I'm excited to someday publish a story and then when I say the protagonist is aroace everyone on twitter* gets mad at me *twitter includes Bluesky

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

There's a good chance Homer and I wouldn't get along.

The 2025 Gender Census survey is open now until 30th August! An anonymous, worldwide survey by a #nonbinary activist about #gender experiences beyond the binary! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GenderCens...

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Easy out, maybe, but I still really love H. P. Lovecraft’s stories and poetry. The imaginative descriptions and the creepy atmosphere still Hit

“Dog chases down ambulance that owner is being transported in. When EMS realise, they let the dog in.” Love this 🥰❤️ #DogSky #Reddit r\NextF***ingLevel

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

if you wanted a baseline against which to recalibrate just how niche your sense of the genre might be: this is a pretty good example of currently popular, mainstream fantasy. NYT bestseller, Goodreads Choice award nominee, 30k+ Amazon reviews at a rating of 4.4, touring to packed rooms of fans &c.

personally I do find it helpful to be occasionally reminded that basically everything I love in modern genre is the equivalent of the strange life that flourishes around a particular set of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor

reading The Sea Spirit Festival and WHAO I was not expecting a human sacrifice ritual. hell yeah I love human sacrifice rituals especially when everyone is cool with it because This Is how It's Always Been Done and anyway it's a super high honor to be chosen as the human sacrifice.

I always enjoy a good desert scene (commission)

so this is why Orc City is happening lmao

For the last 24 hours Twitter has been full of people mocking the everloving shit out of this “fantasy author” for trying to dunk on one of Hideo Kojima’s best creations: FAT MAN. If you’re wondering why everyone is making Orc City jokes, this is why:

Wow, this is really exciting to read about. I included a chestnut tree in my illustration set in NYC earlier this year. womenof1000ad.weebly.com/sisters-of-a...

For Pride month, we've created a new book collection on our site for queer and transgender books featuring main characters or stories that fit within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum! Check it out here: www.readindiefantasy.com/the-lgbtqia-... But! We need YOUR help to fill it!

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚

It’s Sunday so Snox

Only 4th? I woulda thought we were the top dog here www.telegram.com/story/news/2...

more windows should be stained glass. Just in general. More buildings should have stained glass windows

Another short story rejection :( But I sent in my third dissertation chapter to my professor!

IT'S JUNETEENTH! There is still so much fucking work to do in this country to clean up the blood it was built on and so many reparations owed. One of the small ways we can help is actively seeking out, hiring, supporting and buying from Black artists. bsky.app/starter-pack...

💚 COMMON BONDS 2 is open for submissions! 💚 We are very excited to read what all of you wonderful writers have for us! We want short stories and poetry that: - are SFF - have an aromantic MC - focus on a non-romantic relationship Details here: claudiearseneault.com/call-for-sub... 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫

What was that??? #Jeopardy he knew the answer! He just spelled it wrong! Not giving the woman “Carlsbad” was bad enough but denying it to the guy just because he didn’t know how to spell cavern?

Anyway it's pride and there are lots of queer writers who put out work that isn't best selling! Buy a gay book by an unpopular irrelevant queer today!!!

my library no longer has access to Mis 50 Años de Vida Asexual :( Unsure whether this is a Hoopla thing or a "nobody except me ever checked this book out" thing but. I'm sad. I may have to pay $4 for the ebook for real

Really hope all of you wonderful writers have cool stories for us, we're so hyped to be reading nothing but aro SFF for a while 💚

I love this. @easternblot.bsky.social made 90s-style zines about problems that science solved 🧪 🐡 #scicomm

My dream for years has been to produce and direct a remake of THE HAPPENING. I love the premise: The Trees Are Releasing Pollen That Makes People Kill Themselves. Every single other choice the movie made was so so bad. It’s not a good movie BUT I COULD MAKE IT GOOD

as of today: 10,000 words written on my dissertation this year!

A movie!… entirely in my conlang 😆 For real though I love books with illustrations and would love illustrated versions of anything I write

THE INEXORABLE EQUATION (1997) Acrylic on Canvas - 48" x 36" The window contains a beautiful but threatening view, seen from a place of illusory refuge. 1/2

Taught my mom the term "aro" today because it was a crossword puzzle answer! (this is like the third instance of it I've encountered... crossword puzzle makers just learned the word "aro" and are thrilled to have another three-letter word beginning and ending with vowels lol)

Another @strangehorizons.bsky.social kickstarter reward you might like, aside from the magazine existing another year, is this exclusive patch. Where else but Strange Horizons are you going to summon (or be) a psychic snake pursuing an extradimensional crystal? www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

daydreaming about the academic papers I want to write to procrastinate on the academic papers I'm supposed to be writing

Daydreaming about mulberry pie

At this point unfollowing people who go on and on and on about how much better Bluesky is than twitter because in my experience it has been the literal exact same experience lmao

Similarly, I don’t often love revenge stories, but “Highway 1, Past Hope” by @mariahaskins.com is executed with aplomb, with a pair of plots that dovetail in an expected but satisfying way psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Reading “Gender Queer” finally (happy Pride) and man. A lot of these feelings Kobabe writes about are Relteable

Apparently the lizards are putting a band together? A very real scene in the garage from just now.

a summer painting made in a sweltering house in 2019

I think the local mulberries in the park are invasive white mulberries and not native red mulberries… perhaps a hybrid… alas. Still gonna eat them when they ripen. Maybe make a pie

proud aromantic killjoy <3 can join my feminist killjoy card. They go together lol

When we finally overcome “my aesthetic preferences are moral dictates actually” Book Twitter will finally be at peace (and Book Bluesky is just Book Twitter 2.0. Let’s be honest here lol)

Passed a Little Free Library on my walk today that had leftist, feminist, and environmentalist zines in it… why have I never considered that before, that’s brilliant

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica: