Simone Heller
@herlizardness.bsky.social
sff writer & translator
curiosity in abundance | astray in worlds and words
curiosity in abundance | astray in worlds and words
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Simone Heller
@herlizardness.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Oh, wow, just when I thought about checking what's going on here - so many new faces! Hi! Hello! I'm back for a bit, I hope. What's good to know about me? I'm horrible at social media and I write short fiction at a glacial pace. So far none of my stories feature a human point of view character.
Come for the acid-spitting centipedes, stay for the calm of the forest - and for many more fabulous stories in this bundle.
Simone Heller SALE
"When We Were Starless"
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"Forever the Forest"
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"When We Were Starless"
www.infinivoxsf.com/robots-ai-1
"Forever the Forest"
www.infinivoxsf.com/space-time-4
Sale ends 10/29:
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October 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Come for the acid-spitting centipedes, stay for the calm of the forest - and for many more fabulous stories in this bundle.
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My friend @herlizardness.bsky.social has been working on a very cool (and VERY CUTE) new project - check out what she's doing at sealsignal.org and give The Seal Signal a follow?
(spoilers: delightful seal stickers designed by human artists)
(spoilers: delightful seal stickers designed by human artists)
October 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My friend @herlizardness.bsky.social has been working on a very cool (and VERY CUTE) new project - check out what she's doing at sealsignal.org and give The Seal Signal a follow?
(spoilers: delightful seal stickers designed by human artists)
(spoilers: delightful seal stickers designed by human artists)
I made a thing. Not my usual thing, but using similar skills - gathering information, structuring it, thinking up a good way to present it. Enter: The Seal Signal @sealsignal.bsky.social - a global guide to seal rescue and conservation.
October 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I made a thing. Not my usual thing, but using similar skills - gathering information, structuring it, thinking up a good way to present it. Enter: The Seal Signal @sealsignal.bsky.social - a global guide to seal rescue and conservation.
Not relevant in the big slop heap, but can AI comments/emails fuck off? It used to be easy to recognize spam comments. Now I get messages that look like someone read my posts or stories, and I’m like: oooh, exciting, let’s re… wait, why does this sound like biting into old socks on stale toast?
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Not relevant in the big slop heap, but can AI comments/emails fuck off? It used to be easy to recognize spam comments. Now I get messages that look like someone read my posts or stories, and I’m like: oooh, exciting, let’s re… wait, why does this sound like biting into old socks on stale toast?
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"In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social free to read online!
"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
plotthoundmag.com/in-the-sea-o...
"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
plotthoundmag.com/in-the-sea-o...
October 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social free to read online!
"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
plotthoundmag.com/in-the-sea-o...
"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."
plotthoundmag.com/in-the-sea-o...
If you understand German oder French, one of the best cultural history things around at the moment is on Arte: Est-il vrai/Stimmt es, dass …? Often not what you expect and food for thought and interesting perspectives in every episode.
Stimmt es, dass ...? - Geschichte | ARTE
Hat die Demokratie ihren Ursprung in Griechenland? War die Pest die schlimmste Epidemie aller Zeiten? Und haben wir früher wirklich härter gearbeitet als heute? Das Geschichtsmagazin "Stimmt es, dass ...
www.arte.tv
September 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If you understand German oder French, one of the best cultural history things around at the moment is on Arte: Est-il vrai/Stimmt es, dass …? Often not what you expect and food for thought and interesting perspectives in every episode.
