Ida Keogh
@idakeogh.bsky.social
Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. she/her
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Ida Keogh
@idakeogh.bsky.social
· Dec 3
a white cat is laying on its back on the floor with the words `` hello there '' .
Alt: A white cat is laying on its back on the floor waving its cute little paws, with the words 'HELLO THERE!'
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HELLOOO! I appear to have a flurry of new followers! Welcome lovelies! Here you will find writing news and musings, reading recommendations, maybe some art, #momentsofbeauty and probably some cats. I'm hella queer and neurospicy. I love posts (or replies!) that teach me new things or make me think.
January 4, 2026 at 5:09 PM
It's very rare you get to read something so astonishingly beautiful. I'm in tears. Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social 💙
“Ichthyosis” is live on @fantasymagazine.bsky.social and free to read! I will forever love Fantasy Magazine for giving my story such a gorgeous home. If you’re in the mood for animal transformations, a horror of the body & home, a sea and an unmooring, then this is the story for you. 💙
the time has come
the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
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the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
January 4, 2026 at 6:53 AM
It's very rare you get to read something so astonishingly beautiful. I'm in tears. Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social 💙
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
January 1, 2026 at 8:19 AM
I love this time of year, when @runalongwomble.bsky.social tries to cut down my TBR instead of adding to it for once!
Maybe next year I will read more books than I purchase... 🧐🤩🤣
#amreading
Maybe next year I will read more books than I purchase... 🧐🤩🤣
#amreading
I challenge you! Too many books in your TBR? Fear not I a kindly Womble Booktempter have my annual TBR Challenge to help you read great books and have some space on the shelves www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...
The 2026 BookTempter’s TBR Challenge — Runalong The Shelves
Hellooo!! Occasionally I am weirdly accused of just wanting to make your TBR piles creak but deep down I just want to help! To Be Read Piles and reading are said to be different hobbies but I say we ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
December 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I love this time of year, when @runalongwomble.bsky.social tries to cut down my TBR instead of adding to it for once!
Maybe next year I will read more books than I purchase... 🧐🤩🤣
#amreading
Maybe next year I will read more books than I purchase... 🧐🤩🤣
#amreading
This is my kind of nerdery - absolute attention to detail. And given the number of people who will now be watching both intently to make their own comparisons, possibly the best Rickroll of all time, where you know it's happening but you feel compelled to do it anyway. Bravo. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is my kind of nerdery - absolute attention to detail. And given the number of people who will now be watching both intently to make their own comparisons, possibly the best Rickroll of all time, where you know it's happening but you feel compelled to do it anyway. Bravo. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I spent Christmas on the Jurassic coast, and had a wonderful hike on Boxing Day. There were still a lot of funghi to be found, so please enjoy each tiny #momentofbeauty 🍄🍄🟫
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I spent Christmas on the Jurassic coast, and had a wonderful hike on Boxing Day. There were still a lot of funghi to be found, so please enjoy each tiny #momentofbeauty 🍄🍄🟫
Reposted by Ida Keogh
On the 2nd day of Christmas, the Peppermint Man crawls through the labyrinth of tinsel-lined cardboard boxes he's worked on the past month. He can't remember what's at the end of the labyrinth but he shudders when his mind brushes the thought. He fights the urge to chew through the cardboard walls.
December 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On the 2nd day of Christmas, the Peppermint Man crawls through the labyrinth of tinsel-lined cardboard boxes he's worked on the past month. He can't remember what's at the end of the labyrinth but he shudders when his mind brushes the thought. He fights the urge to chew through the cardboard walls.
Season's greetings from my favourite library - the one in my mum's house 🥰📚🎄💝✨
December 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Season's greetings from my favourite library - the one in my mum's house 🥰📚🎄💝✨
I've just finished Cage of Stars by @frasierarmitage.bsky.social - what a fantastic novel, huge in scope but still feels like an intimate journey. Highly recommend.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I've just finished Cage of Stars by @frasierarmitage.bsky.social - what a fantastic novel, huge in scope but still feels like an intimate journey. Highly recommend.
Journal entry 314. We have taken respite on the gas giant Arisia. I float in an atmosphere filled with charged particulates, basking in the glow of Arisia's three suns. My chromatophores soak up the light, and my skin ripples with gold and magenta and origin-coral orange. I am at peace here.
December 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Journal entry 314. We have taken respite on the gas giant Arisia. I float in an atmosphere filled with charged particulates, basking in the glow of Arisia's three suns. My chromatophores soak up the light, and my skin ripples with gold and magenta and origin-coral orange. I am at peace here.
My second outing to Bridge Command, acting as First Officer and piloting the shuttle. We absolutely did not blow up the UCS Havock, not even a little bit, honest.
#BridgeCommand
#BridgeCommand
December 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
My second outing to Bridge Command, acting as First Officer and piloting the shuttle. We absolutely did not blow up the UCS Havock, not even a little bit, honest.
#BridgeCommand
#BridgeCommand
Oh, to be cosy as a sleepy seal pup!
