Hello bookworms of Toronto! If you love literary trivia, supporting publishing professionals of colour, and correcting someone when they’re wrong, come check out Um, Actually trivia night, hosted by BIPOC of Publishing in Canada (and co-emceeed by me)! www.eventbrite.ca/e/um-actuall...

Matter Over Mind: @feidong.bsky.social reviews R.F. Kuang's KATABASIS, out this week from @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/28/m...

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

New book review on my Substack! In The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui hones grand, dramatic prose to their sharpest potential, deftly manages a paradoxical, cat-and-mouse power struggle.

A little something in between commission work and projects: enjoying #heygirliegame (even though I'm unfamiliar with #d20)

I had the honor of being Lucy Frostblade’s sprite artist in #heygirliegame and fell head over heels 💘 please check out the game if you haven’t already, link is below!

a new substack essay about writing for the fan-made lesbian dating sim #heygirliegame (set in the world of dimension 20’s fantasy high), the parasocial tendencies of readers, and why i’ll never use chatgpt. open.substack.com/pub/feidong/...

ONE MORE DAY!

who did this

It really says something about me that I got really excited about finding a Substack dedicated to Microsoft word macros

happy Pierre Poilievre Is Unemployed Day to all observing 🥳

hello dimension 20 fans of bsky, there’s less than a month until #heygirliegame, the fan-made kristen applebees dating sim visual novel, drops on itch.io on may 17. check us out! raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie

love BETWEEN TWO FIRES! very Dark Souls energy with some neat deep cut medieval Christian nonsense

when reading this queer SFF dystopian, me and a friend both thought, “yeah, yeah, the mecha fights are cool, but can we get back to people sitting around a room talking about politics? thanks!” and the Heavenly Tyrant replied, “YES!” #BookReview open.substack.com/pub/feidong/...

Finished Heavenly Tyrant. Time for Sunrise on the Reaping.

listening to this on repeat while I think about Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots open.spotify.com/track/3gS0Vr...

"Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the disproportionate levels of poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces compared to cisgender people." text: glaad.org/tdov/ image: blackrj.org

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these 2 bad bitched have been neck and neck for a week. as soon as I finish both, it’s sunrise on the reaping time.

If you’ve published a book — enter your name… www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Mickey 17 is a really fun and great movie! It is also a movie that was really sure Trump was gonna lose the election, which, as I was watching it, made me think “Oh I’m not watching a dystopian movie. I’m living in the dystopia — the movie’s the escape.”

What’s also interesting about Iron Widow / Heavenly Tyrant is that, though both books, at a glance, revolves around A Heterosexual Marriage, it tries to explore that het marriage through a queer lens — bc of polyamory, bc of characters explicitly pushing back against gender roles

Heavenly Tyrant is just scenes after scenes of “the worst man you know just made a really good point.”

had to dig up my uni notes on Russian Formalism to write this review of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (@tordotcom.bsky.social). enjoy! feidong.substack.com/p/defamiliar...

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If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend! Savoring an ARC of Katabasis by RF Kuang… but mostly I’m finally getting around to Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

I’m starting this reading challenge where I 1) read Wizard of Oz 2) watch the WoO movie 3) read Wicked book 4) listen to Wicked OBC 5) rewatch Wicked Part 1, all before Wicked Part 2 comes out this year…

If you agree w/Aaron Bushnell that Palestine should be free, one way to be in solidarity is to send funds to orgs like Sameer Project, which is fighting the zionist entity's obstruction to the entry of 'aid' into Gaza by distributing food, tents, diapers, to the people. chuffed.org/project/1132...

so excited for #CharlestonWriters25, hosted by @emmailene.bsky.social and @ariannasidd.bsky.social! i’m so grateful for the chance to meet more book lovers, to work on my project that’s part second chance love in a college town, part time travel / dystopian sci-fi.

If any Hugo Awards voters enjoyed Lower Decks, it would be very cool to get a nod! Thank you for your consideration. This is our entire campaign. 🖖

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, my next book, comes out on March 4! That's in 11 days! I'm going on a five-city US tour for it! All tour stops & ticket-booking deets here: us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...

I just finished reading Liu Cixin’s Death’s End (translated by Ken Liu) so I guess it’s time to stare off into space and contemplate the heat death of the universe.

I’ll continue to write book reviews but I think my great love is writing analysis about mid to bad TV shows. If a TV show is great, I love it but I won’t have much to say about it. If a TV show is mid, I will produce whole essays in the group chat.

Applications are open until February 22 @ 9am PST for mentors and mentees to participate in our Career Mentorship Program! Our 3-month-long mentorships help answer career-oriented questions and provide support. Nonmembers may apply too! https://buff.ly/3EFYIXY

SEND LOVE TO PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS THIS VALENTINE’S DAY! For Vday, we are asking our followers to keep Gaza and Palestine at the top of their minds and hearts. We are partnering with Secret City (@secretcity.socal on IG) to raise funds for @thesameerproject’s North and Central Gaza campaign.

Happy Valentine’s!

can’t BEElieve we’re only a few months away from Hey Girlie game release! without giving away too many spoilers, i can promise that the Gertie route will be full of bees, honey, duelling, and (of course) puns! #heygirliegame #dimension20 #fantasyhigh heygirliegame.carrd.co

Hugo nominations are open and I have only two requests: 1. Commit to picking 2 non-Tordotcom novellas for your ballot 2. For the love of all that is holy in this world, do not nominate adult/crossovers or middle grade books for the Lodestar - officially categorized YA only!

The Lantern and the Night Moths is on sale for the Spring Festival for 2 more days (until the Lantern Festival on Feb 12th)... For people interested in: - modern Chinese poetry, - essays on translation (diaspora themes, queering translation, craft of translation) - poetic lyrical writing

🚀 Nominations for the 2025 Hugo Awards are now open! 🚀 Members of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon & the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon can nominate for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award & the Astounding Awards Deadline: March 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PDT Learn more: https://buff.ly/3QcUTw6 #HugoAwards

the thing with corporations being legal persons is that they are also the worst persons. even your average human coward might need a little pressure applied to make them bend the knee, but the corporation, it comes pre-bent, tongues out sniffing for a boot

If you’ve published any speculative poems in 2024 (or could recommend any), please link them here. I’m nominating this year since I was a Glasgow2024 member and I’d love to read and hype up some good work!

so many kids are going sledding in the park near my house. too cute!

new year, new blog. find me on substack writing about how (and if) we can find happiness in this burning world! #substack #newsletter #bookreviews feidong.substack.com/p/happiness-...

My MEd thesis has been published 🥳 ! This project about LEGO, social-emotional wellbeing in school and autism will always hold a special place in my heart. Thank you to my wonderful students for sharing their experiences with so much joy and candour 🤍 doi.org/10.17863/CAM...

very proud to be writing on something very fun for fans of #dimension20 #fantasyhigh, dating sims, and bees! #heygirliegame heygirliegame.carrd.co full contributor list below:

Updated ... go.bsky.app/4pEJZ46 Probably still a work in progress

For those of you who don't want AI in your Google Workspace, I just got a message saying they are turning on NotebookLM, their "AI-powered research assistant" very soon. Happily, I was able to go into the Admin console and turn it off. You may wish to do the same. Here's the message:

a LOVELY review here too. "part rallying cry, part gut spill" is absolutely spot on