Metylda Pryde

T. Kingfisher BINGO and Hemlock and Silver Review! Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher comes out this week, August 19th! As always with T. Kingfisher’s prolific work, Hemlock and Silver is both creepy and kind, thought-provoking and comforting. It’…

To celebrate Hemlock and Silver coming out tomorrow, my pal Larisa and I made you ✨THREE✨ T. Kingfisher bingo cards! Try your luck with Hemlock and Silver, or whichever @tkingfisher.com book you happen to be reading next! www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/08/18/t...

I have now watched this 63 times.

May I ask the name of this Overcat, One Who Rules Your Life More or Less Benevolently?

@davidallengreen.bsky.social this might enterterrify you

I love living in a country where "just go sit in a 1000 year old church!" is actually a perfectly reasonable bit of advice.

AMEN

For real tho…

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ka...

"I am not involved," Trump said in relation to Kilmar Garcia's case.

It would seem as soon as it finally sunk in that he could be impeached for violating the US Constitution's due process clause, he has suddenly decided he had nothing to do with it.

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism.

It’s disgusting and dangerous.

If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign.

Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness.

To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

🤣😂😭

Unbound goes into administration as Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson launch new publisher The independent publisher Unbound has gone into administration, with Allister Manson and Charles Turner of Opus Restructuring appointed administrators of the company on 10th March 2025.

This whole saga is kind of weird, and I'm rather confused how a publisher that crowdfunded its expenses has managed to go into administration.

To be noted, Unbound weren't paying royalties by the end, and that is a big old nope.

DRUMS! DRUMS IN THE DEEP (Throat)!

#TolkienPorn

I kept meaning to click the link you sent me - but that's a computer action, and bluesky is on my phone. And I kept getting distracted.
Thank you for finding me!

Fuck civility. It served nobody at Gettysburg.

A two-panel meme. The top half shows a scene from the movie The Mummy where soldiers are running away from the main characters. It is captioned "In a world full of 'allies'" The lower half shows three of the main male characters, two standing with rifles and one with a lit torch, looking ready for a fight. It is captioned "Be an accomplice."

Current Mood:

there's a reason building trust and empathy is considered an essential first step in getting someone out of a cult, and not mockery and derision: the latter just drives them further into the cult because they feel like no one else will ever accept them.

Musk’s Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over ‘Fork in the Road’ Email Former Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges to Elon Musk’s mass layoffs when he bought the company in 2022.

New: Ex-Twitter workers keep winning severance claims against Elon Musk.

Employees are 20 for 20 so far in getting full severance from Musk via arbitration, including four people who were laid off after the "Fork in the Road" ultimatum

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BETRAYED

"BETRAYED. First Zelensky, soon us? The radical turning away of the USA from its allies."

Today's cover of the German Der Spiegel.

@cjbreaksthings.bsky.social 💚💚💚💚

@zetamakesthings.bsky.social Awesome cosplay at CapriCon! Enjoyed Queer Eye For SciFi panel!

(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production (a) Organizations and Conferences (1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite deci-sions. (2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal

Simple Sabotage Field Manual experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments. (3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible— never less than five. (4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. (5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolu-tions. (6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. (7) Advocate "caution." Be "reason-able" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on. (8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision-raise the question of

whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher eche-lon. (b) Managers and Supervisors (1) Demand written orders. (2) "Misunderstand" orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can. (3) Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don't deliver it until it is completely ready. (4) Don't order new working materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown. (5) Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get

The character Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows. He is wearing a gray sweater over a white shirt and brown tie. He is sharpening a pencil while holding three more.

I love that one method of simple sabotage is being Colin Robinson

I said I think I remember that film...

Even in the incredibly unlikely case that trans rights in the US stop getting worse, judges grow a spine, whatever miracle you want to imagine—

You should still go out of your way to support trans folks because every fucking thing is harder for them. Work. Family. Housing. Walking down the street.

Trumps a joke. Trudeau: SO I OFFERED HIM WHAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING AND HE DROPPED THE TARIFFS!! Sheinbaum: OMG...SAME!

Raise your hand if you agree that tRump is a joke. ✋
(albeit a very bad joke)

And if another trans author who might be struggling happens to be reading this: remember that your story matters, there are readers out there who want to read your trans book despite what some people in this industry might think, don't lose hope.❤️

Cover reveal for ROOTS OF MY FEARS edited by Gemma Amor. Shows a rustic style green tree with spreading branches and roots against a black background with a red beating heart forming the trunk, wrapped with banners reading Gabino Iglesias, Nuzo Onoh, Hailey Piper, Premee Mohamed, Ramsey Campbell.

I CAN FINALLY SHARE THE MOST GORGEOUS BOOK COVER REVEAL ARGH!

I am BESOTTED 😍

ROOTS OF MY FEARS, an anthology of ancestral horror stories edited by me.

Featuring: Onoh, Iglesias, Mohamed, Campbell, Piper AND MORE! Full TOC in next post.

Out September, Titan. Cover: Julia Lloyd.
shorturl.at/AzMj8

If there’s one thing I want trans writers to hear is never compromise.

Don’t give those fuckers a single inch.

Your vision, your ideas, are scared. Preserve them in all their glorious strangeness.