It’s been pretty emotionally exhausting to be half Black and disabled on the internet the past few days. But at least we can all agree that the BBC are arseholes.

STILL thinking about this book 📚💙

Diverse dystopian books for the times Read and loved: - The Dream Hotel by @lailalalami.com - Face by @jomawest.bsky.social - Chain-Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Want to read: - The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline - Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai - Black Wave by Michelle Tea 📚💙 📚🌍 📚🏳️‍🌈

I’ve just been reminded of how much I enjoyed this book. A genre-blending satire about a lesbian asked to be a maid of honour, set in a world where expensive wedding culture has spiralled out of control and intense bridal rituals turn dangerous… Wild, wacky and kinda terrifying! 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈

Got too big for my britches after reading six full-length romance books in seven days, only to be stumped by the first three pages of a slightly complicated sci-fi novel. It’s like I have to retrain my brain.

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve signed with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, and my debut novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS will be published this autumn! It’s a queer dystopian story about the end of humanity and what comes after. I can’t wait for it to be out in the world.📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🏳️‍⚧️ #writingsky

Reflections on gay clubbing as a disabled 37 year old That was SO fun Thank fuck it started at 8, I left at 11 I wasn’t the oldest there Also not the only one wearing a mask The 18 yr olds we met didn’t believe I was 37, and did not care Concert earplugs aren’t good enough. My right ear is ringing

An 18 year old in the club just recognised me and said OMG IT’S YOU, YOU’RE LOWKEY FAMOUS. I have witnesses and everything. I am going to treasure that interaction for the rest of my life.

The supreme big city satisfaction of making a 60-second train interchange cos you know exactly which bit of the train to sit in for the shortest distance to run (or in my case, trot).

Off out to a Heated Rivalry club night wearing an Ilya shirt dupe that I spent ages looking for on Vinted, listening to the soundtrack and have just finished book 5. I love fandoms.

Tons of British parents are fuming right now because they took their kids to a Kpop tribute concert expecting it to be exclusively Kpop demon hunters, because that’s what they think Kpop IS, but it was all Kpop because it’s a GENRE. It’s hilarious.

Thank you! We're a small indie press specialising in (mostly) queer horror, crime & dark fic Our latest recent, @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS, was out just this week - & we have books out later this year from the fabulous @drewhuff.bsky.social & @discobooks.bsky.social Come find us ⬇️

Ex-Prince Andrew getting arrested on his birthday has weirdly made me proud to be British. The royals are awful and the monarchy sucks. The fact that we CAN and HAVE arrested one is extremely satisfying.

Bingeing A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and just watched episode 5. Holy hell this is a SHOW. Much, much prefer this to House of the Dragon (but I’ve only watched season 1 of that).

Chinese diaspora book recs - If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So - Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee - Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao - Shanghai Immortal by A.Y. Chao - Babel by R.F. Kuang Happy Lunar New Year! 📚💙

Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you all health, happiness and prosperity ❤️❤️❤️

Spent the day watching Heated Rivalry with a friend who’d never seen it, drinking ginger ale and eating burgers. Seeing someone else just GET it is a total joy. I’m embracing the hyper fixation now. It makes me so happy and emotional. I’m never leaving the cottage.

British Pancake Day is on Tuesday, but it clashes with Lunar New Year. So I did Pancake Day today. And I’m going to watch some martial arts movies. And eat more pancakes. Valentine’s has always felt a bit odd to me. Kinda like to Christmas. The societal pressure feels unfair. I try to ignore it.

It’s monster romance stuff your kindle day! 60 free monster romance ebooks. I particularly recommend Portal to Pleasure by @vianoniomoh.bsky.social. 📚💙 📚❤️ monstersyk.wordpress.com/monster-sykd...

Visited Hogarth House today! I’m a big fan of Hogarth’s engravings depicting the squalor, vulgarity and decadence of 1700s London. I’ve seen The Harlot’s Progress before, but this was the first time seeing The Rake’s Progress. He must have been a big influence for artists like Josh Kirby. #art

Sapphic Horror books for Friday the 13th: - Tradwife by @tcparker.bsky.social - House of hunger by Alexis Henderson - Bloom by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social - Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta (on my TBR) 📚💙 #horror

My dystopian novella is set in a flood-ravaged Britain. I would like to be a little less prophetic please. Please make it stop. No more rain. My migraines can’t take it. secretldn.com/rain-every-d...

Queer Rivals to Lovers books for Heated Rivalry fans - The Prospects by KT Hoffman - Peter Darling by SA Chant - A Rival Most Vial by RK Ashwick - Cafe Con lychee by Emery Lee - Spell Bound by FT Lukens - The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar - The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚❤️

Oh dear, I think Heated Rivalry might have unexpectedly taken over my life. I can’t stop thinking about it. I can’t stop watching edits of it. I just got tickets to a themed club night. I’m planning themed watch parties with friends. I love these beautiful lovely gay hockey players so much.