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Want to explore the ocean beyond with me? "In the Sea of Binary Stars" is out now in Plott Hound Magazine issue 2, bringing you along for a speedy, but contemplative dive to the deepest depths! Chomp and tenderness, all in one blubbery package. plotthoundmag.com/issues/
Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
plotthoundmag.com/issues/
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
plotthoundmag.com/issues/
September 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Want to explore the ocean beyond with me? "In the Sea of Binary Stars" is out now in Plott Hound Magazine issue 2, bringing you along for a speedy, but contemplative dive to the deepest depths! Chomp and tenderness, all in one blubbery package. plotthoundmag.com/issues/
Want to explore the ocean beyond with me? "In the Sea of Binary Stars" is out now in Plott Hound Magazine issue 2, bringing you along for a speedy, but contemplative dive to the deepest depths! Chomp and tenderness, all in one blubbery package. plotthoundmag.com/issues/
Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
plotthoundmag.com/issues/
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
plotthoundmag.com/issues/
September 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Want to explore the ocean beyond with me? "In the Sea of Binary Stars" is out now in Plott Hound Magazine issue 2, bringing you along for a speedy, but contemplative dive to the deepest depths! Chomp and tenderness, all in one blubbery package. plotthoundmag.com/issues/
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Plott Hound issue 2 is now live!
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
plotthoundmag.com/issues/
Buy individual issue or annual subscription to access this latest menagerie:
plotthoundmag.com/issues/
September 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Working class monsters (and very nice animation): Nobody
《中国奇谭》第1话：小妖怪的夏天【奇幻 | 传说 | 故事 | Made By Bilibili】
YouTube video by 哔哩哔哩动画Anime Made By Bilibili - 欢迎订阅 -
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Working class monsters (and very nice animation): Nobody
A wonderful piece of art for all you museum & fox lovers out there!
Free Fiction Friday is here! In this mind-bending exploration of a painting, a fox pulls a Bartleby and a hunter is left questioning his purpose magazine.trollbreath.com/la-foret-de-...
September 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A wonderful piece of art for all you museum & fox lovers out there!
👀 🌊✨
We're putting the finishing touches on Plott Hound Magazine, Issue Two.
Here's a sneak peak at the cover!
Here's a sneak peak at the cover!
August 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
👀 🌊✨
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Nooooo
This app is integrated in Kobo readers and they’ve been my dream reading team for everything forever :( :( :(
This app is integrated in Kobo readers and they’ve been my dream reading team for everything forever :( :( :(
May 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Nooooo
This app is integrated in Kobo readers and they’ve been my dream reading team for everything forever :( :( :(
This app is integrated in Kobo readers and they’ve been my dream reading team for everything forever :( :( :(
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My impression is that there are currently competing views on the truth of digital images - one still looking for objective evidence, the other seeing them more as symbolic representations of a subjective reality. And both views can even be held by the same people, depending on context
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May 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
My impression is that there are currently competing views on the truth of digital images - one still looking for objective evidence, the other seeing them more as symbolic representations of a subjective reality. And both views can even be held by the same people, depending on context
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im so intensely proud of this story. we wanted to tell a story where-- like many of my fave godzilla movies-- it was about the people living in the literal shadow of godzilla
hustlers still hustle, criminals still commit crimes...and sometimes godzilla destroys the city during all of that
hustlers still hustle, criminals still commit crimes...and sometimes godzilla destroys the city during all of that
Inks from IDW's (Eisner nominated) anthology "Godzilla 70th Anniversary special"
From a story by the amazing Danny Lore @weredawgz.bsky.social
Edited by @davidmariotte.bsky.social and Jake Williams
From a story by the amazing Danny Lore @weredawgz.bsky.social
Edited by @davidmariotte.bsky.social and Jake Williams
May 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
im so intensely proud of this story. we wanted to tell a story where-- like many of my fave godzilla movies-- it was about the people living in the literal shadow of godzilla
hustlers still hustle, criminals still commit crimes...and sometimes godzilla destroys the city during all of that
hustlers still hustle, criminals still commit crimes...and sometimes godzilla destroys the city during all of that
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Today is Sprint for the Seals day! I’ll very much galumph for the seals because my body decided it’s time for a flare-up. No time to rest though - the residents and rehab patients of the Cornish Seal Sanctuary need a new pool. Me and the seals would be chuffed if you could help #sealsky
Sprint For Seals 2025
Help Simone Heller raise money to support SEA LIFE Trust
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May 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today is Sprint for the Seals day! I’ll very much galumph for the seals because my body decided it’s time for a flare-up. No time to rest though - the residents and rehab patients of the Cornish Seal Sanctuary need a new pool. Me and the seals would be chuffed if you could help #sealsky
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Lookee!
