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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2h

And yet still there is hope, while the company remains true 🤗

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6h

He's done a ton of new work since, but he always seems so happy to return to Astarion. It's a good thing to see

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7h

A weighty tome would have been great, but there's a segment of fandom that would have been hateful regardless 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

Nettle and Bone was my top book of 2022. The one that got me started on my Kingfisher hunt Disarmingly gentle writing of complex characters, by and large. I do find myself wanting to bang the paladins' heads together, but that would make for very short books 😁

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

I'm in love with her Clockword/Paladins universe. Happily collecting each new one as it comes out I'm not much of a horror reader, but they're all well written too, and what I know of the author I like

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

If my dad was feeling sadistic on a long car journey (or we were fighting) he'd start "A hundred green bottles..."

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you! I'm a T Kingfisher fan, though I wasn't going to buy this book (happy with my own Astarion headcanons, thanx). I so rarely buy audiobooks (they tend to send me to sleep). But I'll definitely consider it

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

The game writing is so complex that this is both virtually and literally true. I had a fair bit of discourse back in the day with players who wouldn't accept that 'their' Astarion was just one of many possibilities

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

When I was deep in BG3 in 2024, there was a lot of very toxic discourse from people who couldn't (wouldn't) understand the concept of pan characters. Every player has their own Astarion, responding to the player's choices (and complex writing). But some think their Astarion is the only correct one

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, that's just made me 100x more likely to buy the audiobook 🤭 We (us people who game) really have become very prissy. It's nowhere near a top-tier bad word

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An exquisite autumnal Puffin Post cover by Jill McDonald. Always love the way her illustrations feel like encountering an animation paused mid-frame & how the delightful madcap motion & sublime screwball astmosphere is always pleasingly spiced with the surreal, edged with something a little darker

The colourful cartoon cover of a 1976 puffin post magazine featuring cosily woolen wearing puffins gambolling on green grass under giant falling autumn leaves in pink orange gold and brown with the title Puffin Post in red letters outlined in black in the top right corner with a pale blue grey sky as the background

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From my notebook. My philosophy, while writing books, for the last ten years.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some sketchbook Gruffalo doodles (pic 1) and original ink drawing (pic 2) for the cartoon quoted below. The drawing is now at www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Various sketchbook doodles in pen and pencil of the Gruffalo

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors! Lee Chilld: The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow. Sally Rooney: The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart. Kazuo Ishiguro: After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm not one to support the forces of darkness, but I have a sneaking fondness for oliphaunts 🐘

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"You wrote the whole thing" I mean, that's worth celebrating, right? 🫤

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Miriam Ellis @miriamellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tonight, one of Tolkien's supreme moments of Faerian consolation on the slope of Weathertop, in which Strider consoles himself while consoling the hobbits with the ancient tale of how Beren and Lúthien Tinúviel became one another's sources of consolation in tree-tangled Middle-earth. Remarkable!

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Signum University @signumuniversity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Put the kettle on and spend 20 minutes with Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger. ☕ Watch a preview of our documentary The Stories That Come to Us: youtu.be/VeEyVKFUfQo Pre-order the full conversation for $9.99 USD: collaboratory.signum...

An older woman, Verlyn Flieger, wearing glasses sits at a desk writing beside a vintage telephone and framed photo, with a window and bookshelf behind her. Overlay text reads “The Stories That Come to Us,” “A Conversation with Verlyn Flieger,” “Watch the 20-minute preview,” and “SIGNUM Studios.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Massively looking forward to my upcoming Ted Talk. This will involve me talking to anyone who will listen about my late granddad, Ted, the council house in Nottingham where lived, the allotment where he grew his vegetables, and his long-running day job in a factory where women's underwear was made.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once more my handwritten transcript of The Fellowship of the Ring keeps pace with dates in the manuscript. At dawn on 6 October 3018, Strider and the hobbits climb to the path that leads to Weathertop. Here I go out of the Reckoning, because it will take many days to write what is about to ensue

The Shire-reckoning for 6 October 3018 (posted 6 October 2026). Strider and the hobbits have reached the hills that run to Weathertop. They seek the ancient path

