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.

This is, at scale, unenforceable. But it will cause real harm. The stress and fear, every time not knowing if this is the time you'll be targeted. Enduring physical harm by not using the bathroom if you need to; avoiding water, food. Or simply not going out, ever. Which is, of course, the point.

Poor @usuallyhats.bsky.social and I are laid low by a summer cold, any takers?? @hartknyx.katlings.net?

Got London tickets, now I need a lie down 😂

Just a normal evening in the house of space ballet

I have read them once, ten years ago, so I don't have much to contribute, but I'm having a lovely time 😂

Trekkies: if you see this post your first experience with Star Trek. I was talking to my friend Cat about the latest episode of Red Dwarf, and she was like "you should watch Star Trek, it's on BBC2 at 6pm". My first episode was "Imaginary Friend", a solid Standard TNG Episode, and I was hooked

One of my fics got podficced! only because you didn't say it plural, my sole DC Comics fic: archiveofourown.org/works/66766474

Not entering as I already have a copy, but friends, you want this book, it is EXCELLENT

i am a horribly picky and judgemental reader, it's not enough if the characters are gay the book also has to be good, im sorry

He was one of my lecturers at uni, and seminar leader for an excellent module on fin de siècle fiction - I learned a lot from him, and also have always treasured the memory of him accidentally revealing in depth Buffy knowledge in the seminar on Dracula

What an incredible shortlist - I'm particularly thrilled to see The City in Glass on it, I adored that book

It is time once again to tell you all that I once saw Paul McGann coming out of Sainsburys with the harried air of a man who'd forgotten to get his parking ticket validated and had had to go back

Finally posted my @vidukon.bsky.social premiere vid! Colors - A vid about Oliver Wolf, Zachary Quinto’s character on the medical drama Brilliant Minds, and the relationships he forms with the people around him. Even in the dark, there are colours. archiveofourown.org/works/66252313

Do you like F/F romance novellas? If so, you might like mine! Check out A Duet for Invisible Strings for contemporary fantasy, yearning, orchestras and Wales. Check out Sparks Fly for rivals-to-lovers teachers at an academy in space for a futuristic art form. Links below! #PrideBookFair

We make GREAT choices, I am having an excellent time 😂

VidUKon last weekend was so good, I had an amazing time! I was worried that I would be sad that I didn't have a premiere, but as it turned out I was having too much fun to care 😂

I made a Nirvana in Fire vid about the angry emperor for VidUKon! "No Love in Jinling" archiveofourown.org/works/66090223

He don't start shit, but he can tell you how it ends. Vigiliate Shit - A Nirvana in Fire vid for VidUKon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPSu... On AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/65918434

Hello chaps. Today we've launched the #TakingthePIP campaign to push back against the government's proposed reforms to Personal Independence Payment, a benefit for disabled people. Here's a great write up about the campaign. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yes - my mum sat me down and told me about it just before we learned about it in school, partly because she was worried I'd be the only one who didn't already know and she wanted to save me from that experience 😂