every 16-18th century period film: ok, let's do a shot of a table with some wine or cheese whatever. now we're going to linger on it for a while so you recognize that it looks like a still life painting.

Today I'm featuring my obscure and surreal comparison titles for Promisedland! (New Adult, speculative with horror elements, LGBT) #revpitwaiting

Infodumping as love language: think enemies-to-lovers, but the enemies are fighting over whether aliens exist- along with the existence of Waluigi and Wario. (Promisedland, New Adult, speculative fiction, 96k words) #chaospit

Promisedland is a novel for the terminally online. All about catching feelings for a guy you hate, catching meteorites, making a pilgrimage to a UFO festival in the desert—oh, and escaping a cult that's controlled your entire life. #ChaosPit #writesky

This book ripped me apart in the best way.

New comps: Into the Light by Mark Oshiro, especially for its nuanced depictions of runaways and conservative cults, and The Last Word by Taylor Adams for an online exchange that ends up affecting real life.

teachers should assign books in schools

This is in the best traditions of DH. Its success didn't depend on big compute or extensive tech background, but on good design + 19c vibes. And yet, in fact, figuring out how to fine-tune something like this is not a solved problem, and people w/ more compute hours could learn from the experiment.

Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic visions, an embarrassment to his wealthy Venetian family, and his parents decided to give him over to the church. But it is carnivale, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls. Then, young women across Venice begin to drop dead. #revpitwaiting

This is great, fascinating piece about E. M. Barraud, queer member of wartime Women's Land Army and Mass Observer. A 'distinctly non-binary' imagery is developed in her poetry and writing. Of special interest for @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social Weird Modernisms conf peeps.

#RevPitTeasers they hate each other? you don't say.... 😏😏😏🔥🔥🔥

Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car by Iron and Wine specifically, but so many others: #revpitwaiting

Nice article. Will send to students.

Spent the weekend rebuilding/upgrading an 8 year old ThinkPad into my new daily driver using used and scavenged parts. I guess that’s a vice now 😂

page from my emotional support high fantasy novella that I wrote at age 11: I learned to type by transcribing it.

For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

He's abandoned the cult where he was raised, all he knows. He stole a car. His one outlet is starting debates on this forum with a guy he hates. But then the conversation gets real, really fast. He's a skeptic, but he's starting to wonder- IS there something out there? #revpit #revpitwaiting

What if the extraterrestrials are already here? #revpit #revpitwaiting

He's abandoned the cult where he was raised, all he knows. He stole a car. His one outlet is starting debates on this forum with a guy he hates. But then the conversation gets real, really fast. He's a skeptic, but he's starting to wonder- IS there something out there? #revpit #revpitwaiting

I remember when everything started moving to apps and I was morally offended at the idea of having to download all these little programs to access services when the Internet was right there and you know what, I was right

Here's my agent guide for my speculative fiction novel, PROMISEDLAND, my speculative fiction novel in two perspectives (hence 2 moodboards) with horror elements! A healer fleeing his mother's cult and a hitchhiker who just caught a meteorite take a roadtrip to a UFO festival.

Promisedland is my speculative fiction novel, pitched as Nevada meets X-Files + falling for a guy you hate online. When a trans faith healer runs away from his mom's cult, he picks up a trans hitchhiker, who runs a UFO forum he's been lurking. They road-trip to a UFO festival. #revpit #revpitwaiting

Promotional materials for Promisedland's in-universe forum. February moderates Witnessers of the Unknown, a UFO forum for people to share experiences of otherworldly phenomena. He posts pictures of the meteorite he caught; Christophe debates the existence of aliens with him. #revpit #revpitwaiting

Now it's official. THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER is coming to you. I can't begin to express how proud I am of the show we made. It's a story of systematic evil, unjust imprisonment, abuse & the need for ALL to fight together to beat the devils who prey on us. Get ready!

