My one-sided, sapphic yearning story told from the POV of a sword is out now in Diabolical Plots!

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

I made a punch card for my short fiction reading this year! Each dragon represents 10 stories. Let’s see when I can finish this one. I’ll be logging stories under this post:

One of Studio Ghibli's underrated ones, Whisper of the Heart! It's a cute romance between a writer and a violin maker.

"Who Can Hold a Princess" in @diabolicalplots.com by @vivianmliu.bsky.social takes the perspective of a sword in a quietly agonising depiction of sapphic yearning. The perspective of an object that can't act by itself perfectly complements a character whose act is un-reciprocated.

I LOVE THIS STORY! It’s absolutely gorgeous… and it’s flash, so drop everything and read it before you do anything else today, please and thanks.

My one-sided, sapphic yearning story told from the POV of a sword is out now in Diabolical Plots!

Seen on the side of a noodle shop in Chicago.

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

Hi new followers! I hope you are having a lovely autumn day

society when I get an iced americano in the morning

“The canvas is the first draft” Brain chemistry changing!

I am Obsessed with that giant baby penguin

Reading Jane Eyre for the first time. Dang this is a beautiful book

I’m on week 3 of the couch to 5k program and I feel great after doing my runs! I have a couple of races scheduled too, so I have something to work up to.

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you aren't making art of any kind because you are afraid that whatever you manage to bring to earth won't match the idea of the thing you have in your head: I have never once succeeded in doing that and I never will that's queer divine dissatisfaction.

Hi! I've created an SFFH BIPOC starter pack! Please share around! Also please reply if you'd like to be added (I'm making this an opt-in list)! #sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY

Hello new followers and people I followed! ☺️ Here’s a lil about me: I’m Mary, a SFF writer. I write a lot about: - sapphic romance - women with swords - deep sea creatures - healing arcs I also like gaming, anime, knitting, eating dessert, and hanging out with my void cat Nice to meet you! 🫶

The thing about writing advice is that no writing advice works for everybody. Or even a large percentage of everybody. The "write every day" thing is like workshops, Clarion, MA degrees, how-to books, special software, etc, it is not for everyone. Nothing is. 1/-

we're living through a fast-paced technological revolution around green energy and it's getting about 1% of the attention it should. In a month, no one's gonna be burning coal in the UK for the first time since the steam engine was invented.

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

overheard at the coffee shop from a woman with a dog: “I love cosplaying as someone who owns a dog”

After some fumbling, we are officially open for early submissions from equity-deserving groups! Looking for sffh stories (500-3500 words) or poetry focused on long-term relationships 🤖🧌🧛‍♀️ heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...

I really need to get a website for my writing going

That an editor can love your story and still reject it for X or Y reason that has nothing to do with the quality of your work. That short stories are an insanely competitive market. That writing a good story isn't good enough if it doesn't meet the editor's taste.

I’ve never had a mocha before and now I’m obsessed

this interview with @kyliu99.bsky.social is so good — "These mythologies are killing us. The more they make us unhappy, the more we think the fault is in ourselves. But they’re just stories. If existing stories are making us unhappy, what we need are better stories."

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how many squid facts you knew - if you offered others squid facts - how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact

Had an amazing time at Glasgow Worldcon! My fear was that I would be too nervous to talk to anyone, but I ended up meeting a whole bunch of cool people this weekend