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If a magic system has more rules than impacts on your characters daily life, you’re building lore. Not a world.

I’ll say it: a lot of people praise shitty world building because they prefer lore building to rich dynamism in fiction. They look at world building like building a wikiwalk rather than building a place to live.

I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have. I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.

I’m going to need everybody to stop trying to sell me Amazon prime day stuff. This is so much more desperate than previous years and to be honest, if Amazon wasn’t a turn off, this would be

Sending love to the Rokos Basilisk guys. This AI stuff has got to be doing a number on them.

So we're now 3 apologies deep and the only 2 people who have publicly resigned are folks who were not involved in anyway with the choice to use chatgpt.

The 1268 Conclave gets talked about in the new @tastinghistory.bsky.social episode

One of the biggest things I don’t think I’ve seen discussed in the worldcon AI conversation is the encroachment on data privacy. I don’t care if anybody was excluded or included based on the results of an AI script. I care that participants weren’t told that one would be used.

Feeling cute. My grey hairs are kinda styling in these braids. #beauty #haircare

Soren the cat being dashing on our couch. Who even is his sweet boi and how is he 11????

Is there anything more satisfying than cutting a tag out of your clothes?

Mark your calendars: our March Stitch & Bitch livestream will be tomorrow on my channel! @bookishdi.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookfinch.bsky.social @breereadsbooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIgc...

The first is Stitch & Bitch, the monthly livestream series I co-host with @bookfinch.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookishdi.bsky.social and sometimes @breereadsbooks.bsky.social when we're lucky! Here's the playlist of our recorded livestreams: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I was unable to get in as a speaker for #iowahf583, so I have joined this lovely social media platform to post it here and elsewhere.

It’s 5 am. Have you called your senators yet?

So hear me out. Definite no to Canada as 51st state. But yes to MN as the 11th province????

Man. “Make America Healthy Again” sure sounds like “I hate fat people” when you put your listening ears on.

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

Not enough rich kids read Yertle the Turtle as kids and it shows

For the readers in the room, this is a really good time to read sci-fi and fantasy from indigenous authors. The idea that the world has ended before and that we still live is so prevalent in many of these stories and I think. It’s good to let that inform us.

If you want some books that feel like they understand today, here’s a list #booktube #sff #fighting A Reading List For Hard Times youtu.be/OZtcybytOTs

Things I’m focusing on today: reading, making bread, my cats, my kid. I’m not letting things steal my joy.

Just a quick reminder into the world that if you are not living by the best practices of BDSM, you are not actually practicing BDSM. You’re practicing violence. #definitelyaproposofnothing #sff

Nominations open soon for the 2025 Hugo Awards! To cast a nominating ballot, you must either be a member of the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, or purchase a Seattle Worldcon membership by January 31. Don't wait, get your membership today! https://buff.ly/3DNhcp9

Today, I turned an an audio version of Rahel Varnhagen, life of a Jewess, one of Hannah Arendts interrogations of personhood, Judaism and identity and a crucial precursor to her work on the human condition and totalitarianism. It’s her first book though third published

As we go into award season, here’s a reminder that Stitch & Bitch (our monthly live) is eligible for the Hugo’s as a fancast. You can check out our streams using this playlist link. #hugoawards #sff #booktube @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookishdi.bsky.social @thefancyhatlady.bsky.social

Hugo Award Lovers! I’m currently working on a committee that is reviewing the administrative process for the Hugo awards. If you know of any blog, post reports, prior statements, interviews, etc., about the administration of the process, please let me know! #hugoawards.

Kid: Mommy! I did it! Partner: You ate your Mac & Cheese Kid: No. I ate my dinosaur cookie.

Me, at a family gathering, having to admit that my first crush was 8 year old me thinking 42 year old Jonathan Frakes was a hottie after everyone else said an age appropriate stat.

The nurse just described my partner’s tonsils as “two elevator doors that will not open.” 🤢

There’s a special place in hell for the two separate people having conversations on speakerphone in this waiting room.

Well, feeling vaguely panicky about H5N1. So probably a good time to shovel snow.

Rarely spotted in the wild! A Bree review! Review | Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh | 2024 Hugo Winner | #booktubesff youtu.be/X82oYrjgCb4

Angels: fake Dragons: Real but extinct Leprechauns: Real but I think their powers are more limited than stories would have you believe. Critically endangered. Chupacabra: I don't want to speak over latino voices on this one. I'm listening. Bigfoot: fake and extinct

But like…Peppa Pig’s dad def votes for Tories.

Join @thefancyhatlady.bsky.social, @kalanadi.bsky.social, @breereadsbooks.bsky.social, Reija, and I tomorrow at 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET / 9pm EET for our final Stitch & Bitch of 2024! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Mo...

Be warned. I’m turning on melancholic music and am already deep in my feels. It is not even 11 right now.

This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.

Fuck I think we totally forgot that part in Dune Pt. 2 about not falling for charismatic violent folk heroes fueled by vengeance who look like Timothee Chalamet in a hoodie

When did I become old enough that putting my blankets k. A hydrogen peroxide bath to whiten them started sounding like a good idea? Like my Friday night is double stripping my blankets and doing a whitening treatment

Update: the kid keeps hugging the Christmas tree. I’m not sure what to do with this.

I was thinking again today about how wonderful honeybees are and how they are a great parallel for social change (a thread)

Aaand a flat tire. So that’s great.

Day 3 of a no buy month (hopefully tarter, hopefully longer). Yesterday I did go to the store for chicken bedding and cat litter which cost $30 total. But! This morning was cinnamon rolls I made earlier last weekend and so that’s nice too.

Things my kid hates: shoes that aren’t crocs. Places my kid lives: Minnesota

I’m finally listening to Some Desperate Glory, which has so much to say about reactionary politics and the political as cult. I’m just sitting here thinking. What a good feeling. #sff #reading #booktubesff #booksky?

Tonight’s reading update: listening to Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh while frantically trying to knit my nieces and kid coordinating Christmas sweaters. #homemade #Christmas #booktubesff

This may sound petty. But I’d really like for the duck stamp competition to only ever be won by a woman, BIPOC or queer creator ever again. Thx

Making shoelaces for some new hand painted bots? Couldn’t be me.