This is Breadan. I made him in the airport at 6am. In case you’re wondering, I’m DEFINITELY an adult… 😅🫣

All dressed up for tonight’s @worldanvil.com awards ceremony! Category is: Manic Pixie Picnic Parade! 🙌🥂✨

I managed to get Mulan into my monthly Editorial #ΚeepingItHighbrow 😂💪

Not saying it’s been a long day… But I did just scream “WITNESS ME BLOODBAG” to my step counter as I climbed 4 flights of stairs to my house… 😅🫠

I am on the adjudication panel for this award, and the shortlist is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18364: WORLDBUILDING. How much of your world do you know? How do you process that knowledge? Apply the same rule to your characters. Decide how far their world extends, and help the reader experience it through your protagonist's senses.

I slept for 13.5 hours today and work up at 4pm. I am doing jet lag wrong 🫠

Very proud to have been accepted as a full member of SFWA! 😱🥳 Thanks for letting me join your awesomeness, @sfwa.bsky.social! 🥰

I survived @seattlein2025.org Worldcon! 🥳Now I just need to survive the 22h journey home 🫠  (But seriously, it was a fabulous time - thank you to all the volunteers who made it happen!) 🙌✨💐🥂

It’s day 5 of WorldCon Seattle… and our WA Meetup is at 1:30pm of the 4th Floor meet up terrace! Come join us and pick up one of these babies! 🙌✨🥳🥰

@emmiechristie33.bsky.social lovely to meet you at the WorldCon mixer today! 🙌✨🥰🥳

@stephanieweippert.bsky.social lovely to meet you at WorldCon today! 🙌✨🥰

@isopodlegs.bsky.social lovely to meet you at WorldCon!! 👋🥰

@illustratedpage.bsky.social it was wonderful to meet you at the mixer today! 🙌✨🥰🥳

WorldCon @seattlein2025.org is amazing wonderful inspirational <slightly terrifying> ...and also I HAVE NOT SLEPT IN FOUR DAYS! 😱🫠 Business as usual, then... 😅

Why do I always end up talking about licking? 😅🫣🫠✨

Very excited that my piece “Song of the Loom” will be published by @dreamtheorymedia.bsky.social ! 🙌✨ A hero’s daughter struggles to navigate grief, and her own becoming, as she says goodbye over three days of magical mourning

A.K.A. will I beat jet lag in 2 days and be marginally functional?! 👀😅 Come find out! 🙌✨🔥

Autocorrect changed “Lamia Demons” to LLAMA DEMONS and that’s clearly my next short story 👀

I finally made myself a website! www.janetforbes.com is a thing! 🥳🤩

Herding cats? More like "what cats heard"... Janet (and adorable guest) talk about the CIA's attempt to use feline spies to gather intelligence. It went... poorly. 😆 #worldbuildinginspo

Happy Caturday bleps for all who celebrate!🙌 🥰

📣 Calling all SFF writers... We're now OPEN for submissions of 🌟 Short fiction 🌟 Flash fiction 🌟 Poetry for Augur Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3, AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5! Got a sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, slipstream, or a slice of life story that feels like a warm hug? We want it! 🐉🧚

So excited to announce my first pro-short story sale with @bonabooks.bsky.social! “Ask Medusa What Vengeance Cost” is a Sapphic Rome-Punk, Gladiatorial, 2nd World Extravaganza of Battle, Justice and Vengeance!! 💪 ⚔️🙌 LET’S DO THIS!!! 🙌✨🌈💪🧱

CHICKEN PANIC!😱 🐓 Google Translate… please never change 🙏🙌✨😅🤣

I MADE THESE TODAY! (There is another secret one too 😅)

I'll be at Seattle WorldCon (@seattlein2025.org) - if you'll be there too, come say hello! 🖖😊 This is where my panels/events etc will be... and there's also a special @worldanvil.com meetup where you can meet other creative beans! 🥰 #SeattleWorldcon2025

Could this be the perfect periodic table? 👀 And should we add “Lickability” to the @worldanvil.com materials template?! 👅 😜

Not sure I’ve ever shared this here! 😅 A little snapshot from a previous life 🥰

Dear FBI agent, I apologise for today's search history trauma, but I needed it for a book 😅😭 Sincerely, -- a f*cked up fantasy writer

ICYMI on Spotlight Indie, @worldanvil.bsky.social and @frasierarmitage.bsky.social roll for insight. Who's the secret table leg chewer? Who's got more to-be-written stories? Why are there so many sausages? tinyurl.com/4zdkm4d6

Finally signed up for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and I'm SO EXCITED! Now I'm faced with the panellists "tell us what you can talk about form" and I'm like... **stuff**?

Castles are awesome! So they're worth doing RIGHT. Janet breaks down a checklist with 5 simple steps to worldbuilding a castle that makes strategic sense... and is packed with storytelling possibilities! ➡️ WATCH NOW: youtu.be/jY_ulxVZQoQ

With Summer Camp in full swing, I thought I'd share this list of wonderful World Anvil community streamers again! Writing is more fun with friends 🧡 #Worldbuilding #CoworkSky Info for being added to the pack in the replies ➡️ go.bsky.app/6iiVqyk

I did an interview about worldbuilding, teapot slayers and what happens when you put Jane Austen in space! 😅😂 Frasier is a delight and hopefully it’s helpful too! 🥰🥳✨

Bring setting, character and plot together! 🙌🌍✨ That’s what my seminar today was about ❤️🥰

This was SO SO much fun - a glorious mix of worldbuilding advice and joyful banter of the best kind (Frasier is awesome!) 🤩

My husband understands 🥰😅☺️

Chekov’s Potato: an intriguing item mentioned in act 1, but never again because the writer has forgotten about it 🤦‍♀️

I had to carry my trans friend’s coffin and this is why we need Pride 🌈 #Pride2025

👀 Do you know what this could be?! I am newly obsessed with the sword from ⚔️ The Stabbacus, this hilarious fantasy sword meme. Let me know if you have ANY ideas about these weird bead things! 🙌🫶

I was accepted onto @maryrobinettekowal.com’s short story cohort! 😱🙌🥳 Today’s the first day (7pm-5am my time) and I am equal parts excited, terrified and sleepy.. 😅

The time is NOW, people! The Kickstarter is LIVE! Time to get WRATHy. 👿 And please spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

🙌✨ My first strapatsada! Sunday breakfast, sorted ☺️

Do I know anyone going to @cymerafestival.co.uk? Toying with the idea of maybe booking last min flights 👉👈

Stuck on a writing project? Work on a 2nd project and suddenly the damn ideas for Project 1 won't stop flowing... 😅😤 #WritingAdvice #MurphysLaw

Unaltered photo of tonight’s sky… 👀🙌✨🫶🌈

Beef stew with zucchini and eggplant, with lots of rosemary, cinnamon and clove 🥰😍 Doesn’t look fancy but it tastes AMAZING 🫶 Proud of this one ☺️

Manic-level coffee status - achieved ☕️ ✅

✅ Important things to include in your worldbuilding… 🙌 Plateaus - the highest form of flattery 👀