Jen Williams | The Sleepless out this year!

The thing about AI is that it ultimately doesn't matter how realistic it gets, or looks, or sounds, or seems - those are all red herrings. The problem at its heart is that nothing it produces comes from a real person, and it therefore has no aesthetic value. That's it. No more needs to be said.

truly the breakfast of ennui

slightly warm bread, that's what I'm looking for 😂

ah, clearly the toast gods got us mixed up

given how often I do this, you'd end up with a brown toast subscription service

as an enjoyer of weak-ass toast, there are few things sadder than overbrowning the toast. Now I must either accept that I have sacrificed a slice of bread to the gods of breakfast & chuck it, or munch my sad way through toast that tastes like bitterness.

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I missed the start of spoopy season yesterday but worry not, I was actually wearing Dracula socks all day

HAPPY SPOOPY SEASON MY LITTLE GOBLINS

Heads up: the first 2 books in @sennydreadful.bsky.social's Copper Cat Trilogy are on US ebook sale for $1. I got some copies of each for random giveaway.

I always loved illustrations where there were lots of details to spot

it was!

His drawings were so formative for me. I am the child of Richard Scarry, Watership Down, and blue flavoured slush puppies.

these are the things we need to know

Big cat and little cat read together. The caption reads ‘all animals love to read books’

Important information from the Richard Scarry book I picked up at the charity shop

Hahaha of course!

cheers Paul!

oh fast work! 😁

A copy of The Sleepless, propped against a bouquet of pink and white roses

The Sleepless is out in the US today! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 So proud of my first ever YA fantasy, with all its weird creatures, scheming gods and complicated feelings 💖💖💖 I have celebrated by having a mini Lizzo dance party on Beat Sabre 😂

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two conjoined Sycamore trees.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands constantly at the edge of it, constantly welcoming everyone who arrives, with a wave and a smile.

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

I kid, this book is going to be a blast to write. The logistics of big fights though. Fondly I remember the menty b I had writing The Poison Song finale…

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*checks notes* book is wall to wall big fights

Let me write my little scenes of chatting and flirting and banter, no more big fights pls…

Hayao Miyazaki looking done with life, while smoking

I have a Complicated Action Sequence to write today and suddenly I am channelling the energy of this great man

Oh thank you! 😁 I enjoyed writing that weird little story

Good morning. Here's Gareth Hunt demonstrating the dangers of trying to work whist nursing the mother of all hangovers.

Ah I'm so sorry Scott x

you know, if we keep skipping back far enough, we finally make The Flintstones factual 🤞

I can confirm: nutella is fab, happily eat it straight out the jar

it is the anti-chocolate. Blurgh.

my other half likes it on his toast!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)