Bit of a scary time with flooding this weekend. Friendly local guy got me home in his ute after things escalated, and home/family are safe, but our suburb got hit hard. I've never seen it so bad out there.
A screen-shot of the petition on the NZ parliament website.
Last election, DPA joined 23 organisations and dozens of experts in signing on to an open letter to call for an end to discriminating against disabled migrants.
The organisation at the forefront of campaigning to abolish this discrimination have a petition to sign.
Read it here: buff.ly/2XMkElX
Have just seen a comment complaining that there's a Muslim prayer room in the Vatican but not a Christian one and that's it, we're done here folks.
Loved that one!
It's a new story day! "The Metamorphosis" is my heart story, about how turning into an invisible sloth is a Kafkaesque metaphor for getting ME/CFS or Long Covid, but you can still find a path to a happy ending.
Read it for free in @gavagai.com
gavagai.com/posts/3894
Cover of Wolfpack by Rem Wigmore, featuring a brown-skinned woman holding a coppery fox mask. She is mostly obscured by red smoke and a little below the title is a domed white building on a green mountain
Wolfpack is OUT!
The sequel to Foxhunt, this queer solarpunk adventure features our favourite disaster bard Orfeus climbing to new heights to forge her own way ... but can you really escape the bloodstained past you inherit?
The Vengeful Wild duology is now complete!
books2read.com/vengefulwild2
Digital mockup of the two books, fronts and spines. Cover of Foxhunt: a woman with brown skin and eyes and an intense stare, with wisps of smoke like claws framing her face and a fang earring, above swirls of red and green smoke, like a mouth, enclosing a solarpunk city. Cover of Wolfpack: a brown-skinned woman holding a coppery fox mask. She is mostly obscured by red smoke and a little below the title is a domed white building on a green mountain.
I loved redesigning & illustrating the covers for FOXHUNT and WOLFPACK by @remedy.bsky.social!! As of today they're both out in the world!
#art #vengefulwild
By implication, it also devalues disabled citizens and residents.
100% (I was👉👈 this far from adding exactly that but decided not to further complicate the sentence.)
The "Acceptable Standard of Health" immigration requirements devalue disabled migrants, and put families in impossibly stressful positions. Please take a moment to sign this petition:
petitions.parliament.nz/8d54964d-d16...
Handed in my swipey and key - residency is over. A bit sad but really pleased with what I got done over the 8 weeks. Thank you to everyone who came to today's reading despite the weather!
Had a meeting with my writing residency mentor. Got bonus advice on how to wash my curtains.
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
ht @astrokatie.com
Cover of Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore - a woman with brown skin and eyes and an intense stare, with wisps of smoke like claws framing her face and a fang earring, above swirls of red and green smoke, like a mouth, enclosing a solarpunk city
Cover of Wolfpack by Rem Wigmore, featuring a brown-skinned woman holding a coppery fox mask. She is mostly obscured by red smoke and a little below the title is a domed white building on a green mountain
crawling from my weekend for today's required yell that Wolfpack is up for preorder and FH&WP are both $2.99 to celebrate until April 13, when it comes out ahhh! ahhh!! ah! 🐺
at my itch dot io page: remwigmore.itch.io
(& all other e-retailers but the site seems down rn books2read.com/vengefulwild2)
Sending love <3
If you’d like a sneak peek of my new novel, Song of the Saltings, which is out 28 April in A/NZ and May in the US, the first chapter is up on the @allenandunwin.bsky.social website: www.allenandunwinblog.com/post/start-r... #pukapuka #folkhorror #YA #kidlit
Honest advice: are you nervous about boosting your own work?
Then boost other people's. What books made you stay up too late? What books entered your life when you needed them most?
Yell about that! Help people find those books, too.
Bookmarks! One side is purple with cover of Spellcasting On, the other is green with images of a cauldron, a moon with a cat, and two women on a bench, eeading: Andi R Chtistopher Sorcery Sapphics Secrets.
New bookmarks are here in time for Ages of Pages!
Photo of me behind my table, showing all my colourful fantasy art.
Tall photo of my full (half) table.
at Wellington Armageddon tomorrow! We're 21C, right by the back entrance
Delighted to be dealing with the forthcoming bullshit emanating from Weird Transphobia in Parliament when I'm just trying to survive Weird Nonsense About Autism Month.
Hey, friends, if you've got a bit of spare $ knocking around, please consider donating to @christinedaae.bsky.social's Ko-Fi? She's had no pay since February, doesn't get paid until the 15th, and currently has no money for groceries or travel expenses. Every little helps 🙏
ko-fi.com/christine_da...
I am disabled in ways that mean I cannot make visual art in the ways I'd like.
Not _once_ have I heard any of these "we must steal art for gen AI because of the disableds" people express support for or interest in the things that would actually make it easier for me to make art.
13. Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
14. Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
7. Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
8. Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
9. The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
10. This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham
11. Kings Of This World by Elizabeth Knox
12. A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry
1. The Dead Speak: My Life in Forensics by Thomas Coyle
2. The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton
3. A Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato
4. Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
5. Wish You Were Her by Elle McNicoll
6. Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Mejia
Collage of book covers
March reading (learning heavily into YA).
Titles and authors to follow in thread.
I literally came here to say all I know is coughs and sneezels spread diseasels.
I suspect he's the family member of an older person with a lot of assets and good pension. Which is absolutely not the situation of most people with support workers oh my god.
