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trans lesbian | bookseller | amateur writer/musician

eventually "developing FFXI" is going to be one of those longstanding japanese crafts where only a few aged masters remain and they do the NHK documentary about the one guy who's the youngest apprentice at 47 and still gets up at the crack of dawn to tend to the mill

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The sharp player decline we expected never came.” Final Fantasy 11 director talks about recent surge in players and challenges the MMORPG faces due to server limitations and lack of manpower automaton-media.com/en/news/the-...

Writing a book is a MASSIVE achievement. Even if it's not perfect. Even if no one has read it. Even if it never gets published. No matter what happens next, appreciate everything you have done so far. The simple act of finishing a first draft is worth celebrating. You did that. 🎉

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running out of time to pre-order the book that's been called "dishy and dirty, thorny and sweet" "dispatches from the crabs-in-a-bucket frontlines of modern transsexual life"... (pretty soon you'll only be able to normal-order it)

the cover of again, harder by alice stoehr with the butch doggirl & femme bunnygirl except it looks warped & glitchy

Today's the day!! Somehow! Somehow it is 10 months from when I made this post & you can get this book out in the world wherever you get your books!

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · last yr.

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it! Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

this is something we deal with on a daily basis now as reporters. unfortunately I think more and more people are going to find themselves struggling with a friend or family member who is going through "ai psychosis" www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.

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'protect your peace' and 'pick your battles' are good advice for most, but it's ignorant not to know it as privilege. some people were minding their business when the battle picked them; some people are the battle