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Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My beloved bestie @liwella.bsky.social took me on a macaron making workshop today! We made rose/candy floss and orange flavours. Not going to lie, they taste incredible! 😋

Caro and Ida about to embark on a macaron adventure!

A sheet of blue half macarons. In front of it, fingers with sparkly blue nail varnish hold a half macaron piped with buttercream

Ida wearing a mint and pink mermaid t-shirt holding a box of pale blue and peach macarons

A box of chequered pale blue and peach macarons

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I will also be wearing my @srfantasyclub.bsky.social hat at @easterconuk.bsky.social this weekend. Come and talk to me to find out more. If you’re a writer and have a book out soon I might sound you out about coming along.

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I’m interviewing @rjbarker.bsky.social at @easterconuk.bsky.social on Saturday. Let me know if you have any burning questions I should ask him. Particularly if they are ones you’re too shy to ask yourself. For example: Why is Girton? Mal or Jackie? Tentacles or antlers?

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Tonight I saw someone at the station reading Sinophagia, edited by @xuetingni.bsky.social. So obviously I stopped and in a tipsy fashion told them it was one of the best short fiction collections I’ve read.

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Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Programme klaxon! The programme team are working on lots of ideas to bring you a brilliant programme, but we need to hear from you! We’ve created a *very* short survey for you to pass on your suggestions and to tell us if you’d also like to take part in programme: forms.office.com/e/rN9T4wEX1N

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Microsoft Forms

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Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

What a magnificent but of holibobs. I finally got to travel by steam train! This is the line from Swanage to Corfe Castle. Wooo woooooooo!

Ida dressed in a cream satin ballgown, long wavy hair cascading down as she boards a green steam train carriage.

A black and white photo of Ida in a pale satin ballgown, lounging with her eyes closed and legs thrown carelessly over the seat arm inside a steam train carriage.

The steam train! Taken from the bridge, the train seen from above is pulling out of Corfe Castle station, its engine letting off a grand plume of steam. The castle is just peeking into the top left corner.

A black and white photo of Ida leaning out of a steam train carriage window, looking wistfully off into the distance, wavy hair falling around her face.

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Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

And what better to do at Corfe Castle than to put on ballgowns and be princesses for the day with @liwella.bsky.social! With thanks to the numerous tourists who offered to take photos of us, and to Caro for taking photos of me all day.

Princess Ida reclining on a stone platform in Corfe Castle's third tower, in front of an arrow slit. Ida is wearing a cream satin ballgown, a rose gold phoenix necklace and rose gold elf ears she made herself.

Princesses Ida and Caro pose for the cover of their forthcoming Medieval folksong album, leaning either side of a jutting corner i Corfe Castle's third tower. Ida is in a floor length cream satin ballgown, Caro in a long sparkly dark plum ballgown. (I may be lying about the album.)

A black and white photo of Princess Ida swooning dramatically half way down stone stairs carved into the rock, her pale satin gown billowing in the breeze.

Princess Ida doing a fine Rapunzel impression, peering through a rectangular stone window with her long, wavy hair flowing in the wind. Behind her through the window are a green hill and cloudy blue sky.

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The time is NOW, people! The Kickstarter is LIVE! Time to get WRATHy. 👿 And please spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

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Wrath Month - An Anthology of Queer Rage

The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror.

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Emma K. Leadley | Spec Fic Author | autoerraticism @emmaleadley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I've just read "The River Has Roots". It's a short book but needs to consumed slowly because the prose is gorgeous and rich and light and heavy. It's a beautiful thing and when I got to the end I cried at the beauty of how it all came together. 10/10 hard recommend. Thank you @amalelmohtar.com

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Dublin 2029 @dublin2029.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We are Dublin 2029, a bid for the 87th Worldcon! We are a growing group of fans and we want to host the World Science Fiction Convention, Worldcon, in Dublin in 2029 - and we'd love your help! Follow us on our social medias here - linktr.ee/dublin2029 - or support our bid at dublin2029.ie/ 💚

A photo of Dublin taken from across the river Liffey. The sky and river are blue and a modern white bridge crosses it. In the centre is the Convention Centre Dublin, which has a curved glass front, and is surrounded on either side by modern mid-rise buildings.

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Super Relaxed Fantasy Club @srfantasyclub.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

SRFC is back: 7pm, 13th May! We're very pleased to welcome Nominated for 2025 Hugos: OLIVER K. LANGMEAD @oliverklangmead.bsky.social Arthur C Clarke nominated author of The Beauty: ALIYA WHITELEY They've collaborated on a new novel, come and hear about it! Star of Kings, nr Kings Cross Station

Promo of the event, which says:

SRFC this month:

OLIVER K. LANGMEAD
ALIYA WHITELEY

7pm, Tuesday 13th May
Star of Kings, near Kings Cross station, London
£5 donation on the door (optional)

And there is the cover of the book City of All Seasons, and some others by each author

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#BookPost is the best post. Thank you so much to @titanbooks.bsky.social for this exciting ARC from Aliya Whiteley and @oliverklangmead.bsky.social Lots of reading for me to do ahead of @srfantasyclub.bsky.social next month.

A hand holding a copy of an ARC of A City Of All Seasons by Aliya Whiteley and Oliver K Langmead. The book is held so the spine is uppermost and facing the camera.

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The schedules are out for EasterCon in a few weeks. Here’s where you can find me.

A screen grab of a schedule from EasterCon showing four panels. 1) Can we separate the art from the artist? 2) Found family in SFF 3) Andor returns 4) Feminism in SFF

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Ok, Bsky - a MISSION for you. We want as many subs to Wrath Month as possible, from as diverse an array of voices as possible. POC voices, disabled voices, neurodiverse voices, trans voices, ace and aro voices - everyone. Scream it from the rooftops, folks!

SUBMISSIONS OPEN

We’re seeking fantasy, science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage.

There’s a glass ceiling in SFF representation, and we want you to throw a brick through it. Bring us the coven that burned Salem and your roaring bear-serkers. We want gangs of acid-wash werewolves, furious bipyromancers, flesh-eating femmes, and vengeant celestial bois—a cast of the downtrodden who make ruins of their oppressors.

Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberation—it can be a spur to action and the only righteous response to a world that would prefer we didn’t exist. So crash mainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity.

Pride month is over. It’s time for—

WRATH MONTH

Instructions for Subs:

Kneel.

Good author.

Stories can be fantasy, science-fiction or horror

Stories must be queer (broadly defined), and fit the theme of punk / queer wrath

Length up to 6,000 words

Payment is $0.08 per word

No multiple submissions, no reprints

No AI-assisted writing ever ever ever

Subs via our website (see below), no cover letter needed

Submissions open until the close of May 31st 2025

Full details:
www.bona-books.com/submissions

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

@serailway.bsky.social Am at London Bridge and on the verge of tears because the stop for the Hayes rail replacement bus has changed and the signage is terrible so I missed my connection. Another hour before I get home at least.

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It's a great pleasure to be back @srfantasyclub.bsky.social , and in such fine company, to talk about Sinophagia and Chinese horror with the fabulous @liwella.bsky.social. Join us tomorrow evening at the Star of Kings in King's Cross. #books #SFF #horror

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

BSFA longlist nominations close on 15 January, so here is a handy list of the categories we’re eligible in, and the works that qualify! If you have enjoyed I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED, please consider us for one of your nomination slots! ~Team Bona 💙🏳️‍🌈✨🧙‍♂️🚀🏳️‍🌈💙

Collection: I Want That Twink OBLITERATED
Artwork: Cover artwork for IWTTO by Stephen Andrade
Short Fiction:
“In the Garden of the Serpent King” by James Bennett
“Dusk and Dawn in the Grand Bazaar” by John Berkeley
“The Dearth of Temptation” by Christopher Caldwell
“Narcissus Munro, Thief for Hire” by Kieran Craft
“Shoggothtown” by Julie Danvers
“The Tutelary, the Assassin, and the Healer” by Aliette de Bodard
“A Heart of Broken Steel” by Rien Gray
“Jenseti, You in Danger Girl” by Brent Lambert
“Tea, Shade, and Drag Crusades” by Bailey Maybray
“The Three-Bussy Problem” by Ng Yi-Sheng
“Ganymede” by Anthony Oliveira
“In Sheep’s Clothing” by Caleb Roehrig
“Your World Against Mine” by Adam Sass
“Hazard Pay” by Malcolm Schmitz
“Dotch Masher and the Planet “MM”” by William C. Tracy
“Yesterday’s Heroes” by Charlie Winter
“Plezure” by Derrick Webber

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Chiara @callchiara.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

A boy and his chicken

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year! The book is out- You Are Here: Nine More Stories, a new short story collection including a brand-new novella. Dragons, smugglers, witches, Indian mothers, meddling lesbians, telepaths who love to troll you, space! 🌈🚀🏴‍☠️🪔 🐉 available most places, paperbacks at Amazon, links below.

