Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I appreciate that the increasing prevalence of unsmiling professional photos of women is a reaction against the dictate that women must smile and be approachable in all contexts. However, the solution should have been for men to smile in these photos. We don't all have to be stony-faced. 120
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026When oh when will Australian lit publishing stop beating this particular dead horse, and allow its writers to write about things that aren't this blasted country. The national identity crisis is really old news by now and I'm tired of it and how it hamstrings our culture (such as it is). 110
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 18/07/2026July 18, 1926: An editorial in the Chicago Tribune calls into question Rudolph Valentino’s masculinity, just as his latest film “The Son of the Sheik” is about to go into wide release. The piece somehow draws a link from “pink powder puffs” dispensed in a men’s bathroom to the romantic hero. 1/4 611821
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)The Writing Club Reliquary @wclubreliquary.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Writing Club Tip #191 "ePub pass – raise your standards in editing" @yenningtons.bsky.social #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips 021
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I know this is a "how long is a piece of string?" question, but what do you aim for in terms of chapter length? My genre is general/lit fic, novel-length, fairly wordy, and I've been going for a loose 5k per chapter. #writesky #amwriting 100
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 05/12/2025It's time! Time to once more wade into the trenches! Time to hopefully make some actual goddamn progress, please and thank you! #writesky #amwriting 010
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Almost Famous, in a heartbeat. It is just the perfect film about the importance of letting supposedly little, unimportant things in. Letting them matter. Being a fan, in other words. "To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts." 000
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Back in the writing trenches! Today, hoping I can finish this scene, if not this chapter. Would be nice to make some real progress for a change! #amwriting 020
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Finally sitting down to write. Can it be??? I suppose this tweet is technically text that I have written, but hopefully a little more will be forthcoming also. Let's go 💪 #amwriting 010
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 30/10/2025This is big 'take your own advice' energy...but it hurts! It hurts! All those darlings! 000
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Apparently I've only used this word three times in my whole manuscript! Who'd'a thunk. #amwriting #wipsnips 091
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/05/2025Don't worry; I am taking up the slack 79105851
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 28/09/2025I have been very slack about writing lately, and slacker still about tweeting about it. So, here we go. #amwriting Today is more of an #amplanning day...as the past few have been. It feels like a step backwards, but I have to remind myself it is not. 010
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Sorry, but this WAS my best tip. Always do (write) the weird thing. 020
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Consider starting your morning the way I did: with an @aeon.co video explainer on the (possible) science behind dissonance and harmony by Minute Physics: aeon.co/videos/a-riv... I am not scientific and only empirically musical, but I found this largely understandable and entirely fascinating.aeon.coA riveting audiovisual dive into what makes sounds harmonious, or not | Aeon VideosDissonance and harmony might seem straightforward, but a deep dive into the physics reveals their delightful complexity 110
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I'm a compulsive hyphen checker, just in case, and Macquarie throws back the most insane fuzzy results imaginable 000
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. 1416751937
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025I'm writing and I'm going to be tweeting (not skeeting; not now not ever) about. Join me. 🥲 #AmWriting 120
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Very pleased to share that my short story, "Five Things You Can See," is out in Strange Horizons today! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...strangehorizons.comFive Things You Can SeeYou saw her for the first time at your front door, like she wanted to sell you something or convert you. She had light hair and dark eyes, and she was wearing fatigues, which was the only way you k… 2289
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 14/05/2025This was a great, inventive read. Loved it, in a profoundly 'haunted by it' way. I can't imagine how you feel having written it! 110
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Today on the podcast, Dr. Joshua Miele talks about his experience growing up blind and how he built a career as an inventor and designer of adaptive technology. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi... 141284135
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This is being done with YOUR land. Public land is ALL OUR LAND. Homeless people are already criminalised and evicted from "private" land. Now they cannot exist on public land either. At this stage #BCC could at least be honest & admit they would prefer all homeless people to quietly die. 000
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 16/03/2025#Brisbane City Council is giving homeless people 24 hours to clear out of public parks without offering any support or viable alternatives. Think this is monstrous? Consider signing the #BCC petition www.epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.au/petition/vie...epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.auPetitionsPetitions allow the community to bring matters of concern to Council's attention. Find out more. 000
