Gemma
@gemiswriting.bsky.social
SFF writer, chiefest and greatest of calamities, also sings a bit. She/her
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Good morning, and rememver, no matter how bad a day you may have, you’re not Samuel Pepys who, overnight, had shit in the chimney. Twice.
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Good morning, and rememver, no matter how bad a day you may have, you’re not Samuel Pepys who, overnight, had shit in the chimney. Twice.
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Looking for playtesters for an upcoming sci-fi horror game kind of like shadowdark meets ten candles meets mothership.
If you want to test it with your group, send me a DM on Bluesky and I’ll send you a free copy.
If you want to test it with your group, send me a DM on Bluesky and I’ll send you a free copy.
September 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Looking for playtesters for an upcoming sci-fi horror game kind of like shadowdark meets ten candles meets mothership.
If you want to test it with your group, send me a DM on Bluesky and I’ll send you a free copy.
If you want to test it with your group, send me a DM on Bluesky and I’ll send you a free copy.
Tyler has never had a girlfriend because he’s into musicals, birdwatching and crosswords?!
PROTECT HIM.
#TheTraitors
PROTECT HIM.
#TheTraitors
January 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Tyler has never had a girlfriend because he’s into musicals, birdwatching and crosswords?!
PROTECT HIM.
#TheTraitors
PROTECT HIM.
#TheTraitors
##HiddenBooksGame? Completed it, mate.
November 14, 2024 at 1:38 PM
##HiddenBooksGame? Completed it, mate.
I swear the #HiddenBooksGame comes round quicker every year. I am already well on the way to a nervous breakdown.
November 14, 2024 at 12:29 PM
I swear the #HiddenBooksGame comes round quicker every year. I am already well on the way to a nervous breakdown.
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"The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free," Utah Phillips said, and as far back as Epictetus as not farther, people who have lived through extreme privation havs taught that part of survival is keeping your mind free and unsubjugated.
There are five words that might help you survive what's coming: "I don't recognize your authority." Even if you can't say them out loud, you can keep saying them inside your own head.
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5 Words That Might Help You Deal With What's Coming
(Hey, before I get started, please please pre-order my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster. It’s about queer families and surviving in spite of right-wing...
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November 11, 2024 at 8:10 PM
"The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free," Utah Phillips said, and as far back as Epictetus as not farther, people who have lived through extreme privation havs taught that part of survival is keeping your mind free and unsubjugated.
Soooo, turns out I didn't actually sprain it.
Kinda broke my foot a bit though.
Kinda broke my foot a bit though.
Well, I managed to do the most me thing ever today. Fell down some stairs and sprained my ankle because I was excited about seeing a dog.
October 18, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Soooo, turns out I didn't actually sprain it.
Kinda broke my foot a bit though.
Kinda broke my foot a bit though.
Well, I managed to do the most me thing ever today. Fell down some stairs and sprained my ankle because I was excited about seeing a dog.
October 17, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Well, I managed to do the most me thing ever today. Fell down some stairs and sprained my ankle because I was excited about seeing a dog.
A nurse told me I have 'beautiful veins' today, so I guess that's just one more reason to be furious that a sexy vampire has not yet claimed me as his eternal bride.
October 10, 2024 at 4:22 PM
A nurse told me I have 'beautiful veins' today, so I guess that's just one more reason to be furious that a sexy vampire has not yet claimed me as his eternal bride.
They cancelled it. Fuck's SAKE
Back on here for the first time in months (hello!) to say if you haven't seen KAOS on Netflix yet, you should remedy that at the earliest opportunity. Gods, I hope they don't cancel it.
October 8, 2024 at 8:39 AM
They cancelled it. Fuck's SAKE
Looking forward to spending spooky season on the Curtis Brown Creative course in Writing Gothic and Supernatural Fiction, devised by the brilliant Kirsty Logan 🦇👻
September 26, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Looking forward to spending spooky season on the Curtis Brown Creative course in Writing Gothic and Supernatural Fiction, devised by the brilliant Kirsty Logan 🦇👻
No. Vast, unfathomable quantities of no.
September 24, 2024 at 3:05 PM
No. Vast, unfathomable quantities of no.