Exciting updates for my queer dystopian novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS are coming soon! I need to be brave and put ‘author’ in my social media names. Or at least ‘writer’. I don’t know why I feel I can’t yet. I AM a writer! I wrote the book! #writingsky 📚💙

Watched videos of older queer people watching Heated Rivalry and crying, saw interviews with Hudson Williams who is a delight, rewatched some bits and OK I GET IT NOW THIS SHOW IS AMAZING 😭😭 I’m literally crying. Seeing Americans who are going through so much get this slice of joy is amazing.

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

Just saw these divas live and it was INCREDIBLE. XLOV, a genderless concept kpop group! #kpop

Road blocked by an Iranian protest, walking to the Iranian embassy to demand its closure and a UK response to the killing of protesters in Iran. I really don’t care about delays. The right to protest is so, so important. Sacred even. And the harming of peaceful protesters is despicable tyranny.

Beating the winter blues with tonight’s kpop concert outfit! #xlov #kpop

Finished Heated Rivalry! It was good. I liked it. I thought they had lovely chemistry and the spice was well done. I am a bit confused as to why it has such a huge pop culture impact though. I watch a lot of gay movies/shows and this one didn’t feel super groundbreaking. But it was cute!

Someone the same age as me just mistook me for a minor. She thought I was her teenage kid’s age. Probably because I was at a kpop event wearing pink. Also I had a mask on my face which may have contributed to the confusion. Couldn’t see my distinguished moustache.

#Kindle deal! @tcparker.bsky.social's TRAD WIFE is just $2.99! #ad amzn.to/3Kj4Uoq

Loved this creepy, spicy, scary horror romance novella by @azaleacrowley.bsky.social! An Asian American woman goes on a first date, but things take an unexpected turn… Azalea Crowley is one of my very favourite authors, and this is the goriest horror of theirs I’ve read. I had tons of fun! 📚💙

Obsessed with the Haiti Winter Olympic uniforms

This made me cry. Sir Ian McKellan is a national treasure, and this monologue about refugees and intolerance is perfection. I’ve never seen him in a play, but I saw him at an LOTR convention and his every word held gravitas. Love him. And I’m sad these words are so relevant now.

My partner is 6ft3. He took a picture of what I look like looking up at him. I look like the bug from A Bug’s Life. Then I showed him my view of his nostrils. This is also unfairly absent from fics.

I’m going to see XLov on Sunday! They’re a “genderless concept” Kpop group. I can’t wait. Judging by social media, the rest of the crowd will be 16 years old though 😹 not an issue, just funny that I got into this music in my 30s, after decades of metal concerts.

Went to this exhibition that The Guardian called ‘revolting visual soup’ and laughed when I saw a Space Invader in a Damien Hirst tank Admittedly, kinda soup-like. I don’t know what they expected from a Hirst / Invader collab though. It was never gonna be intellectual. Enjoy the silly, I say. #art

Read this brilliant queer horror collection by @tcparker.bsky.social last night. Loved it. I really shouldn’t have read it at night just before I went to sleep, it was that terrifying! I especially loved the subtle commentary on British social inequality and intolerance. 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈

Happy Black History Month! P.S. We should be reading books by Black authors year round, not just in February #booksky #blackbooksky #bluesky go.bsky.app/UF7S8ef

Wait… qntm, the author of the below book, is on BlueSky, and has both a regular account ( @qntm.org ), and an account which is just a series of two word horror concepts ( @twowordhorror.bsky.social ). Incredible. Now I’m even more obsessed.

Benedict you absolute KNOBHEAD. #bridgerton

This is a fantastic short story by @sunyidean.com. It’s told entirely in second person and the format works so well. As for the plot… well, the title says it all. It’s extremely satisfying and very *now*. And look at that cover!! EAT THE RICH. 📚💙

Lady Gaga performing Abracadabra with a walking stick while playing the keyboard and giving full metal opera at the Grammys made me emotional. I don’t have fibromyalgia but I do have a chronic illness. Seeing her perform with a mobility aid, making it ART.. love it. Also everyone saying fuck ICE.

Pandora jewellery has a Bridgerton campaign and at first I was like YAY LESBIANS and then realised nope, these are sisters in the show. But the whole campaign is the two of them floating around and embracing with faces very close together and I’m very confused. Tell me you see it too?

Bridgerton remains as silly a diversion as ever. But I am happy to see deaf/HoH representation, and I thiiink I glimpsed a gender non-conforming person. Of colour. And that makes me happy.

Happy (UK) LGBT+ History Month, everyone! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ With @anna-orridge.bsky.social, @tcparker.bsky.social, @drewhuff.bsky.social, @shaunamceleney.bsky.social & @discobooks.bsky.social on the roster - we have a wealth of queer reads for you this February payhip.com/NefariousBat... (Email us about ARCs!)

I have not shut up about this book since I finished it. A mind-bending conceptual sci fi thriller about an organisation dealing with unknown entities that manipulate and wipe memories. One of the best sci fi books I have EVER read. 📚💙

Watching The Great for the first time. How on earth have I not watched this before? Both leads are fantastic.