Ready for something super cute? Linwood Library are doing their bit for Civics education with a lil election booth for kids and they vote on… best pet animal! 😍 ^MT
Jojo (they/them)
@jojoinabox.bsky.social
Professional non-creative wordsmith (and amateur creative wordsmith) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Currently crocheting more than reading. See https://red-pens-and-playwriting.ghost.io/. Profile pic is Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse. Header is Akaroa Harbour.
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Ange 🍞🌹🏳️🌈 🇳🇿@seawall.bsky.social · 2d agoRe-listening to a bunch of my audiobooks on Libro.fm If you're not using it yet I recommend it! You can elect your favorite brick and mortar indie bookstore to earn a percentage of every audiobook you purchase! Here's a referral code: libro.fm/referral?rf_...
We've had a nearly overwhelming response to our call for submissions for our inaugural issue. Thanks to everyone for sharing their work with us! blog.elegantlich.com/posts/2026/a...
An Overwhelming Response
We've been nearly overwhelmed by the response to our initial call for submissions. And the enthusiasm of the authors. We've received more than 200 submissions a…
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My liege, we are off hunting. Have you brought your falcon? Nay for I have brought my snail.
Back to normal programming with more narrative structure content! This #GrammarTalk is looking at beat sheets and how you can use them effectively.
Red Pens and Playwriting@index.red-pens-and-playwriting.ghost.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago(Free post) As part of our larger discussion on narrative structure, let's talk beat sheets!
The glorious seagull raccoon commission I've just completed
Nomination days are some of our favorite days! These writers and artists are takahē's nominees for the Best of the Net, an annual anthology celebrating digital publishing and a wide array of creative voices. Big mihi to everyone for sharing their beautiful work with our readers 🩷
Tomorrow is Bookshop Day 🇳🇿📚 Bookshops across NZ will be doing all sorts of fun stuff. See you there? #Books #Bookshops #BookshopDay #NZ 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀📚🌎🌈✒️
The emigraneus is a worm that infests human heads and causes headaches. It's also the root of our modern English word "migraine"! Source: https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast112151.htm
Have you ever enjoyed singing so much that you forget to eat or do anything else? You might be a cricket! Source: https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast4801.htm
The tysus is a serpent that moves by using its ribs like feet. At least one illustrator has taken this very literally. Source: bestiary.ca/beasts/beast106206.htm
The scitalis has a stunning appearance, literally. And this one can WERK. Source: https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast271.htm
The cornutis is a serpent that attacks people with its horns. Perhaps it also howls at the moon? Source: https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast107746.htm
This is a berus. It is more wicked and cunning than any other serpent. That is all. Source: https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast106195.htm
I agree with Robin that this looks very cool! Not sure yet if it will fit the way I've been using Obsidian, but I know a lot of people are fans of Scrivener, and y'all might be interested.
Robin Oak@robinjoak.bsky.social · 4d agoFinally, an algorithm shows me something good. This plugin for Obsidian was dropped on me by YouTube and it looks *excellent*. I'm definitely going to give it a go, even if it's just for zen and typewriter mode. I miss typewriter mode from Scrivener so much.
I won't be able to vote on the day, but I have sorted out a handy place where I can vote early!
Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi@christchurchlib.bsky.social · 5d agoThere are plenty of places you can vote in the upcoming New Zealand General Election - have a look at "Find a voting place" on the Electoral Commission website. vote.nz/2026-general... You can vote at some of our libraries - check our page: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-zealand-... ^DR
What do you call a seafaring mathematician? A πrate
Pay artists. If you want to see more of their work, then you want them to survive. If you want them to survive, then you have to pay them. That includes all kinds of artists. Pay writers. Pay illustrators. Pay actors. Pay dancers. Pay musicians. Pay drag queens & kings. Pay artists.
I'm part of this double bill at Lyttelton Arts Factory tonight till Saturday. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre
Pact and Washing Up a LAF double bill
LAF is proud to support new writers and this double bill Pact and Washing Up is directed by Mike Friend and David Ladderman
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Crow became accidentally important at work when all he wanted was to play with garbage.
This includes my first look into Keri Hulme! Thoughts: compelling stuff you want to keep turning over in your head, but very strange as well.
Red Pens and Playwriting@index.red-pens-and-playwriting.ghost.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d agoAnd another thing I forgot about: my reading for September! Fewer books this month, because Umberto Eco is a very good but very DENSE writer and it took me about 3 weeks to finish Foucault's Pendulum. As usual, there is some wide variation here.
Yay for remembering things a week late! 😆
Red Pens and Playwriting@index.red-pens-and-playwriting.ghost.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d agoApparently this year it's taken about a week for me to remember October is ADHD Awareness (Acceptance?) month. My brain's a mess, what's new? 😆 Have a post about how I write like this: https://red-pens-and-playwriting.ghost.io/operating-while-distracted/
A man is drinking in a bar next to a fisherman, who's got an impressive collection of scars, including a peg leg, a hook hand, an eye patch. He says, "I hope you don't mind if I ask, but how did you lose the leg?" "Oh, it was a fearsome gale - fifty foot swells, we were being tossed about."
the ghostes@rem.bsjky.team · last wk.whats your favorite bad joke. not bad like offensive but bad like "oh youre getting a haircut? which one?"