It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that it’s easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.

Absolutely pathetic

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

It is almost impossible to write a book a year while working as a family breadwinner and being a present parent. If this is your situation, you are not failing. The world wants you to think you are so you buy things. Just keep swimming.

REALLY important petition folks. This is so that people without smartphones can access important things (like NHS care). We need the choice to have a non digital option! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #superconnectedpetition #digitalfree #digitalminimalism #accessforall

Celeste dos Cravos (2025), acrylic gouache (+ tiny bit of watercolour) on hot pressed paper (A3) The traditional version of the illustration I painted digitally last year, now as I had first envisioned it :)

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know learning is good

my characters aren't allowed to stop going through it until I've stopped going through it. it's the law. it's out of my hands.

Si hoy os pasáis por La Marimala de Lavapiés os podréis llevar mis libros con descuento y dedicatoria 😊

Your work is good. Trust it. It’s not you, it’s them. /END

Just finished Pornography, men possessing women by Andrea Dworkin. Brilliant as usual, but I had to skip the films/books descriptions in the end because they were unbelievably disgusting. The things men do to women... unforgivable. #booksky #feminism #andreadworkin

2025 "Twilight" #rhads #DigitalArt

Emergency ask. It is always so humbling and not in good way to constantly be in financial crisis, especially when I look at all the work that I do. We are at risk of losing our housing and need to come up with 3 months rent by the 1st, which is an impossible ask. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

Took myself to dinner tonight. I can't even think of cameras or taking pictures when I've got food ready to eat in front of me, so I've just got one 😂

This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

...el heroin chic.

It's done! From Mythographic: Dragonspell using Polychromos pencils. #coloring

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How people think I treat my favourite character: Oh sweet baby, precious darling, I cherish you so. How I treat my favourite character: Oh sweet baby, precious darling, I cherish you so. [sets on fire]

🔥 DIFUSIÓN 🔥 Ya he hablado de este proyecto cultural valenciano antes, pero en serio, echadle un ojo. Abren local en octubre, Kuma es majisimo y super trabajador, ofrece cosas chulas y ayuda a la cultura local y nacional!! Ayudadlo a que crezca 💙 www.lacamaradeloslibros.es/vip

Monday motivation

CAN WE FINALLY SAVE POSTS? 😭😭😭

My art is going to be displayed in an exhibition, yayyyy 🎉🎉🎉🥰

I was quite sure I wouldn't like When the moon was ours by Anna-Marie McLemore, but overall I've enjoyed it. Nice to see some real poetic prose for a change! #booksky #fantasy

One of the problems of short fiction is *finding* it. There's so much out there, it's hard to know how to find what you'll like. Enter InkFoundry. There are so many ways to search! Search by venue (Small Wonders, for example), by author, by tags... or have the site surprise you ! inkfoundry.net

Back with Tanith Lee! The style looks quite different to her Flat earth series but hopefully I'll enjoy it! 🙂 #booksky #fantasy #tanithlee

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

¿Me ayudas a lograr que mi próxima publicación salga? 🥺 Es una novelette de drama y misterio con merch exclusivo (mantita, velita artesanal) y un prota que no puedo escuchar 📚 Perfecta para la spooky season 🍂🎃 #indiebluesky #booksky vkm.is/jakobcollins

Fans de Tanith Lee: kickstarter para publicar un volumen que incluye alguno de los mejores cuentos de esta autora. Y también uno inédito. Yo ya me he apuntado. Edición en e-book por menos de 5 euritos. The Stories of Tanith Lee on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/wil...

¿Recordáis que, para montar unos pisos turísticos, van a echar a las libreras de 80 mundos, la librería más antigua de Alicante? Han encontrado otro local donde pueden seguir con su labor (y continuar el proyecto tanto de 80 mundos como de Pynchon), pero necesitan nuestra ayuda: bit.ly/45ha9An

Please fill this in, artist or not! ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Played this game as soon as I saw the post. I highly recommend playing it yourself if you can and support the developer. This game does a great job shedding light on the scary reality of misogyny that too many of us women go through and the fact it was taken down from Steam is absolute bullshit.

DRAGONFLIGHT (1978) Acrylic on Masonite - 20" X 30" For the first book in Anne McCaffrey's now legendary Dragonriders of Pern series, I wanted to create a literal visualization of the title. I selected an aerial point-of-view and tilted the horizon to simulate the dizzying sensation of flight. 1/4

Good morning 🌞

Estamos viviendo un momento de crisis climático bestial pero vamos a hacer videos de IA de animales del bosque haciendo gilipolleces como saltar en cama elástica. Dejad de compartir imágenes con IA, y dejad de usarla, por favor. Corremos literalmente peligro por actuar de forma tan imbécil.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

ATENCIÓN! 📢 Necesitamos su apoyo y FIRMA para seguir impulsando el proyecto de ley: AB-412, The AI Copyright Transparency Act. Por favor, firmen y compartan en sus redes. Queremos conseguir tantas firmas como sea posible. ¡TODOS PUEDEN FIRMAR, sean del país que sean! Let´s go! 🔥

Today is also World Embroidery Day - happy stitching to all my fellow stitchers. For National Marine Week post, I am sharing one of my favs & probably the most complex artwork. "Cooked 3" Hand embroidery thread painting www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p65/cr... #WildlifeArt #embroidery #FiberArt

Today is International Tiger Day "Tigris - undomesticated" Thread painting - hand embroidery artwork #AnimalArtTuesday #embroidery #ArtYear #WildlifeArt

Esto es el capitalismo, aquí gana quien puede poner money para el marketing, la calidad es lo de menos. Muchos best sellers no venden por ser la hostia escribiendo, venden porque su libro aparece hasta en la sopa y lo ves expuesto como el más valioso de los trofeos en cada gran librería.

My first published story! 🎉🎉Out Today🎉🎉

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There’s no elegant way to do this, but I have a self published novella. I put it up for sale in 2023 but I’ve never posted about it here. Please feel free to scroll right on by. But, if you like ghost stories with a touch of queerness, Demimonde might be for you! 💜 www.amazon.com/dp/B0C25C7XS...

stop 👏 tagging 👏 authors 👏 in 👏 critical 👏 reviews post to goodreads and move on. tagging them, then having a cow that they blocked you for it is deeply ungroovy. authors agree to stay out of review spaces, so have some cop on and don’t TAG them into that space. it’s not nice.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana believes she is meant to save the world, Matthias wants it to end, Kalyn will cross lines to save everyone, and Prince Evan is just along for the ride. Chased by enemies who want them dead, they will either save everyone or destroy themselves. #BluePit📖 #F #A #WIP

13 de julio de 1936, hace hoy 89 años. Federico García #Lorca abandona Madrid y viaja en tren nocturno a Granada, donde ha decidido acudir para reunirse con su familia. Unos días antes, en una fecha indeterminada, Lorca es fotografiado por última vez. Le acompaña Manuela Arniches.

Excitingggggg ( I decided to try I first) I love Yoshitaka Amano's art 😭😭