Susan
@spindilly.bsky.social
I collect hobbies, fandoms, and projects like they're pokémon. No I will not put some back. (She/her)
I am so good at FGO and everyone should be my friend. :D
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I am so good at FGO and everyone should be my friend. :D
Me, every November: This is it! This is the year I avoid the winter greebles!
The seasonal depression, every year:
The seasonal depression, every year:
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Me, every November: This is it! This is the year I avoid the winter greebles!
The seasonal depression, every year:
The seasonal depression, every year:
Darcy Coates' The Ravenous Dead is an interesting experience, because the solution was obvious from chapter three, but I'm not angry at the protagonist for not figuring it out!
Maybe because the foreshadowing was in a previous book?
Maybe because the foreshadowing was in a previous book?
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Darcy Coates' The Ravenous Dead is an interesting experience, because the solution was obvious from chapter three, but I'm not angry at the protagonist for not figuring it out!
Maybe because the foreshadowing was in a previous book?
Maybe because the foreshadowing was in a previous book?
I - I think I just found a manga where a character's magic is powered by being a fujoshi.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I - I think I just found a manga where a character's magic is powered by being a fujoshi.
Thrice Married to a Salted Fish be like
Love Interest: I'm straight but being married to a guy is fine.
Love Interest:
Love Interest:
Love Interest: Protagonist is so beautiful when he's committing murders, I CAN'T --
Love Interest: I'm straight but being married to a guy is fine.
Love Interest:
Love Interest:
Love Interest: Protagonist is so beautiful when he's committing murders, I CAN'T --
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Thrice Married to a Salted Fish be like
Love Interest: I'm straight but being married to a guy is fine.
Love Interest:
Love Interest:
Love Interest: Protagonist is so beautiful when he's committing murders, I CAN'T --
Love Interest: I'm straight but being married to a guy is fine.
Love Interest:
Love Interest:
Love Interest: Protagonist is so beautiful when he's committing murders, I CAN'T --
I am ambivalent about isekai stories, but I DO love isekai stories where a non-POV character suddenly goes "FUCK, I know what book this is!"
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I am ambivalent about isekai stories, but I DO love isekai stories where a non-POV character suddenly goes "FUCK, I know what book this is!"
I don't know what I was expecting from "I Think Our Son Is Gay" but the first volume is very... Affirming? It's someone who maybe doesn't know the best way to support her son, but is trying!
(I'm side-eying the dad, but maybe he'll improve.)
(I'm side-eying the dad, but maybe he'll improve.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I don't know what I was expecting from "I Think Our Son Is Gay" but the first volume is very... Affirming? It's someone who maybe doesn't know the best way to support her son, but is trying!
(I'm side-eying the dad, but maybe he'll improve.)
(I'm side-eying the dad, but maybe he'll improve.)
Played MtG today! Lex wrathed the board and swung at me, leaving me with nothing but 4 life and 14 clue tokens.
Then I played this:
Then I played this:
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Played MtG today! Lex wrathed the board and swung at me, leaving me with nothing but 4 life and 14 clue tokens.
Then I played this:
Then I played this:
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Tfw work does something so collosally, MONUMENTALLY stupid that I can't post about it without fucking doxxing myself.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Tfw work does something so collosally, MONUMENTALLY stupid that I can't post about it without fucking doxxing myself.
It is my fandom birthday, holy shit, what do you mean I have been here for TWENTY-ONE YEARS?! 😭😭😭😭
Thank you all for changing my life for the better, I'm glad we're still here!
Thank you all for changing my life for the better, I'm glad we're still here!
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It is my fandom birthday, holy shit, what do you mean I have been here for TWENTY-ONE YEARS?! 😭😭😭😭
Thank you all for changing my life for the better, I'm glad we're still here!
Thank you all for changing my life for the better, I'm glad we're still here!
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My debut cosy fantasy novel The Lunar Quartz Library is out today!
Read on for all the details 👇👇👇
Read on for all the details 👇👇👇
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My debut cosy fantasy novel The Lunar Quartz Library is out today!
Read on for all the details 👇👇👇
Read on for all the details 👇👇👇
Oh fuck off UK government.
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Oh fuck off UK government.
