Lisbeth Campbell
@lisbethcampbell.bsky.social
Writer. THE VANISHED QUEEN (Saga Press). Baseball fan and hobbyist photographer. Codex, SFWA. She/her.
Angst is not a substitute for character develop. Before you show me angsting, you have to make me care.
April 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Angst is not a substitute for character develop. Before you show me angsting, you have to make me care.
THANK YOU Kelly Link bsky.app/profile/did:...
April 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
THANK YOU Kelly Link bsky.app/profile/did:...
You all really have to read/listen to this story by @jamielackey.bsky.social, it is so good (but fair warning, not happy)
www.castofwonders.org/2025/02/cast...
www.castofwonders.org/2025/02/cast...
Cast of Wonders 631: Sometimes It Happens That Way | Cast of Wonders
I stood on the platform bundled up in one of my pa’s old work coats, its stained, fraying cuffs hanging well past my fingertips. The acrid stink of magic was thick in the air, rolling off the engine…
www.castofwonders.org
February 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You all really have to read/listen to this story by @jamielackey.bsky.social, it is so good (but fair warning, not happy)
www.castofwonders.org/2025/02/cast...
www.castofwonders.org/2025/02/cast...
This yawning elephant seal looks like some sort of rodent
February 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This yawning elephant seal looks like some sort of rodent
It's back up now, so false alarm, but what kind of world is it where I worry about this?
Went to work on getting a new passport (mine's expired) and got this on the form site: "Passport Application System is undergoing maintenance."
I hope it is due to being clogged with people applying to get out and not to the gov't pulling shit.
I hope it is due to being clogged with people applying to get out and not to the gov't pulling shit.
February 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's back up now, so false alarm, but what kind of world is it where I worry about this?
If you have trans friends, they need to know you support them. Tell them so. It really really really matters. (I was recently moved to unexpected tears by a note of support for my daughter.)
February 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you have trans friends, they need to know you support them. Tell them so. It really really really matters. (I was recently moved to unexpected tears by a note of support for my daughter.)
Went to work on getting a new passport (mine's expired) and got this on the form site: "Passport Application System is undergoing maintenance."
I hope it is due to being clogged with people applying to get out and not to the gov't pulling shit.
I hope it is due to being clogged with people applying to get out and not to the gov't pulling shit.
February 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Went to work on getting a new passport (mine's expired) and got this on the form site: "Passport Application System is undergoing maintenance."
I hope it is due to being clogged with people applying to get out and not to the gov't pulling shit.
I hope it is due to being clogged with people applying to get out and not to the gov't pulling shit.
Infuriating but interesting (also I had no idea about Paul Robeson's capacities other than as an actor):
www.mlb.com/news/feature...
www.mlb.com/news/feature...
Paul Robeson met Judge Landis to end baseball segregation
The Official Site of Major League Baseball
www.mlb.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Infuriating but interesting (also I had no idea about Paul Robeson's capacities other than as an actor):
www.mlb.com/news/feature...
www.mlb.com/news/feature...
I'm randomly reading public domain poetry and stumbled across this delightful (not) little horror poem by Siegfried Sassoon. Not a war poem.
www.public-domain-poetry.com/siegfried-lo...
www.public-domain-poetry.com/siegfried-lo...
Public Domain Poetry - Haunted by Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
www.public-domain-poetry.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:16 PM
I'm randomly reading public domain poetry and stumbled across this delightful (not) little horror poem by Siegfried Sassoon. Not a war poem.
www.public-domain-poetry.com/siegfried-lo...
www.public-domain-poetry.com/siegfried-lo...
omg I have something to be thankful for, I updated to Sequoia and it allows me to have just text instead of icons on my menu bars (at least in Finder and Mail)
if everyone else would just follow suit, please
if everyone else would just follow suit, please
November 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
omg I have something to be thankful for, I updated to Sequoia and it allows me to have just text instead of icons on my menu bars (at least in Finder and Mail)
if everyone else would just follow suit, please
if everyone else would just follow suit, please
Ages since I've been on here, for Reasons, but I need to pick things back up. It's getting a little lonely in the hinterlands. Expect more photos than much else for a while, though.
