Me: finding ‘don’t let the forest in’ so scary/ engaging/ stressful that it’s a TERRIBLE pre-bed audiobook, need to move on to the next one in my library The next audiobook in my library: From the Library of Jurgen Leitner

When I say I did not even put it together that my book about a big ghost election was releasing during US midterms... Maybe Podium was more savvy about that! TY for the wonderful review! Also I love "there’s a frozen man who apparently longs for warmth while rejecting it as weakness." Yup!!!

Lucienne Diver@luciennediver.bsky.social · 11h ago

Also, The Skiffy and Fanty Show has great review of DEAD NEW WORLD by @lindarrow.bsky.social ! skiffyandfanty.com/blog/book-re...

Waite: “On the eve of a national midterm election, the Times reached all the way over to the Book Review & parted ways with a writer in the genre that most often presents rape scenes from the perspective of the victim, in stories that insistently end with the victim triumphant, beloved, and happy.”

Really cool to have friends, work colleagues, neighbours affected by some god awful decision making because the "left wing" government in power is so dedicated to chasing votes they'll never get and are enacting out an agenda for a party they're afraid of but is on a down swing.

Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️@chenchenzhang.net · 2d ago

a little browsing on skilledworkersUK subreddit tells you that people's lives are upended for no reason. it's hard to imagine anyone who's not limited by family or relationships is not gonna leave. "I'm going home, so I guess the reform voters won".

💿 👻 ✨ #Halloween is over, #Ao3 is down, but my Queer scifi book about holographically resurrected ghosts working dead end jobs, falling in love and solving ghost crimes is out THIS MONTH!! Here are the details with art by the amazing @alexassan.com! Get: books2read.com/deadnewworld

This is just so awful on so many different levels. And it only reinforces my increasing belief that generative "AI" is destroying our perceived reality and if we're going to survive as a society, it has be banned and any trace of it has to be found and removed.

Anne Billson@annebillson.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Last year, authorities raided a facility in Bamban, north of Manila, freeing nearly 700 people who had been trapped there and forced to work as scammers." Poor sods. Those fake book club mails you keep getting? They're part of a massive industry.

Only two months until Quindrie Press officially closes for good! Starting today, all the Quindrie Press books are available for up to 50% off their original price, along with discounted shipping. This is as low as our prices are going to get in our last couple of months! 🐉 quindriepress.com

🎃 Another Glorious Day In The Corps 🎃 My final post about horror sequels this October! All about colonial marines, James Cameron, the East India Company, Big Tech, and Alien$ grave-offerings.ghost.io/another-glor...

Another Glorious Day in the Corps

On Colonial Marines, The East India Company, and Aliens This is part of a series of essays about my favourite horror sequels. Read the introduction here, and the full archive here. Subscribe for free...

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wanted to talk a bit about #TheMurmuringDepths process and use this opportunity to show you some really good creature photos I should have guessed, but DISTRESSINGLY we found a world of genAI, ‘photogenic’ fake nature slop when trying to look up Any pictures of deepsea creatures & environments. SO-

Hari Conner@haridraws.bsky.social · last wk.

Our story game is now released into the wild for Halloween: A deepsea weird fantasy for enjoyers of indie games, zines, my gamebooks, or whalefall - free - play in browser (incl on your phone) - go on. abandon society. join us in the ocean dark haridraws.itch.io/the-murmurin... #TheMurmuringDepths

Big recommend for this one, it's absolutely charming and introduced me to a new folk song! (Letty's work is ALWAYS banger tho)

Broken Frontier@brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 7d ago

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! Sgadanach – Letty Wilson’s Fluid Artwork Brings this Tale of Scottish Folklore to Enchanting Life. @toadlett.bsky.social @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social #TBatBF16 www.brokenfrontier.com/sgadanach/

wanted to talk a bit about #TheMurmuringDepths process and use this opportunity to show you some really good creature photos I should have guessed, but DISTRESSINGLY we found a world of genAI, ‘photogenic’ fake nature slop when trying to look up Any pictures of deepsea creatures & environments. SO-

Hari Conner@haridraws.bsky.social · last wk.

