So long, and thanks for all the fish 🫡

Oh nooooooo

One month countdown and I’m just really sad.

I have not created a syllabus in five years. I am definitely rusty.

New anthology coming up! ☺️

Done

1 day! ✅ time travel ✅ counted wrong

3 days

4 days

Hey I wrote a thing and people seem to like it so maybe you will too youtube.com/shorts/Tpl7W...

85203 words.

I’m at that point in the term when I see another grad student and ask how they are and we both go, “yeah i’m just tired.” 😪

Played in the Lorwyn prerelease last night with Golgari elves and was promptly smashed out of the water by excellent opponents and went 0-3 😂 Won a couple of matches but overall got flooded w/out my mana sinks on the board. Good cards, good times.

Day 1 of being on antidepressants: oh no I’m sleepy all the time 🫠🫠🫠

I might have figured out the overall structure of my introduction jfc

So I guess we’re in 2026 now?

Help, I fell into the Heated Rivalry ao3 tags and it’s been three hours since I started…

Had my last check-in for the year with my diss supervisor and, with the promise of a last polish, got the 👍🏼 to send my last content chapter to the committee. Then I think we’re on a little break until January… inasmuch as one goes on a break while writing a dissertation, I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Chapter 3 submitted to supervisor. Now need to clean up and format Works Cited.

I guess we’re playing @riftbound.riotgames.com now 😅

I find myself trying to explain to my very American professor why we use “sir” to preface someone’s name. (Buti na lang hindi “mamsir” mas mahirap pa yun 😅)

Found myself juggling a bunch of non-diss books the past few days: 1/3 through La Belle Sauvage (Philip Pullman) A chapter into The City and the City (China Mievielle) … and The Strength of the Few (James Islington) just dropped into my Kindle, which means I need to re-read The Will of the Many!

💖💖💖

Uh, we just won a World Fantasy Award wtf @sydneyficant137.bsky.social

Daylight savings time is stupid

I can’t believe it’s the end of October.

It’s finally here!!! Thank you @loadingreadyrun.com (and Beej!) 🫶🏼

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT

Thank you for the feature! 💖

Pre-ordered from @bookshop.org ages ago and finally arrived. Clearly Katabasis is a PhD book so I really need to finish my chapter so I can read this.

Heading into the 5th year of PhD (not my arm).

Today’s conversation with PhD chair was mostly about being held to a higher standard because he knows I can do it. I actually don’t mind it - I’m glad to work with someone who cares about what I can/can’t do, and pushes me towards quality work.

The many many screams I scrumpt while watching this episode is 💥💥💥💥💥 Loved the end credits too 😂

Guess who was able to push out a second newsletter email? 😅 Now let’s see if we can get to a third. 🤞🏼

*shakily climbs back on the Critical Role fandom* *hopes she doesn’t fall off again*

I had to sit with this for a moment. Sam just distills what science fiction can do, in terms of scale and storytelling, and how it tells that story through Magic. I am just in awe.

Trying to start a newsletter for my non-academic/non-professional writing and would love it if you could keep me accountable by subscribing at buttondown.com/sundialgirl 😊

AAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

Unmarked Graves and Tortured Roots: Defining #FolkHorror from the Perspective of the #AsianDiaspora Recorded yesterday for #VirtualStokerCon-- this special and meaningful #panel. If you are attending Virtual #StokerCon, don't miss it. #silkandsinewantho #badhandbooks #readhorror #hwa

Spring is starting to spring! (Although it is also raining a lot ☔️)

Back from the brink

Setting aside [waves hands] all of this for a moment, the Banff Centre's upcoming sci-fi residency looks STACKED: @aijiang.bsky.social, @amalelmohtar.com, and @premeemohamed.com on the faculty!

“That is why I like novels: instead of heroes they have people in them.” Happily revisiting The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin: stillmoving.org/resources/th...

Con crud caught up with us 😭😷🤧

Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

Had the great privilege to attend #magiccon Chicago over the weekend with @notlowercase.bsky.social (whose research intersects with this game space). It was exhausting, enlightening, and perhaps some of the best days of my life. Like, I get it. It’s a game. No big deal. But MtG content (1/?)

Our little project of trying to establish a chronological tradition of Philippine #speculativefiction is finally here! Grateful to everyone who worked on this book (most of whom aren’t on Bluesky and so I cannot tag them). I hope we’re able to contribute to the expanding world of #sff ✨

Short story submission call! Opening June 1! From the minds of me and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social comes ENTER HERE: An Anthology of Portals. It's an adult SFFH speculative anthology celebrating marginalized authors. More info on our website! #writing #WritingCommunity cjsubko.com/enter-here-a...

Apologies for not being here often. I’m really limiting my social media consumption. Everything I see makes me sick to my stomach and makes it difficult to focus on the every day.