Indeed!!
Indeed!!
A selfie of me with sunglasses on
I am, in fact, alive.
One of the things They don't tell you is that a lot of being creative involves wondering whether or not you're screaming into the void. And a lot more of it is realising that as long as you're screaming, that's the point. And a lot of the rest of it is working out if you're singing or screaming
A screenshot of Mad Men of Don Draper yelling. The subtitle has been edited to read, βthatβs why I write books!β
I just donβt want βfilm a video and hope it goes viralβ to be a βreasonableβ expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!
Hello, hereβs attempt #347484 of me trying to use Bsky more often because the platforms I can tolerate using continue to dwindle.
An old pocketwatch suspended in front of ancient leather-bound books
HEY AUTHORS: It's the last weekend before Christmas and/or the end of Hanukkah, so people are going to be looking for last minute holiday gifts, which books are perfect for, so use this thread to tell everyone here at Bluesky about your book so they can go find it at their local bookseller. GO!
#AMoRaR #BookSky my time has come again
- Inner Universe books by @nataliekelda.bsky.social - depression, anxiety
- No Land for Heroes by @thatcalamity.bsky.social - PTSD
- Coal Gets In Your Veins by @catrector.com - generational trauma
- Perception Check by @astridknightauthor.bsky.social - trauma
And obviously you need to check out The Mages of Velmyra by @astridkwrites.bsky.social if you haven't already
www.astridknight.com/books
for every trans account suspended the ill I wish upon JK Rowling only increases
Constant hatred and negativity and upholding evil definitely doesnβt do much for people.
I donβt think itβs body shaming to say that hatred drains you and ages you. And obviously there are many reasons not to become a Nazi.
Thatβs very sweet of you to say! (I am nonbinary, so not much of a βgirlβ but I do appreciate the sentiment.)
I love when people call me ugly as an insult. My brother in Christ, I LOVE being ugly. Are you kidding?
Like, I spent many years as a βpretty girl,β and itβs miserable. Now that Iβm a fucked up little genderless gremlin, everyone leaves me alone! Itβs incredible.
This sale ends on the 22nd!
(And thank you so much to everyone who has sent me a pic of the tshirt you ordered! You don't know how happy that makes me π)
Major order of operations for book publishing:
Write the book
Edit it to the best of your ability
Beta readers for feedback
Editor (optional- developmental, line, and/or copy editing)
Edit your book again (as many times as needed til it's DONE)
Format your book
ARC readers
Publish to general public
In what universe do these people think that Superman, the worldβs kindest dork, would be pro genocide? Please be so for real.
Spoilers: the reason the right is pissing themselves over Superman is because the movie is an unabashed parallel to the Gaza genocide.
And Superman is pro-Palestine because OF COURSE HE IS.
There is no more delightful publishing arc than the one traveled by @chucktingle.bsky.social. Love is real, and so is kindness, and talent.
slate.com/culture/2025...
I will never knowingly use or engage with GenAI so if you see me reposting it please do me a favour and tell me π
Will a weird, unapologetically Black show about systemic power and social justice get picked up for an additional season in this fucked up political climate? Not likely, but FUCK, I hope it does.
binged all of the episodes of Iβm A Virgo yesterday, and holy shit????? Why isnβt everyone talking about this show???
It also only has one season so far and no season two announced, and they BETTER make more of it or so help meβ¦
But then the question becomes βwhat exactly IS worth trying then?β andβ¦yeah.
Iβm not doing awesome, is what Iβm saying!
Yeah, hereβs me being very vulnerable right now: Iβm finding it hard to be a creative right now.
Given just EVERYTHING (the rise of AI, the political climate, my own personal struggles, etc.) Iβm asking myself nearly every day, βIs it worth it to keep trying to do this?β
The moonlight hits it just right. A massive structure of solid somethingβitβs hard to tell exactly what in the lowlight, only that the exterior is rough and drab, the color of clay. Bits of it slough off as it takes creaking steps forward on four legs that bring it up into the branches above our heads, and a lumpy stone head brushes leaves and sends already dead bits of debris onto the floor of the forest. If I only saw its shadow in a wooded area on Earth, Iβd swear a gorilla escaped from the local zoo. Adrian stiffens next to me, his hand on my shoulder clamped in a vise grip, moving me slowly backward as the stone monster approaches. βBad,β he mutters. βBad, not good, bad.β βWhat is that?β I whisper. βSomething bad.β βYeah, I picked that up.β
Should I actually do #WIPWednesday here?
Have a bit of RULES AS WRITTEN, maybe?
There have been mass arrests of authors writing boy love fiction in China.
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The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem
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THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 3 books with
πPushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
π«An autistic necromancer
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ππ #booksky
This is such a wildly bad idea. Please take action. "AI", as the situation currently stands, is mostly a scam, is hurting the planet during a time of global crisis, is stealing from struggling artists, is very often wrong and hallucinating _more_ in newer models, and will get worse if unregulated.
"Doctors looked at my body, and couldnβt decide whether to mark M or F on my birth certificate. So instead of changing the form, they tried to change my body.
"What I experienced is the opposite of gender-affirming care; it's gender enforcement...
"I deserved to make those decisions for myself."