Finally got a trainer for my unruly dog. He still barks all the time, but he's benching double what he was before and his abs look amazing.

I’m only halfway through THE HEART OF THE NHAGA and I’ve said holy shit out loud at least four times. My friends, that’s the mark of a good book.

Really good starter packs for book friends on Bluesky. (I don’t think I’m even in any of them but they’ve definitely helped me find cool people)

Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 4h ago

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Damn. BrooklynVegan has introduced me to so much great music over the years.

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 5h ago

BrooklynVegan, Alt Press, et al being unceremoniously shut down by a company owned by the guys from Good Charlotte that’s also owned by Live Nation is a plot that would happen in a direct to video sequel to Richie Rich.

I have extremely refined taste when it comes to Nicolas Cage movies. I guess I’m what you might call a… …ConAirsseur.

please stop replying “skill issue” on all my posts

If you catch me confidently singing the chorus of a popular song but fading out on the verses it’s because I only know it from a Weird Al polka medley

Candidate A was convicted in court for scheming to harvest the organs of orphans to prolong the lives of billionaires. Candidate B claims to have donated apples to a homeless shelter but our research shows it was actually oranges. Here are 20 op-eds debating who is the lesser of two evils.

🚨OUT NOW!🚨 THE BLACK BEAR CODEX is a fantasy noir seeking to answer the age old question everyone (just me?) has been asking: What if Raymond Chandler wrote The Wheel of Time? For fans of Scott Lynch, Fonda Lee, Christopher Buehlman, Martha Wells, and Joe Abercrombie. #BookSky 🪐📚

The Black Bear Codex

Framed. Exiled. Out For Revenge. Aryen Thatcher was the respected bodyguard for the teenage daughter of a wealthy banking family until he was framed for bribery and betrayal during a brutal House War...

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Despite my best efforts bumblebear cannot be beaten 🐻🐝

Dan Liimatta@danliimatta.bsky.social · 6d ago

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~

(Dumping a big box of googly eyes onto the pizza before shoving it into the oven) My grandmother brought this recipe over from the old country

Ordering two 150lb dumbbells online bc Im in a fight with my mailman

got banned from ace hardware for running through the aisles with a screwdriver and yelling THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I have a bug in my ass about the way in which WNBA commentators talk about trans people in sports because they are failing the Kirby test. The point is not that there are no trans women athletes in the W, nor that trans women do not have a competitive advantage when looking at the data.

🚨 PSA: The Kid Detective is streaming on netflix 🚨

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

All the people who are anti-AI or want to slow AI progress, I have one question: Can we be pals?

🪐📚 Currently Reading: GREEN CITY WARS by Adrian Tchaikovsky THE HEART OF THE NHAGA by Lee Young-Do (translated by Anton Hur) ROADMARKS by Roger Zelazny #PowerThrouple

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Heartbreaking news I’ve been eating more intentionally and exercising and it has greatly improved my mood, sleep, and energy

judge: guilty me: but the trial hasn’t even started judge: to unlock more rulings you must upgrade to Justice System Premium

The only *guaranteed* piece of craft advice I can give -- I mean the advice that is universally applicable -- is that if you kill many other writers and eat their scribere gland (roughly the size of a black-eyed pea, so be careful not to damage it) then your prose will improve immensely

I am increasingly convinced that confidence and talent are mutually exclusive

My hobbies are guitar and drawing but considering I have a day job it’s sometimes hard to fit them in alongside my writing

Rob J. Hayes - author of The God Eater Saga@robjhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Author brethren & sestren, what do you for a hobby? I know I certainly used to write as a hobby, but these days it's definitely a job. I still love it, but it's work. So now card gaming is my main hobby, but I'm curious what others fill their downtime with.

A label has been created for your package Your package has shipped Your package is out for delivery Your package is never going to feel as good as smoking cigarettes did when you were 26, almost 27, when you still felt invincible Your package attempted delivery but no one was there to sign for it

A reminder to myself disguised as general writing advice: Set your daily word count target for what seems like a trivial amount. The momentum of writing 100 words a day feels much better than binging 1,000 words some days and self-flagellating all the other days

Five sharks. Loved by good, feared by evil. Together they form Jawstron, defender of the universe.

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

how it feels to hit three deadlines in less than a week's time

As a bookseller I feel actively disrespected by the way Hachette packs their boxes