very true. Love you @wiswell.bsky.social ... heal smoothly!

Don't blame it on us Witches! 😆

Meant to add #WitchSky

Signs out of time, the story of archeologist Marija Gimbutas YouTube video by Voix Féministe

Also the work of Marija Gimbutas. This is a documentary by my dear friends Starhawk and Donna Read. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BjE2...

Caliban & the Witch is important, suppressed herstory. Pairs well w D Quinn's Ishmael that explains how dominant culture became #Patriarchy.

Jibes w archeologist Marija Gimbutas's work about the turn from Neolothic to Bronze age in Europe.

(Read Ishmael years ago; hopefully no problematic bits)

Small Talk, Large Energy ⋆ BrightFlame There's buzz about the benefits of small talk. How connecting with others--even briefly, even with strangers--is healthy. This jibes with the magic in my book.

Small talk vs deep convo--looking at this from a #Witch perspective: It's all about the energy. About strands of connection. About the Web of Life.

(hope you'll read my latest blog)

#solarpunk #community

brightflame.com/small-talk-l...

grid of square featured images from blog posts. Some are hand drawn doodles with stick figures. One is an autumn foliage photo against blue sky. The middle square reads Bright Green Futures on white background.

Here's a grid of my most recent blog posts. The one I'm working on is the same lime green background and royal blue stick figures as the on on top left. So the new would be same colors and adjacent. That will throw off my grid and feel unbalanced!

Working on a doodle to accompany my blog that I'll soon post. I like to create these "outsider" art bits. But *ugh* just realized the one I'm working on has same background and foreground colors as previous doodle. Maybe I'll leave it...?
#WritersLife

Oh right ... I had a blog post in mind ... what was that? Oh, I know! (watch for it soon on my website!)

...and I'm one of them! Yeah @bsfwriters.bsky.social ! We are awesome! <crow crow>

#writing #WritingCommunity #SpecLit #SFF #BookSky #reading

Resilience, justice, community, interconnection ... and Witches working in the physical and metaphysical realms to make it so!

Woods walk and music jam today...conjuring joy in community is important. Even amidst fascism and greed that's creating so much harm. #justice #resilence #solarpunk

#FundraiserPerk Chat with author A.T. Greenblatt 1-on-1 over Zoom! Now's your chance to ask a writer all your burning questions, or just to gossip. April e-issue and digital art from Francesca Myman too!

Donate @ https://twp.ai/9PcKU5 or through our bio!

So glad you all are doing this! I might be able to join in sometimes. #EcoLit #climate #writing

Sitting outside on sunny, windy day... lovely weather to feel my rage. So I phoned all my US congresspeople. Strong action needed now. Now! Block. Impeach.

How Solarpunk Novels are Reimagining the Commune YouTube video by Solarpunk Conference

Surprise to me: Anja H Lind offered "How Solarpunk Novels are Reimagining the Commune" at the 2025 #Solarpunk Conference & highlighted my novel The Working.

I had a conflict & didn't take part last year--see what I missed!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKHi...

@solarpunkcon.bsky.social #SpecLit #BookSky

closeup of yellow trout lily with 6 petals open. Brown-mottled green leaves stand behind.

The land is beginning to dance with wildflowers! Trout Lily and other Spring ephemerals peak out. Trees are budding and some early ones flowering. Soon, I won't be able to see through the Winter landscape to the cliffs beyond as the forest wears her full green.

#Nature #NativePlants

I'm on too many discord servers. Hard to keep track & keep up among them. Especially as I don't spend too much time in socials.

I'm rarely active in the meta platforms. Even here on bsky, it's so hard to keep up, despite this being one of my preferred spaces.

#WritersLife #WritingCommunity

Cover art for Reckoning X by Mónica Robles Corzo, featuring a fish, a human, a snake, some mushrooms, and the tail of a fox in a semicircle surrounded by curlicues representing communication, with a big black X in the middle, against a white background.

New today from Reckoning X, "The Mouthful" by Hank La Rose, a delightful, weird, brief piece of stream-of-consciousness fiction whose premise we'll permit you the vote of confidence and distinct pleasure of figuring out yourself: reckoning.press/the-mouthful/

"shadow" work deeply ingrained in my spiritual trad. So important. And fulfilling--more whole-making--even when difficult. Plus, good fodder for writing! The coven in my novel engage in lots of shadow work!

This #solarpunk anthology is free now (for the awards season) but that ends when the Hugo noms close on April 5th — GRAB IT NOW!

Having just met @sarahgailey.bsky.social at @sirensconference.org ... I'll definitely have to read this one!

Wonderful to spend time with you there! 🧜

Important #reading for these times! (well, any time!)

So wonderful to be with folx at #Sirens26. Faculty brought #justice and #resilience into all the talks... Including @dianapho.bsky.social 's keynote on editing.

A photo of Jewelle Gomez speaking at #Sirens26

In order to change the world, one must first change one's dreams. -- Jewelle Gomez at #Sirens26

A photo of the #Sirens26 bookstore, strung in lights

As we reimagined what Sirens could be, we dreamed a place of respite and community, of learning and growth, of transformative magic. --Amy Tenbrink, Conference Chair, kicking off #Sirens26

I'll be there starting tomorrow.

Huge congrats... and you're in excellent company!

Interesting! I was on a panel last Fall about writing dystopia. I was the only one who doesn't. And yet we had eye-opening convos about hope embedded in dystopias. Which spurred my recent blog post about nonbinaries.