Book cover: text, YOU ARE HERE: NINE MORE STORIES, IONA DATT SHARMA, on illustration of grim South Asian woman with greying hair, orange hair scarf and shoulder tattoo of a violet, holding a floating Earth

Blurb text: It is not a sin, to love a wild thing…

A witch falls out of the sky; a dragon joins the resistance; a smuggler of magical trifles loves a girl she can’t have. A spaceship lights up for Diwali; an arch in the woods leads to wonders; and in a small community in lunar orbit, for no reason understandable by normal people, romance has been abolished.

Here are nine more stories, of hope and passion, grief and bureaucracy, and how you can’t go home again but it doesn’t mean you’ll never be found.

(In a white room, full of ghosts, a woman cries and will never be found.)

You Are Here is a follow-up to the author’s first collection of short fiction, Not For Use In Navigation (2019). This new volume collects eight more stories, plus an exclusive previously unpublished novella, Wish You Were Here. Published 1 January 2025.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Lyfe hath gyven thee lemons. Take them to the forge of Lemoncrafte and roll D6. Result: 1) Lemon armour 2) Lemon armour +1 3) Bootes of Lemon Strengthe 4) Rindblade 5) The Vitamin C Philtre of Mordenkainen 6) Legendarye Lemon Plate (Citron Paladin onlye)

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Spent NYE as Womble intended, planning my TBR challenge for 2025 and cursing that copy of War and Peace I just bought, which will be occupying my June.

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Make coming to @srfantasyclub.bsky.social your New Year’s Resolution for 2025 👇🏼

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The Lions of Al-Rassan by @guygavrielkay.bsky.social. It has revenge, politics from the personal to the geopolitical and everything in between, romance, wonderful women characters and an ending that has your heart in your mouth.

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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 27/12/2024

What are people's most ARCHETYPICAL novels? Not your FAVORITES per se, but the ones that best exemplify your tastes in novels, distilled into a single work? Mine is probably Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell."

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

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Super Relaxed Fantasy Club @srfantasyclub.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

SRFC is back on 14th January! We are very pleased to welcome T L Huchu and Xueting C Ni @xuetingni.bsky.social Come and meet them! 7pm, Tuesday 14th January Star of Kings, near Kings Cross Station We rely on word of mouth for people to find out about us - any reposts are greatly appreciated

Promo for the forthcoming event:

Text says:

SRFC this month:

Award-winning Edinburgh Nights author T. L. Huchu

The Best of Chinese Horror curated by Xueting C. Ni

7pm, 14th January
Star of Kings, Near Kings Cross station, London
£5 donation greatly appreciated

And there are the covers of two books:

T L Huchu's The Legacy of Arniston House
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Xueting C Ni's Sinophagia

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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Some people use their money to buy governments, build rockets and spread disinformation; others choose to buy books, build imaginations, and spread a love of reading - even in countries outwith their own. God love Dolly Parton.

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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

UK viewers: THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Cold Lazarus is free to view on Channel 4 streaming services! Younger UK viewers: this is a drama about a dystopian Britain controlled by US oligarchs where everything is commodified, including the memories of a long-dead writer: www.channel4.com/programmes/c...

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Cold Lazarus

Dennis Potter's last epic drama, set in 2368 and starring Albert Finney

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

When you’ve told your client not to make things any worse when they speak to Probation for their Pre-Sentence Report.

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Lovelies, here's day 1 of the 2024 Tea and Sanctuary advent calendar. Please excuse the state of my voice! It's the perfect length for a nice cup of tea (or any beverage of your choice). Cosy, low stakes and hopefully soothing. Any boosts greatly appreciated! teaandsanctuary.com/e/day-1-tea-...

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Day 1 - Tea and Sanctuary Advent Calendar 2024 | Tea and Sanctuary

Day 1 - Emma shares her reflections on the season of advent, emphasising the importance of finding joy and comfort during difficult times. She talks about the Loose Ends Project, a charity that connec...

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It is Egyptologists’ favourite time of the year again.

Cartoon. Dead Egyptian to Anubis: “Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it a weigh.”

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm about to get on a flight but my roller derby lesbian romance comes out today! ppl have called it "the emotionally grown up winter holiday classic I never knew I needed"! get it here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DNTV8744/ / books2read.com/u/b6qPzE more about it: www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

Adorable candy pink book cover, two cartoon roller derby skaters going fast around the track with delighted or dubious expressions, text: blood sweat glitter, iona datt sharma, and in a little badge in the corner "a roller derby romance"

Blurb text:

The Primrose Glitter Girls play ROLLER DERBY and they’re here to DESTROY YOU!

