Sophie Beer
@sophiebeerdraws.bsky.social
Kids author and illustrator✨☀✨
Into books and equality. She/her
Debut MG 'Thunderhead' out now with A&U
Into books and equality. She/her
Debut MG 'Thunderhead' out now with A&U
In extremely unhip news, I have been digital minimalist-pilled and am quitting social media for a month tomorrow, the longest I've gone without it in sixteen years.
Sorta banking on myself developing Matilda-esque powers with all of the extra brain space I'll have. Or I'll just be really bored.
Sorta banking on myself developing Matilda-esque powers with all of the extra brain space I'll have. Or I'll just be really bored.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
In extremely unhip news, I have been digital minimalist-pilled and am quitting social media for a month tomorrow, the longest I've gone without it in sixteen years.
Sorta banking on myself developing Matilda-esque powers with all of the extra brain space I'll have. Or I'll just be really bored.
Sorta banking on myself developing Matilda-esque powers with all of the extra brain space I'll have. Or I'll just be really bored.
4yo cried out for me because he had some VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS to ask:
- If fish drink oxygen in water, can humans drink oxygen in water too?
- If a snake bites another snake, will it get poisoned?
- Did triceratops peck like a chicken because they had beaks?
I fear I gave insufficient answers.
- If fish drink oxygen in water, can humans drink oxygen in water too?
- If a snake bites another snake, will it get poisoned?
- Did triceratops peck like a chicken because they had beaks?
I fear I gave insufficient answers.
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
4yo cried out for me because he had some VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS to ask:
- If fish drink oxygen in water, can humans drink oxygen in water too?
- If a snake bites another snake, will it get poisoned?
- Did triceratops peck like a chicken because they had beaks?
I fear I gave insufficient answers.
- If fish drink oxygen in water, can humans drink oxygen in water too?
- If a snake bites another snake, will it get poisoned?
- Did triceratops peck like a chicken because they had beaks?
I fear I gave insufficient answers.
Anyone in Australia know a kid who would love a Rumi jacket for Christmas and whose parents are doing it tough? I'm getting one for my kid, may as well get two!
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Anyone in Australia know a kid who would love a Rumi jacket for Christmas and whose parents are doing it tough? I'm getting one for my kid, may as well get two!
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with Bluey taking off in America there will be a whole future generation hungry for more a Brisbane-centric pop culture. They will listen to Regurgitator. They will read Praise by Andrew McGahan.
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
with Bluey taking off in America there will be a whole future generation hungry for more a Brisbane-centric pop culture. They will listen to Regurgitator. They will read Praise by Andrew McGahan.
Had a wild moment today in which my four-year-old was like I HATE SUMMER. I asked him why, thinking he would say, ya know, the heat, but instead he was like, 'I hate that it just rains all the time!'.
I realised, nearly every summer of his life so far has been a La Niña due to climate change.
I realised, nearly every summer of his life so far has been a La Niña due to climate change.
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Had a wild moment today in which my four-year-old was like I HATE SUMMER. I asked him why, thinking he would say, ya know, the heat, but instead he was like, 'I hate that it just rains all the time!'.
I realised, nearly every summer of his life so far has been a La Niña due to climate change.
I realised, nearly every summer of his life so far has been a La Niña due to climate change.
The baby is starting to get a sense of personhood. I was running through the names of all the family members and ended it with, 'And what's your name?'. He pointed to himself and said 'BubbaDadda.'
Power move ngl
Power move ngl
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The baby is starting to get a sense of personhood. I was running through the names of all the family members and ended it with, 'And what's your name?'. He pointed to himself and said 'BubbaDadda.'
Power move ngl
Power move ngl
The internet is healing (aka I have set up a private account on here to air my WOES, LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT IT.)
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The internet is healing (aka I have set up a private account on here to air my WOES, LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT IT.)
Tonight, for the first time in months, I don't have to do any work.
I...don't know what to do with myself.
I...don't know what to do with myself.
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Tonight, for the first time in months, I don't have to do any work.
I...don't know what to do with myself.
I...don't know what to do with myself.
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I'm so sorry to hear this. It's against commonsense, medical knowledge, the wishes of children, parents and specialised doctors who deal carefully with complex situations. It's just discrimination by Qld conservatives of very little brain who'd rather ban something than try to understand it.
In an abhorrent turn of events, Queensland's Health Minister - Tim Nicholls - has reinstated a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s first ban unlawful.
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I'm so sorry to hear this. It's against commonsense, medical knowledge, the wishes of children, parents and specialised doctors who deal carefully with complex situations. It's just discrimination by Qld conservatives of very little brain who'd rather ban something than try to understand it.
Literally evil villain type shit.
In an abhorrent turn of events, Queensland's Health Minister - Tim Nicholls - has reinstated a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s first ban unlawful.
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Literally evil villain type shit.
Absolutely losing it that the special police unit investigating the Louvre heist is called the Paris Brigade for the Repression of Banditry 😭
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Absolutely losing it that the special police unit investigating the Louvre heist is called the Paris Brigade for the Repression of Banditry 😭
Every podcast now is just 'Are Tech Bros and their obsession with AI destroying the world? First, we'll hear from today's sponsors, an AI security tech startup!'
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Every podcast now is just 'Are Tech Bros and their obsession with AI destroying the world? First, we'll hear from today's sponsors, an AI security tech startup!'
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get his arse menswear guy
how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
get his arse menswear guy
American saying the name Tara:
"Terror"
"Terror"
October 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
American saying the name Tara:
"Terror"
"Terror"
GIVE 👏 HER 👏 THE 👏 PULITZER www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Where’s her Pulitzer already? Joanna Newsom’s 20 best songs – ranked!
Ten years on from the release of her rococo masterpiece, Divers, we count down the singer-songwriter-harpist’s most beautiful and devastating tracks
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
GIVE 👏 HER 👏 THE 👏 PULITZER www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
I bought five guppies for my 200L backyard pond on Sunday and now I ONLY HAVE TWO LEFT???? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER THREE? The pond has heaps of plants covering the surface so I don't think they could have been plucked off by birds. Call Poirot, a MURDER has happened.
October 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I bought five guppies for my 200L backyard pond on Sunday and now I ONLY HAVE TWO LEFT???? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER THREE? The pond has heaps of plants covering the surface so I don't think they could have been plucked off by birds. Call Poirot, a MURDER has happened.
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I just learned that the Japanese word for 'accessible' (to disabled people) is バリアフリー (baria furi)
"barrier-free" 🥹
"barrier-free" 🥹
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I just learned that the Japanese word for 'accessible' (to disabled people) is バリアフリー (baria furi)
"barrier-free" 🥹
"barrier-free" 🥹
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Yep, it's standard for many publishers now to include more politely-worded 'fuck off AI' notes on the imprint page along with copyright warnings. I altered my most recent one in a reprinted book to add illustrations to words. (We automatically own copyright but amoral criminal AI just steals it.)
I was squinting at the back of a Halloween-themed Eric Carle book to try to figure out if the art in those 'World of Eric Carle' books is actually by him or not, but then I saw something in the imprint text that was infinitely more interesting.
October 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yep, it's standard for many publishers now to include more politely-worded 'fuck off AI' notes on the imprint page along with copyright warnings. I altered my most recent one in a reprinted book to add illustrations to words. (We automatically own copyright but amoral criminal AI just steals it.)
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Yes!! This is what I've always wondered!! It seems such an obvious move, like when you buy a sewing pattern and it clearly says for personal use only, not to be used for commercial products
I'd love to hear from someone with a legal background about whether it's a viable strategy for publishing
I'd love to hear from someone with a legal background about whether it's a viable strategy for publishing
I was squinting at the back of a Halloween-themed Eric Carle book to try to figure out if the art in those 'World of Eric Carle' books is actually by him or not, but then I saw something in the imprint text that was infinitely more interesting.
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Yes!! This is what I've always wondered!! It seems such an obvious move, like when you buy a sewing pattern and it clearly says for personal use only, not to be used for commercial products
I'd love to hear from someone with a legal background about whether it's a viable strategy for publishing
I'd love to hear from someone with a legal background about whether it's a viable strategy for publishing
I was squinting at the back of a Halloween-themed Eric Carle book to try to figure out if the art in those 'World of Eric Carle' books is actually by him or not, but then I saw something in the imprint text that was infinitely more interesting.
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I was squinting at the back of a Halloween-themed Eric Carle book to try to figure out if the art in those 'World of Eric Carle' books is actually by him or not, but then I saw something in the imprint text that was infinitely more interesting.
Me but changing my name professionally and legally so I stopped being confused with the renown international children's book writer/illustrator with the same name as my birth name.
transitioning just so people finally stop getting confused that talia jane & i are two different people
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Me but changing my name professionally and legally so I stopped being confused with the renown international children's book writer/illustrator with the same name as my birth name.
My 4yo is OBSESSED with K-pop Demon Hunters (yet has not even seen the movie??) and today, while he was wearing his purple Rumi plait in his hair, a lady approached us at the cafe to say she was Korean and how proud she is to see everyone celebrating a Korean movie and 🥹😭❤️
October 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
My 4yo is OBSESSED with K-pop Demon Hunters (yet has not even seen the movie??) and today, while he was wearing his purple Rumi plait in his hair, a lady approached us at the cafe to say she was Korean and how proud she is to see everyone celebrating a Korean movie and 🥹😭❤️
I'm illustrating a boardbook on Rihanna and thus have been looking at a million pics of her, and...like...I think this might be the most beautiful a human has ever looked??? How is she real????????
October 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I'm illustrating a boardbook on Rihanna and thus have been looking at a million pics of her, and...like...I think this might be the most beautiful a human has ever looked??? How is she real????????
I'm losing my mind that there was an actual goddamn HEIST at the Louvre last night. Like, some rodenty Parisian guys were legit huddled up somewhere, chainsmoking and plotting a HEIST. They probably got the gang back together for one last job. I bet Lupin was there. Question Netflix.
October 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I'm losing my mind that there was an actual goddamn HEIST at the Louvre last night. Like, some rodenty Parisian guys were legit huddled up somewhere, chainsmoking and plotting a HEIST. They probably got the gang back together for one last job. I bet Lupin was there. Question Netflix.
US publishers: someone buy my middle grade novel about music and deafness so I can justify a book tour to the US 😭
October 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
US publishers: someone buy my middle grade novel about music and deafness so I can justify a book tour to the US 😭