Catherine Sharp

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

I got through a whole load of @octocon.bsky.social work today as well as watching 1.5 Seattle Worldcon panels!
If you like being on SFF panels no matter where you are in the world, why not check out Octocon? Most of our programming will be online this year! octocon.com

I think there might be a typo in this quote from an article about the water being out in part of North Wales: "We have camels that could drink 200ml in the space of a couple of minutes."

I can drink 200ml of water in a few seconds so does that make me more efficient than a camel?

I haven't read Dr Eleanor Barraclough yet (eleanorbarraclough.com) but she's been great on the Viking-related episodes of You're Dead to Me.

I saw Mike Flowers Pops perform this in a hot tent at the Reading Festival in 1995, and they were perfect.

Apparently last night at the Seattle Worldcon, there was a Late Night Dance with DJ #CSharp - I can confirm that I had nothing to do with it...

Cooking a lot recently has convinced me there is a triangle of: healthy, fast, cheap. You cannot have all three at once. Spend money to save time and eat well, spend time to save money and eat well, or give up on eating well for fast and cheap. The labor of cooking healthy is a meaningful cost.

Realistic targets are good things. (She says optimistically while not looking at her To Do list.)

6 books *so far* ??

Slightly diminish a band: Minimo Park

Octocon and the last Worldcon are a massive chunk of my CV (under Volunteering) because sooooo many transferrable skills! I used to have NaNoWriMo MLing too for the same reason - and it did help me get a job - but that was all a long time ago so I dropped it off.

Use your hobbies..

Do you run a regular D&D game - my siblings in Christ that's scheduling, logistics, people management, strategy, etc

If you've ever been involved in organising events in your spare time put that shit in there.

A very happy Worldcon to all who celebrate!
I'm not in Seattle (though up until a couple of years ago, I had planned to be) but I did get virtual membership so I am hoping to get a chance to watch some of the program. Possibly even more than I got to at Glasgow last year (I was busy, ok).

Realised it was unclear if I meant ASH or Rats and Gargoyles. Both, I guess? (I read R&G a long time before ASH though.)

I read that in my late(?) teens and it warped my mind, in hopefully in a good way. Most of Mary Gentle's work has, to be honest...

Em's bad year support fund Our dear Emma Newman is having a shite year. First she broke her ankle walking on flat pavement, now she's got breast cancer fucking up her life. The broken bone put her out of commission for almost t...

Okay, deep breath.
I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse.
www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG...

If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

Oooooohhhhh

Babe wake up new 30-50 feral hogs just dropped.

A guide to writing ALT-text there is a photo of a capybara chilling in the water. Around it is descriptive text describing the photo (colour, expression, description, identify who, interesting features)

Visually impairment is a wide spectrum.

Sometimes it's just nice to know the colours,
sometimes something needs to be pointed out because there isn't enough contrast,
sometimes people just want to know what's in the picture.

ALT-text isn't easy, but it helps.

JK Rowling is trying to create a world where a tall woman can't even have a polite interaction in a store on the off-chance she's transgender

So, yeah, I'm probably not going to watch the new Harry Potter content, and while I hate to be prescriptive, neither should you

If you're looking for a way to help out and volunteer at LAcon V, we might have the role for you!

✨ Ideas Team Members
If you love dreaming up creative panel ideas, this role is for you! There is no formal commitment to join our Ideas Team.

shout out to the entire generation of overachieving eldest daughters with undiagnosed ADHD who got shoved into the gifted & talented program based on test scores & then had folks demanding "why aren't you living up to your potential" for 20 years, I hope you're having a great day friends

BEACH (with seahorse)

I'M AT THE BEACH

BEACH RULES CATCH SOME RAYS

Why does the decor of every beach house seem like it was designed for a person with amnesia who needs to be reminded where they are

Got around to watching KPop Demon Hunters this evening. I knew from reviews that it would be good, but I didn't expect it to make me cry.
Anyway, I would like a giant stripy demon kitty and a bird with a hat of my very own, please.

Ooooooh

I'm excited to read this especially after meeting the fabulous duo of @mkhardywrites.com last Eastercon. And look at that cover!

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

Be honest NPR, did you write it this way because you didn't want to put "Great Tit" in the hed?

The original image, showing a beautiful blonde white woman, leaning against the blue wall of a hat shop, wearing a form-fitting black and white zig-zag dress. There is something about the shapes of her legs under that dress that is deeply disturbing.

The same image darkened to knock back the definition, with some coloured marks draw over it to highlight the weirder bits.

Okay, I decided to look at Guess's 'AI' model in Vogue and sweet Jesus, anyone who uses this crap really needs to learn how the human form works. So, here's some feedback from an illustrator. Bearing in mind that stripes can accentuate form, but zigzags can distort it, confusing the eye. 1/

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.