Yoon Ha Lee (he/him)
@deuceofgears.bsky.social
Sf/f writer (NINEFOX GAMBIT, DRAGON PEARL). MFA student in media composition. Hobbies: 2D animation, game design, destroying readers. Rep'd by @sethasfishman.bsky.social.
https://www.yoonhalee.com/
https://ninefoxgambit.com/
https://candlearc.com/
https://www.yoonhalee.com/
https://ninefoxgambit.com/
https://candlearc.com/
Pinned
After foxing up WordPress last year, I've finally gotten the Ninefox Gambit webcomic back online. Echoes the Candle Arc *comic* although the *2D animation* (preproduction) is over at the sister site candlearc.com. Signed, still buried under orchestration homework, back to work!
ninefoxgambit.com
ninefoxgambit.com
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Check out this utterly cool special issue, and apparently open access!!!!
Do you want to know about experts in Chinese history? How astronomers, artisans, interpreters, servants, sailors, diviners, and surveyors worked? Then check out this special issue edited by Sarah Schneewind and Yang Qiao!
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Latest issue | Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 | Cambridge Core
Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊
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December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Check out this utterly cool special issue, and apparently open access!!!!
Emotional support spinning. IxChel's wallaby blend (ixchel.com.au/collections/...) is almost better than unmentionable things.
("Unmentionable things" are probably Mechabellum and/or Balatro tbh. :p)
("Unmentionable things" are probably Mechabellum and/or Balatro tbh. :p)
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Emotional support spinning. IxChel's wallaby blend (ixchel.com.au/collections/...) is almost better than unmentionable things.
("Unmentionable things" are probably Mechabellum and/or Balatro tbh. :p)
("Unmentionable things" are probably Mechabellum and/or Balatro tbh. :p)
Thank you to my sister for this indulgent Xmas gift, a taishogoto...I'm impressed because finding an instrument whose TYPE I had never heard of usually Takes Some Doing from a non-musician... Then again, I'm the rando who learned THIS YEAR of the munniharppu (but I knew about "jaw harps")!
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thank you to my sister for this indulgent Xmas gift, a taishogoto...I'm impressed because finding an instrument whose TYPE I had never heard of usually Takes Some Doing from a non-musician... Then again, I'm the rando who learned THIS YEAR of the munniharppu (but I knew about "jaw harps")!
Anyone have recs? Please ACTUAL full time wheelchair users, not "kinda relevant adjacent."
Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Anyone have recs? Please ACTUAL full time wheelchair users, not "kinda relevant adjacent."
Emotional support spinning.
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Emotional support spinning.
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you think you need to leave intelligent, thoughtful comments? lmao no
“loved it!” is all you need to say. blurt that out on Steam, YouTube, Amazon for whatever game, book, or video caught your fancy
The algorithm is all consuming but you can help cool people by just commenting “👍🏼”’ so do it
“loved it!” is all you need to say. blurt that out on Steam, YouTube, Amazon for whatever game, book, or video caught your fancy
The algorithm is all consuming but you can help cool people by just commenting “👍🏼”’ so do it
PRO TIP
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
you think you need to leave intelligent, thoughtful comments? lmao no
“loved it!” is all you need to say. blurt that out on Steam, YouTube, Amazon for whatever game, book, or video caught your fancy
The algorithm is all consuming but you can help cool people by just commenting “👍🏼”’ so do it
“loved it!” is all you need to say. blurt that out on Steam, YouTube, Amazon for whatever game, book, or video caught your fancy
The algorithm is all consuming but you can help cool people by just commenting “👍🏼”’ so do it
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I’m sorry but these fucking rule and if Chris just added pharaohs and dinosaurs he would have literally every nerd kid obsession
Thinking about Christmas presents? Maybe you want to get a book of little paper figures from a classic work of literature for the reader in your life!
crogan.bigcartel.com/category/pap...
crogan.bigcartel.com/category/pap...
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I’m sorry but these fucking rule and if Chris just added pharaohs and dinosaurs he would have literally every nerd kid obsession
Listening to this podcast on gamemastering D&D etc and realizing all over again I just want to play the smash smash character with zero interiority.
