Aliette de Bodard
@aliettedebodard.com
Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile:
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I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net
Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms
March 10th, 2026!
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
ICYMI: new covers for Dominion of the Fallen in the US!
New editions with introductions by @aptshadow.bsky.social and @kateelliottsff.bsky.social, plus bonus short stories
Preorder now and save your receipt, there will be a preorder bonus.
New editions with introductions by @aptshadow.bsky.social and @kateelliottsff.bsky.social, plus bonus short stories
Preorder now and save your receipt, there will be a preorder bonus.
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Finished! I'm really glad I read this, for several reasons. If you're also a fan of queer cultivation stories and sci-fi, I recommend it! @aliettedebodard.com really made some loveable characters with a great group dynamic.
Currently what I'm reading on break at work, and I'm having a lot of fun with it!
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Finished! I'm really glad I read this, for several reasons. If you're also a fan of queer cultivation stories and sci-fi, I recommend it! @aliettedebodard.com really made some loveable characters with a great group dynamic.
I have promised the kids pancakes tomorrow.
K1: homework while doing pancakes
Me: errr
K1: you do the pancakes. I do the homework and that way we can have the pancakes afterwards
K1: homework while doing pancakes
Me: errr
K1: you do the pancakes. I do the homework and that way we can have the pancakes afterwards
December 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I have promised the kids pancakes tomorrow.
K1: homework while doing pancakes
Me: errr
K1: you do the pancakes. I do the homework and that way we can have the pancakes afterwards
K1: homework while doing pancakes
Me: errr
K1: you do the pancakes. I do the homework and that way we can have the pancakes afterwards
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Just a quick reminder that I'll be giving away an early North American paperback copy of Enchanting the Fae Queen in this weekend's newsletter! Subscribe now for a chace at winning it: stephanieburgis.com/newsletter
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Just a quick reminder that I'll be giving away an early North American paperback copy of Enchanting the Fae Queen in this weekend's newsletter! Subscribe now for a chace at winning it: stephanieburgis.com/newsletter
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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BEST NEWS EVER!! 🤍
After years of prison, probation, and travel ban, Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah was able to get on a plane today, travel to London, and reunite with his family!!!!
After years of prison, probation, and travel ban, Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah was able to get on a plane today, travel to London, and reunite with his family!!!!
December 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BEST NEWS EVER!! 🤍
After years of prison, probation, and travel ban, Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah was able to get on a plane today, travel to London, and reunite with his family!!!!
After years of prison, probation, and travel ban, Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah was able to get on a plane today, travel to London, and reunite with his family!!!!
Hey, is Qobuz a decent streaming service in terms of payout to artists?
I know it's got the best rates but not sure if that's any good (the best of low pay could still be low pay, if you know what I mean)
(I don't do Spotify for ethical reasons)
I know it's got the best rates but not sure if that's any good (the best of low pay could still be low pay, if you know what I mean)
(I don't do Spotify for ethical reasons)
December 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hey, is Qobuz a decent streaming service in terms of payout to artists?
I know it's got the best rates but not sure if that's any good (the best of low pay could still be low pay, if you know what I mean)
(I don't do Spotify for ethical reasons)
I know it's got the best rates but not sure if that's any good (the best of low pay could still be low pay, if you know what I mean)
(I don't do Spotify for ethical reasons)
Me: *breaks a plate*
K1: mommy go to bed
Me: well I need to clean up
K1: yes but when you get to plate smashing you're exhausted. So go to bed
Me: ...
K1: AND NO HANDLING BREAKABLES ANYMORE
I swear the best and worst of raising kids is when they start rightfully lecturing you lol
K1: mommy go to bed
Me: well I need to clean up
K1: yes but when you get to plate smashing you're exhausted. So go to bed
Me: ...
