Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon:Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals!Much excite!#books #bookstodon

Question for the #WritingCommunity and also for readers. Would be especially grateful to hear from non-white folk.My current WIP is an industrial fantasy and set in a city where “white” people are a minority. The vast majority of the characters have brown skin. None of the cultural and ethnic tensions in the novel — of which there are many — have anything to do with skin colour. None of the “races” or cultures can be mapped onto Earth versions.I did this because I hate “white-as-default” in fantasy and in general, because it makes sense with the history of this world, and because while I am writing about cultural and religious conflict, I’m doing it from the perspective of someone from Northern Ireland, where skin colour has nothing to do with the traditional sectarian tensions. However, I myself am pretty obviously white.Obviously nobody can tell if I’m being problematic from one post, but I worry anyway. So: if anyone has any thoughts they think I should hear I would be beyond grateful.

@justincox if it makes you feel any better, the first draft I wrote for my Fedi promo video was absolutely appalling. I had to discard every single line… but then I was so horrified that I got inspired to write v2 as if I was talking to a dear friend. And loved the result… it’s super close to the final script for the video 😅

Fediverse #GameDev folks, #MastoArt artists, #WritingCommunity writers, other creative folk -In about a week I'll need to be writing the next Exilian community newsletter, and we could do with some more new projects to talk about! If you've something you'd like more eyes on - your art portfolio, your comic, your game, etc - then please do drop a post about it on the Exilian forum within the next week and we'd love to write it up for our members to read about!(Boosts on this very appreciated)