pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I’m excited about this for a number of reasons, including the possibility that the book might (finally!) be sold in my local bookshops.

I'm still so proud of my story "Whalesong", published in Deadlands this year: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

sharing this again in case you missed it the first time. just a great story, with so many feelings.

grouchy opinion time. 99% of "health foods" are delicious when you stop trying to make them "healthy" and just eat them as regular food. kale is tasty. tofu is tasty. bean sprouts are delicious. like all foods, you just need the proper preparation (which means, among other things, salt and fat.)

"The greatest blessing of human psychology is eroticization." Thought this was a quip, not a profound insight on toxicity, extreme conditions, and eldritch gravity-play. Wild, funny(?), hot(?), and horrifying. Please read this story by @p-h-lee.bsky.social. Maybe not on the plane like I did.

read the story Tangent Online described as "hardcore smut" reactormag.com/timelike-curves-spacelike-curves-p-h-lee/

I'm also reading The Membranes! It's SO moist. Walking Practice by Dolki Min: also very moist.

2/3 of the way through "Asunder" by @kerstinhall.bsky.social, and it's been a phenomenal read. In healthier, less busy times, I would 100% commit myself to making a song for this book on the next LS album, but for now I must ask you all to check out her work and this novel. Exceptional writing.

And Palimrya's story in Embodied Exegesis ("A Canyon of Blood for the Normalest Man Alive") is absolutely the moistest thing I've ever had the pleasure of reading. It's so moist it horsehoes around to being sharp, and then back to moist again. I don't need moisturizer anymore after reading it.

There were several stories in Bound in Flesh (ed. Lor Gislason) that made me squirm with how moist they were. (also just a really good anthology overall, highly recommend)

got interviewed by Ozy Brennan: thingofthings.substack.com/p/interview-... (note that this is a transcript of a verbal interview so i sound way less organized than normal.)

*looks up from the remains of my inbox* the llm-based bookspam has gotten really bad, hasn't it?

I have an octopus yokai story that has sexy times in a watery cove. Does that count?

Moby Dick. did you know that sperm makes the best moisturizer? spermaceti, that is. Such a clearer! such a sweetener! such a softener; such a delicious mollifier.

tooting my own horn, The Drowned Heir is pretty moist

Paradise Rot maybe? Debatably, Our Wives Under the Sea

really like "Bluegrass Dreams Aren't For Free" by Gerri Leen. it's about a world where racehorses get accidentally uplifted, and how the racing industry handles / fails to handle that. extremely fascinating, beautiful science fiction by/for horse girls.

i require your moistest book recommendations

A visceral exploration of unhealthy relationships and the balance of power where emotions are involved as a man finds himself cheating on his boyfriend with space-time itself - Time-like Curves, Space-like Curves by PH Lee. reactormag.com/timelike-cur...

who do I know who's gonna be in NYC on November 18th???

no one exists in "culture at large." we exist, we argue, we fight, in tiny little cultural bubbles which 99% of people have no idea even exist, because they are too busy in their own little cultural bubbles.

you all should read this story i wrote it's bisexual and very upsetting.

sometimes i like digging deep into 50 year old sff writer beefs. good to know where we came from.

The winners of the 2025 World Fantasy Awards have been announced—congratulations to all! reactormag.com/here-are-the...

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reading some people arguing about the political valences of the x-men metaphor, and I feel like there's some misunderstanding about what a metaphor is and how they function in (most) science fiction and fantasy writing.

reading some discourse about hobbits reminded me of my favorite crackpot middle earth theory.

oh look a preorder link

Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time? "Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves" by @p-h-lee.bsky.social is out now at Reactor! Art by Rebekka Dunlap Edited by @malf.bsky.social

in my newsletter i wrote about how to practice and acquire outre / unusual writing techniques without smoothing them out or making them "normal." leave.substack.com/p/timelike-c...

Read this now:

Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves by PH Lee A luminous combination of the soul-crushing loneliness of being a dickish weird queer and great at physics is magnificent. I was this person in high school--we all were. It's magnificent and funny and perfect as a sine wave. reactormag.com/timelike-cur...

HELL YEAH BABY This story is fucking unhinged and I’m so lucky that PH Lee let me get my hands on it. I love it DESPERATELY.

you all should read this story i wrote it's bisexual and very upsetting.

Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves in @reactorsff.bsky.social A story about general relativity, space mining, and extremely poor relationship choices. reactormag.com/timelike-cur...

Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that. Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too. clarkesworldmagazine.com

posting this story of mine for some reason: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

#WhenTheyBurnedtheButterfly by #WenyiLee is featured in last week's #newbooks haul on youtube! watch: youtu.be/Shh9hy9fb_4 buy the books: bookshop.org/lists/n...#WhenTheyBurnedtheButterfly#WenyiLee#newbooks#books @torbooks

editors, being people, often have fights, rivalries, and disagreements. as an author, sometimes there is a temptation to take sides in editorial arguments, often out of a sense of loyalty to the editor who has bought your work. you don't need to do this. you probably shouldn't.

i have a story coming out in a couple of days. it's extremely strange has a lot of sex, only some of which is with abstract physical concepts.

Is it bad to cheat on your boyfriend with the fabric of space and time? This week. "Timelike Curves, Spacelike Curves" by @p-h-lee.bsky.social, only at Reactor! Art by Rebekka Dunlap Edited by by @malf.bsky.social

You're living in a haunted house which is ruled by a monstrous old woman and you have to solve a mystery. How you will feel about this depends on several factors, such as: what genre is this? Are there sociopolitical ramifications? How many spiders are there? Do you think spiders are hot?

"i met someone who's a lot like you / she does the things you do / but she's an IBM" is just a great line.

listening to ELO's album Time and it's kind of amazing how much "Sincerely 2095" is, in the modern context, about a guy complaining about the anti-sex protocols in his LLM not-a-girlfriend.

cool result! (also a very pretty looking shape IMO).

no. if you want to hear my unhinged opinions you have to get me drunk at a convention, as god intended.

an interesting game design question (for competitive games) is "how often should a less-skilled player beat a more-skilled player?" (obviously this depends somewhat on skill delta, but bear with it.) answers can range from "pretty close to zero" (chess) to "50%" (candyland, war).

A lovely flash piece about what people value and how they honor what matters most when time is running out - Last Meal Aboard the Awassa by @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social. www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=34817

WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is out today!!! it's a dark sapphic fantasy about a girl gang with a fire god in 70s Singapore, about female rage and claiming your own places. to the complex girls and to home. yours to read now, I hope you enjoy ❤️🦋