Well, they’re trying. Team captain Eleanor Ashwell has problems. Her fresh meat skaters are terrified, her blockers fall over when people look at them funny, and if the Glitter Girls don’t start winning bouts soon they’re going to be chucked out of the league. And off the track, things are no better: Eleanor’s job as a nursing sister is overwhelming her, and friends and lovers seem to be drifting away.

Robin, Eleanor’s pretty-in-pink new jammer, is hawk-fast and fearless, and she’s a brilliant skater to boot. But she’s never on time, she forgets her kit, she comes to practice in stupid frilly dresses, and according to Eleanor, she has no respect for the traditions of the game. It’s only because the team needs her so badly that Eleanor is teaching her to play at all.

But ditzy, silly Robin isn’t quite what she appears to be. And if Eleanor can see past that candy-pink exterior, then there might be some things Robin can teach her, too. About how to win, how to lose, how to rediscover a little glitter in her life. How to get herself back up from where she’s fallen—and how to fall in love.

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Tonight’s View From My Seat - Maddaddam at the Royal Opera House. Two of my favourite things - avant garde ballet and the Sainted Margaret.

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Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's Transgender Day Of Remembrance. 🧵

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Over the next few days, we'll be presenting to you a brief history of the Eighth Amendment To The Constitution of Ireland, an anti-abortion constitutional amendment in effect between 1983 and 2018 in this thread...

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Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

GUEST POST: Joseph Brant Interviews Chinese Horror Authors Today Joseph Brant [ @macula.bsky.social ]interviews Xueting Ci Ni, Chu Xidao and Hong Niangzi about writing horror and their recent anthology Sinophagia www.nerds-feather.com/2024/11/gues...

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GUEST POST: Joseph Brant Interviews Chinese Horror Authors

Today Joseph Brant interviews Xueting Ci Ni, Chu Xidao and Hong Niangzi about writing horror and their recent anthology Sinophagia Cover by ...

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In these darks days, we need to find joy where we can. This is a good day to enjoy the Traffic Scotland gritter tracker. www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac... I am particularly fond of Penelope Gritstop.

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Gritter tracker | Traffic Scotland

Traffic Scotland gives you the real-time information you need about Scotland’s trunk road network

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How about some short stories for long nights? Dive into tales of time-crossed love, Chinese horror and sci-fi, Nordic Visions and futuristic tales from people of colour. Ed. by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social, @xuetingni.bsky.social, Margrét Helgadóttir and @nisishawl.bsky.social!

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s that time of year when I find myself “strategically enhancing” my TBR pile in anticipation of @runalongwomble.bsky.social’s TBR challenge for next year. I know the goal is to read DOWN one’s TBR, not add to it, but I can’t imagine the Booktempter In Chief being too cross about it.

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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is a chance for UK readers and fans of HILD to read the first chapter of MENEWOOD for free and enter to win a copy of the just-released paperback. Good luck!

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The Tiny Bookcase Podcast @tinybookcase.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

After the whirlwind of awesomeness that was our first-ever Fantasycon, we have some HUGE news. The Tiny Bookcase won the British Fantasy Award for Best Audio! Thank you to everyone who attended, guested on the pod, the volunteers, and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social - we are delighted😁

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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Authors/publishers, go check a website called Oceanofpdf for your books. They have 9 of mine that they are giving away for free and I've seen many belonging to people I know. Their email address is on the website. They also have the gall to ask for donations... @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Did you know that #Wuxia #fiction isn't just stories of revenge, treasure seeking or quests for power? Sometimes it can be about finding, or rediscovering one's path in life. Like this Cdrama, adapted from Cang Yue's novel, which I'd been looking forward to since last year. It did not disappoint. 1/

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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

*looks at wardrobe full of button-up shirts in bird prints* I see no word of a lie here.

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Caro @liwella.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It’s been a busy couple of weeks, so I’m having a Full Stop weekend. Yesterday was pyjamas and rugby. Today is pyjamas and s2 of Silo.

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Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Warning to those involved in Requires Hate/ Winterfox etc bullying, coercion and hate fanlore.org/wiki/Winterfox. I have reported and blocked. They lovebomb, solicit secrets and then coerce vulnerable people (usually women/ femme NB folks) into crusading against their latest grievance.

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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 17/11/2024

If you keep forgetting to add alt text to images here, please go immediately to Settings -> Accessibility (under Basics) -> toggle "Require alt text before posting" on. Alt text is a textual description on images that help a wide range of people enjoy things they otherwise can't.

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