Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

Hey #writesky, #artsky, whoever needs to know about this... every so often I'm glad I haven't been able to safely touch Meta for years, because it means I can't have an Instagram account for the plagiarism machine to steal without warning. For anyone who does... (points down)

Writing up the eventually-probably-25 page do list for the things that need done before the next book launch, starting with this month. I have 12 bullets this month so far, which will prob double. Only 1 involves the word "write," and it's not even "write more fiction." I hate business-stuff.

Wow, these ancient Egyptian linen tunics are 3,400 years-old! They belonged to Kha, who was the ‘director of works’ responsible for the design and construction of royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi... #Archaeology

Heads up Samsung/Android folx who also loathe google messages

Hey #writesky and #indieauthors, @romancingthevote.com is running for 2 more days! Hundreds of services, consultations, conversations with experts, bookish/nerdish swag, etc. If you've ever wanted to make your ebook more accessible, I've got 3 accessibility reviews up for auction!

First EVER exclusive for #cosyfantasy readers! Play games, win good prizes! Every time you see a post about #cozythedayaway, leave a comment and repost with the emoji mentioned in the video, and you will win ✨exclusive ✨ access to view the list before the sale Oct 3- 4th! #booksale

I'd like to connect with more Disabled Writers this Disability Pride, but I figure many of us may be low on spoons. So; who'd like to be tagged in a Disabled Writers Thread? Open to neurodivergent (broadest meaning), chronically ill & other disabled writers -especially invisible illness!

Okay this is genius, these folks know how to read the room www.32auctions.com/organization... #RomancingTheVote #knitting the #zeitgeist #lolsob

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🌶️📚♿ New month, new book sales and giveaways -- and this month is Disability Pride Month, so I'm going to shout out some of my favorites where disabled folks get to go on adventures and be the heroes and heroines too :D First up: Unusual Chosen Ones! books.bookfunnel.com/chosenones/x...

#RomancingTheVote is coming up on July 1 - hey #writesky and #indieauthors, have you ever wanted to make sure your ebook is as accessible as possible? I'm offering three auctions for ebook accessibility reviews, and here's one: www.32auctions.com/organization...

🚨ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT🚨 check out the queer heroes sale! an excellent curation of books featuring big damn queer heroes. #PrideBookFair #booksky sheilajenne.com/queer-heroes...

Hey cozy fantasy fans, in addition to my Chai and Cat-tales and Haroun and the Study of Mischief, several more of the Queer Heroes books are also cozy-forward 😄 @feelingsandmagic.bsky.social 's How I Became a Therapist in Another World, @clh2oars.bsky.social 's Awakenings & more (but out of letters)

With my disability array, if I can't vote by mail I can't vote. I'm sure the Agents of Orange consider that a desirable outcome. If you have any shouting left in you rev. 2,054,620,198 and counting...

💙📚🌈📚 So if you have a US mailing address, you can get a digital library card for free for approximately 3 clicks. It's really easy to join from anywhere! If you happen to be in a position to offer financial support for the work they do, they're trying to raise $32,000 by the end of the month.

#QueerWriters #pride #writesky #writingcommunity #LGBTQWriteAThon I (20 f) have a brilliant plan to get myself hired by the prince (21 m) so I can read all his Archives' spellbooks. First, gotta dodge how everyone else expects us to get married. I'm going to get my HEA on my terms, tropes or no!

💙📚🌈📚 Here's a bunch of LGBTQIA indie books that don't focus on romance, so if you're looking for more Queer Heroes in your Pride reading, check 'em out! Ft. @clh2oars.bsky.social , @feelingsandmagic.bsky.social , @ormakal.bsky.social, @katkinneywrites.bsky.social sheilajenne.com/queer-heroes...

Gotcher American bird right here, @davidjoffe64.bsky.social

🧵 Another excellent blog by Fred Rossi who is well worth following "The Patient Who Isn’t Supposed to Exist" darthfoo.substack.com/p/the-patien... Nominally on the recent, controversial WIRED article but the points are pretty general #LongCovid #MEcfs #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM #PwME 1/

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🌶 Thanks, MG, for the delightful reviews! "My fat posi friends, particularly those who like romantasy, this is for you... How often do we get a romance-adjacent queerplatonic meet-cute relationship story with a fat protagonist?" (Answer: More of em coming soon!) www.tumblr.com/madgastronom...

More tasty alternatives for folks with food restrictions or sensitivities!

We're celebrating Pride Month with queer indie and self-published SFF authors based on the colours of the Pride flag! Here are 30 authors, 5 per colour, across the vast spectrum of LGBTQIA+ SFF books: www.readindiefantasy.com/indie-sff-bo...

Solar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🌶️ If anybody wants a sneak preview video of Katayef and Kittens (aka the one where the dungeon is more like a cozy fantasy cat cafe)... I don't know who this gentleman is, but he's living the live action reenactment of Faraj's kitten-ful life here 🤣🐱 www.reddit.com/r/shoulderca...

💙📚🌈📚🪐Went to check if Chai and Charmcraft had made it into the Queer Liberation Library collection, and not only has it made it there, all the copies are checked out! Y'all are fast! But Haroun and Cat-tales both have copies if people want books ASAP 🥰 queerliblib.overdrive.com/search?query...

if anyone has any screaming left in them part 3549203: I would much rather see science done by scientists, not by political fiat when the science is politically unpopular or benefits DEIA♿. We still have a little time left to scream? yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-omb-ru...