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do you like ebooks
do you like ebooks about haunted architecture
did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?
just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
do you like ebooks about haunted architecture
did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?
just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Rose/House
Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.“I’m a piece of arc...
us.macmillan.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
do you like ebooks
do you like ebooks about haunted architecture
did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?
just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
do you like ebooks about haunted architecture
did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?
just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Good: I sewed my skull and crossbones dress together!
Bad: I fucked this process so badly that the waistband has dropped to my hips and I'm going to have to seamrip basically the entire thing to fix it.
Bad: I fucked this process so badly that the waistband has dropped to my hips and I'm going to have to seamrip basically the entire thing to fix it.
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Good: I sewed my skull and crossbones dress together!
Bad: I fucked this process so badly that the waistband has dropped to my hips and I'm going to have to seamrip basically the entire thing to fix it.
Bad: I fucked this process so badly that the waistband has dropped to my hips and I'm going to have to seamrip basically the entire thing to fix it.
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You can subscribe now to get a super fun thinky novella rec list from a great book critic! :D
(Or wait and it’ll be available online on Friday, of course.)
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Last week's mixtape featured a highlight reel of reviews about Rakesfall, winner of the 2025 Le Guin Prize for Fiction. This week's issue will feature a rec list from @chloroformtea.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of #NovellaNovember!
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week, there’s a special section on the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction, with links to a collection of reviews for the winner, Rakesfall.
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
You can subscribe now to get a super fun thinky novella rec list from a great book critic! :D
(Or wait and it’ll be available online on Friday, of course.)
(Or wait and it’ll be available online on Friday, of course.)
The thought in my head: It makes sense that Jordan Peele is good at both comedy and horror because they are doing the same process of building and releasing tension from opposite angles.
The words I say: Comedies and horror both fill me with dread.
The words I say: Comedies and horror both fill me with dread.
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The thought in my head: It makes sense that Jordan Peele is good at both comedy and horror because they are doing the same process of building and releasing tension from opposite angles.
The words I say: Comedies and horror both fill me with dread.
The words I say: Comedies and horror both fill me with dread.
I phrased that question like that for a reason.
😘
October 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I phrased that question like that for a reason.
Genuinely unironically love how many danmei have a motif of "[Protagonist] was dead to begin with." It gives everything! Pining! Love beyond the pall of death! Opportunities for characters to be unhinged!
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Genuinely unironically love how many danmei have a motif of "[Protagonist] was dead to begin with." It gives everything! Pining! Love beyond the pall of death! Opportunities for characters to be unhinged!
Wishing all pattern makers who put information next to the pattern piece instead of on it a single interrupted sneeze.
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Wishing all pattern makers who put information next to the pattern piece instead of on it a single interrupted sneeze.
Learning how to make earrings out of shrink plastic. They're not perfect, but I'm making progress!
October 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Learning how to make earrings out of shrink plastic. They're not perfect, but I'm making progress!
Man at work asked me if I'd read anything good lately and oh my god the supercut of xianxia danmei that flashed before my eyes while I tried to think of what to say --
October 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Man at work asked me if I'd read anything good lately and oh my god the supercut of xianxia danmei that flashed before my eyes while I tried to think of what to say --
Ten chapters into Panguan and shaking the protagonists to go PLEASE LOOK AT THE CONTEXT CLUES YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN. WE HAVE SO MUCH PROOF THAT [CHARACTER] ISN'T [SPOILER], PLEASE NOTICE THIS!!
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ten chapters into Panguan and shaking the protagonists to go PLEASE LOOK AT THE CONTEXT CLUES YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN. WE HAVE SO MUCH PROOF THAT [CHARACTER] ISN'T [SPOILER], PLEASE NOTICE THIS!!
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Me, talking about advertising for men: It's always like "This aftershave will kill a bear!" Why is stuff not advertised to ME as "This will kill a bear!"
Lex: Because advertisers know women like the bear.
Lex: Because advertisers know women like the bear.
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Me, talking about advertising for men: It's always like "This aftershave will kill a bear!" Why is stuff not advertised to ME as "This will kill a bear!"
Lex: Because advertisers know women like the bear.
Lex: Because advertisers know women like the bear.