Ruby Jones

It's now the day after my birthday, but it's never too late to make me smile! Thank you to everyone who boosted this yesterday!

Thank you! it was the best birthday I have had in a very long time. I completely exhausted myself but saw a tonne of people I care about, most of whom I never get to see, and some of whom had travelled a long way to see me. It meant a lot.

It's now the day after my birthday, but it's never too late to make me smile! Thank you to everyone who boosted this yesterday!

Four book covers against a background that fades from a blue-tone pattern of circuitry to a beige-toned runes. The top two books are: An Unexpected Attachment and Too Hot to Handle. They each feature the torso of a well-toned man in the process of undressing against a background of circuitry and have 50% off above them. The other two books are on a row below. Oviposition and features the silhouette of a man in a cave surrounded by tentacles. Ruinous Attraction and features a drawing of two naked men embracing on the floor against a background of runes. Oviposition is labelled as Free and Ruinous Attraction as 50% off. All books are by Ruby Jones. At the top, white text on a blue background says: Smashwords sale July 2025.

Hey, it's my birthday! And my smutty SF&F books are in the Smashwords sale!

It would be a wonderful birthday gift if you were to buy a book and share this!

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Four book covers against a background that fades from a blue-tone pattern of circuitry to a beige-toned runes. The top two books are: An Unexpected Attachment and Too Hot to Handle. They each feature the torso of a well-toned man in the process of undressing against a background of circuitry and have 50% off above them. The other two books are on a row below. Oviposition and features the silhouette of a man in a cave surrounded by tentacles. Ruinous Attraction and features a drawing of two naked men embracing on the floor against a background of runes. Oviposition is labelled as Free and Ruinous Attraction as 50% off. All books are by Ruby Jones. At the top, white text on a blue background says: Smashwords sale July 2025.

Hey, it's my birthday! And my smutty SF&F books are in the Smashwords sale!

It would be a wonderful birthday gift if you were to buy a book and share this!

www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#books #erotica #romance #smut #lgbtq+ #gay #IndiePublishing #romantasy #SF #androids #robots #tentacles

Thanks - I'm OK, really. I do think all the doctor's visits I've been having lately will result in a (slight) improvement in the long run, it's just that every little thing takes it out of me right now.

💕Thank you.

State of the Ruby: not at all well | Ruby Jones Get more from Ruby Jones on Patreon

Update: I am not at all well.

My health has got worse and I'm able to do much less than I was, which includes updating my Patreon.

I'm discontinuing the Unconditional Love tier - please move to a free membership. It's not the end; just a pause:
www.patreon.com/posts/state-...

#SyntheticAgency

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I've just sent an email to Seattle Worldcon about all this, but I wanted to highlight this for everyone else:

Their own Privacy Policy does NOT give them permission to share your personal data (even "just" your name) with genAI seattlein2025.org/about/privac...

Create your own book cover - without generative 'AI' | Ruby Jones Get more from Ruby Jones on Patreon

Now is apparently a good time to remind people why generative-'AI' is bad and how you do not have to use it to create your book covers for free or cheap: www.patreon.com/posts/118846...

"The Supreme Court was clear that trans people should be treated with dignity and respect. Why does the EHRC's interim update published on 25 April not address this point?"

Just heard about the latest Worldcon nonsense (using ChatGPT to get panelists without their consent). Sweet. Baby. Kittens.

Worse again today. Trying to do as little as possible to recover some functionality.

I am so bored and frustrated.

This is 100% wrong. The point of impeachment is to help the 35% of Americans who don’t know about all the awful stuff happening under Trump to find out. It’s TV. This isn’t complicated or legal or even political. It’s straight out campaign media.

#WIPSnips 27 April: indeed

Just one use in the whole of Synthetic Agency, and it's from quite late on:

For the folks who don't know: this is my queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy serial, the story Archer, Sabbat, Viola, Fest, and Mortimer are all from, and where pretty much all my WIPSnips snippets are taken from.

There's a longer intro here, as well as content notes: saranadosfiction.com/2023/12/11/a...

Ugh can authors PLEASE stop shilling for the plagiarism machine, yes even ones that don't have to do with writing. OMFG

#WIPSnips 26 April: decor

No 'decor' in Synthetic Agency, but I think this description is as close as it gets.

I would push myself up out of the water like she does in that bit when she's on the rock and the waves rise around her. You know what I mean.

In all seriousness, anyone outside the US, *please* do not come here for the foreseeable future.

Honestly the same as the quoted person. I really wanted to be Ariel. I would pretend to be a mermaid every time I want swimming.

Oh, same. So bad.

Thanks 💕

It's just life as normal, all fucked up 🤷‍♀️

>than listening to a podcast or audio book.

And there's the fact that both Audible and BBC Sounds have been fucked since I transferred to the knew phone. I know I had the same problem with the old phone and I fixed it somehow. But brain fog. And so it goes.

Anyway. Sorry to be a bummer. I'm OK.

'Why are you listening to Radio 4, then, Ruby?'

Well, Radio 4 has got me through some tough times. The comedy programmes are still mostly alright and I love Gardeners' Question Time. It's also the easiest way to set up some audio when I'm in the kitchen or yard, and it makes me feel more connected>

And then, of course, there are the Horrors 😅

Obvs I have had to write to my MP about the transphobia stuff and the disability stuff. (If you haven't done that and you're in the UK, please do.) That shit takes it out of you.

Radio 4 is pretty-much non-stop transphobia this week and it's... not nice

> a million craft projects. Gardening. And all the day-to-day stuff for me and the small beast. Obviously Small Beast stuff gets prioritised. And I love her, but she is far and away the most demanding cat I have ever known. Incredibly affectionate, but also very high maintenance.

It's just...a lot.

I'll be honest, there's quite a bit of the mental illness going on too. Cannot express how difficult it is to sit down and do pretty much anything when everything has to be done in little tiny increments and it feels like nothing ever gets finished.

Books I want to read. Art I want to make.>

A homeless person's greatest enemy - more than addiction, more than physical or mental illness - is hopelessness. #HousingFirst does the best job of alleviating that.