unsolicited writing advice- writing is a privilege. it's cool to talk about inspiration and whatever but the truth is that we write because we can. many, many people do not have the same agency to tell their stories. don't be a dick about it.

now that we have successfully funded the bandigoat, please consider subscribing to the Post Prandial Riot. four months. four bonkers zines. the first one is already out and features sexy owls. you know you have to. you HAVE to. www.patreon.com/c/PostPrandi...

aaaand we did it! thank you to everyone who supported us, you are all such amazing people, thanks for helping this weird little book come into the world www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

an ancient dark temple of deadly blood sacrifice! cobras! hindoos! elephants! more cobras! the great goddess kali! one another cobra! i don't think any of these things appear in this volume of weird/horror fiction from india so please support us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

give us like 200 dollars. or 150 pounds. or 17 thousand rupees. don't give us bitcoin, we're still not completely sure what that is. also just to be clear; there is nothing more fashionable than supporting third world indie weird/horror fiction. nothing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Just heard about this: not sure we can make it cuz we'll be setting up at Kannadi Cupboard for the zine fair this weekend. But show up if you can Chennai!

does anyone have like three hundred bucks? www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

since it is SH's birthday, i'm going to make this post about myself. i have written columns for a number of publications, who usually ended up dropping me for one reason or another. SH is the only one that continues to publish my column. thank you for giving my words a place to stay. happy birthday💜

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!

We've crossed 70%! Pledge now for a very-limited-edition hardcover copy! Or a T-shirt! Or a manuscript critique by Kuzhali Manickavel! Or a madcap reel by Jugal Mody! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

please support our odd little book project or a bandigoat will sit on you. unless you're into that, in which case please support our odd little book project AND a bandigoat will sit on you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

have a nagging feeling that some story titles use the lucy temerlin school etc etc and some use the lucy temerlin institute because why not

there's weird/horror fiction about india written by white dudes. and then there is this. please support us 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

support us and i will critique your manuscript! i know that sounds threatening for some reason

Ever watched a girl you barely know get eaten alive by murder hornets in the mess hall? Ever spoken to a dead guy who came home to tell you about the demon who killed him? Pre-order BANDIGOAT www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

i have a story in this from the lucy temerlin school for broken shapeshifters resident archives please support us smol indies and the strange things we do

"This particular sexy owl god cannot be bribed with offerings and is not interested in helping you in any way" Subscribe to the Riot! #KuzhaliManickavel #Zines #PostPrandialRiot www.patreon.com/c/PostPrandi...

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loved Harrow County Omnibus 1 so much. one day i will buy The Complete Harrow County 💜

these owls are astoundingly sexy. just fyi.

featuring the white betrayers of the great god Jakota! and let's be honest here. we are all white betrayers of the great god Jakota.

have you ever wished you had a compendium of lesser sexy owl gods? of course you have!

Stories From The Radio - The Curse Of Nagana by Kuzhali Manickavel "From what I have read on the internet, it’s not very good. But that has never stopped us before fam!" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... #sciencefiction #fantasy #scifi #audiofiction

once a cobra got in our kitchen and we thought, ok kitchen belongs to the cobra now. two of our unhelpful cats come along to stare and not help. they see the cobra, get scared. the cobra sees scared cats, gets scared. my mom then beats its ass with a coconut broom so it throws itself out the window.

Welcome to the Riot! Announcing a new zine-a-month subscription on Patreon -- with work from @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social, Priyanka Paul, LarchTongue, Kaimaurundai, & more www.patreon.com/PostPrandial...

Kalki cover from 1971, featuring one of the worst love letters in the world.

Manickavel's "Conversations" includes dialogues about ghosts, shoeracks, gender-neutral pronouns, Bollywood movie tropes, and babies raining from the sky www.blaft.com/products/con...

hi friends, i wrote a piece for darknlight magazine, it has gigantic fish and americans in it darknlight.com/projects/sho...

fondly remembering when i was going to write a novel called 'all these bitches is my sons' that was almost 20 years ago wtf

friend: oh i got lost in old delhi once. i was just wandering around and i met this old man and we talked and smoked together, it was really special. before i left he sold me this skull ashtray. it's an old piece, the only one he had. me with the exact same ash tray- i got it from amazon.

i like how spotify took 'manathile kuzhapama', which roughly means ' is there confusion in your mind', and transliterated it to 'manatile gumppama' which could mean anything you want it to bro you're not even trying

hai friends, this is a piece i wrote about that one time when the hills almost burned my face off www.thekodaichronicle.com/culture/sooz...

From the book 'Cooly Tamil As Understood By Labourers on Tea and Rubber Estates' 1915 wtf

my writing progress so far is that I have discovered three tamil songs and one telugu song that are all called 'my name is rosy'

that warm feeling of victory when your child's jaundice almost matches their yellow underpants from Kalki magazine 1964

When a strange woman in a dress touches her elbow, the first thing an Indian woman must do is ensure that her ears don't fall off. - cover of Kalki magazine, 1968

when there's going to be boys at the party

i will be there being socially awkward. or i might not. life is uncertain.

friends i just finished Blabber Blabber Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything by Lynda Barry and i loved it so much i can't even

ever wanted to read a column about the final episode of a radio play called 'The Slide' which is about sentient mud? well it's your lucky day! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

not too proud to admit that every once in a while, i'll be like you get a hyphen and you get a hyphen and you get a hyphen and i end up hyphenating the entire story

We’re in the last stretch, aren’t we? 10 days to go, and the campaign is about $1250 away from reaching our final stretch goal — a zine about cemetery lettering for everyone who has pre-ordered the book! Help @blaft.bsky.social and I cross the finish line 💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

libraries are a privilege, man. in my youth, pirated books were cheaper, more accessible and i would not have read as much as i did without them. but as a small author with a small publisher, piracy sucks. i think this convo has more to do w/accessibility and privilege than we like to admit.

imagine you go to the bathroom because you have to go to the bathroom and jk rowling is there taking pictures of you because she thinks you're too manly because idk maybe you're wearing pants or something. and she posts these pictures online. like that is something that can happen in the world now.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Last Day of Pride Month!!! 🏳️‍🌈 (A page from Kuzhali Manickavel's YOU GO MAN! WHY ME?--How to Interact with Certain Supernatural Beings in Certain Terrible Places) www.blaft.com/products/you...

thinking about how in my Tamil youth, we never said 'naked', we said 'full without' and i just love that so much

Our Kickstarter for @matratype.bsky.social's big fabulous photo book is live! Come reserve your copy of this fantastic gallery of Indian typographic culture! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

We are $175 away from hitting a milestone of $11K, and publishing a set of interviews with some of the towering women writers in the field, such as Nicola Griffith and Pat Cadigan. Who will get us there? www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...