yes!!! yes!!!! YES!!!!!!!!

Here's the sort of "The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF unsyllabus" I compiled from this thread as well as contributions from panelists Ann LeBlanc and Sonya Taeffe: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Maine Public Radio's coverage of the killing by ICE this morning. It sounds like ICE is once again claiming that the victim tried to run them over, so just as a reminder, every time they've claimed this, it's been a lie. www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...

A dog can die in a car in fifteen minutes on a bright day, carry one of these to save a life. adventureswithpurpose.com/products/2-i...

YAYYYYYYY khōréō has funded!!! kick 'em some more money in the final days of their fundraiser so they can do even more cool things!

Wolfing down huge amounts of bewildering information couched in unfamiliar terms for which you put together the meaning as you go along--mate, that's literally what childhood IS.

Thanks, I hate it! Reminder that if you want to help others stay cool during the heat wave, you can drop off bottled water, Gatorade, popsicles, etc, at your local community fridge. macommunityfridges.neocities.org

“verify your age” when addressing mail as a child, about half of it went to “rural route” addresses

it is a crime against me personally to be this sleepy

As always, if you appreciate our work, *please* consider donating. We're struggling in the current funding & media environment to keep our paywall-free, ad-free newsroom going and we need your help to do it: globalvoices.org/donate/

$15,785 out of their $16,500 goal!! We can do this!

and now that I have come home from Readercon and had a four-hour nap, I can share my modest spoils!

i won’t tell you what this is about except to say that now i’m imagining parrots evolving into savage predators

also it’s not family, it’s a clade, and basically I’m learning that the kingdom phylum class family genus species thing isn’t very helpful anymore

this is why i should be confined to long-form media

ugh why can’t i manifest potatoes

AUTHORIAL VOICE TRUMPS HOUSE STYLE and I will not only die on this hill but take entire editorial departments out with me.

BOG BODIES IN TRANS NARRATIVE

hey should i buy one of those big camping solar setups and use it to power my window AC

The overall point here is that trans rights is actually an issue of bodily autonomy, and you can't attack transness as a concept without also hitting everyone else in the crossfire. Which is not to take the focus off trans people, because of course these rules *won't* be applied equally.

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

NEWSLETTER OUT TODAY in which I address that question everyone is worried about: what *is* the difference between yam, cassava, and taro? buttondown.com/SharonJGoche...

today a coworker told me “fica com deus” on her way out the door and while i’m sure the connotation is “stay safe!” it made me tear up for a second

NEWSLETTER OUT TODAY in which I address that question everyone is worried about: what *is* the difference between yam, cassava, and taro? buttondown.com/SharonJGoche...

Scales of Seduction, Rien Gray; Make Room for Love, Darcy Liao; Mr. Collins in Love, Lee Welch. about a third of the way into Edge of Nowhere, by Felicia Davin, and having a great time.

🧡🧡🧡 If you want to try it for cheap, the whole series is on sale at Smashwords this month. Or if you want it even cheaper, it may be in your local library (and it's definitely at QLL). www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...

@sjgochenour.bsky.social 's A BLOOMY HEAD is high on the list of "why go indie with your genreweird books" (historical romance and murder mystery in one delightful package) and I've been head over heels for @feliciadavin.com's The Gardener's Hand trilogy. Read these books!!! I love them!!

located vet wrap, and now my foot is basically fine! hurrah.

ALL RIGHT WE ARE TRYING A NEW THING goodreads is making me deeply unhappy, but I’ve always tracked my reading. thus, let me present: BOOK BLOG www.sharonjgochenour.com/blog/2026/7/...

but i still don’t know what book to read next????

. . . trying to pick my next book to start and not finish, and WELP not sure how an editor in *2023* didn’t catch a slur as a synonym for “cheat” on the FIRST PAGE OF THE BOOK

ALL RIGHT WE ARE TRYING A NEW THING goodreads is making me deeply unhappy, but I’ve always tracked my reading. thus, let me present: BOOK BLOG www.sharonjgochenour.com/blog/2026/7/...

The book is A Bloomy Head (by @sjgochenour.bsky.social , writing as J. Winifred Butterworth). You might not think you need a novel about veterans & rural cheesemakers in Regency England, but between the multiple decapitations, queer romance, and opinionated cows, there’s something for everyone.

judges is a book i never got to as a kid, but damn

it is not cool to burst in on a discussion someone else is having with thoughts on my own book but YES SUPPLY CHAINS!!!! how are they getting the things!!!!

any given prose issue could be a human thing, but a human not being able to spesk knowledgeably and accurately about their own story, or answer clear and direct questions about it, is weird.

I started keeping all the handwritten notes that I used to recycle last year, because I was pretty sure this was coming. as with my hoarding of canned goods and tea, I’m furious to be correct.

my piles of books are encroaching on the rest of the living room 😵‍💫

slight delicious variation on fish cakes: just a fuck ton of fresh herbs

Alt text: havarti is a mild, buttery, slightly acidic cheese of danish origin. It carries the name of the farm where Hanne Nielsen, a peasant woman, created the now most famous danish cheese in the 1800s.

my right bicep is twitching so ferociously that I can watch it tick with my regular eyeballs, sigh

this is how I felt throughout The West Passage, and it was Good

Finished this book yesterday, and overall I really liked it, but found the conclusion disappointing. It was fascinating to read about the history of urban gardens around the world during a variety of time periods, from Berlin to Soviet Estonia to Black communities in Washington DC.

It's my birthday week... and it's a big one. I'm feeling really weird about it. But if you want to help me celebrate, I made a birthday list... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Or you can help with my really alarming ko-fi goal. ko-fi.com/karidru

This. If you’re really serious about redeeming yourself and being a better person why are you jumping directly to I want to be in charge?

"Brassicas and You: Life Enhancement Through the Power of Cabbage!"

I have posted about this exact thing before BUT: the problem with listening to a lot of episodes of If Books Could Kill in a row is that I become convinced that I could write a truly good and useful self-help book

now. ice cream.

despite having inarguably written several books, I don’t know how to write a book. I think you should have a popsicle and a nap.

some thoughts on writing from a doofus: - start with ibuprofen - no. start with 10-12 hours of sleep - your brain is escaping and sprinting toward the sea. YOU MUST GET IT OUT OF THE SEA - no it’s gone. - open your manuscript 1 time per day and stare into it. brain is still gone.