ScarletBea
@scarletbea.bsky.social
* Fantasy reader, always + non-fiction
* Admin at the Fantasy & Beyond forum (https://fantasyandbeyond.net/)
* Lass adopted by Yorkshire
* Living with SBC
* Striving for a better world
* Admin at the Fantasy & Beyond forum (https://fantasyandbeyond.net/)
* Lass adopted by Yorkshire
* Living with SBC
* Striving for a better world
2025-44. The Enduring Universe, by Kritika H. Rao - 5/5
Fantastic end to an underrated trilogy!
Science-fantasy full of physics, (Hindu) philosophy, engineering, love and community, a study on consciousness, middle-age marriages/couples, disability acceptance and change, and oh so much more!
💙📚🪐
Fantastic end to an underrated trilogy!
Science-fantasy full of physics, (Hindu) philosophy, engineering, love and community, a study on consciousness, middle-age marriages/couples, disability acceptance and change, and oh so much more!
💙📚🪐
November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
2025-44. The Enduring Universe, by Kritika H. Rao - 5/5
Fantastic end to an underrated trilogy!
Science-fantasy full of physics, (Hindu) philosophy, engineering, love and community, a study on consciousness, middle-age marriages/couples, disability acceptance and change, and oh so much more!
💙📚🪐
Fantastic end to an underrated trilogy!
Science-fantasy full of physics, (Hindu) philosophy, engineering, love and community, a study on consciousness, middle-age marriages/couples, disability acceptance and change, and oh so much more!
💙📚🪐
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"Our new AI tool—"
"We've incorporated AI into—"
"This AI art—"
"We've incorporated AI into—"
"This AI art—"
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Our new AI tool—"
"We've incorporated AI into—"
"This AI art—"
"We've incorporated AI into—"
"This AI art—"
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“Dragging a ladder through long rows of bookshelves can be exhausting. It’s much more efficient to have a co-worker who’s able to reach the top shelves on their own or at least give you a boost climbing up.”
#miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books
#miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books
October 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“Dragging a ladder through long rows of bookshelves can be exhausting. It’s much more efficient to have a co-worker who’s able to reach the top shelves on their own or at least give you a boost climbing up.”
#miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books
#miragaia #stegosaur #dinosaur #paleoart #library #librarian #books
2025-43. Maps, annotated, a DK edition - 3/5
A monster of a book I asked for at the library without seeing it, haha, it's basically an illustrated history of maps.
Interesting, but far more detailed than my general interest warrants.
A monster of a book I asked for at the library without seeing it, haha, it's basically an illustrated history of maps.
Interesting, but far more detailed than my general interest warrants.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
2025-43. Maps, annotated, a DK edition - 3/5
A monster of a book I asked for at the library without seeing it, haha, it's basically an illustrated history of maps.
Interesting, but far more detailed than my general interest warrants.
A monster of a book I asked for at the library without seeing it, haha, it's basically an illustrated history of maps.
Interesting, but far more detailed than my general interest warrants.
2025-42. Things no one else can teach us, by Humble the Poet - 4/5
Great stories about his life and what he learnt, good and bad events; lots of food for thought about my own life...
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Great stories about his life and what he learnt, good and bad events; lots of food for thought about my own life...
📚💙
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
2025-42. Things no one else can teach us, by Humble the Poet - 4/5
Great stories about his life and what he learnt, good and bad events; lots of food for thought about my own life...
📚💙
Great stories about his life and what he learnt, good and bad events; lots of food for thought about my own life...
📚💙
I have today off work.
I slept 10 hours straight (minus a quick trip to loo) plus 1 hour of dozing 😶
I guess my body really needed the rest...
And since the weather is ghastly, I'm not going out and I'll be reading and watching TV for the rest of the day 😀
I slept 10 hours straight (minus a quick trip to loo) plus 1 hour of dozing 😶
I guess my body really needed the rest...
And since the weather is ghastly, I'm not going out and I'll be reading and watching TV for the rest of the day 😀
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I have today off work.
I slept 10 hours straight (minus a quick trip to loo) plus 1 hour of dozing 😶
I guess my body really needed the rest...
