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Fingers crossed that the bureaucratic obstacle that's been preventing me from getting hired full time finally resolves itself until the end of December 😭 It sucks so much because there's literally nothing to do about it except wait and time is running out

Thank you so much!!! A bunch I haven't heard of on there

Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Belligerently caffeinated. Maliciously caffeinated, even

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you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been so out of the loop this year so...this is a really useful thread! Also, if anyone has recs for more...offbeat, unusual SFF published within the past year specifically, well, I'll take them :)

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Rozi the cheetah purrs 😻 Sound on for beautiful cheetah purrs! Cats can either roar or purr, they can’t do both. Lions & tigers can roar, but they can’t purr. Cheetahs can purr, but they can’t roar.

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Not to mention being constantly told by classmates, TO MY FACE, that profs go easy on girls. The conversations and jokes I overheard. I quit due to burnout bc of the insane workload expected, not sexism. But nonetheless, it was omnipresent.

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I studied compsci. There was a class on ethics one year I had high hopes for because it's one hell of an interesting topic and I liked the intersection with humanities. The first lecture, the prof opened with some sexist bullshit. I stopped attending. All the other students at that point were men.

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Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mood. It'll be a three coffee day for me 🫩

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Patina is dry as dust and just might be the dryest ink I have, which is impressive given that I specialize in pastel celadons, but...the colour... 😅 I already used it for a month with a platinum F nib, for which it was a shit match, but I gotta clean out the kaweco M. Wet enough to work I think.

Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Himeajisai was only about a week ago, too. I'm absolutely obsessed with it. Surprisingly well behaved and STUNNING. Pic is not an exaggeration, it really does look like that.

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Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh! I need to show y'all two ABSURDLY pretty inks I got during my break :D

Kobe Himeajisai, a dual shader that's a vivid purple in the middle with electric blue edges

Pennonia Patina, a pale teal the exact colour of copper patina.

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Now I wonder how many other book boxes and other "fancy" editions do this shit. Like I'm not in the market for them (vast majority don't ship to here, even this got stuck at customs), I don't have any points of comparison. But it does make you think, y'know?

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(I do not operate heavy machinery. But I have done all the other steps of two different methods. Also messy. And a press is a necessity.) ANYWAY. Professional pet peeves aside. It's enshittification. Cutting costs in a way most people won't notice. That should not happen when you pay extra, dammit.

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Rebinding a hardcover: cut threads, fix with archival tape or paper strips if necessary, sew, glue on endpapers, glue everything onto boards. Can be done at home. Rebinding a paperback: easy disassembly, but putting it back together is a Process that requires heavy machinery to cut it level.

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And not only are books bound only with a thin layer of glue less durable (any amateur sewn binding holds up better), since they are essentially paperbacks, they are also near impossible to repair. Again, moot point since people don't repair their own books. But as someone who *has* done it. ARGH.

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It also doesn't even have endbands glued on! That's a purely aesthetic rather than functional complaint but come on! (Works of Vermin by the appropriately named Broken Binding for the curious btw, got it a while ago so it's a moot point, but my friends found my rant this morning interesting, so.)

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Like okay, I don't like the faux-hardcover binding in any case, but with normal "I got a hardcover bc I wanted it on release" boks - fine I guess, costs are rising, etc. But if I get a special signed edition with fancy endpapers, and it's done in the flimsiest cheapest least durable way? Yeah, no.

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Prompted by a conversation on discord, it's heinous that buying a special edition hardcover doesn't even guarantee that the book will have sewn signatures anymore. Just glued like a paperback. I'm a professional bookbinder specializing in repair. This is not a book that'd survive being read a lot 🧵

Hardcover of The Works of Vermin, propped open slightly. There is no endband glued on, and although the orange sprayed edges make it difficult to see, the pages are held together by a thin layer of glue and some paper on top only.

Two hardcovers compared. One with signatures and headband on the left, and the orange one with glued pages on the right. There is a very visible difference.

