Julie Le Blanc
@julieleblancwrites.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer 🚀 word nerd 🏰 crochet cultist 🧶 mama ✨
Expect Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Space, language learning, fiber crafts, and probably pictures of cats.
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Parlo italiano | Táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge
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Expect Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Space, language learning, fiber crafts, and probably pictures of cats.
Donate: www.pcrf.net 🍉
Parlo italiano | Táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge
she/her 📚
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Julie Le Blanc | Writer
Julie Le Blanc writes speculative fiction and mythological non-fiction
www.julieleblancwrites.com
Well hello there! I'm a spec-fic writer living in Ireland 🤗
🐊Do you think alligators make good pets?
🤖Robots should grow old together?
🧶Crochet might unlock a hole in the universe?
Then check out my stories at www.julieleblancwrites.com !
Also, trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️🌈
#introduction
🐊Do you think alligators make good pets?
🤖Robots should grow old together?
🧶Crochet might unlock a hole in the universe?
Then check out my stories at www.julieleblancwrites.com !
Also, trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️🌈
#introduction
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We’re celebrating the launch of Suleika Jaouad’s The Alchemy Journal!
You can find event details on Suleika’s Substack: theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/a-game-nig...
You can find event details on Suleika’s Substack: theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/a-game-nig...
💫 A Game Night, a Jar of Prompts, and John & Hank Green
You're invited: A celebration of The Alchemy Journal
theisolationjournals.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We’re celebrating the launch of Suleika Jaouad’s The Alchemy Journal!
You can find event details on Suleika’s Substack: theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/a-game-nig...
You can find event details on Suleika’s Substack: theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/a-game-nig...
#ThrowbackThursday
🐊 Part 8
"Gently Smiling Jaws", printed in @emberjournal.org
(Sept 2024)
"Albert. What was she to do with Albert?"
An old woman's love for her unconventional pet is tested when his quality of life is at stake.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/gent...
#WritingCommunity
🐊 Part 8
"Gently Smiling Jaws", printed in @emberjournal.org
(Sept 2024)
"Albert. What was she to do with Albert?"
An old woman's love for her unconventional pet is tested when his quality of life is at stake.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/gent...
#WritingCommunity
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#ThrowbackThursday
🐊 Part 8
"Gently Smiling Jaws", printed in @emberjournal.org
(Sept 2024)
"Albert. What was she to do with Albert?"
An old woman's love for her unconventional pet is tested when his quality of life is at stake.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/gent...
#WritingCommunity
🐊 Part 8
"Gently Smiling Jaws", printed in @emberjournal.org
(Sept 2024)
"Albert. What was she to do with Albert?"
An old woman's love for her unconventional pet is tested when his quality of life is at stake.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/gent...
#WritingCommunity
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
joinery like fallow earth
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
joinery like fallow earth
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / November: Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2870, 43% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is cur...
ko-fi.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
#ThrowbackThursday
🔊 Part 7
"Craft Your Own Adventure", re-printed and recorded in audio in @castofwonders.org (May 2024)
It's an absolute delight to see this brought to life by narrator Louise Ratcliffe for a Young Adult audience!
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/craf...
#WritingCommunity
🔊 Part 7
"Craft Your Own Adventure", re-printed and recorded in audio in @castofwonders.org (May 2024)
It's an absolute delight to see this brought to life by narrator Louise Ratcliffe for a Young Adult audience!
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/craf...
#WritingCommunity
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#ThrowbackThursday
🔊 Part 7
"Craft Your Own Adventure", re-printed and recorded in audio in @castofwonders.org (May 2024)
It's an absolute delight to see this brought to life by narrator Louise Ratcliffe for a Young Adult audience!
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/craf...
#WritingCommunity
🔊 Part 7
"Craft Your Own Adventure", re-printed and recorded in audio in @castofwonders.org (May 2024)
It's an absolute delight to see this brought to life by narrator Louise Ratcliffe for a Young Adult audience!
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/craf...
#WritingCommunity
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
Landslide for Catherine Connolly
914,143 first preferences, 63% of the vote
Breaking two records: More first preferences that De Valera in 1959 (56.3%) and more total votes than Michael D in 2018 (822,566).
A massive achievement for Connolly and a great day for the Irish Left.
914,143 first preferences, 63% of the vote
Breaking two records: More first preferences that De Valera in 1959 (56.3%) and more total votes than Michael D in 2018 (822,566).
A massive achievement for Connolly and a great day for the Irish Left.
October 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Landslide for Catherine Connolly
914,143 first preferences, 63% of the vote
Breaking two records: More first preferences that De Valera in 1959 (56.3%) and more total votes than Michael D in 2018 (822,566).
A massive achievement for Connolly and a great day for the Irish Left.
914,143 first preferences, 63% of the vote
Breaking two records: More first preferences that De Valera in 1959 (56.3%) and more total votes than Michael D in 2018 (822,566).
A massive achievement for Connolly and a great day for the Irish Left.
Saw one of these at Trá na bhForbacha last weekend and didn't have a clue what it was.
birdwatchireland.ie/birds/oyster...
Now feeling very lucky! 😮
I'm always in awe of migratory birds. These fly over from Iceland & the Faroe Islands ❄️
#birdwatching @birdwatchireland.bsky.social #IrishBirds
birdwatchireland.ie/birds/oyster...
Now feeling very lucky! 😮
I'm always in awe of migratory birds. These fly over from Iceland & the Faroe Islands ❄️
#birdwatching @birdwatchireland.bsky.social #IrishBirds
Oystercatcher - BirdWatch Ireland
The Oystercatcher is a large, distinctive wader with long orange-red bill, black head, chest and upperparts and white underparts.
birdwatchireland.ie
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Saw one of these at Trá na bhForbacha last weekend and didn't have a clue what it was.
birdwatchireland.ie/birds/oyster...
Now feeling very lucky! 😮
I'm always in awe of migratory birds. These fly over from Iceland & the Faroe Islands ❄️
#birdwatching @birdwatchireland.bsky.social #IrishBirds
birdwatchireland.ie/birds/oyster...
Now feeling very lucky! 😮
I'm always in awe of migratory birds. These fly over from Iceland & the Faroe Islands ❄️
#birdwatching @birdwatchireland.bsky.social #IrishBirds
#ThrowbackThursday
🧶Part 6
"Devil's Lace", published in @diabolicalplots.com (Feb 2023)
This story draws a lot from my own experience as a kid, learning to crochet from my Memere. This Sept would have made her 101st bday.
Miss you Mem x
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/devi...
#WritingCommunity
🧶Part 6
"Devil's Lace", published in @diabolicalplots.com (Feb 2023)
This story draws a lot from my own experience as a kid, learning to crochet from my Memere. This Sept would have made her 101st bday.
Miss you Mem x
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/devi...
#WritingCommunity
October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#ThrowbackThursday
🧶Part 6
"Devil's Lace", published in @diabolicalplots.com (Feb 2023)
This story draws a lot from my own experience as a kid, learning to crochet from my Memere. This Sept would have made her 101st bday.
Miss you Mem x
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/devi...
#WritingCommunity
🧶Part 6
"Devil's Lace", published in @diabolicalplots.com (Feb 2023)
This story draws a lot from my own experience as a kid, learning to crochet from my Memere. This Sept would have made her 101st bday.
Miss you Mem x
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/devi...
#WritingCommunity
Honestly, same 😜
"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit."
P. G. Wodehouse, born on this day in 1881
P. G. Wodehouse, born on this day in 1881
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Honestly, same 😜
Christmas is coming 👀🎁
In this month’s RTÉjr Book Club we are talking about books that celebrate diversity, inclusion and representation. These titles have been selected from our new Free To Be Me 'booster guide’ for primary school students.
Article by Publications Manager Ruth Concannon:
www.rte.ie/kids/book-cl...
Article by Publications Manager Ruth Concannon:
www.rte.ie/kids/book-cl...
