Interstellar Teahouse

🍵✨ sf/fantasy-related news, art, fiction, & other treats for Social Justice Astronauts. 👉 now at @[email protected]

[Interstellar Teahouse @ISTeahouse]

Interstellar Teahouse is moving! Please come visit the new teahouse at

https://t.co/LtDP58zSXI

[CiCi🌸 @CiCiAdams_]

Really sad, devastating news. A water pipe burst on Friday and ruined a LOT of books at Third World Press, the country's oldest Black-owned publishing company.

They've launched a flood fund to get back on their feet. Please consider donating.
https://t.co/srZSE6jpUc

[chengduworldcon @chengduworldcon]

Chengdu Worldcon is pleased to announce that we are able to take credit card payments for new WSFS memberships and admissions, including virtual admissions. The link from the English language homepage, labelled 'Login or Purchase Membership" will start you through the process.

[Supergiant Games @SupergiantGames]

In reference to our earlier JOB OPPORTUNITY for Hades II translators, we are now also seeking translators specializing in Turkish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, and Greek. Details in this post:
https://t.co/AmfKs2NIk4

[Supergiant Games @SupergiantGames]

Job Opportunity: We're seeking a UI Illustrator to collaborate with our art and design teams on Hades II. This is a remote, part-time position. Details:
https://t.co/eFMULdZ6Gn

Here's the Keepsakes screen from the original game, as an example of this type of work! #gamedevjobs

[Supergiant Games @SupergiantGames]

JOB OPPORTUNITY - We're seeking experienced translators to work with us on Hades II! Details:
https://t.co/M3hTAXfoWz

We're looking for specialists in these languages in particular: FR, IT, DE, ES, KO, PT-BR, RU, ZH-CN, PL

#gamedev #gameloc #localization

[Lindsay van Ekelenburg @LindsayvanekArt]

“Our Lady of New Frontiers, Nichelle Nichols”
My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman, #startrek's #NichelleNichols

[Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures @Glasgowin2024]

@glasgowin2024 is excited to announce our next virtual event, Neurodiversity in SFF: Representation & Practice, will be taking place on Wed 18th Jan at 7pm GMT

@davidgreenwrites will lead a discussion into neurodiversity representation and practise

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[Interstellar Teahouse @ISTeahouse]

Yes and it's also great!! @clpolk's patreon community and others too!

[Cat Rambo @Catrambo]

@ISTeahouse I've got a little writers community as well! Details here: https://t.co/F9tAFLzSAm

[Zainab @zainabjiwa]

Here to show you my Moon Knight outfit that I made 🌙

A lil messy but I tried to add some of my culture to it. #cosplay #marvel

[Interstellar Teahouse @ISTeahouse]

(Also, absolutely https://t.co/T58oWU9u8u and other Mastodon instances, but I assume you're all sick to death of hearing about Mastodon - and all of these places have very different vibes)

[Interstellar Teahouse @ISTeahouse]

If you're a science fiction/fantasy writer looking for community outside of Twitter, try:
✨Dream Foundry–free; Discord+events: https://t.co/9W4NV5LhHM
✨Codex–free; forum+Slack, req. quals https://t.co/IC5uyoHSNA
✨SFWA–$; forum+Discord; req. quals https://t.co/gMRQEKbFYz

[Interstellar Teahouse @ISTeahouse]

There are also several relevant subreddits. Some writers find their ideal communities on Reddit. IME, the biggest ones tend to have reading tastes that are too narrow for me, and writing/publishing advice that's not well-informed. But there are lots of niche subreddits out there.

[Jen Bartel @heyjenbartel]

The thing ppl need to understand is that this cottage industry full of grifters offering paid courses on Get Rich Quick schemes like print-on-demand merch + dropshipping, crypto/nfts, etc. isn’t new—these kinds of AI art vids are simply the next iteration of that same MLM culture

[Chaosium @Chaosium_Inc]

Chaosium's stance on AI art.

Text in our blog: https://t.co/2oAaiZCkMk

[clarkesworld @clarkesworld]

I've scheduled an appointment to talk with Amazon later this afternoon. Have many questions. Fellow editors of mags on Amazon: feel free to DM/email me. We should be talking.

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

Just a #WriterBeware PSA to warn the #WritingCommunity to BEWARE any emails from an @directacquisitionsteam.com email address & purporting to be from a literary agent. The emails come from a prolific scammer that is impersonating reputable agents https://t.co/YMQj8JCbkO