Committed essay this morning: on ice, work, and permission to go slow. With a horse picture! (my Patreon is free to all readers but if you want to kick in, that's always appreciated.) www.patreon.com/posts/but-i-...

In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.

Oh, WOW, Ellen! 🥰 Thank you so much! This gave me a huge smile and made me blush. By the way, they can get Maid for Life and Half Sisters Season 1 on itch.io for free! emoryahlberg.itch.io

Hey! I am working on curating a starter pack for trans and nonbinary authors -- please either comment here or DM me if you want to be added! Also, share so I can get the word out. #writingcommunity

Anyone want to just give me a decent, well paid job and save me from the horror of having to go through the application process? I've not yet heard the results of my appeal- in theory, it should be sometime this week- but I'm assuming that it won't be good news.

#2026ReadingList 1 Bloodsong of Wycaro by Carol Sturka This is an excerpt of Carol Sturka's latest novel, for those of us who were worried about Raban's fate after Lucasia made him walk the plank in the last novel. It is as well-written as all her other work and hints at events that happen /1

I'm not at the end of it yet (watching ep7 now) but, if I were one of the unaffected in #Pluribus, I'm really not sure whether I'd want it to go back to 'normal'. I'm also not convinced that I'd be too worried about being affected. I'm also not sure if that's a good sign.

In celebration of winning best transformation fantasy, Song of the Dryads is going to be on sale for $1 for 24 hours! Get yourself a copy of my debut novella that got an award! itch.io/s/177836/sot...

Oh look. The BBC are giving me another chance to miss The Sound of Music. I wish I'd known so I could have missed it from the start. But I guess that's one of the good things about iplayer. It's available to miss whenever I want.

Hi everybody - in honor of the “Magica Riot” audiobook winning a Transfeminine Review award, I’m putting the whole Magica Riot audio series so far - Magica Riot, Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius, and Magica Riot Full Bloom - on sale for one week in an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/177864/mag...

My 2025 reading summary. It says I read 175 books while I counted 178. I'm not going to spend time working out where I went wrong. It was probably me putting the wrong number down somewhere. app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...

Renee and Cher Or Sonny and Renata

Just spotted that my book The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream is currently 99p on the Kindle store amzn.eu/d/bVnbqya

If you can't afford to buy anything, please share this. I mean, please share it anyway.

I quite like this #ShakeOfTheDay thing for the stuff you have on one of the CLZ apps. This is mine for today. I'll probably forget tomorrow.

I have just realised that Alison Rumfitt who wrote Brainwyrms has also written the Target novelisation of Doctor Who: Space Babies and my brain is now broken.

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Reindeer was made. #christmas

Word of the day: Unicyclist. Someone who uses a healthy form of transport to get to a place of learning. #Uxford

Bloody @badambulist.bsky.social, making me cry with her brilliant writing that hits me right in the heart and making feel seen. It shouldn't be allowed! (I'm pretty certain I cried at this bit when I read it on her Patreon as well. Apparently I'm a glutton for punishment.)

Klaxon! New on Bundle of Holding is our own DIE RPG - the award-winning core book, plus the three scenario books and the quickstart for $15. Purchasing also includes a 15% off voucher for buying the physical books from @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social. #ttrpg #indiettrpg

I forgot to watch the last episode of #TheWarBetweenTheLandAndtheSea (AKA Russell Tovey Fucke A Fyshe Soe Hard He Turne Into One.) last night so I've just watched it now. I really enjoyed it, although I was slightly distracted by the question of where was this RTD in the last two series' of /1

Pogs are the whole of my retirement plan.

The Ichio Pre-order Sale for The Collected Hulderotica Year One is halfway to its initial goal! Maybe a dozen more pre-orders until I can set a new one! 24 romance/erotica+ stories from 2025, all 160k of them, plus extras, releasing 03/17/26. Yours on sale for ~4 USD: itch.io/s/176289/the...

The No No Nos

There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve. #Storytime

New Christmas Carol. The Little Drummer Sub "Come, he told me. Pah-rup-rah-rum-uhhhhh"

You know what? Just once I would like to feel pretty instead of exhausted.

Lovable Victorian Urchin's Guide to a Merry Christmas youtube.com/shorts/fLIh7...

The Levy Review: A scathing audit of NHS Trans+ healthcare that isn’t radical enough to fix the problems. @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com take a first look at the long-awaited review into adult gender services in the UK 🧵 Reporting by @vic-parsons.bsky.social

My Christmas is screwed. I'm not getting the decision about being dismissed until the week commencing 5th January.

More music with a guitar

Just because you are unable to imagine how someone else’s mind works does not mean that person’s mind does not work like that

So @theguardian.com @the-independent.com @telegraph.co.uk how about some column inches on this?

Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.

It's been a couple of weeks since I had the headspace to be able to write but I managed it today. And I got what I think is a really good joke in there as well. I should finish this section over the weekend and be on to the next one which is, I think, going to be quite big.

I'm watching the first Avatar movie (not The Last Airbender). I'm 41 minutes in and what strikes me is that in among all the beautiful designs and special effects is that it's really boring. The creatures are all very obvious Earth-analogues. It's the filming equivalent of 'cowboys in space' but /1

I have decided that I'm going to publish my next book in Papyrus.

@francibambi.bsky.social - what is the British Library History Of Science Fiction you mentioned in the Long Mars part 2? I've searched but can't find anything.

I've just read the @manningofficial.bsky.social interview in the #DoctorWho Magazine #UNIT Special and now I really want to give her a hug.

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What's the wokest font? Can I get a list of which fonts are maga and which are leftist please? techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/m...

HR departments countrywide need to start treating gendercrit employees as potentially hostile. As soon as you are required to interact with one, you dust off the rulebook, you dot every eye and cross every t, and you assume bad faith at every turn. They are a threat to every organisation.

Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.

@www.joditaylorbooks.com I've just spotted the next Christmas short story - Murder at Martingale Manor. Is it only available from Amazon as a drm'd file? I really try to avoid buying from them, especially now that my Kindle has been de-Kindled. (Can I send you money for an double version?)

A Magical Scottish Christmas- one year later youtube.com/shorts/GCmet...

@gailsimone.bsky.social I'm having dinner at my ex-wife's place. I made her a cup of fruit tea which she has let get cold. She has just put it in the microwave. I will never argue with you again about how we Brits make tea.

The appeal against my dismissal is next Wednesday. I'm already really worried about what's going to happen if I lose. Universal Credit doesn't pay your mortgage, even though it pays rent. And the money I will get from UC won't pay it, never mind any bills.

So if you were on the fence about picking up The Beast Breaches, or jumping into Hulderotica as a whole, Ellen has a very generous review below. It also does a lovely job of getting to the heart of what I've been aiming for with the series. Because at the end of the day, it's all about character: