They keep releasing sexy character models trying to get me to try Marvel Rivals Not today, Mephisto

The pilot of the TV adaptation of Critical Role: The Mighty Nein dropped today😭 I’m completely unable to evaluate whether it’s actually good. It lifted me 4ft off the floor and threw me around the room in a fit of Dionysiac rapture I can’t explain how important the original DnD campaign was to me😂

This Sunday in Glasgow. Expect much fabulosity. www.strangefield.org/event-detail...

Cant sell your erotica or smut or nsfw art, but Stable Diffusion can create nude deepfakes of your ex for you, and ChatGPT can make your kids kill themselves Elon Musk can create cars that run over kids and destroy an entire wetland with his shitty tin can rocket that blows up or crashes just fine

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

it's gelphie time

My feed this morning is just full of witchy books and it is feeding my soul ☺️

Jupiter says trans rights

I have been waiting to read this book for MONTHS!!! Shona is a treasure ☺️

It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...

Finished @lukebelcourt.com Vampires of Park Circus and Martin Millar's Anxiety of Kalix. Now reading Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromo Kawakami (trans. Asa Yoneda) and 3/4 through @ninocipri.bsky.social Dead Girls Don't Dream. Along with ongoing Justice League read. #booksky 💙📚

It’s publication week!

I will truly never understand the appeal of shows like Invincible Some real “what if Ant Man flew in Thanos’s asshole but Thanos’s asshole crushed him” energy. Get real

I have now twice seen someone act as if being critical of AI is an example of that meme “no it’s the kids that are wrong” And— Like I truly do not understand this take. I have never seen a child have an opinion about LLMs one way or another, and everyone trying to sell me AI is older than me

I wrote a short story about this that never got picked up It had tentacles coming out of spreadsheets and the protagonist blows up a processing plant

Spiriting my Audible library away in the night to another app has done wonders for me getting through my TBR (TBL?) pile

My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!

I would love it if you could join me at one my upcoming events to celebrate the release of Daughters of Nicnevin Waterstones events here: www.waterstones.com/events/searc... The Highland Bookshop tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daughters-...

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Coming up on a week since Vampires in Park Circus released 🥹 If you’ve gotten round to reading it, reviews help indie authors out a lot! If you haven’t, what are you waiting for! lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

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The Spectator are confused. It's not going to be cost free. Billionaires are going to pay more. Join.greenparty.org.uk

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor. Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.

The kickstarter for this wonderful zine I've been a part of is now live!!! If you want fantastic art from a wonderful, incredibly talented group of people, please consider backing! Here's a little snippet of my piece ❤️

It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

And if you are in Glasgow, check out the Glasgow Tool Library.

"These are the Drowned Halls. On the Periphery of this Region the Waters are shallow, tranquil and covered with water lilies, but in the centre they are deep and treacherous, full of broken Masonry and drowned Statues." Happy birthday Susanna Clarke.

Once again, a case study to explain why I have zero confidence in the UK government machinery's ability to specify, procure and implement the digital ID system currently being proposed.

Caduceus Clay + Mollymauk Tealeaf

I’m back at work which should be miserable, but I would be lying if I didn’t feel literally recharged by being back in Glasgow lmao

Stuck largely to my own at World Fantasy Con this year but the vibes were *off* From someone repeatedly tearing down gender neutral signage to multiple guests openly sneering at dealer tables that didn't appeal to them. The cultural gap emerging between old and new SFF eras is a chasm.

That last paragraph...

Hillhead Burgh Hall, designed by George Bell of Clarke and Bell, photographed in the 1960s. It opened in 1873 and was demolished less than a century later in 1970. The site was later used for the new Hillhead Library in 1972. 📷 News quest #Glasgow

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

Stood up with full intention to go to a panel, then bailed and sat on a bench Brighton is gorgeous!

So happy my copy of All the Stars in the Daylight Sky came, even if it's going to be a few hours before trick or treating lets me start reading. If y'all are sleeping on @maigheach.bsky.social, you're missing out on a phenomenal author!

Nicnevin's living her best life. Being dumped was the best thing that ever happened to her

The three genders of English place names: - Lallington Bromley-Chum - Blue Buttresses - Splat

oh christ

Got on the plane fully intending to get through my podcast backlog Instead had like three transcendent experiences with “random liked songs my Spotify had randomly cached offline”

OUT NOW! The first book in my Gothic paranormal fantasy serial Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1: The Last Will And Testament Of Wilhelmina Bruttenholm is available today wherever books are sold! Join Victoria as she investigates her mysterious inheritance in a haunted seaside town! books2read.com/SOR1

I'm currently available for everything book design, from covers to typesetting to ePubs - with narry a single speck of AI included. Check out the rest of my work and give me a shout over at www.ryanvance.co.uk!

"The train station was an enormous structure of concrete nestled in the ventricles of the M8. Even at this time of the morning, a car drove past every minute or so. It was inevitable, the huge motorway dug across the city like scar tissue." #booksky #quotes 💙📚 @lukebelcourt.com