Stacy King
@stacyking.bsky.social
Writer ( #DnD Young Adventurer's Guides, Manga Classics, etc). #ADHD interests include RPGs, history, costuming, crafting, books, film, politics and board games. Upcoming: D&D Crochet spring 2026.
Ride or die with @jimzub.bsky.social
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Stacy King
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· Aug 1
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS CROCHET Pattern Book Lets You Wield Your Crochet Hook to Make Magic (Exclusive)
Dungeons & Dragons Crochet: A Book of Many Patterns will let you wield your crochet hook and bring your D&D favs to life in yarn.
nerdist.com
Just announced: the Dungeons & Dragons Crochet book! I wrote the #dnd lore parts, with four amazing designers contributing patterns from beginner to expert skill levels. Pre-orders are open now and release is scheduled for spring 2026: nerdist.com/article/dung...
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One of my favourite books of the last few years, Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, is on sale for only $2.99 CAD on the Kobo ebook site: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
Some Desperate Glory ebook by Emily Tesh - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh available from Rakuten Kobo. Instant National Bestseller and International Bestseller!
Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel!
Arthur C. Clarke Award Final...
www.kobo.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
One of my favourite books of the last few years, Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, is on sale for only $2.99 CAD on the Kobo ebook site: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
This is a fascinating & disturbing article that raises some thorny questions about medical innovation & long-term patient support.
It also reminded me that @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's latest book about a groundbreaking WW1 plastic surgeon (The Facemaker) is still sitting in my TBR pile!
It also reminded me that @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's latest book about a groundbreaking WW1 plastic surgeon (The Facemaker) is still sitting in my TBR pile!
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is a fascinating & disturbing article that raises some thorny questions about medical innovation & long-term patient support.
It also reminded me that @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's latest book about a groundbreaking WW1 plastic surgeon (The Facemaker) is still sitting in my TBR pile!
It also reminded me that @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's latest book about a groundbreaking WW1 plastic surgeon (The Facemaker) is still sitting in my TBR pile!
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White Nationalism is on the rise in Canada (they’ve co-opted the original Canadian flag design, because it represents an era when our country was less multicultural)
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
White Nationalism is on the rise in Canada (they’ve co-opted the original Canadian flag design, because it represents an era when our country was less multicultural)
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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So, in retrospect, I could see that hadn’t gone so well.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So, in retrospect, I could see that hadn’t gone so well.
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
Working on my New Year's Resolution to clean up my photo archives and came across this fantastic set of images of @jimzub.bsky.social from a Paris dinner in 2019.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Working on my New Year's Resolution to clean up my photo archives and came across this fantastic set of images of @jimzub.bsky.social from a Paris dinner in 2019.
Near the end, Rogan says something accidentally insightful: "It keeps getting better. Like, constantly. It's like this neverending exponential improvement."
The dream of perpetual growth with minimal ongoing effort is the holy grail of capitalism. No wonder investors are so eager to believe.
The dream of perpetual growth with minimal ongoing effort is the holy grail of capitalism. No wonder investors are so eager to believe.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Near the end, Rogan says something accidentally insightful: "It keeps getting better. Like, constantly. It's like this neverending exponential improvement."
The dream of perpetual growth with minimal ongoing effort is the holy grail of capitalism. No wonder investors are so eager to believe.
The dream of perpetual growth with minimal ongoing effort is the holy grail of capitalism. No wonder investors are so eager to believe.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream, Charlie Brown.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain, Charlie Brown.
You're too short for that gesture, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream, Charlie Brown.
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Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
1/9
1/9
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Bards: laying waste to DM plans since 1976.
DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Bards: laying waste to DM plans since 1976.
Chip Zdarsky once described ketchup to me as "tomato frosting," thereby ruining a perfectly good condiment for me forever.
(I mean, I still put it on stuff, but I feel slightly bad about it)
(I mean, I still put it on stuff, but I feel slightly bad about it)
So my husband, Rocketspouse, likes ketchup on his hot dogs and I don’t know if that is fair grounds for divorce.
