Andi
@andiwrites.bsky.social
SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🩼♾️
https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
Did a big tidy up and now I'm clutching my inhaler amid a cloud of dust.
There are various lessons one could learn from this, and I suspect I'll learn the wrong one.
There are various lessons one could learn from this, and I suspect I'll learn the wrong one.
January 2, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Did a big tidy up and now I'm clutching my inhaler amid a cloud of dust.
There are various lessons one could learn from this, and I suspect I'll learn the wrong one.
There are various lessons one could learn from this, and I suspect I'll learn the wrong one.
I did this one a couple of years ago and really liked it!
If you're a writer or other creator with a stack of unread nonfiction you bought for research, my Worldbuilder's Book Club reading challenge is back for 2026 with twelve prompts to help you deepen different aspects of your created worlds!
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
December 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I did this one a couple of years ago and really liked it!
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Nominations for 2026 Sir Julius Vogel Awards now open! – SFFANZ Inc
sffanz.nz
December 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!!
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
we're here — neon hemlock
www.neonhemlock.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!!
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
Happy new year everyone!
December 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Happy new year everyone!
The not-personal thing I'm personally most excited about for 2026 is Auracast. I'm not wild about having to upgrade my phone when it's otherwise perfectly good, but damn. Imagine being able to not only hear things but understand them.
December 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The not-personal thing I'm personally most excited about for 2026 is Auracast. I'm not wild about having to upgrade my phone when it's otherwise perfectly good, but damn. Imagine being able to not only hear things but understand them.
I don't get to start the new year with a new writing project this time (for overall positive reasons, but I do like doing that) so I'm letting myself cast on a new knitting project instead. I have yarn at the ready...
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I don't get to start the new year with a new writing project this time (for overall positive reasons, but I do like doing that) so I'm letting myself cast on a new knitting project instead. I have yarn at the ready...
Shocked to hear that the health portal where you could avoid the COVID screening questions by just uh clicking hide element has security flaws.
December 31, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Shocked to hear that the health portal where you could avoid the COVID screening questions by just uh clicking hide element has security flaws.
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WE'RE LIVE!
From 8 December to 2 January, you can head over to itch and support QTBIPOC creators with our mutual aid bundle!
itch.io/b/3424/qtbip...
#QTBIPOCStorm #qtbipoc #IndieGameDev #IndieDev
From 8 December to 2 January, you can head over to itch and support QTBIPOC creators with our mutual aid bundle!
itch.io/b/3424/qtbip...
#QTBIPOCStorm #qtbipoc #IndieGameDev #IndieDev
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
WE'RE LIVE!
From 8 December to 2 January, you can head over to itch and support QTBIPOC creators with our mutual aid bundle!
itch.io/b/3424/qtbip...
#QTBIPOCStorm #qtbipoc #IndieGameDev #IndieDev
From 8 December to 2 January, you can head over to itch and support QTBIPOC creators with our mutual aid bundle!
itch.io/b/3424/qtbip...
#QTBIPOCStorm #qtbipoc #IndieGameDev #IndieDev
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The pilot ep of my new literary podcast dropped today on YouTube, so if you want to watch/listen to me blab with Aussie Asian authors Emma Pei Yin & Jacquie Pham about author journeys, that would be a great way to spend your Mon eve and support us 🥰 Reposts appreciated!
youtu.be/vfhIVfjN83w
youtu.be/vfhIVfjN83w
SERVED WITH RICE PODDY SEASON 1 - PILOT EPISODE
YouTube video by served with rice poddy
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The pilot ep of my new literary podcast dropped today on YouTube, so if you want to watch/listen to me blab with Aussie Asian authors Emma Pei Yin & Jacquie Pham about author journeys, that would be a great way to spend your Mon eve and support us 🥰 Reposts appreciated!
youtu.be/vfhIVfjN83w
youtu.be/vfhIVfjN83w
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Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
My parents were usually pretty restrictive but at some point my dad showed me Alice's Restaurant well before he should have done.
Name 1 movie from your childhood you were way too young to watch.
December 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My parents were usually pretty restrictive but at some point my dad showed me Alice's Restaurant well before he should have done.
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A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Spent the morning reading and (gently) walking at the local reserve and it was a good choice.
