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Adri Joy
@adrijjy.bsky.social
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(She/her) once and future editor-criric at Hugo and Ignyte winning SFF fanzine NERDS OF A FEATHER, FLOCK TOGETHER. Dog person, ocean enjoyer, I like being elsewhere.
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Here's 10 I should read before turning into a pumpkin
Stack of books, top to bottom: Kinning by Nisi Shawl The Nightward by R.S.A. Garcia The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde The Incandescent by Emily Tesh The River has Roots by Amal el Mohtar Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling The Sovereign by C.L. Clark
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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...The universe heard me. I guess I'm definitely writing about it then
A screencap of an email about the automatic renewal of a library book, addressed to me. It's the book the thread is about, the one with a one word title that sounds like cat abacus, and now I have the book until 5 December.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I was much more restrained than Womble, he wasn't doing a good booktempting job clearly
Two stacks of books on a coffee table, spines out. They are: The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020 ed. Zhui Ning Chang and JY Tan Writing the Future ed Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst Inanna by Emily H. Wilson Wiz Duos 1, 2 and 3 from Wizards Tower Press A Rebel's History of Mars by Nadia Afifi The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny The Book of the Damned and book of the beast by Tanith Lee Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng Bourbon Penn 35 Kindling by Kathleen Jennings The Burning Circus ed. Johnny Mains Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Happy Halloween! If you're at World Fantasy Con, I, a beautiful pastel unicorn, am also at World Fantasy Con. What spookier thing could there be at a goth heavy event after all?
A picture of me, a fat white lady with a silly smile, posing in front of a hotel mirror in a pastel unicorn onesie with a fluffy tail
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Experiencing the Hugos over aeroplane wifi. Good luck to the Good Shit!
A tired looking white woman with short messy brown hair, wearing a FIYAH literary magazine t shirt and with a large, half broken set of headphones around her neck
August 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Here's Gothenburg, Sweden, scoring very high on the "best bookshops while travelling" list because not only do they have a dedicated SFF bookshop, but the first thing that caught my eye facing out was @brentclambert.bsky.social's A NECESSARY CHAOS from @neonhemlock.bsky.social! An excellent choice!
A shelf of fantasy and crossover sff novels with authors whose names start with L. A NECESSARY CHAOS by Brent Lambert is facing out, and we will forgive the shop for also having far, far, far too much Mark Lawrence...
July 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This is the best video game self portrait I've made since Wii Fit ❤️ and this time it's not even trying to shame me into doing a plank!
Part of a screenshot of the Pokémon Go character screen. A fat femme video game character wearing a Mimikyu hat and a blje and yellow dress is standing next to Dartrix, a dapper owl pokemon
July 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I hit a critic milestone! CSE Cooney's SAINT DEATH'S HERALD arrived today (in fetching yellow!) and it unexpectedly has MY PRAISE on it!

I have great taste so this is really all the information you need to pick this series up, it's brilliant.
The cover of Saint Death's Herald by C.S.E. Cooney, a bright yellow with the silhouette of a woman's face with a big headpiece of interwoven title text and animals The back cover of Saint Death's Herald. On the back are short blurbs by Kirkus, the British Fantasy Society, Strange Horizons and Nerds of a Feather, and I WROTE THE NERDS OF A FEATHER ONE (it says "whimsical gothic") The top half of an inside page of the book with three exerpts from reviews, from Booknest, Nerds of a Feather, Thornwell Books. The Nerds of a Feather one (which I wrote!) says: The broad aesthetic here is 'whimsical gothic': a real Ghormengast-y vibe, balanced with increasing nuance. Saint Death's Daughter has gone straight to the favourites list.
May 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Worldcon programming asking ChatGPT to ask File770 about panelists:
A white hand holding a mic up to an small rubbish bin, as if interviewing it for a comment. Someone has very crudely used the cut and paste tool in Paint to copy a smaller picture of the mic and the bin inside the bin, so it's like a binception situation
May 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Pity this animal, whose very poopy bumhole has just been given a warm, gentle but persistent shower...
A waterlogged white whippet in a bath, looking sad and desperate to get out, her front paws already up on the side. Her sparkling clean bumhole is not in shot.
April 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A deeply unserious animal
Same dog in the same pose as the previous picture, but now she has put her long sighthound nose down on the seat of the sofa and appears to be trying to use it as a kickstand. She is attempting to give off an aura of being comfortable and at rest but she looks like an awkward splayed out cryptid
April 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Zag is determined not to let age and reduced mobility stop her from destroying my sofa with her stupid decisions. I love this horrible creature so much...
A somewhat gaunt looking white whippet perches on the bqck of of a sofa, window in the background. She is leaning forward and staring at the camera with her ears out, looking attentive. The sofa cushion looks irreparably squashed out of shape.
