ooh, here's a relic. a public access tv appearance by mid-twenties me, my dad, and another volunteer promoting the then relatively new bird shelter where rambo attached himself to me like a leech. the strange semi-permanence of the internet is still weird, used to it as one gets

hey @thomasha.bsky.social look who's settling in nicely in its new home

my @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social schedule tonight is 2 panels right in a row: new gender just dropped, hour 6 (5pm my time, cdt) writing in the climate change era, hour 7 (6pm for me) tomorrow I'm running my oneshot and doing my reading, sunday is 3 more panels. busy weekend

book: has won 8 awards, on every best of list, cited as a major achievement, modern classic, and huge influence by every writer you respect tracking down that book: there are twelve copies in the world, most of them weirdly formatted ebooks on the least functional of the library apps

it is a truth universally acknowledged that work is annoying and bad, and home is pleasing and good. somehow specificity sharpens that banality until you bleed. forced to drive to a secondary location for a 3 hour meeting 100% guaranteed to be worthless when I could be reading dungeon crawler carl?

live a life such that a novelist would linger on your traits and mannerisms even if yours was a walk-on role

transhumanism means both futures of endless possibility unmoored from any restrictions on personal autonomy AND never dying while a 1000 year old dragon in a maid outfit promises your dad loved you and makes you sandwiches. sometimes definitions get like that and you wanna crowbar the word apart

here's a character study I didn't know I needed. adulthood really came when I realized the teachers on daria were in fact my peers. mr. d in particular

threw last year's jack o'lanterns in the compost heap and the accidental pumpkins that sprouted are so fuckin aesthetic

a character who really fucking sucks written well is such a joy

Since it seems people are into WOKE CANNIBAL EROTICA, I should probably point to my novelette about being an altar boy to elder gods, Shadow Jack - free to read at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/s...

I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.

overactive, meaninglessness autocorrect devolving into ai-inflicted incoherence is a whole thing, but I would like to point out that the pop-up trying to get me to replace "as a consequence" with "because" labeled this great idea... conciseness. concision! concision is a word! YOU be concise!

also spiderwebs. always forget about the true density of spiderwebs. have yet to figure out how to apologize to a spider for blundering straight through her dining room

🦇 Bats are rumored to sleep the whole day but we usually find the little ones jostling and grooming in their kiddo clump at any time of day. They must catch many little naps in-between shenanigans. #bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #wildlife #babyanimals #babybats

alright i was polite to all the ladies my mom's age who liked the book even though they were wrong

autumn is here, and with it we early risers consign ourselves to the darkness. bats were still out when I walked the dog this morning. cheerful, pretty, but it does make one feel... differently tired

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

two families of pillbugs/woodlice are called Armadillidiidae and Armadillidae and i bet it makes the reunions awkward

this is normally when i start to gear up for all-horror october, scoping out library reserves and such, but frankly my literary diet is so horror-forward of late i don't know that i'd notice the difference

mom's having one of those nights where her alter ego from Louisiana takes over. not complaining

There's an eternal life less ordinary waiting for you in @aardwyrm.bsky.social's story "The Moon’s Only Daughter and the Teeth of Time." kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

at the risk of revealing myself as an utter crackpot, halloween is too commercialized. so many huge displays that say only "i spent like 3K at spirit halloween" in front of houses that display thin blue line flags the rest of the year

could a person whose nap was ill advised and whose headache hasn't meaningfully budged have answered several overdue emails over the course of like an hour?

taking an afternoon nap will imbue me with vim and enthusiasm for the rest of the day. it will not leave me groggier but also slightly confused and make me sleep bad. an afternoon nap is a good idea and not my mild headache talking

nothing like a buncha cheese and chewy bread and salty meat for dinner. sometimes you gotta live as a redwall character for a bit

if you can, go see if your local food pantry needs volunteers. they're probably swamped as the economy continues in freefall and people change their habits on a dime to avoid ice. it's like working at a grocery store without having a shitty manager, and you'll feel a little less helpless

I have very weak musical taste. 3/4 tone-deaf and I mostly just listen to stuff that sounds like I'd have liked it in highschool. but til that there's a cake cover of I will survive and it turns out I can be aesthetically offended after all

library horror club is reading I Am Legend this month and like many classics I never got around to, I have already absorbed the big twist just by existing in culture like an amoeba in a puddle. but I feel like I'd have been suspicious of this guy in 1954, too. why's he such a bitch about garlic?

the good news is today's theme is "emo edge" and I am thriving. honestly came out more goth than emo but not one of these children was born in the days of incredibly granular debates over which specific flavor of dorky alt kid you were so who gives a fuck

watching this one make the rounds has been interesting because sometimes I forget catholic school is weird. when your teachers sucked they were the mouthpiece of god. everyone I know who did 12 years in those trenches is a crabby atheist now

it's over 80 degrees!

is there such a a thing as a vetted list of lofi music with human composers? I'm 3 quarters tone deaf and the whole point of the stuff is to sink below notice. I go through a lot of it on my own and playing it for students, and I just noticed a disclosure on a channel I'd thought was ok

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

kids who want to babble about video games are pretty standard, but this is my first group that's obsessed with a whimsical farming sim. everything I can do not to tell them they sound like a bunch of barely coping millennials with their grandma games

a bad tamale is so sad. all that fuss and promise to taste like cardboard

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eating figs is really satisfying because you get to absorb wasp power

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

there's a specific sort of getting a lot of boss baby vibes book review where someone is very disdainful of a story being so shamelessly derivative of the most well-known thing of its kind and you realize they don't know about a whole genre

no this is the sun I want to lie in. that other sun over there is inferior. my dog run is over there? that seems like poor planning on your part actually

New Podcast Alert! 'Of Flowing Stone, of Liquid Gold, of Justice, Ash, and Battle' by Malda Marlys @aardwyrm.bsky.social read by Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social Listen at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #fiction #speculativefiction #specfic #fantasy #sff #podcast

reclining

babe why did you... y'know what nevermind. carry on

just a little more time for limited seating sessions, including my one-shot Something is Wrong With This House, a suburban horror where you play the monsters

Day 13 #SciArtSeptember prompt bottleneck, I’m interpreting literally with Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) 🧪🐡👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised the alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched 🧵

it is rainy and gray and I have a fuckawful post-vaccinatoon headache. my library hold on dungeon crawler carl came in, as though by act of providence. gonna give this thing a try.

horror is so prone to bad endings I no longer feel like that counts against a book. a narratively satisfying conclusion is extra credit, and if you did a good job fomenting dread for at least 70% of the pages you get a pass

have now compounded the late night yesterday tired with covid and flu jabs under the theory that i can get all the pathetic lethargy out at once and now i just need to not try to go to bed before 9

good time to make my periodic speech that while rambo here is my buddy and I love him, this is not a pet you should get and he's the regrettable way he is because someone who wasn't up to the task (most people!) let it get real bad. cool study, regrettable background radiation