i just read wire mother for the hugos which absolutely TORE, AND i saw someone say sublimation interfaces with the odyssey so now i have to go and buy this even more than i was already going to

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

The big takeaway from the Spring box office isn't that horror is hot. Horror has been hot for the last few years. The big headline is that PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THE MOVIES AGAIN. Gen Z has found what they'll pay to see...IN THEATERS! This is amazing for the industry and film lovers both.

just bought SEVENTEEN books on the 99p monthly kobo sale. after deleting three others from my basket. i will never change I will never improve

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

doing the math that at my average reading speed I’ve got 51 days of hugo awards material to bash out in the remaining 70 days before voting closes that’s doable that’s fineeeeee

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

If you want to read the open letter from 400+ female screenwriters about the BBC’s Everard drama, The Nerve has it.

2 months left on the hugos basically all the main categories left to do it is extremely squeaky bum time

collecting comics all well and good until you have to sort them

belatedly here to say I really enjoyed startup hell by @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social, out now everywhere! she gets it! this is what cosy fantasy is all about! the romance gave me the warm gooeys! excellent quirky satire of modern office culture! thanks @titanbooks.bsky.social for the ARC!

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

just read @freyamarske.bsky.social’s cinder house, which i had been struggling with emotionally due to the feelings Ella’s entrapment brought up in me having been housebound with me/cfs for over a year, only to find out the author herself has long covid in the authors note! when you know, you know!

The dude who runs Twitter, controls your feed, and makes money off your posts is on week two of posting about how Chris Nolan casting a black woman as a beautiful woman is anti-white genocide. I do not want to write for that guy for free, which is what you're doing when you post to his platform.

been waiting for my request for green city wars to be approved on netgalley for three weeks and it FINALLY came through come into my arms genetically engineered raccoon detective!!!!!!!!!!!

Surrealist cover art for sf books No, I don’t care that they’re a marketing disaster. If I don’t mutter “what the actual fuck” when looking at an sf book, what’s even the point 😩

a few months ago i read a review of a book on storygraph that said ‘this reads so easily it’s like slime ASMR’ and I can’t stop thinking about it whenever i’m reading a really smooth and easy to read book. it IS like slime ASMR

hi did you know in addition to TheGamer, Valnet owns Screenrant Movieweb Collider CBR Polygon and more? They treat writers like trash and are a major force in making the internet worse

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

this is unironically massive

Gideon the Eight-and-a-half-th

putting every single one of these recommendations into my tbr and also mouth

probably every journalist and person who uses social media should read this, even if a lot of it was obvious. names get named

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

alternate universe buckynat rise

You can vote on the Hugo Awards, even if you don't plan to go to the Worldcon. A $50 WSFS membership gets you voting rights on the Hugo Award. It also usually comes with ebook copies of finalists. We'd certainly love to see more people voting (and would also love your vote for fanzine this year.)

today on arc reviews I REALLY liked @sunyidean.com‘s new one #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces and I don’t want to spoil it so I can’t talk about it in depth because I think it’s an important one to just let happen to you but go get it!!! sunyi gets it! I love complicated women and their ghosts!

oh heck it looks like The Book!!!!

if you’re insane and have a lot of time on your hands then you too can spend several hours cataloging all the books from the hugo packet on your storygraph

ngl the hugos and worldcon + associated community should probs do a WAY better job of explaining that Yes, Membership Costs Money BUT the hugo voters packet contains wayyyyy more media than you'd normally get for that money.

HELL YEAHHHHHHHHHHH

literally chomping at the bit for the hugo packet yummy yummy packet full of books give packetttttttt

finally, perspective grid knowledge will be useful irl

anyway, for my first trick: @worstreads.bsky.social and I are reading and voting on the Hugo’s this year thanks to inspiration from @renay.bsky.social and the first book on my personal list (The Everlasting) is making me consistently wail into my hands so get ready for the hugofication of man!!!

Just go ahead and make a thing. Even though you have no idea what you're doing. That's the whole point of all of it

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

bluesky engagement strategy step 1: somehow get alex jaffe to follow me step 2: retire??????

if nothing else really funny that the rf kuang discourse of all things was the twitter final straw for me