Jod I love Mercy m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJO...

this just reminded me how playlist stories are my favorite things

Welcome to all the new people!! If you're looking for some really cool artists to follow, here are a list of my favorites!

Thanks to everyone who watched Drawfee in 2025! Here are some of our favorite bits from this past year! youtu.be/3IHndNcObmQ

Currently rereading the Locked Tomb (the most delightfully tonally confused series in sff) as a holiday treat and stumbled on this little gem of a panel discussion (ft. Muir, TJ Klune, Samantha Shannon, & Tasha Suri) while scouring the interwebs for tlt content 💙📚🪐 m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vV8...

Day 4 of #LibFaves25 DEATH OF THE AUTHOR by Nnedi Okorafor. I just finished this and love it. Both straightforward lit fic and a sci-fi mindfuck. Swaps back and forth between an author and the book she writes. The two stories start blending together. The narration was also lovely in the audiobook.

Get a copy of The Deep Dark for yourself or as a gift. You will not regret it. I adore that book. Gorgeous tale about finding support and learning to live with your weird smol serpentine fox demon 💙📚🪐

Majoring yn Englisshe ys prettye goddamn Punke Rocke

Evil wiz's german accent feels a bit cartoonish but Liam's is great #themightynein

drew a lil Jester fanart as well ~ congrats to the team! hope you all enjoy the show💕 #themightynein

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

One of the best middle grade novels I've read as an adult. Now granted, I don't read that much middle grade fiction (apparently I should change that -- this was fun), but I can just imagine a kid falling in love with reading & books as physical media ... #sff #booksky💙📚🪐

hey!! my book is out today :) buttondown.com/alixeharrow/...

Making time for new sff releases 📚🪐💙 Scarlet Morning looks & feels like a real labor of love (+ Stevenson's character work has always been amazing) and I'm so excited for Liu to capture my imagination again

It's ok that there are books I don't get. That doesn't make them 'pretentious' and it doesn't mean I'm dumb. Anti-intellectualism can suck it. In its current online form it's nothing but a bunch of people insecure in their own stupidity.

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

I finally read some Jasper Fforde. Thursday Next is a wonderful character 📚🪐💙

Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.

"once upon a time, there was a princess"

Emily Tesh is good at books. Strong character voices, some Pratchettian humour (imps in electronics feels like a deliberate homage), & a (although unabashedly unsubtle) really well crafted thematic throughline 🪐📚

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Hottest literary take of the century /s: Nabokov is really good actually. Read "Speak Memory". It's such a genuinly lovely exploration of memory and heimweh interspersed with real moments of brilliant prose. + it's funny. #booksky

Listening to Adrianne Lenker speak is such a weird experience. Yeah, I get that😐 Yeah... I think I get that🤨 Huh?🙃 Oh, I feel that😮😭 and it's beautiful, but I also don't think I get it m.youtube.com/watch?v=uDY8... #bigthief

Umberto Eco compared his huge "antilibrary" of unread books to medicines. He'll need (and read) them - just not now. No one questions a well-stocked medicine cabinet, so why do people balk at a well-stocked medicine cabinet for the mind? Nassim Taleb built on Eco's position in "The Black Swan":

In 2025 we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine

This book got me through my reading fatigue (and reading is kinda my job as a lit student. the hell am i gonna write papers on if not the stuff i'm reading). I wasn't in love with it the whole way through but Harrow does just write some damn quotable lines that kept me going. 💙📚🪐

Idk why I'm so obsessed over this song. Not even a David Byrne/Talking Heads head open.spotify.com/track/5JJRxk...

currently busy with my thesis & in a bit of a reading slump. new Annalee Newitz, Alix Harrow & Ken Liu releases on the horizon though... I know I'll get to them some distant day 🙃 💙📚🪐

I think my love language is just gifting/lending/recommending books. If I think you're cool and want you to be my friend I will shower you in books. 💙📚🪐 💖Wenn i dir a Büchli gib hab i di gern💖

🌸🥚happy 25th

Just had my first actual DnD game. Am I allowed at the cool kids table yet?

Finally finished Death of the Author. Really clever interrogation of how our creations shape us. 💙📚🪐

Just started this. Picked it up because I liked the title. Didn't know it's part of a series (the big fat 1 on the spine should've clued me in) I didn't expect the Aztec cyberpunk political intrigue, but I'm here for it! 💙📚🪐

Froher Weltfrauentag -- bleibt wachsam, stay politically active, and stay safe. open.spotify.com/track/7vkIXy...

I really don't get how everybody's not talking about Pantheon now that the show's easily accessible. That's some awesome SF. the pilot's kind of piloty, I guess

Happy new year and merry Hogswatch (as in New Year's Day not the Winter Solstice -- it's sort of both in 'canon'. The Discworld calender is weird like that) to all those who celebrate An guatn Rutsch. Auf a besseres 2025

I think as sff readers we tend to forget that suspension of disbelief is an aquired skill. I watched (the first half of) Hogfather with my family yesterday, and man their disbelief was firmly unsuspended. 💙📚🪐

Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.

I love planning. I have also never once in my life stuck to a plan.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Growing up is realizing that coffee shop AUs are good actually

2025 seems a wee smidge less dreary already 💙📚🪐

Just catching up on the last couple of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social issues. "Loneliness Universe" by @foxesandroses.bsky.social from issue 58 describes my early 20s experience eerily well. 🪐📚

The character introduction of Erin in Paper Girls slaps. It's so damn efficient. In 5 pages we learn 1)she's a space nerd, 2)she's protective of her little sis, 3)she's got some catholic school kid hang-ups about heaven & hell. +it's a great intro to the mood & comedic style of the comic #BookSky

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Time for our first Bluesky giveaway! We ars giving away a T2 set of the Green Bone Saga by @fondalee.bsky.social Follow us and repost this post in order to enter 🦋

Thought this could be a neat way to start off this account. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge