That’s a wrap for this year’s #ScifiMonth - watch out for our final mission logs later this week and our sister event @wyrdandwonder.bsky.social next spring!

Me: Alas and woe, I cannot sleep, I have The Anxiety Cats: What if we could help Cats: Because have you considered Cats: You could have The Anxiety AND the Severe Overheating Cats: AT THE SAME TIME :)

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If you have enjoyed any of my work on Video Games as Literature or My Forest Library, now is an excellent time to show your appreciation if you are able! 😊

Well, it's officially Christmas season. Time to go get cozy with a blanket and hot chocolate and watch Die Hard!

if you've never heard the end credits song for Aliens Infestation on the Nintendo DS I beg you to stop and listen right now it's important

Can you sum up your gender in 4 fictional characters?

Thomas King absolutely does need to apologize because he absolutely did do something wrong. He believed a family rumor and didn't do any due diligence in claiming a heritage that he was not a part of. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

You mean purging all data relating to a group of developers from marginalized and underrepresented communities doesn’t make your website load faster?

This video puts to words some of the feelings I've had about modern movies/cgi/digital film but haven't been able to enunciate, but moreover nails a problem in modern art making: the lack of real, tactile experiences reflected in the work youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE?...

Excuse me, why the hell is Joy Behar saying, "Epstein's *alleged* victims" (emphasis mine)? 1) Epstein was convicted. You don't have to say "alleged" when the perp is convicted. 2) You cannot legally defame someone who's dead. This just feels so insulting to the very real victims.

It's A Month of Rain & Reads and we wish you a quiet morning. In today's Guest Post we hear from Sarah Chorn and Ken Scholes who talk about their experiences with Complex PTSD and how it affected their lives and creativity. www.readindiefantasy.com/complex-ptsd... #AMoRaR #BookSky #CPTSD

Great and encouraging ruling. But what an irritating headline, which centers on the perpetrator rather than on the victims. "Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally" could just as easily have been, "Victory for artists as court rules OpenAI violated copyright."

I went ahead and started a list on my blog that I can share when people ask for recommendations of magic kid books that aren't HP. myforestlibrary.com/2025/11/06/b...

Off the top of my head, if I'm recommending children's books about magic schools or magical kids I'd start with these: Witchlings by Claribel Ortega Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan Goddess Girls series by Joan Holub Franchises Winx Club, Ever After High, My Little Pony also have good books!

Also in keeping with today's #SciFiMonth prompt ("Previously, on SciFi Month"): can you believe I've been participating in SciFi Month since 2014?! It's hard to believe we've been doing this for over a decade! Here's a history of my SciFi Month blog posts: www.videogamesaslit.com/search/label...

Happy #ScifiMonth when we share our love of a favourite genre. It’s a casual cruise across galaxies and timelines this year, and we can’t wait to see where your travels take you! As always we have daily prompts and Friday Fives plus a picture bingo and a read along of Ancillary Justice 🚀

I'm planning 🤞 to read The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum and Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. In terms of video games, I've already started playing Slime Rancher 2, and I'll be playing Outer Wilds with the Literary Game Club. #SciFiMonth #SciFiMonth2025

"The two listed here are the clearest examples of women reporting such crimes, but they are by no means the only ones..." theconversation.com/written-acco...

Well he should march right down to the Anti Fascist HQ and explain to them why being Pro Fascist is the better position.

Here to support the heterosexual community at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social I'm an ally 🫡

If you did paid work for a game you shouldn’t be in “special thanks”

I hate/love this. I need a new word for that mix of horror and hope.

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

Chloe was not as cooperative with her Halloween costume as I'd hoped (popped her head up out of full ball pose), but still she's rocking the soot sprite outfit

Big fan of conservation cemeteries and this is a delightful read about this slice of the death and conservation movements! (I like to think that there's an alternate world version of me running a pet and human cemetery with cake emporium.)

every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes

The City of Boynton Beach is ending free little libraries and food pantries when they are needed most. Please speak up and support these hundreds of community support outreaches in neighborhoods next door. www.change.org/p/amend-city...

I am required to show off this spectacular cover (artist: Juan Bernabeu) for my near future political novelette coming on @reactorsff.bsky.social on Nov 5. An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

I have been playing Stray Children ahead of launch. I'm not as far into it as I'd like to be due to being bogged down in other obligations. But I love it so far and am also fascinated by it. If you liked Moon, Earthbound, Undertale, and other "oddball games" as it were, this is for you.

We should all wear "Urban Decay Desperation" eyeliner and make J.D. Vance most famous for starting a huge makeup trend.

If you want a perfect example of the aging up of YA fiction to appeal to adult readers at the exclusion of teen readers, it's getting rid of any references to the specific ages of the teen characters in the Six of Crows duology. www.tumblr.com/vilecemetery...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

“I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a school novel, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.“ -Le Guin She had JKR read from day one

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Genuinely begging you to re-up your MMR & get your kids vaccinated if you can. Between this & Kennedy talking about breaking it up into separate vaccines thus providing opportunities for missed inoculations &, thus, increased infections, public health policy is not looking great, for the foreseeable

If you've wondered why I give a huge raised eyebrow 🤨 to anyone who still uses the website formerly known as Twitter, this is the reason. You're on a website that accepts with open arms the people mentioned in this article. It's time to let it die, no matter how many followers you once had.

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

It was weird when this became a meme because I was so familiar with the image from the Middle-earth TCG.

Looking for cool academic gifts? Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance is on sale at the @mcfarland.bsky.social website! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/unde...

Buffy the COVID Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of reboot' 'I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don't get this again' said Sarah Michelle Gellar after recovering from COVID-19. But why is her action significant? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Yo, if you are arguing with me about why your ableist stance is actually okay and good, just be aware that you're not going to change my mind.

Rereading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and I found this cute little note in the book that I had left the last time I read it. The text reads, "From broad neck to buttocks so bulky and thick" and I added, "You knew in a moment it must be St. Nick!" 😂

"History is important. You just can't go around changing everything all the time. Or else next thing you know they'll be painting the White House... not white." - Leslie Knope, Parks & Recreation, 2010

Authors!! Let’s talk ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT. We’re holding a virtual meeting this THURSDAY at 6 PM to go over everything you need to know about the Anthropic settlement, determining eligibility and filing claims. It’s free to attend but please register here: authorsguild.org/event/anthro...

i would love to see a gaming historian blogger or youtuber cover Dungeon Master in more detail. feel it's a hugely important game and it inspired myself and many others.

I think it's fine, even good, when people read books they're not sure in advance that they're going to like because they're trying something a bit outside their comfort zone, even if they end up not liking it after all and leaving a review to that effect that slightly tarnishes the book's ratings

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

LGBTIQA Max. #lifeIsStrange

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