SpoonMan
Husband, Dad, Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Whatever Writer, Musician, Geek, Terry Pratchett Superfan, T1D, predominantly (like, totally!!!) Inattentive ADHD, Aphantasia, Ally
- @aptshadow.bsky.social saw this at Bricktober in Perth and it made me think of God's waiting room, in Service Model...
- Has anyone written a book with (multiple) foreign language words/sentences in it? Did you translate the words, and how (e.g. a glossary, footnotes, endnotes, square brackets, etc.)? #WritersCommunity #AmEditing #ComedyUrbanFantasy #Vampires #English #Greek #Thai #Swahili #Latin #German
- My favourite part of Albanese's acceptance speech was when he told off an audience member for cheering Dutton's loss and said, "In Australia, we treat people with respect." Hopefully this is indicative of how the next four years will go! #AustralianElection
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- Back at ya!
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- You know the world is a hellscape when the nicest story you've seen today is about a neglected/abused sheep! #Sheep #ItsAFunnyOldWorld
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- Usually, with such things, it'll actually be both people quoting some much earlier (circa 15th/16th century) text!!! 🤣
- Missed greatly by anyone who appreciates fine... *not* literature!!!
- #GNUTerryPratchett #TenYears 😭 I wrote this eulogy at the time: wp.me/p8YcHa-A ...and this piece of fan-fiction shortly afterwards: wp.me/p8YcHa-r Apologies if you've read them before, but if you haven't I hope they make you feel less alone on a day that is difficult for all Pratchett fans!
- I just forgot the name of #DeathInParadise and accidentally called it "Desert Island Deaths", and now I can't unthink it!
- Anyone else write lots of comments like this to themselves, when editing their own manuscript? #AmEditing #WritersLife #Rewrite #Writing #Editing #ComedyUrbanFantasy #Vampires
- With the #AustrlianElections coming up soon, I thought it would be a good time to remind people that if they don't want this country to turn into an analogue of... that other one *shudder*, then you need to make sure that Dutton and his cronies don't get into power! #Vote #Politics #DoTheRightThing
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- I don't know if it's available outside of Australia but Planet American does a great job of deconstructing what's going on in Bonkersland! iview.abc.net.au/show/planet-...
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- Starter Villain is a lot of fun! I'd also highly recommend The Kaiju Preservation Society!!!
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- Our cat is not winning hide and seek any time soon!!!
- A reply I posted seemed to bring much joy to those who saw it, so I thought I might start posting my collection of messages from HEX - the Discworld's premiere thinking machine. But, in case you're interested, here's the background to how it all started... #Discworld #TerryPratchett #HEX 🧵
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- A new meaning of "ambiguous" which I've not heard before, meaning "non-existent"!
- There are Star Wars LEGO MOCs, and then there is this guy!
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- That's why I'm whiskery, rather than whiskey 😁
- I'm more like Whiskery in the Car!
- Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
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- I love that the male is waiting patiently in the middle of the web to pass on his genetic code then get eaten!
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- I came here looking for dinosaurs in hats and was disappointed at how few there were!
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- I mean... 🤣
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View full threadDon't forget the Colons and Nobbys!!! 😁
- Also, when you read about Susan being at the Quirm College for Young Ladies, you know exactly what to expect because of Sybil's occasional references to it... AND, it gives you more insight into Sybil, giving her a much fuller character.
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- There are also the cameos by characters who are actually not the characters but versions of them from different places.
- There are many things about Monty Python which make it difficult to watch in this day and age but, apropos of nothing, this has been stuck in my head all day. You're welcome! #MontyPython
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- I've created my own feeds, and block certain keywords on my Following – to get away from the politics. But I also have one specifically *just* for politics... So I can go there if I need a quick hit of Reality™.
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- It's brilliant that her name is Ursula (look up the meaning of the name, if you don't know it)! 😁
- Have you seen this, @bobbyllew.bsky.social
- This is how I'm feeling at the moment... How's everyone else doing?
- She's not wrong!
- Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi is an extremely fun read. An excellent distraction! app.thestorygraph.com/books/af548a...
- If you see this, post a gif from one of your comfort shows.
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- It gets better and better as you go on!
- Rincewind is one of my favourite characters. His belief that "there has to be a better way" really resonates with me.
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- The "Children of..." trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Changed my view of spiders!
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- As @lyse.bsky.social says, feeds are what you need. You can even build your own with skyfeed.app
- Lol!
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- I'm editing my manuscript at the moment. Reading through and adding notes on my Kindle is actually much more natural than doing it in Word. Outside that, I'm still creeping through London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew. An amazing book but better in short bursts.
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- I've been warned... Agents and publishers aren't fans of footnotes (neither are e-readers)!!!
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- Whaddya mean, "weird"? 🤣
- "In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part… See… Great A'Tuin the turtle comes . . . " - Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic. Opening lines of the first book for our inaugural Bluesky post! #FirstLineFriday
- So pleased you've arrived, we've been waiting for you!
