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Si Clarke (she/her): sci-fi without the pew-pew Elliott Hay (two Ts and any pronouns): cosy vengeance Dial citizen: Canada/UK Not a woman. www.whitehartfiction.co.uk

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · Aug 19

My website is back online! And you get 25% off all ebooks and audiobooks – including bundles – with code NEWSITE.

whitehartfiction.co.uk

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A shouting pop art astronaut against a colourful background. Caption reads: OUR NEW STORE IS LIVE!
GET 25% OFF WITH CODE NEWSITE.

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 7h

Book 11 was Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson (narrated by Nicola Coughlan).

Witches, sisterhood, trans affirmation new love, old love, acceptance, rejection, found family… This book has everything.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a9e2...

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 10h

There’s a reason we keep re-electing Sadiq Khan.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 13h

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

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Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 17h

I've been thinking about deja vu again...

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our first artist reveal for the November Queer & Quirky crate! First up is Nisnow @nisnow.art who illustrated the endpapers for the Starship Teapot Omnibus by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social 🧵

A quartet of illustrations arranged in quadrants of the graphic. Surrounding the graphic is an green-yellow ombre striped border. In the center it reads “Artist Spotlight: @nisnow.art”. Artist Spotlight is in black font while the handle is in teal font.

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 1d

Book 10 was The Truth About Melody Browne by by Lisa Jewell (narrated by Antonia Beamish)

Melody’s life is unassuming. She doesn’t remember much of her childhood and that’s okay. But when hypnosis goes wrong, it all starts coming back to her.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/110c...

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 1d

With alt text.

US, UK, Canada, everywhere.

You are allowed to say, at any point, I can't support this. Even if you did. Even if you were unsure.
You can say "this has gone too far." And while the best time to say that was earlier, the second best time is now.

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Xan @comicsbyxan.bsky.social · 1d

Okay so I have a confession to make... I've owned a copy of Magica Riot by @magicariot.com for months but I'm only just now getting around to it (actually the audiobook version). And it's SO MUCH FUN. Like, I'm only a quarter of the way in but wow, this book was written for me

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 2d

#booksky I need your help. Someone a while ago told me about a novel coming out inspired by the heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - the weirdest, honestly funniest, and still unsolved art heist ever. I can't recall the title/author. I NEED this book! Help?

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 2d

Book 9 was Money in One Lesson by Gavin Jackson (narrated by James MacNaughton).

Every economics class I’ve ever taken, undergrad and post-grad, starts off with the same question. What is money? Everyone thinks they know; no one does.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/67e5...

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 2d

That’s amazing. I hope it doesn’t come to that. I’m not looking for another six months of pain (it’s already been two months). But I’m glad you’ve got most of your mobility back.

Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. So far, I’m doing my exercises. We’ll see how I get on. I’m told it can take years to fully resolve, but I’m hoping to see some improvement with the exercises.

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 3d

Frozen shoulder sounds made up. Like, it sounds like the sort of disease a child would invent as a reason for not doing homework.

Can confirm it’s real. And painful.

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 3d

Book 8 was The Vela by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, S.L. Huang, Rivers Solomon (narrated by Robin Miles).

Jaded, battle hardened Asala has to work with well-meaning and naive Niko in order to find out what happened to a ship full of refugees.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7177...

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The Vela: A Novel
by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang, Rivers Solomon
My listening supports
The Portal Bookshop
Libro.fm

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 4d

if you think the Basic Income for Artists in Ireland being made permanent is a good thing, wait until you learn about the income tax breaks for artists earning up to €50k p/a 💃💫

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 3d

I plot all the big stuff but I love when little details like that surprise me.

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 4d

Book 7 was The Fan Who Knew Too Much by Nev Fountain (narrated by Imogen Church).

John Scalzi’s Redshirts meets (bear with me here) Chuck Palahniuk’s Snuff via Agatha Christie.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7d60...

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The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Kit Pelham Mysteries #1
Nev Fountain with Imogen Church (Narrator)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 5d

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 5d

Book 6 was Citadel by C.M. Alongi.

Kaia Sønderby‘s Failure to Communicate meets Charlie Jane Anders’ The City in the Middle of the Night in this darkly intense sci-fi.

Review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d38b...

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Citadel
by C. M. Alongi
My listening supports
The Portal Bookshop
Libro.fm

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 7d

ALL THE QUEER BOOKS? Mission Accepted~

These are all queer fantasy adventures with focus on the aro & ace rep/worlds/relationships

Except for the COMMON BONDS antho, edited by me, which are aro SFF about platonic relationships (KS is done and dusted though!)

claudiearseneault.com/my-books/

The chronicles of Nerezia. A spread of six novella covers, with information on the right. It has pride flags for aro, ace, and non-binary, as well as "a found family queer road trip across a series of novellas".

A spread of four books with covers that all depict towers in different architectural styles with a colourful sky as the background (pale blue, orange, purple, and green respectively). Above is the title “Isandor, the City of Spires” and below are descriptions in beige and brown circles. Those read: large cast political fantasy with kindness at its core, messy and wholesome platonic relationships, unparalleled concentration of aros and aces, and four chunky books.

An image split in two, with the upper half dedicated to Baker Thief saying "an aro bigender baker, a corporate conspiracy, enemies-to-QPR" and the bottom half dedicated to Painted Flock, saying "a quoiromantic agender scientist, saving ols victims, team scientist to found family"

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Urmas Köli @urmaskoeli.bsky.social · 6d

If trans kids don’t exist, then cis kids don’t either, and in that case a cis boy calling himself a boy is equally ”wrong” as a trans boy calling himself a boy. And if gay kids don’t exist, then straight kids don’t either, and all the crushes straight kids had at school weren’t actually real either.

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 6d

I thought everyone felt the same but that people just had some collective agreement to never talk about it.

Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 6d

I was once a child. I knew even then that the normal girl rules didn’t apply to me. I also never once thought I was a boy. I didn’t know who I was, but knew who I wasn’t.

Without language to describe my experience, I spent most of my life confused.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Shouty person @clacksee.bsky.social · 6d

Someone else has pointed out that the word crow has similar connotations in multiple European languages. So, on balance, I think it’s best to use another bird.