Matt Lacey

@themattlacey.bsky.social

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Author. Drinker of tea. Killer of plants. Purveyor of smut. Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Australia 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 he/him Human behind the pen names: ✨Rebecca Ide @rebeccaide.bsky.social 🗡️Devin Madson @devinmadson.bsky.social rep’d by Diana Fox

the cover images for the games: dragon age inquisition, stardew valley, final fantasy 12, jade empire, minecraft, portal 2, monkey island, pharaoh, and day of the tentacle

screenshot of an unopened email. from: Riley Halfassbookclub

subject: Introducing We Ride the Storm to Engaged Fa...

Hello Devin, In We Ride the Storm, you craft a story that moves beyond traditional epic confli...

map of fire zones showing two separate areas. the one on the right is like eight times the size of the one on the left

sun with a red/orange corona because the sky is full of hazy brown smoke. looks odd juxtaposed over city buildings and an abandoned cafe

unexciting picture of a bowling lane

screenshot of bluesky notifications where it shows Rebecca Ide ~ updates, and Devin Madson || updates have both followed me

close up of the side split at the hem of a button-up shirt. the fabric is black with brown and yellow patterning. i’m holding it up for the camera and the black nail polish on my thumbnail is very chipped

crimson rosella—parrot shaped but big, red body blue tail and wings. v pretty

purple weatherboard wall, white ikea shelf, and there’s a dark-furred super cute bushy-tailed possum curled up trying to sleep despite the sunlight

pale, raw chicken-looking baby echidna wriggling around in a grey sweater

a large spiky ball of echidna sitting just on the other side of a glass sliding door on some deck boards

video of a very small baby wallaby hopping around like the jumpy version of one of those leggy horses that looks like it’s about to fall over

a mumma kangaroo bending over to eat some lovely green grass with its baby roo craning out of the pouch to look around because grass is boring

it’s a black and white photo of a white guy sitting outside in a garden, he’s got short, textured hair and quite an awesome jawline if i do say so myself. wearing a black singlet with a hot little patterned short-sleeve button up shirt over the top. i’ve accidentally achieved something of a smouldery expression and there’s a dot on my forehead that is seriously there in person it’s not a weird camera fail i swear

describing myself is hard, y’all, but i’d kiss me 😂😍

a quick line drawing of a grumpy frog-looking person with stick arms, glaring, hands on hips with a boner. says “the audacity”

painting of the fallen angel by alexandre cabanel. it’s a nude painting of lucifer being cast out of heaven, he’s sitting on barren stones looking very smouldering, has one arm over half his face and an expression of betrayed, angry hurt. he’s hot and mad and has wings

movie poster for He Died With A Felafel in his Hand, which has the title in bold blue type above a picture of a man lying dead in a bathtub wearing a suit and bow tie

“Devin Madson isn't new to epic storytelling. An Aurealis Award-winning author, she thrives on crafting fantasy worlds with shades of grey, witty banter, and morally ambiguous characters that linger long after the last page is turned.
Also, tea and chocolate-fueled creativity?
Genius. Fried zucchini-powered world-building? Legendary.” followed by a tea emoji, a chocolate emoji, and a cucumber emoji

a graphic of a book showing the new UK paperback cover for The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide. it’s a magenta background with fancy pale blue swirls in each corner, pale blue silhouettes of two men back to back in the centre and the title in big yellow letters. it’s very regency romance but gay, and there are two cover quotes, one from Freya Marske that says “a piece of magic in itself” and one from C.S Pacat that says “a delectable read”

picture of Lestat from Interview with a Vampire looking disheveled and intense in his nice shirt, vest and tie, with blood dripping down his neck. caption reads: “what can i say? i’m a lot. i’m not perfect”

Chaptor 1
Death is the only way to escape being a Monterris. Nic had been five when his father told him so, which was, if one thought about it, a bit messed up. When Nic was eight he'd said love was nothing but a bargaining tool. At eleven he'd clarified it was a bargaining tool should someone love him, a weakness should he deign to love another. And at fifteen that it was a weakness he could never indulge.
Wine, on the other hand, was encouraged.
Thank. God.

wall covered in black and green lighting, with two inset doorways filled with green light in which two men with tennis bags stand as silhouettes. looks a bit Maleficent. or Loki.

a picture of the characters Washford and Dryson from the game Date Everything. a pair of handsome men personified from a washer and a dryer complete with round windows in their chests and white clothes. Washford is more long-haired leather daddy while Dryson is more frilly-shirted poet with Cheekbones

Snippet of a Guardian article that says: “As Swift leans into her taunts in one of her fabled middle eights, she reframes Charli's so-called hate campaign as "talking dirty" and sings - and I am sorry to have to write this - that "it's kinda making me wet". (Upsettingly, the moment is more convincing than Wood, the song about her fiance's dick set to Bruno Mars-lite.) It unwittingly reveals so much of Swift's current MO: eroticising hate, still getting off on it when her foes are long past participating”

white poster with bright cartoon flowers smiling in the middle and the hippie-font words around the outside say: “I am not the bigger person. I will hit you with a chair”

picture of a young Timothée Chalamet in Interstellar, in casual grey clothes, facing the camera while Matthew McConaughey stands with his back to us. they’re having a serious parent/child moment on a rural background

About LAcon V
Dare to Discover, Dare to Explore, Dare to be Uncharted!
LAcon V, the 2026 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), is presented by the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests (SCIFI), Inc., a California 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization.
LAcon V

menu reads:

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“Ultimately, if Croydon was so interested in asking the question on nobody's lips — what if Alan Turing had a child? - why not also create a new history in which Turing is allowed to be happy?
To find love (with a man!) and connection to his children and friends, where his Turing Protocol can be enshrined in their upbringing rather than merely assumed as a side effect of carrying his DNA? Why continue to write about his suffering when you could have found room for joy or justice?”

excerpt from a goodreads review that reads: “This decision is made more questionable as the sex scene between Turing and Joan is one of only two on-page descriptions; all other sex scenes are 'fade to black'. Whilst Turing is clearly stated to be gay in the novel, his homosexuality feels tacked on, as he lacks queer community and a desire for men outside of a purely sexual context. Contrasting the intimate detail with which the scene between Joan and Turing is
described, the interactions between Turing and Arnold feel perverse, as Turing has a "weakness for young men" (p.109), and he becomes
"excited" (p.109) by his "fresh face" (p.110). These descriptions reinforce homosexuality as an indecent perversion; whereas Turing and Joan engage in a more 'pure' love, as they are
"captivated by each other's company" (p.19), where Turing gives into Joan's seduction and
"pulled himself closer" (p.89), afterwards "the couple relaxed, holding each other - two people in love, if only briefly" (p.89); thus intimacy and love is contrasted with sexually deviant lust.
Croydon strips Turing of his autonomy and…”

a picture of italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti showing his muscles off to the crowd by pulling back his sleeve after a match at Roland Garros earlier this year

JASMINE MAS is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy romance. Her books have been translated into 20 languages. She has a degree in ancient Greco-Roman classical studies from Georgetown University, and is a former lawyer who spends all her free time writing about strong women in magical worlds.

MzFreud @mzfreud.bsky.social • 2h

You should have said no to Emperor Orange. But noooooo... you had to go getting mixed up with a serial felon and his buddies.
Your bed, Dan. You lie down in it.

(attached picture of a tardigrade playing a stringed musical instrument)

Itlging.bsky.social @Itlging.bsky... •58m

That IS the world's tiniest violin!

slugdoug.bsky.social @slugdou... • 21m

Nope, that's clearly a cello.

Eric Winick @eawinick.bsky.social • 5h
Fonts matter

Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsk... • 5h
*nods in comic sans *

Eric Winick @eawinick.bsky.social • 4h
Get out.

screenshot of article that reads: “reach the Tropical Coast, high on the list of CNTraveler's Best Places To Go list in 2025. This is the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and its sustainability efforts to protect it, as”

oz comic-con announcement pic showing my author picture and some of my books. Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide, June 7&8 at MCEC

screen cap of a Screen Rant article with the subhead: The Gentleman And His Vowsmith Is A Great Bridgerton Replacement Read

Ide's Novel Captures The Passion And Humor of Quinn's And Netflix's Series

with pictures from the bridgerton netflix series beneath

snippet from quote posted article:

"So what if there was more focus?" he continues. "What if the point was the relationships and the characters? What if they played more into the plot? I can think of a few, like, say, Dragon Age:
Origins. There are a couple of followers that have more relevance than the others. For instance, you couldn't take Alistair or Morrigan out of Dragon Age:
Origins and still have the throughline of plot remain the same. So what if you had more of that? What if there was more interplay where they played a stronger role? Or what if there's things we haven't yet considered about the role of romance?