I just read the Greek ending "τοις" (tois) with a French accent. Oops.
I just read the Greek ending "τοις" (tois) with a French accent. Oops.
November 20, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Ages since I've been on here, for Reasons, but I need to pick things back up. It's getting a little lonely in the hinterlands. Expect more photos than much else for a while, though.
I just read the Greek ending "τοις" (tois) with a French accent. Oops.
I just read the Greek ending "τοις" (tois) with a French accent. Oops.
“[O]nce you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.”
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
really good book, accessible and short, I rec for all world-building writers
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
really good book, accessible and short, I rec for all world-building writers
May 10, 2024 at 5:19 PM
“[O]nce you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.”
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
really good book, accessible and short, I rec for all world-building writers
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
really good book, accessible and short, I rec for all world-building writers
I haven't read the published version yet, but I was a beta reader, and I would have recommended the book then. I can't wait to see what it looks like now.
LOOK AT HER. WHAT A BEAUT.
The Wings Upon Her Back is officially out! I am celebrating by posting this goofy image and then logging off and writing for most of the day. ;D
The Wings Upon Her Back is officially out! I am celebrating by posting this goofy image and then logging off and writing for most of the day. ;D
April 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
I haven't read the published version yet, but I was a beta reader, and I would have recommended the book then. I can't wait to see what it looks like now.
just checking in because it's been forever, i've been busy and had health issues and my life is vey unexciting
however, I did recently read @tananarivedue.bsky.social 's book The Reformatory, and I recommend it highly. It's not an emotionally easy read (Jim Crow South) but very worth it.
however, I did recently read @tananarivedue.bsky.social 's book The Reformatory, and I recommend it highly. It's not an emotionally easy read (Jim Crow South) but very worth it.
April 23, 2024 at 9:17 PM
just checking in because it's been forever, i've been busy and had health issues and my life is vey unexciting
however, I did recently read @tananarivedue.bsky.social 's book The Reformatory, and I recommend it highly. It's not an emotionally easy read (Jim Crow South) but very worth it.
however, I did recently read @tananarivedue.bsky.social 's book The Reformatory, and I recommend it highly. It's not an emotionally easy read (Jim Crow South) but very worth it.
Content note, 1583: "The second part of the Myrror of knighthood Containing two seuerall bookes, wherein is intreated the valiant deedes of armes of sundrie worthie knightes, verie delightfull to be read, and nothing hurtfull to bee regarded."
ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/x...
ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/x...
January 8, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Content note, 1583: "The second part of the Myrror of knighthood Containing two seuerall bookes, wherein is intreated the valiant deedes of armes of sundrie worthie knightes, verie delightfull to be read, and nothing hurtfull to bee regarded."
ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/x...
ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/x...
I am writing a scene where someone turns down a date invitation, and I so badly want to write, "It just doesn't work for me."
December 3, 2023 at 10:33 PM
I am writing a scene where someone turns down a date invitation, and I so badly want to write, "It just doesn't work for me."
This photo is not very sharp because it's a crop of something taken at a distance with a zoom, but these iron gargoyles on a church in Budapest are awfully cool. I just stumbled on it when I was doing something else with the photo.
November 25, 2023 at 7:37 PM
This photo is not very sharp because it's a crop of something taken at a distance with a zoom, but these iron gargoyles on a church in Budapest are awfully cool. I just stumbled on it when I was doing something else with the photo.
ohmigod, this cake recipe
oven.ly/blogs/recipe...
oven.ly/blogs/recipe...
November 17, 2023 at 6:01 AM
ohmigod, this cake recipe
oven.ly/blogs/recipe...
oven.ly/blogs/recipe...
Instead of writing I have been making pictures of creepy mansions.
November 4, 2023 at 10:13 PM
Instead of writing I have been making pictures of creepy mansions.
I am now on here. I probably won't be posting much because the break from social media has been good for me. But I'm glad to see familiar handles.
November 4, 2023 at 7:12 PM
I am now on here. I probably won't be posting much because the break from social media has been good for me. But I'm glad to see familiar handles.