Happy Holidays all! Hope you are surrounded by love and inspiration as you close out 2025 and prepare to ring in a new year 🎄✨

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

What a great headline

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

What writing take will have you like this?

We all need an occasional reminder, so listen up. Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

But have you tried “collapsing on the couch” about it?

Let's gooooo!✨

Artist Vaughn Bodé sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bode_v... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his cover artwork. 4th in collaboration with Larry S Todd:

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Congrats! ✨

Print featuring a night scene with a central path through a wheat field leading to a hedgerow and tree under a full moon

'Moonshine' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Kinda torn over what to read next!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This week's #TremblingWithFear shows us Unit Twenty-Eight by David McKenna ( @davidmck-author.bsky.social )w/drabbles from Sascha Reinhard, DL Ross, & Corinne Pollard ( @corinnepwriter.bsky.social )
horrortree.com/trembling-wi...
#AmReading #AmWriting #WritersLife #IndieWriter #WritingCommunity

'Ring Shout' is great! Short but punchy 👊

Big messy pile of horror books by Black authors

Big messy pile of horror books by Black authors Tananarive Due, Victor Lavalle, Johnny Compton, Alexis Henderson

Octavia Butler, S. A. Cosby, Paula D. Ashe, Nalo Hopkinson

More Black horror recommendations after watching Sinners!

New desktop wallpaper for inspiration ✨

Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words

so they're mycoblogging

14th read of 2025!😁🎉

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Easiest five stars in the world. Kelly Link is quickly becoming my new obsession!

My short story 'Unit Twenty-Eight' is in Trembling With Fear this week if anyone would like a read! 😁
horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

Hysteria (A Comedy Song by Riki Lindhome) YouTube video by Riki Lindhome

This song is a tribute to the 80s. No, not that 80s, the other 80s. Also, Riki Lindhome is a weird genius who should never change.

youtu.be/xh8y-6Jf4nA

Yeah, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is @sgj.bsky.social’s masterpiece and I loved it, but I’m also here for this double dose of mayhem from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19/20

A snapshot from the Slayers game for PC-98 with Lina facing off against a gaggle of skeletal warriors in the battle screen phase of the game

The PC-9801 can produce mind-boggling effects.

Copy of The Canterbury Tales.

Loads of spelling mistakes in this.

beach scene under an early morning sky of pleasing light blue scarred with affectionate by long scraps of clouds: the fade of manicured grass with a suggestion of frost unrolls from the lower right, interrupted by a line of tight tufted yellowing grass like spikey upright straw, this grass itself bordered by a line of solid black rocks, merging in a wandering way with the sand beyond, center of photi... and beyond that, more distant, the strip of sea mirroring the blue sky, with a timeless, frozen quality... and within this other world of water Haystack Rock rises with a pleasing rounded form, framed by a blushing sunrise of pinkish gray, a strip of gold dividing pink from the blue of the rest of the sky

I’ve been boycotting simon and garfunkel ever since I learned what he did to those smurfs

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18/20