April 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Zag isn't doing very well, health wise, and I may have to make a hard decision soon 💔. Please think comfortable thoughts for this ancient wobbly whippet.
A white whippet dog in a blue and grey t shirt lies on a dog bed in front of a set of Kallax shelves. Her face is in profile and her paws are tucked.
April 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Ok so what's the deal with THE SUNFORGE being so GOOD and so UFFFFH and so ICKY and so full of assholes who should not be gods and sad queers who should just be given a break instead of *gestures madly* oh my poor little ducklings
A paperback of THE SUNFORGE by Sascha Stronach lying on a blue duvet
March 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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A #transrightsreadathon TBR? Yeah, sure, I can do one of those.

Stack 1, FALTAS to SUNFORGE, I hope to read in the duration of the readathon. Stack 2, THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH to MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE, I doubt I'll get to but will read... Soon. Soon.
A stack of book spines on a table. Top to bottom they are FALTAS by Andrea Gentili, VARIATIONS by Juliet Jacques, DEAD COLLECTIONS by Isaac Fellman, GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING by R.B. Lemberg, YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY by Akwaeke Emezi and THE SUNFORGE by Sascha Stronach A different stack of books on the same table. Top to bottom: THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH by Andrew Joseph White, THE FORTUNATE FALL by Cameron Reed, THE SAPLING CAGE by Margaret Killjoy, TELL ME HOW IT ENDS by Quinton Lee, SELF-MADE MAN by Poppy Z Brite and MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE ed. Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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If you see this, and you're in the mood for this kind of thing, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
A big expanse of brownish sand, exposed at low tide, with a few footprints and a windswept feel. The sky is a wintry blue fading to white with a couple of clouds. A white whippet dog in a red coat trots towards the camera
February 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It's Zag, sniffing a door crack in a lift, for your timeline:
A top down view of a white whippet dog in a teal coat, her nose pressed up against the side of a door in a lift. You can see her inquisitive expression in her own reflection in the lift door.
January 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I got a queer beachwear selfie stick Santa in my office gift exchange and I need everyone to see how cursed this is:
A closeup of a small-ish hangable christmas ornament. A chubby Santa with a luscious, glittering beard stands in a peach satin t-shirt, gold board shorts and green and gold flip flops. On his head he wears his traditional red santa hat with a glittery fur trim. He has big blue eyes with large, made up eyelashes and his lipstick is a deep red against his beard. in one hand, he holds a selfie stick out with camera on the other end, and he's waving with the other hand to pose. A white hook and ribbon protrudes from his hat. This is a truly awful thing.
December 4, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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13. AMMONITE by Nicola Griffith. I'd be nervous to reread this in case it doesn't stand up but it absolutely blew me away when I started down the rabbithole of feminist SF and it switched me on to the brilliance that is Nicola Griffith.
The cover of the SF masterworks edition of Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
November 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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12. THE EYRE AFFAIR by Jasper Fforde: when I was in sixth form I was convinced I only wanted to read "smart" literary classics (and Brett Easton Ellis?!). Then I moved to a small city in China, my Mum sent me this book in a care package and it cured me of my miserable, pretentious delusions. Lucky!
November 20, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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11. Rowan of Rin is a series about a purehearted dweeb who always gets to be the Special-est boy of his village. Not a recommendation, but ROWAN AND THE KEEPER OF THE CRYSTAL has a place in my heart because it's the first book I remember writing fanfic about (a pokemon crossover, lost to time)
November 20, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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10. Let's do a couple of childhood favourites (in which I reveal my well-hidden Australian childhood): the Obernewtyn chronicles by Isobelle Carmody was exactly the kind of weird Not Like Other Girls shit I wanted as a tween and I think THE FARSEEKERS is the best one. Never did finish the series...
A cover of THE FARSEEKERS by Isobelle Carmody
November 20, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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9. CREATURES: THE LEGACY OF FRANKENSTEIN ed. David Thomas Moore. I found myself randomly thinking about this book for the first time in aaages at a Fantasycon panel (and recced it!) and it was one of the first books I reviewed on NoaF: a great quintet of stories, worth tracking down!
Cover of CREATURES: THE LEGACY OF FRANKENSTEIN
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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8. TESS OF THE ROAD by Rachel Hartman. Like many people, the older I get the less most YA novels do for me, but I hope I never outgrow this kind of gentle-kick-in-the-ass bildungsroman. One foot in front of the other.
The cover of TESS OF THE ROAD by Rachel Hartman
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Continuing!
7. THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed. This has got such a timelessly brilliant fantasy vibe to it, and it features a good (if often bleak) portrayal of individual agency in the face of systemic atrocity. The cover confuses me but can't go wrong with a birb i guess
Cover of THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
November 20, 2024 at 5:16 PM