Was NOT expecting a lovely nostalgia wave in the art show, but then Fangorn brought two original Redwall cover paintings. I love #EasterCon 💙

No! For proof denies belief. ... I'll get my coat.

"Whereas being *wrong* about Iraq taught me, a centrist, intellectual humility and encouraged me to think critically about my natural assumpt--" Just kidding. Lol, no.

A brief but intense #EasterCon schedule this year! Will otherwise be findable in the bar, probably.

Building an anthology is so deeply satisfying. Like improvising a jigsaw puzzle using a beautiful selection of crowdsourced pieces. Connections suggest themselves, a structure forms, stories suddenly evolve in new contexts...

The Appropriation of Greek Culture Panel: @darthj.uno @chrismccartney.bsky.social @julietemckenna.bsky.social The Folklore as Resistance Panel: @rozc.bsky.social (mod) @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @thecallya.bsky.social Can't wait to meet you all!

I am particularly looking forward to my panel on how Greek culture and mythology keeps being appropriated by the West for profit, alongside @julietemckenna.bsky.social and @chrismccartney.bsky.social; mad props to @sophiamweaves.bsky.social for having the cojones to even suggest the topic!

Ah yes, one of the best bits of producing an anthology has arrived - the part where I get to send all our brilliant queer authors their well-earned money 🥰

Rules to curb trans people's rights to participate in anything opens up everyone's manner, clothing, physical appearance to intrusive scrutiny and potential challenge. A worked example. History also shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. This is not a 'them' issue.

"The IOC already tried mandatory sex testing. For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did was destroy the careers & lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had."

Now now. I think you'll find you're BOTH fabulous.

Come Onnnnnn, mama wants a fancy audiobook.

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I'd say, The Godfather, as I remember being utterly bemused by the extended subplot re Sonny's giant horse dick, and his mistress with the capacious vagina. But I suspect that was less about me being 13, and more about it being really really *bad*.

I'd like to dedicate this post to everyone who said there was no point in fighting this. And to point out most of the value in AI companies is derived from their past scraping and in a just world, we'd be looking at billions in compensation.

The death stare that I got from Lyam for this. 😅

Which James Bond film will never feel dated? Casino Royale - because it's Eva Green content.

Wait wait WAIT-

The Expanse: We'll explore a nuanced portrait of Belters as an oppressed and exploited minority, subject to factionalism and extremism, trying to avoid the boot of colonial powers. Firefly: Our heroes are plucky Confederate soldiers!

Can't argue with that.

QTP with 10 media to get to know you! 🩷 The Big Sleep 🩷 The Princess Bride 🩷 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 🩷 Babylon 5 🩷 Doctor Who (partic. Moffat era) 🩷 Lolita (yeah, 🚩I know) 🩷 The World According to Garp 🩷 The Wasteland 🩷 Promenade (Divine Comedy album) 🩷 The Inheritance (Matthew López)

Rewatched Manhunter (1986) for the first time in a decade. Was pleased to discover that one of my favourite scenes in cinema is *still* one of my favourite scenes in cinema ("Doggy doesn't have a collar..."). More importantly though...

I'm teaching Louis XIV and Versailles soon, and I will make very clear to students how relevant early modern European court culture is.

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

OMG!!! Episodes 1 and 3 of The Daleks’ Master Plan have been found!!! www.bbc.com/news/article...

A week in a RESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, surrounded by fellow sf writers, with nothing to distract you from your WIP. Bliss. I'd be going if I wasn't moving house, but there are still a few spaces left! @milfordsff.bsky.social

Reckon it might be time to fly back from Istanbul... (flight in three hours, no actual cause for alarm)

Book covers are all, 'a slim fem blond one and a young, broad-shouldered dark haired one'. Neanwhile the gay male gaze is off over here going...

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!

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 What the actual fuck? WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE COPYRIGHT LAWS IF THIS IS WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO DO?!

My husband has been dreaming up this absolutely wild, queer, post-apocalyptic, camp fantasy world for years, and now the first full novel in the series is finally coming! Check out his Kickstarter. :D

Queer, epic, high scifi-fantasy might be relevant to a few folks: 💙📚🪐📚🌈📚🌈🚀💫

The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! BACK THE BOOK TODAY! #booksky bit.ly/3OIVfNs

I'm so excited to read (and edit) this! Come for the queer ballroom antics, stay for the epic family DRAMA. (and support one of my favourite people, and favourite authors, so he can pay those expensive visa fees...)

(Please Repost 💙) THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA is launching soon, and I’m looking for people to help me spread the word on Day 1 (03/03/26) Just a quote post will do! And you’ll get access to secret KS merch & a thank you gift 💙 Drop your deets in the form if interested! bit.ly/46T2Jn2

SFPA members, there’s still time to nominate your favorite poems of 2025 for the Rhysling Awards! Nominations close February 15, so get yours in today!

"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.