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Thanks! I'd been despairing over what dress to wear. Then I remembered my suit! I am, of course, wearing it with the Hayao Miyazaki "Anime was a mistake" t-shirt I got at Glasgow WorldCon

Thank you!

Aww thank you pal! 😊

Thanks pal!

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Thank you! 😁

Thaaank you!

Thank you! 😁 Yeah I was beginning to worry I'd gone too morbid, but when I saw the cake I had no regrets

A photo of a funfetti heart-shaped cake with candles in the shape of a 4 and a 0. Written in pink icing is the phrase "halfway there".

When I picked up my birthday cake, another customer asked what I was halfway to. Retirement? I replied, while doing jazz hands, "To the graaaave!"

I have never seen anyone look so horrified. Anyway, big thanks to Dale and Krema bakehouse for indulging my morbid sense of humour.

Adding alt text here because, for some reason, bsky wouldn't let me do it on the previous post:

Rhiannon (white cis female with shoulder-length blue hair) poses and flips her hair in front of inflated 4 and 0 balloons.

BIRTHDAY 🎂

I very much hope those in government will read this and understand the risk they're taking with one of the UK's most consistently successful sectors - a risk profoundly bound up in an enormous speculative bubble and tech that has horrific externalities and is terrible at nearly everything.

"Can I come too?" lives rent free in my echolalia-riddled brain

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Thank you so much to everyone who kindly provided such lovely blurbs for HOME SICK. I'll post some proper shout-outs over the next few weeks, but in the meantime, thank you 🖤

WHY DID I LAUGH AT THIS? That film scarred me!!!

🐑🏡This house isn't haunted. She is.🏡🐑

Thank you to @cj-dotson.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Johanna Van Veen, @rainewilson.bsky.social and @mkhardywrites.com for these wonderful endorsements of HOME SICK by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social!

Available to preorder now: https://geni.us/homesick

Against a background of unravelled film, the book cover for WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM by Randee Dawn.

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Screenshot of reading journal's February summary: hit two of my goals, read some New to Me authors, acquired 23 books for $9.25, Did Not Finish 3 works, loved Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist and the comic Everything Dead and Dying, and made fun of myself by saying "Maybe if you stopped messaging so much, you'd get more books read" because I've been messaging with a new person in my life non-stop. 😮

I now have to do the most upsetting thing (choose between Home Sick and the upcoming Sarah Gailey book Make Me Better in Thundertome)

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Morning! I have HOME SICK coming out in July. It's an adult cottagegore horror novel about a woman who runs away to a remote cottage in the Scottish countryside, but finds it's actually a semi-detached... with a strange neighbour inside.
geni.us/homesick

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

If you're a Woman in Horror, be it artist, illustrator, author, writer, reviewer, director, WHATEVER-

Say hi and link to your work here!

Let's make a thread of Horror from Women that people can peruse & discover some cool, new stuff

I'll start, in the comments/replies :)
♀️🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚🎨 ✍️ 📽️🩸 #wihm

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Hola! I'm Rhiannon, I'm Welsh, I live in Scotland, I just turned 40, and my debut Horror novel HOME SICK comes out July 2026
geni.us/homesick

Rhiannon poses with a golf club over her shoulder and her other hand up over her eyes as if checking out a long golf shot. She is in an indoors mini golf centre decorated with jungle plants and animatronic dinosaurs. It is her favourite place on earth right now.

Celebrating my new maturity with a round of dinosaur minigolf

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire, arms raised in chaotic glee or power or rage. It's hard to tell.

IT IS MY BIRTHDAY. I AM NOW 40.
I DEMAND BIRTHDAY WISHES.

Ta muchly, sir *doffs cap*

Thank you!!!

As tradition dictates *solemn nod*

GRATITUDE AND PRIDE FOR CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT REASONS

Thank you!! 🥳