It‘s got a crocodile in it, so it must be good 😁
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It‘s got a crocodile in it, so it must be good 😁
🐊
IT‘S HEEERE!!! Something for my #writing AND my #egyptology peeps:
My retelling of the Ancient Egyptian „Tale of Uba-Oner“ from Papyrus Westcar is live in Issue 5 of The Orange & Bee.
theorangebee.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
My retelling of the Ancient Egyptian „Tale of Uba-Oner“ from Papyrus Westcar is live in Issue 5 of The Orange & Bee.
theorangebee.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
How to make a wax crocodile in 7 easy steps
Issue five: short fiction by Sonia Focke
theorangebee.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Lookee!
It‘s got a crocodile in it, so it must be good 😁
🐊
It‘s got a crocodile in it, so it must be good 😁
🐊
Today is Sprint for the Seals day! I’ll very much galumph for the seals because my body decided it’s time for a flare-up. No time to rest though - the residents and rehab patients of the Cornish Seal Sanctuary need a new pool. Me and the seals would be chuffed if you could help #sealsky
Sprint For Seals 2025
Help Simone Heller raise money to support SEA LIFE Trust
www.justgiving.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today is Sprint for the Seals day! I’ll very much galumph for the seals because my body decided it’s time for a flare-up. No time to rest though - the residents and rehab patients of the Cornish Seal Sanctuary need a new pool. Me and the seals would be chuffed if you could help #sealsky
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never surrender
March 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
never surrender
ofc 2025 is also the year to say goodbye to Murder by Death (pic from their box set). But there is one last album and one last tour at least. Another smidgen of spooky gothic-western indie, you know you want it!
March 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ofc 2025 is also the year to say goodbye to Murder by Death (pic from their box set). But there is one last album and one last tour at least. Another smidgen of spooky gothic-western indie, you know you want it!
Happy election day in Germany! Let’s make it so we can have another one and another one and another one. The work never ends!
Did I expect I’d ever have to say something like this in my life? Nope, yet here we are. Things fall apart at breakneck speed. Time to be a Bremsklotz.
Did I expect I’d ever have to say something like this in my life? Nope, yet here we are. Things fall apart at breakneck speed. Time to be a Bremsklotz.
February 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Happy election day in Germany! Let’s make it so we can have another one and another one and another one. The work never ends!
Did I expect I’d ever have to say something like this in my life? Nope, yet here we are. Things fall apart at breakneck speed. Time to be a Bremsklotz.
Did I expect I’d ever have to say something like this in my life? Nope, yet here we are. Things fall apart at breakneck speed. Time to be a Bremsklotz.
New translation just dropped, and I had a blast with this one. Survival from the point of view of a Dragonkin, need I say more? Very funny (with a few compromises to fit lengthy German words) and pretty. (Available in English as „How Not to Get Eaten by Owlbears“ by @amely.bsky.social )
February 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New translation just dropped, and I had a blast with this one. Survival from the point of view of a Dragonkin, need I say more? Very funny (with a few compromises to fit lengthy German words) and pretty. (Available in English as „How Not to Get Eaten by Owlbears“ by @amely.bsky.social )
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This is an interesting take on right's love of generative AI, but I think it's ultimately misleading. The main problem is that it compares AI slop to the work of artists. But the use of generative AI has little to do with art, and much more with stock photos and other already generic imagery
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“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This is an interesting take on right's love of generative AI, but I think it's ultimately misleading. The main problem is that it compares AI slop to the work of artists. But the use of generative AI has little to do with art, and much more with stock photos and other already generic imagery
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