Amanda Saville
@acsaville.bsky.social
Writer of SFF, knitter, experimenter in baking and other food-type adventures. My fiction has appeared in Mermaids Monthly, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and Worlds of Possibility. During the day I do science! She/her
I'm so happy this story found a home with TTL! I'm proud of how it turned out, especially that I somehow managed to thread that needle between humor and sadness, which is something I'm still working on mastering (my secondary proudness is wiggling knitting into a story mwahaha).
It's day 15 of our re-read of TTL's 2025 stories and it's time for Yarn As Warm s Dragon's Breath by @acsaville.bsky.social a story of living with grief, and living with a dragon - and also a story of knitting.
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I'm so happy this story found a home with TTL! I'm proud of how it turned out, especially that I somehow managed to thread that needle between humor and sadness, which is something I'm still working on mastering (my secondary proudness is wiggling knitting into a story mwahaha).
Reposted by Amanda Saville
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
Well. It's not gonna win any awards, but I've made my first shirt. It's not great. The seams are rough and the collar is all twisted, but it is technically wearable. In my defense, I did accidentally choose hard mode by picking a stretchy knit and deciding to use my Featherweight with a zigzagger.
October 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Well. It's not gonna win any awards, but I've made my first shirt. It's not great. The seams are rough and the collar is all twisted, but it is technically wearable. In my defense, I did accidentally choose hard mode by picking a stretchy knit and deciding to use my Featherweight with a zigzagger.
YESSSSS IT IS TIME TO OBSERVE! I am so excited!
EP4ADD1::"In the shadow of the ████████'s full restoration, the inner world of the █████████ roils."
PLAY:: corru.observer
INFO:: corru.news/e4a1
PLAY:: corru.observer
INFO:: corru.news/e4a1
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
YESSSSS IT IS TIME TO OBSERVE! I am so excited!
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Do you remember?
September 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Do you remember?
UGH, FINALLY done with this shawl. It shouldn't have taken this long, but I kept missing on the halfway point (note to self: weigh the yarn next time). I had to rip back to the middle so many times you'd think I was trying to stave off rude houseguests.
But it's done and I'm freeeee!
But it's done and I'm freeeee!
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
UGH, FINALLY done with this shawl. It shouldn't have taken this long, but I kept missing on the halfway point (note to self: weigh the yarn next time). I had to rip back to the middle so many times you'd think I was trying to stave off rude houseguests.
But it's done and I'm freeeee!
But it's done and I'm freeeee!
Dessert mode: ACTIVATE!
Best Pie: Blackberry
Best Ice Cream: Salted caramel
Best Doughnut: Boston cream
Best Bar: Mint and dark chocolate
Best Cake: Chocolate truffle cheesecake
Best Other: Chocolate pasticiotti
Best Pie: Blackberry
Best Ice Cream: Salted caramel
Best Doughnut: Boston cream
Best Bar: Mint and dark chocolate
Best Cake: Chocolate truffle cheesecake
Best Other: Chocolate pasticiotti
Dessert mode: ACTIVATE!
Best pie: Dutch Apple
Best Ice Cream: Stewart's Chocolate Caramel Tornado
Best Doughnut: Marble Frosted
Best Bar: A package of Reese's
Best Cake: Ice Cream Cake
Best Other: Black and White Cookie
Best pie: Dutch Apple
Best Ice Cream: Stewart's Chocolate Caramel Tornado
Best Doughnut: Marble Frosted
Best Bar: A package of Reese's
Best Cake: Ice Cream Cake
Best Other: Black and White Cookie
Dessert mode ACTIVATE:
Best pie: New York Cheesecake
Best Ice cream: Mint Chocolate Chip (no green dye!)
best donut: Bavarian cream
Best Bar: Fig Newton
Best Cake: Boston Cream Pie
Best Other: Black and white cookie
Best pie: New York Cheesecake
Best Ice cream: Mint Chocolate Chip (no green dye!)
best donut: Bavarian cream
Best Bar: Fig Newton
Best Cake: Boston Cream Pie
Best Other: Black and white cookie
September 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Dessert mode: ACTIVATE!
Best Pie: Blackberry
Best Ice Cream: Salted caramel
Best Doughnut: Boston cream
Best Bar: Mint and dark chocolate
Best Cake: Chocolate truffle cheesecake
Best Other: Chocolate pasticiotti
Best Pie: Blackberry
Best Ice Cream: Salted caramel
Best Doughnut: Boston cream
Best Bar: Mint and dark chocolate
Best Cake: Chocolate truffle cheesecake
Best Other: Chocolate pasticiotti
Reposted by Amanda Saville
This is also how science communication works
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is also how science communication works
I have a new story out at @translunartl.bsky.social y.social! It has knitting, and dragons, and grief, and flaming hamburger!
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/y...
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/y...
Yarn as Warm as Dragon’s Breath, by Amanda Saville
After surviving yet another day of feigning pleasantness for clients and coworkers, the small, pink, pearlescent dragon sitting on Lily’s doorstep felt like one more damn problem.
translunartravelerslounge.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I have a new story out at @translunartl.bsky.social y.social! It has knitting, and dragons, and grief, and flaming hamburger!
