Kiya Nicoll
@kiyanicoll.bsky.social
Still trying to write a holy litany despite America's silly mood. Only knows how to do one thing well; would rather be whistling in the dark.
Now accepting all major pronouns (and 'thon'). May contain cats and echolalia. https://linktr.ee/kiyanicoll
Now accepting all major pronouns (and 'thon'). May contain cats and echolalia. https://linktr.ee/kiyanicoll
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Kiya Nicoll
@kiyanicoll.bsky.social
· Apr 8
Gonna do a short pinned thread because I was talking about my Philosophy Of Social Media and it seems the sort of thing a body might want to put in a pinned thread.
I am a human being who is doing human being things here. Social media is my workplace water cooler, and I am just some guy.
I am a human being who is doing human being things here. Social media is my workplace water cooler, and I am just some guy.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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May we be wise in our planning, but may we refrain from borrowing impossible hindsight from futures we cannot be certain of. How it turns out isn't available to us from here; may we act anyway, with principle, compassion, courage, and resolve. May we be sufficient for the tasks before us.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
May we be wise in our planning, but may we refrain from borrowing impossible hindsight from futures we cannot be certain of. How it turns out isn't available to us from here; may we act anyway, with principle, compassion, courage, and resolve. May we be sufficient for the tasks before us.
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I choose to start. I choose to have faith that something can grow from starting, however that endures, grows, succeeds. I choose to do the work of hope and keep doing it without waiting to see how it turns out. "How it turns out" is a luxury for afterward, and there's fires that need lighting now.
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I choose to start. I choose to have faith that something can grow from starting, however that endures, grows, succeeds. I choose to do the work of hope and keep doing it without waiting to see how it turns out. "How it turns out" is a luxury for afterward, and there's fires that need lighting now.
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Some days I don't see much on the trails, especially on cold days, but I can always count on the Blue Jays to bring color and zesty action.
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Some days I don't see much on the trails, especially on cold days, but I can always count on the Blue Jays to bring color and zesty action.
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
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Trouble with Tribbles writer!
David needs folks to lend a hand. https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-gerrolds-health-and-leukemia-fundraiser?lang=en_GB&ts=1765731124&fbclid=IwdGRjcAOs_FtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR6KKiZ2rx4-CeehknGhy0m7jAsLfQXTijNNB--x4dSYOZovtFMCTh0YuSl10w_aem_bDanHCEMaHX8JsZvYYD7Jg
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December 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Trouble with Tribbles writer!
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This unsubtle season is full of heavy-handed metaphors and narrative overreach and sentiment that steers wildly between the campy and the guileless. So let's get wild with it. Gather up all the schmaltz and cook with it and feed each other. Gather 'round the fire. Fortify each other. Get big.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This unsubtle season is full of heavy-handed metaphors and narrative overreach and sentiment that steers wildly between the campy and the guileless. So let's get wild with it. Gather up all the schmaltz and cook with it and feed each other. Gather 'round the fire. Fortify each other. Get big.
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In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
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December 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.
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It gets dark so early, this far north. And it's been a hell of a year. But here we are. Thank you for holding on, friends.
May we last as long as we need to. May we be enough. May we pull together, and not be pulled apart.
Somehow, may we bind up what is broken so it can heal.
Chag sameach.
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May we last as long as we need to. May we be enough. May we pull together, and not be pulled apart.
Somehow, may we bind up what is broken so it can heal.
Chag sameach.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It gets dark so early, this far north. And it's been a hell of a year. But here we are. Thank you for holding on, friends.
May we last as long as we need to. May we be enough. May we pull together, and not be pulled apart.
Somehow, may we bind up what is broken so it can heal.
Chag sameach.
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May we last as long as we need to. May we be enough. May we pull together, and not be pulled apart.
Somehow, may we bind up what is broken so it can heal.
Chag sameach.
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The second half of this stunningly complex visual novel is up on Kickstarter. The first half features a variety of violences, supernatural powers, dark secrets, political intrigue, and multiple romance routes (that can be done simultaneously without people getting mad at you). The art is gorgeous.
Women of Xal II's Kickstarter is FINALLY up and running! Please share with your #VisualNovel friends who like their dark political mysteries, character studies, and cast of queer ladies.
First game is free during the campaign, of course.
#Gaming #Kickstarter #Campaign #Yuri #Indie #Indiedev #Game
First game is free during the campaign, of course.
#Gaming #Kickstarter #Campaign #Yuri #Indie #Indiedev #Game
Women of Xal II
Original Game Free! The revolution begins. Can Xjena survive rising violence and The Great Silence— Xal's final extinction event?
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December 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The second half of this stunningly complex visual novel is up on Kickstarter. The first half features a variety of violences, supernatural powers, dark secrets, political intrigue, and multiple romance routes (that can be done simultaneously without people getting mad at you). The art is gorgeous.
These kids have absolutely got a deathgrip on my brain at the moment so I decided to draw them.
For the record: both of them have absolute "how dare you fuck with my boyfriend" vibe going on in their lives, but somehow they get differential results on that.
For the record: both of them have absolute "how dare you fuck with my boyfriend" vibe going on in their lives, but somehow they get differential results on that.
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
These kids have absolutely got a deathgrip on my brain at the moment so I decided to draw them.
For the record: both of them have absolute "how dare you fuck with my boyfriend" vibe going on in their lives, but somehow they get differential results on that.
For the record: both of them have absolute "how dare you fuck with my boyfriend" vibe going on in their lives, but somehow they get differential results on that.
I can't tell if this is a migraine or an actual illness or whatever but it means that I didn't get to go to the Museum of Science and look at trains like an autistic stereotype and I am cranky about it.
On the other hand, I'm able to flop in a dark quiet space like an autistic stereotype so okay.
On the other hand, I'm able to flop in a dark quiet space like an autistic stereotype so okay.
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I can't tell if this is a migraine or an actual illness or whatever but it means that I didn't get to go to the Museum of Science and look at trains like an autistic stereotype and I am cranky about it.
On the other hand, I'm able to flop in a dark quiet space like an autistic stereotype so okay.
On the other hand, I'm able to flop in a dark quiet space like an autistic stereotype so okay.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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we are the granddaughters of the women your reindeer couldn't run over
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
we are the granddaughters of the women your reindeer couldn't run over
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when Benoit Blanc appeared this post resurfaced in my mind and I was like “she’s so right”
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
when Benoit Blanc appeared this post resurfaced in my mind and I was like “she’s so right”
Some days I wake up with some random music stuck in my head (ironically I am wearing my "75% of my brain capacity is wasted on song lyrics" t-shirt today).
Today the music I wake up with is Haydn's Symphony 94 in G (the Surprise Symphony) and that is ... substantially more random than average.
Today the music I wake up with is Haydn's Symphony 94 in G (the Surprise Symphony) and that is ... substantially more random than average.
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Some days I wake up with some random music stuck in my head (ironically I am wearing my "75% of my brain capacity is wasted on song lyrics" t-shirt today).
Today the music I wake up with is Haydn's Symphony 94 in G (the Surprise Symphony) and that is ... substantially more random than average.
Today the music I wake up with is Haydn's Symphony 94 in G (the Surprise Symphony) and that is ... substantially more random than average.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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The trick of Star Trek is that Kirk is not horny. *Gene Roddenberry* is horny. The tension between Kirk the character trying to do his job & the camera & production trying to get him laid, that's the key.
not sure why the makers of star trek think there is a deficit of sex on that show. when they said "go where no man has gone before" they were talking about james t. kirk being a ho
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The trick of Star Trek is that Kirk is not horny. *Gene Roddenberry* is horny. The tension between Kirk the character trying to do his job & the camera & production trying to get him laid, that's the key.
Queer grocery store encounter of the day: amiable greeting, "It's cold", discussion of hormone effects on temperature tolerances and general health, by the way there are cookie samples over there that Youngest might like. :}
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Queer grocery store encounter of the day: amiable greeting, "It's cold", discussion of hormone effects on temperature tolerances and general health, by the way there are cookie samples over there that Youngest might like. :}
It is very satisfying to add one sentence to a manuscript that:
- establishes when the story is set twice over
- provides a clue about a secret
- explains how a character can know a thing (not that anyone will care but I wanted it established)
and
- is drop-dead funny when one knows what's going on.
- establishes when the story is set twice over
- provides a clue about a secret
- explains how a character can know a thing (not that anyone will care but I wanted it established)
and
- is drop-dead funny when one knows what's going on.
December 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It is very satisfying to add one sentence to a manuscript that:
- establishes when the story is set twice over
- provides a clue about a secret
- explains how a character can know a thing (not that anyone will care but I wanted it established)
and
- is drop-dead funny when one knows what's going on.
- establishes when the story is set twice over
- provides a clue about a secret
- explains how a character can know a thing (not that anyone will care but I wanted it established)
and
- is drop-dead funny when one knows what's going on.
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exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file
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It's the week of Scalzi's fantastic holiday gift guide posts - if you're looking to support authors, artists, and crafters of all kinds, it's a great place to check for ideas.
I've got a comment in there, or you can check out www.celialake.com/2025/12/2025... for what I've been up to this year.
I've got a comment in there, or you can check out www.celialake.com/2025/12/2025... for what I've been up to this year.
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Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow!
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The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Two: Non-Traditional Books
Today is Day Two of the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's the week of Scalzi's fantastic holiday gift guide posts - if you're looking to support authors, artists, and crafters of all kinds, it's a great place to check for ideas.
I've got a comment in there, or you can check out www.celialake.com/2025/12/2025... for what I've been up to this year.
I've got a comment in there, or you can check out www.celialake.com/2025/12/2025... for what I've been up to this year.
First draft is technically just over novella length which means when I edit it it will be a long novella because I overwrite and sometimes my sentences are garbage.
I wrote an entire thing for the first time in a very long time.
(Maybe it's natural, maybe it's ADHD meds! [swooshes hair])
I wrote an entire thing for the first time in a very long time.
(Maybe it's natural, maybe it's ADHD meds! [swooshes hair])
Currently staring at the climax of the novella I'm writing, which is The Next Bit and also I am too busy to be sure I get to write it any time soon, and thinking back to the panel I went to on horror and humor and how they discussed that horror, humor, and sex are the most visceral writing.
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
First draft is technically just over novella length which means when I edit it it will be a long novella because I overwrite and sometimes my sentences are garbage.
I wrote an entire thing for the first time in a very long time.
(Maybe it's natural, maybe it's ADHD meds! [swooshes hair])
I wrote an entire thing for the first time in a very long time.
(Maybe it's natural, maybe it's ADHD meds! [swooshes hair])