happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday to all who celebrate

the fact that so many agents sell querying advice and pitching courses and get agented masterclasses really stresses me out because i just feel like it inevitably creates a profit motive to make querying as obscure and difficult and intimidating as possible

sometimes you get so used to being in pain that you forget to question if you should do something about it

at a conference yesterday a survey result blew my mind: people are broadly positive about ads in places where ppl want to learn about products and services (eg shops). advertisers have strewn the innards of the golden goose all over our floors and now theyre mad that we're getting out the mop.

the movies had a very strict policy of only hiring cast and crew who were kind, decent, and trustworthy around children in order to protect their young actors this policy is backfiring on rowling now because anyone kind, decent, or trustworthy around children wants nothing to do with her

i got harangued by our fact checker last week for describing autumn as "cosy" without a source but this is going unchallenged???

maybe this is self-serving as someone who enjoys both writing and reading it but where has short genre fiction gone. not everything has to be >300k. not everything even needs to be >80k.

Yep. Prestige podcasting is dying for the same reason as the rest of the media: Pontificating is cheap and reporting is expensive.

Woke up this morning in Greenland. It is game time for my cameras. National Geographic Endurance safely crossed the Denmark Straight and into this fjord! #EastCoastKin #photography #Greenland

me logging on to bluesky every day

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

I see we’re doing “film criticism is dead” discourse again. Film criticism is alive and well, it’s just being done by sexy podcasters instead of transphobic newspapers 🤷‍♀️

not the scene that made me write the entire novel #wipsnips

1000 years ago, the world was broken. Now, THE CITY OF 1000 ALTARS watches over the scar. Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, neither knowing the secrets their chance meeting will unravel. With: - transgender fallen god - older coming of age story - autistic rebel priestess #pitchfpp

are the literary agents who auto-reject any query from a cis white man in the room with us now

i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age

1000 years ago, the world was broken. Now, THE CITY OF 1000 ALTARS watches over the scar. Two strangers vie for the gods' forgiveness, unaware of the secrets their chance meeting will unravel. - older trans fallen god - autistic rebel priestess - badass fat female demigod #queerpit #a #ef

THE CITY OF 1,000 ALTARS (64k) In a city where the eyes of the gods are everywhere, only one will win their favour and survive. COMPS The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon) Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (N. K. Jemisin) #questpit #a #f #q

Hi. I’m the universal translator in Star Trek. I will translate everything in real time even making lip movements match. Occasionally I will switch off when someone really wants to speak a different language than the listener

sometimes i think i'm smart and then i remember that once i ran out of pineapple kimchi and panicked and had my mind completely blown by the revelation that adding some regular kimchi and some fresh pineapple had exactly the same effect on my noodles. i have two masters degrees.

i work in print media and a thing i've noticed a lot is that people say "in the modern world it's impossible to live without digital subscriptions" and when i say i do they start listing subscriptions that they assume i have

Farewell to Glenn Kessler, who had one job and was laughably terrible at it

if there is one thing querying has given me it's a real disdain for authors talking about how many times their book was rejected. it its under 100 you did just fine

my phone bricked. when i got it to turn on, the only app that would open was pocketcasts. the only podcast that would play was private eye. i was not listening to any podcast when it shut down. sublime marketing by @andrewhunterm.bsky.social but i really did need to pay my rent

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally

What happened to Aeon? The full story includes: - a middle aged transmasc fallen god - a city balanced on the edge of the world - a young priest who will let no god stop her from doing what's right #unhingedpit #a #f #lgbt #q

about to hit my record for "most rejections in a single day" and its not even noon someone hold my hand

Admittedly I don't read enough books these days, but I still need them <3

the flowers growing on my windowsill changed colour *so fast* oh my gosh

had a picnic yesterday followed by a potluck so i have a day of chores to do but also an abundance of leftovers, almost all of which are either bread or potato based. this i call sundaymaxxing

Iris parade continuing 😍 #bloomscrolling

me when things inconvenience me in 11/12 months of the year: oh. that's annoying me when things inconvenience me during pride month: this is homophobia in action

nothing worse than terrible advice from people whose opinion you rate btw. what do you mean i've overused this phrase. it appears twice in a 63,000 word block of text.

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 some late medieval specimens (ca.1440), from Tractatus de Herbis, a wonderful manuscript from northern Italy made to help apothecaries and physicians identify useful ingredients. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tractatus-de-herbis-ca-1440 @britishlibrary

"We are experiencing a heavier than usual call volume." Translation: Your corporate policy is being understaffed and lying to your clients/customers.

the thing about writing is they do not warn you how many times you have to do it again afterwards. drafting? write it again but better. synopsis? write it again but shorter. querying? write it again but better and shorter. where does it end

i understand that having to know americanisms is a necessary trait if you're gonna do puzzles but i draw the line at being expected to get "square" from "cheese slices"

absolutely infuriating the way that i am bombarded with adverts for testosterone supplements aimed at cis men. so they're fine? we're in agreement? its fine to take testosterone because you want to look more masculine?

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

MC digs into her girlfriend's past, discovers conspiracy of black magic, child murder, and cannibalism. somehow MC is the bad guy. #chaospit

the problem is that the more you're going through it and need support the more boring and stressful you become to be around

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

when i accepted this job i don't feel that it was made clear to me that i was expected to know things about minions

Look at this studious werewolf!!

I wrote about this in my new book (out next month!), it is oddly compelling to simulate dropping space rocks on yourself. (Apophis is a fair bit larger than 2024 YR4, the asteroid in question here, which would still be very bad but not quite this bad.)

you wouldn't believe the number of messages we receive from bots beginning 'Hi, The!'

Poppy’s sister thumped against every step as she dragged her down the stairs, flinching at each impact. It would have been better if she could have carried her, but Poppy had been too small to lift her even for the few seconds it took to haul her body out of the door.