I saw this on an ao3 appreciation post on tiktok and i cant stop thinking about it its so perfect

That's it. I'm marking all as read in my email inbox. I can't do this anymore. Now, to find the willpower to migrate from gmail to something else...

There is so much and varied beautiful weirdness to be found in Sword and Sorcery, and it deserves better than to be confined to a narrow cliche.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last mo.

It's far too easy to reduce Sword and Sorcery to a set of stereotypes that fail to reflect the breadth, depth, and glorious strangeness of the genre's origins; @cynthiaward.bsky.social on the need to embrace and restore S&S's essential weirdness and heterogeneity

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Honestly, I don't want to hear about how near-future novels are too pessimistic or without hope. Look at the goddamn world around you. This is peak dystopia.

You mean Ópal the candy, the joy of children, the ancestral bridge? As liquid, the mirth-maker, hangover-harbinger, poetry-mead descendant? I will tolerate no slander.

Iceland is a volcano Iceland is an earthquake Iceland is an avalanche Iceland is a shipwreck Iceland is a snowstorm Cattle-killer, harvest-failure, hunger-maker Experience it.

Tonight we stay in Borðeyri right next to the shoreline. The waves probably crash into the window during storms.

Not all books are meant to survive their generation. Times change, social attitudes change; aesthetics change. Editing and re-editing a book to keep it palatable for modern readers is like trying to keep a person alive long after their body has given up. Let books die when their time is over.

This is still an all timer from her tbh

Midnight yesterday

Thank you to all who attended IceCon 2026. Hopefully you had a great weekend with us. Special thanks to our guests of honor Gunnar Birgisson @fannargg.bsky.social @alexanderdan.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social I hope to see many more of you in 2028. Ella

Icecon this year was so great, thank you to everyone who came!

𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚@onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great panels yest at @icecon.bsky.social, Gunnar & Fannar's workshop on creating their graphic novel, @hildur.bsky.social & @alexanderdan.bsky.social, the Ursula LeGuin panel & the final round table with @edashtonwriting.bsky.social (& the Romantasy panel not shown) Great end to the con, takk allir!

@alexanderdan.bsky.social in conversation with @hildur.bsky.social

The author readings at @icecon.bsky.social last night were brilliant! If you've not read @edashtonwriting.bsky.social, @villimeymist.bsky.social, @emilhpetersen.bsky.social & @alexanderdan.bsky.social you need to get them on your #TBR STRAX! (ie stat!) Thanks to all for a fab day! #BookSky #Iceland

Dead Weight is out TODAY! 🎉🥳 It's translated by the very talented @maryrobinettekowal.com, it got a starred review from Publisher's Weekly and a bunch of very nice blurbs from people I admire a LOT. It's available wherever books are sold*! (*In the US, UK rights are still up for grabs!)

Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir

A woman leading a routine life is pushed by circumstance to violent extremes in this impressively subtle and slow-burning psycho...

publishersweekly.com

"The new ambition isn’t to keep scaling new heights — it’s to cling to what you already have."

Franchesca Ramsey@chescaleigh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ps. here's the article that inspired me to make this edit! www.thecut.com/article/ai-g...

why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔

Finally someone is asking the real questions

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 3mo ago

Since some fetal tissue transfers to the mother during pregnancy, would the human mother of a half-elven child end up living substantially longer? Could this lead to human women having half-elven children as a longevity enhancer?

Nobody needs to use Google Search anymore. Just switch.

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is what they've done.

Every time.

km fedyk 🐀@karigrafia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I can’t express how disappointed I am. But here’s a second disappointment: Tokarczuk is a co-founder of a video game company that uses AI. This interview is her promoting the company (also why it was published in a business venue).

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

“Help! Being a fraud is too much hard work!”

Yorgos Cotronis@cotronis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

people will do all this instead of just writing themselves

Það er alveg að koma að því. Hátíðin hefst föstudagskvöldið 29. maí og um að gera að skrá sig sem fyrst. It's almost time. IceCon begins Friday evening, May 29th, and you should register ASAP. icecon-reykjavik.is @alexanderdan.bsky.social @fannargg.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social

I see no lies here

Death of a parking lot glacier.

Impulse buys on a date night.

May 29-31st! Letsgooo

Icecon 2028@icecon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Introducing our guest of honor @alexanderdan.bsky.social www.alexanderdan.net