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@andiwrites.bsky.social
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SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚 cheese🧀. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩼♾️ linktr.ee/andiwrites

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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 41m
Extremely wholesome start to the school holidays: "daisy" (actually snowdrop) chains tied to the bridge by the playground and streaming out in the wind.
Concrete road bridge over a small stream, with grass on the foregrounded bank. Long chains of flowers with stalks are tied to the railings and hanging from the bridge.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 58m
"You don't have normal lungs" - my GP, in a nice way, but honestly, have you seen my _brain_?
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Rem Wigmore - Wolfpack out now! @remedy.bsky.social · 2h
It's my birthday! Today's my birthday. I could've made a 'sale' for 'promotion' but I'm sleepy <3 If you want you could check out my books whoah! remwigmore.itch.io books2read.com/vengefulwild2 OR just go and review your favourite indie book, request it from the library, or tell a friend about it!
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 3h
Andi knows SO much about this topic and has given me so much helpful advice over the years! I subscribed!
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Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca · 4h
Good news, everyone! After a change in distributor, my near-future post-capitalist, post-climate change mystery, The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human, is again available in ebook and paperback!
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The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human - M. Darusha Wehm
The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human is told with a consistent gentleness, and generosity, that gives [its] philosophical questions room to breathe.— Niall Harrison, LOCUS February 202...
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 8h
$62 to go!! OMG WE CAN DO THIS!!! Click the link! Back the project! Yell about it to your friends!!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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OPPORTUNITY WINDOW: An Anthology of Time Loop Stories
Deja vu doesn't begin to cover it... OPPORTUNITY WINDOW will bring you a book of brand new time loop stories (and maybe some you've seen before) from across the SFFH genres!
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 8h
I wrote a book-full of words on dyspraxia in adults, full of ideas, tips and tricks, and rants about transport. Now I'm serialising it on Patreon. You can read and support here: patreon.com/untanglingli...
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Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan — words!
Get more from Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan on Patreon. words!. Support Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan and get exclusive access to their work.
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Make it Easy | Kia Māmā Mai @makeiteasy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ever wondered what decisions translators make when translating documents into Easy Read? Introducing 'The Make it Easy Corner' — a monthly series of short blog posts by our Make it Easy translation team, diving into the specifics of Easy Read. Read the first post here: tinyurl.com/mr2z59vm
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The Make it Easy Corner: September 2026
Welcome to The Make it Easy Corner — a monthly series of short blog posts by our Make it Easy translation team, diving into the specifics of Easy Read. We hope these blog posts will help shed some lig...
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@seamunchkin.bsky.social I stg I'm not looking for this stuff, it's just started appearing today.
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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What are your favorite audiobook editions of science fiction and/or fantasy short story collections or anthologies?
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We now have a local retailer rewriting First They Came For about the Hutt City Council's introduction of parking charges idek any more.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey look the Hannah has fixed their death stairs I dramatically fell from! I will likely still find a dramatic way to injure myself, but this is a good move.
A low railing on the edge of stairs where they turn.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TIL that Phil Ochs wrote for a satirical student magazine edited by RL Stine. 🎶Sarge I'm only 19, I've got a ruptured speen, my skin is inexplicably turning into fish scales...
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm freezing because I'm a goblin who never brings their coat but I also have hot night market noodles and tomorrow booked off work and there are kids practicing their singing from the council buildings balcony and it's pretty nice actually
Bowl of noodles with chopsticks- in the background are cars and plants and a dark night sky.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reading a novel by an NZ author with a character called Luxton who is described as looking like a sprouting potato until he lost his hair, and now resembles a boiled egg, and I endorse this act of publishing pettiness.
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know most [culturally] Christian raised atheists (like me) seem to have felt betrayed when they found out Narnia was a Christian allegory but my response was more "wait books can be about more than one thing? books are even cooler than I thought!"
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Had a revelation about a new direction for a project I've worked hard on but didn't end up quite going how I'd hoped, and now I'm feeling a little nervous but mostly good about it again. Details shortly!
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Goddamn te reo Māori course asking me to write about what each of my family members like with normal neurotypical examples like "watching TV" and "playing rugby" and here I am with a dictionary trying to look up each family member's special interest.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good Connections day! Connections Puzzle #1199 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Made an order of 3 items from the same shop, they sent at same time as two packages. Loaded with same courier. We have an authority to leave. Courier puts the larger package on deck with "sorry we couldn't deliver" for the smaller one. So now I have to deal with the fundies at the pharmacy I stg.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Sep. 21, 2026 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 💔 ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2030
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh I should nudge this into the 🧶🇳🇿 feed shouldn't I!
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Walk through the cherry blossom on the way to Living in Colour 🏳️‍🌈. I don't know why my city does Pride in September, but it's always good. Nice to catch up with friends and meet some new people.
A park with cherry blossom trees and red benches and railings
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very cool to find this at our crafting spot at @wcllibrary.bsky.social. Ka rawe!
a poster in a plastic stand titled "Kupu mahi ā rehe for your kete" and lists kupu/words to do with crafting, and ends with "Too much wūru in my whakaputunga" which means "too much wool in my stash"
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 18/09/2026
This is the non-fiction ghost book I've always wanted. No pretentions or pretending to have all the answers, just lots of curiosity from people who've spent their lives pursuing ghosts. A CURIOUS PRESENCE by Margo MacDonald, out October 6! ecwpress.com/products/cur...
