Being an artist is so weird and scary because you have all these huge feelings to make art with but then you are supposed to be very cool and detached with how people might hate it but also constantly be a song and dance man shouting about how great it is and also you have to stay alive??

Allowing third parties to curb trans people's rights to participate in society opens up everyone's manner, clothing, physical appearance to intrusive scrutiny and potential challenge. History also shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. This is not a 'them' issue.

THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

BAD John Constantine comic: Oi Zatanna me love, If we're gonna defeat Trigon we're gonna need all of our mystical energy cor blimey *starts shooting magic lasers* GOOD John Constantine comic: Chas mate, need you to open this non-cursed jar for me. The one with the skulls, yeah

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

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This is your periodic reminder that word of mouth moves more books than any formal advertising! I invite you to rec something you've recently enjoyed -- preference for the stuff that's *not* already extremely well-known and talked about everywhere.

is this A Sign?

New fund for UK game developers launched today and I'm super proud to say I worked on it! Please go and apply if you have a suitable game as its been a labour of love! New fund of up to 50k per game for localisation, marketing, PR, Influencers, etc  www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...

I wrote this about Boris Johnson in 2021. It also applies to those, like Nigel Farage, who aspire to become prime minister. When a candidate for high office is taking millions of pounds in personal gifts, that is not a private matter. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2021/05/forg...

I’m all set to be ruined. Again.

I got All Hail Chaos the first day. This is a bad photo of the stack

All Hail Chaos was excellent. Everything I hoped and more. I can already tell that this trilogy will be in my queue to reread regularly for comfort and fun. I know I'll be repeating this one and Long Live Evil in anticipation of the third.

in honour of all hail chaos coming out, here is a marius expression sheet i drew for @tigerlily.cafe

Book mail from orbitbooks #booksky Both are fantasy debut novels! The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty: amzn.to/4cTzWlN Hopeless Necromantic by Shiloh Briar: amzn.to/4dY0S4S

After modeling Helspira from Shiloh Briar 's Hopeless Necromantic, there was no way that I couldn’t model her morally grey (for real though), chaotic necromancer with terrible coping skills. I adore this man, and his arch was heart-wrenching!

About a third through All Hail Chaos by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social. So far:

WHAT? Sorry loved ones’ faces, this is the best thing my eyes have ever seen!!! #booksky

What I’m promising you all tomorrow.. three fake engagements is too many they said… put down those tropes with your hands up, they said…

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

This is really terrible, & my editor has been among the employees impersonated. “This list is not exhaustive.” us.macmillan.com/publishing-f...

My extremely not-requested opinion on the Met Gala's non-theme theme is that we can't have interesting fashion under fascism because anything genuinely inspirational the organizers chose would be challenged as "DEI" or "trans" content. So we get blandy bland bland bland.

We’ve got a book for that

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

All Hail Chaos, book 2 in the Time of Iron series, is out May 12 and book 3 is out July 2027. So we thought you guys might like to know the title… I called the book that because Imma do it. Trust me, I’m telling you stories. #booksky

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 WE'RE LIVE!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

I’m so extremely excited to be launching ALL HAIL CHAOS on the evil date of May 13 on the MAIN STREET of Dublin’s fair city hosted by @dubray-books.bsky.social and in the company of @griffski.bsky.social! It couldn’t be better. My behaviour couldn’t be worse. Hope to see you there!

every time a publisher's employees unionize, the future of literature gets a little brighter

not to make everything about AI, but AI is fundamentally anti-worker. it's a tool built and bought on the promise of lowering our collective value and concentrating wealth at the top. pro-union every day, but especially today: hachetteworkers.com/open-letter/

once again, it's "be gay, do crimeS," the original quote was "crimes" not "crime," the "s" is mandatory, it underscores that you are so full of gay crimes that you are starting with crimes against language itself, it cannot be anything else, ty for coming to my ted talks

We saw you from across the Round Table and we like your vibe...

Celebrating Amy Coombe’s excellent cosy fantasy about getting trapped in a bookshop, STAY FOR A SPELL, by partying in Goldsboro bookshop during a tube strike (does this count as LARPing the book)

murmurs chaotic encouragement

Ya boi done good. Hugo Award Best Editor Finalist!!

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Me: my emotions about the Artemis II mission are totally normal Also me: can’t listen to Fire in the Sky without tearing up youtu.be/KJA6QW1kFjo?...

Exciting things in store for June, rare chance to meet @fondalee.bsky.social in London! #jadecity #lastcontractofisako forbiddenplanet.com/events/2026/...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

honestly the best thing I’ve ever written, make me a KA Applegate Professor of Transgender Literature

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political” Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for. There is no “other half”.

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.