Kristen Slater
@kristenslater.bsky.social
Born romantic, lover of romance & spec fiction, loves a happy ending. Any day I learn new things is an awesome day! Enby, ace, aro. She/her
(PS: Don't bother follow farming, I don't do automatic 'follow back')
(PS: Don't bother follow farming, I don't do automatic 'follow back')
Re last repost - this is very useful information
as someone who sees sentiment data from the other side, assume any free form comment fields are going to be placed in a default word cloud visualization and write lots of words understandable and scary to suits like 'devalue', 'don't', 'leave', 'stop', etc
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 10, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Re last repost - this is very useful information
Discord survey about "AI" for those as want it. Also the replies to this post include some excellent responses in the "any other comments" field.
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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January 10, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Discord survey about "AI" for those as want it. Also the replies to this post include some excellent responses in the "any other comments" field.
Oh no! Cancelled due to weather.
If you're in #Sheffield you could meet a movie star tonight. The director (Rowan Athale) & the star (Amir El-Nasry) of the movie #Giant about Sheffield boxer Prince Naeseem Hamed will be at the #Curzon cinema in the town centre for a special preview showing with introduction. 📽 🥊
January 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Oh no! Cancelled due to weather.
If you're in #Sheffield you could meet a movie star tonight. The director (Rowan Athale) & the star (Amir El-Nasry) of the movie #Giant about Sheffield boxer Prince Naeseem Hamed will be at the #Curzon cinema in the town centre for a special preview showing with introduction. 📽 🥊
January 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
If you're in #Sheffield you could meet a movie star tonight. The director (Rowan Athale) & the star (Amir El-Nasry) of the movie #Giant about Sheffield boxer Prince Naeseem Hamed will be at the #Curzon cinema in the town centre for a special preview showing with introduction. 📽 🥊
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If you're feeling overwhelmed, you can just go to the search bar on this app and put in "Jeremy's salad" and do whatever the opposite of doom scrolling is. 💕
January 7, 2026 at 11:42 PM
If you're feeling overwhelmed, you can just go to the search bar on this app and put in "Jeremy's salad" and do whatever the opposite of doom scrolling is. 💕
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I’m actively taking new editing clients!
Whether you’re stuck on a book, want help with a project idea, or simply have a manuscript you want to make the best it can be, check out my website for info about services and fees!
www.maypetersonbooks.com/editorial/
Whether you’re stuck on a book, want help with a project idea, or simply have a manuscript you want to make the best it can be, check out my website for info about services and fees!
www.maypetersonbooks.com/editorial/
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I’m actively taking new editing clients!
Whether you’re stuck on a book, want help with a project idea, or simply have a manuscript you want to make the best it can be, check out my website for info about services and fees!
www.maypetersonbooks.com/editorial/
Whether you’re stuck on a book, want help with a project idea, or simply have a manuscript you want to make the best it can be, check out my website for info about services and fees!
www.maypetersonbooks.com/editorial/
For anyone needing a brief break from the horrors, please see this short video of a dog having *the* best time in the snow.
🐕❄
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Please enjoy Alison's video (and voiceover) of the dog in the snow.
January 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM
For anyone needing a brief break from the horrors, please see this short video of a dog having *the* best time in the snow.
🐕❄
🐕❄
Today's cinema adventure is an old silent. Back before TV, series were shown in cinemas. This is 3 episodes of a series of Sherlock Holmes stories made wile Conan Doyle was still around. 📽
January 2, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Today's cinema adventure is an old silent. Back before TV, series were shown in cinemas. This is 3 episodes of a series of Sherlock Holmes stories made wile Conan Doyle was still around. 📽
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Monthly Trans Creators Boost!
Happy new year!
- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the notes and look for works to read and share.
- Follow new creators and make your feed brighter!
NSFW and erotica welcome.
Happy new year!
- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the notes and look for works to read and share.
- Follow new creators and make your feed brighter!
NSFW and erotica welcome.
January 1, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Monthly Trans Creators Boost!
Happy new year!
- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the notes and look for works to read and share.
