hey Fantasy lovers did you know that both @arleysorg.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are eligible for this year's Hugo award, Best Editor Short Form? THEY ARE and Best Editor Locus Awards, and the Special Award for World Fantasy just saying for REASONS 💖💜🦄 (get those noms in!)

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this shit is scary for so many reasons obviously but it’s also a little fun sometimes

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

we keep us safe, and only we can keep us safe

Obsessed

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.

Sometimes day jobs don't suck. Sometimes you draw a hummingbird on someone's whiteboard, and they knit you gloves as a thank you because the doodle reminded them of their mom.

I'll be sharing a few more fundraisers from the twin cities, and once again, I am only sharing those that are vouched for by people I personally know who are on the ground. This is a bail fund that helps people who were arrested and are facing charges.

Theia Chatelle's amazing photograph of Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis...emerging from a cloud of tear gas. Signed there a couple of times, great SF/Fantasy bookstore.

ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.

Five phrases about the transitory nature of all things... 1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi) 2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian) 3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish) 4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic) 5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)

Announcing my stripped-down, grimdark TTRPG where you yearn to carve your name into history with grit and a bloody axe as the world collapses around you. Unfortunately, you're not a heroic adventurer, you're stuck working 66 hours a week in a rotating series of dead-end corporate jobs. I call it:

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Someone drew a heart in the smudge on the back of the bus and it made me wonder how many well-wishings were finger-painted into the dust on carts and wagons thousands of years ago.

“professional grade logistics” is literally just moms existing

This reminds me of the time that me and some friends planned a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. At the event one of the (older) guys said in a speech that "the girls organised all of this so easily, like they were planning a dinner party" and I was so mad because we worked SO HARD ...

It’s my birthday, and i get to be the bitch, and birthday bitch says draw this in your style?

talking with someone about this today, and their whole expression sharpened suddenly as they asked "is that why ICE is angry people have video from multiple angles?" AI is the enemy of documentation--which is a way of saying, it's the enemy of accountability.

The nurses are pissed

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

It doesn't feel like enough. And it won't. Go to the meetings anyway. Volunteer anyway. Take notes on how to run an orientation. Go home and cry for a few hours. Rehydrate anyway. Keep going anyway.

For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank! linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it Pressure your senators

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

It's a fascinating thing to watch the youth reinvent lolcats from base principles.

Sometimes I'll watch a movie or read a book that everyone LOVES and thinks is the greatest thing ever made, but I don't like it, and do you know what I say then? Nothing. Because I love it when people love stuff. And it simply wasn't for me.

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

A common note I'll see on manuscripts is "I don't know what this word means." I hate that note. If the definition pops up in the first search result, that's a reader problem not a writer problem. For me, and this book, that word was "ruderal."

BSFA longlist bro!!

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Absolute indictment of our media that there isn't round the clock brow beat coverage of this insanity. They are absolutely capable of doing it but refuse to do so.

Please do this. As a chair in a deep red district we need tons of help building a real party and you will have considerable influence.

"Of all the books I’ve had the opportunity to review, 'What a Fish Looks Like' is one of my absolute favourites." When a reviewer as thoughtful and cogent as @redfernjon.bsky.social writes that, I pay attention. Check out the review we just published of @syr.bsky.social's debut novella!

popping in real quick to remind anyone who needs it... rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer! sending my various communities some creative vibes and lots of affection.🥰 ⌨️you got this!💪🏽

god fucking damnit

I did not know, but I'm happy to know

Now playing www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2V...

We needed this art sled rally Powderhorn park is one of a kind

Morning

The Pill alone is worth five bucks. The best piece of fiction confronting fatphobia I've ever read. But it's part of a stellar collection. The whole thing is a marvel. We're lucky Meg Ellison writes.

Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation

The reason I dislike the term "content" is that it centers a container, a money-making structure, and reduces creativity to interchangeable "stuff" that exists only to fill that structure. Just call it writing, videos, whatever it is. It's not something for another thing to "contain."

A reminder that you can support me & my work & read some cool stuff I'm working on by joining my Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtit...), or you can buy THE GOD OF SPITE AND VIOLENCE over on Itch (therisingtithes.itch.io), or (more quickly) on Ko-Fi!

Live in BCS #448: "The Stone’s Choice" by Anaea Lay. "The stone in Tadlomi’s hand remembers being the mountain, and the mountain knows when its witch is sad. Tadlomi puts it down, the sudden sting of its disappointment more than they can endure" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

This is the truest truth of any creative career

Toxic empathy like... When Lestat planted vampire loneliness into the mind of a hapless audience member? Toxic empathy like when you take psychic damage while helping someone unpack why they should change their behavior? What?

It's a new story day! "Bots All The Way Down" is free to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com . It's a fairy tale about Internet enshittification, and AIs talking to AIs, with a twist. www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=35448

That's how you do it