Pre-loved queer book sale raising funds for the @goodlawproject.org 💙🤍🩷 Sunday 18th May at 77a Great George Street LS1 3BR LGBTQ+ book donations welcome 🌈📚

Character art reveal day!! One month until the DEVOURING FORTUNE campaign launches, so I'll be sharing the incredible character art illustrated by @exaltxix.bsky.social for the next 3 weeks. Today I'll introduce you to REED, my transmasc disaster who is too impulsive for his own good.

Wishing a very merry Go Fuck Yourself to everyone who voted reform yesterday May you get the local government you deserve. (Just a shame we have to get it, too).

We’ve Got a List of Author’s for You! Here are the authors and their story titles for the anthology TEETH!

Would you like to read MILK TEETH, my story about unfortunate council workers investigating some fucked up roadkill and stumbling onto something zoonotic and terrifying involving cows? 🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄 Obviously you would! And good news, it'll in the @dreampunkpress.bsky.social anthology, TEETH, in October!

Behold my beautiful writing assistant.

How do I explain to Word that, while this correction would be in character under some circumstances (my POV boy is a pathologist), it's not appropriate right here, right now?

I couldn't see this good news anywhere on the BBC (understandable given recent events), so here it is - high court overturned the £585K OfS fine on the Uni of Sussex. No, saying you won't tolerate transphobia does not equal a 'chilling effect on free speech'. www.thepinknews.com/2026/04/29/u...

Sometimes we have Team Away Days. Managed to explain to my team captain (truthfully) that doodling helps me focus during the 'building our service vision' sessions. I swear the amphipod-dragon has helped me remember more corporate vision than ever before.

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

How am I supposed to do yoga under these conditions

Apparently it was Alien Day yesterday! I'll perform my annual duty: if you search 'alien 3 whippet', you can see the dog they put in a xenomorph costume for David Fincher's Alien 3. Unfortunately it was too adorable to put to film. You're welcome.

I am reading Someone You Can Build A Nest In by @wiswell.bsky.social and it is Very Monster Very Sapphic Very Funny and I love it Very Much and will be immediately purchasing copies as birthday presents for every book-loving human I know, please and thank you for this gift to humanity.

Reading the end of No Country for Old Men is like experiencing the 'old man yells at cloud' gif over and over again.

LOOK AT THIS

undertone was so terrifying that it ruined date night to a cosmic degree and my husband is now threatening to divorce me. Good job, no notes.

We are so chuffed to be sharing our first official @cymerafestival.co.uk panel with @amyjanestewart.bsky.social and @charlottecross.bsky.social talking all things Gothic this June! www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...

I read The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by MK Hardy

Realise today that when I masc up my hair and wear a vest I really start to resemble a less buff version of Simon Gruber from Die Hard with a Vengeance. The jury is still out on whether this is fortunate or unfortunate.

I went to the secondhand bookshop, bought two books for me, realised that's not fair, bought two books for husband (including a gorgeous Art of Star Trek book with pictures of all the bottles in Quark's 🤩), THEN picked up my library hold, then went to Tesco. Now my back hurts. Why, who can say.

Crumble's new bed makes it look like she is being eaten by a cloud 😶‍🌫️

I don't get my writing ideas from an LLM, I get them from dreams where an enticing figure (who looks human until you catch them from the corner of your eye) whispers to me from the edge of a starless night, leaving me waking refreshed, satisfied, and yet flushed with a subtle sensation of wrongness.

sometimes I think things aren't great, and then my tiny dog curls up next to me and has dreams where she snores honkingly, and I guess things are a little bit great, for the moment, in that specific area of armchair.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Crumble wishes the UK folk a happy long weekend. Don't forget to affectionately troll your Christian loved ones if you have them 😇

When Amber returns to her childhood home after a tragedy, she soon has to admit that the menacing voice she hears is more than just grief. Enjoy an excerpt from C.J. Dotson's (@cj-dotson.bsky.social) These Familiar Walls, coming from St. Martin’s Press on 4/14! reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

Friendly reminder that if you're the kind of person who (rightfully) says 'Your nostalgia is not worth more than trans lives' re financially supporting JKR - but you're still vocally excited about Eurovision because 'it's gay Christmas'... you might be a big fat hypocrite.

Sadness is realising that The Musketeers will never work as a four-person group costume because you'll keep having to stop to explain who D'Artagnan is.

This isn’t complicated. “Every Harry Potter book, movie, video game, stage show ticket, theme park pass, and piece of merchandise that’s sold puts money into Rowling’s pocket, which she can use to keep her crusade against trans people going.”

stop perceiving me

Having now watched every entry in the Saw franchise (thanks @contrapoints.bsky.social), I was dared to do the same with Friday the 13th. I have regrets. So far (Jason Takes Manhattan) the best thing about F13 is that it makes Saw look very exciting. I'm not sure I can hold out until the space one.

One of the things I love about @tkingfisher.com's The Twisted Ones is the sheer realism of Bongo the dog. As someone who regularly asks my dog, with rhetorical seriousness, 'now, are you a bit silly?', come for the fucked up deer, stay for my perfect stupid boy.

I'm happy to say today is the day for the book cover reveal of DEVOURING FORTUNE! @jeleynai.bsky.social did an incredible job on the illustration, I'm in awe. For fans of Tanith Lee and A.K. Larkwood, about bargains gone wrong. Follow the prelaunch page! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ole...

Christening my post history with Crumble on her first day at home. She's very good. Everyone deserves to see her.