Starting Valentine's Day with a wholesome couple's activity (repressurising the boiler and bleeding the radiators)

My contract's signed so I'm excited to announce that my story, Of Ghouls & Goulash, will be appearing in the upcoming Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology from Worldstone! Look out for the Kickstarter when it comes, or Memris Proge, Gentleman Necromancer, will glare sadly at you over his stew.

My contract's signed so I'm excited to announce that my story, Of Ghouls & Goulash, will be appearing in the upcoming Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology from Worldstone! Look out for the Kickstarter when it comes, or Memris Proge, Gentleman Necromancer, will glare sadly at you over his stew.

Post a tree you photographed

It's that time of year again!!! 🥳 It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like! It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids. Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

this mythical 'cis person who supports your social transition and effortlessly uses your name and pronouns and respects your gender identity but also really really really hates that youre medically transitioning' DOES NOT EXIST. this is a LIE. you are LYING.

Ominous bird valentines.

I don't fuck with AI because it is being used to ruin the things I care about. If I could destroy it, I would. Sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know because I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker.

As someone with a number of custom tattoos ranging from meaningful to silly, I think there's also an element of vulnerability that comes with commissioning art of any sort that a fair few people don't want to experience.

Post a banger not in English Going to embarrass myself with the song that rewired my brain and got me into metal and music more generally. Missä Miehet Ratsastaa - Teräsbetoni

Today's a great day to support some creators. Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

Buy your hard copies online from publishers or @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social Audio books from your library app or @libro.fm Ebooks from your library app or Kobo or direct from publishers 2nd hand from Biblio, Oxfam or World of Books

Went out to visit our little fern garden to decompress, then turned around and saw that one of my neighbours absolutely does not approve of me being in my own garden.

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

I just have very little patience with people scolding progressives about abandoning Labour. They told us to f off. And they continue doing that.

Normally every time I finish a fantasy story it's far too *long* for the appropriate/intended markets, but this time it's too short. One day I will hit the sweet spot.

Going over old publications is fun because I get to watch my pronouns slowly creep across the gender spectrum like, come on girl, you're so close to getting it 😭

Dipping into old PhD books for story inspiration and this collection of essays on Medieval Holiness & Masculinity clearly annoyed Past Me on both theological and gender levels (in a way that, given I came out as a woman a couple of years after I last read this, really shouldn't surprise me).

another @bandcamp.com friday, which means today is THE day to support artists directly by buying digital & physical merch from their pages! this also applies to benefit/charity comps supporting those affected by ice 🖤

Our landlady got a plumber out to fix our toilet quickly (yay!) but what's sending me is the "Enjoy!" text she sent when we confirmed it was fixed...

Two new releases today Waking Up in a World Full of Light is a shorter Sylfvr release, as I said more along the lines of A Nice Evening Stroll and Soul Vapour. They get progressively more melancholic as it progresses. I used my own artwork as always. sylfvr.bandcamp.com/album/waking...

Stronger Together!!! #berensart2025

I had the chance to explain to a student how centrism acts in politics. I likened "true centrism" to friction; it doesn't pull in any direction, it opposes the center moving. The problem is that if you can overcome that friction, the center moves and it becomes harder to ever reach the old center.

Like, are you trying your best? Good. Are you open to feedback? Good. Are you working on self-improvement? Good. Those are all good *things*. Because doing good things is what matters. There's no "good person" badge & most people who think there is are fundamentally unwilling to admit wrongdoing.

My newest creation is Olivia the Semi-Vengeful Guardian of the Earth and Sea and Moon. I designed and hand-sewed her, & I hand-embroidered all her flowers & markings. Olivia enjoys gnawing on enemies of the Earth and Sea and Moon and slapping them with her tentacles. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Dilemma: a Dungeon Synth artist I really want to see is playing London soon, but the support act *really* annoyed me when I saw them last.

Thanks for doing this! I don't have anything specific to promote, but someone I know is raising money for Marie Curie Cancer Care at the moment, so here's his fundraiser if anyone would like to sponsor: jg.swimathon.org/fundraising/...

