Three-Lobed Burning Eye is OPEN for submissions JAN 1-16! Who's submitting? #writers #authors #writing #WritingCommunity

Proto Homo Angelis walking out of the badlands (Acrylics on paper)

Xiaotingia zhengi gliding through the forest carrying a Gingko yimaensis leaf. Peace, freedom, equality, democracy, solidarity, empathy and love… these beautiful words run through her head as a pair of Monolophosaurus jiangi follow their relative’s journey in amazement. #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

I’m incredibly grateful to share that my flash story, “Death Is a Black Door in the Ghetto,” is now live! A door. A key. A burning. A letter. Pass through the Black Door, and may you not remain unscathed. 👉 www.flashfictiononline.com/article/deat...

trash dragons, highly auspicious #art

I want to do a thread on "Small Press Red Flags" brought to you by years in the trenches combined with some issues I’m seeing pop up again in writer circles. Note: an isolated incident might not be a red flag, but cumulative flags are always worth examination. First off: Let’s talk about money.

Here's the second one in the "successes of conservation" series: the Iberian lynx. The species went from the most endangered cat in the world, with less than 100 individuals in 2002, to 2021 animals in 2024. They're found only in Spain(85.6% of the total population) and Portugal.

Nanuqsaurus and Black-capped Chickadees

oh you accidentally put one of my beds up here but it's ok. i'm allowed.

We're putting together a mailing list for short fiction reviewers and critics to get review copies of the magazine. So if you're a short fiction reviewer - first off you're doing the lord's work - but also email me at [email protected] and I'll add you to our shiny new reviewers list.

the magi have been and gone. there are needles stuck places mortal minds cannot grasp. christmas sleeps

my childhood church raised funds at charity bingo and my parents hated the miserable place, so they made me take their shifts soon as it was legal. and even I, the most sheltered teenager, could tell there were serious problems happening in that awful little cesspit

fucked up not to experience magnetoreception. the pigeons are definitely laughing at us

still occasionally shocked by the way visceral, loathsomely cruel fatphobia bursts out in the middle of otherwise perfectly ordinary narratives. shouldn't be! it's clearly culturally demarcated. you're supposed to seethe and scream and throw up at the idea of a person over a size 8 or so! but.

shit day, feel like garbage, do i take a permanent sin by not making the fussy sweetened yeast bread my mom refers to as king cake, on this the eve of her cousin the pope's little christmas?

Du Maurier's Rebecca has been calling me and this miserable afternoon has forced my hand. Thus far I am a Mrs. Van Hopper stan. she's rad as shit.

"forced to abdicate" is my favorite thing to happen to historical royalty. promise not to be on charge anymore or I'll stab you. no takesies backsies that's cheating

help I have been sent to an all-day training for a platform and program exactly like every other platform and program that could have been an email with a login code. all. day. I am going to throw myself into the sea so coral can anchor on me

my body and the forces of the universe will never allow me to get a full night's sleep before a return to work. too hot, weird dream, too cold after kicking off blankets, the dog has declared war on neighborhood coyotes and war is waged by screaming

2-minute comic

"why is the dog wet" a pedestrian question. "why is there mayonnaise on the dog" now that's a philosophical puzzler

human has denied access to prime creek mud smells causing WISTFULNESS "it's solid ice underf-" WISTING "I would fall and die if we went down there" top scientists say this is due to MEAN and RUDE to me "if I die whose blankets will you steal" mean and rude and A WEAK BITCH

This lichen is not lichen getting its photo taken. Maritime Sunburst Lichen, Xanthoria parietina. On seaside rocks at Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #newfoundland

Finished this one up after some reworking. 👌 The watercolors got too dark and heavy, so I ran the painting under water and scrubbed a lot of it off, but ended up really liking the softer ghosted look that resulted. I went over the line art again with walnut ink and called it done.

Sketch, a bleeding plesiosaur and oppurtunistic Liassic vultures

Babe wake up, new sickos meme just dropped

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oops we blew up a ritual circle and activated a wild magic table on a fight that we definitely shouldn't be in. in curse of strahd so it's the extra extra spicy wild magic table. eyeballs exploding and sudden onset lightening powers and dead loved ones crying out, i just winked out of existence

(i know it's been done before (and a lot of these are in fact tropes from adjacent genres) but i read like 3 of the damn things in a week this compulsion would not let me be so please pretend it's funny) danmei novel bingo:

outside? no, no I know about outside. I will not be going there. you have fun though

in the further annals of the novel that is not about helen, one assassin just tried to abduct the main character who thought he was being rescued because all assassins have the exact same sneaking outfit and he mistook this guy for his still unacknowledged love interest. neither of these is helen

Radon Journal is open for the June 2026 issue Looking for 🌌 Science fiction 🤖 Transhumanism ✊ Anarchist and leftist themes 🔥 Dystopian futures Pay : Fiction 2c/word Poetry $20/poem Art rates in guidelines Deadline April 30 2026 Details 👇 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @radonjournal.bsky.social

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

If you're looking for a story about grieving, revenant mothers, laying the undead to rest, about diaspora families who come together only at funerals, about how childhood neglect echoes through generations and the magic of plastic baby dolls. Then I am here to meet your very specific needs.

So, this happened today... It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them) Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now

ok trying the mighty nein blind (I could never make it through a 4 hour episode, I can barely stay engaged in my own d&d game that long). thus far I mostly respect it for being unabashedly fantasy-y. the magical thingummy has been stolen! the whateverthefuck empire is scheming! here's 30 silly names

wrote a few thousand words of sicko shit with gross bugs and second-degree cannibalism and real mean lesbians and now I'm gonna take a break for microwave nachos. I hope everyone's new year is as bright

there were fireworks last night

new year same me

something about this night makes me want to go to bed the way one might want love or riches or oxygen. I am not actually prone to going to bed at 9 but the mere suggestion that I do a thing at midnight? never have I been so weary

there's a spooky assassin in this trashy novel called helan jie but my anglophone brain keeps parsing his name as helen, conjuring the mental image of a middle-aged white lady who judges everyone else's hotdish at church social. only with a hook hand and a mission to murder the secret crown prince

nye looks

ok the personalized annual recap from every service thing has gotta stop. just got my 2025 on review from fuckin chewy. your year in dog food. fucks sake

decided i'm making new years resolutions for other people resolve that lofi composers will no longer put unintelligible bits of dialogue in there resolve that publishers of very long novels will find a better solution than a book too heavy for itself that peels apart while it hurts your hands

the vibe we’ve gotta bring into the new year #shoebill #birdart #blockprint #animalart #linocutprint #wildlifeart #linoprint #printmaker

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

It's been a while since we opened for submissions. But we're cranking up our output for 2026 so we'll be opening for short submissions periods every month - initially on the first day of the month only. At the moment we're especially looking for flash science fiction or fantasy - www.wyldblood.com

whenever i see whingeing about what tense and person is correct i write a story in future-perfect second-person

got up at 4:30 to drive my sister to the airport and decided to power through because all naps are lies, and now i walk the earth as one half living and half lost

my sff for queerdos rec thread last year blew up, so i'm gonna do it again. that one was a reaction to the assertion that cozy cuteness had so saturated the genre that there was no room for the dark and strange, and i haven't seen that one floating around much lately? but also i like book recs so: