Wendy Palmer

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy

I write romantic fantasy fiction (CWs on website) and family-friendly puzzle walk trails while enjoying farm life with goats, alpacas & bees in WA's South West […]

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@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 9:39 PMReposted by @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy

discovered Nhim's Mimi comics

https://www.reddit.com/user/nhimzy
https://www.reddit.com/r/NhimArts/

a perfect little gamer gremlin with a long suffering perfectly nice boyfriend

short blonde girl with concentric circle crazy eyes

Mimi: Stop using A.I. to make art! Star using your PENT-UP UNRESOLVED TRAUMAS to make art like everyone else does!

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 2:59 AM

All right, Australia, it’s time to get some etiquette going around electric car charging stations. 1) if you don’t have an electric car, don’t park in the charging bays 2) if you do have an electric car and you’re not charging, don’t park in the charging bays That’s it, that’s the etiquette […]

@obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 1:45 AMReposted by @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy

Calcott Hall, also known as Red Dress Manor, in Wales. A long-abandoned house, abandoned since the 1970s when the last resident is thought to have passed away.

#Photography #Abandoned #Story #Wales #LostPlaces #Explore

An abandoned room features a vintage television, a fireplace, and an antique armchair amid signs of decay.

An abandoned kitchen features peeling yellow walls, a cream AGA cooker, and a floral armchair, with debris scattered on the floor.

A derelict bedroom features a messy bed, scattered debris, and a second mattress. Peeling floral wallpaper and two windows reveal a state of disrepair.

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 1:58 AM

Oh, ilands bot, why would anyone who tolerates AISlop pay you US$25 when it’s just as quick to throw the prompt directly into a free AI image generator?

#ilandsBot

An ilands “AI agent” advertising that they’ll make you an AI portrait for $25. You know, a service you can get for free, if you really felt you had to burn humanity’s future for the sake of a fake picture,

@obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 6:31 PMReposted by @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy

Ornate scalloped arches, inspired by mediaeval Georgian church architecture and Islamic-influenced stone carving. One of my favourite parts of this old miner's sanatorium in Tskaltubo, Georgia.

#Architecture #Abandoned #Ruins #Photography #Explore #Travel

Looking out from an arched walkway to an arcade with more columns and ornate arches

@medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 5:00 AMReposted by @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy

Monkey riding a goat with a hunting owl. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 38r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 2:57 AM

Whoo, I've just seen the composition sketch for the character art I'm commissioning for my next book cover and I LOVE IT SO MUCH 🎉

#WritingCommunity #CharacterArt #CoverDesign

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 11:49 AM

OH MY GOD TEENAGERS Last year’s birthday sleepover: six boys kayaking on the river, supposedly in sight of the house, The teens: let’s paddle off around the bend and out of earshot. Us: shit, no food, no water, no way to contact us if something goes wrong. Luckily nothing did, they were just […]

@obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 5:45 AMReposted by @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy

🏰 Chateau de la Poupeliere in Normanby, France. I took this photo of the chateau in its abandoned condition a few years ago. Another classic spot, now under renovation (perhaps completed by now!)

#Chateau #Renovation #Photography #Abandoned #France #Explore #LostPlace

A grand, abandoned chateau hall featuring a high, vaulted red-brick ceiling, a large stone fireplace, and checkered floor.

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 4, 2026, 6:26 AM

Well, this is a nice surprise, especially given that the last few times I tried to enrol in Kobo promotions, I was summarily rejected 😂

Also nice to be featured in the same row as a T Kingfisher book! (Off-page in the pic)

#koboPlus #NewANDhotWow #books

A row of book covers in the Kobo Plus category “New & Hot in Romance”. One of mine, The Uses of Illicit Art, is fourth along. I’ve circled in just to make sure no one misses it :)

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 4, 2026, 1:02 AM

My favourite reads for September on Kobo Plus Read and Listen. Lots of indie genre authors, plus some non-fic. Also cute puppy photos.
#KoboPlus #IndieReads #Books

http://wendypalmer.au/2026/10/04/books-favourite-kobo-plus-reads-sept26/

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 4:06 AM

Just saw someone complaining about anti-AI slop. They intended the phrase to be read as “anti-AI” slop; they were trying to insult people against AI by using the same word, slop, that so accurately reflects the mediocre extrusions of LLMs. Of course it just reads as anti-“AI slop”, which…well […]

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 3:23 AM

Crikey, “crikey” was in the NYT Crossword today, what’s next, “Strewth”?

#Straya

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 12:35 AM

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117373233011134022

There is a whole bunch of people on this thread earnestly explaining that the parrot bit comes from the verb “to parrot” not the noun bird, and I am sitting here wondering where they think we got the verb from.

Point stands. Parrots unfairly […]

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 1, 2026, 2:33 AM

RE: https://archaeo.social/@mrundkvist/117361994564818854

This is the perfect opportunity to recommend the excellent If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation by Daniel Hahn.

Take all of the considerations and challenges that lead to hundreds of micro-decisions in any […]

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Oct 1, 2026, 1:31 AM

What do you mean, I have to write 1000 words before I’m allowed to read my new book???

Hard taskmaster, this boss [me]

#WritingCommunity

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 11:18 PM

We went to a Soup and Pitch microfunding event last night, the first one for our town. Everyone puts $10 in the pot, the winning pitch gets the money. Great idea, great pitches, but the MCing could have been a little more focussed…or perhaps we were hangry, because it turned out the soup wasn’t […]

@inventingreality.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:16 PMReposted by @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy

I’m creating several starter packs for indie writers – one for each genre – that I then would regularly post links to. If interested in being in a starter back, please reply with your genre. #Indieauthor #writesky #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsofsky #booksky

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 1:23 PM

@happycheerygay.bsky.social thank you, these are great…no offence intended towards Luke Eisner, but he is *aggressively* generically pretty :) Smith Ballew is lovely.

@wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 1:18 PM

Thank you :)

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