Thank you for this week, Mary! My new post-apocalyptic novella, Rat-She, is out 21st Feb. A blasted landscape Mutating humans Plague Rats Cockroaches and horror Available to pre-order mybook.to/Rat-She #booksky #scifi #postapocalyptic #horror

Thanks Mary! Great questions as ever, & a great tribute to Matt Since Marcellus has been in my answers again, here's my pay-what-you-like novella, By the Blood, with the Vampire Priest acting as ward and governor to a suspected vampire - protecting her from town and undead alike #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for hosting, @marywyrd.bsky.social ! I don't have anything super new, but I'll be releasing a short story in the Tales From The Night Garden universe soon on Substack, Ko-Fi, and Patreon for supporters! If you like vampires and gothic vibes, maybe subscribe! www.vampireantihero.com/support

Cancer: We are not so different, you and I. You too drain your victims. You too thirst for more. Fr. Marcellus: But I am more than what I am. A vampire's bite can only take, as can you - but I am more than my bite. I can give, love, show mercy. And exorcise demons like you. #HorrorWritersChat

The thing I'm not sure people understand is that when I say I'm writing a Vampire Catholic Priest I'm not doing it to be edgy, in doing it as a genuine theological thought experiment. Which I think says a lot about me.

Since I'm writing him, Fr Marcellus is tall and pale with overlong canines he hides with a drooping moustache. He wears a broad hat, as he doesn't get on with the sun It's hard being a priest when a vampire, especially when stress makes your body change into something monstrous #HorrorWritersChat

I seldom have living spaces in my horror. But when I do, it's often about property developers doing things to upset the former inhabitants. Some of them are half-based on real hauntings I've experienced. The haunting of love can also be terrible. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi #HorrorWritersChat! I'm Lawrence (she/her) and I write folk/religious horror with a Victoriana bent My favourite horror movie set in a house is The Exorcism, a TV play from 1972 in which former socialists are haunted by the past inhabitants of the house they've renovated. All too relevant today

What Saints Fear 3 tales of dark monastic fantasy in which the faith of the Keepers of Khriam is tested by: - occultist clerics addicted to demons - saints claiming need of rescue - factory-farmed relics #booksky 📚💙

another one

By the Blood Ursula's new governor, the mysterious Fr Marcellus, must defend her from accusations of vampirism. He knows they're false. He should know - he's a vampire himself. But the stakes soon rise when the undead also take interest in Ursula. 💙📚 #booksky ko-fi.com/s/6793e39b5b

Featuring: Old Habits Die Hard 12000 words of dark monastic fantasy, in which Brother Statius must steal relics from his former brethren and save his saint. Featuring: - heists - monks - demons - demon monks - relic cults - battle trauma #booksky 📚💙

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

I try to have/spread fun on here, but fuck this guy, the horse he rode in on, and the guy who sold him the horse You’ve probably forgotten you’re following him because he’s been mercifully silent, but he’s trying to come back, so this may be a good time to unfollow (or just block him)

Of Castaways & Castasides: Tales of Ships & Shipwreck 10 tales of nautical and polar horror, including: - cursed sea shanties - mutinous smugglers with poor timing - sandbars with a taste for blood - towns trapped by invisible waves - over helpful merfolk And more... #booksky 📚💙

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.

It's LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK: February is the month when Section 28 was abolished in 2003. Not seeing a lot on my feed so thought I'd promote it and find more queer UK folks!

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.

Communists seeing their claims about the global bourgeoisie once again proven right only for the public to go “omg Alex Jones and the conspiracy theorists were right!”

This year's JRCT Rights & Justice grants have an additional focus on trans+ rights: groups with charitable status can apply now! www.jrct.org.uk/rights-and-j...

Happy new month! @liminalitea.bsky.social and I are excited to share our 62nd illustrated zine - now available to patrons This month, tales of entities watching over the mortal realm - for better or worse... Featuring an exclusive Keepers of Khriam story, The Saint of Sickness and Burning Cords