Stephen 🖋️

Happy National Black Cat Day! From Felix!

For Vampire the Masquerade Friday, I made The Poor Unfortunate Coterie some Pizza Focaccia and nalysnyky with traditional cheese filling, lemon curd, and strawberry sauce!

#vtm #cooksky

Are you an MM romance author and have a book coming out next year that you’d be willing to share with an MM romance community to read as an ARC (and get paid for it) sometime between Jan-Mar next year? Let me know!

I hate writing and myself. It's great, really.

I got approved for 2 ARCs back to back and now I’m STRESSING (neither book needs a review until closer to the end of the year) WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF (I literally have so much time and I’m so excited to read these)

#arcreader #booksky

I’ve been following Oliver on social media for a while now, so I’m familiar with his “voice” on here (and I love it). It carries over into his creative writing so well. INatPoB is like a spiritual successor to Pratchett in the best ways. AND THE FOOTNOTES. LOVE A FOOTNOTE

It had me giggling and kicking my heels, therefore I must rate it 5 stars. Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil was a fun, quippy fast ride, would 100% recommend.

#booksky #cosyfantasy

Happy Release Day School of Shards 💙✨

I love your weird little story with all my Slavic heart.

#booksky #vitanostra #pubday

My (very conservative and Christian) dad introduced me to Dune at 8 or nine years old. I read (and reread) the entire series twice by the time I was 13. He told me later he didn’t remember how much sex and violence was in the later books.

#booksky #dune

My (very conservative and Christian) dad introduced me to Dune at 8 or nine years old. I read (and reread) the entire series twice by the time I was 13. He told me later he didn’t remember how much sex and violence was in the later books.

#booksky #dune

Foundation on Apple TV isn’t a good adaption of Foundation Saga by Asimov (and I love that for them, I don’t like those books and I love this show). Honestly, it feels like an adaptation in spirit of A Memory Called Empire by Arkady. In this essay I will—

#booksky #foundation

Nettles Ethel Cain · Nettles · Song · 2025

“To love me is to suffer me.”

This new Ethel Cain song, Nettles, is about to go platinum in my phone.

#Pride #EthelCain #MusicSky

open.spotify.com/track/3xoM5g...

I wasn’t expecting to be thrown into a teacher’s POV right away! It definitely excited me, I love stories from an “unusual perspective” (rebellion through the eyes of an accountant in Traitor Baru Cormorant, mafia drama from the eyes of an obituary writer in Death and the Penguin)

Beyond being told this was like a sapphic “A Deadly Education,” I know nothing about this book! I’m excited that The Incandescent by Emily Tesh it is my next #Pride read.

I fucking love The Scholomance, so I hope this book gives me the dark magical school rush I live for!

#booksky

Yall, it’s the first week of pride and my straight best friend SHAMED MY KINDLE TEXT SIZE. Size 2 is perfect! Let pour over my small text in peace!!!

#booksky

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED.

Words matter here.

He was MURDERED.

it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man.

Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

As pride is coming up:

Remove the Harry Potter stuff from wherever you got it. Don’t support JKR. If the witches can help put a curse on that gremlin of a human, please do so.

Ok NYC Midnight, let’s get this flash fiction written… Working with Suspense in a Pawn Shop, with a Stress Ball. I got this.

#WriterSky #NYCMidnight #FlashFiction

It just means it’s much easier to rewatch all the episodes when the new one drops!

Right!? I love having a science fiction show that has snappy, tight episodes!

Murderbot on AppleTV is genuinely killing it so far; the cast, the costuming, the tone, the vibe, and especially how the show runners are adapting Martha Wells’ work? All incredible. The 30 minute episodes work so well. I love this. Give me 15 seasons.

#Murderbot #FilmSky #BookSky

Thanks again @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social and @avonbooks.bsky.social for the ARC, can’t wait to buy this when it’s officially out!

Halfway through School of Shards (Vita Nostra Book 3), and I’m loving this. This book feels like your classic “magical academia” book, this time from the prospective from the teachers. Everything has led to this, we know what the Institute does, we know who Sasha is… it’s amazing!

#booksky

Happy Vyshyvanka Day! The cultural practice of vyshyvanka embroidery is a profoundly deep and gorgeous tradition. Each color and design holds significant importance in the message of each shirt.

I was born in Odesa, you can catch an example of my home oblast’s design!

#ukraine

Obviously, my first tattoo was going to be something “bookish”/nerdy

#tattoo #booksky #themagicians

ITS AN EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!!

#booksky

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

Dear @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social,
What tasks must I do, how many coins must I collect, into what must I transform myself to get myself approved for School of Shards?
Yours respectfully,
Stephen (Vita Nostra SuperFan)

#booksky

Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.

HOLY SHIT. #THUNDERBOLTS

HOW DARE YOU BE THAT GOOD. WTF

#filmsky