Back on here for the first time in months (hello!) to say if you haven't seen KAOS on Netflix yet, you should remedy that at the earliest opportunity. Gods, I hope they don't cancel it.
September 24, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Back on here for the first time in months (hello!) to say if you haven't seen KAOS on Netflix yet, you should remedy that at the earliest opportunity. Gods, I hope they don't cancel it.
So Harry from The Traitors, a young man who ingratiated himself with a bunch of people in a big house then murdered them to gain a fortune, isn't quite as working class as he made out? Wait...
January 30, 2024 at 10:34 AM
So Harry from The Traitors, a young man who ingratiated himself with a bunch of people in a big house then murdered them to gain a fortune, isn't quite as working class as he made out? Wait...
We’re watching RENFIELD tonight, so I’m making a paprika-heavy stew in honour of poor delicate-stomached Jonathan Harker.
January 22, 2024 at 7:31 PM
We’re watching RENFIELD tonight, so I’m making a paprika-heavy stew in honour of poor delicate-stomached Jonathan Harker.
If you're feeling a bit down, you can always buy a discounted advent calendar and just tear into it however you like. You'll have chocolate, but more importantly you will feel like an all-powerful chaotic entity who can literally devour time.
January 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
If you're feeling a bit down, you can always buy a discounted advent calendar and just tear into it however you like. You'll have chocolate, but more importantly you will feel like an all-powerful chaotic entity who can literally devour time.
Finally did Barbenheimer over the weekend and, after all the unbridled feminist joy of the former, it was extra disappointing (if not remotely surprising) to see two terrific actresses being relegated to the roles of ‘Annoyed’ and ‘Boobs’.
January 2, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Finally did Barbenheimer over the weekend and, after all the unbridled feminist joy of the former, it was extra disappointing (if not remotely surprising) to see two terrific actresses being relegated to the roles of ‘Annoyed’ and ‘Boobs’.
Went to hospital for a minor thing this morning and am always mildly alarmed at the large number of crows that hang around outside.
November 9, 2023 at 10:36 AM
Went to hospital for a minor thing this morning and am always mildly alarmed at the large number of crows that hang around outside.
I don't care how easy it is, STOP SQUEEZING PUPPIES YOU MONSTER
October 25, 2023 at 3:14 PM
I don't care how easy it is, STOP SQUEEZING PUPPIES YOU MONSTER
Knowledgeable plant people, what is this please?
October 21, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Knowledgeable plant people, what is this please?
I don’t often listen to audiobooks, but since I now get 15 hrs a month on Spotify, can anyone recommend a book that works particularly well in this format, or has a really great narrator?
October 8, 2023 at 7:30 PM
I don’t often listen to audiobooks, but since I now get 15 hrs a month on Spotify, can anyone recommend a book that works particularly well in this format, or has a really great narrator?
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People who are like "but I can't make art so I need AI to make art" don't actually want to *make* art, they just want art with as little effort and cost as possible.
EVERYONE can make art. If the art you make in your chosen form isn't as good as you want, you have to practice. The end.
EVERYONE can make art. If the art you make in your chosen form isn't as good as you want, you have to practice. The end.
September 27, 2023 at 1:33 PM
People who are like "but I can't make art so I need AI to make art" don't actually want to *make* art, they just want art with as little effort and cost as possible.
EVERYONE can make art. If the art you make in your chosen form isn't as good as you want, you have to practice. The end.
EVERYONE can make art. If the art you make in your chosen form isn't as good as you want, you have to practice. The end.
Sign me up for this velvet socialism thing, it sounds goth af
October 4, 2023 at 10:16 PM
Sign me up for this velvet socialism thing, it sounds goth af
Last week's read, which I bought purely for the title, was MURDER YOUR EMPLOYER by Rupert Holmes - the 1950s-set story of three students at a secret university for would-be killers with a just cause. A touch overlong, but clever, darkly satisying and wickedly funny.
October 2, 2023 at 12:44 PM
Last week's read, which I bought purely for the title, was MURDER YOUR EMPLOYER by Rupert Holmes - the 1950s-set story of three students at a secret university for would-be killers with a just cause. A touch overlong, but clever, darkly satisying and wickedly funny.
