Tal
@taldragon.bsky.social
3 tiredly cynical magpies hiding under a duvet, reposting things that catch their interest.
loves books, SFFH, cats, tea, puns and terrible jokes ;)
(She/her)
loves books, SFFH, cats, tea, puns and terrible jokes ;)
(She/her)
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This thread is me sharing how I deal with prioritizing self care when I'm too fatigued or depressed to do self-care but I need to do self-care to stop being fatigued/depressed. Breaking it down to be as simple as possible in case you're on your last brain cell (and therefore most in need of it).
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This thread is me sharing how I deal with prioritizing self care when I'm too fatigued or depressed to do self-care but I need to do self-care to stop being fatigued/depressed. Breaking it down to be as simple as possible in case you're on your last brain cell (and therefore most in need of it).
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For just 5.5 more days, you can scoop up my complete Harwood Spellbook boxed set as part of the fabulous Leading Ladies @storybundle.bsky.social:
storybundle.com/fantasy
- along with 9 to 11 more books by fabulous authors including @victoriagoddard.bsky.social , @rjblain.bsky.social , & more!
storybundle.com/fantasy
- along with 9 to 11 more books by fabulous authors including @victoriagoddard.bsky.social , @rjblain.bsky.social , & more!
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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An ogre knocked - carefully - on the witch's door.
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking potion."
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking potion."
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
An ogre knocked - carefully - on the witch's door.
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking potion."
She looked up at the hulking figure. "Can I help you?"
"Do you know where giants live?"
"Haven't been any here for centuries. Why?"
The ogre blushed. "I... It's stupid, but... I want to be the small spoon."
"Hm. I have a shrinking potion."
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Our friends Down Under at New Dawn Publishing have revealed Michaela Alcaino's STUNNING cover for THE HIDDEN WAY, the concluding part of @julietmarillier.bsky.social 's HEARTWOOD duology!
Book 1, THE AMBER OWL, lands in the UK next summer https://geni.us/amberowl
Book 2 will follow in summer 2027!
Book 1, THE AMBER OWL, lands in the UK next summer https://geni.us/amberowl
Book 2 will follow in summer 2027!
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Our friends Down Under at New Dawn Publishing have revealed Michaela Alcaino's STUNNING cover for THE HIDDEN WAY, the concluding part of @julietmarillier.bsky.social 's HEARTWOOD duology!
Book 1, THE AMBER OWL, lands in the UK next summer https://geni.us/amberowl
Book 2 will follow in summer 2027!
Book 1, THE AMBER OWL, lands in the UK next summer https://geni.us/amberowl
Book 2 will follow in summer 2027!
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Next year, a new TERRIBLE WORLDS novella is coming your way from @aptshadow.bsky.social !
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Next year, a new TERRIBLE WORLDS novella is coming your way from @aptshadow.bsky.social !
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
Preorder PREACHING TO THE CHOIR now: https://geni.us/preachtc
And dive into the rest of the thematically linked series whilst you wait. Each novella is a standalone but 1-6 are available in bind ups too!
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Ok, so we're this close 🤏🏻 to hit an important milestone of views on Tapas, so if you feel like reading (or re-reading) a really funny webcomic *for free*, now would be an amazing time!
Come meet a trio of bi disasters navigating the chaos of a quest to find the source of magic, on Tapas!
Come meet a trio of bi disasters navigating the chaos of a quest to find the source of magic, on Tapas!
Hey.
If you feel like doing a re-read on Side Quested, may I suggest you do it on Tapas?
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
Seriously. We're still on that "Creators Bonus Program", which means we make some $ with views there!
If you feel like doing a re-read on Side Quested, may I suggest you do it on Tapas?
tapas.io/series/SideQ...
Seriously. We're still on that "Creators Bonus Program", which means we make some $ with views there!
Read Side Quested | Tapas Web Community
Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!
tapas.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ok, so we're this close 🤏🏻 to hit an important milestone of views on Tapas, so if you feel like reading (or re-reading) a really funny webcomic *for free*, now would be an amazing time!
Come meet a trio of bi disasters navigating the chaos of a quest to find the source of magic, on Tapas!
Come meet a trio of bi disasters navigating the chaos of a quest to find the source of magic, on Tapas!
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Scheduled Post: Big Kobo sale is live! Solomon's Seal is 99c in eBook and just $6.99 in audio until December 1. Find sales at many other stores (Apple, Smashwords) as well, all links here: books2read.com/solomon-s-seal
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Solomon's Seal by Skyla Dawn Cameron
books2read.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Scheduled Post: Big Kobo sale is live! Solomon's Seal is 99c in eBook and just $6.99 in audio until December 1. Find sales at many other stores (Apple, Smashwords) as well, all links here: books2read.com/solomon-s-seal
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A massive deal good only through 12/1, but *perfect* for Small Business Saturday.
Our friends at Bad Hand Books are offering 30% off using the code BADFRIDAY25. You can pre-order the subscription to my seven-volume Shadow Saga and save $45!! That's nuts!
badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...
Our friends at Bad Hand Books are offering 30% off using the code BADFRIDAY25. You can pre-order the subscription to my seven-volume Shadow Saga and save $45!! That's nuts!
badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...
