*the* memeage....
08.01.2025 05:43
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*the* memeage....
A sheet of paper stuck up by a hotel stairwell. It reads: "Please use Room 101 as a toilet, upstairs first room on the left. Thank you"
I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily
what a story to go out on!!
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.
(Also HOLY SHIT how cool is that drawing of a fiship? That's so perfect, honestly, I love and adore that)
Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.
Thank you!
Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning
Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.
It was, in every way it could have been, my pleasure and my honour 🩵
New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...
If Oliver Cromwell banned this shit I'd be all for it tbh
I was raised by two grandmas on home baked mince pies and in 35 years of eating them I have never had to use a goddamn teaspoon before
Lovely wife got some fresh baked mince pies from the bakery and they're... just a lid? What am I meant to do, eat it in the fucking foil? Mind-blowing
Scream mask on a black background
This zine was not created by AI. It took me a year to write, from early 2023 to early 2024. I spent several more months agonizing over edits, desperately rephrasing sentences out of coherence and back again. Even with all of that work, it isn't perfect. It will never be perfect. I will never be perfect. Imperfect people will read it and I love that for us. This zine was not created by AI. I wrote it and rewrote it during a really hard time in my life. Many times, it seemed like I'd turned 40 and had been unceremoniously dropped back to Square One by life. I couldn't see how I could make anything work. So, I made a zine. This zine was not created by AI. Every time I almost gave up, I worked through it instead. By the time it was finished, it felt like a small epiphany for how I wanted to make art going forward. This zine was not created by AI. Finishing it was a gift I gave myself when I felt devalued and defeated. It's a love letter to myself, horror movies, and I guess to all of us. This zine was not created by AI. It was created by me.
People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
Currently sat with a pint at the back of the main hall, just off the bar area on upper ground, if anyone is about?
Ah, pre-con social anxiety, my least favourite part of the weekend. Knowing it will be fine in three hours is no use right now, alas. Stupid brain.
Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?
"with something close to terror" might be the part of all this that resonates most, even as I nod along to everything else
Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.
From this side of the Atlantic, it's mostly depressing 😭 we are in an awful place right now
"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve
I will never not repost this
(Sound on for maximum effect)
Congratulations to @podcastle.org for winning an Ignyte Award! 👏
What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!
"the moon was waxing gi--... uh... the moon was packing it on these days"
Meanwhile I just went to Create Event from a cinema ticket email and *still* had to put the date and time in myself. How was that not solved 15 years ago!
They're trying to sell us AI as the future, meanwhile I ask my phone out loud to "set an alarm for ten to four" and it goes ahead and puts one in for 16:50 💀
Did that fine for a decade on the old Google Assistant, so I guess congrats on burning the world up for the sake of a worse product, berks