K1: AND NO HANDLING BREAKABLES ANYMORE
I swear the best and worst of raising kids is when they start rightfully lecturing you lol
December 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Me: *breaks a plate*
K1: mommy go to bed
Me: well I need to clean up
K1: yes but when you get to plate smashing you're exhausted. So go to bed
Me: ...
K1: AND NO HANDLING BREAKABLES ANYMORE
I swear the best and worst of raising kids is when they start rightfully lecturing you lol
K1: mommy go to bed
Me: well I need to clean up
K1: yes but when you get to plate smashing you're exhausted. So go to bed
Me: ...
K1: AND NO HANDLING BREAKABLES ANYMORE
I swear the best and worst of raising kids is when they start rightfully lecturing you lol
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The very final adventicle! A message and some news from Emma and myself, and a look behind the scenes at the utter chaos of making the podcast.
I hope you are all having a rest today (or will be able to soon). ICYMI, yesterday's last Starship Alexandria advent calendar episode is here starshipalexandria.com/day-25-2025-...
Featuring an announcement, a gift, and lots of bloopers from when @aptshadow.bsky.social and I have messed up!
Featuring an announcement, a gift, and lots of bloopers from when @aptshadow.bsky.social and I have messed up!
Starship Alexandria: Day 25 - 2025 Advent Calendar
Merry Christmas! This is the twenty-fifth, and final, episode of the 2025 advent calendar. We share some news, a gift and something that will hopefully make you laugh! If you'd like to support the sho...
starshipalexandria.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The very final adventicle! A message and some news from Emma and myself, and a look behind the scenes at the utter chaos of making the podcast.
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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Personne n'en parle : pour ceux qui bossent dans la grande distribution, les fêtes de Noël c'est l'enfer.
Ereintant, abrutissant, on est ensevellis de boulot et de pression.
Le 24 on travaille, parfois jusqu'à 18-19h.
Le 26 on travaille, souvent dès 5h.
On encaisse en attendant que ça soit fini.
Ereintant, abrutissant, on est ensevellis de boulot et de pression.
Le 24 on travaille, parfois jusqu'à 18-19h.
Le 26 on travaille, souvent dès 5h.
On encaisse en attendant que ça soit fini.
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Personne n'en parle : pour ceux qui bossent dans la grande distribution, les fêtes de Noël c'est l'enfer.
Ereintant, abrutissant, on est ensevellis de boulot et de pression.
Le 24 on travaille, parfois jusqu'à 18-19h.
Le 26 on travaille, souvent dès 5h.
On encaisse en attendant que ça soit fini.
Ereintant, abrutissant, on est ensevellis de boulot et de pression.
Le 24 on travaille, parfois jusqu'à 18-19h.
Le 26 on travaille, souvent dès 5h.
On encaisse en attendant que ça soit fini.
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People seem to be lumping LLM things like ChatGPT and Grok under the broader term "AI" when actually, AI includes a lot of things like machine learning and a bunch of other tools and techniques in development.
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
People seem to be lumping LLM things like ChatGPT and Grok under the broader term "AI" when actually, AI includes a lot of things like machine learning and a bunch of other tools and techniques in development.
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Actually I'm not 100% anti-AI. I think that AI has a lot of promise in specialty applications used by specialists.
I think that large language models in general use by the public is not really a good thing for a variety of reasons.
AI≠LLM
I think that large language models in general use by the public is not really a good thing for a variety of reasons.
AI≠LLM
December 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Actually I'm not 100% anti-AI. I think that AI has a lot of promise in specialty applications used by specialists.
I think that large language models in general use by the public is not really a good thing for a variety of reasons.
AI≠LLM
I think that large language models in general use by the public is not really a good thing for a variety of reasons.
AI≠LLM
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The Onion, non-stop winning
December 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Onion, non-stop winning
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Reminding you that you can read this amazing story from WE WILL RISE AGAIN …
Go read this sweet taster from my upcoming anthology with coeditors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/where-memory...
electricliterature.com/where-memory...
