Adri Joy

@adrijjy

(She/her) once and future editor-criric at Hugo and Ignyte winning SFF fanzine NERDS OF A FEATHER, FLOCK TOGETHER. Dog person, ocean enjoyer, I like being elsewhere.

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Adri Joy@adrijjy· 1d

Eclipse was good!

Me, a white woman with short brown hair, wearing my cardboard eclipse glasses. I'm pulling a silly face a bit like an open mouthed no necked turtle

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Feb 9

Londoners! Londoners who like video games and music! Do I have the event for you: readysingerone.co.uk/sing-gloriou...

A green banner with an Expedition-33 style stone monument on it, a rocky structure with glowing text reading "RS1". The text of the banner reads "Ready Singer One presents SING GLORIOUSLY: a video game concert 30 March, 31 March, 1 April, 7:45pm, Crypt on the Green, Farringdon"

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Jan 24

The rare double dog pic, to give your timeline and your soul a tiny bit of relief

A large brindle (brown with black stripes) greyhound lying on a carpet next to a small brown dog who is curled up in a small grey bed. Both are staring intently at the human.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Jan 12

She is zooming in the stars

A white whippet with a bald chicken leg lounging on a blue sofa and staring at the camera.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Jan 12

Introducing Styx! She is a rescued ex-racing greyhound, switching to a new career of sofa stealer, ear model and minor sff pet celebrity. She was in foster for a little while before joining me but home life is still a bit confusing for her. Still, she's determined to cuddle her way through it ❤️

A brindle greyhound in a blue fleece, lounging on a sofa and staring at the camera. One of her ears is flopping the wrong way, giving her a combover look.

The same greyhound, without clothes, standing around in a living room with a big fluffy white bed in the background. Her ears are both pointing the wrong way up on her head.

Same greyhound, back on the sofa, lying on a blanket and staring at the human like "oh was this your spot?"

Same greyhound, lying on the lap of a human who is mostly out of frame except for part of her body and an arm which is draped lightly on the dog's neck. The dog has her eyes almost closed in sleep.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 28

A little ahead of schedule, she's gone. Fly well, beloved space dog ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

A woman in a black coat (me) holding an elderly whippet in a teal coat, in a wintry park.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 26

Made the hardest appointment for lovely Zag in a couple of weeks. Might need some tips on how to stop crying.

A close up of a white whiplet face, her snoot too long to fit in the portrait, sitting in the back of the car. She looks old and a little tired from a life of being relentlessly loved. She is also letting the human know that she'd have another treat, if one was on offer.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 17

Here's 10 I should read before turning into a pumpkin

Stack of books, top to bottom:
Kinning by Nisi Shawl
The Nightward by R.S.A. Garcia
The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell
Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston
A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
The River has Roots by Amal el Mohtar
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
The Sovereign by C.L. Clark

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 14

...The universe heard me. I guess I'm definitely writing about it then

A screencap of an email about the automatic renewal of a library book, addressed to me. It's the book the thread is about, the one with a one word title that sounds like cat abacus, and now I have the book until 5 December.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 3

I was much more restrained than Womble, he wasn't doing a good booktempting job clearly

Two stacks of books on a coffee table, spines out. They are:
The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020 ed. Zhui Ning Chang and JY Tan
Writing the Future ed Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst
Inanna by Emily H. Wilson
Wiz Duos 1, 2 and 3 from Wizards Tower Press
A Rebel's History of Mars by Nadia Afifi
The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
The Book of the Damned and book of the beast by Tanith Lee
Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill
Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng
Bourbon Penn 35
Kindling by Kathleen Jennings
The Burning Circus ed. Johnny Mains
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Oct 31

Happy Halloween! If you're at World Fantasy Con, I, a beautiful pastel unicorn, am also at World Fantasy Con. What spookier thing could there be at a goth heavy event after all?

A picture of me, a fat white lady with a silly smile, posing in front of a hotel mirror in a pastel unicorn onesie with a fluffy tail

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Aug 17

Experiencing the Hugos over aeroplane wifi. Good luck to the Good Shit!

A tired looking white woman with short messy brown hair, wearing a FIYAH literary magazine t shirt and with a large, half broken set of headphones around her neck

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Jul 19

Here's Gothenburg, Sweden, scoring very high on the "best bookshops while travelling" list because not only do they have a dedicated SFF bookshop, but the first thing that caught my eye facing out was @brentclambert.bsky.social's A NECESSARY CHAOS from @neonhemlock.bsky.social! An excellent choice!

A shelf of fantasy and crossover sff novels with authors whose names start with L. A NECESSARY CHAOS by Brent Lambert is facing out, and we will forgive the shop for also having far, far, far too much Mark Lawrence...

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Jul 8

This is the best video game self portrait I've made since Wii Fit ❤️ and this time it's not even trying to shame me into doing a plank!

Part of a screenshot of the Pokémon Go character screen. A fat femme video game character wearing a Mimikyu hat and a blje and yellow dress is standing next to Dartrix, a dapper owl pokemon

Adri Joy@adrijjy· May 27

I hit a critic milestone! CSE Cooney's SAINT DEATH'S HERALD arrived today (in fetching yellow!) and it unexpectedly has MY PRAISE on it! I have great taste so this is really all the information you need to pick this series up, it's brilliant.

