The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

Trying to remind myself

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

@ziibiing.com is the brains behind standwithminnesota.com, and she regularly posts gofundme links here and on the site (which means someone filled out a form asking for it to be added). Another great option is food aid, because a smaller grocery bill means immediately more $$ for rent or legal fees.

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

I know we're having a lot of fun with the whole penis doping thing, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that this should be the scandal in ski jumping that everyone is screaming about apnews.com/article/olym...

It is Bandcamp Friday.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

🌸✨GIVEAWAY✨🌸 Name Her Holy's 1st anniversary is coming up on the 13th?? So I thought I'd do a signed hardcover giveaway (with a little front page sketch for fun). I will literally ship this anywhere so international friends feel free to join! Like, repost, and comment to enter!

I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

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For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.

seeing corporate outlets repeatedly refer to ICE beating the shit out of protesters as “clashes” may be the thing that sends me over the edge

The Uncanny Magazine Patreon has been going in the wrong direction recently. Now is a great time to become a Patron! Help me pay the creators and staff! Get the second part of an issue a month before the Internet! :D

Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate! The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷

Just in case it wasn't clear: If I click on your profile and see that you've used AI to make something, you get blocked.

good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete sex scenes are craft! goddammit!

hii we’re the women behind this upstart book app taking on Goodreads (owned by Amazon, bleh) & yes you know we’re indie and humans because we literally turned our pets into avatars you can choose when you create your pagebound profile 😂

Since we're all divesting from our billionaire overlords... what a great time to switch from Goodreads to indie-owned (+ much cuter, cooler, social) Pagebound? Hi #booksky 👋 we're Pagebound, a new social reading site (think: if Goodreads and Reddit had a baby). Come read with us !

a childhood favorite! I watched the film from the '70s a lot growing up and it's perfect to me--hope this works as a miniseries too. It's rather light on plot for 4 episodes.

Corporate-owned outlets that answer to billionaires are increasingly showing they’re not built for this moment. Independent media is filling the gaps and building something new. Help us keep building for another year with a gift subscription to one of these awesome outlets:

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

THE KING MUST DIE has been out for a whole month! To celebrate, I’m giving away 3 signed + personalized author copies. To enter, repost this and comment below with the last great story you read!

WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it

one of my favorite things to do with extra cash around the holidays! "Transanta is a mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift-givers with trans youth who are unhoused, in foster care, or otherwise without crucial support they need to thrive." www.transanta.com

A singer-songwriter friend would like people to know that while boycotting Spotify is great, it was also 16% of their income that is now cratering. So if you're cancelling Spotify, please pair that with buying music, merch, or live tickets directly from your favorite artists

Thank you, ALL, who supported the BCS Patreon or donated this week and shared word! We really appreciate it. All Patreon support and donations go to pay our authors a pro rate, our artists, and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing personalized comments in all submission replies.

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

but seriously, watch it

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

ICYMI we revealed the cover for BEING ARO last week! Illustrated by Sam Prentice-Jones and designed by Rosie Stewart! BEING ARO releases form Page Street May 26th 2026! www.rosieethor.com/being-aro

If anyone's got a moment to give indie authors feedback on what does/ doesn't work for you as a reader re. Itch book bundles, please answer these 9 questions. (They're mostly multiple choice 😉).

my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them

Remember as you gear up for family gatherings this week, if anyone asks “are you still doing that writing thing?” you ARE entitled to challenge them to single combat.

I guess it's about that time of the year where I should mention I've got a short christmas fairytale for you to read. I wrote it back in highschool almost 20 yrs ago and found it by accident a few years back, gave it a basic edit, and here you go. It's free on Ko-Fi and Itch! ko-fi.com/s/5f3400a90d

thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲 thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support 🙏🏻🖤💀 if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link: psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...

I just joined Psychopomp's Patreon at the $2 tier. Please join me if you can.

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Must-read.

Hi, have a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

If no one in your timeline is grieving the loss of Alice Wong today then you’re not hearing from enough disabled people or even people who listen to disabled people. That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

Donate to support Women of Color Unite (WOCU Hollywood)! Several major studios and networks have recently withdrawn their annual donations and sponsorships. Combined with a fundraising gala that did not meet its goals, this loss has put many essential programs at risk. www.every.org/wocunite/f/2...

Book rec! I received an ARC of Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han and LOVED IT. Lyrical, sorrowful, suspenseful; wounding, wounded, magical—it is one of my top reads of 2025 and will be a regular on my recommendation lists moving forward. You can pre-order it now! bookshop.org/p/books/hone...