"I come to praise Starmer, not to bury him."

Perfect Traitors series. Perfect ending. So happy. You can cancel it now, it won't be topped 🤣

I want to talk about adverbs. Or more specifically, the writing advice that says 'Using adverbs is AGAINST THE RULES and means you're a bad writer.' It's not and it doesn't. It's an oversimplification. Let's talk sense. 1/

Your annual reminder that if you're watching Muppets Christmas Carol you can now get the UNEDITED version with the best fucking song that was only released in the UK on VHS for one year on Disney+ by going into extras 😇

May someone *forever* challenge Kathleen Stock’s right to be in any bathroom.

God in heaven. They've moved on to Any Dream Will Fucking Do. Tories I could deal with. Right wing evangelicals even. But Andrew Lloyd Webber fans?

Can clearly hear the party of drunken twenty-somethings next door singing Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat at 00.45. They know ALL the words. I have double locked the front door. 👀

Duffer Brothers, Benioff & Weiss, Payne & McKay - I'm fascinated by the willingness of studios to hand incredibly expensive TV shows to pairs of men with zero showrunning experience. Meanwhile I can think of a tonne of great, diverse, experienced showrunners who can't get a project off the ground.

Any trans people struggling with the news from Girl Guides and Women’s Institute… Can I send you a @polari.press book to lift your spirits? DM me and I’ll see what I can do. 💜

This is genuinely massive, like earth-shakingly big in terms of pushing back the anti-trans exclusion drive. The anti-trans movement have lost a case they didn't expect to lose and really couldn't afford to. I can't imagine them not appealing (near infinite money) but now the precedent exists.

My beloved em-dashes have a reprieve. Now when we're checking for AI slop we can just keep an eye out for awkward product placement.

Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

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Must try harder.

Go on then, @profanity.accountant How disappointed will I be?

Not a certain author headlining a lit fest in Dubai. Because obviously she really needs the exposure at this point in her career. 🙄

Heyo! If you have already sub'd to Fantabulosa! and have not hears back, we are working on slush. Its just taking us a bit longer than planned to get our magazine slush process up and running on the new magazine with the new software. Thank you for bearing with us! 💙

Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy! (Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!) Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙‍♂️🚀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👽🔮 6000 word limit $0.08/word USD More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions

I love Grant Morrison

Replies have a GREAT list of recommendations that I *imagine* people following me might be interested in and/or be able to contribute to.

part 1 of please please don't ask me that of analysing themes of disability and disabled identity in gregory house in our very own hate crimes MD house md essay! it's here! it's long! it's literally just one episode! wuh-oh! johannestevans.co.uk/2025/11/20/g...

Twink obliteration - pairs brilliantly with coffee, a crisp sauvignon blanc, or schadenfreude.

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THIS SATURDAY. The Cymera Writers' Conference is a fucking brilliant event, and the writer folks amongst you should absolutely consider going, even if it's not to listen to Chris & Trip. ...although you SHOULD listen to Chris & Trip. Cause they're great. 💙

Ok, someone gimme a post-collapse coming-of-age story about a young train nerd who realises his time has come. Love interest/rival works on a canal.

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

There's a live action omegaverse Thai BL series. Oh lord. 🤣🤣🤣

First: queer books. Next: 100 YEARS OF QUEER HEGEMONY!

And yet the current government seems to see economic salvation lies in LLM-based so-called AI (statistical best-guess vending machines) whose main selling point is enabling companies to do away with the entry level posts where employees used to learn how a business works and the skills to progress.

fellas is it maximum alpha to be crammed into a wooden horse with fifty other sweaty guys at 1.25x speed

Ooh, @trip.bsky.social and I will be talking to Cymera's Writers' Conference about Bona Books and accidentally becoming award-nominated publishers. We're aiming for thoughtful reflection and insight. Actual contents may vary.

It me! (And @chrismccartney.bsky.social) Tune in to hear us talk about making queer books! 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Walking Circulatory System Day to all who celebrate!

In addition, it is extremely libertarian to confuse values for rules.

What's that? I'm sitting down with a cup of tea, a story draft and a stack of feedback I received at @milfordsff.bsky.social last year? 🥰 (Yes, slow - I blame running a small press, lol.)

A MARKET OF DREAMS AND DESTINY is getting a LIMITED EDITION *beautifully* blinged-out HARDCOVER print run! Only 1000 will be sold! £35 PreOrders LIVE So if queer boys fighting systemic oppression with fey magic and contractual loopholes is your thing, check out... litpinsandco.com/products/a-m...

Very late to the party on I Saw the TV Glow, but... WOW. I'm having emotions.

“Look on my werks, ye bitches, and DESPAIR!” —Aurora Thunder, at the height of her successful debut at the Darkness and Light Ball …Aurora swept down the catwalk like an oncoming storm, trains of filmy black fabric trailing her like thunderheads. Facet gasped… www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

Just hit 40 pre-launch followers, which is almost twice as many as my last campaign! 😍 Can we hit 50? If you like queer, dark fantasy with South East Asian influences about overthrowing tyrants, this book is for you! www.kickstarter.com/projects/rdp...

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

The soundtrack throughout Celebrity Traitors was impeccable, but a massive shout-out to the use of John Murphy's Adagio in D Minor at the end there. 👌

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

A reminder: AI is a bad translator--it will give you in a pinch the meaning (if it doesn't get hopelessly confused) , but i will not create something that reads like a book. That's why we have professionals. (And everyone who's reread ai translations knows that it's faster going to rewrite them)

Putting together a list of every cyberpunk book ever written by Trans+ person. Trad or self. If you’ve got ‘em, drop em’ below. To kick things off, Aubrey Wood’s modern masterpiece Bang Bang Bodhisattva.

Well. That's going to COMPLETELY change how I watch Harvey from now on.

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A thorough and intellectually robust exploration of the epistemology and sociology underlying the Trans Panic in Britain. Every ally of trans rights should read this and try to internalize it. Doing so will make your arguments against transphobes far more convincing.