I hope I will always be the sort of person who loves the moon, flowers, and poetry. 🎨 Kerry Buck

This is the inspiration I needed today 💚

My incredibly sweet husband sent me this today ❤️ 🌼

I choked on my sandwich

It just makes sense.

After reading the Redwall books, I have a literary criteria to which all books must be subjected. Are the depictions of rich cooking central to the plot? I call it the Beschamel Test.

Libraries in my city abolished late fees and experienced a huge spike in usership 👍

I'm a bit of an amateur gardner, but this year, I decided to plant a herb garden. So far, I've got: Sage, mint, rosemary, chamomile, hyssop, anise hyssop, French tarragon, Mexican tarragon, lemon balm, orange balm, lavender, summer savoury, lovage, thyme, French lavender, passionfruit marigold...

I'm beginning to worry less about where my life is going, and focus more on what I'm growing in it.

Today the biggest challenge facing modern writers is Mrs Finch on Windham Street, who stares disapprovingly at you as you walk past.

Google “said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are ‘helpful’ and ‘reliable’”. “…some of the summaries, which appear at the top of search results, served up inaccurate health information and put people at risk of harm.”

Behold! Got this as an advanced reader copy today to review—an AI-generated novel with an AI cover by an author who doesn't exist and a publisher who doesn't exist. Does anything exist anymore? Do I exist??

When you are once again tricked into reading an ai generated novel by an author who doesn't actually exist ...

In 2026 I want to connect more with land and place. 🎨 Heikala

Hi, I'm a 6.3 earthquake in New Zealand

Me, waking up on New Years Day:

Art of Jen Lemen

Wouldst thou like the taste of butter?

Nettle and I are enjoying New Years Day with some recent book mail—a hardcover annotated collection of Lovecraft's stories. Well, she's mostly snoozing, to be honest. Must have partied hard.

Le thérapeute / The healer https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3115129

REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

Me, waking up on New Years Day:

Happy Existential Crisis Day to all who celebrate 🥳 🎉 🎊

These are my top books for 2025! Overall, it was a great year for reading. But these are the books that stayed with me, haunted me, and came to live inside me. 📚

I'm tired of coming up with my own New Years resolutions. I need a strange but benevolent stranger who lives on the edge of town to give me a quest.

I'm tired of coming up with my own New Years resolutions. I need a strange but benevolent stranger who lives on the edge of town to give me a quest.

Happy Existential Crisis Day to all who celebrate 🥳 🎉 🎊

It's that time again. It will be hard to let go. From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water: bit.ly/howtocarrywa... #poem #booksky #writing

The hardest part about being a writer is constantly having wizard cats cross your path just to challenge you to yet another poetry slam battle.

Entomologist 🐛

"Weapons" is one of the best witch films I've seen in a long ass time. 🧙‍♀️

This is my cat daughter Kerewin. She has cute lil footsies.

Reminds me of my first relationship

How writers feel when they find the perfect notebook in a shop:

Just watched "The Vourdalak" finally and loved it! Vampires, puppetry, old-school filming techniques, and beautiful surreal landscapes.

How I’m walking out of 2025…

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Reviewing my New Years resolutions from last year...

Julbocken, the Yule Goat. A pagan tradition connected to the worship of Thor who rode a chariot drawn by two goats. A gift-bringer that represents good cheer and good luck, made of straw and placed under Christmas trees, sometimes with Santa riding on its back. #FolkloreThursday

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

Me, writing a new poem called "How to Cook a Fascist":

The moon has started to howl.

Baked my yearly French Canadian meat pie (tourtière) for Xmas.. a way to connect with family, the dead, and the stories we all carried.

Seeing these photos of Maude Lewis's tiny home reminds me that all artists have to create a world for themselves to live in.

Moosweibchen, the moss people, are gentle folk from the forests in the heart of Europe. But the Wild Hunt is out to get them. And the Wild Hunt rides tonight. Read what happens to a group of Moosweibchen in our 26th #yulefolklore tale below. 🎨 Brian Froud

Merry Xmas everyone! 🎄 As you decorate your homes with magical plants, light candles to keep away evil spirits, and leave offerings of food for the undead saint who is always watching you, and knows all, remember the reason for the season: to celebrate the endless night, the hungry dark.

The Yule Cat demands your fealty

Two truths and a lie: 1) My first ever job was as a fortune teller 2) I sold my soul to the devil at age 10 3) I'm a ghost writer for several prominent/famous people