Our story game is now released into the wild for Halloween: A deepsea weird fantasy for enjoyers of indie games, zines, my gamebooks, or whalefall - free - play in browser (incl on your phone) - go on. abandon society. join us in the ocean dark haridraws.itch.io/the-murmurin... #TheMurmuringDepths

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

Me usually: While retellings are a form of transformative work, that doesn't mean they're fanfiction – they have a different relationship to the original text, and to the audience and communities reading them... Me when Ao3 is down: Anyone want some medieval fanfic full of yearning

[waves this tantalisingly in front of you all] go in the wet

Hari Conner@haridraws.bsky.social · last wk.

Our story game is now released into the wild for Halloween: A deepsea weird fantasy for enjoyers of indie games, zines, my gamebooks, or whalefall - free - play in browser (incl on your phone) - go on. abandon society. join us in the ocean dark haridraws.itch.io/the-murmurin... #TheMurmuringDepths

🎈 🎂 Today is my birthday! So I am taking advantage of this to ask for the traditional sharing of my work if you so please. 💖

letty drew and wrote some INCREDIBLY good haunting fish for this game

A toad@toadlett.bsky.social · last wk.

some art from Hari andMatt and my game! You can play it for free and you should! do that!

I just played it this morning and it's really good! Go check it out if you like sea-themed body horror and weird ocean magic, I'd really reccomend it!

Hari Conner@haridraws.bsky.social · last wk.

Our story game is now released into the wild for Halloween: A deepsea weird fantasy for enjoyers of indie games, zines, my gamebooks, or whalefall - free - play in browser (incl on your phone) - go on. abandon society. join us in the ocean dark haridraws.itch.io/the-murmurin... #TheMurmuringDepths

Our story game is now released into the wild for Halloween: A deepsea weird fantasy for enjoyers of indie games, zines, my gamebooks, or whalefall - free - play in browser (incl on your phone) - go on. abandon society. join us in the ocean dark haridraws.itch.io/the-murmurin... #TheMurmuringDepths

Hello #Portfolioday! I'm Anine, an illustrator based in Scotland, and I'm looking for work - email me if you think I'd be a good fit for your project ✨ 💻 www.anineillustration.com 💌 anine@anineillustration.com (I also do private commissions, email me for that too)

whenever I feel bleak about the current publishing landscape, I remind myself that as a queer kid who read tons, I saw so few queer characters in books I thought it wasn’t allowed

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 2w ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

listening to a disability history book and the writing by 1800s ‘invalids’ feels SO familiar: The vast frustration at being bedbound & cut off from the world & ‘normal’ life, the pressure to be cheerfully resilient, dealing with toxic positivity & doctors with little to offer the chronically sick...

Trans friendly prints: excellent printer (where I get all my convention prints) Print.Work in Leeds is supporting the charity Mermaids this quarter. Just another good thing about these ppl (print quality is great as well). See you at MCM London and @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

More of tiny #tolktober2026 (5x5cm doodles)

EDINBURGHers - if you’ve ever enjoyed a show/ gig/ the pub at Summerhall, there’s a simple online consultation open UNTIL FRI where you can tell the developers if, SAY, you have concerns about how massive a chunk is proposed to be demolished & turned into student flats summerhallconsultation.co.uk

thinking about fishing villages, quietly half-deserted #art #TheMurmuringDepths

fwiw this includes Squarespace, where 'block known AI crawlers' is under settings>website>crawlers

Cherae // C. L.@clclarkwrites.com · 3w ago

my partner, who works in tech, has been talking to me about this severe grab since it’s impacting their teams as well, and something you can do about it—check your website host and see what kinds of protections you can enable against AI crawling.

headed to @tagsfest.co.uk this morning and got some very nice normal pictures of #TheMurmuringDepths team (coming soon…) & some other pals! FREE & open till 5 at Out of the Blue in Leith, if you 🫵 live near & want to support your local weird arts scene, play games or see many good comics & zines

*trying to flirt* What if you were the healthy neighbour to my bleached out coral and we touched

Nature@nature.com · 3w ago

There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline go.nature.com/4zwy3nF

92% through inks & colours for this book today... getting there...!! #atg

Hari Conner@haridraws.bsky.social · 3mo ago

exactly 75% through the inks for this graphic novel as of today!!!!!!