Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel)

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This single letter on my new driver's license is giving me such gender euphoria 🥰

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A conch snail! They're adorable too!

To each their own 🤷🏻

Right? I want to hug it.

What Scallops' Many Eyes Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Vision Scallop eyes, which function similar to telescopes, are even more complex than scientists previously knew

If you're as curious as I am about scallop eyes ⬇️

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From the TheDepthsBelow community on Reddit: A scallop that looks absolutely monstrous. The blue parts are its eyes, and it can have over 200 of them. Explore this post and more from the TheDepthsBelow community

I just learned that scallops have hundreds of eyes and are THE MOST ADORABLE THINGS EVER!

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I hear there are a lot of new people on Bluesky again, so it's a good time to mention that people have created starter packs to make it easier to find people to follow. Here's one for editors.

Thanks, James!

Three graphic novels = translated

Additional knowledge acquired in loads of Victorian stuff, including:
electric health fads
mourning practices
changes in corsetry
medical research advances
telecommunications tech

Deadline = hit. I'm taking the rest of the day off!

#Translation #xl8 #Comics

I expected a stress dream last night because of today's translation deadline, but I guess I'm feeling okay about it all because instead I dreamed about checking two squirmy little puppies out of the library.

Saturday!

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

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That feeling when you run @perfectit.bsky.social on 25,000 words you've written and it only finds one single stylistic inconsistency 😎

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Really informative and depressing read.

Oof, those tests are not fun. I hope you gets the results that you want or need.

Me: I'll just throw together some really quick notes to give the publisher the historical context for my translation and to share all my references. That shouldn't take very long.

Me, two days and one ridiculously detailed report later: 🫠🫠🫠

#Translation #xl8 #Comics

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A photo of text from The Lantern and the Night Months by Yilin Wang: Difficult choices and interpretations must be made when I am translating, but what is translation if not the gentle, rigorous art of embracing and pushing back against the constraints of language, in order to unsettle and to remake?

Yes. Yes, translation *is* a gentle, rigorous art to unsettle and remake. #AmReading

I love this! Who wrote it?

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Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

I'm so glad we got paired up! Your novel is SO COOL!

Having the best time catching up on these! Also need to say a huge thank you to @spacemagiccon.bsky.social and @tanyagold.bsky.social for my Opening Pages Consult - Tanya engaged with my writing with such generosity and I am so excited to dive into the rewrite process with their valuable feedback!!

Ahhhh, loving today so much. I missed yesterday due to Pride and looking forward to watching it on YouTube.

Today has been so good!

Wanna connect with all the awesome Rainbow Space Magic people over here?

There's a starter pack just for that!
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#RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #QueerSFF #RainbowSpaceMagic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social

Doing a reading in a few minutes! Come join us! #BookSky

Library Journal Starred Review We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope Saga. Dec. 2025. 384p. ed. by Karen Lord and others. ISBN 9781668095959. pbk. $20. SCIENCE FICTION Inspired by the groundbreaking anthology Octavia’s Brood, editors Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older present a new collection of essays from current agents for social change, along with visionary and speculative fiction set in alternate worlds where people are fighting the good fight against injustice and oppression. Standouts include Laia Asieo Odo’s “Where Memory Meets the Sea,” a heartbreaker about the manipulation of history and the crush of grief; Jaymee Goh’s “A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Citadel,” a wryly satirical story about sanctioned rebellions carried out with the application of a flock of harpies; and Charlie Jane Anders’s “Realer Than Real,” which examines the enforcement of gender norms. Other stories explore social activism, collective action, the fear of change, the possibility of hope along multiple axes from community justice to anarchism, human rights across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and for people with disabilities, the difficulty of combatting crisis fatigue, and the desperation to make others see what they’d prefer to avoid. VERDICT: This thought-provoking and inspiring collection is highly recommended for readers looking for visions that represent hope and change, as well as anyone who loves the work of Octavia Butler. — Reviewed by Marlene Harris , Oct 01, 2025

Did you think I was kidding when I said this book is amazing and you should preorder it now? Kudos to coeditors @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social, and our incredible roster of writers and activists, for creating such a marvellous work!