#CurrentlyReading Castle of Hope by weepingelm - a second pandemic wipes out the majority of the population, but Arthur, Duke of Camelot, had feared something like this might happen & had prepared. He starts a commune…and then people start remembering past lives. archiveofourown.org/works/620940...

For folks that like to call other people "snowflakes", these are literally the most baby shit soft people on earth. You were "threatened", by a former FBI director, with seashells? For real? Did you stop and say those words out loud to just hear how they sounded strung all together?

If only I could… uquiz.com/quiz/vNQPkn/...

So… I seem to have turned into a bit of an ace rights activist on tumblr? Which is kinda odd because although I’m probably demi/grey-ace, it’s not the box I usually consider myself in. My partner is ace, though, so I have a vested interest. But yeah. Tumblr is weird. Or I am. Or both.

#CurrentlyReading Canis, Corvus,Curses by jinkandtherebels - a modern post-canon #Merlin AU based on ladyhawke (?) with a reincarnated Mordred helping the Merthur plot along. Lovely stuff archiveofourown.org/works/475246...

I invite everyone on this website, especially people with more than 400k followers on their accounts, to use alt text, especially on their text-heavy images. It's good for you, it's good for your readers, it's the right thing to do. Be a mensch. Just fucking use alt text. Do it. do it do it do it

If God doesn’t make mistakes, why do I exist?

#CurrentlyReading Cups and Saucerers by Camelittle A modern #Merlin story with time travel and humanoid dragons and murder, oh my! It’s soooo good. Just make sure you keep an eye on the date at the top so you don’t get lost in time… archiveofourown.org/works/889593...

I told kid I had made Arthur Pendragon in my Sims 4, Cats and Dogs edition, and given him a Golden Retriever Labrador, and he said, "but Arthur *is* a Golden Retriever, he doesn't *have* one" and it is the truest thing.

#CurrentlyReading Sufficiently Advanced by idlestories #Merlin meets #Firefly, pretty much. It is completely wonderful and I love it so much. archiveofourown.org/works/436248...

YUP I just checked and this was turned on in my Zoom as well. I had to turn it off from the 'More settings' options in the website -- the option to do so wasn't offered in Zoom itself. >:(

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

How to get some sites which just refuse to allow access to the USA, I guess, as it becomes a new China, with its own government sanctioned internet only.

This is what I’m on bluesky for, clearly.

#CurrentlyReading Somewhere between the sand and the stardust by Cithara POV Arthur, who agrees to an arranged marriage for a year with #Merlin, leader of the Druids (and adopted father of Mordred) and gets more than he expects from it. Wonderful. archiveofourown.org/series/3338263

Things you didn’t know you needed to see until you did. 💜

This. You can’t “de-human” some people. Well, obviously you can, but your State doesn’t have civil rights if you do.

Anyone want to bid for a fic from me on the Fandom Trumps Hate auction: fth2025offerings.dreamwidth.org/tag/username... Offering Merlin, Teen Wolf, and Malory Towers (other girls school stories available, tbh, but unlikely to be wanted).

#CurrentlyReading The Third Path by TyalanganD Featuring a nonbinary #Merlin who grew up among the druids and got to decide for themself who they were; and an Arthur who stumbles upon the Druid camp and will never be the same. Really good. archiveofourown.org/works/319266...

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Anyone want to bid for a fic from me on the Fandom Trumps Hate auction: fth2025offerings.dreamwidth.org/tag/username... Offering Merlin, Teen Wolf, and Malory Towers (other girls school stories available, tbh, but unlikely to be wanted).

If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

Whenever I open tumblr, I get a post about “when I do x I’m a man, when I do y I’m a woman, the rest of the time I’m a fucking echidna”. Every time. I’ve decided to start posting an echidna every time so there’s going to be more echidna pictures in my life than I’ve had got dinner of late.

#CurrentlyReasing Whereat the two swore on the field of death a deathless love - horsecrazy If you know TH White’s “The Once And Future King” and enjoy its style, this is #bbcMerlin in its style, and it is fabulous! archiveofourown.org/works/161128...

Okay, curating this TL so it’s just full of nice and fun things to make me happy (I have other places for serious stuff). Rec me your favourite fun/pretty/cute blueskyers to follow (they must do alt text). (Someone please reply. I don’t have many followers but hopefully someone will read this!)

All the best people use alt text and all the worst people use AI.

It’s okay to talk to yourself…

I’m still kind of amazed that there are journalists on Bluesky who still aren’t using alt text. This goes extra for those who critique the crackdown on DEI

Oh my goodness, so much this.

When you wake up and have no clue what day of the week it is…

This is bloody gorgeous and I think many of us could do with a nice yell (though maybe I’d better not at 4:40am).

“He even went for people with [x] disability!” I read someone write on here earlier, about Trump blaming disabled people for planes crashing, and, like - can we stop grading disabilities on a curve, like there are some it’s acceptable to attack? Even if you don’t mean it, it has those connotations.

I feel like I can’t do anything right.

I literally just used this argument when emailing my MP re the ALCS’s request that authors do so to object to the UK government’s wish to make an exception to copyright laws for AI. As a poor disabled writer, I feel like I’m being stolen from by tech billionaires, which seems a tad unfair.

It’s been dead silent in the house and now I can just hear the husband saying “no” firmly to one of the cats next door when I thought he was upstairs in bed!

I know it's moving fast and you're trying to get info out there, but if you're posting images of official govt correspondence you need to get Really Fucking Serious about using your alt text. When you don't, you're excluding some of the people Most Affected by this ongoing nightmare of a situation.

This is at least something cheerful to read (apart from fanfic).

I read 5 million words of fanfic in January. And I’m not ashamed of it, either. I’m bedbound, unable to watch tv very much (like, for about an hour a week), can’t wfh because my brain doesn’t function reliably. Fanfic is one of my best joys. Many thanks to the writers who helped me this month.

#CurrentlyReading Broken Chemistry by Pondermoniums A modern #Merlin fic sans magic, set in America - all of which sounds not my thing, but it’s such a good story that I’ve been riveted. Really interesting characterisation. archiveofourown.org/works/414594...

Ableist “humour” aimed at politicians is so unnecessary. Like all the “Trump needs diapers” stuff. So what if he did? It’s not being unable to control his bowel functions that makes him a terrible person and politician, it’s what he’s doing, saying, and ordering to be done. Ditto RFK Jr.

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

When you accidentally treat everyone you email as someone you are vaguely friends with, so end up informing the local builders that you leave spouse to do telephone calls because “phones are the work of the devil”.

Oh wow! Look (and I say this with no irony or double entendre at all) at the feathers on that!

Stop Musk from funding far-right politics in the UK! I just signed this petition 'Tighten the rules on political donations' - it's nearly at 30,000 signatures - can you add your name too? - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The January 6 pardons are turning out great.

#CurrentlyReading Evil Overlord, Inc by Footloose, mushroomtale Modern #Merlin with magic where Merlin and pals, stumped for decent jobs because of their magical backgrounds, decide to set Merlin up as an Evil Overlord. Fabulous stuff. archiveofourown.org/works/117748...

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

#AltText version, with thanks to @milosmom.bsky.social for the description.

#CurrentlyReading My Significant Bother by evaelisaa and Leandra, which is a #Merlin modern royalty AU with gorgeous pencil artworks throughout and a long suffering Merlin playing a fake boyfriend for a drunk and out Prince Arthur. Tropey and wonderful. archiveofourown.org/works/332616...

This is genuinely just what I needed in my life this morning.