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so uh. i just finished chapter 55 of The Sovereign. more like The Sobbereign amiright? (i am deeply unwell right now)

uh

OUR SISTER’S KEEPER:
- Southern Gothic psychological horror
- Post-reconstruction in the Mississippi Delta
- Sinners vibes, but with ghosts that haunt only the women
- Black sisterhood, resistance, rage

PRE-ORDER: bookshop.org/a/20702/9781...
ADD ON GOODREADS: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

the data will have been available since nominations closed. once you factor in a wee while to clean up the data (probably done in conjunction with the shortlist), the time needed to produce tables (not long) and write a preamble (even less time), well. it’s a rainy afternoon job

the further we get out from the Hugo award ceremony without the longlist, the more 🤨 i get about what could possibly take so long

Hey, I have had a largely great experience at Worldcon, but the #Hugos owe @wordsiren.bsky.social an apology for forgetting to include her in the announced Lodestar nominees during the award ceremony. Kamilah deserved celebration, not this blatant disrespect.

take a shot every time the hugo award announcers mispronounce a name 💀

whose great idea was it to wake up at 4:30am for the hugo awards (me it was mine)

lol

if i had a nickel for every time my nosy scrolling unearthed something about Seattle Worldcon and related Hugo Award nominees i’d have two nickels, and it’s really weird it has happened twice

that panel was my highlight of Glasgow Worldcon i’m genuinely extra infuriated now 😭

thinking about how i had the privilege of watching the Sword Lesbians: Discuss panel at Worldcon last year compared to whatever the hell is going on with Seattle

and some more since i have no idea where my copies are:
- The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
- Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
- Idolfire by Grace Curtis
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang
- Spear by Nicola Griffith

anyway here’s half a dozen or so books with strong female characters which also happen to be raucously queer

i’ll put £50 on someone being really, really upset Gideon Nav is a raging lesbian cooking up this panel lol

A panel description for Worldcon which reads: “Strong Woman Lead =/= LGBTQIA+ Culture/DEl Room 420-422, 9-10 a.m. Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads? Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possible to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love? Nikhil Prabala (M), Corrina Lawson, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Weyodi OldBear”

maybe i am glad i can’t go to worldcon this year because what the hell is going on here

to speak Star Wars with me you must have completed two of three:
1) name five droids
2) played Star Wars: Outlaws
3) seen season 7 of Clone Wars

it’s soooo embarrassing being chronically ill sometimes. like, oh why am i in pain? coughed so much i’m building abs

METAL FROM HEAVEN FINALLY GETTING ITS WELL DESERVED RECOGNITION I WON!!!!!!

like call me old fashioned but i’d never admit to using the lazy bastard stealing machine to write an email as a best selling author, that was trained on your own works but, y’know, do you

GET READY TO BE SICK OF ME

not to worry, they only fed names into the steals everything for the ouroboros machine for the science fiction and fantasy convention

naw i cannae even write jokes anymore they keep writing themselves

like can we also talk about how weird it is these are attached to a kids book series, beyond the elephant in the room. it’s WEIRD to sell your sold into sexual slavery romance based on its link to kid characters

🌸 Ravens in bloom

A three panel comic. A dog offers up a ball, but refuses to hand it over when someone tries to throw it for it again, captioned “Pls buy this HP fanfic reskin”, “No talk!!”, “Only buy”

in light of certain decisions by certain book boxes

icymi

on the 2025 Hugo’s shortlist what is an award winning book anyway?

as it turns out i have many feelings about the hugo awards this year itskindofthatdeep.substack.com/p/on-the-202...

let the wahugos commence!