Jo Walton
@bluejo.eurosky.social
Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/
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and one on being human, a thing that i think is good and generally enjoy even tho i never asked for any of this shit. who doesn’t love 9A? 💙📚🪐
A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
One of my first photos. The light from the low winter sun started interacting with low clouds at noon, which caused this amazing light. The birds stand on rocks just under the surface, far from land. #sea #scape #clouds #BirdOfTheDay #Firsts #birds #photography
Adjustable desk lamps are perfect for a proper lighting of your text work, and it increases productivity and work safety. Buy our (since the 1530s) bestselling flying lamp "the dove", and get an extra refill ink pod for free. #skystorians #writingsky
Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-book-of-hours?utm_content=bufferec024&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
New sonnet on my Patreon "When I bought onigiri on the Marne". I wrote it yesterday on the train in France. www.patreon.com/bluejo/posts...
Onigiri on a TGV | Jo Walton
When I bought onigiri on the Marne, I thought about the miracle of peace And how you once bought croissants in Japan And how diversity makes
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“Letters from an Imaginary Country”, a Theodora Goss collection, 2025 Tachyon Publications
The short: I finally read the most recent collection by Theodora Goss, “Letters from an Imaginary Country”, 2025 Tachyon Publications. It includes a great Introduction by Jo Walton, six…
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off
Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo agoAny of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year
I saw an extraordinary thing yesterday. The sun was slowly setting into the hills to the west and we were by Ponte Santa Trinita. There's a line of clear glass lanterns along the edge of the river there as it goes west, and the angle of the red rays of the sun was lighting them up like stained glass
You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.
Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.
So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.
Every time I asked a more advanced writer how to write a novel, they would say some version of, "You just have to do it to learn how to do it." But I wanted a solution, something that would take me from "I can't do it" to "oh I'm doing it." visyap.mymagic.page/do-i-know-en...
Do I know enough? (Or, how to stop stalling and start drafting)
Touch the project as regularly as you can, and accept that it'll feel, often, simply like work.
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Today's Refrigerator Kanji: mannenhitsu 万年筆 (fountain pen) At my younger daughter's request, I'm trying something different and showing several kanji in the context of a word. I think the combination of the literal meanings of the kanji in the word will be pretty memorable.
YES! It is my author copies of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR! Dreadfully hot humid day but WHO CARES I HAVE MY BOOK
Just started the novel Miss Marjoribanks (1866) by Margeret Oliphant and it has one of the strongest character-defining openers I've ever read. I'm gonna just quote here:
Not just anyone can tell me “you should read Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist and His Master” and actually send me shopping. But @bluejo.eurosky.social and @adapalmer.bsky.social did, in Trace Elements, and I have. So there. Or something.
Jo Walton writing a novel of ideas in 2015 is the energy we needed. The Just City is Plato's Republic with robots and time travel — the kind of weird ambitious swing that reminds you the novel of ideas never died, it just got weird.
Listening to Ex tenebris ad lucem : Venetian Music of Penitence from a Time of Plague as background soundtrack for @bluejo.eurosky.social ‘s Everybody’s Perfect
Born #onthisday in 1844, English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. Celebrate with a read of our essay "The Krakatoa Sunsets" by Richard Hamblyn which explores a little-known series of letters that the poet sent in to the journal Nature: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #OTD
The last week of July last year I'd just finished revising Everybody's Perfect and was starting to write Sunlit Uplands. Now I'm revising Sunlit Uplands and starting to work on Mad or a Poet. Feels like my life's back on track!
Last week of a lovely camping vacation in #Yukon Territory. Very unplugged. Just finished Among Others by Jo Walton. #Libraries and #librarians do well in this book. Shout-out to all the folks who make Interlibrary Loans work.
