"This is my art and it is dangerous."

honestly it was time us highly competent career focused bisexuals got some Representation™️ (it's all lies, Saffy is VERY chaos, she's just in denial. and it's very competent and focused chaos.)

yesss hahaha. YESSSS #tortall

I wrote almost the entirety of the first draft of this book listening to the TAZ Amnesty soundtrack. I've dusted it off for editing draft 10 and am pleased to find that TAZ could still stand for The AmInTheWriting Zone. (Also Interstellar Blues comes at the 30 min mark—good for timing breaks) #taz

I just think it’s hilarious that people went to college with the Pope. “What’s Ken up to these days? Partner at a law firm outside Pittsburgh, that’s nice. And Bob? Oh, he’s the Pope.”

who else is here ready to cry #n2n #nexttonormal

I scream-sneezed while using the sound ID function on the Merlin bird app and the result came back as pterodactyl.

In the meantime, I'm part of an auction raising money for trans rights, and you should check out all of the amazing items on offer www.32auctions.com/genrefortran... ...Including a personalized copy of the gorgeous OwlCrate edition of Wooing the Witch Queen! www.32auctions.com/organization...

A look back at my embroidery, The Sun Fairy for you today. Completely freehand stitched in August 2023. I’m busy stitching my latest piece so fingers crossed there will be something new to show you very soon…🤞🪡🌿🌺☀️🪽 #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

no more rectangle, only rosemary

People will always say they’re your friend and they support you no matter what but then they’ll say some toxic shit to you like “you have to let go of the cursed amulet, it’s changing who you are” and “don’t let its power corrupt you” all because they want the amulet for themselves

Calling my Glasgow peeps - this event NEXT SATURDAY will be fabulous but we need you there to make it fabulouserer! Come hang out & chat folklorish shenanigans with us? www.waterstones.com/events/fanta... @elizachanwrites.bsky.social @annabelcwrites.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Scottish peeps, a reminder I have two events next week! Wed 23rd at Waterstones Edinburgh with @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and @gen-dimova.bsky.social hosted by Cymera's own Ann Landmann. www.waterstones.com/events/outsi...

"average ulaid warrior kills five of the connachta every year" factoid actually just statistical error. average ulaid kills no connachta, because of the curse. cú gheoirg, who guards the fords and kills over 10,000 connachta each day, was an outlier adn should not have been counted

the most valuable project management skill I've learned from my day job is how motivating a color-coded Google Sheet can be

in my society goats would not be associated with the devil, but instead considered angels, for providing cheese that tastes like that

POYUMS ANNAW, a masterful new collection of poetry from Sunday Times bestselling poet Len Pennie is coming in September! AND there's going to be an exclusive edition for readers who order with poetry champions @portybooks.bsky.social Pre-order now: buythebook.online/poyums-annaw

March's reading! ... Yeah I got sucked right back into The Hunger Games for the first time in 10+ years. I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about the books & southern-ness, so stay tuned 👀 #sotr

Support trans rights with this bundle of more than 400 indie TTRPGs for $5

OpenAI trained on a massive pirated database trained on six of my books and short stories. Meta's AI trained on a massive pirated database of THIRTY ONE of my works. Just about every author you know has had their life's work scraped and fed into the machine without consent. Please stand with us.

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Bunch shows how it is done. The way he points out what the EO *legally* does (directs the VP, acting as just one of many regents) vs what it claims to do (“change the Smithsonian!”—something POTUS can’t do) is fantastic. We need more of this, less ppl taking EOs as law.

Middle grade recs incoming! We’ve had at least one person ask for these specifically so that they can share reading time with their younger family members, which sounds lovely. 💕 #booksky #trr25 #transrightsreadathon

Please share: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Really excited to be doing another book with @mrsteeleyogirl.bsky.social, especially one that feels so very necessary right now. Send us your on-topic speculative fiction stories and let's raise some money for transgenderlawcenter.org and raicestexas.org!

Today's newsletter post: lizbourke.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/9...

A little more about THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my Bisclavret retelling coming this November from Gollancz. Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them. Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...

