Stuffed toy perched at edge of the table looking at a laptop
I have a new writing companion who is allegedly helping my posture
Stuffed toy perched at edge of the table looking at a laptop
I have a new writing companion who is allegedly helping my posture
Dog in Chinese lion dance costume
Dog in Chinese lion dance costume
Dog in Chinese lion dance costume
Happy new year from this grumpy old lion
Been ridiculously busy for no good reason but have at least been experiencing Art as it has been Lumiere season here (the last one ever, it’s all very bittersweet)
I’m teaching a class on mooncake making this week!
Thank you for postcards <3 they’ve arrived today
Human in a suit wielding butter knives in front of a church window
Human in a suit holding butter knives, leaning over a railing, a photographer nearby capturing the shot.
behind the scenes
Human in Victorian suit, jacket, coat, top hat, wearing white gloves, holding butter knives in a fist, behind them is a church window, looking ridiculous.
Reasonably pleased with this Black Butler cosplay that was thrown together from clothes I already owned
A background image showing darkness and a blurred burning candle on the right is overlaid with the book cover - and caption noting the title and author beneath the large central image - of Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng.
A background image showing darkness and a blurred burning candle on the right is overlaid with the book cover - and caption noting the title and author beneath the large central image - of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
A background image showing darkness and a blurred burning candle on the right is overlaid with the book cover - and caption noting the title and author beneath the large central image - of The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter.
A background image showing darkness and a blurred burning candle on the right is overlaid with the book cover - and caption noting the title and author beneath the large central image - of Black and Deep Desires by Claire Trella Hill.
As we continue to add to our Gothic bouquet for Ann Radcliffe's birthday, we're celebrating work from @ngjeannette.bsky.social, @silviamg.bsky.social, @angelaslatter.bsky.social, and tallndiabolical.bsky.social.
#BookSky #bookrecs #TBR
I will try <3
One day more!
Also :( to the health crisis
Noted. Will try to get to this tonight when am at my laptop.
Screengrab from Genre for Trans Rights Auction 2 admin page. Text reads Start: 02 May 2025, 11.45PM BST. End: 07 June 2025, 01.00AM BST. RAISED: £10840.69
Black sci-fi-ish text reads: Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK & SA over a trans flag.
Screengrab from Genre for Trans Rights Auction 1 admin page. Text reads Start: 21 April 11.45 AM BST. End: 02 May 2025 At Midnight BST. RAISED: £20619.73
You guys! The Genre for Trans Rights 2 auction raised £10 840 for our UK & SA charities, GenderedIntelligence.co.uk 🇬🇧 and GenderDynamiX.org.za 🇿🇦. Thank you SO DAMN MUCH to everyone who donated amazing things and everyone who bought them. The total across both auctions is over £30k! 🏳️⚧️💙
brb writing over a hundred emails
This is now finished and had raised a TON of money for trans rights charities. Thank you all! And thank you the amazing @laurenbeukes.com and @ngjeannette.bsky.social for organizing! And thank you to Bessie J Smith, who will now appear in “Piper at the Gates of Dusk”. Yay!
Bespoke hand-knitted socks, folks. They’re not going to get cosier than this. £26 is not a lot of money for really quite a lot of knitting.
ONE HOUR LEFT
A depressing similarity between the suppression carried out against HK activists & Thai activists is charge stacking while they are in prison to ensure they stay behind bars.
Today Joshua Wong has been hit with another National Security Law charge.
He has been imprison for way too much of his life
Digital countdown clock with a pink and blue border reads 12:00
Only 12 HOURS LEFT to bid on 122 amazing things at the Genre for Trans Rights charity 🏳️⚧️🇬🇧🇿🇦 auction! Bidding closes 1am BST 7 June. Books, art, comics, tuckerizations (character named for you) from brilliant authors, handmade things, live RPG tickets, a bespoke cocktail, stories, poetry, tarot & more!
Cover of graphic novel adaptation of Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lionness book 1 featuring a scamp of a red-head on a light coloured horse against a fantasy city backdrop. In the bottom corners, left, a sharp-featured man with dark blue hair and a crafty look stares into a glowing ball, on the right, another man with reddish-purple hair and a blue shirt stares up with a raffish grin, gold coins suspended above him as if he's flipped them into the air or they're raining down.
