#Asian foodies! Noodle nerds! My 1st attempt at #rollfornoodles, where I let the dice decide my dinner. It's only fitting to use my first set of TT dice, with the cute 😸 prints...join me, in a bowl of noodles! #dnd #rollforsandwich #cooking #food #fantasy #geek #game www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTMS...

#Asian foodies! Noodle nerds! My 1st attempt at #rollfornoodles, where I let the dice decide my dinner. It's only fitting to use my first set of TT dice, with the cute 😸 prints...join me, in a bowl of noodles! #dnd #rollforsandwich #cooking #food #fantasy #geek #game www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTMS...

Podcast with @synthesizedsunsets.bsky.social , talking about, amongst other things, Wuxia, Xianxia and web fiction. synthesizedsunsets.substack.com/p/xxii-sinop...

Reading more for ESEA Heritage Month, @pqwrites.bsky.social space opera re. war trauma, connection and belonging. Loved the 2nd person duo narration, BAME and non-human main characters, diaspora Vietnamese angle. More of this imagination and writing please. www.castofwonders.org/2020/12/cast...

Happy lunchtime! Hope this brings you cheer on a Monday. Here's the first episode of Roll for Noodles. Join me, in a bowl of random D & D noodles! #rollfornoodles #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #rollforsandwich #cooking #dice #food #china #noodles #fantasy #geek #game #asian youtu.be/qTMSWBApSjA

The first episode of Roll for Noodles is dropping today! #dungeonsanddragons #rollforsandwich #cooking #china #fantasy #geek #game #rollfornoodles

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Good morning Bluesky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading the final chapters of the excellent delicious fantasy A Sword of Good and Ruin by Ann Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?

Calling all hot pot lovers, come and unbox the Haidilao Home Kit with me. And if you've read the Yin Yang Pot in Sinophagia, you'll know why this is so cool! #unboxing #asian #joybuy #food #cooking #shopping #chinese youtu.be/R1_OH6lCZlo

On 13/9, I headed to SOAS for Story Feast, passing members of far-right rally did make me somewhat nervous. But knowing there was the March Against Fascism, and the fact my fellow creators and I were gathering for this ESEA authors literary festival, meant we were doing something about it. 1/

Calling all hot pot lovers, come and unbox the Haidilao Home Kit with me. And if you've read the Yin Yang Pot in Sinophagia, you'll know why this is so cool! #unboxing #asian #joybuy #food #cooking #shopping #chinese youtu.be/R1_OH6lCZlo

This thriller mystery by British Malaysian author Ivy Ngeow, is definitely going on my TBR. ESEA story set in London, sounds very gripping, and a bit gothic. It's launching next month, book your tickets to meet the writer! #books www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ivy-ngeows...

I love getting in the ingredients for my Chinese cooking, but if you live outside big cities it can be tricky getting your favourite snacks! This is why I’m pleased to have found JoyBuy, an excellent option for #authentic #Asian ingredients. #unboxing #food #cooking #temu youtu.be/R1_OH6lCZlo?...

I love getting in the ingredients for my Chinese cooking, but if you live outside big cities it can be tricky getting your favourite snacks! This is why I’m pleased to have found JoyBuy, an excellent option for #authentic #Asian ingredients. #unboxing #food #cooking #temu youtu.be/R1_OH6lCZlo?...

It was great to attend the opening of Odyssey #Film Festival, celebrating cinematic excellence & exchange across the Sinosphere. I'd never have seen the award-winning Four Trails otherwise. It's still on in London now with an extensive programme, go check it out! www.easternkicks.com/news/the-ody...

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Here's my end-of-ghost-month special reveal. I'm delighted to reveal the cover for the Italian edition of Sinophagia, created by World Illustration Award nominee Lucrezia Viperina. The book will be published on the 7th of November by add editore. Stay tuned for more news! 11/11 #horror #sff #books

I have now seen 朝雪录 Coroner's Diary series and it's brilliant, excellent script, narration, scene set-ups, character development, lots of forensics, procedural and mystery elements, great sense of Chinese gothic, moving love story even though mostly happening in morgues and crime scenes 1/

I hope you've been suitably spooked by my #ghostmonth content, here's a recap, before the finale, a cover reveal. So, lurk around! #horror #books #sff #culture

It's the last day the gates of the Underworld are open, ghosts and spirits will be making their way back through the gates, beware, leave some food out for the hungry ones, lest they stray on their way, especially in the forests and mountains. #ghostmonth #horror #sff #books

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蜚 Fei, mythical monster found in many old texts, highly relevant for our times. White-headed, ox-shaped, snake-tailed. Rivers dry up and plants whither in its wake. It's the harbinger of plagues. Reimagined in Fangs of Fortune as a kind and pretty youth, subject of a tragic love story. #ghostmonth

May have just recorded the first of these...👀would love to hear what you all think, when it comes out!

