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Emzy
@emzyesque.bsky.social
Working in libraries by day, writing (also by day)
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So once again here's that link to the project if you'd like to fight an out of order time war and unleash the butterfly effect upon reality. The next stretch goal unlocks the solo game mode.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...
The Words We Leave Behind
Rewrite history as you fight an endless war across time and reality by unleashing the butterfly effect in this duet RPG
www.kickstarter.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Please help kickstart my friend's ttrpg so I can put my editing hat on again (and buy his others! They're excellent!)
Moments like these are why I run crowdfunders - they give me the opportunity to hire people like Carly and @emzyesque.bsky.social (and Val and @blairsmithdesign.bsky.social on previous projects) to make my games shine and I consider myself lucky to be in a position to do so.
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The British Library is a copyright deposit library. If this means a wholesale undoing of copyright to redefine books, art, movies etc as 'data' to please the techbros, the creative industries and all of us working in them are screwed. And viewers and readers will get unoriginal, derivative slop.
Listening to #radio4 discussion of 'sovereign data' such as the British Libraries books as a resource that can generate income by being leased to Ai tech companies. Rather wish government had recognised its sovereign data status for the rest of us when the Library was hacked. #AcademicSky
January 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Wasn't expecting to get teary eyed over Timothy Spall and a cute robot, can recommend 'This Time Away' sci-fi short film for A+ adorable robot design.
January 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Remembered to use the vouchers on the christmas shop #winning
December 19, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Finished my latest volunteering project with The Ballast Trust! I have catalogued 190 legal documents (mostly leases and water rights) relating to the Caledonian Canal from the 1860s-1980s. Fascinating stuff! I had no idea there was an inland lighthouse on Loch Ness 💡
December 11, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Late night shift at the library and someone is practicing a beautiful piano piece one floor above; the faintest strains of jazz are filtering through the walls to lift my weary head 💜
October 31, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Thank you random lady on the street who stopped me to say my hair had made her whole day better 🩷
October 15, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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The CILIP LGBTQ+ Network has arrived on Bluesky! If you'd like to keep up with our events and connect with us, you can find us here on Bluesky, our new LinkedIn page www.linkedin.com/company/cili... and our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ciliplgbtqne...
September 9, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Book reviews (all opinions are my own etc etc):

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers -
🌟🌟🌟🌟

Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead -
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Pandemic by A. G. Riddle -
🌟🌟

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler -
🌟🌟🌟🌟
September 1, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Books I have read recently, a list. Opinions are my own.

The History of Bees by Maja Lunde -
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Seawitch by Alistair MacLean -
🌟
The Last Catastrophe by Allegra Hyde -
🌟🌟🌟
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle -
🌟🌟🌟🌟
Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster by Stephen McGinty (NF) -
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
May 26, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Of course I missed the Aurora Borealis as we were off on our first holiday since pre-Covid. Dunoon was lovely but facing the wrong direction! Any chance of a repeat now I'm back in the city, Sol??
May 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Picked up a beautiful edition of an alternative history/dystopic Scottish sci fi book from 1936, enjoying it immensely. Weirdly prescient of the war yet to come and a commentary on pacifism, nestled in a love poem to the Scottish countryside.
May 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Evil Under the Sun (1982) hired the most wonderful milliner, I'm in love!
May 2, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Just tried to read a fanfic AU where a 'librarian' MC just purposely ignored another character's obvious need for help THREE whole times and I just can't with this terrible librarianing, that's a DNF from me 😆

Someone needs to go read S. M. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science!
April 30, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Watching the 1971 Andromeda Strain and I miss when sci fi films were like THIS IS TOTALLY A REAL DOCUMENTARY AND YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW

You know you're in for a good ride
April 24, 2024 at 10:33 AM
I was having a bad day and then the opened sour cream fell out of the fridge hitting every shelf and then me 😭
April 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Thanks for all the hard work, Ingenuity!

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-i...
April 17, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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My weird horror novelette is now live!
Earworm: A walking tour of the ends of worlds
find it here: books2read.com/u/3kOvKn
April 7, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Boys Like Girls covered TWICE's 'I Can't Stop Me' and I need to know if there's a German word for 'that feeling when your teenage years suddenly and unexpectedly slam into your adult interests' because I am reeling 😆
April 3, 2024 at 12:28 PM
First year I could afford to go to Aye Write! and it's been cancelled due to a lack of funding. Fffffff.
March 28, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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In a "no way!" moment, SLIM, JAXA's moon lander has only gone and woken up for a 2nd time!!!

JAXA: "some temperature sensors and unused battery cells are starting to malfunction, but the majority of functions that survived the first lunar night was maintained even after the second lunar night!" 🥳🧪🔭
March 28, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of the most extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends prematurely for budget reasons. Go to www.savechandra.org to find out how to help #SaveChandra
March 26, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered.

NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.
March 12, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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North American reskeet challenge! My book won a British Fantasy Award but it never really gets mentioned outside the UK. If you want to support a British writer in 2024, can you give it a boost? Available on Amazon and other online retailers over your way!
March 12, 2024 at 12:37 AM