Jenni Hill

don't compare yourself to other people or where you think you should be or where you wish you were or even to you before it happened. it's only useful to compare yourself to where you were when you were at your lowest imo. every episode is a hard reset on Everything, so don't beat yourself up 🤝

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

She is OUT!! (No I don't mean this fruity #BookNerd 😉🏳️‍🌈)

Happy pub day to #TheSovereign by @clclark.bsky.social !!

Full review to come but im about to start part 2 and AHHHHH!! I am LOVING THIS 🤭🥵🫣

Thank you @gambit589.bsky.social / @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the #ARC 💜✌️

#bookpost #booksky

The Sovereign is here - and so is @clclark.bsky.social (if you're in Toronto)!

The new Magic of the Lost book hit shelves Sept. 30, and the author will be in Toronto to celebrate the launch. Join us @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Tuesday, Oct. 21 @ 6pm for our interview, a book signing, and a Q&A!

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:

“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview

open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

Sure, it's great to have 'subversive' "the princess doesn't need a knight and rescues herself from the dragon," but we should have more stories about the heroism of the dragon attempting to save everyone from the monarchy.

Vampire: The Masquerade. It’s D&D for goths.

Well this is gorgeous (by feyspeaker)

a man and a woman are holding up a texas id card that says leeloo dallas Alt: a man and a woman are holding up a texas id card that says leeloo dallas

I will accept ID cards on two conditions.

1. They're not actually required for anything.

2. They're called a Multipass

This is very Hollow Places coded

agreed!

do have them send it over!

Gretchen Felker-Martin getting her comic cancelled for echoing this exact sentiment is *wildly* on-the-nose

This is so beautiful.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:

Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

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Every time I feel discouraged about the value of my work in the midst of all of this, I remember that if education did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard. If humanities and the sciences did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard.

#EditingTips

The minute I start swearing at the work I'm doing I know I've lost it. I just walk away and come back when I'm calmer. You can't think when you're furious and thinking and remembering are what is needed to solve the problem you're having. Patience and learning how to fix your mistakes are what it takes to be a good carpenter. DON'T FIGHT YOUR WORK If you find a job is frustratingly difficult and that you are fighting your work, then something is materially wrong. Do not berate yourself by saying such things as "I'm stupid, I'm weak" or "I can't do this." Those are thoughts that do not help solve the problem. The problem is not within you; it is somewhere in the work. Remain calm and begin analyzing the material aspects of the situation. Now evaluate and inspect the job again: 1. Is your body positioned to give the most leverage and strength? Reposition yourself and try again. 2. Are you using the right tool? Do you need another? 3. Is a screw or nail holding and you failed to notice? 4. Are you turning the nut in the right direction? 5. Are you using the right method?-- try another. Do not get frustrated at yourself; look to your method. Dale McCormick, Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Women

Loved this bit from Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Women by Dale McCormick so much that I typed it up and pinned it over my desk (h/t Michelle Millar Fisher on insta www.instagram.com/p/DM2S05bOKk...)

Em's bad year support fund Our dear Emma Newman is having a shite year. First she broke her ankle walking on flat pavement, now she's got breast cancer fucking up her life. The broken bone put her out of commission for almost t...

Okay, deep breath.
I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse.
www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG...

If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

I wish every image of Gaza bombed and razed into smithereens included a “before” shot, when Gaza — even after decades of brutal occupation, of crushing blockade, of periodic bombings — was so lush, so green, covered in palm trees and beautiful buildings.

A park sign that says "Entering Unnatural Play Area"

Sure, let's go in there, what's the worst that can happen

followed for PM!

No need for the gun if you follow the nun

An ink drawing on cartridge paper. Signed in ‘Tom Gauld Title: How to focus on writing your book There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read: Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark). Put them in a drawer. Lock the drawer. Throw away the key. Leave the house. Do not look back. Keep to backroads and hedgerows. Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes) Sleep by day. Forage in the evening. Write by the light of the moon When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).

'How to focus on writing your book' original drawing. This and a few other artworks are now up at www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined.

“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”

Not sure how much reach this will get, but I'm going to give it a try. Publishing friends, I really need to find some additional work as a copy editor or proofreader. Ideally for SFF, because that's been my bread and butter for almost a decade, but I would consider other opportunities as well.

You shouldn't care because it might happen to you someday. You should care because it is happening to others RIGHT NOW.

Gotta check the perimeter