And since the weather is ghastly, I'm not going out and I'll be reading and watching TV for the rest of the day 😀
I slept 10 hours straight (minus a quick trip to loo) plus 1 hour of dozing 😶
I guess my body really needed the rest...
And since the weather is ghastly, I'm not going out and I'll be reading and watching TV for the rest of the day 😀
without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
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The latest entry in @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social 's blog is very interesting, about worldbuilding and the existence of several volumes of canon behind each book.
I agree with his conclusion that readers only care about 'feeling' that the background is there, it doesn't mean that it must exist
I agree with his conclusion that readers only care about 'feeling' that the background is there, it doesn't mean that it must exist
Iceberg Fantasy
The fantasy iceberg is world, history, character. The greatest proponent of it is JRR Tolkien. He gave us a one fat book (in three volume...
mark---lawrence.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The latest entry in @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social 's blog is very interesting, about worldbuilding and the existence of several volumes of canon behind each book.
I agree with his conclusion that readers only care about 'feeling' that the background is there, it doesn't mean that it must exist
I agree with his conclusion that readers only care about 'feeling' that the background is there, it doesn't mean that it must exist
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"I like to be chic. I go to school like this."
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"I like to be chic. I go to school like this."
A couple of months ago I didn't renew my subscription to a news/political magazine, it was messing with my mind, unfortunately. Instead, I subscribed to Positive News and what I read actually gives me calm.
This is one of their great stories:
This is one of their great stories:
The remote Arctic island, saved by an unshakeable community spirit
North of the Arctic Circle, beyond the maps of ancient mariners, a remote Norwegian island once thought lost to time has found new life in an unlikely industry
www.positive.news
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A couple of months ago I didn't renew my subscription to a news/political magazine, it was messing with my mind, unfortunately. Instead, I subscribed to Positive News and what I read actually gives me calm.
This is one of their great stories:
This is one of their great stories:
Another superb debunk from Emma!
I might pop over to Sheffield soon 😄
I might pop over to Sheffield soon 😄
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Another superb debunk from Emma!
I might pop over to Sheffield soon 😄
I might pop over to Sheffield soon 😄
I must be the only person in the UK who hasn't seen any series of the Traitors...
I don't know if I've got the premise wrong, but the idea of seeing a bunch of people deliberately lying and cheating to others doesn't appeal at all 😕
I don't know if I've got the premise wrong, but the idea of seeing a bunch of people deliberately lying and cheating to others doesn't appeal at all 😕
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I must be the only person in the UK who hasn't seen any series of the Traitors...
I don't know if I've got the premise wrong, but the idea of seeing a bunch of people deliberately lying and cheating to others doesn't appeal at all 😕
I don't know if I've got the premise wrong, but the idea of seeing a bunch of people deliberately lying and cheating to others doesn't appeal at all 😕
The tasks on #WorldsApart really favour some teams, it's not fair!
How can telling if some basic statements are true or false compare with having to find and identify plants in a forest??
And in so many tasks you can never get 4 coins, it's either 3 or 5...
How can telling if some basic statements are true or false compare with having to find and identify plants in a forest??
And in so many tasks you can never get 4 coins, it's either 3 or 5...
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The tasks on #WorldsApart really favour some teams, it's not fair!
How can telling if some basic statements are true or false compare with having to find and identify plants in a forest??
And in so many tasks you can never get 4 coins, it's either 3 or 5...
How can telling if some basic statements are true or false compare with having to find and identify plants in a forest??
And in so many tasks you can never get 4 coins, it's either 3 or 5...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppress...
skywriter.blue
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
@titanbooks.bsky.social , I was adjusting my shelves and I realised that the last book in Melanie Rawn's "Glass Thorns" series (book 5) was never published in the UK - did the others sell very little?
Is there any way to get it without it coming from the US with crazy shipping costs?
Thanks!
Is there any way to get it without it coming from the US with crazy shipping costs?
Thanks!
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@titanbooks.bsky.social , I was adjusting my shelves and I realised that the last book in Melanie Rawn's "Glass Thorns" series (book 5) was never published in the UK - did the others sell very little?
