Your first draft is not supposed to be good. Say it with me: your first draft is NOT supposed to be good. It's supposed to be messy and contradictory and full of plot holes. Look at every book you love on your shelf and realize that exactly ZERO of them started out that way.

Here at WNDB, we've curated another reading guide to help you celebrate Juneteenth and continue supporting Black authors—today and all year long! 📚❤️💛💚🖤

Lunch with an eager beaver 💚 TT: @wildheartrescue Claremore, Oklahoma

“Weeks after the Civil War's guns fell silent and 2 months after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Union troops arrived in Galveston, TX…freeing enslaved people...the date they arrived — June 19, 1865 — is now remembered as the first "Juneteenth." Source: www.npr.org/2026/06/19/n...

AHAHAH that's epic. Shame i don't currently need anything, I love Penzey's spices. Great quality.

Corollary: why human booksellers are still superior to algorithms

#DND #D&D #TTRPG Aw hell yeah! Weds game Ranger up to level 7 now! And my crossbow gets some kickass features including explosive bolts and FIRE damage. always useful up in the North.

Oh, freaking OUCH.

Science is amazing

On a positive note, the deviled eggs were eaten with enthusiasm. (Recipe was from Southern Living magazine, which had good reviews. Super easy.)

I love making food for my bro and BFF, especially if it's a treat they don't often get when we're together because it's something I don't eat. I love my people, but these deviled eggs freaking stink in the fridge. LOL

Today is a good day to cancel your Paramount+ subscription.

Happy #PrideMonth! My novel SMOKE AND STEEL is part of this awesome bundle. Lesbian Catgirls Being Gay and Doing (war) Crimes. They don't do pride, only WRATH. If you support women's wrongs, you gotta support catgirl wrongs, too. m.dax.ink/bttsb

I'm having a small #PrideMonth FLASH Sale on my direct store! 30% off select ebooks! Included ebooks: * A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams * Stars and Soil * Shades and Silver * Birthing Orion Come get your epic fantasy with lesbian romance * discount applied at check out m.dax.ink/PFS2026

I don't really watch tv anymore anyway, but here's apparently a great reason to sell the actual tv so this nasty shit isn't in my house. and get rid of the roku device. How very disappointing. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

If you're new to publishing, struggling to find reviewers or just have questions on navigating the community, I've made a handy little blog post for ya! Updated as often as I can :) rebeccacrunden.com/resources-fo... [ #booksky ]

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is now officially on YouTube. Current.org reports "up to 10 new full episodes added to the channel monthly, ideally based on a theme or holiday." There were 896 episodes filmed. Plus compilations. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...

Sigh. here we go again. Dove is the past tense of dive. Strove is the past tense of strive. Cast is the past tense of cast. Thrust is the past tense of thrust. Shone is the past tense of shine. If you're going to have a beta reader, maybe make sure they're capable of actually editing.

random question: if you were to buy a dice set for a rogue, what do you think it should look like? #DnD #D&D #ttrpg #rpgdice bonus points for showing me a link to a set under $30.

UK Independent Bookshop Week starts today. Support your local indie! Our communities and culture are so much richer for their existence. And here’s a poem from ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ in praise of indie bookshops - only available in the exclusive Indie Bookshop edition.

Really enjoying collaborating with this illustrator, they totally understand the vision for the book. It'll take quite a while, but a real labor of love for all of us.

awww, Alton Brown apparently doesn't like air fryers. Well, he can come cook in my oven and pay my cooling bill on a day when it's supposed to hit 104 degrees. Often easier for disabled people, too. Call it a convection oven and add $550, bet he'd like it then. Ass.

I am once again begging folks to understand the difference between ‘I don’t like this’ and ‘Nobody likes this’. You are not the main character of the world. Readers and authors have different tastes. You are not the arbiter of what authors should and should not put into books.

surprise your favorite bluesky indie writer: buy their book or request your local library carry them. show support & spread the word.

