Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
26.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 1711 🔁 485 💬 19 📌 22Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
26.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 1711 🔁 485 💬 19 📌 22
Rima Staines stands behind a table full of her folkloric, mythic art. Shades of blue and orange, art framed in natural wood, and Rima wearing a black hat.
Ended up vending yesterday next to the fabulous Rima Staines! Friends, I shopped.
23.11.2025 08:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Wonderful!
16.11.2025 23:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice."
Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social.
#pictcon
the WHOLE THING about writing is realizing that you don't "already" have "the whole thing" in your head. when it's just an idea that warm feeling smooths over all the gaps. but you've got a germ. a seed. there are *so many choices* left to make--real, hard, meaningful, creative choices.
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A photo of the sea meeting the horizon but it's not as glamorous as you might think. There is a line of wind turbines in the far distance and lights and a guardrail between us and the water.
The sea!
30.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the way.
29.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Headed to Brighton today woo hoo! Travel today, work tomorrow morning, then hit the registration desk and let the fun begin. Taking extra large luggage for the many books I know I will bring home. ❤️
29.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Me! I get there today. Will see you there!
29.10.2025 08:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am so sorry! Please take care of yourself. Sending lots of love.
27.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A rather lovely elfin poem by Lord Dunsany. steelthistles.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-...
10.08.2025 08:27 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An orange cat is standing on a flowerpot to cross the top of a small fence in a crowded garden.
Crossing the border to fairyland.
09.08.2025 19:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph: Our young brown spaniel, Lottie, communing with an oak friend on the hill behind our house.
"When nature is personal, the world is peopled by rocks, trees, rivers, and mountains...protagonists of their own stories rather than just props in a human story. When Earth is truly alive, the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.”
- @priscillastuckey.bsky.social (Kissed by a Fox)
Sending lots of love to you all!
08.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Angela Carter sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carter... was born on this day: some illustrations to her stories by Gill Bradley, Meggie Wood, Igor Karash, Martha R Ford. I believe some/all relate to the Folio Society 2011 Book Illustration Competition where Carter's "The Bloody Chamber ..." was the text:
07.05.2025 15:20 — 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0That is so very sad.
13.03.2025 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I miss them, and bluejays.
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An aged looking scroll. A border of waves in ink surrounds the text: Hear the siren’s call… Fantasycon 2026 9-11 October 2026 Glasgow Crowne Plaza
Save the date! Fantasycon is coming to Glasgow, 9th-11th October 2026. Early bird tickets go on sale soon
09.03.2025 20:40 — 👍 98 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 9
Rushed to get this special edition out for you before Inauguration Day! A place to share distracting titles, if you can't go to a Korean Spa - and books by Katherine Beutner & @tessagratton.bsky.social to recommend
20.01.2025 00:31 — 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1
My latest Substack looks at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book about the Cottingley fairies, 'The Coming of the Fairies' (1922) drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/whatever-r...
18.01.2025 10:04 — 👍 60 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
An event poster for 'Forever After: Angela Carter & the Re-invention of the Fairy Tale' -- an online talk sponsored by the British Library as part of the programme of events surrounding their big exhibition on Fantasy last year.
It's hard to believe it was a year ago that Marina Warner, Kelly Link, @amalelmohtar.com and I had the pleasure of talking about fairy tales & Angela Carter, a vastly important figure in the Modern Fairy Tale Lit Revival. The discussion is online here: living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/ange...
18.01.2025 11:55 — 👍 109 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 2
Today's bookshop. I love working here.
15.01.2025 22:39 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Most excellent!
15.01.2025 22:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know that every Thursday at noon (EST) you can hop on Zoom and see a manuscript? It's true! We call it Coffee With A Codex. You just have to register. Tomorrow it will be a 15th century devotional scroll from England. Register here!
libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/13390590
🤗 Hello everyone!
We’re #TOEBI, the professional organisation of Teachers of #OldEnglish in Britain & Ireland.
We promote & support the teaching of Old English language and literature.
Our annual newsletter contains articles on Old English pedagogy & book reviews: www.toebi.org.uk/toebi-newsle...
the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI
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Tales & Feathers Issue 2: Available Now!
Hello wonderful readers, Tales & Feathers Issue 2 is RELEASED!! ✨
This collects ALL the cozy & quiet fiction we published in 2023, including:
💖 13 slice-of-life fantasy stories!
😍 2 translations!
💫 3 illustrations!
Read on our site for free or purchase the issue now! augursociety.org/subscribe/