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Chip Zdarsky once described ketchup to me as "tomato frosting," thereby ruining a perfectly good condiment for me forever.
(I mean, I still put it on stuff, but I feel slightly bad about it)
(I mean, I still put it on stuff, but I feel slightly bad about it)
An exciting development for the Montreal culinary & craft brewery scenes!
NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
An exciting development for the Montreal culinary & craft brewery scenes!
At Heathrow. Somehow managed to get my phone locked in a bathroom stall, requiring maintenance to come assist. From her reaction, I get the impression that this isn't an uncommon occurrence.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
At Heathrow. Somehow managed to get my phone locked in a bathroom stall, requiring maintenance to come assist. From her reaction, I get the impression that this isn't an uncommon occurrence.
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Reading this article about AI wrecking hobbies and suddenly realize they're describing the cover of Stacy's upcoming book (which has no AI, by the way).
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reading this article about AI wrecking hobbies and suddenly realize they're describing the cover of Stacy's upcoming book (which has no AI, by the way).
Departing Harrogate (which, it turns out, rhymes with "surrogate") and there's a chimney sweeper in the hotel lobby, getting the fireplace ready for winter. The perfect note on which to wrap a charmingly British visit!
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Departing Harrogate (which, it turns out, rhymes with "surrogate") and there's a chimney sweeper in the hotel lobby, getting the fireplace ready for winter. The perfect note on which to wrap a charmingly British visit!
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Our time at the castle is done, but the adventure continues.
Off to Harrogate for the THOUGHT BUBBLE comic festival this weekend!
Off to Harrogate for the THOUGHT BUBBLE comic festival this weekend!
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Our time at the castle is done, but the adventure continues.
Off to Harrogate for the THOUGHT BUBBLE comic festival this weekend!
Off to Harrogate for the THOUGHT BUBBLE comic festival this weekend!
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I've written a short story every month for about 10 years, and it made me very good at the repetitive form of beginning/middle/end. Endings are easy for me because the key to the ending is always in the beginning. Here's easy hack from a workshop talk I gave awhile back:
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I've written a short story every month for about 10 years, and it made me very good at the repetitive form of beginning/middle/end. Endings are easy for me because the key to the ending is always in the beginning. Here's easy hack from a workshop talk I gave awhile back:
This is a useful thought for world-building (as well as being an interesting fact in general).
Learning that the Jesus fish sort of came about because the Greek spelling of “fish” doubled as an acronym alluding to “Christ”. It was used as a secret symbol due to censorship in ye olden days, and FOLKS, so many new words form because of censorship.
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is a useful thought for world-building (as well as being an interesting fact in general).
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I'm quoted in here along with some friends. D&D is for everyone, except bigots.
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm quoted in here along with some friends. D&D is for everyone, except bigots.
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Out tomorrow: FANTASTIC FOUR #5, guest starring The Black Cat AND Sue Storm (who hates her guts) and a HEIST. :0
I texted @jedmackay.bsky.social a ton to make sure I was writing Felicia well, which is how I lost texting privileges with Jed. But NO REGRETS
I texted @jedmackay.bsky.social a ton to make sure I was writing Felicia well, which is how I lost texting privileges with Jed. But NO REGRETS
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Out tomorrow: FANTASTIC FOUR #5, guest starring The Black Cat AND Sue Storm (who hates her guts) and a HEIST. :0
I texted @jedmackay.bsky.social a ton to make sure I was writing Felicia well, which is how I lost texting privileges with Jed. But NO REGRETS
I texted @jedmackay.bsky.social a ton to make sure I was writing Felicia well, which is how I lost texting privileges with Jed. But NO REGRETS
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happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day
Okay, it was *maybe* worthwhile to give up that view for a castle room.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Okay, it was *maybe* worthwhile to give up that view for a castle room.