Handwritten transcription of chapter 11 of The Fellowship of the Ring (A Knife in the Dark) by JRR Tolkien. Shire-reckoning 6 October 3018 (posted 6 October 2026). Strider and the hobbits have reached the hills that run to Weathertop. They seek the ancient path

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gondor. Gondor. Gondor It was not for this that Elendil came oversea bearing Narsil and the White Tree. Ya bullies

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Arturo Magidin @magidin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

if you can't afford to run your business while paying for the raw materials from which you make your product, you DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS! What you have in your hands is either an imperial project or a crime. Possibly both." -- Alice Fraser, on The Bugle, issue 4333 (March 5, 2025) 2/2

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In other news, thieving lying mysogynist who stole a woman's discovery is shown to have been... well, gosh, a thief and a liar Franklin could never have won the Nobel Prize. She died long before. Watson had every chance to credit her, at all stages, but chose to take the credit himself. So manly

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey, Sam, we could avoid almost all the bad things (apart from the ones you've already done) by, I don't know, maybe just shutting down the AI grift before it does any more damage?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember how it felt the first time I read it - when we don't yet know that anyone will survive. Frodo and Sam in Mordor are the only who must succeed. Everyone else - even the White Rider and all the forces of Rohan - might still die. But the upsurge of hope in that moment leaps off the page

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is it This is it This is the moment, above all other moments in this or any other book, when my heart leapt with joy and I thought, "I want to write like this!"

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy Fwoggin' Christmas should absolutely be a card you can buy 🤣

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dear god, imagine an exothermic self-oxygenating vape fire on a plane!!!

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well done, my beloved Rangers. Darkness is spreading, and we must do what we can to hold it back. The ordinary folk of Bree-land and the Shire are depending on us

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whereas you'd think The Yvonniad would be a shoo-in 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No. It was cool, wet, windy, and all round miserable I don't know why you even bother to include Scotland in your maps

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Technically it's only an odyssey if your name is Odysseus

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm sorry to lose my extras, but couldn't turn down this fabulous shield, crafted by my brethren in the Dwarrowdelf

Message from the account Middle-earth Labeller: I have found a strength 50+ shield of Khazad-dûm

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Owl Haunting the twilight, swift shadow across the night, you cry me to sleep

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is literally fabulous in all senses. I love your mum even more now (in a completely platonic lino-cut sense, of course)

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Numenor Faithful 2027 @numenorfaithfulcal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fun fact: the only other character to feature in two months - aside from Elendil and Míriel - is our very faithful good boy @berekthehorse.unhingedfellowship.lol ! Show him some love and pick up a calendar when sales go live in a few hours. #TROP #RingsofPower #Numenor #Berek

A brown horse with a bridle on.

Art by Raquel Nekro

A brown horse with hands holding his head lovingly.

Art by Sally Chadwick

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm so happy with the work he did as Adar. After Joseph's amazing season 1, it could so easily have gone awry. Instead, Sam gave us new insights into a fascinating and complex character No wonder we're so reluctant to let Adar go

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He really was! I was well impressed that because Covid delayed season 1, it was 4 years before he was even allowed to tell his mother. I guess he had to let off steam somehow

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Khonri 🫜🎃 @khonri.com · 04/10/2026

I'm feeling attacked by @theonion.com but also 10/10.

"How a Book Becomes A Bestseller, The Onion demystifies the publishing process."

1. Proletariat becomes literate.
2. Author's creative inspiration flourishes upon marrying spouse with high-earning, unethical job.
3. Author chooses magical being to have sex with, then works backwards.
4. Author lands agent by running full speed into them while holding loose-leaf copy of manuscript.
5. Penguin Random House blackmailed into seven-figure book deal.
6. Editor removes typos and originality.
7. Famous author who hasn't read book reminded they got three glowing blurbs last year from authors who hadn't read theirs.
8. Publisher contacts Merriam-Webster to license all words it's using.
9. Marketing completely misrepresents plot, tone, and author.
10. Terrified independent bookstore owners gamble their razor-thin profit margin on this one.
11. PR firm hires thousands of people through Craigslist to performatively read book on subway.
12. Colman Domingo, contractually obligated to appear in all things, voices audiobook.
13. New York Times oracle nods.
14. Book written for sole purpose of becoming movie becomes movie.

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