social I have now discovered the ancient language of Octopian (used by all space-faring octopuses) and have created a font. This is all your fault 😂🐙

Tentacle experiment. #watercolourart

Today's art is a teeny tiny Voyager 1. 6" canvas and acrylics. #spaceart

I'm off work and my brain is scrampled egg right now so can't get stuck into writing... So I have been doing a bit of art. It's messy and it's shiny and it's keeping me sane. Ish. Anyway here is my space octopus.

Walking home along the canal. #Momentsofbeauty

This time last week I was packing to leave @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. It was a strange con for me as I was deep in bereavement, but the support of so many wonderful friends and loved ones kept me going. Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.

This story out today by @worldanvil.bsky.social is incredibly beautiful and spoke to my grief when I needed it most this morning. www.dreamtheory.media/song-of-the-... #Writersky #Booksky

The cake was dressed and boxed on time and thoroughly taste tested, with thanks to my trusty helpers @liwella.bsky.social and @worldanvil.bsky.social! I await nervously to hear any feedback from the audience members who received a piece... #Amwritingrecipes #Foodfiction

I am at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social! I'm moderating this evening's panel on Food, Music and Costume (7pm) and have CAKE - the recipe for which is in my food genre story collection 'Taste', which I'm just putting the finishing touches on. Good audience question = CAKE!

This is the kind of stuff I like to explore in my writing. I am just putting the finishing touches on a collection of genre stories all centred around food. The way sharing it enriches our lives, the impact of food scarcity, the ritual use of food to celebrate or to mourn. #amwriting #foodfiction

It's been a very tough week, but I'm having a little pamper in the salon today to get ready for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and finally getting round to reading British Fantasy Award nominee @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social's Long Live Evil. 💜

Mmm, what a beautiful piece of food fiction! Utterly delicious prose.

'I am a mermaid' by Indigenous Australian painter Djakangu Yunupingu, a Yolngu elder based in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory #WomensArt

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@jeremycshipp.bsky.social if you're on the look out for turtles, you may like this post as much as I did... (I think the algorithm is just showing me all your animal seeking posts now 😂)

I bought a copy of Futility after hearing @nuzo.bsky.social read from it at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on Tuesday. It is... passionate, and hilarious, with just the right amount of extreme female rage. Well worth picking up!

I do love a good bit of inventive cooking. #Writersky #Amwriting