I am a thousand miles from this and I never watch sportsball, but I'm rooting for Mayor Mamdani to welcome the people who do, so that 🍊 can't crush their joy with his personal blockade. Looks like Bryant Park has 5k tickets and overflow in Central Park. www.msn.com/en-in/news/o...

🐱📚🌈📚💙📚🪐📚🌶 QRP time so that I can find this thread again to add zafrani sharbat notes to it! (If anyone would like to buy a book for Pride, here's Sia's recommendations and I'm honored to be on this gorgeous list:) everybookadoorway.com/happy-7th-bl...

Fayum Mummy Portraits They come from Roman Egypt, mostly dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries CE. Painted on wooden panels, many were placed over the faces of mummified bodies, giving the dead an astonishingly life like presence. #History #HistoryMatters

Before Caturday ends I'm going to slip one more in

Was nearly prepared for my 🌈 newsletter to set off more unsubscribes than usual. Wasn't prepared for more unsubs in 2 hours than any other NL (except, of course, for disability advocacy). For the first NL reply to be an attempt at bigoted mockery? How did they not already know what I write?

As it's Aromantic Visibility Day of Pride Month, Authors; let's do an Aro Books thread! 🖤💚🩶 If your book(s) have significant aro rep, drop your book description, graphic & direct sales/ link to all stores! ♠️🌈📚

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚 Happy blogiversary! (Also I already knew @diane.dianeduane.com was amazing, I've been a fanmoppet since I was 8 and reading Deep Wizardry and falling in love with a shark, but I didn't know the list of amazingness should include "does fantastic art" and "has literally done brain surgery"?)

For folks in the Long Covid disability boat, I appreciate the existence of Camp Long Haul even as I note the irony that I can't participate bc they use Instagram/Meta (even before the AI hack). But we're all doing our best, so be welcome if you can get there? f4lh.substack.com/p/your-offic...

💙 📚 🪐 📚 🌈 hey Booksky! New month, new free and sale books. First up, free cozy fantasy books and excerpts all across the rainbow (mine cover most of the spectrum themselves - aro, ace, bi, pan, trans, and many others, and my fellow authors have the rest): books.bookfunnel.com/freecozyfant...

#LGBTQWriteAThon hi! I'm Lynn. I write stubbornly inclusive cozy fantasies (post pinned). Dream goal: ✨Finish the first draft of book 2. ✨ But if I were smart: * Get more than 4 hours of sleep a night * Keep the work hours under 90 * Get start of month soc media requirements out of hair ASAP 😅

Rarely been so glad I can't use Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads/the Eye of Sauron...

Hey #boksky, #writesky, #artsky, #romancelandia... link tree is going to start shoving things into AI without consent. This thread has some alternatives.

If room ~= garden: Been having a challenge landing the plot plane for Katayef and Kittens. Literally herding cats here lolsob, *so many cats* (& Irfan is Not Having A Good Day.) Grandmother, though? She's happy as a clam w all the kittens! 🐱 #wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Monthly Disabled Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome! #WriteSky #ActuallyDisabled

I have found the best subreddit ever: www.reddit.com/r/brushybrus... Behold, Exhibit A (sound needed for this one!) www.reddit.com/r/brushybrus... It's amazing that happy body language includes blinky eyes and leaning into scritches across cats, dogs, cows, tortoises, alligators...

Our virtual conference, Storycrafting Sessions: Disability in Writing, is happening TOMORROW! Keep reading this thread or head over to weeknightwriters.com/2026/04/18/s... for the full details! 1/?

if anyone has any screaming left in them... "giving out research money based on who's in a red state and willing to say whatever the gov't wants to hear instead of what the science says" is so very apocalyptically bad my brain is failing to process anything other than radio static right now?

Bless all the other authors who are using this as promo 🤣 THE BRUISING OF QILWA is a slice-of-life queernormative medical fantasy following a nonbinary refugee healer with taboo blood magic trying their damn best. It's set in a universe inspired by Iranian and West Asian cultures/histories!

Some books about rebellion/revolution are on sale through the end of the month! More details here: sheilajenne.com/revolutionar... #booksky

💙📚🌈📚🐱 Sneak preview of part of a future book cover thanks to the fantastic @galaxystt.bsky.social -- having realized approx last week that the 80,000 words I'd written for book 3 of the current trilogy don't work for the current trilogy, I'm prob making that Shai Vishal's book instead of Faraj's?

It is so much harder than I expected to find cozy fantasy writers other than Celia and me who both write positive rep for disabled folks being excellent while living their lives and also willing to mention each others' books in July Disability Pride newsletter. Anyone out here up for it? #writesky

I am not ordinarily the sort of person anyone has ever described as a party animal. If people had thrown parties like this in college, though, I might actually have been tempted... 😺 youtu.be/2CyVfJhTK8I?...

a) whole point of book is disabled folx being Excellent while also being disabled! given accommodations, they are fantastically themselves. b) would love to know of more ppl writing books where "the Cure" is NOT the point? Esp for Disability Pride Month in July! Anyone have some to share?

So many! (Both charas & WIPs). Haroun is a blind priest and Shai Madhur is his walking-stick-aided seeing-eye human. Sequel: They might like to Fight More Crimes? Except they still haven't met a crime more dire than Haroun's fashion sense. But ppl now think they find missing persons? Hijinks!