(📸 by me 2009 at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, 200mm lens)
(📸 by me 2009 at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, 200mm lens)
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Oh, to be cosy as a sleepy seal pup!
(📸 by me 2009 at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, 200mm lens)
(📸 by me 2009 at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, 200mm lens)
This is my new favourite bottom-dwelling carpet shark. Isn't nature grand.
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is my new favourite bottom-dwelling carpet shark. Isn't nature grand.
Very happy with the blending on this one. It's the perfect partner to the other piece, though a bit of work to do still on the glow in the dark paint so will come back to that later.
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Very happy with the blending on this one. It's the perfect partner to the other piece, though a bit of work to do still on the glow in the dark paint so will come back to that later.
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Being off work with exhaustion is difficult for someone neurospicy who likes to be busy all the time.
So I bought myself a bunch of acrylics. It turns out it is just as fun now as it was when I was a teenager, especially if you play with glow in the dark paint!
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
So I bought myself a bunch of acrylics. It turns out it is just as fun now as it was when I was a teenager, especially if you play with glow in the dark paint!
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Being off work with exhaustion is difficult for someone neurospicy who likes to be busy all the time.
So I bought myself a bunch of acrylics. It turns out it is just as fun now as it was when I was a teenager, especially if you play with glow in the dark paint!
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
So I bought myself a bunch of acrylics. It turns out it is just as fun now as it was when I was a teenager, especially if you play with glow in the dark paint!
#art #spaceart #spacejellyfish
HELLOOO! I appear to have a flurry of new followers! Welcome lovelies! Here you will find writing news and musings, reading recommendations, maybe some art, #momentsofbeauty and probably some cats. I'm hella queer and neurospicy. I love posts (or replies!) that teach me new things or make me think.
a white cat is laying on its back on the floor with the words `` hello there '' .
Alt: A white cat is laying on its back on the floor waving its cute little paws, with the words 'HELLO THERE!'
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
HELLOOO! I appear to have a flurry of new followers! Welcome lovelies! Here you will find writing news and musings, reading recommendations, maybe some art, #momentsofbeauty and probably some cats. I'm hella queer and neurospicy. I love posts (or replies!) that teach me new things or make me think.
Ooh, I do love an ocean themed list! I've read most of these, but my sonar is pinging a few lovely books I've not come across yet... 🧜🏻♀️
www.scifinow.co.uk/books/gazing...
www.scifinow.co.uk/books/gazing...
Gazing into the abyss – Ten SFF books that dive into the ocean and our relationship with it
Author Lorraine Wilson runs down 10 SFF books that tackle head-on our connection with and responsibilities toward the ocean.
www.scifinow.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Ooh, I do love an ocean themed list! I've read most of these, but my sonar is pinging a few lovely books I've not come across yet... 🧜🏻♀️
www.scifinow.co.uk/books/gazing...
www.scifinow.co.uk/books/gazing...
On the first day of Writermas my hard work gave to me:
- Five recipes!
- Three flash fictions
- Two new novellas
- Two short stories
- and one piece of poetry!
✨🍓 Seven years in the making, the manuscript for my food themed genre collection 'Taste' is submitted! 🍭✨
#Writersky #Booksky
- Five recipes!
- Three flash fictions
- Two new novellas
- Two short stories
- and one piece of poetry!
✨🍓 Seven years in the making, the manuscript for my food themed genre collection 'Taste' is submitted! 🍭✨
#Writersky #Booksky
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
On the first day of Writermas my hard work gave to me:
- Five recipes!
- Three flash fictions
- Two new novellas
- Two short stories
- and one piece of poetry!
✨🍓 Seven years in the making, the manuscript for my food themed genre collection 'Taste' is submitted! 🍭✨
#Writersky #Booksky
- Five recipes!
- Three flash fictions
- Two new novellas
- Two short stories
- and one piece of poetry!
✨🍓 Seven years in the making, the manuscript for my food themed genre collection 'Taste' is submitted! 🍭✨
#Writersky #Booksky
Reposted by Ida Keogh
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social.
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social.
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
Reposted by Ida Keogh
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
the first six months of the 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
The second half of 🏳️🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
I finally felt able to write a bit today, and have just finished typing up all five recipes to go in 'Taste', my WIP food themed genre collection.
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I finally felt able to write a bit today, and have just finished typing up all five recipes to go in 'Taste', my WIP food themed genre collection.
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
Just the final edits to go on the opening novella, then I can compile it all and send to the publisher I'm hoping will take it on!
#Booksky #Writersky
I got to the end of this and could barely contain my grief. This is so crisply, starkly perfect @mattkendrick.bsky.social
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milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
Nothing certain ~ by Matt Kendrick
The day the sun forgets to rise, Mr White sits down for breakfast at precisely twelve minutes past seven. This is in the dining room. It is Tuesday. His Tuesday breakfast is a soft-boiled egg opene…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I got to the end of this and could barely contain my grief. This is so crisply, starkly perfect @mattkendrick.bsky.social
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...
milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/11/20/n...