Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Not straight. Doctor, if you absolutely insist.

Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer.

I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

Writer exiled in Eastern Washington state. Over-opinionated and often wrong. Trying to survive lupus.

Reader especially of sf/f, digital professional, knitter. she/her
Married to a former Worldcon chair.

YA scifi author 🚀 | spoonie ♿️ | player of Nintendo games 🎮 | aro-ace :heart_ace: | #faithfullyLGBT ✝️🏳️‍🌈
📚: THE IAMOS TRILOGY (Snowy Wings Publishing), CHEERLEADERS FROM PLANET X (The Kraken Collective)
Cozy fantasy as @elisakeyston: NORTHWEST MAGIC (Crimson Fox Publishing)

DRM-free, waitless ebooks from independent presses, now in the fediverse. Not Am*zon. Toots by @MichaelJDeLuca

Scientist, writer, large bug. Winner of a Nebula, World Fantasy Award, Aurora Award, and Subjective Chaos Award! Hugo, Ignyte, BFA, and Locus finalist. Very tired. NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US AND OTHER STORIES out May 2023 from Undertow Publications!

'Mary Robinette' like 'Mary Anne.'
Nebula & Hugo-awarded author, puppeteer, & narrator (she/her) http://patreon.com/maryrobinette

Me:
Reading SF&F since about age 9, friends with LGBTQ people since age 16, working in software/tech since I was 16, practicing Zen since 17 or 18, on Internet by late 1980s. I helped invent modern credit card terminals at Verifone in 1980s, founded small ISP LavaNet in 1994, back to sw dev from 2005 on.

Usenet (talk.bizarre), Making Light, Twitter.
"I'm normal by Cubetown standards."

Mostly here to chat, banter, & boost my friends & favorite writers.

Cis/bi, he/him, relaxed about it.

Chicken tender. Squeezeboxer. Depressed solarpunk utopian. Luddite. Civic technologist. Appreciator of public transit infrastructure. Neutral good.

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header: a white chicken in the middle of a corridor on the Starship Enterprise, next to an open door to a cargo bay full of straw bales.

avatar: my eyes creepily 'shopped onto my upside-down chin.

#NoIndex #NoArchive #NoAI #NoGPT

Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better.

World Fantasy, Nebula, Tiptree finalist repped by Russ Galen. Curator of happiness. Gamer, parent, computer science student, language nerd, cancer brat. Whatever pronouns you like.

My header shows my urban fantasy trilogy - BORDERLINE, PHANTOM PAINS, and IMPOSTOR SYNDROME, against a downtown L.A. backdrop. My profile pic shows an androgynous middle aged white person with buzzed hair, smiling warmly but perhaps a little shyly.

Writer of fiction and poetry. Maker of paper games. #disabled. she/her
My scale is joy.
#videogames #zines

currently playing: #TheGardenPath #PaperTrail #FightsInTightSpaces #ThePluckySquire #Bloomtown

I boost your cool or beautiful things if they have alt text.
Avatar is me as a Stardew Villager. I'm a white woman with glasses and a witch hat. (https://jazzybee.itch.io/sdvcharactercreator)

Author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent & more. Also 1/2 of M.A. Carrick. (she/her)

Hi, I’m Silver Moss! 🤍
local cryptid creature in Cascadia (PNW NA)
🏳️‍🌈 + ♿️


- Visualizing Long Cov: @illmarks
- BookWyrm: @moss

into:
- wildlife, hopepunk, creativity
- currently: writing my 1st book, fountain pen art, ceramics
- no niche
- now with horrific long covid DLC! 🪫🥄
- librarian @ a zen buddhist center

meta:
- still committing to a kind connective presence on fedi

- only boosts w/ alt text
- rare #alt4me then edits
- fedi 2022

"And so goes he forth: a clamless shell—a man of straw—a house untenanted—a futile, motile void"-Krazy Kat

(mute #FediFC to miss my soccer posts)

Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of SF, fantasy & horror. And host of the Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)

SFF booknerd; calligrapher; Islamic geometric art doer; figure skating appreciater; coffee-drinking, granola-baking, tofu-eating wokeratum; psycholinguist by vocation, fretful porpentine by aspiration.

Header image: 2 repeats of an Islamic geometric tile pattern from the Alhambra Palace

Avatar: single repeat of a pattern from the Royal Alcazar of Seville

Contributer at Nerds of A Feather (http://www.nerds-feather.com/)

#nobot #nosearch

Retired software engineer. Progressive lefty from trade-union socialist communist family. Neurodivergent (ADD, OCD) & physically disabled. Interested in a lot of things including photography, computing, art, SFF, experimental video, astrobiology, complex adaptive systems, poetry, visual mathematics …
#Fractals, #ReactionDiffusion, #GenerativeArt, #CellularAutomata.

Allergic to libertarianism, AI hype, trans-humanism, crypto currency & web3.

𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬.

Grew up in Beirut and Tehran. Knitter, potter, meditator. Hard of hearing and making friends with silence. Trauma therapist. Married to the lovely @ScottPerkins 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM #TransRights #lupus

Nebula-nominated, award-winning science fiction author. Member of the Many Worlds shared world writing collective. Dogs, beer, spaceships, football ⚽️. A fifth of @darklylem.

Headshot by Erica Poole

writer; research gardener; seed-saver; craft brewer; ageing anti-authoritarian, apprentice human being