“Are you…mocking the cat to the tune of the Bar’chu?” “Shh! He doesn’t know that!”

IT IS TIME.

New issue of NOT ONE OF US is out, w/work by me, @jeannellewrites.bsky.social, Sonya Taaffe, @zaryfekete.bsky.social, Gretchen Tessmer, @bethcato.bsky.social, @rhondaparrish.bsky.social, Aaron Long, Susan Shea, Patricia Russo, & @devanbarlow.bsky.social. Taster: asakiyume.dreamwidth.org/1068497.html

Just going to remind you that if the police or any other law enforcement show up you should ABSOLUTELY say I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT i.e., then say nothing else except repeatedly demanding a lawyer.

I forget how to get blurbs. “Hello, sorry the world is on complete fire and your rights are probably being trampled, would you perhaps want to read this thing I wrote that I would like to put out into the world. Which is on fire.” ⁉️

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Edmonton: Fiasco (the gray cat) is still missing. please please keep an eye out and spread the word!!!!

Take what you need: - write the story you'd like to read - write the story that helps you sleep - write the story that keeps you up - write the story they ordered you not to tell - write the story you can never forget

New Release: Skin-Singer: Tales of the Kaltaoven by Heather Rose Jones “...I will not go away and become dead again. I will not give up my skin. But I will not turn away from you. I could not bear to leave you. Give me different choices.” @heatherrosejones thelesbianreview.com/skin-singer-...

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

@seattlein2025.org folks: Best place to find me and buy a print copy of my new story collection (Skin-Singer), may be my autograph session today at noon! (Garden Lounge) Your next chance will be Sunday at 9am at my Table Talk where I'll show off my fancy Hugo ceremony outfit.

Image: a photo montage of at least one friend, many colleagues, protesting, praying, and gettin' the zip tie treatment to stand up for human rights. Sign text, bottom center: STOP STARVING GAZA. NO TO ETHNIC CLEANSING. BRING THE HOSTAGES HOME. END THE WAR. (h/t @truahrabbis.bsky.social )

I finished the weird draft of “….and also Wales??!” fantasy novella. If you want to know what it takes: several months of scream-flailing followed by five nights on an ocean liner with very little wifi and an offline Google doc on my phone. I stared at the ocean til my head held fewer horrors.

New Heather Rose Jones!!!

I do not have a SoundCloud but I do have this: lesbian pirates. All proceeds benefit RAICES Texas. You don’t even have to like the book! It’ll STILL benefit folks at the border! www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/b...

"The woman knew she must obtain this monster doll with bunny ears. She would not be one of the Labubu have-nots. She could not be defeated by the people looking to buy in bulk and resell them on eBay."

Things found in son’s laundry: - a gua shua roller - a lip balm - a nail clipper - a set of kitchen tongs - a woodwind carrying pouch he appears to have sewn - a pinstripe bolero jacket (femme, size 4) - a shirt of mine lost for so long I re-bought it the following season

This is a great thread. I’m in a 2-AFAB-folks partnership/can’t speak to cis male loneliness, but I have been part of the Mom Safety Net and benefited from it so very much that I even have time to make art while working FT. We have to lift as we climb, and/but the lift shouldn’t be so heavy.

I am not going to move fast on this, but a thing I would like to do is find people who have experienced having someone write a fictionalized character who strongly represents them into fiction, with or without permission. I don't think I've talked to others who have experienced it. RT welcome.

Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”

"Madeleine’s hand still rested on her arm. How strange, that the touch could anchor Hæra to earth at the same time it made her feel light enough to fly without wings. @writingroslyn.bsky.social @jennabeebs79.bsky.social

The Crock Pot is one of the only times when real life works like video game crafting. You dump in some powders and the remains of several vile birds and out comes hot delicious food

I need someone to write a long post explaining how the Torah and Steven Universe are actually the same cinematic universe.

New Review The Woman from the Waves by Roslyn Sinclair is an epic sapphic romantasy about the power of unleashed desire, the courage it takes to change, and a love so vast it spans the sea, earth, and sky. @writingroslyn.bsky.social @jennabeebs79.bsky.social

I told you we’d be back

Re-skeet for the post chag crowd! Feeling the need for a study break? Have some Minoan lesbian romance!

new hero just dropped

"Iset was tired, childish, and in love to the ends of her eyelashes still." --a lesbian romance of ancient Crete by Jeannelle M. Ferreira. alpennia.com/blog/lesbian...

It’s TODAAAAY! If you need a little respite this weekend, try Ancient Crete!

Tuesday evening reminder: Write the book. Make the zine. Pack the shelves. Fill the world with so many stories they'll never be able to silence us all.

#Booksky Happy birthday to author/editor/scholar/podcaster Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social! Heather is on the Hugo Award ballot for Best Related Work AND has a terrific novella out with us! Get THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES today! queenofswordspress.com/product/the-...

Mariska Hargitay: where is the perpetrator?

A new scam is threatening the sapphic book community: Scammers are creating rip-offs of existing books with the help of AI. I have written a blog post explaining how to recognize red flags, a list of suspicious pseudonyms, and what we can do to help. Please read: jae-fiction.com/ai-rip-offs-...

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

Not sure that this needs a #spoilers tag per se, but I was so moved by the quasi tahara scene in TLOU this week. Very touching and heartbreaking. @clmazin.bsky.social @druckmann.bsky.social

Did the needed work on the car. Pulled out cash. Bought detergent, socks, bottled water, hair grips, new bras, the electrolyte sticks we need. Basically: dry goods and ANYTHING ELASTICATED, because ELASTIC DOESN'T COME FROM THE USA. We're not indulging, we're battening.

Today I have had hours of time alone to write and it feels like nothing I am working on is worth writing and no one is going to care about these people and blah, blah, blah.

It is Trinity term so my Old Yiddish class is starting up again next week Except I Overeducated Too Close to the Sun and my Biblical Hebrew class starts June 4 At the exact same time When Trinity term is still real for three weeks (also, highly recommend the OSRJL for free education!)

Today is Yom HaShoah. You can light candles, and also call your reps. Ask me about 5Calls. (Ask me about the Shoah and I will answer w *granular* detail. I will make you late for your next meal. You want to know if we fought back? Let's go. I got time. JEWISH OUTREACH IS MY JOB.)

#Booksky Author Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social is on the Hugo Award ballot this year for Best Related Work, but have you read her terrific fiction yet? THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES is a gorgeous retelling of Beauty and the Beast! queenofswordspress.com/product/the-...

I’m so sorry, UK friends. We’ve set a shameful example here of how quickly justice can be undone.

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

#Booksky *Whispers hypnotically* “Heather is a Hugo Award Finalist in the Best Other Work Category this year. Perhaps you’d like to read some of her terrific fiction too?” queenofswordspress.com/product-cate...

Congratulations!

Spotlight on Historical Fantasy and the Alpennia Historical Fantasy series.

For those of you who've seen The Residence, there's a fun playlist from Shondaland over on YT with bts stuff. Note: some of the vids have spoilers.