Katja

Texting with another YA author friend this morning about the rough state of the market, and our consensus was, publishing keeps looking for the next Hunger Games, but they wouldn’t acquire the original if it were in their inboxes today

Handsome gray tabby with big gold eyes lounging on the back of a couch beside a window. He is really, really, really ridiculously good-looking.

“At least I am terribly good-looking in *every* light”

One reason manga is more accessible than US comics is that with manga you can start reading at volume one and expect to continue directly through the next numbered volumes under the exact same title in order without major shakeups in the direction of the story or the creative team every few volumes

When astronomeres get drunke thei texte their exoplanets

You knowe the cool thinge about Gen AI, that one litel true thinge wyth potential that doth redeem it?

Nope! Me neyther.

Comic of a shark sleeping in bed with a seal pillow

Shark are cute 🦈💙
#art #sharks

Yf you are walkinge arounde and you see i) a squirrel or ii) a crowe or iii) a catte, you muste saye "hey buddy" these are the rules

Illustration of little mice surrounding a soup pot making soup! The text reads “do not disturb.. I’m busy making soup”

It’s soup season!
#art

Has a baby ever been loved more? 💖😍💖😍

#FoalSpam
#StellarSpam

魂祈梦请

that nonbinary feeling when an online friend invites you to join her community for women, radfem and friendly!

😬😬😬😬😬

Tämä ihmisten maailma on kyllä sekopäinen paikka…

#keskiluokkakapina #mitämietintänään

Xiao Zhan as Wei Wuxian and Wang Yibo as Lan Wangji in The Untamed/ CQL: poster announcement

Sina Entertainment announced the list of the special project of summer hit dramas 2025! #TheUntamed/ #CQL is the winner!🏆🎉🥹

"The Untamed/ CQL: Summer Hit Drama King!

'I want to take someone back to the Cloud Recesses, take him back, and hide away.'"

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#cdrama

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

If you want to get some great reading in DRM free format and support World Central Kitchen, the inimitable @marthawells.com has a selection of books up on Humble Bundle.

It’s a great way to get ebook editions of her excellent Murderbot series.

#murderbot

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A painterly portrait of Wang YiBo. He has a contemplative expression, his eyes bright, the viewer looking at him from slightly below, rendered in shades of purple, green and red.

Our lovely Noodle with his majestic head of hair HIDE THE SCISSORS CHINA

#wangyibo

Promotional image featuring Xue Yang, Song Lan, and Xiao Xingchen. They stand apart in a field of tall grass, under a sky covered with roiling dark clouds. Xingchen is closest to the viewer, toward the right side of the image. He faces forward, eyes covered with a bandage, sword sheath in his left hand and Shuanghua drawn in his right. In the middle distance is Xue Yang, body in profile facing the left side of the image but his head turned to his left so he can see Xingchen. The gloved hand with the fake finger is visible down by his side and Jiangzai's double blade can seen extending in front and behind him from where it is held in his right hand. Farthest back is Song Lan, visible through the gap between Xue Yang and Xingchen, Fuxue drawn in his right hand and gaze downcast.

#CQL #TheUntamed #YiCity
#XueChengmei / #XueYang
#SongZichen / #SongLan
#XiaoXingchen

Dumbasses: Artists are gatekeeping their skills. The bourgeoisie look down from their canvas castles on us poor middle management stockowners!

Every artist i know: I'm behind on rent again, please help

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Song of Spores by Bogi Takács Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, a nonbinary/genderfluid Space Opera releasing November 4, 2025 from Broken Eye Books! Here’s the st…

Cover reveal!!! Yes, at a time like this. My latest, at LGBTQ Reads!

SONG OF SPORES coming from Broken Eye Books November 2025!

Trans & intersex space opera! Total chaos! More!

With cover art by Galen Dara:

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Preorder here:

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Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

A painterly portrait of Wang YiBo, head and shoulders, with paint splatters in shades of green and brick red. He looks out at the viewer, sunlight illuminating the left side of his face, a relaxed look on his face.

Happy birthday to my darling Noodle, the adorable steamed bun, Wang YiBo 💚 I hope this year is even better and you fly toward your 29th birthday on wings of success and happiness

At this point, I do not know how anyone denies what is happening in Gaza unless they have no sense of morals. People are starving to death. They are being shot at when they come to get food. What else can you possibly call this but genocide?

Something I've come to realise as I've got older, and which I now repeat to myself as a mantra when I start to feel guilty for taking short-cuts or using labour-saving devices:

You don't get extra points for doing things the hard way.

Hint: almost every thing you see advertised and you go “wow, that’s so lazy” is used meaningfully in a disabled person’s life.

Brought to you by my in laws snorting at the tennis shoes you can step into without tying

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

The "Open" yn "OpenAI" ys for "openinge the fuckinge box of all the horrors that the future will curse us for"

Help Dove get back to school A bundle by dovelynnwriter, $50.00 for 13 games

It's... been a while since I mentioned this, but... I still have a fundraiser up for returning to school so I can go teach kids things like media literacy and languages. You can get ALL my books for 25% off (also works separately if you only want one).

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📚💙 #booksky #sff

YouTube video by Accented Cinema When Women Play Male Characters | Video Essay

When Women Play Male Characters | Video Essay

www.youtube.com/watch?v=co63... #cdramas

YouTube video by South China Morning Post How Chengdu became known as China’s ‘gay capital’

How Chengdu became known as China’s ‘gay capital’

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One of the funniest censorship evading measures by Chinese writers has gotta be separating out characters into radicals as an alternative to deliberately using the wrong character.

As an example, 吻 (to kiss) might be caught up in a filter. So you type 口勿 instead and the reader's eye does the rest.