Sign in

Foz Meadows

@fozmeadows.bsky.social
6.7K followers 934 following 4.6K posts

queer SFF author, essayist, poet. he/they 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ fozmeadows.wordpress.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 13h
a treasured childhood memory is of watching a bin chicken grab an entire mcdonald's burger out of a picnicker's hand in the sydney botanical gardens before proceeding to eat it over a bin
0110
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 13h
keep your eyes peeled for the ibis, or as it's more commonly known: the bin chicken!
170
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 16h
Connections Puzzle #1216 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨
010
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 16h
Wordle 1,938 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
020
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 22h
new books!
060
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Being a person is not a fucking broadcast medium!! To quote Bo Burnham, there's OTHER PEOPLE, you selfish asshole!!
0272
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I said it two days ago, but I'll say it again: AI is truly the apex of prioritizing outcome over process. Reading to a child is as much about physical touch, emotional connection, social cuing, visual development and reciprocal engagement as the story itself, but they're too up their ass to see it.
36115
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1215 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wordle 1,937 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
absolutely thrilled to see this wonderful review of GODBURNED in Publisher's Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/9781645663010
publishersweekly.com
Godburned (The Weight and the Measure #1) by Foz Meadows
In this breathtaking queer fantasy from Meadows (A Strange and Stubborn Endurance), the search for three missing boys uncovers a...
2298
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1214 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wordle 1,936 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
000
Reposted by Foz Meadows
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
7069921911
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1213 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟨🟦🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟨
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wordle 1,935 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
010
Reposted by Foz Meadows
VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Hark! A Vagrant classic
Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging
101437433
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Using generative AI is like clicking the "reveal all" button on an online crossword and claiming that the resultant filled-out grid represents the same level of achievement as if you'd done the puzzle properly, because using the button is working smarter, not harder. No, Greg: you're just a moron.
0221
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The value of a given outcome is implicitly tied to the process that produced it. The point of completing a university assignment isn't solely to get a good grade; it's to show you've acquired the knowledge that the good grade represents. If you use AI to write the assignment, it's meaningless.
1187
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As pathetic as this is, it's also the perfect example of how AI - both the tool and the industry - is the self-defeating apex of prioritizing outcome over process. A fantasy team exists solely for fun; to outsource your participation is to remove the singular thing that made it meaningful.
26414
Reposted by Foz Meadows
Juno, Sherlock, Cadfael and Pandora @fozcats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOU
0244
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1212 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wordle 1,934 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
010
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1211 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
010
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wordle 1,933 4/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1210 🟨🟨🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟪🟨🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟨🟪🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨
010
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wordle 1,932 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
010
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And there is, I think, a similar line to be made about the inherent contradiction of claiming to use AI responsibly to help with things outside your expertise, because if you lack the expertise to fact-check AI, you can't be using it responsibly, but if you have the expertise, you don't need AI.
0258
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's an old line about the inherent contradiction of keeping guns for self-defense while also claiming to be a responsible gun-owner, because self-defense requires loaded guns be readily accessible, while responsible ownership requires unloaded guns to be locked up separately from their ammo.
1243
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
woe is me, for I have once again been stricken with inspiration for a fanvid that I lack the skill and time to make, but know that the song choice matches the setting *perfectly*
1130
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1209 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wordle 1,931 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
000
Reposted by Foz Meadows
ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 01/10/2026
truculence ball
1557761434
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1208 🟪🟪🟩🟪 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟩🟩 🟩🟦🟩🟩
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wordle 1,930 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
000
Reposted by Foz Meadows
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026
My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere
56587198
Reposted by Foz Meadows
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
~two more weeks for this!
43122
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1207 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
010
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 4/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
011
Reposted by Foz Meadows
Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay. Forthcoming books to want to read. @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's Flower Court. @fozmeadows.bsky.social's Godburned. @melissacaruso.bsky.social's Last Star In the Void. @stephanieburgis.bsky.social's Melting the Ice Queen. @tkingfisher.com's next several (what? she's prolific).
7377
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
❤️❤️❤️
010
Reposted by Foz Meadows
Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GODBURNED by @fozmeadows.bsky.social is an immersive, gripping ride on a feelings roller coaster of trauma and healing through a landscape of incredible worldbuilding with characters who stick in your brain. Out in January (pre-order now): bookshop.org/p/books/godb...
bookshop.org
Godburned: Deluxe Limited Edition
A godtouched arbiter of justice and his prickly new conscript unravel a conspiracy that could bring down everything they stand for in the first of a clever and cutting queer epic fantasy series about ...
5304
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1206 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wordle 1,928 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
110
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it’s utterly incomprehensible to me that anyone can see this and still claim Israel hasn’t been committing genocide
010141
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s not a tithenai book I’m working on right now, sorry! though I won’t rule out returning to the setting in the future, the series is complete as a duology. my current WIP is the sequel to the new book I have out in january, godburned!
110
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1205 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wordle 1,927 4/6 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
000
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s certainly telling of the fact that I’m trying to convey a reasonably complex concept via a medium that limits how many characters I can use per message
010
Reposted by Foz Meadows
Juno, Sherlock, Cadfael and Pandora @fozcats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the continuing adventures of pandora, whose growth thus far appears to be going mostly tailwards
2172
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
what if - and hear me out - I threw this whole manuscript in the sea, and then threw *myself* in the sea, and then I never have to edit or write anything ever again
5341