You have to talk to your yeast to make sure it properly rises.

Happy New Year to everyone except the people setting off fireworks and terrifying my cats.

Y'all should snap up this free (!) anthology of hopeful short stories. I'm proud to say that my piece, The Giant's Unquiet Bones, is included. Because sometimes you need a story about a girl marrying a dead giant's bones.

Y'all should snap up this free (!) anthology of hopeful short stories. I'm proud to say that my piece, The Giant's Unquiet Bones, is included. Because sometimes you need a story about a girl marrying a dead giant's bones.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Pippin would like to know why his brother gets an entire holiday, and he doesn't.

Everyone who gets my Christmas letter this year is also getting Raccoons with Lockpicks. Because everyone needs a little chaotic raccoon heist in their life. kate-ravenna.itch.io/raccoons

Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte The verye next daye ther came a wolf Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost - And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars. Seek now myne hearte, Return it within a yeare and a daye: Thys ys thy queste Fayle not

My pancake today cooked up with a pattern of a grinning skull. What could that portend?

Eligibility post! My flash piece The Giant's Unquiet Bones came out this year in Worlds of Possibility. It's about a girl who marries a dead giant's bones. It will soon be out in the Worlds of Possibility Anthology Volume Two. www.juliarios.com/introducing-...

Y'all should read this brilliant mashup of Beowulf and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. "Every Scylding in Heorot liked mead a lot, But Grendel the beast, roaring outside did not. Grendel hated Scyldings, the whole Danish clan. Can I say why? I don’t think I can."

Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...

I love this story. As soon as you think about Necromancy as an MLM it seems self evident, as many of the best story ideas are.

hello. bsky friends we just published a newsletter about recent updates + news to our electronic mail friends and thought we'd post it here as well in case you are interested in deadlands NEWS link:

✨ GIVEAWAY ✨ The final giveaway of the year is… well, what do YOU want it to be? 👀 One winner will select a set of their choosing! Giveaway ends 12/16. To Enter: 🎁 Follow this account 🎲 Like + repost this post ✨ For an extra entry: What’s the best gift to give your PC? #dnd #dice #ttrpg

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

And quake in frigid purgatorial fires Of which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars. The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood – Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

Love this session summary of Raccoons with Lockpicks. kate-ravenna.itch.io/raccoons

Starforged is sooooo good, y'all! If you are a writer, I highly recommend the Oracles which I have used to help me brainstorm so many times. (I asked the Oracle why you should buy Starforged and it said "persevere solution," so maybe it has the solution to the plot problem that's been vexing you.)

Made brookies for Thanksgiving. They smell amazing.

I've updated my blog post about Must Read magazines with information about how the Must Read contracts have changed--and the negotiation difficulties that some authors still encounter writerbeware.blog/2025/07/25/c...

I make this black bean soup absolutely all the time. I like to soak the beans overnight, and then you just toss everything in the pot and simmer for forty-five minutes. Super easy, and quite cheap. smittenkitchen.com/2010/01/blac...

"A month after you get a rejection from a prestigious magazine, you see an article on the same topic you pitched, using the same sources, written by an in-house writer. The article wins awards. Describe the hex you place on the magazine."

This is lovely "Writing is, at its best, a dance between the reader and the writer – my humanity speaking to your humanity, my grief illuminating yours, my experiences twining with your experiences to create something bigger and more meaningful than either of us could have created alone."

my name is Oz and wen the stone is broke to bits and all alone i lie in sand it stretches bare you read my words you pls despair

I've never watched the Alien movies and yet I'm so tempted to buy this because Shawn does such great work.

I worked for a small food pantry for a while. The can of beans you paid $1 for would cost us 20 cents through our connections. Give money directly if you can. You can literally multiply the amount of food your donation can provide by 3-5x just by giving cash directly.

Reason to snap up Starforged: -you can have a pet glowcat -fantastic GMless play -built in characterization in every asset -outstanding planet generation tables -brilliant action and theme Oracles (perfect for planning a game, playing GMless, or using as writing inspiration)

I used every gram for a holo of my sisters. It's been played so many times that it skips and stutters. It hurts every time I watch it, but I can't stop. I miss them. It's been so long, they have grown so much. I can barely afford to send a voicemail. I tell myself it's all for them.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Still just listening to K Pop Demon Hunters and playing Stardew Valley.

I'm currently working on a hack of Starforged that's Regency England a la Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer. Does that count? (Shawn built a very robust system so it actually works quite well.)

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀 buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon! please like + RT this to help spread the word psychopomp.com/the-deadland... behold!

I never watched Titanic. I was in high school when it came out and I was never interested.

Give us scifi, give us fantasy, give us anything in between, a bit scary here, a bit heartbreaking there, some frantic action, hope that lingers, a fun ride with so many layers underneath... Any and all of it, or something else? Don't self reject, SUBMIT 🥰

I know I'm about five years late but I just discovered Stardew Valley so I'll just be spending all my time growing tiny fruit and veg.

Your random reminder that you can download Raccoons with Lockpicks for free and run your own gloriously chaotic raccoon heist! It's a smol game perfectly sized for a lunch break. kate-ravenna.itch.io/raccoons

I'm really enjoying this year's Flights of Foundry! Three jam packed days, and I was on my first ever panel (Public Transportation--the takeaway is that there should be more dragons as busses, thank you) and ran my first convention TTRPG one-shot (my players were all amazing, it was super fun).

. @pscwillis.bsky.social I really like the Diamine inks for behaving well on most papers. Diamine Earl Grey is a very lovely grey ink. (I would not have thought I would like a grey ink, but it is a very lovely lightly purple grey.)

Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good). Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.

I'll be at Flights of Foundry! I'm on a panel this Friday! 🚌 Friday, 9/26 at 4:00pm PDT (Hour 7) -- Public Transportation: The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round, For Now....

I'll be at Flights of Foundry! I'm on a panel this Friday! 🚌 Friday, 9/26 at 4:00pm PDT (Hour 7) -- Public Transportation: The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round, For Now....

Tomorrow, Monday 22 September the general submissions story portal for Translunar Travelers Lounge will be open. Speculative fiction of 5000 words or less. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Ah, I see that someone thinks the way to convince me to buy their scam of crypto is to insult lampcats, my very most favorite pet in all of Fallen London. Some people make no sense.

Sometimes Fallen London rips your heart out and sometimes you have twelve lampcats purring like teakettles and you name them all after types of tea.

Pushing Daisies. So hilarious and morbid and weird.

Rising political violence is bad, even when it happens to someone I do not like, whose views I find reprehensible. The road of endless escalation leads nowhere good for society.

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

I recently read an article in which the author complained about the lack of steampunk books that challenge the status quo. But there are quite a few books that challenge the imperialism / sexism / racism of Victorian England while also being a good romp. Here's a thread of some of my favorites: 1/

Do you like NASA? And elves? I'm going to be GMing the official NASA one-shot, The Lost Universe at Flights of Foundry! It's virtual and free to attend. So if you want to come hang out on Saturday, 9/27 and roll some dice, sign up for it with via the lottery. flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/