No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

✍️ We’re hiring! Link to apply in our stories and the link in our bio. For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager. Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7 (1/3)

Artist! Quote with your fantasy art 🌌

i'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about how funny it is to write a song called "the fate of ophelia" and have it be an upbeat pop song about your quarterback boyfriend. thank god I found a man so I don't have to kill myself

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

Saw a psa last night about how pirate streaming could let people steal your private info and ID, and I have to say that's rich coming from the UK government who are mad for AI and want to feed it all our art for free

The monster that @efaru.bsky.social and I have created for #FensGuide is based on this lil guy :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/ska...

one of my FAVOURITE language things is hearing words from different languages and being like wait are they related. welsh "ceffyl" and french "cheval" (horse) are cousins! theyre both descendants of proto-celtic "kaballos", which got to french through gaulish!

This:

160 more Blizzard staff have unionized, this time across the Story and Franchise Development making it the "first in-house cinematic, animation, and narrative studio to form a union in the North American game industry."

Much of civil society actively wants, or 'politely' beckons, an end to trans existence. And you cannot 'not choose'. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

I cannot sanction this buffoonery.

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

I have some more £10 commissions available now, please let me know if you would like one, thank you very much! I also do character sheets for £40, where I will draw the character and items that they carry or things they like

Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.

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My Illustration for @damesprod.bsky.social ’s current kickstarter, CHARIVARI - MASKS AND SWORDS Based on a certain infamous helmet from the Royal Armouries Museum. 3 days left to back the kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dam...

If you're a writing community org that also wants to stand with creators of adult content & LGBTQIA+ content, we'd love to hear from you and potentially find ways to work together to fight censorship You can reach us at weeknightwriters@gmail . com

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.

We’re so, so chuffed for Dave on this win! He’s part of the ESFF mod team and staff, and now we get to call him “award-winning author David Goodman” — how cool is that? Massive congrats from everyone at ESFF! #writingcommunity #edinburgh

Love this! It's definitely come up in my present-tense work. I've had a copy editor insert "had"s into my flashbacks until I second-guessed myself and stopped stetting; I've had a copy editor ask whether a verb in past was a slip where it wasn't, and I've had copy editors catch me in actual slips.

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

Also another great piece about toxic ableist tropes in books and the Salt Path fiasco here from @bookwormvaught.bsky.social Just realised it was in 2018 I was being told by people in PRH that my book about nature and illness was unsaleable if it didn't have a redemptive cure arc. 🫠

Check out this bundle for the International Non Binary People's Day hosted by @jakevanguard.bsky.social itch.io/b/3124/inter... 💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #BookSky #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #queersky

📢 NEW DRABBLE CONTEST ALERT!! Theme: "The Masks We Wear" 🎭👺 Spooky season's come early! We're opening submissions from July 10th-July 24th 2025 for masquerade microfiction. Winners will be published in Apex Magazine October 2025 Issue! 🎃☠️ Full details here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

The thing I’m working on. Haven’t decided if I want to render the text some more or if it looks ok as is. #art #acab #capybara

Want to win a writing contest? It takes more than good prose. You need voice. You need craft. You need intentionality. Here’s what contest screeners and judges actually look for—straight from behind the curtain. A thread 🧵🪓 #writingcommunity

Hello 👋 I’ve made a starter pack of incredible comic creatives in Scotland you should follow. I couldn’t find the handles of everyone I wanted to add, so please shout if I’ve missed anyone 🙏

I wrote a new guest blog for @hireillo.com about working with artists as a comic book writer. Including creative processes, what to put in your contract, how to form a healthy / collaborative working relationship, and more! Check it out👇 www.hireillo.com/blog/how-to-...

Being a writer is 50% "please read my stuff/be interested in talking to me about things." and 50% "please do not perceive me." So that's fun.

Going to be at @cymerafestival.co.uk tomorrow. Hope to see some of you there!

24 hours left in the @cymerafestival.co.uk auction!! Don't miss out on all these incredible lots! From signed and dedicated books to author 1-2-1s to games to critique packages, it's a smorgasbord of bookish delights! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Happy hardback publication day to these wonders! LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH – Rowe Irvin THE DRY SEASON – @melissafebos.bsky.social THE SEXUAL EVOLUTION – @nathanlents.bsky.social THE ACID QUEEN – Susannah Cahalan THE DEATH OF SHAME – @ambroseparry.bsky.social buythebook.online/out-today

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

Hello all, as it's payday for many, I'm sharing the link for my family's GoFundMe again. We're 65% there! Two sisters have had a really awful time: a death of one parent, a horrible crime against a minor, and incarceration of the other parent all happened within a 3 month period in early 2024.

Sick of pretending that “paper covers rock” isn’t utter bullshit

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

This is extraordinary: "emissions by data centres needed to train and deliver AI services are estimated at around 3 per cent of the global total, close to those created by the aviation industry."

I'm not a killjoy: it is socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

Destroy nazis. Eat pizza. Have a nice cup of tea. Smash the patriarchy. Find a nice apple at the markets. Cuddle. Summons demons to plague your enemies. Get a foot rub. Prod a kitten's toe beans. Learn to knit.

can't believe thermodynamics won again