Promotional materials for Promisedland's in-universe forum. February moderates Witnessers of the Unknown, a UFO forum for people to share experiences of otherworldly phenomena. He posts pictures of the meteorite he caught; Christophe debates the existence of aliens with him. #revpit #revpitwaiting

Your password must contain a character with a tragic backstory.

Make weird TTRPG adventures! exeuntpress.itch.io/adventure

PROMISEDLAND, speculative horror, dual POV. When a trans healer flees his mother's cult, he picks up a trans hitchhiker who caught a meteorite: they've been arguing online for years. As they roadtrip to a UFO fest, the cult catches up. Nevada by Imogen Binnie meets X-Files. #amquerying #agentguide

"Let's get dressed up and go to the bookshop" totally needs to be a thing.

Promisedland has dual POVs: Christophe, a skeptical runaway healer, discovering himself outside the cult where he was raised while looking for his father; collects pocket knives. February, an enthusiastic UFO forum moderator, lives his life like a movie; chronically unlucky. #revpit #revpitwaiting

something is growing in my fridge and in my coffee grinder #ecohorror

This is very much my jam.

Promisedland is my speculative fiction novel, pitched as Nevada meets X-Files + falling for a guy you hate online. When a trans faith healer runs away from his mom's cult, he picks up a trans hitchhiker, who runs a UFO forum he's been lurking. They road-trip to a UFO festival. #revpit #revpitwaiting

problem: I would like to continue editing my finished novel but I'm also 20k into a murder mystery set in a magical realist version of Venice and 10k words into a historical fiction novel set during the Killing Time in Scotland after the Glorious Revolution of Charles II

Pops Soda Ranch for sure (if you've lived in Oklahoma, you know).

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

Last weekend, I fell down a rabbithole of trying to find a book I loved as a fifth-grader. It was a book I read while at the public library, which I checked out repeatedly. I was reduced to googling "girl falls into forest portal" - which if you know anything about kidlit, isn't helpful. (1/3)

buzzfeed turning to ai is funny because when i was a kid they were known to everyone online as "the site that steals our posts" and they spent a decade fixing that image and just when they started seeming respectable they turned right back into "the site that steals all our posts"

Here's my agent guide + moodboards for PROMISEDLAND, my speculative fiction novel in two perspectives with horror elements! A healer fleeing his mother's cult and a hitchhiker who just caught a meteorite take a roadtrip to a UFO festival.

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

A collection of more than 1,100 napkins are being preserved in perpetuity alongside documents from the Founding Fathers and tomes dating to the 15th century. The collection offers a window into decades of American history and social change.

help I keep writing fiction when I should be grading or revising my academic writing

throughly enjoying Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless by Maria Pinto (with a mushroom empanada)

"He takes very little. He takes his father’s dove grey suit, in its garment bag from the coat closet. He takes his mother’s gun." PROMISEDLAND, a novel in two perspectives, SFF/magical realism, New Adult, LGBTQIA+ #writingcommunity #WriterSky #amquerying #sff

Introducing a new project from Signs! The Feminist Coalition Archival Project (FCAP) is a digital space for feminists to access research, expertise, and resources to support our communities in response to the Trump Administration's oppressive efforts. signsjournal.org/feministresi...

Teaching Total Eclipse by Annie Dillard and A Brief Atmospheric Future by Matthew Gavin Frank in my Advanced Writing classes tomorrow. The prospect of covering beautiful and difficult work with my students is an arrow moving forward.

Excited to launch Thinking With Moss, an NEH-funded project that I've been working on for the past few years with @tega.bsky.social + @aansari86.bsky.social. Bringing in collabs from around the world in a series of workshops, we asked what it might mean to think with moss / www.thinkingwithmoss.net

Well?!?

1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

I feel like I need Gen Z slang to describe how cool this is: did Christopher Dresser…snap? Anyway: it’s a diagram for illustrating design lectures ca. 1854-56 in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum 🔘