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BIG FAT MOOD. I also don't like the whole "huge enormous manly asshole guy tiny dainty girl" hetnorm trend. And I'm just plain a hater 🤣

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Yep. Or maybe it's just a "not yet." I do like radio as background noise for keeping at least slightly in touch with pop music, the bubble argument is nonsense, but I don't know how the music editors make their choices and also don't care lol It's pretty silly discourse!

Was in LJ this weekend and BABY TIGERS Y'ALL 😭🥰

A tiger kitten sitting in front of the glass, looking up with her mouth open and tongue visible

Baby tiger lying in front of the glass. Someone else is also taking a pic of her.

Two little tigers playing just like housecat kittens do

Mom licking one of her babies while another attacks her butt

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Oh yeah it'll def be the crab rave for me 💀

Same 💙💙 Tbh I do feel guilty for just vanishing but there's very little I can do 😅

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shit, I *do* listen to two normie top 40s type radio stations (one of them for the whole shift at work, the other is what my mom likes to have on) and I haven't heard the song yet. I don't know why it's so difficult to comprehend.

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That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why you should use a PHYSICAL scene separator (e.g. asterisks) in your books instead of an empty space: 1) Some ereader / app somewhere may simply not show the empty space. 2) Some people read on devices with the text REALLY BIG. Your chance of the empty space being at the end of the screen is...

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Awhile back I asked people for their favorite space opera book/series and compiled the list on my blog. Is your favorite missing? 👀 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/09/26/l...

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it's so orange I LOVE it 🧡 reminds me of my fav ink (sailor kin mokusei) lmao

Like it's not that I abandoned this site, it's just that I have limited bandwidth as it is now that I have a full time job and like most of what's left over has been eaten up by brainworms and this is not exactly the place for posting meticulously edited gifsets 😂😂

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Emerging from my Star Wars shaped hole once again, still alive 😅 (Blog posts probably to follow soon, I'm almost done with my series)

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had similar experiences. In primary school, the school librarian FORCED us to choose from the picture books section even if we could read more difficult books. Aggravating. On the opposite end, high school English teacher allowed me to read openly because. Well. Big fat English SFF books + fluent.

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Extremely autumnal vibes in this visit we had this morning :3

A raven with its head cocked on a balcony's railing. Theeavws behind it are almost all a soft orange, with some green left on the lower half

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Tananarive Due's The Reformatory is 2.99 on kobo today, which i suspected might be of interest to some of y'all.

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Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

FINALLY. Because mood. It's one of the reasons why I've been around less. A minor one, but still.

Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

...and/or "something with symbolism in it" lol Like the whole reason why I went for it was that I saw it a post, went "holy SHIT, oof" and kept thinking about it for a solid month. Just lived in my head rent free. But yeah lol now that I'm looking more deliberately I keep coming up short 💀

Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The problem with being about to get my first art print is that I want at least another two art prints to keep it company but "something that will affect me deeply" isn't exactly the easiest of criteria 😅 (Looking exclusively for contemporary artists too. Supporting the arts, etc)

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Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

No but seriously, the way this show has me in a fucking chokehold

tumblr post by heyclickadee (deactivated): I love the way The Bad Batch is both a show about a group of adult siblings trying to raise their little sister and a show about someone losing themselves to war. Not even joking, I love the tonal shift. The way the show plays the uncertainty of becoming something you weren’t designed to be against the hopelessness of allowing your design to define you. How none of the characters have the option to make decisions that won’t get people hurt, just a few gray threads self-preservation awash in a tapestry of bad, but most of them are able to find a way to survive and be okay with themselves while others aren’t. How no matter how you choose to hide, whether it’s hiding from the system or hiding in it, the walls will close in on you eventually. The way that the main villain so far is simply a personification of the machine of fascism and how it dehumanizes everyone and everything it touches. The thrill of being free and outliving your purpose, which you were never meant to do, and having the option to live in peace, which you were never meant to have, juxtaposed against the despair of losing yourself so completely that once you have the option to be free you don’t take it, because your prison is all you have left. The dichotomy between a child seeing the world as it is for the first time and the adults around her getting the chance to see it though her eyes, and a man who could see, but refuses to look.