El ✨

1 Jan 2025

This is my 2024 favourites list!

21 Sept

Don’t you just think that the music coming out of Gotham would be so baller? The bands forged in the city of Batman would be unreeeeal I think about this a lot

imaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

21 Sept

I drank the contents of a glow stick I found on the beach, it wasn’t even glowing any more and I think about it every day

tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky@sifu.tweety.fish

HEY PALS UNSETTLING PROMPT TIME what's the weirdest thing you ate as a kid?

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Tasha Suri

@tashasuri.bsky.social

11 Sept

I miss TV shows with 20+ episodes. I miss filler episodes. I miss side stories that mean nothing, and other ones that turn out to be the most brilliant storytelling you've ever seen. Perhaps I am old, but so much made now just tires me.

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Leah Jaclyn

@leahjaclyn.bsky.social

31 Aug

Man I want to live in a world where the White Rat exists, unfortunately that does mean we have to become the White Rat we want to see in the world

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Alex Zalben

@azalben.bsky.social

25 Aug

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

18 Aug

Thinking about getting a bob again

15 Aug

Daggerbound rips so hard I left the bar early so I could go to bed and read

15 Aug

I will be including this in my netgalley review, I have to assume publishers keep giving me books due to my yeehaw and cowabunga attitude

14 Aug

@tkingfisher.com I have a really important question: did Learned Edmund always have the tonsure? Was he 19 and bald on purpose?

11 Aug

My reward for surviving Hugo’s reading was clockwork boys and man Kingfisher books make me feel so warm in my heart

I feel like every article I’ve read on the special editions craze kind of misses the mark, they all seem to have an amount of supposition but like, these girlies are out there trust me I’m friends with them and they love to talk about it

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I also haven’t seen anyone posit that the people who claim to only read dialogue or other silly things are ragebaiting, it may not be but I can’t believe there’s no discussion that it might be

Also like if you want a book when it comes out that’s a £20~ hardback anyway (unless you’re paying like £12 for an ebook) so you might as well spend £24 on getting a beautiful edition with sprayed edges and foiling and a reversible cover if the option is there!

One of my friends has multiple international editions of once upon a broken heart, she has more special editions of that trilogy than I’ve ever seen! You can interview these people, you can ask them what they think is leading this trend! They aren’t hard to find at all and have thoughts about it

And while people say that book buying and book reading are different hobbies anecdotally the biggest collectors I know are some of the biggest readers and they do WANT to read their collections!

Mountain Dew I have a pitch for a commercial in disguise

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Greg Jenner (Historian)

@gregjenner.bsky.social

petition.parliament.ukPetition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training dataWe ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

Please sign this UK government petition to compel AI companies to reveal whose books they used to train their data petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

25 July

Harbour of hungry ghosts is so much fun and so bananas I cant wait for more people to read it so we can talk about how bananas it is together

reactormag.com30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2026 - ReactorThe most anticipated books for your summer, fall, and holiday TBR stacks

25 July

I stayed up past my bedtime to finish it last night I was locked INNNN

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️

@fiadh.bsky.social

13 July

i am begging venues & bands to rediscover clipart

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Reactor Magazine

@reactorsff.bsky.social

14 July

We're thrilled to announce Reactor's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 - Part TWO!!! A new list curated by Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social highlighting the fantasy, science fiction, and horror books this year you won't want to miss, from authors we've loved for years to exciting new debuts.

6 July

I think if you could freeze cream and defrost it normal the world would be a better place

6 July

I have to read just shy of 400 pages today to finish my book club book before tomorrows meeting every day a new pratfall

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autumn

@waveprism.bsky.social

4 July

@thefancyhatlady.bsky.social

4 July

I hope Guy Ritchie continues to rotate that same cube in his mind and I hope he never discovers its secrets

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Kelsey

4 July

Looking for forthcoming SFF books to get excited about in the second half of the year? I've got you covered with my Anticipated releases of July through December! #booksky 🪐📚 youtu.be/dHW-rJTsZFc

youtu.beAnticipated 2026 SFF Book Releases Part 2: July-Dec.YouTube video by The Fancy Hat Lady Reads!

29 June

I fear I am reaping what I’ve sown and am a little burnt out from reading, which I didn’t predict and no one warned me about and no one has been asking about every single time they see me at work

20 June

I can find a million lists of anticipated sff releases for the first half of the year but literally none for the second half tell me what’s coming I’m begging I want to know

19 June

I went into green city wars with kind mixed feelings (loved the concept but my last Tchaikovsky was shroud and I didn’t enjoy it) and I really liked it! Not super cowabunga but it’s a thinker for me for sure. I’m not immune to being shown a little guy and being asked what personhood really is

19 June

Zero mention of the racoon wearing a hat. I can’t emphasise how little mention of hats for Skotch there is. Put a hat on that racoon Adrian I swear to god. There’s like 6 days until release surely that’s enough time to put a hat on that racoon.

I’ve had to pause my Hugo’s reading for ARC reading (green city wars & moss’d in space) and I feel sooooo chill and normal and at all weird or deranged

I am really enjoying green city wars though (moss’d is up next)

I love that random men get accused of performative reading for no reason when I’ve been doing it for years and no ones ever said shit if you see me reading in public know I feel unbelievably smug

@putriprihatini.bsky.social

Cinder House by Freya Marske

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16 June

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

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josh (oldfriend99)

@oldfriend99.bsky.social

11 June

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

9 June

They should give @theizzyfrost.bsky.social and I each one million pounds we would be like the patrons of yore we love throwing money at artists of all kinds

9 June

Arts funding program that is me (easily persuadable, worlds biggest fan) going OOOOH and handing out fat wads of cash

8 June

I need to know how many people are as locked in on both love island uk and the Hugo’s as I am

8 June

The amount of time people are cooking peas in recipes freaks me OUT they do not need 10+ minutes what is happening in recipeland cook them the minimum amount of time to make them hot TRUST me

8 June

Or eat them frozen out the bag

6 June

Just remembered that on Tuesday I tried to explain scurvy to a three year old in a Wetherspoons, I don’t know why I did that but her response was “I want to be a princess” which is probably a solid way to avoid scurvy if we’re being real

3 June

As someone who really tries with book recs watching the same handful of books get recommended on Reddit regardless of what the op said truly makes me feel like I’m being pranked

@sprobeforebros.bsky.social

3 June

I’ve never read Malazan I’m sure it’s very good but I read a lot of books and so far none have been Malazan. Go outside, look at the moon, take a deep breath. For a dollar name a woman.

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@teethgrip.bsky.social

31 May

dear god just saw how an it looks when someone's hit with the account wide adult content warning and it's fucking MISERABLE blurred icon, blurred banner, every single post is hidden, even text posts, and posts that have images require you to hit unhide TWICE for the text and image, fucking nightmare

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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien

30 May

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands