Heather Valentine
@hexthervvv.bsky.social
World's #2 Shadow the Hedgehog fan. Heather for queer scottish literary SFFH, Hex for love stories and online ephemera.
I like watching horror movies, reading history books, playing video games and knitting.
https://heathervalentinewriting.com/
I like watching horror movies, reading history books, playing video games and knitting.
https://heathervalentinewriting.com/
Come to the launch of the anthology I'm an editor on! It's been a real labour of love from everyone involved to put together over 40 stories from members new and old of our local writers' group.
#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too!
#Haverin #GSFWC40
#Haverin #GSFWC40
Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.
www.waterstones.com
September 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Come to the launch of the anthology I'm an editor on! It's been a real labour of love from everyone involved to put together over 40 stories from members new and old of our local writers' group.
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#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside.
Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40
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Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40
@jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)
August 26, 2026 at 5:42 PM
#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside.
Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40
@jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)
Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40
@jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)
It has been so rewarding working with local writers - some of whom are having their very first publication - to celebrate my Glasgow SF community as both a group with a long legacy and a welcoming and ongoing meet-up to talk writing and get feedback from other creatives
July 11, 2026 at 10:52 AM
It has been so rewarding working with local writers - some of whom are having their very first publication - to celebrate my Glasgow SF community as both a group with a long legacy and a welcoming and ongoing meet-up to talk writing and get feedback from other creatives
I think Greggs should do a Sausage Roll Tasting Flight
July 10, 2026 at 7:09 AM
I think Greggs should do a Sausage Roll Tasting Flight
I baked bread for the first time! I'm really happy with how it came out and have now mostly eaten it. (Not pictured: naughty high-fired top shelf loaf which will become future toast; flour fucking everywhere)
July 8, 2026 at 11:57 AM
I baked bread for the first time! I'm really happy with how it came out and have now mostly eaten it. (Not pictured: naughty high-fired top shelf loaf which will become future toast; flour fucking everywhere)
I did not plan as if this was going to be one of the sunniest weekends of the year, but I did go swimming and buy a new incense burner and resubscribe to FF14
June 21, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I did not plan as if this was going to be one of the sunniest weekends of the year, but I did go swimming and buy a new incense burner and resubscribe to FF14
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I climbed conic hill over the weekend, which is great, a big climb for me, I love being in nature, etc, except I do now also make a sound like a thwomp from mario 64 whenever I move between standing and sitting
June 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I climbed conic hill over the weekend, which is great, a big climb for me, I love being in nature, etc, except I do now also make a sound like a thwomp from mario 64 whenever I move between standing and sitting
I realised I forgot to share pictures of me having fun at Wyldwood Renfest here - what a fun weekend of dressing up, drinking mead and getting medieval with my friends
June 14, 2026 at 7:26 AM
I realised I forgot to share pictures of me having fun at Wyldwood Renfest here - what a fun weekend of dressing up, drinking mead and getting medieval with my friends
what if I took annual leave for the new fire emblem?
June 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
what if I took annual leave for the new fire emblem?
I saw so many beautiful baby animals at Edinburgh Zoo yesterday that I almost wept
June 8, 2026 at 8:24 AM
I saw so many beautiful baby animals at Edinburgh Zoo yesterday that I almost wept
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🚨 42 brilliant MPs have already signed the motion to reject the EHRC’s cruel guidance:
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
Will you ask yours to join them?
Take action now. Has yours already signed? Consider sending them an email thanking them 🏳️⚧️
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
Will you ask yours to join them?
Take action now. Has yours already signed? Consider sending them an email thanking them 🏳️⚧️
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
edm.parliament.uk
June 2, 2026 at 12:40 PM
🚨 42 brilliant MPs have already signed the motion to reject the EHRC’s cruel guidance:
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
Will you ask yours to join them?
Take action now. Has yours already signed? Consider sending them an email thanking them 🏳️⚧️
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
Will you ask yours to join them?
Take action now. Has yours already signed? Consider sending them an email thanking them 🏳️⚧️
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Cleffa and Clefairy ✨
May 26, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Cleffa and Clefairy ✨
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reform only hold 13% of the seats in our parliament and reform + tory is fewer than the number of tory seats in the last term
in scotland this election has been an unqualified win for progress and human rights and we should be really proud
in scotland this election has been an unqualified win for progress and human rights and we should be really proud
May 9, 2026 at 5:28 AM
reform only hold 13% of the seats in our parliament and reform + tory is fewer than the number of tory seats in the last term
in scotland this election has been an unqualified win for progress and human rights and we should be really proud
in scotland this election has been an unqualified win for progress and human rights and we should be really proud
I sent in my scottish election postal vote weeks ago and so can safely spend the day in a blanket, but have fun(?) at the polling booth today gang
May 7, 2026 at 8:31 AM
I sent in my scottish election postal vote weeks ago and so can safely spend the day in a blanket, but have fun(?) at the polling booth today gang
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The end of an era, as 404 Ink closes it's doors this Summer - this might be your last chance to get We Were Always Here and Fierce Salvage, two anthologies of queer Scottish writing edited by @ryanvance.bsky.social and I, for half price!
Towards our closure in a couple of months (😭), we've just marked ALL of our ebooks down 50%, so you can grab some of them for as little as £2.25 until they all disappear on Wednesday 27th May.
www.404ink.com/store/ebook
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May 1, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The end of an era, as 404 Ink closes it's doors this Summer - this might be your last chance to get We Were Always Here and Fierce Salvage, two anthologies of queer Scottish writing edited by @ryanvance.bsky.social and I, for half price!
I had a brilliant day out at Woolly Good yesterday seeing friends, eating fancy Edinburgh porridge, doing some beginner's weaving and, importantly, buying yarn
April 19, 2026 at 7:09 AM
I had a brilliant day out at Woolly Good yesterday seeing friends, eating fancy Edinburgh porridge, doing some beginner's weaving and, importantly, buying yarn
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With voting now open for this year's British Fantasy Awards, we're calling for jurors. Once voting is closed, the shortlist goes to a jury of peers to choose a winner. Fancy being part of the action?
Nominate yourself to be a juror for the British Fantasy Awards here: forms.gle/Kv1JTHBeSXaJ...
Nominate yourself to be a juror for the British Fantasy Awards here: forms.gle/Kv1JTHBeSXaJ...
April 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
With voting now open for this year's British Fantasy Awards, we're calling for jurors. Once voting is closed, the shortlist goes to a jury of peers to choose a winner. Fancy being part of the action?
Nominate yourself to be a juror for the British Fantasy Awards here: forms.gle/Kv1JTHBeSXaJ...
Nominate yourself to be a juror for the British Fantasy Awards here: forms.gle/Kv1JTHBeSXaJ...
I think young men who want women to find them masculine and attractive should get into butchmaxxing (wearing flannel shirts, hiking, adopting shelter animals, doing DIY repair jobs for useless lesbians)
April 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
I think young men who want women to find them masculine and attractive should get into butchmaxxing (wearing flannel shirts, hiking, adopting shelter animals, doing DIY repair jobs for useless lesbians)
Fellow creators of horrible chimeras, what do you do with the spare parts? I've got a lot of bird heads, snake middles and human legs lying about the flat and I don't want them to go to waste.
April 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Fellow creators of horrible chimeras, what do you do with the spare parts? I've got a lot of bird heads, snake middles and human legs lying about the flat and I don't want them to go to waste.
started trying to watch evangelion all the way through again lads
April 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
started trying to watch evangelion all the way through again lads
"You should lower your hand so I can get your beautiful face in the picture"
April 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
"You should lower your hand so I can get your beautiful face in the picture"
I had a very relaxed easter weekend of arts, crafts and little trips - I tried lino printing, gave blood, went to Greenbank Gardens and threw together a pair of pyjama shorts from scrap fabric
April 6, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I had a very relaxed easter weekend of arts, crafts and little trips - I tried lino printing, gave blood, went to Greenbank Gardens and threw together a pair of pyjama shorts from scrap fabric