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In my experience, asking the Unspeakable Cosmic Horrors to wash the dishes results in everything being coated in a thin layer of prismatic slime, and I end up having to do them all over anyway.

"Your translations to our languages is really impressive," the linguist said. "Are there any particular concepts that are extra hard?"

"Normal," the alien envoy said.

"That's very culturally dependent."

"Yes, but there is also a vast difference between our observations and your perceptions."

I am tired. I read this as "If they yeet it..." and that seemed perfectly reasonable

You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack.

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I was delighted to see your name on there!

I'm pretty sure that's what they do, given some of the overly flowery but very precise descriptions of my own work that they've used. 😕

Can you extract the salt and send it to me? I could use extra.

Reminds me of the post where someone had read that you could substitute eggs with mashed banana and tried to figure out why her custard came out so weird.

A contact form reads: Subject: Checking Authenticity Body of message Hi there Beth. I have been contacted by someone who is using the email, [email blacked out], and using you name and one of your novels 'Feast of the Starving Stone: The Chef’s Five' to engage with me as a fellow author - if it is you then great, if it is not, as i suspect, then this is a fake approach. I just wanted to be sure. thanks. [signed name blacked out] You're a real person, right? No, I'm a bot. Please don't include existential questions in a contact form. Yes.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

So. Best picture of pet? I choose this because it finally validated that yes, I *had* been closing the door behind me when I'd leave.

That's amazing

See, my response was
bsky.app/profile/y-el...

A crowd of people walking around the convention center.

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I love when my feed has conversations with itself

There's also the assumption that people will pay Big Bucks for crap.

[*side-eyes Sora*]

TFW that novelization of the first 3 seasons of #MyHeroAcademia as an intense character study of #BakugouKatsuki that you poured your heart and soul into years ago but didn't get the traction you'd hoped suddenly gets new kudos. 😍

#BNHA

archiveofourown.org/works/194295...

A weird building that acts like a cat

Now that D2D is initiating a $12 maintenance fee for accounts generating <$100/yr in sales, I'm taking this as an incentive to get my butt in gear and finish up my next book. Don't know if I'll do the full $100, but I'mma gonna at least make enough to cover that fee....

Okay, now I'm curious. I'm expecting +/-8, but I'll ask @realfollowers.bsky.social how many people follow me.
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It's 2 pix of the same person, right?

What I would give for actual denim jeans that aren't paper thin and stretchy. 😩

Photo with text superimposed: One or multiple hyperfixations? Big stash of yarn/paints/beads? Several projects going at once? No judgement here. Just cheers, curiosity, and commiseration!

I started a free #skool community for creatives & neurodivergents to hang, share WIPs, and body double. And for me to put out #mentalhealth content specially geared to this group! www.skool.com/creativendsk...

"There's this expression, 'cursed by the gods'. What does that curse entail?"

"Literally, 'may people behave like humans at you'," the god said.

"Ouch! And 'blessed by the gods'?"

"Same thing."

"How can it be the same?"

"The difference," said the god, "is which people's attention you catch."

I am in this post and I'm not sure how I feel about it 🤪🥱😴

Especially here on Bluesky, where if people aren't online when you post, it can get swept away.

I believe that fear is easier, but Love is stronger. ❤️

I vote clickbait