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/y...
translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/y...
The local farm stand has figs!!! Looks like I've got an impromptu jam session tonight now!
August 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The local farm stand has figs!!! Looks like I've got an impromptu jam session tonight now!
Oh wow, it is! It was inadvertent, but I did in fact have something round and delicious - a blueberry/dark chocolate/white chocolate muffin!
happy birthday Usagi Tsukino, everyone eat something round and delicious in her honor
a cartoon girl is holding a fork and a tray of cake
Alt: Eternal Sailor Moon with a big chocolate cake, holding a huge chunk of it on a fork and chewing with eyes closed in a happy smile
media.tenor.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Oh wow, it is! It was inadvertent, but I did in fact have something round and delicious - a blueberry/dark chocolate/white chocolate muffin!
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I want ten of these.
Metal and leather straight-back dresser trunk, c.1890. It converted from steamer trunk to dresser so the traveler was not required to unpack.
June 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I want ten of these.
Once again I had a fantastic time at @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social! This continues to be one of the highlights of my year. Seeing old friends, meeting new ones, listening to clever, creative people talk about interesting things, and maybe getting just a liiiittle lost in the book sauce.
June 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Once again I had a fantastic time at @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social! This continues to be one of the highlights of my year. Seeing old friends, meeting new ones, listening to clever, creative people talk about interesting things, and maybe getting just a liiiittle lost in the book sauce.
As part of my attempts to get better at sewing clothing and my desire for more silly in my life...BEHOLD! PINK AVOPANTS!
April 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
As part of my attempts to get better at sewing clothing and my desire for more silly in my life...BEHOLD! PINK AVOPANTS!
And now, a scene of gratuitous violets.
March 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
And now, a scene of gratuitous violets.
Whew, finally finished this silken monstrosity! It's quite well traveled, having gone with me to MN and Ireland before I realized it was getting too unwieldy to travel and needed to be finished at home. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out!
March 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Whew, finally finished this silken monstrosity! It's quite well traveled, having gone with me to MN and Ireland before I realized it was getting too unwieldy to travel and needed to be finished at home. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out!
It's true!
"Why don't you buy a new centrifuge"
Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it
Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it
March 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It's true!
I keep expecting this strawberry to leap up and run off the counter accompanied by appropriate cartoony sound effects.
March 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I keep expecting this strawberry to leap up and run off the counter accompanied by appropriate cartoony sound effects.
Huh, so I am mistaken about the pollen! Apparently a dust cloud plus ash from wildfires traveling out of the southwestern US hit some rain over us last night. That's...not something I expected.
Good grief. I walk outside and the weather is 60F, the dead nettles are blooming, and there's pollen on my car. Spring hasn't sprung, it pounced.
March 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Huh, so I am mistaken about the pollen! Apparently a dust cloud plus ash from wildfires traveling out of the southwestern US hit some rain over us last night. That's...not something I expected.
Good grief. I walk outside and the weather is 60F, the dead nettles are blooming, and there's pollen on my car. Spring hasn't sprung, it pounced.
March 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Good grief. I walk outside and the weather is 60F, the dead nettles are blooming, and there's pollen on my car. Spring hasn't sprung, it pounced.
I've started playing this and omg it is FASCINATING. The aesthetic/writing is like a mix of Welcome to Night Vale and Undertale and is managing to hit that sweet spot of weird/creepy/funny/endearing that I adore.
Corru Observer continues to be one of the coolest ongoing browser games I've played in years. Whip-smart xenofiction about diving into the memories of an alien biocomputer salvaged from the ocean.
It starts out close to pure visual novel but expands and changes in ways I really don't want to spoil.
It starts out close to pure visual novel but expands and changes in ways I really don't want to spoil.
corru.observer
ATTENTION::'mindspike logging active'
corru.observer
February 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I've started playing this and omg it is FASCINATING. The aesthetic/writing is like a mix of Welcome to Night Vale and Undertale and is managing to hit that sweet spot of weird/creepy/funny/endearing that I adore.
Woohoooo! This is awesome news and I'm thrilled!
January 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Woohoooo! This is awesome news and I'm thrilled!
Oh man, we just finished watching the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and I feel like I want to scream and laugh and cry all at once.
January 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Oh man, we just finished watching the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and I feel like I want to scream and laugh and cry all at once.
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Well, we made it. If you’re reading this, the world hasn’t killed either of us yet, and whatever 2025 may bring, I think that’s worth a fistbump. Good job, y’all.
January 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Well, we made it. If you’re reading this, the world hasn’t killed either of us yet, and whatever 2025 may bring, I think that’s worth a fistbump. Good job, y’all.
Painted my nails Sailor Galaxia gold for New Year's. Less about festivity and more about feeling the need to arch my back and puff my tail up to make 2025 think I'm bigger than I actually am so maybe it won't mess with me.
January 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Painted my nails Sailor Galaxia gold for New Year's. Less about festivity and more about feeling the need to arch my back and puff my tail up to make 2025 think I'm bigger than I actually am so maybe it won't mess with me.