After Phantom Peak, we got to try Hallowed Peak. The trail clues were a little more subtle this time, which was good. "Lunar Festival" is their big Halloween theme, which, to my brain, just kept signalling "celebratory"rather than "creepy", whether I think of lunar new year, or Mid-Autumn Festival.

Among the many taboo activities during #ghostmonth - for it would be very inauspicious to carry these out, is getting married. #horror #sff #books

#Food is a huge in #Chinese #culture, whilst I write about it, I'm not really a food blogger. So instead, I'm introducing...Roll for Noodles! Join me as I roll my #dnd #dice to create a random bowl! #dungeonsanddragons #rollforsandwich #cooking #china #fantasy #geek #game youtube.com/shorts/WfLXY...

The big 50 looms! Saturday. And the book of my writing path... is released into the wild.

Community means interconnectedness. You can purchase flash-sized works to help this wonderful project. ko-fi.com/africantrans...

At the Pepper Dog Press 10th Anniversary Party. Immense admiration and gratitude for an amazing small press from Singapore championing Singaporean kidlit.

#Food is a huge in #Chinese #culture, whilst I write about it, I'm not really a food blogger. So instead, I'm introducing...Roll for Noodles! Join me as I roll my #dnd #dice to create a random bowl! #dungeonsanddragons #rollforsandwich #cooking #china #fantasy #geek #game youtube.com/shorts/WfLXY...

I've waited until #ghostmonth to talk about Game Science's exciting announcement of their next game, which is based on the demon slayer and hunter of miscreant ghosts, Zhong Kui 钟馗, one of my favourite Chinese protector deities. 1/ #popculture snowpavilion.co.uk/zhong-kui-th...

Not done an #author pic for a while so have this one, I'm off to the Odyssey Film Festival Opening, looking forward to it.

I bring you more mythical Chinese monsters in contemporary media. 朱厌 Zhuyan, a ferocious ape with white fur and red paws, documented in old texts like the Shanhai Jing, a bringer of chaos. Reinterpreted and centred in Fangs of Fortune as Zhao Yuanzhou, this cheeky antihero cutie. #ghostmonth #sff

Has anything else be watching the historical/ xuanhuan series with Wuxia elements Shadow Love? More from me about it later, but just wanted to put this out there, it's such as Clark Kent/ Superman & Lois Lane moment.

During #ghostmonth especially, beware, of walking out at night... #horror #sff #strangetales #storytelling #books youtube.com/shorts/-kJKd...

So happy to be at this sellout event. If you were lucky enough to get tickets, see you this evening! #books #festival #sff

The Odyssey Film Festival that is about to begin has a very interesting, thoughtful and diverse line-up. I do recommend checking out their programme at different venues in London and online. Here are a few that stand out to me. #film www.odysseychinesecinema.uk/page/odyssey...

Actress Ni Ni's dress at the recent W China Annual Gala, from Robert Wun Couture, certainly seems made for #ghostmonth. #popculture

artists always make Xiezhi look so cute

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SINOPHAGIA, ed/trans Xueting C. Ni, is terrific. So many new-to-me authors reinforcing my plans to get good at reading Chinese! But until then, I'll rely on @xuetingni.bsky.social's excellent translations. #booksky

A reminder, join us this Saturday at SOAS, 5:30pm. I'll mainly be talking about Wuxia storytelling, but also other aspects of ESEA perspectives in SFF. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/story-feas...

As the ghosts and spirits are still roaming about, beware of the ligui, vengeful ghosts who wander the mortal world, seeking justice for their wronged deaths. Better stay in, listen and read spooky tales, here's another. #horror #sff #ghostmonth #storytelling #books

For ESEA Heritage Month, I'm reading Ng Yi-Sheng's Lion City, which he came up after my panel one WorldCon, and grinningly handed to me. It's a weird, wonderful, fantastically queer and multicultural collection. And it's got this adorable message inside. #books #sff

Since the gates to the Underworld are still open, I'm going to talk about some Chinese monsters that have appeared in modern storytelling. This is the 獬豸 Xiezhi. With the partial features of an ox, a goat and resembling a Qilin, this mythical beast has a special power. #GhostFestival #culture 1/

Happy National Star Trek Day.

The average western halloween enjoyer: it's not halloween yet! The Cultured Chinese Culture Enjoyer: HOLY SHIT! TWO HALLOWEENS!

It's a great pleasure to see this published, my translation of Second Skin, the Chinese novelette by emerging female writer Dan Shi, science fiction about feminism, technology and the female body. #scifi #China #sff www.easternwood.co/herstory-en-1/