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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The exception is the Haverin launch at 5pm in the Main Hall on Friday. I am really proud of the stories in this collection, and of putting together a community anthology with my co-editors. Hope to see you there, if you're at the con and have a free hour for tablet, wine and buying weird books!

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am volunteering at the art show this Fantasycon, so that rather than on panels is where you'll find me most of the convention this year!

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love my awkward lesbian daughter Mu so much

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(copying an entire chapter into it) fml

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As someone who plans until they get stuck, then writes until they get stuck, then replans and rewrites until they get unstuck, then writes until they get stuck again, over a few hours a week around work... I think my stories are lucky that the only thing I find harder than writing is not writing

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Much writing advice starts from the idea that you either A - meticulously plan everything and then write to the plan B - geniusly improvise the entire story as you go along

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ouugh, the document where I put nice lines I have to cut is really getting a workout this morning

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I like to pretend I'm savouring it, as if I wouldn't be playing it 24/7 if I could

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Haverin TOC reveal alert! Find out what's in our 40th anniversary anthology, including tales from Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan, Hal Duncan, E.M. Faulds, Elaine Gallagher, Gary Gibson, Cameron Johnston, Neil Williamson, and more. Check out the Haverin TOC at the link below: #GSFWC40

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GSFWC 40th Anniversary Anthology

Haverin is a Scots word that means talking nonsense, babbling or chattering. Often that is how stories start, in the nonsense, the babbling, the chattering of writers inspiring each other to keep g…

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come to the launch of the anthology I'm an editor on! It's been a real labour of love from everyone involved to put together over 40 stories from members new and old of our local writers' group.

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)

The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.

The back of the cover of Haverin, continuing the green landscape dotted with various creatures, including a robot head, lion, and a pie. Text reads: Haverin, Scots, Verb: Talking in a foolish or trivial manner, speaking nonsense. Glaswegians enjoy a bit of haverin and few enjoy it more than the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle have for the last forty years, following many hard critique sessions with a bit of a haver in the pub. This anthology is a celebration of those forty years, with more than forty stories of Fantasy, Science and the Odd from members past and present. Join us on this fantastical journey, turning havers into stories and revelling in the full range of writing that has come out of the Circle since 1986.

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

feels illegal for anything he has ever said to exist in a physical format

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It has been so rewarding working with local writers - some of whom are having their very first publication - to celebrate my Glasgow SF community as both a group with a long legacy and a welcoming and ongoing meet-up to talk writing and get feedback from other creatives

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I think Greggs should do a Sausage Roll Tasting Flight

A photo and accompanying description of a "flight of pork sausage rolls wrapped in puff pastry and served on a stick"

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Going back into the kitchen for another wee sniff of the Cling Film Wrapped Loaf

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thank you! I did not know bread could be so warm and delicious...

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I baked bread for the first time! I'm really happy with how it came out and have now mostly eaten it. (Not pictured: naughty high-fired top shelf loaf which will become future toast; flour fucking everywhere)

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I did not plan as if this was going to be one of the sunniest weekends of the year, but I did go swimming and buy a new incense burner and resubscribe to FF14

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I climbed conic hill over the weekend, which is great, a big climb for me, I love being in nature, etc, except I do now also make a sound like a thwomp from mario 64 whenever I move between standing and sitting

I am standing in front of a view of loch lomond from the top of conic hill. My face is very red and I'm wearing a penguin pride parade shirt from edinburgh zoo.

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I realised I forgot to share pictures of me having fun at Wyldwood Renfest here - what a fun weekend of dressing up, drinking mead and getting medieval with my friends

A staged "renaissance painting" style scene. In the centre, one person knights another with a sword, while two pairs of people gossip on either side.

I am wearing a mushroom crown and a blue and green hobbity outfit, but also sitting on a bone and fur Krampus Throne

I am preparing to throw a spear. I am going to miss.

A staged "renaissance painting" style photo. To tye left, three people conduct an unscrupulous trade deal. In the centre, one person knights another with a sword. To the right, two people point accusingly at a worried woman.

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A gemini is kind of a bilibra if you think about it

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hey, it's in your calendar as MAJOR URGENT PROJECT

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

what if I took annual leave for the new fire emblem?

