tfw you deserve a little treat (a trip to the homeware section of TK Maxx)

I'm enjoying the cynicism of How To Get Away With Murder but why is it so dark?

Oh Rob. He's so sweet. Pity about the goddess in his head, who is not.

If anyone feels like saying yes to me, today would be a good day.

The galactic multiglobal invites you to gaze in wonder at their towering achievements in @juliaaugust07.bsky.social’s new story “Transmission Systems.” kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

Why are some mirrors so much more flattering than others?

I miss the sun already.

Who else has binge-watched Will Trent and is now looking up chihuahua rescues?

My short story “Steel Holds the Heat’s Memory” is now free to read at @kaleidotrope.bsky.social! It’s the first published story from a setting I’ve been playing with for 25 years. I hope you enjoy it! kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

You can read my poem “Hungry Years” in the latest issue of Kaleidotrope online. kaleidotrope.net And while you’re there, don’t miss excellent poetry from @epapasoulioti.bsky.social and @mariness.bsky.social .

New @kaleidotrope.bsky.social is out today with a whole bunch of great things and also my tiny new science fiction story (very rare from me) about a dam and the problem of power transmission. It's called "Transmission Systems". kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

New @kaleidotrope.bsky.social is out today with a whole bunch of great things and also my tiny new science fiction story (very rare from me) about a dam and the problem of power transmission. It's called "Transmission Systems". kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

There's a new issue of Kaleidotrope today! kaleidotrope.net

I'm going to develop a single-minded obsession with snapping the peacock butterfly I saw this afternoon. I can feel it coming on already.

hums

I went to return a book and when I got there the library was shut and when I put the book in the book box it bit me?

I'm having one of those "should I cut off all my hair?" months.

I assume roses draw blood as a token of respect and gratitude.

The arc of interior decorating is long but it bends towards more bookshelves.

Lost. So completely lost. I'm lost in the National Gallery and seeing things I've never seen before.

My favourite thing about plants is how you might have overwatered them or you might have underwatered them.

A thread of minor omens: Starting the week with a 181 day form rejection.

A new year, one day late.

When you're an adult, they let you play with the staple gun.

Look, it's me. "Dunwich Revisited", a tiny quiet reflective walk around a Lovecraft-flavoured valley.

Look, it's me. "Dunwich Revisited", a tiny quiet reflective walk around a Lovecraft-flavoured valley.

mood: concerned about lions www.youtube.com/watch?v=EclB...

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I think my favourite thing about giving blood is when they tell you where the blood has gone.

The Winter 2025 Kaleidotrope features fantastic new fiction by @helendecruz.net, Ire Coburn, @lindseyduncan.bsky.social, @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @amygriswold.bsky.social, Laney Gaughan, Megan Branning, Owen McManus, @devanbarlow.bsky.social, Toby MacNutt, S. Cameron David, and Tara Calaby!

"Am I wasting my life? No, the cat that hassles me for snacks says I'm doing fine."

I'm not watching Lidia Poët for the outfits, but I'm not not watching it for the outfits either.

The Devil says, "You should pop into Lidls and see what Christmas sweets they have left over."

My annual favourite short stories of the year post. 75+ make the list this year. Aren't short stories great? Please share this one, as it increases the odds of listed authors seeing it... jameseverington.blogspot.com/2024/12/favo...

Honestly this alone justifies my Netflix subscription. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Pleased to say I can recognise a fake death in a mid-20th-century detective novel from the moment the disfigured remains turn up with some helpful identifying objects.

"How's my day going? Well, I no longer own a glass kettle."

tfw the cat comes in smelling of an unfamiliar air freshener

tfw everywhere that might have sold you chocolate is shut

Perhaps Netflix could stop asking me how I feel about something I run for approximately 75% of the winter (Fireplace For The Home).

So we can go public now - @rozc.bsky.social and I will be accepting novella submissions for @wtpress.bsky.social early next year. And congrats to @queex.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social @dergullen.bsky.social and Juliet Kemp!

me trying to work out what the new humming noises are and desperately hoping it's not the fridge

It's That Season: who do I get the novelty jelly set for?

Scrolling aimlessly through the internet as I try to remember what it was, five whole minutes ago, that I meant to look up.

Telling myself it happens to all of us: you get old, you get tired, you get really into antique pottery...

I have made all the classic superglue errors, with minor elements of slapstick, and can no longer sign into things with my thumbprint.

Pleased to confirm, against the opinion of my spellchecker, that "laudations" is in fact a word.

Reposting mostly for the ANT ART, look how warm and bright that is.

Continuing a thread from x.com/JAugust7/sta...