December 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Spent the morning reading and (gently) walking at the local reserve and it was a good choice.
Putting together my list of "great books I read this year that I think you might like too" and I promise you all of them are real!
December 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Putting together my list of "great books I read this year that I think you might like too" and I promise you all of them are real!
Folks.
I finished the draft manuscript, knowing I could edit it when I had obtained & read this book.
I sent it to a couple of people who agreed to read it.
One of them responds to say they happen to have another book on the subject out from the library but haven't got round to reading it yet...
I finished the draft manuscript, knowing I could edit it when I had obtained & read this book.
I sent it to a couple of people who agreed to read it.
One of them responds to say they happen to have another book on the subject out from the library but haven't got round to reading it yet...
16 days late and this is funny and all but I actually need this book for research before I start querying publishers with a related book of my own and I'm almost ready to do that.
And I could buy it and probably should but I know if I do it will just become available.
And I could buy it and probably should but I know if I do it will just become available.
What do we think the chances the person ahead of me in the library queue will be organised enough to return the book on ADHD and dyspraxia on time?
December 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Folks.
I finished the draft manuscript, knowing I could edit it when I had obtained & read this book.
I sent it to a couple of people who agreed to read it.
One of them responds to say they happen to have another book on the subject out from the library but haven't got round to reading it yet...
I finished the draft manuscript, knowing I could edit it when I had obtained & read this book.
I sent it to a couple of people who agreed to read it.
One of them responds to say they happen to have another book on the subject out from the library but haven't got round to reading it yet...
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I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7).
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7).
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now it's time for...
(Extremely Aotearoa specific, sorry!)
(Extremely Aotearoa specific, sorry!)
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now it's time for...
(Extremely Aotearoa specific, sorry!)
(Extremely Aotearoa specific, sorry!)
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A very Parliamentary (and apocryphal) Christ-tide to you all.
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A very Parliamentary (and apocryphal) Christ-tide to you all.
Ok yes, I know it's Christmas Eve, but I really want to get this book to first readers before Christmas.
SO.
I have 3 sections of the last chapter that need substantial edits (and probably about 1.5 new words) and 21 references to fix up (which may increase with the new words).
Wish me luck?
SO.
I have 3 sections of the last chapter that need substantial edits (and probably about 1.5 new words) and 21 references to fix up (which may increase with the new words).
Wish me luck?
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Ok yes, I know it's Christmas Eve, but I really want to get this book to first readers before Christmas.
SO.
I have 3 sections of the last chapter that need substantial edits (and probably about 1.5 new words) and 21 references to fix up (which may increase with the new words).
Wish me luck?
SO.
I have 3 sections of the last chapter that need substantial edits (and probably about 1.5 new words) and 21 references to fix up (which may increase with the new words).
Wish me luck?
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this website full of elder millennials has been training for this for 25 years
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
this website full of elder millennials has been training for this for 25 years
Ok, so in The War Between the Land and the Sea, Hynes surprises everyone by confidently speaking Russian.
In the Torchwood audios, Norton Folgate was recruited to Torchwood from his National Service at the Joint Services School for Linguists.
Fan theory is developing.
In the Torchwood audios, Norton Folgate was recruited to Torchwood from his National Service at the Joint Services School for Linguists.
Fan theory is developing.
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Ok, so in The War Between the Land and the Sea, Hynes surprises everyone by confidently speaking Russian.
In the Torchwood audios, Norton Folgate was recruited to Torchwood from his National Service at the Joint Services School for Linguists.
Fan theory is developing.
In the Torchwood audios, Norton Folgate was recruited to Torchwood from his National Service at the Joint Services School for Linguists.
Fan theory is developing.
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*ahem* to anyone still doing some holiday shopping for readers who love weird family curses where everyone is queer: hi, I wrote a novella! It's called Death Valley Blooms and goddamn just look at that cover, I'll never get over it www.neonhemlock.com/books/death-...
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
*ahem* to anyone still doing some holiday shopping for readers who love weird family curses where everyone is queer: hi, I wrote a novella! It's called Death Valley Blooms and goddamn just look at that cover, I'll never get over it www.neonhemlock.com/books/death-...