Uggi’s morning started by waiting impatiently for me as I brushed my teeth. The way he lingers in the hallway, staring at me, is not creepy AT ALL. A picture 🧵
Hildur Knútsdóttir
@hildur.bsky.social
Icelandic writer. The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
I did not read this newsletter and I don't want to, but I do love this summary.
The Midnight Society@midnightpals.bsky.social · 18h agoSèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!
Uggi’s morning started by waiting impatiently for me as I brushed my teeth. The way he lingers in the hallway, staring at me, is not creepy AT ALL. A picture 🧵
Hey hey, Rotten Tomatoes puts A Monster Calls on their top under the radar family films, calling it “criminally unseen”. editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/under-...
40 Great Kids Movies to Stream Now: Top Under-the-Radar Family Flicks
Stuck home and looking for great family films to watch? The RT staff hand-picked these under-the-radar kids movies that adults will love, and which have a lesson to learn by the time the credits roll.
editorial.rottentomatoes.com
If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Sounds fake, can't be true, surely everything I write should just be perfect first time?
Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · yesterdayhold up, are you saying REWRITING and REVISING makes writing better?? THE HECK YOU SAY
Why does 90% of the news I read about the White House sound like it was written by the writers room of The Office?
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterdayOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
COVER REVEAL! My next novel, The Animals We Became, retells the medieval Welsh tale 'Math fab Mathonwy'. It's a book about gender, trauma, and compulsory heterosexuality expressed through non-consensual animal transformations and some deeply unreliable narration... finnlongman.com/books/the-an...
Oh, hey! Got an email from Terry Gross, who apparently does NPR business from a gmail account. She wants to interview me about Radiant Star! At this point if you want me to visit your book club or do an interview, you need to contact my agent or publisher cause I'm deleting requests in my inbox.
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
Yesterday I signed two contracts and approved my first Bulgarian cover. Important to remember in a frustrating time how fucking great it is to make art.
Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
Flew home from holiday yesterday and in my entire life I have never seen the UK look like this. Actually shocking to see it. #ClimateCrisis
If I got a króna for every time someone here assumed I must be American, or tried to educate me on Iceland when I was talking about Iceland (despite themselves being American, but they assumed I was too, I guess?) I would have quite a few krónas.
András Forgács W@andraswf.bsky.social · 3d agoI'M SORRY THAT THE DIACRITICS IN MY NAME WEREN'T A GOOD ENOUGH INDICATION THAT I'M NOT AMERICAN
The CEO of Bluesky trying to make me know who the CEO of Bluesky is and my long standing opinion is that I demand to not know who it is
Patsy and my books. And favorite authors @hildur.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @alexhanna.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social :)
I’ve never seen the original context for this all-timer of a tweet and honestly it’s incredible on multiple levels
Alistair Coleman@alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 3d agoWorth posting in context as it is bang on topic.
If I got a króna for every time someone here assumed I must be American, or tried to educate me on Iceland when I was talking about Iceland (despite themselves being American, but they assumed I was too, I guess?) I would have quite a few krónas.
András Forgács W@andraswf.bsky.social · 3d agoI'M SORRY THAT THE DIACRITICS IN MY NAME WEREN'T A GOOD ENOUGH INDICATION THAT I'M NOT AMERICAN
With the success of SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, THE ODYSSEY, BACKROOMS, TOY STORY 5, PROJECT: HAIL MARY, and SUPER MARIO GALAXY, it's clear audiences are hungry for original stories over tired rehashed IP, like the critics have been opining about for months... Hold on, I'm being handed a note.
I’m up but I just checked in on my husband and Uggi and:
Watching this unprecedented summer of drought, fire and heat unfold across Europe has just been awful. They're hitting temps the older, less catastrophic climate models told them wouldn't happen until 2050. We're in a new era.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d agoFirefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation.