It's time to announce the August flash fiction theme! Submerge yourself in some haunting jellyfish lofi because...🐙🐋🫧 August's flash fiction theme is DEEP SEA! 🪼🦑 Heat vents! Whale fall! Doomed sub voyages! Send it all! Submissions are open until August 31st! www.patreon.com/posts/135291...

Made it to the actual submittable page this time, but when I smashed the “submit” button 13 seconds later, alas, it was closed.

First post in weeks (months?) and it’s to ache over this gorgeous poem. Read it and ache with me.

I can't read the words, but I have a suspicion that every spiderweb is a poem.

I'll say it again: Strange Horizons has been one of the best spec magazines for more than two DECADES. They’ve supported diverse voices from the start and are always the first place I go for spec poetry. I’ve donated and if you love spec short fic/poetry, this is a great investment in its future.

Glitch in logging into Submittable means I didn’t get my sub in during the *checks notes* 18 seconds the window was open. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

This piece really confirms my belief in the universal adoption of ChatGPT by publishing scammers—exactly the same gushing fake assessments as I see in scammer solicitation emails

This is a gorgeous and heart-rending and heart-mending story, and you should all read it ❤️❤️❤️

How dare you

Kill that which inside of you cringes

Wishing all who celebrate a warm and wonderful Happy Mother’s Day ❤️ and if today is difficult, I’m sending an extra dose of love ❤️❤️

Mark Carney, 13 years ago, talking about the American recession, "too big to fail" banks, and moving Canada to new partners and friends. 👀 Also!! Showing off our new money!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s389...

G'morning to all fellow dandelions

I am obsessed with practically every story I’ve seen come out of @havehashad.com, this one included

Good morning from Canada, the land of the free and the home of the brave. "Trump wanted to break us. We are over the shock of American betrayal. But we will never forget the lessons.” ~ Prime Minister Mark Carney 🍁

My God 👀 this is incredible news to wake up to

OH THANK GOD

Today’s the day. Please get out there and vote. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It’s Election Day, Canada. Go vote Canada Strong.

Canadians, many things are terrible and difficult right now, but Monday April 28 is election day and if you have not voted yet, I hope you will go out and vote tomorrow. All the info on how and where is at the official Elections Canada site: www.elections.ca/home.aspx

Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚

My brother in poutine, Trump wants to flood Canada with cheap, industrial, growth-hormone laden dairy that will cause a mass suicide epidemic amongst our family farmers and alter the very landscape of our country. You will roll over and let it.

Good, straightforward explanation about PP’s promises 👇 “Tax cuts aren’t just free money”

Just straight up weeping as Senator Cory Booker broke the record

bluebells cover the forest floor as you make your way towards home

"Storytellers ought not be too tame. They ought to be wild creatures who function adequately in society. They are best in disguise. If they lose all their wildness, they cannot give us the truest joys.” - Ben Okri (from A Way of Being Free)

Informative and exciting thread, with some *fantastic* science news!

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to spend a few hours reading in the middle of the forest under a centuries-old oak tree with a basket of freshly-baked croissants?

you take a walk and see that the colours of the budding wildflowers have arrived along the cliffside

For anyone who’s been struggling with getting words on the page, I shared some of my favourite writing prompts here, along with entirely too many gardening metaphors. angelamcowan.substack.com/p/turn-the-s...

Here's another good (and timely) online course from @carterhaughschool.bsky.social. I think the world of Dr. Brittany Warman & Dr. Sara Cleto, the folklore scholars behind this school, who have created a vibrant online community at Carterhaugh. Follow the link below if you'd like to know more.

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It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."

The news continues to cause me unrelenting anxiety, but I get to talk to poets all day tomorrow and it is such a bright spot in my week.

GET IN LOSERS WE'RE GOING VOTING www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

In most stories, witches are quietly minding their own business, gardening, baking, crafting human effigies, etc. until someone comes along and messes with them. 🎨 Simon Kojin

Angie Pickman

Elizabeth May is, and always will be, one of my heroes 😂🥰

It’s a good day to go to the library and check out a metric ton of books.

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

As I do every year, I'll remind you that if you've little enthusiasm for green beer and pretending to be Irish, today is also the feast day of St. Gertrude of Nivelles. Gertrude was an abbess from the 7th century, and is patron of gardeners, those with mental health issues, and most recently, cats.*

VIOLET THISTLEWAITE IS NOT A VILLAIN ANYMORE by @writersofrohan.bsky.social is on the FIRST PAGE of Netgalley’s Most Requested Books and I am squealing!! Come for the mildly homicidal houseplant, stay for the idiots to lovers and “there’s only one greenhouse.” www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Me: Happy St. Patrick's day! My snake roommate:...Wow. Me: Sorry, I didn't thin- Snake roommate:-It's *fine*.

This is unreal 👀 Such amazing research

Why yes I am drafting an anti-authoritarian sapphic romantasy today, in fact

I feel really fortunate these days, because when the overwhelming anxiety of *the world* gets too much, I can curl up at home and snuggle into my cozy little personal anxiety of being on sub, and set an entirely different part of my brain on fire 🥰🥰

There’s a mountain of chaos to overcome still, but this has me feeling heartened.

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to make soup in a cauldron over an open fire under a full moon with the sound of wolves in the distance?

@skyskkyy.bsky.social I just read Horse Girls and am astounded by how gorgeous and rending it is

"Gerta lost her mother in the fifth grade and became a horse for a year." — Skyler Melnick I wanna give you more — the whole thing is so, so good; every sentence perfect and a marvel — but if that doesn't grab you, I don't know what to say. https://www.havehashad.com/88t4b