Rike

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Reads books. Attempts to write them. Drinks tea. A lot of it. She/Her. 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧

I love humanity, it's people I can't stand

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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Yesterday, when I visited the Anglo Saxon Church at St. Laurence Bradford on Avon, I couldn’t quite capture how the light play within the chancel made me feel so, instead of the camera, I took out my sketchbook.

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sorry i didn’t live up to the idealized version of me you built in your head it will happen again

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Happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to all who celebrate GNU Terry Pratchett, who definitely knew the correct list of priorities in any revolution

A DISCWORLD PRIMER* *or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about? Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help. (1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)

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NEW KNIVES OUT ALERT

The next Knives Out, called Wake Up Dead Man, premieres in 2025www.theverge.com Benoit Blanc is back.

I dont think I had winter returns (probably briefly) with a vengeance on my bingo card but here we are. good thing I'll take the train home later today. I'm sure it'll be fine.

Look! A most excellent book! Brilliant characters, a richly imagined world, an intricate net of relationships and dependencies. It's fierce and fun and smart and angry at all the right things. It is also so well paced, and every POV is your favourite when you're in it!

The rebellion begins!! SAVAGE COMPANY is available from @solarisbooks.bsky.social in the UK!! Begin my epic fantasy trilogy about conscripts, false utopia, shadow governments revolution, and super science!! Please share this far and wide!! Buy the book! geni.us/savagecompany

Hey @mattfnwallace.bsky.social I'm reading the Savage Legion books and what is this sorcery? I'm loving all POV's equally and am always excited to get back to whoever's next. Who did you sell your soul to to pull that off? Tell me all your secrets! Happily reccing them to all my book friends.

An excellent read on an extraordinarily driven woman in tech.

A morning boost for the latest in my tech history series over on Every. This part focuses on Lore Harp McGovern of Vector Graphic, one of Silicon Valley's great founders. The role of women in the computing golden age is constantly diminished. That needs to change. every.to/the-crazy-on...

I've finally gotten around to reading Savage Legion and what a joy of a book. Great pacing, wonderful characters, a unique, interesting and absolutely infuriating (in the best ways) world and just all around excellent writing! @mattfnwallace.bsky.social I hope you are so proud of these books!

Sat at work, absolutely exhausted after a migraine yesterday. Tired brain came up with a story idea while listening to @fivefourpod.bsky.social so now instead of working we are jotting down notes. So far it's a clear case of how many of my favourite things can I put into one outline? Y E S

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"Speak his Name" GNU Terry Pratchett - 12 Mars 2015

GNU Sir Terry. One of the very best.

Dad… it’s been 9 years. In our family collection of blurry, squinty and poorly composed photos around the world, I found this - a typical Pratchett shot since we are 1)Not looking at the camera 2)focused on food and 3) embracing hat wearing. The trifecta. Miss you always. ❤️

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its such a relief that im going to change all my bad habits tomorrow

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*sigh* You cannot debate a fascist with logic. All you do is give their views further exposure and further acceptability. Their argument and appeal isn't logical: it's an appeal to authority, and to being inherently superior as reassurance. Coherence is entirely optional.

hey @dreddieclark.bsky.social thanks for championing A Chorus of Dragons. Just started book 3, am very much enjoying myself and also (utterly predictably) very much in love with Thurvishar.

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Outdoors Breakfast, Elena Climent🎨 , 2022 (Mexican, born 1955)

A treasure trove of recommendations from old short lists and an award I wasnt formerly aware of to keep an eye on. thank you! I'm off to read some Jenn Lyons.

Extended SFF nerd posting coming in so if that's not what you're here for feel free to mute this thread. Pretty sure the Hugos will retain the prestige they have in SFF fandom in future, but the clusterfuck with the vote count is an opportunity to look at other awards as a potential sign of quality

Emma is very very wonderful and should be a regular in your podcast rotation.

ICYMI: A new episode of Tea and Sanctuary went live this week to give you cosiness and low-stakes comforting chat. Audio only can be found here: teaandsanctuary.com/e/tea-and-sa... and video on YouTube here: youtu.be/i3vEhu-JaIc I hope you find it soothing and a respite from... everything.

Tea and Sanctuary Episode 3 Season 2youtu.be Join author Emma Newman for a cosy chat over a nice cup of tea. In this episode, Emma talks about the soothing nature of a toy restorer's videos, rediscoveri...

Do get it if you haven't yet. It is most excellent! My most favourite stabby man! (and his also very good husband)

So hey it's Tết/Lunar new year so have a story set during Tết, aka "bring your murder-happy husband to meet the family, get dragged into murder investigation" (insofar as murder-happy husband is concerned: great, no need for small talk) www.amazon.com/dp/B088B3DYZG/

Amazon.com: Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders: A Dragons and Blades Story eBook : de Bodard, Aliette: Bookswww.amazon.com Amazon.com: Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders: A Dragons and Blades Story eBook : de Bodard, Aliette: Books

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Evergreen from @lettersofnote.bsky.social

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Enormous thanks to @socialistboat.dad for putting together this graphic of what chapters are for what day 🐋! Please find the text version here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRG3lbzmdTwKEzP14WuBbi6_lpAB5fb461e078w6OfT-bl20wZnwPEfm76N6SeqNJp2G8PhVwsRlDQ3/pub

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-Let us sing new life into the year to come-

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A year from now, I’ll be releasing a book about the first center for #transgender rights, surgery, support—1918-1933. It follows the story of trans pioneer Dora Richter, her Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, and the fight against Nazi oppression. The fight continues: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinicwww.scientificamerican.com The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

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AT LAST you can read it! It's finally time! here's the link! Yay!

Ivy, Angelica, Baywww.tor.com When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l’Abielle steps up to protect her community with the help of a mysterious orphaned girl in this charmin…

Found Sumner in Orcus because of this and my, what an utterly wonderful book. Thank you for writing it @tkingfisher.bsky.social It might be a new favourite. It feels like home. Like some of Pratchett does, during hard hard times. (And I'm very much looking forward to my Saint of Steel reread, too)

I reread the first three Saint of Steel books by @tkingfisher.bsky.social in prep for #4 coming out, which meant I had to reread Swordheart which meant I had to reread the Clockwork Boys and anyway now I've nearly finished Summer in Orcus via Nine Goblins and I am feeling Much Better.

That's the point though, isn't it. People would love to have written a book and (yes, I'm laughing, too) get rich from it. How hard can it be. If only they had the time. So behold the mighty tool that cuts out the time consuming bullshit. An author, at last. Without the pesky writing.

If you don't want to solve your own book problems, or put in the work to cooperate with a beta reader, or the work/money to hire an editor, may I humbly suggest that writing a novel is not in fact compulsory and you could always take up watercolours.

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Hi! It's my birthday today, and I just finished a big Discworld piece for art class - birthday RSs would be very appreciated!

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Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dieswww.rollingstone.com Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.