The cover of Saint Death's Herald by C.S.E. Cooney, a bright yellow with the silhouette of a woman's face with a big headpiece of interwoven title text and animals

The back cover of Saint Death's Herald. On the back are short blurbs by Kirkus, the British Fantasy Society, Strange Horizons and Nerds of a Feather, and I WROTE THE NERDS OF A FEATHER ONE (it says "whimsical gothic")

The top half of an inside page of the book with three exerpts from reviews, from Booknest, Nerds of a Feather, Thornwell Books. The Nerds of a Feather one (which I wrote!) says: The broad aesthetic here is 'whimsical gothic': a real
Ghormengast-y vibe, balanced with increasing nuance. Saint
Death's Daughter has gone straight to the favourites list.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· May 7

Worldcon programming asking ChatGPT to ask File770 about panelists:

A white hand holding a mic up to an small rubbish bin, as if interviewing it for a comment. Someone has very crudely used the cut and paste tool in Paint to copy a smaller picture of the mic and the bin inside the bin, so it's like a binception situation

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Apr 19

Pity this animal, whose very poopy bumhole has just been given a warm, gentle but persistent shower...

A waterlogged white whippet in a bath, looking sad and desperate to get out, her front paws already up on the side. Her sparkling clean bumhole is not in shot.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Apr 12

A deeply unserious animal

Same dog in the same pose as the previous picture, but now she has put her long sighthound nose down on the seat of the sofa and appears to be trying to use it as a kickstand. She is attempting to give off an aura of being comfortable and at rest but she looks like an awkward splayed out cryptid

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Apr 12

Zag is determined not to let age and reduced mobility stop her from destroying my sofa with her stupid decisions. I love this horrible creature so much...

A somewhat gaunt looking white whippet perches on the bqck of of a sofa, window in the background. She is leaning forward and staring at the camera with her ears out, looking attentive. The sofa cushion looks irreparably squashed out of shape.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Apr 10

Zag isn't doing very well, health wise, and I may have to make a hard decision soon 💔. Please think comfortable thoughts for this ancient wobbly whippet.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Mar 28

Ok so what's the deal with THE SUNFORGE being so GOOD and so UFFFFH and so ICKY and so full of assholes who should not be gods and sad queers who should just be given a break instead of *gestures madly* oh my poor little ducklings

A paperback of THE SUNFORGE by Sascha Stronach lying on a blue duvet

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Mar 21

A #transrightsreadathon TBR? Yeah, sure, I can do one of those. Stack 1, FALTAS to SUNFORGE, I hope to read in the duration of the readathon. Stack 2, THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH to MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE, I doubt I'll get to but will read... Soon. Soon.

A stack of book spines on a table. Top to bottom they are FALTAS by Andrea Gentili, VARIATIONS by Juliet Jacques, DEAD COLLECTIONS by Isaac Fellman, GEOMETRIES OF BELONGING by R.B. Lemberg, YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY by Akwaeke Emezi and THE SUNFORGE by Sascha Stronach

A different stack of books on the same table. Top to bottom: THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH by Andrew Joseph White, THE FORTUNATE FALL by Cameron Reed, THE SAPLING CAGE by Margaret Killjoy, TELL ME HOW IT ENDS by Quinton Lee, SELF-MADE MAN by Poppy Z Brite and MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE ed. Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Feb 13

If you see this, and you're in the mood for this kind of thing, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery

A big expanse of brownish sand, exposed at low tide, with a few footprints and a windswept feel. The sky is a wintry blue fading to white with a couple of clouds. A white whippet dog in a red coat trots towards the camera

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Jan 29

It's Zag, sniffing a door crack in a lift, for your timeline:

A top down view of a white whippet dog in a teal coat, her nose pressed up against the side of a door in a lift. You can see her inquisitive expression in her own reflection in the lift door.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Dec 4

I got a queer beachwear selfie stick Santa in my office gift exchange and I need everyone to see how cursed this is:

A closeup of a small-ish hangable christmas ornament. A chubby Santa with a luscious, glittering beard stands in a peach satin t-shirt, gold board shorts and green and gold flip flops. On his head he wears his traditional red santa hat with a glittery fur trim. He has big blue eyes with large, made up eyelashes and his lipstick is a deep red against his beard. in one hand, he holds a selfie stick out with camera on the other end, and he's waving with the other hand to pose. A white hook and ribbon protrudes from his hat. This is a truly awful thing.

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 21

13. AMMONITE by Nicola Griffith. I'd be nervous to reread this in case it doesn't stand up but it absolutely blew me away when I started down the rabbithole of feminist SF and it switched me on to the brilliance that is Nicola Griffith.

The cover of the SF masterworks edition of Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 20

12. THE EYRE AFFAIR by Jasper Fforde: when I was in sixth form I was convinced I only wanted to read "smart" literary classics (and Brett Easton Ellis?!). Then I moved to a small city in China, my Mum sent me this book in a care package and it cured me of my miserable, pretentious delusions. Lucky!

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 20

11. Rowan of Rin is a series about a purehearted dweeb who always gets to be the Special-est boy of his village. Not a recommendation, but ROWAN AND THE KEEPER OF THE CRYSTAL has a place in my heart because it's the first book I remember writing fanfic about (a pokemon crossover, lost to time)

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 20

10. Let's do a couple of childhood favourites (in which I reveal my well-hidden Australian childhood): the Obernewtyn chronicles by Isobelle Carmody was exactly the kind of weird Not Like Other Girls shit I wanted as a tween and I think THE FARSEEKERS is the best one. Never did finish the series...

A cover of THE FARSEEKERS by Isobelle Carmody

Adri Joy@adrijjy· Nov 20

9. CREATURES: THE LEGACY OF FRANKENSTEIN ed. David Thomas Moore. I found myself randomly thinking about this book for the first time in aaages at a Fantasycon panel (and recced it!) and it was one of the first books I reviewed on NoaF: a great quintet of stories, worth tracking down!