As more and more creators are expected to be on camera to promote their comics, can we talk for a second about how this opens up female creators to intense harassment about their looks? Not to mention a lot of "You only have a career in comics because you're good looking" comments?

This book is sooo good!!!

New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent anthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT comes Abbie Goldberg's essay "How to Get Away with Chaining Myself to my Friends in Front of Heavy Duty Machinery," about the practical work of resistance and growing a movement. reckoning.press/how-to-get-a...

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

Kudzu, toothed and teeming.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Me, after a 45 min rant about why I have never liked mascots, theme park characters, disguises, anthropomorphized animals, or Santa Claus: But I love Drag Queens! And Saphira the Velociraptor! Let me tell you why! Thirty minutes later: But sure! there were no signs as a child that I am autistic!

New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's special #neurodivergent reprints collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "Swimming Whole" by @ecbarrett.bsky.social , a story about small, would-be tyrants & the importance of local resistance - both individual & collective. reckoning.press/swimming-who...

I am need to figure out how to count slush reading in my reading goals this year. I'm ten books behind and my outlooks is not optimistic lol

Need a really good story for the now seven total surgery scars across my abdomen. They range in size from about one inch (2.5 cm) to three inches (7.62 cm) and I'm definitely one of those south carolina people so I'm trying to decide between actual life experiences I somehow escaped unscathed. 1/2

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT @tkrex.bsky.social's SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER. This short story manages to contain absolutely every reason I was obsessed with the tv show seaQuest as a kid. 🐬🤖 reckoning.press/squawker-and...

Zines in SF/F that are nonprofits AFAIK and thus worthy of your support on this Giving Tuesday. (Pls add others you know of!) BCS @strangehorizons.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social @escapepod.org @podcastle.org @pseudopod.org

BCS does such amazing work publishing some of the most poignant and imaginative fantasy around. Let's give the magazine a boost to keep paying its authors and first readers❤️

Read my surgery notes and my surgeon describes me as "a pleasant woman" and now every time my partner says I'm being annoying (I am very bad at resting) I say "NOT POSSIBLE! I'VE BEEN DIAGNOSED AS PLEASANT" which I understand has only increased the rate of incidence of my being annoying but whatever

New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "Icediver". This atmospheric short story by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social takes us beneath a cold, dark sea in one woman's emotional quest for answers and a sense of belonging. reckoning.press/icediver/

Everyone needs to see this video from start to finish. Everyone. On both sides.

New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint anthology, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social's "Repurposed Parking Garage" a beautifully imagined visual depiction of a future where cars have been replaced with community. reckoning.press/repurposed-p...

Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers

Well this is exciting! It's wonderful to see @andtatcat.bsky.social's beautifully poignant short story "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" recognized. Thanks so much, Alex.

We are! A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is currently available for digital order, print preorder (Jan 1), and of course content is dropping for free on our website every Monday and Friday!

New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Kat Murray's "Fixing the System in Tilt Town." This determined story, with an equally determined ND main character, explores just what it means to build it back better. reckoning.press/fixing-the-s...

"The men were so sick and had serious illnesses from three or four years locked up. Even in that toxic place, the refugees’ culture of hospitality prevailed. We ate biscuits that somebody had baked in the middle of a siege. They brought tea for us and added sugar. They’d saved it for guests."

S.L. has been published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com, among many others, and thinks you should check out work by Ahmed Saadawi and Olga Tokarczuk. Find links to his work and more about his recs by getting a copy at www.fusionfragment.com/issue-26/

Easiest: Atmosphere, limited POV Hardest: Omniscient pov, killing my darlings. Why yes, that paragraph about an antique cut glass bowl in chapter three, book one WILL BE important in book five. 😂

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection "The Government Will Pay For Your Funeral" by @chideraoffor.bsky.social. This quiet, heart-lingering poem about loss & grief, both personal & climate, will stay with you. reckoning.press/the-governme...

When it originally appeared in Reckoning 3, "The Blackthorn Door" expanded our concept of what environmental justice means and what a story about it can do. It's a fascinating reframing of the long-term psychological impacts of the horrors of war through the medium of paranormal mystery

New today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #Neurodivergent Reprint Collection, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, @fordwalker.bsky.social's "The Blackthorn Door," a powerful story about trees, trauma, and how memory defines us. reckoning.press/the-blacktho...

I do fear we’re starting to see the end of physical, subscription-based SFF magazines. Which means there’ll be nothing left behind but a digital footprint. I don’t think we can let that happen. Not after what we’ve seen this year.

she became/ a foaming of wave/ a froth of tide/ an erased border— "Ocean Vengeance", a stunningly cathartic poem by @mspicone.bsky.social immerses readers in acts, large and small, of ocean reclamation.

I love this story so much. It was one of the first things I read from Reckoning. It is so often the neurodivergent among us building communication bridges and I particularly love seeing it here.

Originally published in OUR BEAUTIFUL REWARD, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's bodily autonomy issue, @mariness.bsky.social's "Green Leaves Against the Wind" considers the deep, personal cost of nurturing and the power of choice. I'm so pleased to include this piece in our #neurodivergent collection.

“Day captures a violent contradiction at the heart of how humans decide what to domesticate and what to eradicate.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024 So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...

This is a super interesting video about the ICE raid that happened in Lakeview yesterday. The point of the home “being one of the most constitutionally protected zones that we have” & ICE blatantly trying to abduct people on private property. The owner also says the workers have permission to work

I am officially that house plant witch. When I brought the philodendrons (5) and monstera (2; very large) in for the fall/winter season, I bought growlights for the first time. Previous growlight experience was my bio-dad growing cannabis in a bedroom closet. I really should've won that Show & Tell.

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social #neurodivergentanthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a haunting meditation on personal loss and climate grief, and how we carry on. reckoning.press/a-taxonomy-o...

I love this story so much. Morris Hinkle creates a terrible, vivid, and amazing world, painting an entire society in such a short space, and the horrors that society enacts for the "good" of all.

The title "P-T" refers to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which you should read about if you've never heard of, and its use here amounts to a frigging brilliant literary device en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian...

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Micah Nemerever's powerfully evocative poem "P-T." "they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it." reckoning.press/p-t/

They’re ABSOLUTELY looking for people posting about No Kings. Block them.

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

@ellisnyeland.bsky.social's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a lovely remembrance of a life well lived, but it also a fortune told. "Repair Tech" warns us against the generational loss of practical knowledge, especially in uncertain times.

I am woefully behind on Halloween cards & October blog posts. BUT if you want something cozy & gently spooky to read, one of my favorite stories I've ever written is available for free on my website. AuDHD, ASD characters, supportive families, acespec romance. CREATURES. cgaubrey.com/all-the-crea...

Perfect for the season.

I'm all for being mindful of consumption (especially performative over-consumption), but it sure seems like most "deinfluencers" are single/child-free/well-off white women who have the TIME and money to spend three hours staging the perfect video of them mending a twenty year old target throw.

@lauramcknight.bsky.social's wonderfully meditative story "Before Times Shells and Gifts" speaks of what it means to sift through ruins, our own and those we may never fully understand. It also provides gentle, commiserating humor for those of us who have been told "please do not lick the science!"

Despite the unimaginable death toll of deforestation and pollution, Kaye Boesme's powerful work still offers reconciliation in the end, not merely as grace extended but in inevitability. There is hope, however fragile, to be found in such certainty.

I am once again asking you to read this essay by Amber Fox, published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social in 2022. reckoning.press/ghost-of-a-c...

There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

SFWA Launches FAQ for Anthropic Settlement