Shut up shut up shut up KENNY’s TWO HOUR DOCUMENTARY ON SIX FLAGS AMERICA CLOSING IS UP ON PATREON NOW SHUT UP I AM BUSY MOM!

ANOTHER ONE I LOVED: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by @effies.bsky.social in @diabolicalplots.com ! www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Fucking. Relatable.

And while we're talking about recs, let's do short fiiiictiooooon reeeecccccs. I am still reading through a bunch, but so far here are a couple that I needed to mention:

I hear we’re starting to look at eligibility posts and what we loved this year. Here are two books that I fell absolutely in love with in 2025. @isaac-fellman.bsky.social and @yumewrites.bsky.social

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I am so exhausted after a week of falling down the stairs and still teaching some of the hardest classes I’ve ever taught. My body just wants to rot in bed.

Great news! LIGHTHOUSE is a @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social Gold Standard Selection! #goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard #juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #jlgselection

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

Great news! LIGHTHOUSE is a @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social Gold Standard Selection! #goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard #juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #jlgselection

If you missed Zohran’s speech live, this is the link to the whole thing from PBS Newshour on YT: www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL... #zohranmamdani #nyc

Great new story from @wiswell.bsky.social reactormag.com/phantom-view...

Did you know I have a newsletter? It's short and sweet and has pretty pictures. And it's the easiest way to keep up with what's going on in my writing life. www.jrdawsonwriter.com

“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”

A really beautiful essay by Maddie Martinez at @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/lady-golem-a...

This. This this this. I have other jobs but without my wife none of this is possible. None of it.

The experience of reading a J.R. Dawson book.

Thank you so much!!!!

I HAVE WRITTEN

anyone doing @printrunpodcast.bsky.social 's Print Run Nano? @rocketjessie.bsky.social and I begin tonight!!!! Join us!

My story is in this!!

Well in true disability fashion, on my way out the door to go to a fun Halloween party in my costume, my legs decided to buckle and collapse and that’s why I’m braced up and icing in bed trying to get a hold of my boss. Never a dull moment.

Holy crap someone dressed up as Rin for Halloween. Check out their insta for more amazing pics. They knocked it out of the park! The Sparks would approve and welcome them to the circus. @torbooks.bsky.social

Them: the perfect costume doesn't exist Zim:

My essay "No Leads," about being chronically ill/disabled and having test results come back negative, is out now from @flaremagazine.bsky.social! flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/no-leads-by-...

broke: I'm a 3rd person writer, it's just what I do! woke: I'm writing the story from this specific pov and tense because the narrator is active in the plot in a specific way (even if the narrator is not a character in the story but a distant onlooker), and this is the narrator's focus

You couldn’t just love the world back, even when the whole world loved you!” It's a work in progress but I'm getting some fucking feelings out in this WIP.

I used ... a LOT of music to write TFBT. Here are just a FEW of the songs I used. Circus Playlist GO! open.spotify.com/playlist/31g...

Contracts are signed! I've got two new short stories coming!

I don't have any scary stories to share for Halloween, but I do have a ghost story! "Handsomest Gentlest" is about the flaming-eyed fiend who stalks the forest of the dead. It's also a story about a boy and his dog. I have been told that it might make you sad. 🖤 www.havenspec.com/handsomest-g...

An EXCELLENT short story. I still think about it months later

If you’re reading for awards season, here’s a short story I’m really proud of in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social .

Reading for awards? Wanna consider "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything"? @locusmag.bsky.social said "fun & funny but doesn’t lose its bite, pushing readers to ques­tion why superheroes (are) more believ­able than achieving ...accommodations as a disabled person." www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

This book ... my nonbinary magic teacher WIP ... is going to be a fucking amazing book if I can pull it off.

Hit 50k words in my Nonbinary Magic Teacher WIP.

Did you know I have a newsletter? It's short and sweet and has pretty pictures. And it's the easiest way to keep up with what's going on in my writing life. www.jrdawsonwriter.com

Just admiring my book haul from the traveling SFF book fest—featuring @yumewrites.bsky.social, @jrdawson.bsky.social, Elaine U Cho, @itsamia.bsky.social, & Emily Jane

Me three days ago: Long Covid is all in my head. I'm fine. Why haven't I been doing more things? Look, I can do this and this and --- Me today:

Two days after Lighthouse tour, I dig into the new project 👀 soooooon

This is tonight, Atlanta!! Me & @maryrobinettekowal.com will be reading from RED STAR HUSTLE APPREHENSION at Eagle Eye Books at 7pm - come through if you can make it! @eagleeyebooks.bsky.social Scan the code for tickets.

It is 7:00 am. Where the fuck is the sun.

Hello new followers! Interested in my short fiction but don't know where to start? Here's one from earlier this year! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

With all the travel I did this year, I ONLY HAVE FIVE STATES LEFT. Anyone wanna pay for me to show up and do something in these states? 😂

I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?" Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!

This is me with my free time now:

What are you getting into if you read one of my stories, short form or long form? It’s like going through a very vibe-heavy therapy session but then your favorite person picks you up and takes you to your favorite restaurant and gives you a big hug.

For the first time since June, I wake up and I don't have to prep for another trip. Holy shit. The tour is over. Holy shit. I sleep in my own bed now.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

I got back to Minneapolis in time to see the brilliant @rocketjessie.bsky.social make her debut at her first reading!!! AAAAA!

One of them is always a good character in my books and there’s another one who lived in Hungary and his cat fell out of a window and broke his tail but lived.