This horrifies most gamers but my day job is nonstop interiority for asshole characters & I need to recharge!
This horrifies most gamers but my day job is nonstop interiority for asshole characters & I need to recharge!
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Listening to this podcast on gamemastering D&D etc and realizing all over again I just want to play the smash smash character with zero interiority.
This horrifies most gamers but my day job is nonstop interiority for asshole characters & I need to recharge!
This horrifies most gamers but my day job is nonstop interiority for asshole characters & I need to recharge!
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And people say I'm hard to buy for.
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
And people say I'm hard to buy for.
New-to-me spinning wheel day! Left: Louët S90. Right: the patient Ashford Traveller. :3
Y'all, spinning at 18:1 is WILD after teaching myself to spin COTTON on 6:1 because my Traveller haaaaates the smaller whorls! (This is a skill issue, but if I can do it at 6:1...)
Y'all, spinning at 18:1 is WILD after teaching myself to spin COTTON on 6:1 because my Traveller haaaaates the smaller whorls! (This is a skill issue, but if I can do it at 6:1...)
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
New-to-me spinning wheel day! Left: Louët S90. Right: the patient Ashford Traveller. :3
Y'all, spinning at 18:1 is WILD after teaching myself to spin COTTON on 6:1 because my Traveller haaaaates the smaller whorls! (This is a skill issue, but if I can do it at 6:1...)
Y'all, spinning at 18:1 is WILD after teaching myself to spin COTTON on 6:1 because my Traveller haaaaates the smaller whorls! (This is a skill issue, but if I can do it at 6:1...)
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Good job, team
BANANA FISH no longer has an English dub on Amazon
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Good job, team
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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Mass murder.
"It was estimated in early November that 600,000 people had already died because of [the USAID] cuts, with two-thirds of them being children.
I think it is fair to say that this is a crime against humanity. It is a staggering number of deaths."
I think it is fair to say that this is a crime against humanity. It is a staggering number of deaths."
Crimes against humanity
We need to make a bigger issue of what happened to the world when Elon Musk decimated USAID.
madness.ghost.io
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Mass murder.
If you're wondering why so much randomposting this morning, I'm bracing for A Lot of Dental Work in an hour (I have the world's nicest dentist, it's not her fault my teeth are terribad) and I expect to be nonfunctional the rest of today. :]
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If you're wondering why so much randomposting this morning, I'm bracing for A Lot of Dental Work in an hour (I have the world's nicest dentist, it's not her fault my teeth are terribad) and I expect to be nonfunctional the rest of today. :]
For home-produced fiber, since cotton is verboten without a license here for good reason (boll weevils...), I am sitting here contemplating
(a) catten (spinnable but, uh, weirdly low yield given how much catten floof is all over the house lolsob)
(b) milkweed (BUTTERFLIES!!!)
(a) catten (spinnable but, uh, weirdly low yield given how much catten floof is all over the house lolsob)
(b) milkweed (BUTTERFLIES!!!)
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
For home-produced fiber, since cotton is verboten without a license here for good reason (boll weevils...), I am sitting here contemplating
(a) catten (spinnable but, uh, weirdly low yield given how much catten floof is all over the house lolsob)
(b) milkweed (BUTTERFLIES!!!)
(a) catten (spinnable but, uh, weirdly low yield given how much catten floof is all over the house lolsob)
(b) milkweed (BUTTERFLIES!!!)
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named my fists Strunk and White because I fight with an element of style
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
named my fists Strunk and White because I fight with an element of style
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Whoa her sistre sez wut?
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Whoa her sistre sez wut?
Genuinely world's tiniest viola complaint but I have made the horrifying discovery that my two fave wool varieties for spinning are
(a) merino :sob: (available everywhere but spendy)
(b) North Ronaldsay (for SOME REASON, aggravating to source from Louisiana, something something sea sheep)
(a) merino :sob: (available everywhere but spendy)
(b) North Ronaldsay (for SOME REASON, aggravating to source from Louisiana, something something sea sheep)
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Genuinely world's tiniest viola complaint but I have made the horrifying discovery that my two fave wool varieties for spinning are
(a) merino :sob: (available everywhere but spendy)
(b) North Ronaldsay (for SOME REASON, aggravating to source from Louisiana, something something sea sheep)
(a) merino :sob: (available everywhere but spendy)
(b) North Ronaldsay (for SOME REASON, aggravating to source from Louisiana, something something sea sheep)
A fiber animal contemplates her next spin!
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A fiber animal contemplates her next spin!
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Today's blog post: Rules creationandplay.blogspot.com/2025/12/rule...
Rules
A blog about board game creation, design and publishing.
creationandplay.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today's blog post: Rules creationandplay.blogspot.com/2025/12/rule...
Me, a dumbass: Well, don't want to wake the husband so let's spin in the (mostly) dark!
Me, two hours later: Ah, the husband's awake! Now I can turn on the light--
Me, with aphantasia: Huh, that's pretty but BOY HOWDY did I completely misremember the color of this batt (received two days ago).
Me, two hours later: Ah, the husband's awake! Now I can turn on the light--
Me, with aphantasia: Huh, that's pretty but BOY HOWDY did I completely misremember the color of this batt (received two days ago).
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Me, a dumbass: Well, don't want to wake the husband so let's spin in the (mostly) dark!
Me, two hours later: Ah, the husband's awake! Now I can turn on the light--
Me, with aphantasia: Huh, that's pretty but BOY HOWDY did I completely misremember the color of this batt (received two days ago).
Me, two hours later: Ah, the husband's awake! Now I can turn on the light--
Me, with aphantasia: Huh, that's pretty but BOY HOWDY did I completely misremember the color of this batt (received two days ago).
Me, skimming a book: This says "modern" weavers are venturing into "new" fibers like SILK--?!
Me, backtracking: Oh, the context is specifically USA.
My mom lives in the boonies in S Korea; the SMOL provincial museum CASUALLY displays 1,000-year-old calligraphy on SILK SCROLLS because "common."
Me, backtracking: Oh, the context is specifically USA.
My mom lives in the boonies in S Korea; the SMOL provincial museum CASUALLY displays 1,000-year-old calligraphy on SILK SCROLLS because "common."
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Me, skimming a book: This says "modern" weavers are venturing into "new" fibers like SILK--?!
Me, backtracking: Oh, the context is specifically USA.
My mom lives in the boonies in S Korea; the SMOL provincial museum CASUALLY displays 1,000-year-old calligraphy on SILK SCROLLS because "common."
Me, backtracking: Oh, the context is specifically USA.
My mom lives in the boonies in S Korea; the SMOL provincial museum CASUALLY displays 1,000-year-old calligraphy on SILK SCROLLS because "common."
Signed up! :) Kythryne does *spectacular* work.
Signups are open for Pretty Rocks Club 2026!
The theme for our seventh year is "liar liar pants on fire" and it will be all about things that aren't what they look like or claim to be. I’ve been planning this one for years now and it’s going to be a lot of fun.
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The theme for our seventh year is "liar liar pants on fire" and it will be all about things that aren't what they look like or claim to be. I’ve been planning this one for years now and it’s going to be a lot of fun.
wyrdingstudios.com/products/prc...
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Signed up! :) Kythryne does *spectacular* work.
Emotional support weaving.
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Emotional support weaving.
It's sure An Experience spinning in a semi-dark room (sleeping husband) so I'm actually not sure I remember what COLOR this batt is.
(I spin *more* consistently if I can't SEE what I'm spinning because then I'm going by feel. That said, I need enough light to figure out when I need to make a join!)
(I spin *more* consistently if I can't SEE what I'm spinning because then I'm going by feel. That said, I need enough light to figure out when I need to make a join!)
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's sure An Experience spinning in a semi-dark room (sleeping husband) so I'm actually not sure I remember what COLOR this batt is.
(I spin *more* consistently if I can't SEE what I'm spinning because then I'm going by feel. That said, I need enough light to figure out when I need to make a join!)
(I spin *more* consistently if I can't SEE what I'm spinning because then I'm going by feel. That said, I need enough light to figure out when I need to make a join!)