Friend's sister wrote a book, with a friend doing the art. NO AI! Lady Saranna does not wish to marry, she wants to solve crime. When a murder occurs, she enlists the help of a thief. Together can they solve the crime? #booksky #currentread #whattoreadnext www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FWKFKHZG

🐉 🌈📚 New LGBTQ+ book releases: October 16, 2025. 🔗 Find them here: bit.ly/m/QBR Happy reading, y'all! 🖤🤟🏼 #queerbookreviews #sapphicromance #queerromance #mmromance #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #sapphicbooksky #queerbooksky #readqueerallyear #booksky #romancelandia

give.rrfb.org/give/598705/... Donate and help people have a Thanksgiving dinner when they otherwise couldn't. Any amount welcome, and you can use paypal too.

Ancestry's DNA results updated again. Interesting how one area gets more and more wrong compared to the actual people I've found. Swedish before, can even trace that line of people to a specific area. Now it's suddenly saying no Swedish, but Finnish and Danish instead. Bullshit.

Note the implication that it's either helpful for people with mental health issues, OR it's more human and has friends. Go fuck yourself, Sam Altman (and your "tool").

I give up on Grubhub. If you're picking up a breakfast meal, it's not going to be warm enough if you then pick up another order on the way. Reheated eggs are revolting.

It’s alive! SFPA’s 2025 Halloween Reading series is looking for poems that go bump in the night. Find submission details here, and submit by Oct. 26! sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...

If you want to help those fired from CDC over the weekend, the CDC Mutual Aid Network is helping folks with emergency rent, groceries, etc. altCDC gets no funds from donations, but we can verify they are legit and funds go directly to those impacted.

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand - green bell peppers - the abomination known as Blair Witch Project - anything in Bob Dylan's whiny nasal voice

Weds. game DM helped me respec my character sheet last night. Far more effective, far easier to connect with my ranger as I want him to be. And easy to work the alterations into his story. So grateful, good DMs are a treasure! #DnD #D&D #ttrpg

People get mad my ebooks are $2.99! “It’s not *real*,” they say, like it didn’t take me at least a year to write. People get mad my paperback books are $15, like it didn’t take me that time to write, someone to make the paper, print the books, pack and ship.

Authors, take note. I've recently been deluged with emails from "book clubs" offering to "introduce" my books to their "readership" (for a fee, of course). Another scam: a rando emails you asking for a "link to your books on Amazon." DO NOT respond. writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

Believe me when I say that sometimes this is what holds authors’ resolve together, because publishing is bleak af.

Bought a pair of house slippers. The tag has a code to scan for "usage guidelines". LIKE WHAT???? Put on feet, don't light on fire? Seriously, what usage guidelines do you need for house slippers? SMDH.

This time of year, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is world-famous for our Hot Air Balloon Festival. The cool early mornings will see hundreds of them go up. someone posted this cool timelapse in the Albuquerque subreddit. (you can leave sound off, it's just annoying music.) www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerqu...

This is actually quite interesting. Just goes to show the quality of your dice really DOES matter. That must have taken quite a while to do, LOL. 6000 rolls, wow. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZZ39x...

OMFG FFS. How many accounts do I have to mute to stop seeing anime-like anthropomorphic animals with strangely exaggerated asses, or worse, streamer's avatars of similar with constantly bouncing giant tits? It's fine, I just don't want to see it for ME.

Read this thread. They intentionally screwed over a TON of authors for multiple reasons just to get the suit over with.

R.I.P.

Looked it up, it's true. Come from when Germany was split and they had shitty substitutes in the East due to supply issues. Although what I found says it translates more as "dishwater". Lol

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers: NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints. and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

Mostly owned by Saudia Arabia and Jared Kushner. Say goodbye to diversity in the games, and I'm betting hard money they won't have any non-hetero relationships. FUCK EA.

Must be fall. It's cool enough to crochet again.

Bksy has also marked someone I like talking to as "rude", which explains why I haven't seen their posts. I was starting to worry. They aren't rude, so this is bullshit.

@moderation.bsky.app why on earth would you mark this as rude? There's nothing wrong with this post or with any of this user's posts that you've flagged. Please correct this right away because it sure looks like you're harassing them

@moderation.bsky.app please let @atalanta.bsky.social out of Bluesky jail. Now that their suspension is over, they should be fully reinstated so that we can interact with them again. I miss seeing their posts. Thank you!

@moderation.bsky.app When are you going to take the Rude label off @atalanta.bsky.social's account? It's been a few weeks now and it's ridiculous that it was put on their account in the first place. Please fix this right away!!

@bookspotlight.bsky.social and everyone, Might wanna go through your "following" list. I did to clear out some celebs I don't need, and noticed several people I used to talk to were muted. No idea why. Some are marked spam when I know they're not. WTF is going on.

He is such a treasure. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Tofu takes longer than I thought it would to thaw.

Kind of leery of saying what art I've been seeing way too much of lest my timeline have even more of it. Never once wanted or asked for it, no interest in it. Really odd stuff, let's just say. Have been muting accounts for weeks now. Sigh

@kimberlybrown.bsky.social did some fantastic character art for me! Very communicative, understood details, great to work with. Very pleased, thank you!

It's here! Ooo, I love it. The wood stain is still fresh enough to be tiny bit fragrant, LOL. And it's just a bit redder than the lighting in here shows. But they're really strong magnets and I'm very pleased. A small business on Etsy from Colorado called OldPuebloWoodworking. Just gorgeous.

Happy Fall Equinox!

on sale on amazon, I might have found something new I like. Can only make 1 a day before my hands hurt, but they're really cute.

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

ARGH. Multiple news articles about UK state banquet saying Melania's yellow dress was the exact opposite of Camilla's royal blue. Look at a fucking color wheel, people. It is NOT the opposite. Blue is opposite orange, purple is opposite yellow. Also, off-shoulder at state banquet is INAPPROPRIATE.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Are you an indie or self-published author of SFF books? Then follow @blog.readindiefantasy.com because we promote authors like YOU! 😎 LET US LOVE YOU.

since i'm seeing a bit of a resurgence of fancy unicode fonts recently, a gentle reminder: screen readers generally cannot read anything written with fancy characters properly. please consider not using non-standard unicode characters as fonts in your posts to make them more accessible for all. ❤️

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Finally started the D&D pattern I got off Etsy. Not too difficult so far, I think this will be cute. Maybe I'll back it with felt.. Oh! I can sew up the corners and make it a dice tray if it's not too big. #embroidery #blackwork #DnD

Not political, just sexist. In 1996 in college in Denver, History of Western Civ 1, Professor Murphy told us that the only two women covered that semester were Lucy (the skeleton) and Cleopatra because we had "too much to cover that was more important."