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Also happy pride specifically to Paul and Phil

The penguins with the pink/black and yellow/green bands on their right flippers are Paul and Phil, a pair of male penguins who raise chicks together sometimes

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I saw so many beautiful baby animals at Edinburgh Zoo yesterday that I almost wept

A very excited fluffy penguin baby harangues an exceptionally hungover looking fluffy penguin baby

Bru the baby capybara sniffs the air while sitting in some shrubs

Atty the tiny baby sloth clings to his mother

A juvenile flamingo, grey with the beginnings of pink feathers, ducks its head towards the water

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚨 42 brilliant MPs have already signed the motion to reject the EHRC’s cruel guidance: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Will you ask yours to join them? Take action now. Has yours already signed? Consider sending them an email thanking them 🏳️‍⚧️ equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

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Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament

That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.

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Hannah Lock @hannahlock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Cleffa and Clefairy ✨

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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

reform only hold 13% of the seats in our parliament and reform + tory is fewer than the number of tory seats in the last term in scotland this election has been an unqualified win for progress and human rights and we should be really proud

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I sent in my scottish election postal vote weeks ago and so can safely spend the day in a blanket, but have fun(?) at the polling booth today gang

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The end of an era, as 404 Ink closes it's doors this Summer - this might be your last chance to get We Were Always Here and Fierce Salvage, two anthologies of queer Scottish writing edited by @ryanvance.bsky.social and I, for half price!

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I had a brilliant day out at Woolly Good yesterday seeing friends, eating fancy Edinburgh porridge, doing some beginner's weaving and, importantly, buying yarn

Fancy stewed pear, ginger and dark chocolate porridge from Hata. Also coffee.

Two small woven squares. One is a green and pink decorative sampler in a variety of stitches, one is a purple and yellow twill square

Four skeins of yarn - two purple/pink skeins from Trava & Wool, two green skeins from Little Grey Girl

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

With voting now open for this year's British Fantasy Awards, we're calling for jurors. Once voting is closed, the shortlist goes to a jury of peers to choose a winner. Fancy being part of the action? Nominate yourself to be a juror for the British Fantasy Awards here: forms.gle/Kv1JTHBeSXaJ...

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I think young men who want women to find them masculine and attractive should get into butchmaxxing (wearing flannel shirts, hiking, adopting shelter animals, doing DIY repair jobs for useless lesbians)

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Oh you know, it's just so hard to make a nice filming space

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You're so right, I will make sure I remove the venom sacks from the human legs and chuck them in there

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You're right... anything can be a body for a pigeon head with enough articulated wire

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Fellow creators of horrible chimeras, what do you do with the spare parts? I've got a lot of bird heads, snake middles and human legs lying about the flat and I don't want them to go to waste.

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

started trying to watch evangelion all the way through again lads

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"You should lower your hand so I can get your beautiful face in the picture"

I am covering my eyes because the sun is shining directly into my eyes

I have lowered my hand and now the sun is indeed shining directly into my eyes

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I had a very relaxed easter weekend of arts, crafts and little trips - I tried lino printing, gave blood, went to Greenbank Gardens and threw together a pair of pyjama shorts from scrap fabric

A beautiful woman with blonde hair and cold-pinked cheeks (that's me) gazes at a wooden sculpture of a hawk

A black lino print of a crow who looks like he has opinions

A pair of shorts made from star wars print fabric

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Dave Fraser/Hatari Teenage Riot @discodave75.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Dir: Rose Glass

A still from a black and white Betty Boop cartoon showing a small girl with shaggy curls and big eyes held in the arms of a darker, taller and much stronger-looking similarly-featured person. The diminutive figure is Betty Boop and the larger, her boyfriend Fearless Freddy. Betty is wearing a little black dress and Freddy a pair of short shorts and a white vest with LIFE GUARD written on the front.

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Did some writing, gave blood, read another book, which I think means I get to play Divinity Original Sin 2 the rest of the evening! (I need to live my best life this weekend so I don't get too much Eastercon FOMO)

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It was fun, I think I probably will. Have you done any of it?

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I also read an entire Ali Hazelwood book and tried tiramisu from the shop on Queen Margaret Drive that sells nothing but tiramisu

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