Laura Bradley
@lcbradley.bsky.social
Theatre person, writer person, fan person. N/Irish. She/her. All views my own
Interested in #musicals #sff #fandom #QueerArt #DisabledArt #Neurodiversity ♠️🏹 ♾️
Interested in #musicals #sff #fandom #QueerArt #DisabledArt #Neurodiversity ♠️🏹 ♾️
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Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy!
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
Submissions — Bona Books
www.bona-books.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy!
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
ok but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Six
The Lightning Thief
Anything Goes
Hamilton
The Music Man
Six
The Lightning Thief
Anything Goes
Hamilton
The Music Man
ok but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen
Guys & Dolls
The Lion King
A Chorus Line
Singing in the Rain
The Boy from Oz
(that last was terrible, actually, but we did see Hugh Jackman on the opening night of previews for it on Broadway, so THAT part was cool!)
Guys & Dolls
The Lion King
A Chorus Line
Singing in the Rain
The Boy from Oz
(that last was terrible, actually, but we did see Hugh Jackman on the opening night of previews for it on Broadway, so THAT part was cool!)
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
Constitutionally incapable of not scream-singing along:
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Constitutionally incapable of not scream-singing along:
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
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Given that the big marketing trend of last 10+ years is AO3 tags, we can't just use 'gen' here?
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
This week, I was sent a proof from one of the big publishers. In their pack, they described it as an "anti romantasy".
An anti romantasy.
I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.
An anti romantasy.
I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Given that the big marketing trend of last 10+ years is AO3 tags, we can't just use 'gen' here?
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
The moment when I figured out the little tree and nearly threw my phone across the room... 🤨 I was thinking cryptic, lateral, story plot, word association. Can reliably say it is not those. #HiddenBooksGame
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
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Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The moment when I figured out the little tree and nearly threw my phone across the room... 🤨 I was thinking cryptic, lateral, story plot, word association. Can reliably say it is not those. #HiddenBooksGame
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Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
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Literary hivemind! Has anyone read any fiction recently that engages or evokes digital archives - or, even better, the concept of the 'digital dark age'?
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Literary hivemind! Has anyone read any fiction recently that engages or evokes digital archives - or, even better, the concept of the 'digital dark age'?
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A school in Manchester is promoting “No Days Off November” to reward kids with perfect attendance.
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A school in Manchester is promoting “No Days Off November” to reward kids with perfect attendance.
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
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Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
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Can only speak for myself, but think I'm not unusual, by the time you see a GP about mental health issues, you are at crisis point - finding it hard to get out of bed, eat, speak to anyone, deal with finances etc - but sure, tell me about the jobs I can apply for at that moment.
BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness
October 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Can only speak for myself, but think I'm not unusual, by the time you see a GP about mental health issues, you are at crisis point - finding it hard to get out of bed, eat, speak to anyone, deal with finances etc - but sure, tell me about the jobs I can apply for at that moment.
I have worked with various office and thermal printers and when I read that bit in @emilytesh.net The Incandescent I put a sticky beside it. And when I loaned the book to my ex-teacher-Mum she was also having flashbacks to possessed printers she had known.
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I have worked with various office and thermal printers and when I read that bit in @emilytesh.net The Incandescent I put a sticky beside it. And when I loaned the book to my ex-teacher-Mum she was also having flashbacks to possessed printers she had known.
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
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Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
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Friends, Spooky season is upon us.
Remember... foods dyed black with charcoal can interfere with medications. Don't eat them if you have an Rx
Remember... foods dyed black with charcoal can interfere with medications. Don't eat them if you have an Rx
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Friends, Spooky season is upon us.
Remember... foods dyed black with charcoal can interfere with medications. Don't eat them if you have an Rx
Remember... foods dyed black with charcoal can interfere with medications. Don't eat them if you have an Rx
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Following Sunday's Bounce Festival screening of Witches at Queen's Film Theatre Belfast we are delighted to be joined for the Q&A by Aisling McCormick and Dr Elspeth Vischer. It should be a fascinating chat!
Sunday 5 October at 3:30 pm in QFT:
universityofatypical.org/bounce-2025/...
Sunday 5 October at 3:30 pm in QFT:
universityofatypical.org/bounce-2025/...
October 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Following Sunday's Bounce Festival screening of Witches at Queen's Film Theatre Belfast we are delighted to be joined for the Q&A by Aisling McCormick and Dr Elspeth Vischer. It should be a fascinating chat!
Sunday 5 October at 3:30 pm in QFT:
universityofatypical.org/bounce-2025/...
Sunday 5 October at 3:30 pm in QFT:
universityofatypical.org/bounce-2025/...
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“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.
- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.
- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
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when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.
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when I sent the brief over for the cover design I was like "so don't panic but it has to be a bit like she's banging the goat man in a bdsmy kind of way but it also needs to be deniable/ acceptable for a bookstore shelf" and the cover designer was like say no more I have been dreaming of this moment
some exciting news: another book! announcing The Devil and Mrs Gooch, a fantasy in which our capricious friend The Devil falls head over hoof for dread entrepreneur Gwendolyn Gooch, and her latest diabolical scheme: the rented apartment. expect torrid results. releasing USA May 2026 from W.W. Norton
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
when I sent the brief over for the cover design I was like "so don't panic but it has to be a bit like she's banging the goat man in a bdsmy kind of way but it also needs to be deniable/ acceptable for a bookstore shelf" and the cover designer was like say no more I have been dreaming of this moment
(assuming I'm not required to make eye contact for >10 minutes of the time)
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. Fanwork tagging on AO3
2. Ticketing, presentation of booking fees, front of house management in cultural spaces
3. The concept of legacy in Sondheim musicals.
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. Fanwork tagging on AO3
2. Ticketing, presentation of booking fees, front of house management in cultural spaces
3. The concept of legacy in Sondheim musicals.
list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. Single season ‘90s TV shows
2. Hamlet through the ages as an avatar for emotional repression and later the healing process of mental health.
3. The secret life of Jack Traven aka Johnny Utah aka John fucking Wick
1. Single season ‘90s TV shows
2. Hamlet through the ages as an avatar for emotional repression and later the healing process of mental health.
3. The secret life of Jack Traven aka Johnny Utah aka John fucking Wick
list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. the portrayal of women in renaissance poetry
2. the portrayal of women in big r romantic poetry
3. the trans spec fic renaissance we're currently in
1. the portrayal of women in renaissance poetry
2. the portrayal of women in big r romantic poetry
3. the trans spec fic renaissance we're currently in
September 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
(assuming I'm not required to make eye contact for >10 minutes of the time)
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. Fanwork tagging on AO3
2. Ticketing, presentation of booking fees, front of house management in cultural spaces
3. The concept of legacy in Sondheim musicals.
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep:
1. Fanwork tagging on AO3
2. Ticketing, presentation of booking fees, front of house management in cultural spaces
3. The concept of legacy in Sondheim musicals.
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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
www.independent.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.