#Introduction for my #Calckey account. See also @jules where I've been on #Mastodon for a few months and @jules@bookwyrm.social (weirdly they allow a . in the username despite it screwing up the tagging function) :bunhdthink:
I'm here for shiny new objects and slowly getting more into #Fedi stuff, obvs. Not a techy but with a layperson's interest in using new media, including socials. Also here for cuteness and fluffy stuff. Lots of time to watch #TV and #movies and read #novels (esp #SFF) because I'm sick with #longCOVID (#fatigue#PEM#BrainFog). 😷
Unlike many of you, I'm old! In my 50s, grew up with rotary phones and big chonky televisions, got cable when I was in highschool, email and dial-up internet in grad school. #Punk, #rock, #reggae, #soul, #r&b, those are my thing in music. I'm from the US but lived in Japan, Germany, and now Norway, so not all that American in some ways (still very much so in other ways). 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 🇳🇴
In the unlikely event you or an interested friend are in the Salem, Oregon area AND would care to celebrate Walpurgis Night tomorrow with a band of horror, weird-tale, weird-poets ...weird rockers even...It'll be in the form of a gathering and reading and greeting here at the Book Bin in Salem at 5...with award winning weird poet Adam Bolivar, and a Bram Stoker Winning writer...oh wait that's me...and a heavy metal drummer who's also a writer...and others... #horror#sff#fantasy
For anyone interested, I also have a #substack where I just kind of trust that my disparate interests in #religion#sff#philosophy and #ttrpg s will come together into something special and coherent despite my children's best efforts at leaving me a gibbering mouther. If you're inclined I'd love for you to follow along!
I post something like twice a month. Hopefully more often when the infant starts sleeping through the night.
Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.
FWIW I've noticed other people copying this concept-which is fine, I copied it from someone else (only after they blocked me from theirs, but whatever.) I will keep doing my version, other people advertising their books can do as they please.
IMO, an underrated fictional #lesbian romance (between two WOC!) is Delle Seyah Kendry and Aneela on the SYFY series #Killjoys, which blew my mind because it aired during the Bury Your Gays era. Aneela and Kendry both started out as terrible, vicious people who, in part through their love story, gradually learned to aim their anger and ruthlessness in more constructive directions and use their power for good. It was the first queer romance I ever saw that had a redemptive aspect to it, and the women remained powerful and formidable while trying to atone. Several of their lines and exchanges live rent free in my head (warning for spoilers):
Kendry: “Everything falls, Aneela, from fathers to empires. But we are queens. And queens... rise.”
Kendry: “Be careful.”
Aneela: “Be BRUTAL.”
Aneela: “If you want to stay human, I will hold your hands when you turn gray. I will bury you with honor and burn worlds in your name, and you will not be forgotten.”
Kendry: “Or?”
Aneela: “The war is over. And we have a son and an empire. And I need my queen.”
The show also contained one of the fiercest, strongest #QueerPlatonic relationships I have ever seen, some disaster bis, and an adorable M/M romance, and none of them got buried either! This show buried none of its gays! And it didn’t get canceled before its planned ending, so the story arc is complete!
Without meaning to, I've stumbled into reading several scifi books about the environment recently, & it was interesting to see the different approaches they took. So naturally I rambled on about it on the blog...
Out today! Producer Mark Helton and writer Tera Eon discuss their time-traveling heist show Murphy's Inc, using characters to flesh out the world, working with someone else's ideas, criminals as protagonists, and dealing with (or not) time travel paradoxes.
My colleague is trying to identify a fantasy novel he read as a child/tween sometime around 1980-1984 in the U.S., and so far all of us who are trying to assist are stumped. If you can help, we'd be most grateful! (UPDATE: We’ve ruled out works by Patricia McKillip.)
Here's what he remembers:
He thinks it was published in the late 1970s. (He read a library hardback without a dustjacket, so he didn't see the cover art.)
He thinks it was a standalone novel, not a book in a series.
The plot involved a boy and girl brought up as siblings, but in fact they were the respective heirs of two warring kingdoms, heraldically represented as "the Mountain" and "the Sea." It culminated in a duel between two wizards.
this prints really well as a poster/art print/sticker. It should print very well at large sizes for things like scarves. You know you want that shower curtain. Or the comforter.
Wen Wen Yang is a first generation Chinese American from the Bronx. Some of her short publications include "The Huli Jing of Chinatown," "The Magical Sow," "Minor Magics of Chinatown," and "Skin Anomalies."
Rick Danforth lives in Yorkshire, works as a Systems Architect, and practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. His short fiction includes "A Date to Memoir" (Translunar Travelers Lounge), "Don't Forget Your Goat" (Etherea), and the BSFA finalist "Seller's Remorse" (Hexagon).
A.D. Sui competed on the Canadian National Fencing Team, earned a PhD in Health Promotion, and writes a lot. Try "The War Moves Forward by a Meter" (Every Day Fiction), "Banquet of the Shooting Stars" (Etherea), "BFFs" (If There's Anyone Left Vol. 3), and "Toronto Isn't Real and Other Metropolitan Anomalies" (Augur).
Renan Bernardo lives in Rio de Janeiro and writes in English and Portugese. His short fiction includes "The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge," "The Walking Mirror of the Soul," "Look to the Sky, My Love," "A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity," and "The Small Shop of Me."
Lyndsey Croal co-founded the Edinburgh Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers and has a background in climate and nature policy. Her pile of published short fiction includes "First Blood," "(Un)Censored," "The Last Call of the Deep," and "Patchwork Girls."
Grace P. Fong is a Chinese-American writer, artist, and narrative designer. Her artwork won an Ignyte Award and she's been nominated for the Best Fan Artist Hugo; her short fiction won an award from the FIYAH x Levar Burton Reads context. Sample her short fiction online: "For Want of Milk," "Girl Oil," and "The Toll of the Snake."
K. Lynn Harrison has been an educator, bookseller, and barista, while also engaging writing, drawing, painting, and ballroom dancing. Check out "Note to a Hypoxic Delusion" in Daily Science Fiction and the sprawling site Reprobate Typewriter.
E.M. Linden likes books, caffeine, and cool birds. Sample some of her online work: "The Projectionists," "Completely Safe and Totally Human Midwinter Holiday Tips," and "One Syllable, Rhymes with Sin."
Victoria Janssen. 2023. A place of Refuge: A cozy space opera. Self published.
It says "omnibus", but the whole thing is about a novel in length.
#lesbian throuple of rebels flees the empire seeking the planet Refuge, where they settle down, go into therapy, and live happily ever after in mostly automated gay space communism. #bookstodon#books#reading#sff