The people working on this project seem extremely cool. Sifiso Mzobe, the isiZulu translator, writes great crime fiction. Zukiswa Wanner, the Shona translator, was on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and spent time in Israeli custody -- super brave! Support support support

There’s a poem with the first line “I will die in Chicago while looking for a job in winter” and sadly I can neither recall nor locate the title or name of the poet. Does this ring any bells, poet friends?

Once again goal met with minutes to spare. I thought I was going to be done early this time, but then phone call fried my brain. One more reason to set goals at 80% capacity and not be constantly pushing for 100%.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

#FantasyIndiesDecember #QueerPrompts December 1: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book (cont) 📗My debut YA fantasy romcom 🌿Gravity's Fire🔥 is about a runaway teen who discovers magic is real when he meets the boy he's dreamed of all his life. ✨

Wholesome masculinity: my wife mentioned to her online gaming buddies we're planning to buy a catio. Three of the guys decided this would be a fun challenge, spent two weeks researching and designing a custom catio, and are going to travel in from out of state to build it together.

Fucking phone calls. I hate unexpected phone calls at anytime, ESPECIALLY when I'm writing. Just completely scatters my brain. Fuck. #ActuallyAutistic #AmWriting

Time to start writing. I've got a full two hours today, so goal is 1500 words. Here goes nothing. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

#QueerPrompts In honor of the weather today -- how do your characters feel about snow? Aswathi hates snow. It is marginally better than ice, but getting Stubborn to haul a cart through snow without the cart getting stuck or sliding off the road is nearly impossible. Disgusting stuff.

#AwesomeCharacters Honestly, I have no idea. I've never really thought about which characters get names and which don't. I just pants it, whatever feels right in the moment. So far, it's more-or-less worked.

Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)! Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/t...

It's Giving Tuesday! You can Give Native by supporting Native-led nonprofits like The Kwek Society! Check out all of the ways you can GIVE NATIVE here and help us to end period poverty across Turtle Island 👇🏾 www.kweksociety.org/support www.givenative.org/organization...

Generations of Indigenous leaders brace for a new battle over another pipeline

b) Of course things seemed more carefree when you were a kid riding your bike. You were a kid. c) Nothing prevents you from riding a bike as a grown-ass adult. I do, in part because it helps recapture that feeling.

WOOT! So close! Keep it going. And it's Giving Tuesday, isn't it? 25% more to go!

As a creative, editor and writer - I have dreams of turning my stories into games and comics. Also as a creative, editor and writer - I have nightmares of not fulfilling my dreams. Writing is my full-time job - but it's getting harder. If you would like to collab with me, please ping or DM me.

It’s the first Monday of December, so here’s a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. reading Patti Smith, the Alastair Reynolds backlist, new writing on anti-Muslim tropes in modern SFF media, and more.

And in case you missed the book database, it's here - www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-own...

Yes! This is such good news!

Let’s get Izolde’s rent paid! 💪

I wish I had the means to support something like this. If you can, please help these novels get translated and out into the world. If you can't do anything financially, please pass this along.

1. Hi! I'm Philosophika (she/her), philosopher, editor, and aspiring author! My WIP follows an elderly alchemist and his cunning apprentice on their quest to discover the philosopher's stone–the key to eternal life–before death claims him. A surreal, adult fantasy set in NYC. #FantasyIndiesDecember

#QueerPrompts #LicoriceAndMint #QueerWriters #lesfic #sapphic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts My Name is Sonja. My Co-Author, Stacey and I write an urban fantasy series, Licorice and Mint, exploring music subculture, queer identity, religious trauma and sapphic/queer relationships.

#QueerPrompts 1: Hi! I (they/them) am an autistic aplatonic aroace agender amateur writer who likes to write science fiction and fantasy. My current WIPs are: #TheDragonblood: portal fantasy #InReverse: time travel action sapphic romance #ThroughTheCracks: hard utopian sci-fi

#QueerPrompts Hi, I'm Jess. I'm aroace nonbinary and autistically weird. I have two active WIPs at the moment, but this month I'm answering prompts about The Price of Survival: Elisabeti. The Price of Survival introduces three werewolves who are being forced out of their homes by war and genocide.

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👋 Call for sources: My name is Julia Métraux, and I am @motherjones.com disability reporter. I am working on a series (to be published before May 1) profiling three American aging adults (50+) about how you're aging independently while taking care of your health. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Finished with minutes to spare. Rough writing session -- but I got it done. Last Line: “I've got an absolute ton of questions for Emil and Ozanna, too, and I need to be preparing to meet my clan for the first time and keep out of sight of Nivelle. I'm not sure where to start.” #AmWriting #L3

This!!! If we looked at the removal of children as a systematic failure instead of an individual one, then the entire fallacy of adoption system would become so very clear.

I got about an hour and a half to get some writing done. Aiming for 1200 words again. Wish me luck! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

Ya know, I haven't advertised my books in a while so... let's do this again! I posted this last January, I think, so you might have seen it! FIVE UNHINGED REASONS TO READ MERCHANTS OF KNOWLEDGE AND MAGIC MoKaM link: mybook.to/OirI Itch io: shadow-spark-publishing.itch.io/merchants-of...

#DecemberWorldbuilders Despite that Aloutia might look pre-industrial (I'd dare to call it side-industrial), science and the acquisition of knowledge is very important to them. It's cultural phenomenon that comes from their religion: when your God is the God of the Mind who tells you to cultivate

Putting up my editing shingle! I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/

"The history of Anglophone SFF is deeply intertwined with imperialism and colonization narratives" -- Arkady Martine.

nothing received today we're stalled at $1185 - who's got $25 for Chris?

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Just need 470 to meet my goal ❤️❤️

#AwesomeCharacters Elisabeti would at first be overwhelmed by the internet and try to avoid it -- it seems like an easy way to be tracked down and discovered in hiding. As she got used to it she would very cautiously use it to check in on the friends she had left behind.

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 1. From where did the inspiration for your current WIP come? Price of Survival: Elisabeti was loosely inspired by the experiences and lives of converso Jews. The conversos were Jews in Renaissance Spain and Portugal who converted to Christianity in order to avoid persecution

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Hi #DecemberWorldbuilders! ❄️🤍 Only those able to afford the required education & training can carry out alchemical research, one of the foremost sciences in the world of my WIP. Of course, there are always ways around these things. 😉 With a little piracy and ingenuity, anything is possible.

I don't get paid from my new gig until 12/31. My rent is going up by 33% simply cause my landlord CAN. I've spent 1497.11 on car rentals (+1836.61 in rideshare) *just* since September trying to get to births and other gigs. This last 11% can get me out of an expensive, poverty caused cycle.

#DecemberWorldbuilders All research in Tyton is done by large AI models. If you're smart, you get to be an AI psych to keep them from going mad, or an engineer trying to build what it invents.

There are no laws or official gatekeepers keeping anyone who wants from sciencing but for the most part only the elites can afford an education or take the time for research. Most folks are focused on day-to-day survival and only about 1 in 10 can read comfortably #DecemberWorldbuilders

Writers, we are world builders! Why should we not turn those skills to the task of building this world we have right now?

Didn't get any writing done this morning bc of running errands. Gonna try to make it up later this afternoon. Yay for the first of the month?

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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

#NovemberWorldbuilders The erzmaw species! Well, specifically their diet and their greater role. I knew what I wanted them to produce and how they were going to do it (biological metallurgy), but, the reagents they'd need to do it was something I needed to look into further (nutrition). 🧵1/3