As we begin the #newyear, I’m thinking about of one of my favorite @nkjemisin.bsky.social quotes. #nkjemisin #sff #survival #books

Happy #WorldScienceFiciton day, which is celebrated each year on the birthday of #isaacasimov. Asimov’s The Caves of Steel was the first real #scienceficition novel I #read. My father got it for me after I watched Star Wars and declared it my favorite movie. #books #bookssky

Happy #WorldScienceFiciton day, which is celebrated each year on the birthday of #isaacasimov. Asimov’s The Caves of Steel was the first real #scienceficition novel I #read. My father got it for me after I watched Star Wars and declared it my favorite movie. #books #bookssky

They both thought in abstractions, but they were not the same. Her mind worked in the ordered squares of Mondrian, while his thoughts splattered like a Pollack. #vss365

Happy my workout is going to take three times as long as usual for the next month because of all these new people in the gym day to all who celebrate.

—First short story submission of 2026 sent ✅ —Query letter updated with new comp title ✅ —First words of 2026 written in new story. ✅

Obviously, this thing is broken.

“There’s always a price,” said the wizard. “I can grant you a life free of despair, but you will never again know delight. You will live a mundane, grey existence without ambition, and without the knowledge that life could be different.” #vss365

A new Year’s almost here, depending on where you are I'm honoured to be the #vss365 host from Jan 1–15. I’ll be posting the prompts at 7:00 GMT, and I can’t wait to see what this amazing poetry community comes up with. I’ve tried to mix up the prompts to suit lots of different tastes Happy new year

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Calling all writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy and More: Submissions are open for January’s #SciFanSat issue until 01.22.2026 at scifansat.com/landing.html! Let’s start the new year with a cold open. This month’s theme is ICE! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts

#StrangerThings spoilers … … … … … … More endings than Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings.

The stuff that dreams are made on.

Wishing you a year free of war and full of peace, #LeoTolstoy, most likely. #newyear.

Another year has gone. So long, and thanks for all the fish, #DouglasAdams, without any panic. #newyear

Like the sun, the new year also rises, #ErnestHemingway, maybe. #newyear.

Wishing you a #NewYear in which you rise, #MayaAngelou (from above).

Wishing you a #NewYear full of unexpected journeys — #JRRTolkien, maybe.

The #newyear dwells in possibilities, #EmilyDickinson, in one of those possibilities.

Wishing you the best of times (and not the worst of times) in the #newyear. #charlesdickens, more than likely. #happynewyear.

Another year has passed. So it goes. #kurtvonnegut, most likely. #newyear #happynewyear.

The #newyear is fearless and therefore powerful, #MaryShelley, maybe. #frankenstein #happynewyear

Wishing you a surcease of sorrow in the #NewYear, #EdgarAllanPoe, probably.

It’s a new year. Spira, Spera (Breathe, Hope). #VictorHugo, probably. #litersture #newyear #happynewyear

I think someone missed me while I was away. She’s never been a licker before. #catsky

Proud to have a piece on the @scifansat.bsky.social best of 2025 issue. Thank you to my fellow #scifansat authors for voting my story in, and good luck to everyone whose work appears in the issue. #scifi #fantasy

Apropos to today’s #vss365 aarubin.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/w...

At any given point, 99.999999 percent of the universe is at peace. Unfortunately, it’s always the same point that’s not. Great job, earthlings. #whistpr

This will be the final #whistpr word of the day... All my love and gratitude to the many participants over the years. May 2026 bring you peace and creativity. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for December 31, 2025: #PEACE #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity Art by @whistberry.bsky.social

This marble is a chariot A passenger am I Traveling ‘cross the galaxy Round and round I fly It spins on ever onward Turning with each year In the cosmic clockwork It’s just another gear My path is chosen for me By gravity or fate Unless I can find myself Some meaning or escape #vss365

This marble is a chariot A passenger am I Traveling ‘cross the galaxy Round and round I fly It spins on ever onward Turning with each year In the cosmic clockwork It’s just another gear My path is chosen for me By gravity or fate Unless I can find myself Some meaning or escape #vss365

Sorry for the lack of activity recently. I’ve been on my annual end of the year reset in Cooperstown, NY.

Apropos to today’s #vss365 aarubin.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/w...

Proud to have a piece on the @scifansat.bsky.social best of 2025 issue. Thank you to my fellow #scifansat authors for voting my story in, and good luck to everyone whose work appears in the issue. #scifi #fantasy

AVAILABLE NOW: The #SciFanSat Best of 2025 issue is now up at scifansat.com! Enjoy the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More selected as our finest of the year by the fantastic #SFF author alumni that contributes to the magazine! Our thanks go out to them, and to the readers just like you!

Do not despair when it appears you have nothing before you. The universe has nothing before it, and yet it continues to expand. Struggle on. Fill that void. #vss365

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Has anyone been having problems with Microsoft Word lately? I'm experiencing a lot of lag any time I save, search, or move around the document outside of directly typing. I'm on a MacBook Air and recently had to update *everything* very much against my will.

Do not despair when it appears you have nothing before you. The universe has nothing before it, and yet it continues to expand. Struggle on. Fill that void. #vss365

Every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point in them being happy now if they’re going to be sad later? The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later—The Doctor #Doctorwho

"Is this Hell, or just an upturn in consumer confidence?" A friend gifted this tiny volume to me this year; never has a tangible object felt so unreal in my hands. John Updike + Edward Gorey? Sure. The contents are precisely what you imagine.

Humbug, I say. Bah and humbug! #catsky

You know what the big problem is with telling fantasy and reality apart? They’re both ridiculous. —The Doctor, Last Christmas #DoctorWho

And Gandalf, who did NOT die

My presents from the in-laws Christmas eve grab bag: a #peanuts @moleskine.bsky.social #notebook featuring #Snoopy which says, “I’m a big fan of my own #writing, because if we’re not fans of our own writing, #writingcommunity, how can we expect others to be?

This would be the line that tied it all together, the one which would collect all the disparate themes and plot lines into an ending that would both surprise and delight. This would be the line…if only I had written it down when I thought of it. #FromOneLine

And here’s the YouTube link. Better with video. youtu.be/IPYcZN8bE3Q?...

Check out The 6 Degrees of Edgar Allan Poe #EdgarAllanPoe #Christmas special. I’m proud to have a #poem about a naughty elf of the shelf (54:21 timestamp) but I encourage you to listen to the whole thing Winter is the traditional time for ghost stories, after all. open.spotify.com/episode/7LZ3...