A group of speculative poets is gathering to propose a permanent #speculativepoetryhugo in 2025. If you'd like to help advocate, we are looking for folks to help! Message me and I can add you to our Discord!

The Spanish edition of “The Bakery Dragon” comes out April 4! 🥐 ¡La edición en español de “El Dragón Panadero” sale el 4 de abril! 🥖

Cartoonist-friends! Interested in learning about medieval studies and meeting academics for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

finished sotr. now making my way through the ballad of songbirds & snakes and i am very compelled by the scarlet o’harafication of coriolanus snow

sooooo I blew through Sunrise on the Reaping in 24 hours. apologies to all my other responsibilities this weekend, I have not inhaled a book like that in YEARS but hoo am I having a lot of feelings. it was so good.

a public art piece I saw recently which, with the trees in bloom, immediately made me think of Mary Oliver

A side note to this thread - the younger generation LOVES physical media. I get this same question from older folks when I talk about my job and managing our darkroom. "People still use film?!" Emphatically, yes. Analog classes fill faster than anything, and if you walk into the darkroom on a Friday

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

today's warm up: Little selkie sibling wants to go play!! (1:25 hr) #anonbeadraws #art #illustration #warmup #selkie #seal #sea #ocean #fantasy #artistsonbsky

Still working on this fundraiser for my mom's cancer expenses - anything helps! This is for the lifelong artist who made me into a lifelong artist - we're helping her make a life-sustaining piece of art while she goes through chemo. Getting joy for her where we can.❤️ gofund.me/fd2b086d

Registration is now open for @gifcon.bsky.social, an online conference supported by the University of Glasgow's Fantasy Masters programme: a meeting-place for academics, authors & others interested in the fantasy field. See you there? For free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gifcon-202...

“That is why I like novels: instead of heroes they have people in them.” Happily revisiting The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin: stillmoving.org/resources/th...

“create content that makes it seem like you’re a friend to your followers” being friends with me is having me walk into your living room and infodump about 1930s folk music for thirty minutes

Anyway I forgot to post it here because I’m really good at social media, but I revamped my newsletter wHOOPS. If you, like me, are obsessed with musical theatre & 20th c folksingers, read this essay on Hadestown & Woody Guthrie: buttondown.com/siobhanmull/... #hadestown #folkmusic #woodyguthrie

Feels like I’m doing something right when a friend messages me to go “I just saw the Bob Dylan biopic and when I saw what they did to Pete Seeger’s teaspoon brigade story I went ‘I can’t believe they did this to my good friend siobhan’”

I knit a Greenland shark a while ago, complete with detachable eye parasites

Have also discovered the incredible motivation of "make a Google Sheet and watch the numbers go up & change color when you make progress." Follow me for more never-before-seen productivity hacks

Have now watched enough Taskmaster that when I went to tidy up, I automatically thought "Unstack the dishwasher. Fastest wins. Your time starts now" in the voice of Alex Horne. Yes I'm going to start applying this to everything, no I'm not immune to the motivational tactics used on seven year olds

[busts down door] once again, one of my favorite things about Tamora Pierce is that the books don't devalue embroidery. Obviously we can talk about Sandry and her thread magic, but this also appears in Tortall, where sewing is Lalasa's way to financial independence— [I am forcibly dragged off stage]

The petite Band-tailed Barbthroat at @tapirvalley.bsky.social has apparently been enjoying some nectar. #birds #hummingbirds

Calling all UK book reviewers! I have a sapphic historical romance called THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET coming out next year—if you're interested, please fill in the form! (or send to friends who you think would be a good fit) RTs very, very much appreciated here.

"maybe taking improv classes again would help my writing" says the person who should be writing

Watching the Adventuring Academy episode with Zac Oyama, and I've never thought of the GM as editor before—finding the right emotional beat to cut a scene—but it makes SO much sense

Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels through endless versions o reality? —James Robertson, “Doctor Wha” in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed. @russjoneswrites.bsky.social Happy #DoctorWhoDay !