#Booksky So here’s your reminder that you can buy books in Kindle format direct from our site and, if you use code WisCon26 (Nov only), you can save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com

NPR used to be a place left leaning folks could look at and to. But now they refuse to call teenaged girls children. The underage women line is toxic and horrible. Underage women are teenagers at best, but they're children. They're children.

If you live in Oakland PLEASE consider writing in via this extremely easy form to our city officials to urge them to REJECT a contract w FLOCK surveillance cameras, which shares data directly with ICE and DHS. Keep our neighbors safe. FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...

Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions. And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers! If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit! Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous: Taiwanese aborigines. Ainu. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Added some new merch bundles to the Misbehavin' Maidens Bandcamp shop...and permanently dropped our prices, particularly on CDs. If someone in your life would enjoy some funny, filthy, feminist, fandom folk for the holidays, it's a really good time to buy. https://misbehavinmaidens.bandcamp.com

HEY ROMANCELANDIA! @sesmith.lol is one of the very few writers I will accept an interview request from in January or February, which is basically the highest honor a romance author can bestow. And Scarleteen is an AMAZING resource! If you've got some $$$ throw it that way!

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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

I'm that person who is buying and recommending the back list, and now I'm only more inspired to do so. I love a back list

I wish this were so much less true than it is.

Tea minus 30 minutes until our virtual book chat with special guest @gailcarriger.bsky.social! 4:30 PM Pacific (Seattle)--7:30 PM Eastern (Montreal) Join Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/8896164741... Meeting ID: 889 6164 7412 Passcode: 449057

How are we in a timeline where the pope consistently has better takes than half of the people major media outlets haven't fired yet??

My darlings! Mark your calendars and join us tomorrow Sunday, November 16th, at 4:30pm Pacific (Seattle) for our monthly book chat with special guest @gailcarriger.bsky.social ! This month's featured book is "Etiquette and Espionage," an altogether marvelous read madameaskew.com/2025/11/15/n...

Some really great books in here!

A new story up on my Kofi: Plant mecha, love lost and betrayed, solarpunkish. ko-fi.com/post/Reds-He...

UNRELENTING and UNDENIABLE, Books 1 & 2 of THE GRIGORI CYCLE by @jeshonard.bsky.social and @marieparks.bsky.social, are available wherever fine books are sold, and you can get both at a discount at our store here: bit.ly/UndGC (With a blurb by @maryrobinettekowal.com!)

Peeps, here we go.

goooood morning it is chilly and overcast but once again we got lucky so it wasn’t actually raining- so the jaunt was dry and we had a lovely time so yup, you know if: Lucy Loved That Walk

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

Got in one of my extremely rare art moods and wound up with a little goblin monk dude with a jar.

"Mama! Mama! Prey, where are the treats for this Hallow's Eve?" ~Princess Masala Chai, probably

I met my husband singing karaoke, we had karaoke at our wedding, and I endorse everything in this piece (except the show tunes rule, because so many of them became classic torch songs and also I do an incredible Mr. Cellophane and you cannot stop me).

The Morning Monty snags another lowkey morning sunbeam, and chalks it up as a win.

Mesmerized by the wonder of toe beans. Book from my collection: The Shy Little Kitten by Cathleen Schurr, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. 1958.

It's here! Our annual Holiday Gift Guide is live, and the theme this year is "take care of each other." 💝 Click through to see our featured caretaker archetypes and the best gifts to return that care to each! www.fridaytea.com/blogs/friday...

I think I may need to make a whole range of Adopt Don't Shop merit badges and give them to my local shelter for blessing me with with the sentient lump of baked brie that is my new cat.

Tonight, I took myself to see Frankenstein, and my darlings, I found the film utterly transcendent. I cannot stop thinking about the performances, the script, the use of lighting, the costumes. Every detail was sublime.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

Hello! Some news to share. I am going to have one more dice box shop update in the next couple weeks before closing my website. After 1500 or so boxes, and an incredible 6 years, it is time to move on to something else. Will have more information in the coming days. Thank you all, always and forever

Becky's guillotines are back in stock now, if you were looking!

You want a Boo-gati? You want a Monster-ati? You want a dead body? You better work, witch! You want a black cat? You want a pointy hat? You want a little bat? You better work, witch!

The best part of being a weird gremlin on the internet is making more ridiculous art and nonsense with my dearest friends. Tonight, @everiotartist.bsky.social , @teagrandarbiter.bsky.social & I are unleashing a new "super secret" game during Friday Tea at 6:30 PM Pacific youtube.com/@madameaskew...

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Experimenting with a few things these days, like re-releasing a flash fiction short from my days as PJ Schnyder...and adding dual narration by myself and by Matthew J. Drake And I blogged about it. On my blog. On my website. Weird. But fun. piperjdrake.com/piper-j-drak...

Honestly, my darlings, I would have died in 2022 without the insurance I currently have access to, and I would not have it without the ACA. I think about that and everyone else who depends on this imperfect system

as you wish

So, yes, Sailing The Golden Chersonese, a sapphic pirate story collection/arc, is going to be published next February. :D www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...

really annoying that Canada doesn't even have to burn down the White House because he's doing it himself

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

I demand you look at this bird. (Photo by me)

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

@teagrandarbiter.bsky.social and I are unleashing more tea and tomfoolery this week. Friday, @everiotartist.bsky.social joins us for peak spooky season chaos! (We have plans!) madameaskew.com/2025/10/20/w...

Book Chat Day!! Join me, my co-host @b1llz1lla.bsky.social, and our wonderful coterie of book lovers for our monthly virtual book chat. This month we're discussing "Strange Practice" by Vivian Shaw Book Chat starts at 4:30pm Pacific (Seattle) madameaskew.com/2025/10/19/o...

Free cult cinema book - essays on horror films that broke all the rules: tinyurl.com/ghostshowpre...

anyway good night

A Fey Tale. 1920s Adelaide. Female amateur sleuths. Hidden Magic. Picnics, tea, scones, an accidental Fae deal, and a troll bounty hunter under a bridge. . #setInAdelaide #1920s #amateurSleuth #FemaleMC #useImageDescriptionForAccessibility #AuntEnidMysteries #fantasyMystery

One of my favourite aspects of Friday Tea with @teagrandarbiter.bsky.social is that we can invite our friends and comrades in cheeky art to come chat with us. This week we welcome the thoroughly delightful @sharonskinner.bsky.social and @brickcave.bsky.social madameaskew.com/2025/10/16/f...

My darling sparkle glitter unicorns, one of my silver linings of the last few weeks is that I've discovered that I rather like Bad Bunny's music, and he provides an excellent soundtrack for making dinner.

RIP D'Angelo (1974-2025) 🕊️😔