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.
February 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I'm studying old images of Godzilla (for reasons) and found this gem of a film I didn't know about - Invasion of Astro-Monster!
Godzilla and Rodan are captured by flying saucers from Planet X, and taken back there to battle King Ghidorah (a three headed dragon) (1965)
Now to find a copy...
Godzilla and Rodan are captured by flying saucers from Planet X, and taken back there to battle King Ghidorah (a three headed dragon) (1965)
Now to find a copy...
February 5, 2026 at 7:53 AM
I'm studying old images of Godzilla (for reasons) and found this gem of a film I didn't know about - Invasion of Astro-Monster!
Godzilla and Rodan are captured by flying saucers from Planet X, and taken back there to battle King Ghidorah (a three headed dragon) (1965)
Now to find a copy...
Godzilla and Rodan are captured by flying saucers from Planet X, and taken back there to battle King Ghidorah (a three headed dragon) (1965)
Now to find a copy...
I love this book soooo much! And it's @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social's birthday today so a good time to share the joy and buy yourself a copy.
Who wouldn't want a slice of neurodivergent, queernorm cozy fantasy? Looking forward to reading this. OUT NOW - link in quoted post.
Out now: Magic, Maps, and Mischief 🦉
Read it for:
- strong autistic and ADHD rep 🎉
- queernorm world 😍
- themes of acceptance, kindness and the different kinds of love ☺️
- cozy, feel-good vibes ❤️
Shares greatly appreciated 😁 hope you enjoy the book!
mybook.to/magicmapsand...
Read it for:
- strong autistic and ADHD rep 🎉
- queernorm world 😍
- themes of acceptance, kindness and the different kinds of love ☺️
- cozy, feel-good vibes ❤️
Shares greatly appreciated 😁 hope you enjoy the book!
mybook.to/magicmapsand...
January 30, 2026 at 10:13 AM
I love this book soooo much! And it's @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social's birthday today so a good time to share the joy and buy yourself a copy.
Helpful Nyx so helpful with my painting!
January 29, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Helpful Nyx so helpful with my painting!
What a magnificent weekend cooking and eating my way around #Bruges! Stunning architecture, culture and ambience interspersed with beer tasting and waffle and praline making. I am replete.
January 26, 2026 at 6:44 AM
What a magnificent weekend cooking and eating my way around #Bruges! Stunning architecture, culture and ambience interspersed with beer tasting and waffle and praline making. I am replete.
Thank you @janetanderson.bsky.social and #SeedTalks for an entertaining and inspiring mermaid lecture this evening. There is always something new to learn! 🧜🏻♀️
January 15, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Thank you @janetanderson.bsky.social and #SeedTalks for an entertaining and inspiring mermaid lecture this evening. There is always something new to learn! 🧜🏻♀️
Many of you know and love Helena, a tireless convention volunteer, St John's volunteer and all round superb human being.
Her partner of more than 20 years and father of their two boys passed away unexpectedly just before Christmas.
Please help in any way you can - even just reposting. Thank you.
Her partner of more than 20 years and father of their two boys passed away unexpectedly just before Christmas.
Please help in any way you can - even just reposting. Thank you.
Donate to Help Helena, organized by Emma Leadley
Many people know Helena, and all who do are aware of her generosity, her caring nature, and her wicked sense … Emma Leadley needs your support for Help Helena
www.gofundme.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Many of you know and love Helena, a tireless convention volunteer, St John's volunteer and all round superb human being.
Her partner of more than 20 years and father of their two boys passed away unexpectedly just before Christmas.
Please help in any way you can - even just reposting. Thank you.
Her partner of more than 20 years and father of their two boys passed away unexpectedly just before Christmas.
Please help in any way you can - even just reposting. Thank you.
Ooh, look what arrived! I'm very excited about this one @catamaroon.bsky.social! Hopefully see you at @srfantasyclub.bsky.social next week for your squiggle.
January 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Ooh, look what arrived! I'm very excited about this one @catamaroon.bsky.social! Hopefully see you at @srfantasyclub.bsky.social next week for your squiggle.
This whole issue is deeply ironic to me, because I couldn't work out how to use em dashes until people started defending their use against accusations of AI abuse. And I love them! Now I use them all the time. To be clear, my writing is 100% by me—no AI needed.
#Amwriting
#Amwriting
January 6, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This whole issue is deeply ironic to me, because I couldn't work out how to use em dashes until people started defending their use against accusations of AI abuse. And I love them! Now I use them all the time. To be clear, my writing is 100% by me—no AI needed.
#Amwriting
#Amwriting
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
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
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.