the very, very old etymology of two computery terms...

Spell slots are spoon theory.

InkFoundry's "surprise me" feature served up Lavie Tidhar's "Seven Vampires." In short: what if Holmes and Watson were vampires and Conan Doyle had a sense of humor? Very entertaining read thanks to the characters and comedy. It was the inverse of a locked room mystery (an open road mystery?)

Getting my new slides in shape. I have it on good authority that the typeface I have chosen is "woke" (aka sans serif)

@muteddragon.bsky.social introduced me to @inkfoundry.bsky.social a few days ago. This is now an InkFoundry stan account. If you don't know what that means, click the link and GAZE UPON THE GLORY OF A FREE, FILTERABLE, TAGGED SHORT STORY TBR

It’s a new year so let’s start an #AskAgent thread. Post questions here and I’ll do my best to answer them all. Leaving this open through the weekend. #QueryTip #AmWriting

New story alert! This story fought me tooth and nail to get written, but it's become perhaps my favorite short story of mine. It also contains a polarizing POV choice that, IIRC, split my writing groups. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

Awards Eligibility Post! I’m very proud of these three delinquents: Doppel Doppel Gang Gang (Baffling Magazine). Love Story in Colored Glass (Uncharted Magazine). Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands (The Dark). Links can be found on my website. Here’s to more art-making in 2026!

A highlight for me too! I've missed interviewing, and talking with Lee was an absolute delight.

#IndiaSky Do we have this in India? I've definitely felt the urban/rural divide, but it wasn't typically framed as a conversation about "Indianness" (except where it mapped on to English fluency)

Lottocracy stays winning

The last Words for Worlds issue of 2025 is my round-up of my favourite books from the year: Words for Worlds - Issue 111: 2025 in Books — gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

b/c of a convo on here, I started rereading both The Name of the Rose and Possession last night, and both - 1 from late 1960s Italy, taking place in a 14c monastery, and 1 published 1990 UK, taking place 1986 and 1800s UK- felt staggeringly current and relevant. (cont)

Funny watching so many folk celebrate Bardot. It brings this meme to mind.

Brave of the Star Tribune to recommend the taboo, little-known author C. S. Lewis

Closing out 2025 with my first published SFF story! "My Trust Must Be" puts the Lady of the Lake on a generation ship, frozen/thawed/refrozen again to fit a hero's journey. Honored to be part of @icaruszine.bsky.social's Currents issue, with fiction related to water—or in this case, cryogenic pods.

we’re scrolling around HBO and found AZTEC BATMAN and i need everyone to see Conquistador El Joker

None of my work uses LLM. I am not a thief, and am trying my bus-riding best to not kill the planet. JFC.

New story out today at A Curious Moon! “Troubling the Pearls on Elos” was written during the new moon in libra at @viableparadise, published during the new moon in sag, and imagined as the first in a series of interconnected stories on a new lunar society! acuriousmoon.com/2025/12/19/t...

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

If you're looking for a quick present for someone, ebooks are always great, and I've got a great one for the poli-sci, cyberpunk, big data nerd, and/or sci fi political thriller fan in your life. www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers. Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.

"Hug your friend till they let go" is terrible advice to give to more than one person

New story this week! "This Is Not a Space Kidnapping Fantasy" by Priya Sridhar @priyajsridhar.bsky.social www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Excellent food review that isn't a food review but is also a food review. And may the Hormbles Chormbles be also with you.

Niche tweet for those who know publishing: The great writer Clive James had a mantra he’d repeat to make himself feel better. “The book of my enemy has been remaindered.” Just sharing that for no particular reason.

People want to know the secret of Captain Kohle's treasure - but we know that real treasure is in reading the story (and considering it for any end of year awards, round ups or reading lists). translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/t...

Thank you to @locusmag.bsky.social and @niallharrison.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF. Get the book here! www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/9371... Submissions for Vol 2 are now open: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

Thrilled to have a story in Mystic Mind Magazine from @kirincomics.bsky.social this month! It’s a 20th c pulp magazine-flavored fairytale retelling based on a string of robberies back in my Delaware days. It was written in my very first spec fic workshop with the great @gregfrost.bsky.social!

This doubles as my awards eligibility post for 2025 😁

I’m 44 years old and until this very day I sincerely believed “Ringo Starr” was what it said on his birth certificate like it never occurred to me to doubt that a pair of British parents would name a child Ringo

Dwagon

Naan radioactive ☢️

Also received my FIRST EVER query response. Forget the sweets, I need to catch a train to the Orientalist Bloomingdale's casino downtown and put everything on black.

New story soon! Contract came in the mail today! Must order one (1) sweet thing! Exclamation marks!

Today is Giving Tuesday, for donating to nonprofits. BCS's parent co. is a 501c3 nonprofit, so donations & Patreon support are tax deductible (consult a tax professional). We'd appreciate your support. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/support-bcs/...

Highly recommended reading, especially if you're a SFF writer and/or a brown Game of Thrones fan (AKA me fr fr.)

Free to read now! And I love the brass flowers. They fit perfectly.

Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction. “The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” — altermag.com/articles/the...

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

Needed to get this out of my head

#IndiaSky did everyone but me know that the Meena show was made in Bangladesh and not India??

This is very, very good, and exceptionally unsettling. My favorite sort of cultural criticism (being that which is also art criticism). The spaces described are both unheimlich/uncanny and BLEAK AS FUCK, which is (I think) central to the argument, & also utterly grim as sociocultural commentary.

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

BIG NEWS TIME! @gingerbluepublish.bsky.social has released my queer furry film noir romantasy, SONGS & SORCERY, in hardback editions! Either the hardback at Amazon -or- the SUPER-SWEET dust-jacketed FANCY edition at Barnes & Noble. Buy the fancy today! www.jbgarnerwrites.com/songsandsorc...

Best shot on potato phone from today's Chicago aurora trip with @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social: less bright, cloudier skies, still visibly otherworldly

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

BA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA (WITH @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social)

After years of half-hearted attempts, Wife and I finally managed to see the aurora live in Chicago thanks to @drhazzard.bsky.social and @puppetkon46.bsky.social. They have the good photos. I have this potato shot. Unlike 90% of the aurora photos you'll see, this was more impressive in person.