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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 22h

Never underestimate how many people subconsciously (or CONSCIOUSLY) believe that wealth = virtue.

Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know selling hand-painted artisan dolls from a gallery is a different audience & business model to selling books on the internet, but every time I press my mother to raise the prices on her beautiful artworks, SALES INCREASE. I don't know who needed to hear that today but I presume most of you.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As well as essays, Speculative Insight posts "Fifth Friday" conversations: Arkady Martine & Ann Leckie. Suzan Palumbo and Kate Elliott. Garth Nix & Frances Hardinge. Freya Marske & Celia Lake. Angela Slatter & GennaRose Nethercott October has a fifth Friday... www.speculativeinsight.com/extras

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Extras — Speculative Insight

Occasional extras that supplement and complement the essay published on Speculative Insight.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This year SI is participating in AusArt Day, raising funds to completely cover paying our authors at a higher rate for (at least) Jan-June 2027. Feel like supporting us? Click the link to send some money... and tell your friends! artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2...

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@tansyrr.bsky.social made mention of a dragon bonnet the other day - my brain went "dragon fruit bonnet". The thought continued to rattle around in my gourd until just now. If I didn't have fatbatweek just starting I'd start w "fruithat friday" this month... maybe in November.

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh no! @tansyrr.bsky.social - what have you inspired- you wonderful dreadful woman! And now I need to do a third one tonight to close the series dir now. I always work to odd numbers when I can.

A woman's face in black silhouette wearing a bonnet based on a star fruit with a straw brim and a slice of stuff fruit over the ear

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm sure there's a long list of regulations that should be brought in to keep AI in check, but how is it even legal to sell AI generated content when you don't/can't own the copyright? What do those contracts LOOK like?

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2 weeks until I launch my new Kickstarter for the beautiful new clothbound special edition of The Season of Dragons, my cozy fantasy retelling of Pride & Prejudice. Follow the pre-launch page to get notified when we go live! Can we get to 150 followers today? www.kickstarter.com/projects/tan...

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Coming soon: The Season of Dragons - Deluxe Special Edition

A cozy, romantic fantasy retelling of Pride & Prejudice in a society of matchmaking dragons and ruthless fortune-hunters...

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Elbow deep in a pencil sketch for the endpapers for this at the moment & I'd love anyone into Austen &/or Dragons &/or indie authors to help signal boost to nudge @tansyrr.bsky.social's project follower count up to, or better yet, over 150 peeps today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tan...

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Coming soon: The Season of Dragons - Deluxe Special Edition

A cozy, romantic fantasy retelling of Pride & Prejudice in a society of matchmaking dragons and ruthless fortune-hunters...

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My charming author store The Teacup Magic Emporium is packed with signed paperbacks, special editions, merch & more... You can sign up to our mailing list for a monthly email of whimsy, product news & special deals. tansyrr.com/pages/join-o...

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If you want to hear about all the behind the scenes gossip of the Teacup Magic Emporium, plus special offers and other whimsical delights directly from Ariadne Teacup (assistant manager) we would be h...

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Ah, Dimity,” Mr Rackham said as I rustled at his elbow. “Enjoying the revels?” Oh, sarcasm, how I had missed you! “I have spent the last half hour being sweet and polite to Miss Bellamy,” I informed him. “Only to discover that she is…”

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's been a challenging day in terms of family health, but at least it's been a real comfort to have homemade apple pie to eat while I read a wonderful e-ARC ( @tansyrr.bsky.social 's Those Haunted Hathaways, which is a sharp-edged *delight*)! #TinyJoys #BookSky

This photo shows a slice of apple pie on a small, square plate that is on a wooden table beside a cup of frothy coffee set on top of a Llandudno Museum coaster.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Very sad to hear of the passing of Stephanie Cole, a brilliant comic actor, and especially sad to hear she has been living with Alzheimers the last few years, a difficult way to go out. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Stephanie Cole, Coronation Street and Open All Hours actor, dies aged 84

Cole, described as an ‘extraordinary talent’, also appeared in Waiting for God, Tenko and had an extensive theatre career

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you think they finally figured out that it's going to be very hard for even the biggest corporations to make money off IP for the next couple of decades if they let AI have unchecked access to EVERYTHING while systematically destroying global copyright law?

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Olivia Coleman's career at 52 continues to delight and astonish me. Like, what do you mean her trailer about banging a macrame rendition of Alexander Skarsgard is only her SECOND sauciest film pairing of the year 2026?

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So many people are salty about the new Mr Darcy! It's OK, people! The story doesn't require us to like him until we see his big, sexy house and are reassured that his servants like him. Have... we had any location announcements about Pemberley? No? Okay, then. (drums fingers)

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My most controversial literary headcanon is that Elizabeth Bennet should be blonde, because I saw Greer Garson's version of Pride & Prejudice (in B&W) at an impressionable age. My most controversial Hollywood headcanon is that Greer Garson is also blonde. Same reason.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In another life my career is making excellent but niche Classic Doctor Who cosplay costumes for toddlers and I would start with this one.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hercule Poirot dressed all in black speaks to Captain Hastings in a grand hallway “Please ask the suspects to gather in the library, Hastings: I wish to reveal that our births are random, our lives meaningless, and our deaths absurd.”

Caption “Having investigated so many awful murders over the years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Hercule Poirot turned to Existentialism”

p.s. Poirot had presumably been reading a lot of Sartre recently…

"It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die," Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (L'Être et le Néant)

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (La Nausée)

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My upcoming Kickstarter, The Season of Dragons is not only set in a world ruled by dragons, but it follows a heroine based on the one and only Caroline Bingley. I ❤️ a mean girl with a heart of gold, and I'm HERE for letting them earn their own happy ending. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tan...

