Looks like ESPN/TNT didn't get the post-Olympics memo re: treatment of women in #IceHockey. During commercial breaks of this afternoon's game they have a balloon-breasted, long-haired blond displaying significant décolletage waving as she blathers about the upcoming Stanley Cup playoffs. #sexism

Congrats @roboslerwriter.bsky.social! 👏 📚💙 ⚡️📚 🏳️‍🌈

First time this has happened in the 2 years of our wee #StreetLibrary Someone exchanged 10 books for 10 books! A great variety too. Thank you kind person. 🙏 📚💙 #LittleFreeLibrary

Although the individual Tumblr post tags aren't noting it, I'm assuming the appearance of Le Guin's THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS in Pluribus show has inspired the flood of Ai/Estraven character art. Curious about show now...and I need to reread the book. It's been a few decades. 📚💙 🪐📚

Am assuming that once my forthcoming book is out there I'll start receiving some decent scam emails. 😄 Right now all I've gotten are one-sentence things saying they'd like to talk with "the author of this website." All bookclub senders, bots I presume.

Writing the Acknowledgements section of my forthcoming book had me quite emotional. Gratitude is such a tender and fulfilling place to be. ❤️🫂

Oh wow! Super good essay that speaks to exactly why SFF is so important to the world right now. Might also be seen indirectly as making the case that social sciences in general have much more in common with SFF writers (& critics) than is commonly understood.

📢The Kickstarter for W.J. Whitley's rollicking alternative history novel, THE HIERARCHY OF ANGELS goes live 3/3. WJW, a letterpress printer & award-winning sculptor in mixed media & electrical assemblages, has some great swag too! @pandemoniumpress.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/pan...

So there's this gent over on Tumblr who describes himself as the "Papa Bear of men's fashion." Classy suit-wearing, but the only reason I follow him is to see the gorgeous fabrics he uses for the *back* of his waistcoats. 🙃 thebigsartorialist.tumblr.com?source=share

Lovely to see this. Duane is in my top-five list of authors who impacted me personally & whose writing I turn to regularly re: character building, plot design & pacing, & simple joie de vivre. She is quite unique, a treasure to readers & writers. 🤗 📚💙 🪐📚 @diane.dianeduane.com

📢 For Medicare folks...our Medicare Advantage plan allows a free #YMCA membership! We have access to a lap pool, a whirlpool, exercise equipment, a gym, a sauna, & fitness classes. It's been great! 🏊 🚴‍♀️ 🧖‍♀️ 🏋️‍♀️ More: www.medicare.org/articles/doe...

Looking forward to the PWHL's (@thepwhl.com) return to the ice tonight! 🥅🏒 Watch Outside Canada: PWHL YouTube Channel and thepwhl.com More: www.thepwhl.com/en/

All hands on deck, folks. This will effectively eliminate all books by queer authors and about queer lives, even books with secondary characters, books where the author or a character uses they/them pronouns. This bill will erase identities and harm kids. And it won't stop at public schools.

This is extremely true. Arts improve with practice and must artists just get better and better. I know writing best and average debut age for a novelist is 35, and every book is better written than the last. Some skills can peak fast: math, music, swimming; others slow: writing, fencing, painting

If you're of a scholarly bent & into Robert Louis Stevenson, you'll be excited to know Norquay has a new book out! Congrats, Glenda! 👏 I blogged about an earlier RLS work of hers here (included are the titles of her other RLS books): jajablonski.com/2021/12/06/g... #AcademicSky #PhDSky #RLS 📚💙

Woo-Hoo! My copyreader finished the final go-through of my proof pages. They'd been a long-ago beta reader & were very complimentary on the final version of the story & characters. Looking forward to announcing launch day later this Spring! Stay tuned. ⚡️📚 📚💙 #AmWriting #AcademicMystery

I feel fortunate to have bought the 1st edition when it was remaindered, of all things, when it came out. Absolutely jumped on the 2nd edition when it was published. An utter treasure on so many levels! 📚💙 #CodexSeraphinianus

Just pre-ordered Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton (@bluejo.bsky.social) & @adapalmer.bsky.social. Used @bookshop.org, which let me support one of WI's independent bookstores to the tune of $9.60. Thx to you all! #HumbleBrag 📚💙

This book draws me back, back, & back again. The writing crafted so richly & gentle even when the story is harsh & difficult. It's been years since I've been so captured. John Crowley's KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017). 📚💙 🪐📚

Four weeks is a long wait! Pre-ordering today via Bookshop. 🪐📚 📚💙

A friend & I both have #synaesthesia. In a recent, casual conversation about author writing style we noticed how we tended to describe it synaesthesically. E.g. one style "clogged our reading" & another's was "like rich chocolate." It had nothing to do with the story or plot itself. #reading

Although this isn't my preferred genre (& I'd never heard of Lupton before), this one-time academic adored the tagline for DIONYSUS IN WISCONSIN: "An archivist and a graduate student fight a god and fall in love." Been both, almost did the third. Reader, I bought the whole dang series! 👏 📚💙 🪐📚

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Had to temporarily DNF a book recently. Great story & storytelling but the narration itself, its language, was somehow too casual. Kept throwing me out of my reading flow. I think it's just my state of mind right now. I'm wanting something richer & involved. Will try again later. 📚💙

Thanks, hon! Game's already a barnburner, would have been a total crusher to miss it! How could I have slept throughzzzzzzzzzzz

Are you an author over 60? Submit your poem, short story, flash fiction or novel by 31 May 2026 to the Never Too Late Award from the @bridportprize.bsky.social! bridportprize.org.uk/news/new-nev...

