LOTS. Horror is "scary," but that fear only works if trauma-sharpened characters have hopes & joys to protect. For instance: Reginald recalls a hundred harms large & small yet the moment he sees a chance at love his heart opens. He's always used cynicism to protect a tender soul. #HorrorWritersChat

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 13h ago

Even fictional characters have a past. Q2: #HorrorWritersChat - How much history, how much of a past, do you give your horror characters? Share an example.

#cancer WHAT THE FUCK (link to story about how ovarian cancer isn't ovarian cancer, and the available prevention) archive.is/EQjaY

RWL would LOATHE the new Little House series and I love that for us. (It's so explicit that you can't survive alone! Because you couldn't!)

Tween- and teenaged me would have been so so thrilled to have a women's professional baseball league, and I'm going to see how being a Queens fan fits. (I promised myself no more West Coast teams, but some promises need to evolve.)

ANYWAY hey here's something more pleasant: a Baltimore architectural art piece. Available for purchase, $275 + shipping or free local delivery The backing is reclaimed matboard so the dimensions are a little janky; if it looks slightly crooked to you, that's why

dr. e. katherine@actualkatherine.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm working on a wycinanki art piece of the Wilkens-Robins Building rn, if any Baltimore architecture appreciators want to call dibs on it in advance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkens...

oh no i am reading a book that i very much do not want to put down but i have other obligations this afternoon anyway princeweaver has some INCREDIBLE mutual pining and also a reason the characters aren't talking about feelings and i do see why the goblin emperor is a comp

#baseball #dodgers

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.

It is the year of our collapsing capitalism 2026, I should be able to easily find a list of all music in any tv show with a quick internet search AND YET (I want a list of all the music Astrid plays in her office in Astrid et Raphaëlle, but alas)

Currently enjoying Amy Aislin's books (mostly hockey but some interconnected non-hockey) Also really enjoyed Sara Raasch's Magic and Romance duology and Cecilia Grant's Blackshear Family trilogy

@bluemeridian.bsky.social happy birthday, and i hope this is the start of your best decade yet 💙💙💙💙💙

Saw on here that there's a Kobo Plus promo running; I've seen enough books I bought that were available on Plus that I was already considering it. And lo! A hockey romance writer I wanted to read more from has most/all of her books there 🎉

#hockey crol turns out there's actually something worse than when your favorite player is traded to one of your least favorite teams and that's when the terrible team doesn't even appreciate him and puts him on unconditional waivers

#hockey #blackhawks i missed that tazer retired and wow that hits me right in my misperceived passage of time since peak hockey rpf

I know doing things you're bad at and learning new skills is supposed to be character-building, but counterpoint: I have plenty of character already, surely adding more would be excessive

This is something I hadn't considered about #GLP-1 use www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a7...

Something Strange Is Happening to Athletes Who Take GLP-1s

Maybe you've noticed it happen to you. Scientists are racing to figure out what's going on.

menshealth.com

Any book that results in a thread like this is a must-read

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 3w ago

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

OH. WOW.

Eric Ansley Díaz@geekboyeric.bsky.social · 4w ago

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

Bookish friends: we’re building an auction to support my health/recovery fund. If you can donate a critique, signed book, Zoom consult, classroom Q&A, art, swag, or anything bookish, I’d be so, so grateful. We have 11 donations so far. Please DM me if you can help.

Really looking forward to reading this!!!

Samantha Rich@srich-writer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Currently my plan is that if I sell 50 copies of Sticks, Pucks--and Murder, I'll write book #2. I have an outline and general ideas for a series of five total. So we'll see how this goes! (one more books2read.com/u/meWWl9)

Down to my literal last dollar getting Ciri checked out + fecal test. A friend told me to post my Ko-Fi so I’m posting it. ko-fi.com/A50425V

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Wow, my (fairly small) library has The Foxhole Court! I discovered this by seeing it on a list of titles for kids and teens, which doesn't seem like the best fit. (High school age, sure, but I wouldn't broadly rec to anyone younger than that.)

one person in this romance novel has a dick that is both longer and thicker doesn't that break one of the laws of thermodicknamics?

oh this is GORGEOUS 🏳️‍⚧️💙

Micro SF/F by O. Westin@microsff.com · last mo.

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

Today in utterly useless tales of successful author marketing: this post amused me so much I bought a book, just to support this wit (and to entertain future me)

Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · last mo.

Oh the stets we will stet!

The second time I read fanfiction I didn't know that was what I was reading because I wasn't familiar with it, as I was just finding my feet in fandom (The first time I read it I had never heard of fanfiction, and I doubt the person who sent it to me had, either) (1/4)

it's been one of those weeks where i listened to the black parade for like 40 hours tempted to modify the text on the rainbow molotov cocktail cross-stitch pattern to say "a light to burn all the empires"

brb, making sure i have the local wet bulb monitoring site pulled up on all my devices and planning to read some Frederick Douglass under a ceiling fan for the 4th

beachperi@beachperi.bsky.social · last mo.

Check on your neighbors, check on the vulnerable people you know 🥵 Be careful, friends ❤️ www.axios.com/2026/06/26/h...

The novella edition of BY THIEVES-LIGHT is here! Available on and off Amazon in epub, and for the first time in paperback! I am so excited to finally have this out at last, with another of their stories now out in SHATTER THE SUN as well.

crol trying to decide how much Stanley Cup merch I want. Maybe if I left the house more it would be an excuse for more shirts?

Really really enjoyed Sorcery and Small Magics (Doocy) and I very much hope we get the rest of this planned trilogy because wow do I want a happy ending for these two (but very glad there's no cliffhanger here)