Valkhyrie
@valkhyrie.bsky.social
they/them.
💚 speculative fiction, writing, RPGs, baseball, cats, cooking, paper & fibercrafts 💚
hugo-nominated goose wrangler at reddit.com/r/fantasy.
💚 speculative fiction, writing, RPGs, baseball, cats, cooking, paper & fibercrafts 💚
hugo-nominated goose wrangler at reddit.com/r/fantasy.
Reposted by Valkhyrie
Eligibility post:
I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club
🧵
I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club
🧵
January 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Eligibility post:
I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club
🧵
I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club
🧵
Reposted by Valkhyrie
Have been grumbled at repeatedly over the holidays because I'm bad at Posting Art where people can see it so uh...guess I'm doing that now!
Will start with this piece that started as a Pride Month 2023 project & morphed into a gift for my grandmother. Handpainted paper roses on a grapevine wreath.
Will start with this piece that started as a Pride Month 2023 project & morphed into a gift for my grandmother. Handpainted paper roses on a grapevine wreath.
December 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Have been grumbled at repeatedly over the holidays because I'm bad at Posting Art where people can see it so uh...guess I'm doing that now!
Will start with this piece that started as a Pride Month 2023 project & morphed into a gift for my grandmother. Handpainted paper roses on a grapevine wreath.
Will start with this piece that started as a Pride Month 2023 project & morphed into a gift for my grandmother. Handpainted paper roses on a grapevine wreath.
Reposted by Valkhyrie
wendell berry
QUESTIONNAIRE
QUESTIONNAIRE
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
wendell berry
QUESTIONNAIRE
QUESTIONNAIRE
Reposted by Valkhyrie
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
Reposted by Valkhyrie
real and true
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
real and true
Rough week for fans of games made by human beings. I really need studios to understand that it does not matter how many of your games I love - this is an immediate and permanent dealbreaker and you will never see another cent from me.
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Rough week for fans of games made by human beings. I really need studios to understand that it does not matter how many of your games I love - this is an immediate and permanent dealbreaker and you will never see another cent from me.
Nice, I've been looking for a good reason to stop caring that ES VI is nowhere close to done. Thanks Todd!
Fallout and Elder Scrolls boss Todd Howard defends AI in game development, but aims to "protect artistry" and "human intention" in his games www.eurogamer.net/fallout-and-...
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nice, I've been looking for a good reason to stop caring that ES VI is nowhere close to done. Thanks Todd!
Reposted by Valkhyrie
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
Reposted by Valkhyrie
this AI shit is not gonna break me. I am still a writer and I'm still gonna write shit and it's gonna mostly be "just OK" workaday prose elevated by my little poetic flourishes but it's gonna be something only I could write. and maybe I won't even do anything with it, but it will exist
November 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
this AI shit is not gonna break me. I am still a writer and I'm still gonna write shit and it's gonna mostly be "just OK" workaday prose elevated by my little poetic flourishes but it's gonna be something only I could write. and maybe I won't even do anything with it, but it will exist
Reposted by Valkhyrie
it's important for everyone to know that if I ever fall off talking to you or interacting with you I almost certainly still like you exactly the same amount that I always have, my brain is just made of potato
hard to maintain friendships with game developers because all these motherfuckers have ADHD and forget you exist when you're out of sight (it's me i'm these guys)
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
it's important for everyone to know that if I ever fall off talking to you or interacting with you I almost certainly still like you exactly the same amount that I always have, my brain is just made of potato
Reposted by Valkhyrie
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
Reposted by Valkhyrie
The announcers keep saying that both teams are almost out of pitchers, but they’re forgetting that pitchers and catchers report soon.
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
The announcers keep saying that both teams are almost out of pitchers, but they’re forgetting that pitchers and catchers report soon.
The AI book promotion scammers would like to help the r/Fantasy mod team sell our book that totally exists! Isn't that nice of them?
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The AI book promotion scammers would like to help the r/Fantasy mod team sell our book that totally exists! Isn't that nice of them?
Reposted by Valkhyrie
at the end of the day can the government just hop off my nuts
October 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
at the end of the day can the government just hop off my nuts
Reposted by Valkhyrie
Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.
Hey so... did you know that the Mormon Church filed an amicus curiae brief on the 19th of September? Me either...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
In short, "Giving trans people rights hurts us because it ruins our religious freedom to be bigots!"
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
In short, "Giving trans people rights hurts us because it ruins our religious freedom to be bigots!"
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.
Reposted by Valkhyrie
I don't care how good your How To podcast is, I can read faster than they can talk, stop speaking and link me to the transcript tyvm
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I don't care how good your How To podcast is, I can read faster than they can talk, stop speaking and link me to the transcript tyvm
My expectations were low, but I didn't think I needed "left out of the apology entirely" on my bingo card.
Message From the Chair: The Seattle Worldcon 2025 extends our deepest apologies for multiple failure points which occurred during this year’s Hugo Awards ceremony. We provided insufficient organizational plans at the podium,… seattlein2025.org?p=5956
Message From the Chair
The Seattle Worldcon 2025 extends our deepest apologies for multiple failure points which occurred during this year’s Hugo Awards ceremony. We provided insufficient organizational plans at the podium,...
seattlein2025.org
September 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My expectations were low, but I didn't think I needed "left out of the apology entirely" on my bingo card.
Reposted by Valkhyrie
I'm sure we could get more than 80 signatures based on just the people whose names y'all didn't read or mispronounced, including the r/Fantasy team whom you snickered at the size of before ignoring entirely at the ceremony, and did not even include in this apology 🙄
September 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm sure we could get more than 80 signatures based on just the people whose names y'all didn't read or mispronounced, including the r/Fantasy team whom you snickered at the size of before ignoring entirely at the ceremony, and did not even include in this apology 🙄
Reposted by Valkhyrie
Years ago my first novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and when it came time for the nominees to be read out I got to hear the MC, a brilliant fantasist whose work I love, absolutely butcher the title. Just trip over it repeatedly. "The Lies of Lack... Lockey... uh, Lackey Lammer-ah?" 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Years ago my first novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and when it came time for the nominees to be read out I got to hear the MC, a brilliant fantasist whose work I love, absolutely butcher the title. Just trip over it repeatedly. "The Lies of Lack... Lockey... uh, Lackey Lammer-ah?" 🧵
A delightful poem by my incredibly talented friend @digicara.bsky.social! Check it out!
Come meet the "three queens" today, in this wonderful narrative poem by Cara Mast in our 20th issue:
smallwondersmag.com/...
smallwondersmag.com/...
three queens - Small Wonders
The crown sits heavy on my head / but my neck is strong; I’ve been wearing it as long as I can remember.
smallwondersmag.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A delightful poem by my incredibly talented friend @digicara.bsky.social! Check it out!
Reposted by Valkhyrie
i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it
June 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it
Reposted by Valkhyrie
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
June 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
Reposted by Valkhyrie
June 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM