As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for someone's Patreon, go to a live theater performance, purchase someone's album from Bandcamp. You can also leave a nice comment or write a review.

It's ptarmigeddon! These guys are a lot harder to see now that the snow is on the ground. #birds 🌿

With apologies, for today’s feast.

Today's #nudivember is Felimida (Chromodoris) luteorosea, which by any other name is just as purple.

This Anguirus was in the same part of my sketchbook as all the nudibranchs, so you are also getting a random Anguirus as it got scanned in too. Enjoy.

Me, trying to plot a serious pre-battle scene: 🤔 My daft brain: 🎵And, he asked her for her hand, well more like a demand, well more like had his henchman snaaaatch heeeerrrr🎵

Returning to a draft of a scene I wrote ages ago, squinting, trying to work out if that's a Galavant reference or not...

Realistically? Build community networks. Research local charities. Learn low cost food recipes and make physical copies. See what services your library offers. Consider access to media, including physical. Find a rec center. Greet your neighbors, borrow things if you can. Learn local tenant laws.

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. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

We're snail-posting, post your snails (Well... @liminalitea.bsky.social's in this case)

It is reprehensible that this party is exploiting the labour of trans people to give themselves the veneer of progressivism without offering a crumb of solidarity in return, unless said trans people can successfully counter the influence of multiple people with institutional power within the party.

So many cool, interesting creators replied to my post below. Everyone should take a few moments to read through the replies and possibly support some artists, writers and other creators.

Nunsense continues. This one actually has two pages, but the joke gets across with one. One of my biggest pet peeves in these sort of movies has been the upside down cross: The symbol of humility. Yes. Super scary.

Day 9 of #nudivember is Tritonia myrakeenae, which is bringing back the 90s/00s "translucent tech" aesthetic.

It's the perfect season for a gothic ghost story, and @chaoticauthor.online has served up a real treat for you here! I have a particular fondness for this type of story, and this one in particular deserves a place in anyone's library. mgmasoncreative.com/all-my-books/

Gender is a performance and I'm Jenny Anydots

Day 8 of #nudivember is Cerberilla ambonensis. A treat for me, another Cerberilla species with stripy cerata.

I live in America—more to the point, Im sick in America. The only way I can get the meds I need is w/ Patreon. Writers get lots of lessons on building craft & honing skills. Readers get VIP access to my books and art. Everyone gets an amazing Discord community. $5/month makes a huge difference! 🔗👇🏼

As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators of all sorts. If you have the means, buy a book, sign up for someone's Patreon, commission an art piece. It's also a lovely day to leave a nice comment, post a short review, spread the word about someone's work. Everything helps.

At least one person needs to hear this before Notts Zine Fest today; this is my job, hour long chats about your mum’s health are to be done over lunch. Not blocking my table. My good friends know not to do this after 5 in person verbal reminders that I am working!

If you enjoy watching talks by experts in Gothic and horror that are free to access and made internationally available... why not support the project so I can keep running it and keep paying people to participate. www.patreon.com/c/romancingt...

It's gifting season again- consider commissioning an artist, or get prints or sculpture or pottery or stickers or comics or anything cool artists make and sell. This year has been SO rough on folks who do art- and I see so many amazing artists not making ends meet on the timeline.

I will never use AI for my covers, editing, translation, or anything else. It is not only useless to me as an author, it is actively hostile and harms every skill related to book production. If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.

Trying to convince myself that, when plotting a chariot duel scene, the bullet points need to be more detailed than "the duel happens". My dear brain is missing the point of this exercise.

Day 7 of #nudivember is Hypselodoris obscura. Despite the name, it is a bright young thing.

I've played this about 5 times so far today btw, this is a delightful little album. And that cover art!

I won't lie, as a writer it's interesting to be writing a protagonist who is very good at telling stories *and resents it*

We're celebrating @michaelwehunt.bsky.social's new novel THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT with a limited time sale! Read the celebrated anthology GREENER PASTURES, featuring the short story which inspired the novel, "October Film Haunt: Under the House" for just $10! Available only until November 30th!

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this one because it’s very timely, helped me land an agent, was a Stoker nominee, was published in France and Italy, and it’s 30% off! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Sometimes when I'm working from home the neighbours *really* want to know what I'm up to.

Querying/submitting my book eeeeeeek BTW anyone know of any indie presses that might want a gaslamp fantasy horror novel with Bloodborne vibes?

Another fun side effect of three degrees in medieval "heroic" literature is I find it nearly impossible to read "hero" as a compliment. Which makes the rhetoric around the armed forces (especially this time of year) even more uncomfortable to me.

Just as a tip, if you're ever training a new colleague and they ask a question about a process, please don't explain all the bits the colleague showed they understood perfectly well and just answer the question they asked. Posted for no particular reason.

Hey you all, kinda been dry on new clients recently and it's been worrying me about my long-term prospects as an independent artist. I would really appreciate some commissions for the next few months or some more substantial projects. #art #commissions

Today's #nudivember is Diaphodoris mitsuii, a friend-shaped pancake (or pancake-shaped friend).

I posted an analysis of Bugonia on the Patreon. Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. Want to read some sexy, thought-provoking takes? It's only 1 USD to get everything there, guys and there's millions of words. Help a trans person who's as amazing as me out. www.patreon.com/posts/youre-...

Did you know that I have a Ko-Fi Shop? Where you can buy all my self-published collections, novelettes and novellas? Well, now you do! Horror short stories, dark fantasies, medieval shenanigans and more! #booksky 📚💙

The Old Sun Inn, Saffron Walden is a lovely old building, where you can hear M R James' only Christmas-set tale, "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance", on Wed 10 Dec: www.ticketsource.co.uk/old-sun-inn/... Also E F Benson's "How Fear Departed the Long Gallery" (which is the better story)

Yesterday was a late finish at work, so here's #nudivember 4 and 5 together: Glossodoris electra and Tambja affinis. I hope they have a nice time hanging out.

My dynamic with @lhardingwrites.bsky.social is like when a zoo keeper puts down lego bricks with vegetables in them, then one little rodenty thing goes out, finds some, carries them precariously back to the den all at once, and another one sniffs them and hides them in different parts of the burrow.

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.

Loving the Guardian dunking on Richmond vegan sausages for exactly the reason they are easily the best veggie sausage substitutes. "They taste exactly like a real sausage but a sausage poor plebs eat so they're obviously terrible" is fantastic Guardian snobbery.

Militarism now engulfs commemoration. It threatens to smother anti-war messages with marching bands, compulsory symbols, establishment figures & pomp Here’s my choice of commemorative music. Vaughan Williams served in the Great War as an orderly. His music’s melancholy sublimates those experiences

On this day, November 4th 1918, a week - almost to the very hour - before the Armistice, the poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action. He was 25. Here is my recording of one of his most famous poems. Dulce Et Decorum Est #warpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Meet Wintertide the Mystical Phantom! I designed and hand-sewed her. Using her telekinetic powers, Wintertide can move cold objects like popsicles, or semi-cold objects like slightly melted popsicles. Basically, she enjoys making popsicles float around. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

How’s this for local community; I give you a sick ass poster like you asked. and you give a local starving artist £300. Then I spend a huge chunk of it with my lovely local veg lady on carrots even though she’s more expensive than tesco. I love her. She has broccoli earrings. See how that works?

I'm a bookseller & avid book buyer & I co-sign this 1000%. If schools and libraries are not nurturing future readers (& writers), there's no books to buy. And if schools & libraries aren't buying or can't buy, publishers will slash lists & print runs bc that's a major market collapse.

New awareness campaign