In My Homeland Memories Are Forbidden - Electric Literature
“Where Memory Meets the Sea” by Laia Asieo Odo, recommended by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz, and Karen Lord
electricliterature.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Reminding you that you can read this amazing story from WE WILL RISE AGAIN …
I've even some shit and would not recommend you volunteer for said shit. It leaves a mark
I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
And as several folks are saying in the comments: curiosity about the Epstein files is understandable, but just for yourself personally, think carefully about what you want in your head forever.
It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
bsky.app/profile/sass...
It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
bsky.app/profile/sass...
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I've even some shit and would not recommend you volunteer for said shit. It leaves a mark
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I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
And as several folks are saying in the comments: curiosity about the Epstein files is understandable, but just for yourself personally, think carefully about what you want in your head forever.
It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
bsky.app/profile/sass...
It will come to you later in upsetting ways that you may not expect.
bsky.app/profile/sass...
I promise you- people think they want to know the lurid details- they don't. I spent 30 years reading accounts of CA/SA and that shit never leaves your head.
I'm interested in knowing who was on public payroll and didn't do their jobs. And I'm happy to wait for the truth so it sticks.
I'm interested in knowing who was on public payroll and didn't do their jobs. And I'm happy to wait for the truth so it sticks.
December 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.
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I genuinely do not understand why so many people are so interested in other people's personal relationships, ok so this person doesnt talk to their dad, cool, am I their dad and if not why do I even care
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I genuinely do not understand why so many people are so interested in other people's personal relationships, ok so this person doesnt talk to their dad, cool, am I their dad and if not why do I even care
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if you’re new to bsky and look for a french lesbian artist who draws women and also likes mecha, I got you covered
December 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
if you’re new to bsky and look for a french lesbian artist who draws women and also likes mecha, I got you covered
(I've signed up for the project, not sure they actually get a lot of people in my neck of the woods but worth trying)
Well that's me weeping then
So lovely
So lovely
Loose Ends in 60 Seconds 🩷
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
(I've signed up for the project, not sure they actually get a lot of people in my neck of the woods but worth trying)
Oooof
Time again to share the incredible and poingant "Christmas Tree" by James Merrill. Written during what he knew would be his last illness as he was looked after by friends and family.
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Oooof
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Actually if someone has a nice atmospheric shot of flooded modern city ruins / a subway especially that would also serve.
Sorry, clarification - I have an immediate need for an
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Illustration to go with a translation of my short story Children of Dagon and wondered if anyone here had a piece showing a seal/human creature - ideally with a ruined city landscape - ready to go, that I could haggle for. Should be SFW
Any artists out there got an available (non AI) picture of what could be a bioengineered seal/aquatic human?
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Actually if someone has a nice atmospheric shot of flooded modern city ruins / a subway especially that would also serve.
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Well that's me weeping then
So lovely
So lovely
December 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Well that's me weeping then
So lovely
So lovely
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Please enjoy this Palestine folktale in which Jesus grants wishes to a good hearted bandit who uses them to prank Azrael, the Angel of Death: soniasulaiman.com/2023/07/01/p...
Palestinian Folktale: Francesco and the Angel of Death
Today I bring you the Palestinian folktale of Francesco and Azrael, the Angel of Death. Also featuring a cameo by Jesus. ‘Death’ by Evelyn de Morgan 1881. Francesco was a soldier of Kin…
soniasulaiman.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Please enjoy this Palestine folktale in which Jesus grants wishes to a good hearted bandit who uses them to prank Azrael, the Angel of Death: soniasulaiman.com/2023/07/01/p...
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Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally
Please see it if you’re curious
Please see it if you’re curious
Takarazuka Revue “Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight" Worldwide streaming／『悪魔城ドラキュラ』全世界 動画配信実施
YouTube video by 宝塚歌劇 公式チャンネル Takarazuka Revue Company
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally
Please see it if you’re curious
Please see it if you’re curious