The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect: “You will have been visited by me.”

🛸🛸hey guess what 🛸🛸 Night Shades will open for submissions on December 26 🛸🛸 all speculative, pro+ pay, 500 words max, sim subs ok 🛸🛸 please read the guidelines carefully! www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/

Please check out this cool new flash fiction writing contest and consider joining in the fun! Prompts will drop on Jan 30th. www.oddembers.com

We're kindling a new flash fiction writing contest, with unique prompts to spark your creativity. Join us on January 30?

Hey, look at us! Not bad for a bunch of rats. Thank you for your votes! We'd like to thank you humans who contributed your work, and of course cheese. We must always thank cheese. There are more great Lit Mags on this list, and others lists with great Lit Mags made by @chillsubs.bsky.social!

Newsletter going out later today—places to read my recent stories, craft talk, and, of course, a word from these adorable doggos. Sign up as a free member of my Patreon to get everything in your inbox when it drops later today! www.patreon.com/c/chrisdotyd...

Every once in a while I think "maybe I'll give WWE another shot" and then they do shit like have Cena tap out in his last ever match on a ring mat that says "Riyadh Season" and I remember that I don't watch WWE because they are trash.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

so, @foofarawpress.bsky.social: if—hypothetically—one couldn't remember if they submitted a story for The Foofs already, would one email to check? Submit again, though it might create a duplicate? Again, SUPER hypothetical. Definitely not a neurospicy brain facing the consequences of its own actions

Today's story is "Putting the "Fun" in Funeral" by Butch Farrell. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #funeraryracoons #funeraryraccoons ratbaglit.substack.com/p/putting-th...

Best showing in Writing Battle to date! Top 8 out of 331 submitted stories, taken out by the story that won it all (and was written by a dear friend and is also a banger), and some truly amazing comments about the story. Not too shabby!

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

I am proud to have a story published with Rat Bag. Awesome team to work with, and I would recommend them to any author.

If you have internet access, you will literally never run out of reading material. Just between public domain works and AO3 alone, ffs. "Oh well I can't get every exact book I want the exact moment I want it" Okay??? Me either??? Have some gd patience & read something else???

"But I--" I literally do not fucking care. If you can access a pirate site, you can access legit ways to get free books. Fuck off into the sun.

I do not even want to know why this is Discourse again, but book pirates are crapweasels and if you steal books you've done a bad thing and should feel bad about yourself.

So is @notquitewrite.com gonna ruin Thanksgiving for a bunch of USians or what? 😅 When is that longlist gonna drop? 👀

I have a story out in the wild. Take a peek at "Arrangement in Gray and Yellow" in Stygian Lepus #29 www.stygianlepus.com/r/1cc5c468?m...

I'm just never gonna get to do the January @notquitewrite.com round, which means I'm going to miss the first round of the new format, and that makes me sad 😭

Rat Bag Lit @ratbaglit.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Poetry - Print Issue #2 (some fees). #CallforSubmissions

Can't believe the @democrats.senate.gov are so openly advocating for more 3rd party candidates. No red, no blue in 2026. Literally anyone else

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Every @senatedemocrats.bsky.social that caves to this would-be dictator should be primaried and lose their job next election. @democrats.org need to grow some fucking spines. Disgusting they will allow Trump and the GOP to kill even more Americans. Abhorrent and pathetic.

If @warnock.senate.gov and @ossoff.senate.gov vote on a funding bill that doesn't guarantee the Healthcare tax credits, I will donate to whomever primaries them. Caving to Trump now would be calamitous.

How will I fare in my 3rd @notquitewrite.com and the kiss-off to the anti-prompt before it gets the boot? Only time (and Ed, Amanda, and Dean) will tell!

More than 30 minutes to boarding and gate lice are already blocking paths. People are having a hard time getting off the arriving flight. Sit the fuck down.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Big thanks to @akscotland.bsky.social and @quitewriteed.bsky.social of @notquitewrite.com for showing so much love to the goblins in our daredevils! We laughed, we cried, we begrudgingly agreed, we learned. Can't wait to apply all the insights from all 5 episodes to the anti-prompt farewell comp!

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

I just backed @apexmag.bsky.social 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Hey there, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social - will submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 this year?

I hope a Woodworking TV/film adaptation happens, because somewhere out there is an 18-year-old trans girl who should play Abigail, and I want to try to make friends with her, proving I don't understand my own book.

Worth mentioning again and again that crime is near historic lows, and New York City in particular is one of the safest places in the entire country. ICE’s lawlessness is a far greater threat to public safety than street crime in every one of these places.

Thanks so much @akscotland.bsky.social & @quitewriteed.bsky.social for your kind, constructive breakdown of my story! No soju for me tonight, but hubs & I drank wine + listened. This is a really neat podcast, so please have a listen if you want to learn more about writing flash fiction.

Also, arresting people who hadn’t committed a crime, imprisoning people without due process, and demanding identification for people traveling within the country. The GOP are just recreating the Andropov-era USSR, complete with feeble Supreme Leader who can barely hold his head upright.

All USians live in a dictatorship now. We allowed a fascist regime to take over and freedom is now an illusion.

We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air. This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

There is no "antifa" group. The President is making it illegal to criticize him

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Lois Lane. I love her.

Violating my "no Bluesky during football season" tenets to parachute in and say that my weird obsession with far right splinter groups and their shibboleths has finally made me the expert on something. The shooter wrote 4 shitpost memes on bullets and every single one of them is a dumb groyper meme

I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.

If you think about it, his murder being completely forgotten about in less than a week because the shooter didn’t fit the political agenda that would allow Republicans to attack marginalized groups is the most fitting tribute imaginable for Charlie Kirk.