Excited to be a part of the New Mexico Book Awards again this year!

Why am I being yelled at by a cat who has plenty of food and water, at 6 freaking 15 am? Fine, I'm up! *cat goes in other room and lays down* AAAUUUGGGHHH

well, I cried. poops. youtube.com/shorts/uD7qM...

Holy crap, I didn't realize she was HERE. Good for the family.

I loved his singing no matter where I heard it. This, Buffy, Rocky Horror Anniversary tribute... Not just a great actor. The man had a powerful voice. My Buffy crush was always Giles.

KQRE - copying an article about National Donut Day's discounts is pretty damned lazy reporting, given that only two of the chains in the article are even in this state. Couldn't even be bothered to write something local yourself? Sad.

Saw a post where someone was excited about how many books they had read so far this year, and people were dunking all over them because it was a low number by their standards. Just, ew. Don't be like this. Who cares if you've read 150 books or 1. Read what you want when you want. Just read! 📚💙

I LOVE THIS

Geeks and photographers, please help: My bro needs to have location data in the EXIF on his phone on to take pics for a class. Supposedly, everything is on and geolocation is enabled in permissions. Samsung galaxy S24. But all his photos are reading as no EXIF data in them. How do we fix it?

the barbarian in my Friday game has a greataxe he calls "the Business". So he can give them the business, ha ha! Design by him, ink and color by me. Don't copy or steal it. #DnD #D&D #TTRPG

The giveaway dice set (Moonlight Sonata) for the @badhouserpg.bsky.social winner! #dice #ttrpg

Settings that help reduce motion sickness in video games, if you can adjust them. 1. turn off motion blur 2. reduce shadows/graphics quality (not the most important) 3. Narrow field of vision 4. lower frame rate 5. be in 3rd person view 6. turn off "chromatic aberration". anything you can add?

Happy #PrideMonth! I write fantasy novels featuring lesbian romance. You can buy my books directly (shop.dax.ink) but they are available at most major retailers! Common features in my books: 💔 Healing from trauma ♿ Disability rep 💓 Polyamorous Lesbians ✨ Magic ⚔️ Revolution 🐈 Catgirls

Oh, this is difficult. Swedish Chef rising Gonzo sun Dr. Teeth moon but somewhere there's a trine of Scooter, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and Statler/Waldorf.

Hey friends - is there a website like kickstarter that ISN'T kickstarter, and maybe has people developing games and gaming stuff on it?

In case anyone reading wasn't aware: when you see sticker sets with grids like this listed on etsy or other places, it's someone reselling bulk packs from aliexpress full of stolen art scraped off of the web. The gaps are where they just cut out designs they get reported for.

📌I won't lie, Deb Haaland's victory in the Democratic primary for New Mexico governor brings me endless joy in this sea of Republican bigotry and corruption. Well done, Ms. Haaland. On to November!

Starting tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ 🏃🏿🏳️‍🌈

I'm not in any of this bundles but this one has Wonders of Mundus, A Study on Magic and Crystals, Colors of Magic, The Thirteenth Hour, and a lot of other cool books.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Rana brand short rib lasagna and the chicken carbonara lasagna from Costco are both restaurant good, and we get about 5 servings to freeze out of each. works out much cheaper and easier than making it, especially as there's plenty of meat in them.

treat time! The boba tea is taro flavored.

Agreed. I do not use it at all, it's not valuable, and Rosenbaum is full of shit. AI can go fuck itself. I'll turn it off or block it everywhere I can.

ASCII art and emoji memes and whatever can be made accessible. Take a screenshot, post the screenshot with alt text instead of the emojis. Boom. Done in a way that doesn’t ruin the days of people using a screen reader. I don’t repost your ridiculous summoning circle jokes because the sound awful.

Really? My friend can't visit on Hello Kitty Island Adventure because you can't cross-platform visit? Who made that dumb-ass programming decision? And no, I don't like opening a game up to strangers.

read the whole thread, this is very disturbing.