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

By far the worst thing that could happen to a gentleman of good family is to come into his fortune at the age of two-and-twenty. Why, a man of such recent vintage has barely begun forming his character, and now he shall never have to.

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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I acknowledge bias as I am being paid illustrate dragons for this - but also: I've read the book twice, it's a LOT of fun. Give it a follow, tag any friend that has ever mentioned that they like Austen Tansy is a great client, she does quality kickstarters, and she invests in other creatives.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's happening! My new Kickstarter coming next month for a gorgeous deluxe special edition of a certain book involving Jane Austen & dragons... www.kickstarter.com/projects/tan...

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Coming soon: The Season of Dragons

Deluxe Special Edition Hardback - Cozy Regency Romantasy

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Saucers & Sorcery, my latest cozy fantasy, features bramble tea, a magical hotel, a surprise giraffe, a valet, two red parasols, a seamonster, time travel, an underwater opera house, an excessive amount of portal magic and several sticky buns. Enter if wearing apricot. books2read.com/saucers

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Saucers and Sorcery by Tansy Rayner Roberts

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Honestly, rewatching 1970s Doctor Who is a TRIP in this year of 2026. If it's not hippies earnestly explaining how the time to deal with climate crisis & world hunger is NOW, then its tech stories pointing out that AI will definitely try to destroy humanity if you don't add an ethics clause.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

While recording the last ever episode of @veritypodcast.bsky.social I ordered 2 books. This one just arrived! Guess what the other was? #doctorwho

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've seen several people raging that they are being punished for combining AI-generated art and/or marketing materials with their creative work. They want to be rewarded for paying "nothing" for content they attach to their brand. (obviously, there is a cost)

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I just shared a piece of mindblowing creative wisdom with my kid, and now I'm going to share it with you. Stand by...

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's probably bad that the first thing I thought when I saw this was "I need a new hobby, right?"

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Embroidered book covers, fashionable in the 16th and 17th century, the art of embroidering unique covers for books saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, via the Arts and Crafts movement #womensart

Embroidered book cover with stylised flowering plant design on a white background

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“I suppose Father must know,” observed Argos one afternoon. “No matter how many babies we produce between the four of us, it still only takes the Queen bearing one to collapse all his plans.” “Or our Troilish cousins being reinstated into the line of succession,” groaned Typhon...

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Happy book birthday to @tansyrr.bsky.social 's Saucers and Sorcery collection! This is such a witty, fun, and charming gaslamp fantasy series: books2read.com/saucers

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Saucers and Sorcery by Tansy Rayner Roberts

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don't care what anyone says, the dinosaur effects in Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs are ADORABLE AND ICONIC and they make me smile every time they are on screen. People made that happen. They built dinosaurs & made them growl and stomp and bite each other. They're cute as hell.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is something about the prickling unease about AI taking over the world that makes me want to throw messy, unfinished art into the world. Let our revolution be fingerpainting and imperfect pencil-lines and mistakes we don't correct.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don't understand how humanity rose up and said NO to that one annoying pixellated paper clip that kept trying to explain things to us, but we can't do it now for this thing which is a million times worse. At least Clippy wasn't trying to burn our planet down around us or invent new viruses.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Welcome to the Hotel Charybdis, a luxury experience for the discerning traveller. Our casino is open twenty-four hours a day, and our security is second to none thanks to the unique location of our premises, in the centre of the Tourmaline Strait...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A little Roman bronze dog affectionately known as the ‘Chesters Scottie dog’ 🐾 This lovely figurine was found at Chesters Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall. You can meet this good boy at the site museum! 📷 English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work*

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

On the Isle of Storm, it was understood that if you had need of your wife or mother or daughter or niece or shop assistant or housekeeper or temple priestess, then one should not seek her out between the hours of three and four in the afternoon.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you love my cozy fantasy Regency Teacup Magic series, the latest book in the series is out this week! Pre-order Saucers & Sorcery before Saturday and I'll send you a bonus story scene about Basil the hedgehog! mailchi.mp/tansyrr/sauc...

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Deb Stanish @debstanish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Endings are always a little sad but I couldn’t be more proud of the work we did (and the fun we had!) Thanks @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy @xanister.bsky.social @lizbethmyles.bsky.social @lynnemthomas.com and @tansyrr.bsky.social. You made @veritypodcast.bsky.social something special.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

rewatching Frontier in Space and it just occurred to me that the intensive & excellent model shots that feature in this era of #doctorwho are basically puppetry with spaceships. If I ever paid attention to Thunderbirds this would probably not be a new thought in my head.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Please make this a film starring Celia Imrie. I do love the idea that La Plante needs meetings with fresh criminals each time, there is no recycling.

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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I have now listened to #PratChat83, the episode of @pratchatpodcast.com about Unseen Academicals. As usual, it was lovely and helped me enjoy the book more, not only because of the mention I got from @tansyrr.bsky.social .

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Melbourne and Hobart: I've got some launch events for A Study in Sparkling coming up! Both free, but registrations preferred. Readings Hawthorn, Melbourne, August 6: www.readings.com.au/events/a-stu... Fullers Bookshop, Hobart, August 13: www.trybooking.com/au/event/161...

The bright pink cover of A Study in Sparkling, featuring cartoon images of a brunette white woman and a blonde Japanese man sipping sparkling wine.

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