*extremely confident* I AM DOING THIS ARROW MEME RIGHT I KNOW I AM us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Yay! I can finally tell everyone! I'm going to be working with the amazing folks at @montecookgames.com to help bring the Between Earth & Sky series by Rebecca Roanhorse to the tabletop roleplaying world! Please follow along, share, and let folks know! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Between Earth and Sky: the Roleplaying Game

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Filed under “things my brain believes are important at 1:00 a.m.”

If you alter the way you write, these motherfuckers have won. Change nothing. Be yourself. Em Dash it up. Go to town. Have an em dash dance party. Use any POV you want. Write as you have always written. (Unless, you know, you want to change style for reasons of levelling-up, or whatever).

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

Some friends of ours adopted a cat, but the shelter did a bad job testing him and he has FeLV. Sunny is a very sweet boy, but they can’t keep him because they have another cat. Is anyone in New England looking to adopt a cat that would be solo, or their other cats have FeLV?

If I can’t think of something I want to sketch, I just draw Taffy. She’s always doing something weird.

A new JWST image just dropped and it is gorgeous

Everybody go buy and read THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST thanks (if you are able to read ebooks, the ebook is still just $1.99 right now!) (also available in paperback and audiobook!) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Butcher of the Forest

"A perfect mix of horror and fantasy."—The New York Times“The Butcher of the Forest” shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy’s rising stars."—T...

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One of the most important skills you can learn as a young artist is how to disregard critiques from people whose opinions about how you draw don’t really help you.

Dominique Ramsey 𓃥@dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 6d ago

When I say that you have to be leery of who critiques your art, your life will depend on it. The wrong person giving you critique will have you fighting with your own creativity, leaving you mentally unwell. Especially if you don't have enough people around you encouraging your art

Right now anyone can learn to write or create art. The price of admission is incredibly, super-duper low. Don't have a computer? You can write or draw on paper. Yes, it takes time to learn how to tell good stories or create compelling art, but there is no gatekeeper. 3/

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Hey folks! I'm going to have a little medical downtime in early September (cataract surgery) so I'm taking advantage of that enforced rest to offer 4 writing mentoring sessions at $750/each.

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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No matter how much I love the look and feel of any specific fountain pen, if it doesn’t have a stub nib, I just will not ever enjoy writing with it. A fude or broad nib isn’t the same. A stub forces me to hold the pen in a way that is comfier and less painful for my tendon issues.

I restarted with traditional art in 2022 when all the AI people really began with the "all artists will be replaced by machines!" The art supply landscape has been flooded by sponsored brands, making selection difficult. So, from beginner to beginner, here is a bare bones getting started list:

Latest fun game? You can pay a fortune for your Medicare Plan D (pharma) or. . . nothing, if you don't need anything. But you must get into Plan D the moment you are eligible, or it goes up each month eventually. + higher Rx. My no-pay gets me 40% off a new med. Med is still $$$ a month. 🤨

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2w ago

every once in a while a nice author friend from Canada reaches a point where they have to ask their nice author friend in the US why their readers are trying to shove dollar bills up their noses, and I have to give them The Most Depressing Talk Ever

The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

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I hate that almost all of the coding camps for kids include learning to use LLMs now.(I’m venting, not looking for help. I promise you, I’ve looked at everything available in my area.) (Yes, they could learn at home with books, but we want them to meet other kids in their new neighborhood.)

She's here! She's ready to go and she has TEA!! 🎉 Get your Peony the Vulture PLUSHIE right now at MakeShip!! www.makeship.com/products/peo...

For newcomers: yes the #InverteFest artbook accepts fictional invertebrates - crab spaceship, mecha squid, isopod gijinka, joltik crochet, starfish bard from your DnD campaign, and so on. Submission link:

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - April 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ5m... #Art #SciArt

Oh hey, @kevinhearne.bsky.social 's @hornedlarkpress.com is open for submissions. "looking for original science fiction or fantasy novellas from 20-40,000 words (no reprints)...We need to see authoritarianism defeated in your story." hornedlarkpress.moksha.io/publication/...

Reposting! I am an illustrator and SFFH writer, folks!

Rebecca Wilcox@rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

Picked up some odd-for-me followers, so just your periodic reminder that my name is common, and I am NOT the sex writer, actress/journalist, or doctor of the same name.

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a human-made creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

So I did manage to doodle a little, and I have clearly spent too much time drawing robots and doll clothes sewing patterns this year. My skill at drawing actual humans is evaporating. POOF gone. 😮‍💨

ICYMI! Reading for the Hugo Awards? Try the finalist for Best Poem "Care for Lightning" by Mari Ness. It was also a Nebula Award finalist! You can read it here or in the Hugo packet! buff.ly/bcWJY8N

I tried to draw tonight, but I got distracted trying to find an affordable flex nib fountain pen that wasn’t from a brand run by horrible people. So no sketches and no new fountain pen. Gonna have to look more when it’s not the middle of the night.