Bold new discourse beaming in via ansible from Anarres

Canes win? Canes win. CAAAAAAAANES WIIIIIIIIIIN! #SoundTheSiren

my favorite story ive written is out today :^) it's about a monstrous mother and her adopted daughter, and i would love if yall checked it out

It's a beautiful day to visit with Elliot and Jun beneath the crab apple tree again! Sometime I really ought to check in and ask where they ended up. 🤔

Spent an afternoon out in the woods with @beryl.rubacky.dev!

IT’S STANKY SEASON

We talk a lot in the writing community about building up a thicker skin when it comes to rejections, but sometimes, it's okay to still be soft and squishy about the whole thing. It's alright and even good to be emotionally invested in the stories we tell and to feel sad when they don't find homes.

1066? Definitely heading to Al-Andalus and establishing myself as a writer of homoerotic Jewish poetry

hi yes my short story "La Sirena's Blessing of Belonging", which came out in @morningtransport.bsky.social in March, is mentioned here along with SO many amazing queer stories that came out in March—including OTHERSIDE Issue 1. it's fun to be featured here as a writer AND with our first issue!! 💜

read your literary grandparents. whatever writer inspires you and seems like a genius, check out who inspired them. it will confirm what makes them unique but also reveal how traceable their influences are. it teaches you new craft tools and relieves some pressure. no one writes in isolation.*

eating a snyder's sourdough hard pretzel and thinking about how just one of them could feed a family of borrowers for a week

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Canes sweep!!! #SoundTheSiren

we are experiencing Carolina Hurricanes hockey

if there were two guys at the end of the world and one of them sacrificed himself to save the other would that be fucked up or what

go listen to your mother 👇

yes goddd I love physical media

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good to see bluesky implementing some mental health features

Not to be pretentious or anything, but sometimes the meaning of life really is just sitting out on the balcony on a Saturday morning, drinking a really good cup of coffee out of your papaw's old mug

ohhh we've got some stone-cold stunners, folks images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Tar Heel, North Carolina Pop: 115 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Heel,_North_Carolina Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=164156653 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90417695

Five books to get to know me by: 1. The Lord of the Rings 2. Redwall 3. The Dispossessed 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 5. Light from Uncommon Stars

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - February 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over a dozen stories by @nassos.bsky.social @jordankurella.com @jlgeorge.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @ewenmaer.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @sarahpauling.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/154416...

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Louder

I promise there are no politics in my WIP about a refugee living under a cryptofascist government being taken advantage of and forced into dangerous situations by his corporate employer and liberating himself through the power of queer found family (...in space!)

On its face I hate the refusal to let the dead horse die but also "Stephen Colbert writes The Tom Bombadil Movie" (which is the buried lede here) is *just* completely and utterly insane enough to be genuinely intriguing

Went exploring after work and found a pine forest that the local university keeps up as a public park/forest management school! 🌲

This is one of my favorite SFF books of the last few years and it's $2 in the US / 2€ in the EU right now!

I've got a joke about submitting but unfortunately, we weren't able to post it at this time. We wish you the best of luck in placing it elsewhere and hope to see more of your work.

everyone please tell @beryl.rubacky.dev happy birthday 😤

(ok, NOW you can get too excited for me, because THIS DRAFT IS DONE 🎉)

Going to go into the woods and do a colors training montage until I can get a higher score than MR, brb www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

If you need a BIG smile on your face today, go meet Gargamax!

REVIEW: “Everyone Hates It When the Alien Shows Up At the Club” by Elijah J. Mears sffreviews.com/2026/03/01/r...

on the bright side, between the warm weather and later sunsets I'm feeling much more chipper than I did over the winter unfortunately, pine pollen 🤧

ACT THREE OF THIS DRAFT IS DONE 🙌 (Don't get too excited for me, I used a four-act structure) But the third quarter of NGoN was far and away the redheaded stepchild of draft three, and now I should mostly be through the material that I felt really needed to be ripped out and rewritten from scratch

thinking about the panel I attended today where the panelists were talking about wanting to see more queer characters of a certain age as I dive back into this scene in my novel

At @retconnc.bsky.social last night, today, and tomorrow! I'm terrible and forgot to publicly post my schedule but if you'll be around, come see one of my panels!

didn't think about this when I did it but naming my sandshrew Balin and then teaching him Rock Tomb...

I am seated

hi there, old friend :)

I just know we could queen out together, she would be soooo shady at brunch

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Thanks so much to @emmiechristie33.bsky.social for taking the time to spotlight my work! It's been a joy getting to see your perspective on my stories over the last few days

Hello my contribution to today's discourse is that there really is something great about stovetop rice done the "right" way and also our rice cooker is among the best appliances we own and feels like absolutely magic technology

📣📣📣 We've gotten so many great stories that we're now scheduling pieces for our Feb '27 issue (and probably our June '27 issue for at least a couple stories in queue!) so we're going close the submission gates for a few months. Keep sending us stuff till end of Feb, and we'll see you again in July!

Everyone Hates It When The Alien Shows Up At The Club, by Elijah J. Mears in Flash Fiction Online. So fun, so sweet, so *hilarious* - and what a perfect voice, too! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/ever...

🚨 DO NOT GO TO THE CLUB. THE ALIEN IS AT THE CLUB. EVERYONE HATES IT WHEN THE ALIEN SHOWS UP AT THE CLUB. 🚨