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 21/02/2020"NOW LOOK HERE! I have reason to believe YOU have been gently scuffing your shoes on my driveway EVERY DAY for the last EIGHT YEARS!" Wondermark #1511; In which a Neighbor takes Action wondermark.com/c1511 19127
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Will Willoughby @willwilloughby.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Just got a #Pushcart nom! Many thanks to @pangyrus.bsky.social for the nom and for giving my story a good home. Read it here: www.pangyrus.com/fiction/down... CW: Contains themes of depression and attempted suicide. But also contains absurd business lingo and one (1) henchman. #WritingCommunitypangyrus.comDownstream Benefits | Pangyrus 1105
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025My #WIPSnips for January 29, 'conversion'. (It's already Jan 30 here! Wake up, rest-of-the-world!) What a fun idea. I think I'll be participating in these lots~ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 031
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Did some plotting today on the WIP...it's draft 2, but such a mess still that I had to stop & reel things back in. It's been helpful & not as chaotic as I would have expected. Don't be afraid to slow down! #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity 2170
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Writing time! Writing time! 🚨🚨🚨 If you're looking for a sign, this is it. #WritingCommunity 020
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Nyco Rudolph @nycorudolph.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Sometimes you set out to make art with meaning, and other times the meaning finds it afterwards. These bear posters were originally created as a love letter to retro poster design, and I was delighted by how many people began seeing them as a a pro-2SLGBTQ/solidarity statement. 🏳️🌈🐻 #wildlifeart 0284
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Florence Chien 🗡️ REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (07.07.26) @florencechien.com · 24/01/20251937. 21yo a-Ling's final task in Shanghai is to save her cousin's magazine from censorship. But when the Kempeitai murders her cousin, a mysterious British financier promises to whisk her away to the London of her dreams, if only she spies on her family and country. #YouDeservepIt #HF #R (ish) #WIP 85227
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 16/01/2025A single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack playing in your head 010
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Abnomrality @abnomrality.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Scott Pilgrim x Crazy Ex-Girlfriend x Spirit Phone! A demolitions expert with a history of explosive relationships teams up with her terrible exes to fight her high school sweetheart--a murderous arcade cabinet--in a life-or-death cross-country scavenger hunt. #bluepit #W #A #D #Hu #OV #LGBT 📖 1810247
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Dan @thedanlines.bsky.social · 13/01/2025GIDEON THE NINTH x GODKILLER DOWNDRAFT Valandra is a legend - the only delver to reach the bottom of the Abyss and return. But few know the costs that came with it. Decades later, as new threats form in the shadows, she must retell her story or finally face the consequences. #BluePit #W #A #F 📖 35625
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 11/01/2025One of mine! The idea here was that if you sit at your WIP and find nothing's coming, try writing something in the same universe. A pivotal scene from your main character's childhood. A lesser prophecy from your book of prophecies. The sex scene that'll never make it into your PG romance. Anything! 093
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Palaeo @palaeosinensis.com · 29/12/2024Never walk into a cage willingly. If you're already in one: break out. Digital faux linocut. Another plan for the future. #art #tiger #quotes #fauxlinocut #printmaking #linocut 302602768
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Trying to get my various Bskys in order now that the mass immigration is occurring. This one, my public, real face, real name, hi, I'm a human being! account is probably going to be writing, politics, some (mainstream) pop culture, some tech, some music, some film. 👋 041
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 24/11/2024BW/DR is wonderful. Consider subscribing (it's only $25 a year!!!!). 062
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 03/11/2024It’s not foolish to foster hope in the face of illness and death – psyche.co/ideas/its-no... via Psychepsyche.coIt’s not foolish to foster hope in the face of illness and death | Psyche IdeasAs a great loss loomed, I feared straying too far from the hard truth. But I learned to distinguish denial from hope 110
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 31/08/2024Reading a book that mentioned Egyptian chickens. Had to look them up. What a good idea. 1593
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 09/06/2024I've neglected this place for far too long! Here's a cool piece, "7th Avenue" - by Tianran Qu. Love the colors and design of this. 24810
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 31/05/2024First session of this year's #BNEWritersFestival. Uhhhh...what's the hashtag? 000
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 23/05/2024i got to paint stupid sexy jafar for money by disney 😭 441194264
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)Wondermark Comics @wondermark.com · 14/04/2024How can a DEAD person be in a PARADE?? // Wondermark #1033; In which a Parade is questioned 13787183
Reposted by Yen 円 (they/them)it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 03/09/2023"Are you a boy or a girl?" I'm a cognitohazard. 21239
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social · 15/05/2024God, I love @aeonmag. A very interesting read, as usual. aeon.co/essays/how-t...aeon.coHow to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon EssaysWe need to find a way for human societies to prosper while the planet heals. So far we can’t even think clearly about it 010