Cover of A Curious Presence, an exploration of ghosts and the people who haunt them, by Margo MacDonald, foreword by Amal El Mohtar. The cover is black and gold, with a spooky cemetery border around a ghostly image of a clothed torso in light teal
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cheese Different cheese Spinach Maybe more cheese? Pine nuts The thing we can't talk about Cheese
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I only know basic NZSL but I try and watch interpreters to see what I can pick up, and I just watched one signing "spontaneously generated eels" and it was amazing. I'm tempted to ask for the recording so I can learn this vital phrase.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Extremely relieved to find out I am not the only person who confuses Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and In the Hall of the Mountain King and that the two are actually objectively similar. I thought it was just my brain.
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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Āke, ake, ake! Forever and ever, Te Reo Māori! We're celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori by learning phrases for book club 🖤 He aha te āhuatanga pai katoa o te pūrākau? What did you enjoy most about the story? #tewikiotereomāori
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Look how pretty the resources / handouts at today's writing workshop were!
A selection of patterned cards in soft colours - one is a name card marbled mostly in blues, there are also some books on the table and a little hessian drawstring bag.
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Nora Shear @norashear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am super proud to share the cover of the 2nd book in the Descendants series, No Sky Like Midnight! 🌤️ Grumpy-sunshine (Sorta!) 🏳️‍🌈 Explicitly Bi/Pan MCs 🤐 Evil Secret Society 🍯 Sentient Honey Cover designed by Getcovers using stock art. #BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #CoverReveal
A book cover for the book No Sky Like Midnight, by Nora Shear. It centers a gray, cobra-esque snake with wings of fire, surrounded by seven light gray feathers, floating in the air. The background is a purple night sky, and from the top of the cover image drips three long streams of what looks like honey. The title is in ornate silver capital letters with flourishes, and there is a small meteor that flies through the title and sparks on the middle serif of the G in Midnight.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was frightened of when I was a child: 1. puddles being impossibly deep and swallowing me up when I jumped into them 2. Goldilocks getting into the house 3. my face turning into that of a bear while I was asleep.
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A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You know something that annoys me about publishing? The way I have to watch my friends miss out on enjoying their victories because they never have a moment free of shenanigans. It's always something around here
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wait is this serious??? Anyone know who is behind it? www.conzealand2.co.nz
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CoNZealand2 - Wellington, Aoteroa New Zealand
Join our team to bring Worldcon to Wellington, New Zealand's vibrant capital, and be a part of the community to bring it to life.
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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hello everyone, Translunar Travelers Lounge opens soon for submissions. Given some recent developments, our assistant editor has an important announcement. It has been charged by the most recent full moon for optimal energy. #submissions #Translunartravelerslounge #writesky
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oooh it tells you now when someone has followed you via a start pack! No more guessing when there's an influx.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Messaged an alternative compounding pharmacy to say hey, are you capable of communicating by email and actually being responsive (more politely phrased) and they responded positively five minutes later, so I am absolutely trying them next time.
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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
:| Nooo. Signal boost this, het them help. They do great work
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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HUGO VOTERS! As you’re reading for next year, please consider nominating Children of Owl for BEST NOVEL (a Hugo) and the LODESTAR (not a Hugo).
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Hailey Kaas - Cancer Fund ($215/$650) @transqueerfem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My first Wicked Notes from the South is out! Stuff I'm reading/watching, transfeminist archives, queer media, brazilian politics, and a little bit of camp. Subscribe for free — and please share if you enjoy it. ♥️ #newsletter #trans #LGBT buttondown.com/haileykaas/a...
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FROM THE WITCH’S DESK First editorial(ish) You know, I’ve never really seen myself as a witch. Maybe because, when I was little, most witchy books were...
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
[AI related scream]
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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Where was this energy when National tried to ban puberty blockers
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reacting to the moral panic about people with blue hair using mobility aids by keeping my mobility aid and dying my hair blue.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bleached my hair without inhaling any bleach! I'm doing magnificently!
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AJ Fitzwater ⬛🟪⬜️🟨 @ajfitzwater.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
2 years? And the vibe is eternally relevant. Last out turns off the lights. 🌠
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Those mini bao buns I had for dinner were a good choice.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Same. And. The RNLI the last institution I'd have expected to be the target of nonsense, but what really gets me is they're not being targeted because they've gone rogue but because they ... wait for it ... save people from drowning. I stg this timeline is a fucking mess.
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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Love when you try and define the Crown and everything you find is like the opposite of that 17th century Polish dictionary that defined a horse as "everyone knows what a horse is". Nobody knows what the Crown is.
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Rem Wigmore - Wolfpack out now! @remedy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Aussies & Kiwis - Foxhunt is on sale on Kobo in Australia & Aotearoa until the 14th! www.kobo.com/nz/en/ebook/...
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Foxhunt ebook by Rem Wigmore - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Foxhunt" by Rem Wigmore available from Rakuten Kobo. In a lush solarpunk future, plants have stripped the poison from the air and trained warriors keep resource hoarders in ...
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