♿️ Eva Roslin (They/She) needs support 🍁

It is very frustrating to see

1. "There is absolutely no use for this technology!" from non-disabled people when it would be great for me specifically as a disability aid,

2. and "No disabled person could ever need this" from disabled people.

From: Jennifer Sam <info.jennifer.sam@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 9:17 AM Subject: Invitation to Speak – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2026 To: [redacted] Dear [redacted], I hope this message finds you well. My name is Jennifer Sam, and I am reaching out to invite you to participate in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, taking place April 18–19, 2026, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. With a distinguished career spanning decades as an author of novels, short stories, memoir, and poetry and your publishing history with [redacted] your contributions to literature have made a lasting impact across generations of readers. Your early experience as an editor at [redacted] further reflects your deep understanding of both the creative and editorial sides of publishing. Your voice, perspective, and breadth of experience would offer tremendous value to our audience of readers, aspiring writers, and publishing professionals. Benefits of Participation: Showcase Your Work: Highlight your extensive body of published books and share insights from your long and accomplished writing career. Engage Your Audience: Discuss storytelling craft, the evolution of publishing, and lessons learned across decades in the literary world. Network with Creatives: Connect with fellow authors, editors, historians, and industry leaders across genres. Boost Visibility: Gain exposure through curated promotional opportunities, interviews, and festival communications. Please note that participation in structured sessions and promotional features includes a fee, which helps ensure a high-quality, professionally coordinated experience for all contributors. We would be truly honored to include your voice and literary legacy in this year’s festival. I would be delighted to provide further details and assist with the registration process at your convenience. Warm regards, Jennifer Sam Co-Founder

This scam invite to speak at the LA Times Festival of Books appears to be a variation on the book club invite impersonation scam. If you respond, "Jennifer" (w/ a Gmail address, no web presence, & no word on what she's co-founder of) sends several "spotlight" options, ranging from $299 to $572

Delroy Lindo on the cultural impact of 'Sinners' and his Oscar-nominated performance "Sinners," directed by Ryan Coogler, made Academy Awards history recently when it garnered a record 16 Oscar nominations. One, for Best Supporting Actor, went to Delroy Lindo, a 73-year-old now receiv...

"it always resonated in terms of it being a story about a community that is infiltrated, a vibrant community, a vibrant self-sustaining community.

What happens when that community is infiltrated? And from that standpoint, it felt very, very, very contemporary to me."
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I Hired a Book Publicity Firm for £1,800. Here’s What Went Wrong. | Jane Friedman One author reflects on how her desire to not just outsource marketing, but to outsource even thinking about it, led to regrettable results.

How book promotion can go horribly wrong even when the PR firm isn't an out-and-out scammer janefriedman.com/i-hired-a-bo...

For more on how phenomenal Big Mama Thornton was and how she still deserves far, FAR wider recognition as well as more compensation to her estate for how she was cheated out of so much during life, check out this performance she did with Buddy Guy. Legendary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Otv...

I have just looked that up as I was unfamiliar, and I can see the resemblance! The costume designers on IWTV are so SO amazingly talented, and it's entirely possible that this was one of their mock-ups or inspirations!

I am a vampire so I am definitely not a summer person at all 🤣 However, I, too, cannot wait, and do generally enjoy not having to deal with wintry mixes of barriers

So y'all, please don't play around in November and think voting will be business as usual. Vote early if you can. Vote early if you can. (Yes, I'm saying it twice.) Check your voting location days before. Bring water and snacks and an umbrella and something to read.

[Insert author plug here]

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IMPORTANT STORY ABOUT VOTING IN TX.

Remind me to tell you all the circular ways in which pay - pal has driven me to the brink of insanity with their customer service (also HUGS)

I still remember one of the panels from like, last August or Septemberr (?) and Sam Reid was like "Ahh but the fans are going to have to wait so loongg" and I was like "This is one of the few things sustaining me this year! I need thiiiss!" LOL

Hey, Women in Horror Month has started, so I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd read some horror books written by women & femme authors, because we are amazing 😉

Here are some of my favorite women horror authors:
@hildur.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @eveharms.com

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White people (regardless of political division) are settling in to a future where they talk about 2016 & 2024 the way some segments of the south speak of an equally lost cause, but with absolutely none of the moral conviction.

