Kym Deyn

This pamphet absolutely shouldn't work—but by god it does, let it live in your head the way it lives in mine by reading it when it publishes at the end of the month!

Leonora Carrington, The Lovers, 1987

this is all the gen 2 team sprites if they coughed

A photo of a copy of the 1975 Faber edition of North by Seamus Heaney. The cover art is uncredited by the publisher.

"I lay waiting
between turf-face and demesne wall,
between heathery levels
and glass-toothed stone.
.
.
.
and I rose from the dark,
hacked bone, skull-ware,
frayed stitches, tufts,
small gleams on the bank."

First and last stanzas of BOG QUEEN

The Scottish Comics itch.io Bundle is open for submissions! MORE INFO BELOW

Are you a comic creator living in Scotland? Submit your comic to be part of the Scottish Comics Itch Bundle! How does it work? All the comics will be part of a big downloadable bundle for sale on itch.io. 25% of profits will be given to PCRF or another charity supporting Palestine. The remaining profits will be split equally between all participants. Your cut is sent to your account automatically; it doesn't come through the organisers at all. Who can take part? Any comic creators who live in Scotland! If you live in Scotland but you aren't Scottish, you can still take part. If you are Scottish but you don't live in Scotland, you can't take part. What should I submit? Submit your favourite comic that you've done! You can only submit one comic. Please do not submit text-only zines.

Is this bundle curated? This bundle is only lightly curated, which means we're checking for racist, transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, or otherwise hateful content. We want to celebrate as many comic creators in Scotland as we can, so this bundle is not otherwise curated and your submission will only be rejected if the file quality is unusually low. What is the timeline? Submissions are open until March 31st. If your comic is approved, you will hear back by April 30th. The bundle will go live in June! I have another question. This bundle is organised by Letty, Pj, and Eve. Email us or reply to this post (no DMs please!).

We're already getting some v exciting submissions! Make sure and submit your comic, Scottish creators!
👀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 👀
This bundle is organised by myself, @evegwood.com and @peejalien.bsky.social !

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.

Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

Dragon posting 🌕

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.

We have feast days for:
Hope Mirilees - 8th Apr
Tove Jansson - 9th Aug
Sappho - Oct 8th
Sylvia Townsend Warner - 6th Dec

We have feast days for:
Hope Mirilees - 8th Apr
Tove Jansson - 9th Aug
Sappho - Oct 8th
Sylvia Townsend Warner - 6th Dec

Selkie.

This is going to take much more joined-up thinking and intersectional coalitions between patient groups being abused by virtue of being small enough that senior NHS panelists get to do what they like.

Simon Wessely’s history of discrediting sick and disabled people could be bad news for trans health research priorities. Psychiatrist Simon Wessely has been appointed to chair the National Children and Young People’s Gender Dysphoria Research Oversight Board. TSN outline our concerns about this appointment.

Wessely is then appointed in charge of trans healthcare

transsafety.network/posts/simon-...

We need a fundamental reform to try and respond to these dickheads with a pet theory they want to make others suffer for because even when we do beat them on one issue, they move laterally in the service.

And despite that extensive activism, many places in the UK (including in most of London) still reccomend graded exercise therapy for ME/CFS, so the damage is *still* ongoing.

And it's really important to note that Wessely's recommendations *worsened* ME symptoms.

Can get a copy on the night or pre-order it here thebraag.co/product/polb...

Murky image of three differently coloured eels curling around each other, one biting the other, multiple dark eels are gazing from below as few lumpfish and a bull-rout are looking varily. One orange lumpfish is staring right at the viewer.

My eely dark part of #feastphone2025 hosted by @ascalaphid.com (hashtag live lumpfish reaction)

ELIZA's creator was so alarmed by the fact that people mistook the chatbot for a sentient being that he wrote an entire book about why this implementation of computer technology was a huge problem and it is a staggering achievement

Goodnight from The Old Ferry pub, where Paul Hardy is having another pint rather than risking rain and rumours of Empress Eel swimming the flooded lanes. Goodnight from Ellen Wulford, stitching shadows into her coat with a needle made from fox-bone. Goodnight from Hookland.

Heart-rending. A crime against humanity. The people of Iran have done nothing to deserve this terror and destruction.

Look, let's compromise and ask a neutral third party about this, for example, normal tumblr user isuggestforcefemme.

It's literally international women's day, like. what choice do you have.

OH, suddenly remembered I had to order in 'Reconstructions' by Bradley Trumfheller, since it was a USA/Canada release, that's another gorgeous one!

Some of these might be UK only releases, but Sean Borrodale's Human Work, Rebecca Tamas' Witch, Jacob Polley's Jackself, Kayo Chingonyi's Kumukanda. For poets definitely available in North America, there's 'Early Occult Memory Systems of the Upper Midwest' by BH Fairchild, and 'Fast' by Jorie Graham

Gita's work is so astonishly gorgeous you all have to go and pre-order her new book!!

A photo of some books by Sylvia Townsend Warner: Kingdoms of Elfin, Of Cats and Elfin, Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, Mr. Fortunes's Maggot, The Corner That Held Them, Diaries.

For International Women's Day: the epic and unique Sylvia Townsend Warner.

"That's why we become witches: to show our scorn of pretending life's a safe business, to satisfy our passion for adventure."

CANONISE YOUR OWN SAINTS, LOVE THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE YOU 💚

Read anything by my only celebrity crush, the lesbian writer Sylvia Townsend Warner. I love her so much I celebrate a FEAST DAY on her birthday, that's how good she is.

Image reads "Short Story Sunday" with Carnyx Press boar's head logo

It's been a while, but we're pleased to bring back our weekly #ShortStorySunday thread for recommending online short fiction!

If you've read or released a short story recently, share the link below (and don't drop a link and run, read and repost other people's recommendations too!)