THE SHADOW SAGA by Christopher Golden SEVEN-BOOK PAPERBACK SUBSCRIPTION (with Signed Bookplates) — Bad Hand Books
The landmark urban fantasy series—featuring Peter Octavian and a secret underworld of vampires—makes a triumphant return with new trade paperback editions at Bad Hand Books! Receive the entire seve...
badhandbooks.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A massive deal good only through 12/1, but *perfect* for Small Business Saturday.
Our friends at Bad Hand Books are offering 30% off using the code BADFRIDAY25. You can pre-order the subscription to my seven-volume Shadow Saga and save $45!! That's nuts!
badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...
Our friends at Bad Hand Books are offering 30% off using the code BADFRIDAY25. You can pre-order the subscription to my seven-volume Shadow Saga and save $45!! That's nuts!
badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...
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Heads further up: this is also reduced on UK Kobo. £1.99.
Still £4.99 on Amazon
#UKSFFBookBargains
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Still £4.99 on Amazon
#UKSFFBookBargains
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Heads further up: this is also reduced on UK Kobo. £1.99.
Still £4.99 on Amazon
#UKSFFBookBargains
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Still £4.99 on Amazon
#UKSFFBookBargains
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Have you picked up a copy of TITANCHILD by @sennydreadful.bsky.social in paperback yet?🐉
The stunning sequel to the British Fantasy Award-winning Talonsister, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices.
https://tinyurl.com/cu5w8kzn 💜
The stunning sequel to the British Fantasy Award-winning Talonsister, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices.
https://tinyurl.com/cu5w8kzn 💜
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Have you picked up a copy of TITANCHILD by @sennydreadful.bsky.social in paperback yet?🐉
The stunning sequel to the British Fantasy Award-winning Talonsister, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices.
https://tinyurl.com/cu5w8kzn 💜
The stunning sequel to the British Fantasy Award-winning Talonsister, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices.
https://tinyurl.com/cu5w8kzn 💜
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It's delicious! Black tea, orange, pineapple, lemon, cloves, cinnamon, served hot and spiked with the brown liquor of your choosing if you like extra "cheer." This is the original recipe, but now I use all fresh juices and more tea and omit the water and dial down the sugar, lol:
my #1 most favorite holiday recipe: Russian Tea
When we lived in Charleston, I hosted the annual Thanksgiving potluck for all the pediatrics residency folks, most of whom didn’t get the holiday off and couldn’t go home and celebrate …
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November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's delicious! Black tea, orange, pineapple, lemon, cloves, cinnamon, served hot and spiked with the brown liquor of your choosing if you like extra "cheer." This is the original recipe, but now I use all fresh juices and more tea and omit the water and dial down the sugar, lol:
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
It’s Small Business Saturday! All the things are on sale now through Cyber Monday at hornedlarkpress.com/our-books/
COYOTE RUN is also on sale in Ebook for $1.99 in North America. Grab a lil’ something to read for your peeps!
COYOTE RUN is also on sale in Ebook for $1.99 in North America. Grab a lil’ something to read for your peeps!
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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This shop has some fantastic invertebrate content, including one of the finest ghost mantis illustrations I've ever seen! Highly recommended on this fabulous Small Business Saturday!
Whale fall pins are now back in stock, just in time for the holidays!! The perfect gift for deep sea lovers & marine biology fans 🐋🦀
Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
Check them out here! shop.fossilforager.art
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This shop has some fantastic invertebrate content, including one of the finest ghost mantis illustrations I've ever seen! Highly recommended on this fabulous Small Business Saturday!
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Saruman the White
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Saruman the White
We’re down at the inaugural and fabulous Dublin Small Press Fair at Pearse Street Library!
Loads of brilliant publishers here of all sorts of books, journals and zines. Come say hello!
@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social @dublincitylibs.bsky.social
Loads of brilliant publishers here of all sorts of books, journals and zines. Come say hello!
@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social @dublincitylibs.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
Discussing the Female Man
The Female Man is Farah Mendlesohn's favourite science fiction novel. Melanie Fishbane has been thinking about its Jewishness. Jed Hartman h
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November 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Please boost!
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
@Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
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Oh look, yet another disaster for ordinary people caused by Tory governments abandoning social responsibility in pursuit of cost-cutting for lower taxes, which has unfolded exactly as experts predicted at the time, and clearing up the mess will now cost public money desperately needed elsewhere.
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Oh look, yet another disaster for ordinary people caused by Tory governments abandoning social responsibility in pursuit of cost-cutting for lower taxes, which has unfolded exactly as experts predicted at the time, and clearing up the mess will now cost public money desperately needed elsewhere.
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In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?
An image forms in the machine.
A classroom.
No trousers.
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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I refuse to shop anywhere in this country while they’re having “Black Friday” deals because absolutely the fuck not; we do not HAVE Thanksgiving, black friday is therefore unnatural and an abomination before the Lord and I will shop on Boxing Day like our ancestors intended
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I refuse to shop anywhere in this country while they’re having “Black Friday” deals because absolutely the fuck not; we do not HAVE Thanksgiving, black friday is therefore unnatural and an abomination before the Lord and I will shop on Boxing Day like our ancestors intended
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Just so those of you planning on participating in this year's Hogswatch know:
seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/11...
seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/11...
Hogswatch prep. – Rose-Owls and Pumpkin Girls
seananmcguire.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Just so those of you planning on participating in this year's Hogswatch know:
seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/11...
seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/11...