IT’S WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH!
Be bold
Take up space
Ask for more money
Closed mouths don’t get fed
Follow your intuition
You are enough
Authenticity is enough
Ditch those self limiting beliefs
Do it scared
Don’t give up

Actor Sam Reid as the vampire Lestat in AMC's adaptation of "Interview with a Vampire" from Season 1 of the series. He is a white man with blonde hair that is long and tied in a ponytail with a ribbon, blue eyes, a serious expression. He is wearing an ivory or cream-coloured jacket and a lace scarf. The jacket has gold buttons on it, and one can also see the top of his cream-colored silk pants. The background is beige with a woman standing in hte background, and beside him, two pairs of hands, one holding a drinking glass with a brown liquid in it.

*sobs in gender dysphoria*

They also share slavery, genoc!de of Indigenous peoples, settler colonization and other things that this doink conveniently doesn't mention. He sounds like Milhouse sucking up to a teacher lol

Trip has already doubled his funding goal and smashed through his first stretch goal, and we couldn't be prouder! Now let's get to those audiobooks!! Back the campaign, spread the word!!

😥 I hear you; some days it's so hard !

Yay, Suzan!!! 💜💜💜💜💜

A light purple sign with my picture on it. Text: Brampton Arts Organization, Brampton Library, Fold. Writer in Residence. Suzan Palumbo. Suzan is on site at Mount Pleasant Village Branch Library from March 3rd-April 25th on Tuesdays from 10 am to 3 pm, Thursdays from 4 to 9 pm. Email events@bramptonlibrary to reserve your appointment to talk about writing

There's a purple sign with a picture of a goth at my local library with info on how you can ask writing questions or get your work reviewed.

Need to buy this anthology!

My weird western is all about the SOLDADERAS!
Brown women not afraid to fight.

Growing up queer in South India in the 90s was life on hard mode, but with a bit of self-preservation, lots of mistakes, and Savage Garden, I got through it

Anyway, have my disaster bisexual essay about lying about liking a boy when I was thirteen

to cover up the fact that I actually liked a girl

Thank you so much for posting this -- I always get so caught up when I've had to do assessments and I'm talking and they interrupt me every 10 seconds to correct my mistakes but I'd rather be making the mistakes as a human than using some garbage machine to be 'perfect'

Graphic on a black background with the following text: live YouTube reading + Q&A with Kelsea Yu in support of the pixel project. Friday, March 6 at 6pm pacific. Includes links to YouTube Live and Donations, Exclusive Goodies, & More. Your support goes toward stoping violence against women. Also includes images of the books Bound Feet, It’s Only a Game, and Demon Song, all by Kelsea Yu, and a photo of Kelsea Yu credited to Katy Weaver Photography.

This Friday at 6pm Pacific, I’ll be doing a live reading + Q&A on YouTube in support of @thepixelproject.bsky.social! Would love to see you there! 🫶🖤

Event: tinyurl.com/KYuR4P
Fundraiser + More Info: bit.ly/Read4Pixels

Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights? - Nightmare Magazine The Idiot looms like a tumorous moon in the morning sky as Morris County Animal Control Officer Bailey Butler passes Stantonsville’s last operating gas station and turns off onto Franklin Road. For a ...

We have a fantastic new novelette up today at Nightmare about a small-town animal control officer just trying to save a dog during the apocalypse.
DO NOT MISS "Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights?" by @gordonbwhite.bsky.social !!
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/will...

Adam Lambert is how I feel on the inside and wish that my outside would reflect that 💜

How I arrived on bsky

YouTube video by Comics, Beer & Sci-fi Storm voice actor Alison Sealy-Smith discusses her iconic work in X-Men: TAS, X-Men 97 & What If

Black Women's History

I know journalism is a rapidly deteriorating industry, but it also feels like fighting a losing battle when folks on here are mostly sharing articles to dunk on them, rather than solid pieces from journos and critics out here trying our best every day to stay working and writing