I am in Shetland! We visited Jimmy's house! I had some emotions!

I don't think people really mean to say asexual people can't make fully human art when they keep saying real art is horny, art without sex is just plastic etc but they sure do keep saying that (If your knee-jerk reaction is "but asexuals can make sexy art too!" stop and sit with that for a moment?)

Today is my 42nd birthday, so I went to a fjord

Finally did my Hugo nominations! Slightly more last minute than I usually prefer, but worth waiting, because one of the novels I nominated I finished reading last weekend, and another I finished TODAY

so many Space Things are happening, I'm so happy

I was born in the grounds of a stately home

I live opposite a primary school, so I see a lot of World Book Day costumes when I'm walking to work - this year's highlight was a little girl dressed as Tintin, complete with Snowy toy and a topknot standing in for the quiff, absolutely A+

Probably Voyager, aged about 14/15, on some random website I found via a chain of links starting at the BBC Cult website

Seconding all of this, such a good book

I wouldn't say I'm super close to my school friends, but I'm still in touch with most of them (mostly through the medium of sharing our wordle scores in the group chat every day 😂)

Gustav Holst

I would like the record to reflect that I have been regaled with a lot of figure skating facts on the journey home from the gym

A thing about living with me is that sometimes you will suddenly get a lot of facts about something

aaaaaaaa this vid and these books are so good 😍

i am a delight it's true

yessss come and join me in being weird about the Hugos, it's great if you like yelling about books (and other media) and/or making lists and/or getting up in arms about other people's Incorrect Opinions (I like all three)

should I be working? yes. am I instead staring at the snow through the narrow bit of window near my desk? also yes.

v excited to hear this, I LOVED Hild and Menewood

It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈

I love this fascinating, thoughtful and detailed thread about a film I loved:

Mistakes Were Made (by me)

Hi Blue Sky! Anyone in or near London fancy a ticket to Kate Rusby’s Christmas show this evening? One of our party is poorly alas :( (Ticket was £40) Kate Rusby is a total delight, strong rec! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/kat...

Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.

SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you. Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.

Off we go! \o/ #AllIsBrightAdvent

#AllIsBrightAdvent starts today! I'll be sharing BTS info, Welsh context and other non-spoilery bits and bobs related to the day's chapter. You can use the hashtag to react as you read, too! Plus, it's still on sale for today (Dec 1) if you haven't grabbed it yet: books2read.com/u/bPOa0d

yesssssss public domain advent calendar time!

this is an extremely adorable book, really, do spend 99p on the experience of reading it one chapter a day in December! Llin's work is substantial, like cream and chocolate and other nice things with heft: she's not silly or slight, she gives you beautiful romance that sticks.

ooooh, I recommend snapping this up if you haven't already, very excited to start my advent calendar read next week!

Finished my book just as my lunch break ended, which is better than many alternatives, but now I have to do work rather than just sitting in a post-book haze for a bit

So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:

oooooooh

I had such a good time with this book!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa new Frances Hardinge new Frances Hardinge!

Yessssss what an excellent winner

Bethan, dragged back to her home village, is desperate to escape before Christmas. Mali, grieving the loss of a friend, knows Christmas won't be the same this year. A misunderstanding starts them off on the wrong foot - but perhaps they're each just what the other needs? Buy links in thread!

Managed to get my covid jab despite a) the expense and b) Boots's love of rescheduling me 🥳

Tor removing their older ebooks from Kobo and then relisting them with the price hiked up is certainly a choice

...........I was TODAY YEARS OLD when I learned this

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY! You can get it in these places and more: Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

i'm delighted to have been able to review and recommend @llincathryn.bsky.social's upcoming f/f christmas novella for @lesbrary.bsky.social. out in a few days! find out where and why to buy: lesbrary.com/all-is-brigh...

lol sob #ukpolitics

ICYMI: I wrote about the corporate-IP-ification of fanfic, and how heavily normative biases inflect what's being plucked out of fandom for big fancy book deals.

This is a wonderful novella, and I strongly recommend reading it advent-calendar style!

ahhh! this little book is one I'm very fond of.

This is SUCH a great comic, I really loved it

I loved this novella, highly recommended!

I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.