Woo-Hoo! I get a gold star ⭐️ for waking up beloved spousal unit (an inveterate night owl 🦉) in time to watch the US v Canada gold medal 🥇 ice hockey game. 🏒🥅 #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics #MensIceHockey

Re: my previous post on IG's inaccurate alt-text. Their Help Center notes "Automatic alt text uses object recognition technology to provide a visual description of photos for people with visual impairments." help.instagram.com/503708446705... The "automatic" aspect cannot be turned off. #AltText

Well hell. IG is definitely using AI to add alt-text to my images. Even after I went back & deleted their notes, they were added back in. In one instance, adding that there was a clarinet in my image of typed manuscript pages with decorative red circles. No clarinet to be seen. <insert many swears>

My #AcademicMystery series has some serious character development! Hobo-turned-poet-turned-professor. Non-binary alum estranged from their family. A Maps Librarian with a wicked slap shot. A campus police chief who is a military veteran. More: www.instagram.com/p/DVDuMgADmhh/ 📚💙 ⚡📚

Regarding my previous post & the sex scene. Turns out I'd already written most it (not bad, if I do say so myself 😉). It's the lead-up context & scenes that need work as neither the context or outcome are typical. Very fun to sort it all. #AmWriting ##AcademicMystery #SexScenes

While a breakfast quiche bakes in the oven I am giving writerly consideration to a sex scene involving 2 persons neither of whom has made love in a while. Interesting communication cadence to work out. 🤔 #AmWriting #AcademicMystery #SexScene

"But without names it's impossible to remember stories, and hard to tell them." From Chapter 1 of KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley (2017). #SentencesIHaveLiked 📚💙 🪐📚

For historical fiction writers: Strong thoughts by Suzannah Rowntree on writing medieval women. (Thx to E.H. Lupton (@pretensesoup.bsky.social) for both noting it & observing that the medieval period was 1000 years long. I.e., things change!) #HistoricalFiction www.tumblr.com/pretensesoup...

If you need a creative distraction. Craft in America is a long-running arts program that explores the cultures & activities of making...quite something. They've posted their episodes online. Info: www.craftinamerica.org/page/about

FFS, I'm not even vision impaired & it ticks me off to the moon & back that folks don't take the time to add alt-text to their images here. It's basic kindness. Best practices info here: a11y.canada.ca/en/alternati...

Each time Ursula Le Guin started writing, she would begin by drawing a map. Our video of the week foregrounds Le Guin's cartography as tools for imagining the violent coordinates of gender, property, and planetary crisis. Ft. @suchmayer.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social et al. buff.ly/vMDnQiW

Very useful thread on how one might approach reviewing a friend's book. 📚💙 👇👇👇

Had fun writing up a scene between my college raven keeper & the campus police chief. He's a bit of a cuss & she is former military with a motherly heart. #AmWriting #AcademicMystery ⚡️📚

I saw all or most of the women's ice hockey games. Superb tournament! The Canada/US gold medal game leaned heavily north for 3 periods, so the US winning OT goal was a stunner. Congrats to all teams, coaches & staffs. 🥇🥈🥉 #MilanoCortina #WinterOlympics #WomensIceHockey

Oh wow! Canda played such a fierce game that had the U.S. scrambling throughout. But gold to the U.S. in OT. 🥇 #MilanoCortina #WinterOlympics #WomensIceHockey

Following @leguinbot.bsky.social with its daily posts of text has been a double sanity-saver for me. Le Guin is my favorite writer & inspires me to think about my own word crafting. And her words & her way with them, no matter the focus, give me immense comfort. Always. #UrsulaKLeGuin #gratitude

Needed a comfort read last night. Grabbed on old ST:TOS paperback off a back shelf: THE ROMULAN WAY by @diane.dianeduane.com & Peter Morwood. Besides just damn fine writing, the character work is fantastic. Heroism at its finest. 🪐📚 📚💙 More (incl spoilers): memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rom...

Wakened by a smash of thunder, the entire historical subplot, visuals, & character names for a later book in my academic mystery series fell into place. Wrote up the notes for it as quickly I as I could so I wouldn't forget! ⛈️✍️ #AmWriting #AcademicMystery

Seeing interesting convos here on how a book *should always* have an audio version. Bleems ago, when I worked at a print-only bookstore, younger customers often asked where the VHS versions of our books were. It's a matter of what the tech expectations of the time are.

This makes absolute intuitive sense.

Holy moly, some folks do get their undies in a bundle when someone enjoys a genre they dislike. #subtweet 📚💙

Books are inefficient? WTF already! Not every action has to save time. 😡 📚💙

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Bobsled for introverts. #monobob #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics