I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.

@melissacaruso.bsky.social talking about the level of stress her most recent main character is under

@alixeharrow.bsky.social talking about the extreme interest in lady knights that many of us had in our teen hood Talking about @tamorapierce.bsky.social, @garthnix.bsky.social, and Mercedes lackey, among others!

At a tour event @sidequestbooks.bsky.social is doing with @alixeharrow.bsky.social! I’m very excited to read this book! If you live in the Boston area, definitely swing by the store if you’re near Bow market.

@fondalee.bsky.social again, giving us a tangential example of how adding little details in your writing creates good world building and settles the reader in place

More from @fondalee.bsky.social

@fondalee.bsky.social on the prospect of dusting off and rewriting the practice novel she started off with

@wiswell.bsky.social being properly lauded at @sidequestbooks.bsky.social

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

OH NO WAD IT EJ sorry

Elon knows people like him are not just a minority but a reviled one by most people in most countries so he is buying the illusion of popularity just like he purchased the false veneer of business genius, he's even using the same method

I can only imagine how that team is feeling today, after experiencing this disappointing moment at the Hugo Ceremony, and now not even being included in the apology. Please make this right. All of the Hugo finalists deserve to be celebrated and uplifted by the Worldcon. 2/2

Everybody at 6 in the morning on a Saturday on social media wishing for the same thing for no particular reason

Go on the Irish!

Treasury is required to produce a report to Congress related to Direct File, the free tax filing option that the current administration intends to kill. They've created a survey with a bunch of leading questions. The survey deserves some responses supportive of the program to counteract its framing:

The artist is Stephen Hickman. This info is not only on ISFDB, the artist's signature is in this very image... And it is a fantastic cover!

TikTok wants me to download their app so bad, that even though they definitely know I’m in the US and not the UK, this is there newest trick they’re resorting to. I don’t know what it said, but here’s the proposed fare changes www.mta.info/fares-tolls/...

Slavery was much worse than you were taught. White Supremacist terrorism and lynching was much worse than you were taught. Jim Crow and racial segregation was much worse than you were taught. The legacy of slavery is much worse than you were taught.

Hozier Billy Bragg Tom Paxton and the don juans Amy kucharik at boskone Boston Pops pride night with Orville peck Mostly I go to group sings, not concerts, so those are over the last 2 years I think.

This post is making me think of what @adapalmer.bsky.social said on the Rules were meant to be Broken, structures in society panel, talking about an importance’s of figuring out who ends up at the edges of whatever society you’re creating.

AND NOW MONIQUILL HAS AN ASTOUNDING AWARD

Seattle humidity murdered me to death. TSA is checked did a double take after looking at my ID and said “where did your curls go? What did you do to your hair?” 🥲

I always get so much joy out of attending Worldcons - so many notes to take, so many wonderful people I meet for the first or second or fifth time. The best of the best is when I walk up to the table after a panel and someone goes “IT’S YOU”. and I get to go “it’s me :)” 💜

Went to Leigh Bardugo’s reading earlier, and she gave some context for the passage she was reading from partway through Ninth House, the whole room cracked up.

Was doing some personal housekeeping while listening during the Libraries panel, but i did get one quote written down. @adapalmer.bsky.social was talking about the connections made between readers, and with curators, when reading the same book; many of whom you don’t know the names of.

At the libraries panel, the moderator asked how many members of the audience had library cards open at multiple libraries, and actively used them — and almost the entire room raised their hands

As someone with a separate, simpler coffee shop name, thank you 💜💜💜

OH at #Worldcon: "Well, I don't normally identify as 'pine tree,' but I guess today I'll make an exception."

Suddenly this comic strip became a lot more real-world plausible.... bsky.app/profile/emil...

I talked about this with George R.R. Martin when he was my instructor at @clarionwest.bsky.social. He said to do all the research you want but close the notes when you are writing. That way, your memory serves as a natural filter to allow only the most relevant parts to bubble up and serve the story

Time for Breaking the rules- we were told by our replacement moderator that the originally scheduled one couldn’t make it, so he might be breaking the rules a little bit. #worldcon

Robert Jackson Bennet signing off after his #hugo win.

DARCIE LITTLE BADGER TRUTHERS UNITE #worldcon #lodestaraward

@swantower.bsky.social ONE BILLION TIMES DESERVED CONGRATS

@benjaminckinney.com was the one who convinced me to start posting my calligraphy, so I’m contractually required to make sure I get to at least one of his panels at any convention- he did a great job moderating the transhumanism panel, and reiterated this crucial underpinning to the discussion

Here we have a buck wild fan question, which was in fact validated by @brandonsanderson.com as possible in Cosmere logic. #cosmere #wordofbrandon #worldcon

Some insight into the way @brandonsanderson.com weighs plotting vs character driven writing- when a character would seem likely to do something, he’ll follow through on what that would mean for the story.

@brandonsanderson.com talking about the benefits of having mic runners choose question askers, so he doesn’t have to feel bad about not picking someone

@brandonsanderson.com on the risks and repercussions of adaptations

@victormanibo.com with a important as hell point. Write and have fun and write what you WANT to write because it’s hard as hell to be an author seeking publication

@swingingstorm.bsky.social talking about how sticking with her values and her vocal support of Palestinians for years and years has been actively called out as adding to unmarketability in the corporate publishing world

every time i go to a @andreahairston.bsky.social panel, she says some amazing things- in this case, talking about the kind of interaction that’s you laugh about but that’s also fucked up, with regard to visibility in an oppositional world.

Unrelated to calligraphy but I ran into these lovely fairy godmothers who I den parented at the masquerade last night! If you wonder why there was no Friday evening calligraphy it’s cause I was locked in the green room from 3pm onwards

Boundaries: I don't want to see that thing so I will block it for myself. Censorship: I don't want to see that thing so I will block it for everybody.

Autographing signatures once again! @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social , with the repeating line from her hugo-nominated short story!

@cassmorriswrites.com, talking about the building of the palace of Versailles Cass I had to leave early but I will find you and I will give this to you 🫡

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

@casella.bsky.social has been an AMAZING moderator, and this is what he opened questions with.