all true, giant queer ladies are rad and i did draw this! please click through to Phoebe's second post to find the link to her amazing story.

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳@phoebebarton.bsky.social · 2w ago

you know what's always rad? giant queer ladies are always rad. so I went and commissioned some giant queer lady art from @shargrave.bsky.social of Alice Trimble, the protagonist of my recent story "In Luck's Panoply Clad, I Stand" - look!

This is my favorite Artemis II photo.

lol what baby brains. what if your neighbor likes a different sports team. oh no they might have a different color house. what if they like choo choos more than vroom vrooms. I hear some don’t even agree apple is the best juice. I don’t feel safe

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

added to my list as soon as I finished reading this tbh

Felicia Davin@feliciadavin.com · 4mo ago

in which I really, really love this Zen Cho novella, and I hope you will read it, and also look how great that cover is

if you made a CEO work as a dishwasher for one week they would go mad like a Lovecraft protagonist confronting an unnameable entity in the cellar

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Any random billionaire or even merely millionaire executive controlling literally everything, would die in a gristly manner in about a week of living like a normal person with a normal job.

anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one

onion person@junlper.beer · 4mo ago

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo ago

A group of devoted volunteers is methodically researching, cataloging and digitizing more than 10,000 concerts that one music fan recorded over four decades.

If you like the idea of (blood)thirsty sword lesbians? You might like reading this.

Annies@anniesated.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Binding your swornsister's soul to your blade, that she may stay with you even after her death to revel in your joint battles, is all fine and good until it's been a decade since your last good fight—longer still since any real battle—

i hope that someone gets my i hope that someone gets my i hope that someone gets my hotdog in a bottle, yeah hotdog in a bottle, yeah

Exceptionally good trilogy and I will highly recommend it EVERY time I get the chance !

Felicia Davin@feliciadavin.com · 4mo ago

My novel Thornfruit, the first of a queer fantasy trilogy about discovering that your mom is maybe doing kind of a lot of murders, and (in books 2-3) that you are in love with 2 people, is on sale for 99¢. Memory magic, secret letters, sea monsters, bisexual pining & 280+ SFFH ebooks indiebook.sale

Re-upping this: The path to the Artemis program ultimately spans six presidential administrations (Bush, two Obamas, two Trumps, and one Biden). It's a pretty huge team effort across roughly two decades (and counting), that also includes multiple international partners.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 4mo ago

FWIW, the Artemis program is interesting in part because — while the program was named and shaped during Trump’s first term — the overall effort really began in 2005, and is the result of multiple congressional funding bills alongside the efforts of the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations.

hello everyone. despite work's best efforts i am still alive

I'm not crying. You're crying. #ArtemisII

My first new comic in years will debut next weekend at SPX. Saddle-stitched preview of SETTLERS OF THE STORM WORLDS, signed and numbered limited edition, $10 in beautiful black and white. Read for free on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/carlaspeedmc... please share and recommend, thanks muchly

Our resident spotted moray makes its daily commute through the same path nearly everyday at the same time each morning #spottedmoray #moray #thatsamoray #morningcommute #slither #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #tomtate #frenchgrunt #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

let's all enjoy this art again while I mention that this book is currently on sale for $0.99 along with 300+ other SFF works at indiebook.sale

Felicia Davin@feliciadavin.com · 2y ago

Sidney Hargrave (@shargrave.bsky.social) did this beautiful character art for my book THE MISCHIEVOUS LETTERS OF THE MARQUISE DE Q (www.feliciadavin.com...) and I love it so much

cute tapir pritns to north america: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil... t-shirts, prints and much more to north america, europe and oceania: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1719...

Good good also lol @ "limiting the reach" in the replies. I would rather limit my reach than be associated with genAI, and risk promoting events/things that allow the slop in any shape or form, leading my readers there

Skyla Dawn Cameron@skyladawn.ca · 12mo ago

From a writer group post someone sent me: "...the attitude now is so exclusive and unwelcoming for those of us who are either pro-AI or use AI" GOOD JOB, EVERYONE, KEEP MAKING THEM FEEL UNWELCOMED, YOUR SHAME IS WORKING. 🥰

I better not see y'all using some shitty AI slop generator for your maps in your TTRPG adventures or debut novels. Turn that map of Ohio upside down or draw some squiggles around beans, as our ancestors intended.

please tell toby i love and believe in him

Scazrelet ~ Beloved of the Abyss@scazrelet.bsky.social · last yr.

More Toby being Toby

This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. freedomtobuy.games

Hey, hey authors of Indigenous, Asian, Maori, Pacific Islander, Latinx and Black heritage - Speculative Insight is looking for articles and essays! Deets! awolfstale.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/s... Pls boost!

Speculative Insight’s call for pitches

Speculative Insight is an amazing journal for non-fiction in the genre field. For aca-fen, this is for you! I am helping Alexandra Pierce, the editor, signal boost this upcoming call. * In Septembe…

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Yes, it is possible to actually enjoy the process of writing itself. I do. There is nothing like it. Putting words together on a page is something I enjoy so much it makes me feel unhinged.

Just your irregular reminder that you're allowed to enjoy the process of writing. I know jokes about how hard and frustrating writing is are super common, but if the actual act of writing—not just the feeling of having a product after you're done—is not enjoyable, you do not have to write.

the enemy of my enemy is making out with my third enemy and it's pretty hot

sprouts!!

i like this a lot

Shortwave Publishing@shortwavebooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Two big changes coming to all Shortwave books... 1. End credits! Like in movies! Where everyone who worked on a particular title will be credited, alongside their role. 2. A statement on every copyright page which reads, "No genAI was used during any part of the production of this book." (1/3)

this is a VERY good read and i am shaking hands with the author. a lot of this is why i severely dialed back my own social media use over the last couple years.

Felicia Davin@feliciadavin.com · last yr.

this Caroline Crampton essay about how tradpub forcing authors to do social media is less to sell books and more to shift the burden of a book's success onto the author... I'm not traditionally published but it feels right to me www.carolinecrampton.com/im-done-with...

to kiss brutalism

Dana Nightingale 🏳️‍⚧️@danaenight.northsky.social · last yr.

Art Deco and Art Nouveau as magical girls who are sworn enemies and must battle for eternity. Then Brutalism arrives, and they must team up.

The Deal: YOU: get 81 cool books/games, many of which are very very queer WE: get Canadian Wildfire Relief money to redistribute to the affected communities via the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation itch.io/b/3125/canad...