Devin Madson Rebecca Ide @d... • 10h

but aluminium and beef and google search and electricity are things we
NEED to a greater or lesser extent. spending water on a technology built on stolen copyright that exists to devalue creative jobs so rich people can exploit more money out of us and otherwise achieves nothing new doesn't compare

robert j bennett, smiling politely ... • 10h

I would probably lead with how it's stolen copyright more than the water thing then! We tried shaming people to stop google searching because of the electricity and carbon output and it didn't do shit.

Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide
@devinmadson.bsky.social

sure but this wasn't a thread about how to argue it's bad as a collective, it was a thread defending your use of said bad

post reply that says:

alisonarngrim: Well it's technically a little worse. In French if you're saying "cat", you don't pronounce the T. Chat GP....you kind of do. And if you pronounce the T..its...um the
"other" word for "kitty". So yeah.

post that says: “life is extra surreal for french speakers right now because in french, phonetically, "chat gpt" sounds exactly like "cat, i farted" (chat, j'ai pété). everywhere, on TV, in the news, people going "cat, i farted" over and over with a straight face. is cat, i farted going to steal your job? how are schools dealing with cat, i farted? lawyer caught using cat, i farted. it's incredible.”

Phil Fish/Mastodon

white genderfluid human in a black hoodie, looking at the camera, face framed by a messy, asymmetrical haircut in a vivid red hue—more on the pink side than the orange side of red

text box on a tennis broadcast that says “time since first match point: 1 day, 2 hours, 48 mins, 13 secs”

a large bouquet of yellow and purple flowers sitting on my desk, in front of my ergonomic keyboard and mouse, and three screens one of which has tennis playing because i always have tennis playing

picture of the UK hardcover of The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide, the cover of which is a beautiful red background with black gates covered in golden vines, with golden birds and title and two regency men silhouetted at the bottom. it’s wrapped up in a red bow

a short video in which i show the closed box, struggle a little to open it with scissors and eventually just yank it open. inside is about twenty copies of The Gentleman and his Vowsmith, which has shiny gold bits on the cover! i flip through the pages, perfectly innocent pages full of romance and murder and smutty bits, before ending on the shiny cover of my book baby

picture of a hand holding a copy of The Gentleman and his Vowsmith up to photograph just in front of a bookstore shelf beside where three more copies of it can be seen spine out

page of book text (47 of The Gentleman and his Vowsmith)

Nic stared at her. "A spoon? Are spoons particularly gay then?" Lady Leaf rolled her eyes. "It was just the first thing that came to mind."
"You can't know much about men then. Or spoons."
"Can you just let me get on with this?"
"Sure."
"I can't see any scuffing on this step, but—"
"What comparison would even end with 'as a spoon?" he asked.
"Is a spoon really the epitome of anything except spoonishness?
There would be better comparisons for shiny, and round, and—"
"Really? This is the conversation we're going to have?" Nic shrugged. "You started it."
"A man has been murdered here."
"Yes, my man. It's more awful than I can express, so I don't really want to talk about it."
She straightened, grimacing. "Were you two...
"What? No! Dear God, woman. He's been with me since I was a child. He was my uncle's valet first and was more like a father to me than my actual father."
"'m sorry! I just thought... after the previous conversation..."
"About homosexual cutlery."

copy of The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide sent to me by my publisher, held up with a colourful bookshelf in the background. also my stuffed pink unicorn pal Sir Sparkles managed to get into the shot

snippet of the news email, the Crikey Worm, that reads:

“ON A LIGHTER NOTE...
Let's take a break from the end of civilisation as we know it, shall we, and focus on something completely different, like a city destroyed by a volcanic eruption.”

A snippet from the morning news email, the Crikey Worm that reads:

“As the Crikey team awaited further details, it became clear that any other actual tariff announcements would continue to be couched within rambling accusations of America's historical economic victimhood. Please check in with us throughout the day — when he eventually stops talking, we'll bring you all the details (until then, you can follow along with the ABC).”

screenshot of the game stardew valley, examining the game system in Sterling’s spouse room, which says, “As you fondly gaze at the second controller Sterling bought to play with you, you wonder why in the world Yoba couldn't just give you a man who'd let you win from time to time. Like a normal husband.”

Cover of the book The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide beside the words:

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The world's smartest Al, Grok 3, is now available on iOS. Tap to try.”

Photo from my office window of a wallaby standing at the edge of a dirt driveway. Garden is very dry, trampoline to the side is very broken, shed in the background is very large, and the wallaby is very cute