The cover of Wonder Woman Historia featuring a woman with a sword, dark furs and bloody face paint holding a small child. Around her are various female warriors from an assortment of cultures, in different armour, and a witchy person in the bottom left corner. Behind her are two malevolent looking eyes, glowing green with arched eyebrows and lime green eye shadow on hooded lids.
More comics collectibles: Graphic novel adaptation of Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lionness, signed by @definitelyvita.bsky.social, www.32auctions.com/organization... Wonder Woman Historia signed by @geneha.com www.32auctions.com/organization...
Image shows a pencilled page from Survivors Club issue 6 page 19, illustrated and signed by Ryan Kelly in a white box frame. The page shows the sequence where Chenzira entering a haunted video games arcade. Resting on top of the frame is a copy of the Survivors Club graphic novel by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly & Eva dela Cruz atop it, with bloody red cover and characters arranged around a warehouse room.
Page from Survivor's Club issue 6, page 19 in full colour (this is not the item on sale, but the final version as featured in the printed comic). Sequence shows Chenzira walking past punters playing video games in a haunted arcade, and pushing through a door, a look of grim resolution on her face, natty dreads and leather jacket.
Close up of the pencilled page from Survivors Club issue 6 page 19, signed by artist Ryan Kelly. The sequence on the page shows protagonist Chenzira, natty dreads and leather jacket stalking through a haunted arcade where punters are trapped playing a hellish game, to burst through the doors and confront the demonic brogrammers. In a white box frame.
...Original pencilled page from Survivors Club, the Vertigo horror comic I co-created with Dale Halvorsen & artist Ryan Kelly, signed by Ryan. It's in a white box frame, and comes with a copy of the graphic novel. Colour page for reference, the illustration is b&w www.32auctions.com/organization...
Hand embroidered flower
Listing for Jackie Ducksworth's Night Warrior print, featuring a blue and grey and black warrior on horseback, and a signed & handwritten poem, "Jesus at the Gay Bar" by poet Jay Hulme.
Decorative things: including a framed Tiptree donated by Geoff Ryman, a signed hand-written version of @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social's "Jesus at the Gay Bar", maps, an art nouveau dwarf, custom chibi, embroidered flora, and a hand-turned wooden pyrograph fountain pen. www.32auctions.com/organization...
Some brilliant services also on offer: 10 HOURS! of custom costume commission work by Dystopia Drip www.32auctions.com/organization..., a 100k novel structural edit + copy edit by Jo Hall www.32auctions.com/organization..., writing coach sessions from Emma Leadley www.32auctions.com/organization...
Good thread on this. Let’s not let people forget what doing this actually entailed.
screengrab of hand-crafted items from Genre for Trans charity auction including octopi, an axolotl, dinosaur puzzle toys, custom dice, hand-knitted socks, a dragon toddler hooded blanket and folk horror stickers
A collection of folk horror stickers by Hackashic art, including a fish-headed person prancing, a devil who looks like he swallowed a ghost pepper, a weird bat with wrap around wings, a startled hare with a saddle, a dancing owl-headed figure, a seed pod with shapely dangling legs, a bird and a ram's head.
Gideon the Ninth crocheted hat
Award-winning Author and crafty crochet-er, Jeannette Ng, with dark hair, middle parting, black glasses, giving a cute side eye, wearing a silky mustard yellow shirt, with a bespoke crocheted beasts resting atop their head - a pink and purple whale with winged fins. Bakground has a collection of books, interesting paintings.
Also many hand-crafted things, from folk horror stickers by @hackashic.bsky.social to a Gideon the 9th hat, a trans butterfly, linocut patches, chibi original art, custom dice, a whole crocheted catalogue of toys, scarves, bespoke beasts by @ngjeannette.bsky.social www.32auctions.com/organization...
While we're talking Bundle of Holding, the Pride bundle is all bangers. You want all of this.
bundleofholding.com/presents/Pri...
Including being named as a character in the new chaos walking book! Bid bid bid! Support trans rights! Go bid!
This huge wool, alpaca & silk colour work shawl is going for £15 on the auction right now. It is worth trivially five times that in materials cost alone.
It’s going to be a busy one
Given the news today, a boost to @laurenbeukes.com and @ngjeannette.bsky.social's genre creators for trans rights auction feels appropriate, particularly this amazing knitted Gideon the Ninth hat
www.32auctions.com/organization...