Is there any way to get it without it coming from the US with crazy shipping costs?
Thanks!
Is there any way to get it without it coming from the US with crazy shipping costs?
Thanks!
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
THIS IS SO GOOD
This is so funny 😄
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is so funny 😄
My new-ish neighbours keep having music/radio on all day, really loud 😭
Do I do Brit and suffer in silence or do I go knock and ask them to reduce the volume?
Shall I play the illness card? I don't normally like to do that...
Do I do Brit and suffer in silence or do I go knock and ask them to reduce the volume?
Shall I play the illness card? I don't normally like to do that...
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My new-ish neighbours keep having music/radio on all day, really loud 😭
Do I do Brit and suffer in silence or do I go knock and ask them to reduce the volume?
Shall I play the illness card? I don't normally like to do that...
Do I do Brit and suffer in silence or do I go knock and ask them to reduce the volume?
Shall I play the illness card? I don't normally like to do that...
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I have to laugh because otherwise I'd cry at how accurate this is.
Thread.
Thread.
Imagine walking into work and your boss slams a new screwdriver down on your desk, but it has a weird oval-shaped and an odd handle.
"THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."
"THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."
lolsob.
I hate this. Huge companies spend billions on a product that doesn't work. You ask "what does it do" and they say "it will revolutionize 10x everything" and you go "but how" and they say "Look just get trained on it" and when you go "it doesn't work" they go "Just git gud."
I hate this. Huge companies spend billions on a product that doesn't work. You ask "what does it do" and they say "it will revolutionize 10x everything" and you go "but how" and they say "Look just get trained on it" and when you go "it doesn't work" they go "Just git gud."
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I have to laugh because otherwise I'd cry at how accurate this is.
Thread.
Thread.
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Good climate news this week
1 UN finds global deforestation is declining
2 UNFCCC forecasts 1st-ever global emissions decline (10% by 2035)
3 South Korea: Closure of coal plants begins in earnest from 1 December, 61 coal plants to be phased out by 2040
4 China: Dirty power generation down 5.4%
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1 UN finds global deforestation is declining
2 UNFCCC forecasts 1st-ever global emissions decline (10% by 2035)
3 South Korea: Closure of coal plants begins in earnest from 1 December, 61 coal plants to be phased out by 2040
4 China: Dirty power generation down 5.4%
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Good climate news this week
1 China targets installing 120 GW of wind/ year to double capacity to 1,300GW by 2030
2 US: Last coal plan in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) shuts down
3 Morocco: 2040 set as date for coal phase-out
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1 China targets installing 120 GW of wind/ year to double capacity to 1,300GW by 2030
2 US: Last coal plan in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) shuts down
3 Morocco: 2040 set as date for coal phase-out
1/5
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Good climate news this week
1 UN finds global deforestation is declining
2 UNFCCC forecasts 1st-ever global emissions decline (10% by 2035)
3 South Korea: Closure of coal plants begins in earnest from 1 December, 61 coal plants to be phased out by 2040
4 China: Dirty power generation down 5.4%
1/4
1 UN finds global deforestation is declining
2 UNFCCC forecasts 1st-ever global emissions decline (10% by 2035)
3 South Korea: Closure of coal plants begins in earnest from 1 December, 61 coal plants to be phased out by 2040
4 China: Dirty power generation down 5.4%
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We are 5! 🎈
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We are 5! 🎈
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
I just saw this and had to share!!
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November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I just saw this and had to share!!
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2025-41. Before Your Memory Fades, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - 3.5/5
This being the third book in the series, I feel the formula is getting a bit stale. Maybe wait longer before reading the next one, because the stories are nice and do make you think...
This being the third book in the series, I feel the formula is getting a bit stale. Maybe wait longer before reading the next one, because the stories are nice and do make you think...
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
2025-41. Before Your Memory Fades, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - 3.5/5
This being the third book in the series, I feel the formula is getting a bit stale. Maybe wait longer before reading the next one, because the stories are nice and do make you think...
This being the third book in the series, I feel the formula is getting a bit stale. Maybe wait longer before reading the next one, because the stories are nice and do make you think...