Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
@missadadoom.bsky.social
works in publishing, translates Russian, reads, edits, parents, naps, snarks. “Miss Ada Doom Reads" on Litalist and founding tiger at Tiger Team Creative.
My new book is The Village at the Edge of Noon - think Buffy and The Witcher stuck Under the Dome…
My new book is The Village at the Edge of Noon - think Buffy and The Witcher stuck Under the Dome…
A winning combination of ridiculous, hilarious, and adorable.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A winning combination of ridiculous, hilarious, and adorable.
Calling @aptshadow.bsky.social - am still reeling that he got arachnophobic me to read a whole book about sentient (shudders) spiders. This is the only spider content that shall ever be posted here. Or anywhere. By me.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Calling @aptshadow.bsky.social - am still reeling that he got arachnophobic me to read a whole book about sentient (shudders) spiders. This is the only spider content that shall ever be posted here. Or anywhere. By me.
A public service reminder that AI summary and ChatGPT will confidently tell you nonsense - don’t trust, always verify. Better yet, donate to Wikipedia.
October 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A public service reminder that AI summary and ChatGPT will confidently tell you nonsense - don’t trust, always verify. Better yet, donate to Wikipedia.
Happy International Translation Day - here’s St Jerome, our patron saint, demonstrating what we look like when, after 20 minutes of parsing active verbs, we confidently go back to “he said”. #translation #internationaltranslationday #translator
September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Happy International Translation Day - here’s St Jerome, our patron saint, demonstrating what we look like when, after 20 minutes of parsing active verbs, we confidently go back to “he said”. #translation #internationaltranslationday #translator
Remind me again how I said making eight layers of anything at home is at least four layers too many… #medovik #honeycake
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Remind me again how I said making eight layers of anything at home is at least four layers too many… #medovik #honeycake
You can have dignity or you can be a freeloader looking to get your balls scratched. #dogsofbluesky #DoodlePie
September 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
You can have dignity or you can be a freeloader looking to get your balls scratched. #dogsofbluesky #DoodlePie
I know the Romans grew some grapes in Britain, but this is nuts. North London terroir, no pesticides. Climate emergency, something something? #toohot
August 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I know the Romans grew some grapes in Britain, but this is nuts. North London terroir, no pesticides. Climate emergency, something something? #toohot
This is an explanation of how black holes work, at the Nobel Prize Museum. I don’t understand it to such a degree it’s making me physically sick, a little. Enjoy.
August 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is an explanation of how black holes work, at the Nobel Prize Museum. I don’t understand it to such a degree it’s making me physically sick, a little. Enjoy.
I don’t know who discovered the magic of yeast, flour, salt, water and oil - but it’s a strange alchemy, especially if you drop a heap of olives in, midway. #breadsticks #abreadinthehand
August 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I don’t know who discovered the magic of yeast, flour, salt, water and oil - but it’s a strange alchemy, especially if you drop a heap of olives in, midway. #breadsticks #abreadinthehand
What is it about labs and lab crosses and their destiny is to end up with arseholes who never feed them… a wicked fate. #summersoup #pelmeni #DoodlePie
June 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What is it about labs and lab crosses and their destiny is to end up with arseholes who never feed them… a wicked fate. #summersoup #pelmeni #DoodlePie
When you resigned on moral grounds from your long-term place of employment and you find yourself consumed with an uncharacteristic urge to do ambitious decorating… with gloss paint. At a gazillion quid a tin.
June 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When you resigned on moral grounds from your long-term place of employment and you find yourself consumed with an uncharacteristic urge to do ambitious decorating… with gloss paint. At a gazillion quid a tin.
No better illustration for “good things come in small packages” than Portuguese custard tarts. #PasteisDeNata
May 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No better illustration for “good things come in small packages” than Portuguese custard tarts. #PasteisDeNata
By “Christie’s family” not “Agatha’s,” you disrespectful, overfamiliar, grave-robbing louts.
May 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
By “Christie’s family” not “Agatha’s,” you disrespectful, overfamiliar, grave-robbing louts.
R-Patz has rarely been better, as an expendable schmendrick who finds love, meets his shadow self, and grows some balls. Also capitalism bad, capitalism x science very bad, capitalism x politics goddamn awful. #mickey17
March 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
R-Patz has rarely been better, as an expendable schmendrick who finds love, meets his shadow self, and grows some balls. Also capitalism bad, capitalism x science very bad, capitalism x politics goddamn awful. #mickey17
March 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
When I say that my day job in publishing is looking less and less viable, with 3 working decades to go, friends suggest I do more translation instead. #translator #translation #publishing
March 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
When I say that my day job in publishing is looking less and less viable, with 3 working decades to go, friends suggest I do more translation instead. #translator #translation #publishing
For this time-lapse I was walking as slow as I dared, believe it or not; any slower and I would’ve been mown down by the crowd. To be fair, I’m usually the one trying to swerve around the slow pokes! #londonbookfair
March 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For this time-lapse I was walking as slow as I dared, believe it or not; any slower and I would’ve been mown down by the crowd. To be fair, I’m usually the one trying to swerve around the slow pokes! #londonbookfair
My meetings with American publishers at #londonbookfair this week.
March 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My meetings with American publishers at #londonbookfair this week.