October 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Christmas is coming 👀🎁
#ThrowbackThursday
⛈️ Part 5
"Cloud Cover", published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal (Nov 2022)
When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/clou...
#WritingCommunity
⛈️ Part 5
"Cloud Cover", published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal (Nov 2022)
When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/clou...
#WritingCommunity
September 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#ThrowbackThursday
⛈️ Part 5
"Cloud Cover", published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal (Nov 2022)
When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/clou...
#WritingCommunity
⛈️ Part 5
"Cloud Cover", published in Paper Lanterns Literary Journal (Nov 2022)
When something goes wrong in the whimsical Cloud Store, Jamilla and an unlikely friend must save themselves from certain destruction.
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/clou...
#WritingCommunity
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
The Wolf's Secret by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, incredibly illustrated by Júlia Sardà Portabella, is a gorgeous romantic fairy tale.
I got it from my local library. You should too.
I got it from my local library. You should too.
September 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Wolf's Secret by Myriam Dahman and Nicolas Digard, incredibly illustrated by Júlia Sardà Portabella, is a gorgeous romantic fairy tale.
I got it from my local library. You should too.
I got it from my local library. You should too.
#ThrowbackThursday
🤖 Part 4
"The Mechanic", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2022)
An elderly android must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying.
My first SFWA pub! 🥳
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/the-...
#WritingCommunity
🤖 Part 4
"The Mechanic", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2022)
An elderly android must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying.
My first SFWA pub! 🥳
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/the-...
#WritingCommunity
September 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
#ThrowbackThursday
🤖 Part 4
"The Mechanic", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2022)
An elderly android must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying.
My first SFWA pub! 🥳
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/the-...
#WritingCommunity
🤖 Part 4
"The Mechanic", published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (May 2022)
An elderly android must trek into dangerous territory to retrieve the parts she needs... or die trying.
My first SFWA pub! 🥳
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/the-...
#WritingCommunity
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
Help @wck.org feed folks in Gaza and get 14 books by @marthawells.com, one of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy authors currently writing.
Remember to click on Adjust Donation so you can maximize World Central Kitchen's share.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Remember to click on Adjust Donation so you can maximize World Central Kitchen's share.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Help @wck.org feed folks in Gaza and get 14 books by @marthawells.com, one of the best Science Fiction and Fantasy authors currently writing.
Remember to click on Adjust Donation so you can maximize World Central Kitchen's share.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Remember to click on Adjust Donation so you can maximize World Central Kitchen's share.
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
Once again reminding folks that calling these child murderers "vaccine skeptics" is journalistic malpractice.
"Vaccine science deniers" is a perfectly accurate alternative.
"Vaccine science deniers" is a perfectly accurate alternative.
September 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Once again reminding folks that calling these child murderers "vaccine skeptics" is journalistic malpractice.
"Vaccine science deniers" is a perfectly accurate alternative.
"Vaccine science deniers" is a perfectly accurate alternative.
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
September 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.
August 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
Should I just rename this ThrowbackFriday? Maybe 😅 #ThrowbackThursday
🌲 Part 3
"They Took the Trees", a penny fiction of just 21 words
😢 Where do you put your sorrow when the trees all die?
Published in Haunted Waters Press, Dec 2021
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/they...
#WritingCommunity
🌲 Part 3
"They Took the Trees", a penny fiction of just 21 words
😢 Where do you put your sorrow when the trees all die?
Published in Haunted Waters Press, Dec 2021
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/they...
#WritingCommunity
July 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Should I just rename this ThrowbackFriday? Maybe 😅 #ThrowbackThursday
🌲 Part 3
"They Took the Trees", a penny fiction of just 21 words
😢 Where do you put your sorrow when the trees all die?
Published in Haunted Waters Press, Dec 2021
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/they...
#WritingCommunity
🌲 Part 3
"They Took the Trees", a penny fiction of just 21 words
😢 Where do you put your sorrow when the trees all die?
Published in Haunted Waters Press, Dec 2021
julieleblancwrites.com/fiction/they...
#WritingCommunity
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
Reposted by Julie Le Blanc
