book pitch designed as a mock movie poster. Black-and-white painting of a young girl’s face with piercing dark eyes and black hair transitioning into the all black background. Book title beneath her: They Call the Place Wild. Logline up top: “there once was a woods lost in a child…” Book pitch stylized as movie poster credits: a Violet Lichen production with Apex Books from the creator of Weird Fishes and The Unidentified a new story by Rae Mariz starring The Shadow Sister, Adolescent Bird Fey and the Ancient Embodiment of Rot as told by An Ecologist Witch, A Giant Raven Mother and The Soul of Białoweiza Forest. Coming Soon Feb 2027. Painting by German artist Moki’s How to Disappear series mioke.de

THE OVERSTORY x Grimm’s fairytales x Slavic folklore

12yo Belarusian girl loses herself in the last old-growth forest in Europe and finds that the folk from ancient tales have taken refuge there due to the destruction of their habitat and distortion of their stories

#PosterPit #SO #SPF #FT #C

"That's AI."

As an 8th grade teacher, this is a new insult the kids have been using this year, even on things unrelated to writing.

Someone does something stupid, or ridiculous, or cruel: "Ugh, you're AI."

On the acceptance of GenAI Joep Schuurkes -5 April 2026 By using GenAl: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept these companies don't have a viable business model. I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world. I accept that I am granting more power to the United States. I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere.

Here you go ❤️

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious.

Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.

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And because I'm starting out, if you mention this post I'd be happy to cut the price in *half.*

mockup cover of an anthology called [RECORDED], showing an old fashioned film camera with colorful glitch overlays, and a skull vaguely visible in the background; smaller text says "edited by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor"

'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️

mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

Mages for gender diversity 🔥

Yes! He's a great early example of this!

Some more sg they from e Mus. 173: "To knowe yf one be bewitched or forspoken", you need to "Looke well in ther eyes & yf you can diserne your picture [i.e. reflection] therin they are not bewitched".

Pretty clear case of singular they, methinks.

The ms in question is @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS e Mus. 173, f. 63r: archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories...

#singularthey #historyofmagic #earlymodern

Of course, the people who have negative feelings about singular they probably won't be much convinced by words in an evil manuscript featuring demon summonings, but welp, the linguistic evidence is there :D

For all of those people who keep saying singular they is a modern thing: I'm looking at a manuscript (mostly ritual magic) from the early 1600s with this line: "Whosoever shall carye thes names of god about them, neede not to feare the perell of water, fyre or inchauntment, evel ende or enemie".

I wouldn't. I'd try to get "HWÆT!" (shouted really loud) to become a thing again in today's world.

Office meeting, and Bill from accounting interrupts Barbara again, and she just cries "HWÆT!" at the top of her lungs. "Right, so as I was saying..." she continues in the stunned silence.

A jester laughing in a woodcut from 1503. The woodcut features a text: ha ha ha ha.

* ha ha ha ha *

The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.

Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.

A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱

No, it’s not AI.

Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team.

📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

Yaassss! I feel library loans are especially important for backlist books too.

Crescent view of Earth. NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill

Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th).

flic.kr/p/2s5Z9yc

Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop.

Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything.

It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free.

Noice!!

Ah yeah that's understandable with academic books!

New miniature marsupial frog found in Peru carries eggs in a back pouch Scientists have discovered a new species of miniature marsupial frog in the Peruvian Amazon that carries its young in a natural pouch on its back, a research institute reported Wednesday.

New frog just dropped

And in Finland, authors get some money from every single library loan! I don't even have a load of books out yet in Finland but library loans still form a nice stream of passive writing income.

My first book isn’t out yet (June 1!) but I will be so utterly thrilled if you borrow it from a library. Please do this!! Libraries are the best!

Roger Bacon’s Alchemical Legacy: Tracing the English-Language Witnesses of a ‘Pseudo-Author’ in Manuscript and Print | The Library This study is the first comprehensive overview of the Middle and Early-Modern English alchemical texts previously attributed to the thirteenth-century English Franciscan scholar Roger Bacon. The genuine Bacon wrote some alchemical texts, but his ...

Direct link to the article: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Menkäähän muuten seuraamaan KuKua - minä olen meidän bsky-valtias joten postailen tuonne sitten kaikenlaista talismaaneista ja kuvamagiasta!

New @titaraproject.bsky.social article alert! My piece in The Library examines the English-language alchemical texts attributed to Roger Bacon. Really happy this is out!

I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.

Loved how playful it was and how true to the original vibes!!

@mariadahvana.bsky.social's Beowulf translation is truly phenomenal, I really loved it!

Why does the media continue to use the word "Millennial" as code for "young person"? That's not what it means. It's literally in the name. A Millennial is someone at least a thousand years old.