- Follow new creators and make your feed brighter!
NSFW and erotica welcome.
Happy new year!
- Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below.
- Go into the notes and look for works to read and share.
- Follow new creators and make your feed brighter!
NSFW and erotica welcome.
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I've had to watch way too many Christmas romance movies this past December without any trans characters.
Surely if Hallmark and Netflix don't have trans Christmas romance movies, someone out there is writing Christmas romance novels with transfemme protagonists?
This must exist, right?
Surely if Hallmark and Netflix don't have trans Christmas romance movies, someone out there is writing Christmas romance novels with transfemme protagonists?
This must exist, right?
January 1, 2026 at 10:44 AM
I've had to watch way too many Christmas romance movies this past December without any trans characters.
Surely if Hallmark and Netflix don't have trans Christmas romance movies, someone out there is writing Christmas romance novels with transfemme protagonists?
This must exist, right?
Surely if Hallmark and Netflix don't have trans Christmas romance movies, someone out there is writing Christmas romance novels with transfemme protagonists?
This must exist, right?
The cinema I go to is doing a David Lynch season. His films & some of his favourites. Last week was Rear Window and today is Sunset Boulevard, both of which I'd only seen on TV before. Cinema's almost fully booked, which is really great. 😁 📽
December 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The cinema I go to is doing a David Lynch season. His films & some of his favourites. Last week was Rear Window and today is Sunset Boulevard, both of which I'd only seen on TV before. Cinema's almost fully booked, which is really great. 😁 📽
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Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
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Following a spring clean at Longbarrow HQ, I've found a number of hardbacks (ex-bookshop / damaged in transit) that are perfectly readable, but not saleable.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
December 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Following a spring clean at Longbarrow HQ, I've found a number of hardbacks (ex-bookshop / damaged in transit) that are perfectly readable, but not saleable.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.
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Christmas Eve Eve
December 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Christmas Eve Eve
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Parents! Carers! Anyone taking care of children over the Christmas holidays! My regular reminder of this thread of TOYS you can make from scrap materials, all of which work due to some sort of interesting scientific principle
Fellow parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children over half-term! Here is a thread of videos showing TOYS you can MAKE at home from scrap stuff you probably have lying around. First, the utterly delightful "balancing bird" alomshaha.com/balancing-bi...
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Parents! Carers! Anyone taking care of children over the Christmas holidays! My regular reminder of this thread of TOYS you can make from scrap materials, all of which work due to some sort of interesting scientific principle
I've only seen 2 or 3 of these before. Here's the whole series. Mr KJC has some serious gingerbread construction skills. 😍
In an effort at something good on the internet today: A thread on Mr KJC, gingerbread architect of the early 21st century.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
Mr KJC got his beginnings like so many gingerbread architects: with a kit house for the kids. Kind of fun but the premade pieces are dry and nasty, only technically edible.
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I've only seen 2 or 3 of these before. Here's the whole series. Mr KJC has some serious gingerbread construction skills. 😍
Saw Zootropolis tonight. Great fun. 📽
One bit had me (quietly) going 'boing boing motherfucker!'.
Hippos chase our heroes & don't get a boat but go 'we'll go underwater'. They bound along the bottom & bounce up to the surface. Just like in this thread (Nome's threads are awesome).
One bit had me (quietly) going 'boing boing motherfucker!'.
Hippos chase our heroes & don't get a boat but go 'we'll go underwater'. They bound along the bottom & bounce up to the surface. Just like in this thread (Nome's threads are awesome).
They're also known from time to time to decide "Fuck this boat in particular" and just chase boats going "BOING BOING MOTHERFUCKER" as they bounce after them.
Hippo Chases Boat: Show's Boaters Who's Boss | The Dodo
YouTube video by The Dodo
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Saw Zootropolis tonight. Great fun. 📽
One bit had me (quietly) going 'boing boing motherfucker!'.
Hippos chase our heroes & don't get a boat but go 'we'll go underwater'. They bound along the bottom & bounce up to the surface. Just like in this thread (Nome's threads are awesome).
One bit had me (quietly) going 'boing boing motherfucker!'.
Hippos chase our heroes & don't get a boat but go 'we'll go underwater'. They bound along the bottom & bounce up to the surface. Just like in this thread (Nome's threads are awesome).
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In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
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@juliethecranky.bsky.social any of your followers able to help a hoar with wig styling suggestions? Menopause is making me its bish and I am new to the Wig Life.
I been using water and combs 😭 and I am looking for heat free methods to style waves, smooth, and get parts to stay where I put them
I been using water and combs 😭 and I am looking for heat free methods to style waves, smooth, and get parts to stay where I put them
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
@juliethecranky.bsky.social any of your followers able to help a hoar with wig styling suggestions? Menopause is making me its bish and I am new to the Wig Life.
I been using water and combs 😭 and I am looking for heat free methods to style waves, smooth, and get parts to stay where I put them
I been using water and combs 😭 and I am looking for heat free methods to style waves, smooth, and get parts to stay where I put them
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I'll try a different tactic this time. If you donate to a food bank and brag about it in the comments, I will show you one (1) kitten that we have fostered.
There were times of food insecurity in my house growing up. Those moments were terrifying. Of course I never went without, but in order to make that happen my parents went into crippling credit card debt. And that just made everything worse.
Anyway, please donate money to your local food bank.
Anyway, please donate money to your local food bank.
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'll try a different tactic this time. If you donate to a food bank and brag about it in the comments, I will show you one (1) kitten that we have fostered.
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Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!
Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!
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Reminder, I'm once more selling to the US! Sent a tester parcel and it all worked fine.
(I'm absolutely screwed on the Etsy algorithm because of time without sales, but I'm doing what I can.)
(I'm absolutely screwed on the Etsy algorithm because of time without sales, but I'm doing what I can.)
Looking for a little magic? I'm slowly adding more labradorite pendants, and US shipping is open once more - it may be slower than usual, but nothing has changed on your side (the tariff stuff all gets sorted at my post office).
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reminder, I'm once more selling to the US! Sent a tester parcel and it all worked fine.
(I'm absolutely screwed on the Etsy algorithm because of time without sales, but I'm doing what I can.)
(I'm absolutely screwed on the Etsy algorithm because of time without sales, but I'm doing what I can.)
The replies to this are really uplifting if you need a brief respite from *gestures vaguely at everything* to recharge.
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The replies to this are really uplifting if you need a brief respite from *gestures vaguely at everything* to recharge.
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I have a bunch of really sleep inducing data entry and design work that I really Have To Do.
As it is stuff that requires very little brain, I will need something to distract the rest of mine while I do it.
Thus, I am looking for the podcasts and shows that are diverting you/bringing you joy.
As it is stuff that requires very little brain, I will need something to distract the rest of mine while I do it.
Thus, I am looking for the podcasts and shows that are diverting you/bringing you joy.
October 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I have a bunch of really sleep inducing data entry and design work that I really Have To Do.
As it is stuff that requires very little brain, I will need something to distract the rest of mine while I do it.
Thus, I am looking for the podcasts and shows that are diverting you/bringing you joy.
As it is stuff that requires very little brain, I will need something to distract the rest of mine while I do it.
Thus, I am looking for the podcasts and shows that are diverting you/bringing you joy.
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Today is World Octopus Day. Another occasion when it's difficult for an industrial museum to be relevant.
However, we have our cogilicious Steampunk Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, 11th & 12th October and this picture is from our last Steampunk event.
#octopus #steampunk #costume
However, we have our cogilicious Steampunk Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, 11th & 12th October and this picture is from our last Steampunk event.
#octopus #steampunk #costume
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today is World Octopus Day. Another occasion when it's difficult for an industrial museum to be relevant.
However, we have our cogilicious Steampunk Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, 11th & 12th October and this picture is from our last Steampunk event.
#octopus #steampunk #costume
However, we have our cogilicious Steampunk Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, 11th & 12th October and this picture is from our last Steampunk event.
#octopus #steampunk #costume