“When I’m writing, I use AI for—” “Haha. You can’t write and have zero respect for what writers do. And you owe me money for stealing my shit. Bye.” That’s it. That’s the answer. It’s not a debate.

BREAKING: my standards have gone way up.

Sunny and warm in the PNW and I’m out on my lounger, hoodie pulled over my face, black pants, zero skin showing. I imagine this is what it feels like to be a sock fresh from the dryer

THIS. I keep seeing artists in promo mode go "I guess I gotta do a capitalism." No. Capitalism is not the same as currency, it is a specific socioeconomic system that is harmful to all life on this planet. Currency is representative of value for the exchange of goods and services.

Megawealthy madmen performing abhorrent acts in the name of the American dream…luckily these things are just fiction, right?! Pick up @anthonyengebretson.bsky.social’s absolutely brilliant & disturbing LUMBERJACK, damn do we love this book: store.tenebrouspress.com

Or is this just how we wake up every day now?

Every time I hear Oasis’ Don’t Look Back in Anger I recall being 16 on the couch of my childhood bf in Eureka, CA and her brother playing with my hair while I rested against him. Nothing more than that. Just feeling cared about by someone I’d known my whole life. I don’t even like Oasis

@februarygrace.bsky.social fancy seeing you here! Hope all is well

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

The "Sad Bitches Being Sad" queen returns!!!!!

Kay is amazing and a fabulous writer with some of the most incredibly bonkers ideas I've ever read, and she pulls them off every time.

Put me on some lists or whatever we do here. I have been in offline mode healing my broken soul, I should not be punished for that but rewarded

This is Ruthie and Ruthie is my favorite menace and criminal

If only tie-dye had been worn instead of that silly floofy ermine

Hello writing community who here would like 2 be my agent

Hi friends, I started a little business penguinlobster-shop.fourthwall.com

That feeling when you fall in love with a new-to-you artist; make contact; discover a Human w/similar artistic urges & ethics; create a mutual admiration society; &—vital to an indie press!—the $ they request to do what they do is right in your wheelhouse... ...what was I saying? Oh yeah, FUCK A.I.

I expected our future to be Gene Roddenberry and you’re trying to give us Hunger Games?

Proof of life post

Sorry I’ve not been around for a while, I’ve been re-ordering my life into a shape I prefer it to be in. It’s never too late to shift. I hope you’re all well. We need each other more than ever these days 💚

ICYMI my story Mother, Father, Us is on page 64 of the Autumn 2024 issue of 34 Orchard. A story that was compared to the feelings summoned by the works of Guillermo del Toro (which made my day) A grief piece to our earth home. #climate #ecofiction #author 34orchard.com/issues/issue...

Has anyone left Vienna, and long before you came to Budapest, the Danube entered a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes?

My short story “Fragments of Maeve” is out now in @archiveoftheodd.bsky.social archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/phys...

Do you ever take a walk into the woods, just to find yourself? Carved from the branches by your childhood home, Fragments of Maeve by @mielmacrae.bsky.social is waiting for you in Archive of the Odd issue 4!

Ahhhh!!! I spy my name on the gorgeous cover of Gamut’s April issue! @houseofgamut.bsky.social

TOC for this issue: The Shift by @mielmacrae.bsky.social Naglfar by @elinolausson.bsky.social Cire Perdue by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social The Skullhole Panic by @nmwhitley.bsky.social A Name in the Winter by Derek Allan Jones

Ahhhh!!! I spy my name on the gorgeous cover of Gamut’s April issue! @houseofgamut.bsky.social

Lots of friends on this list! Particularly proud of @lindzmcleod.bsky.social @pegasusunder.bsky.social @anovelescape.bsky.social Writing buddies ftw!

Working on my jumper. Finally making decent progress thanks to @noirbettie.bsky.social getting annoyed with me at the badly written pattern

Be Warned... Be Prepared... it is FORETOLD! Archive of the Odd Submissions open March 15th. We'll be changing a few things about submissions, so keep an eye out. Maybe sleep with one eye open, just in case.

Any publishers out there want to give me an editorial agreement for a book on weird fiction silversfoundation.org/grants/

You know how you can do research, go through hundreds of portfolios, and then pay a tattoo artist a lot of money to get an amazing piece of skin art or you can get some shitty ink for $20 from a dude named Rusty who just got a machine and tattoos at home? AI covers are Rusty.

My novel is 99 cents on Amazon US this weekend if anyone would like to check it out: www.amazon.com/dp/B09NT2L3H...

So excited to be part of this project and to work alongside @lindzmcleod.bsky.social !!

I am tired of so many things

Congrats to @avramargariti.bsky.social and @linardos.bsky.social ☠️🖤☠️

I am tired of so many things

ITS 🐷 TIME!!!

To paraphrase NM Whitley, 'A woman and her child go on a road trip to visit a pig sounds very cute and wholesome, but this is STP so fuck you'. If you want to feel really bad about the ecological destruction of our planet, "Pig House" by Kay Vaindal is now free to read!

Couldn’t be more excited about this 🔥💀💀💀

The sky is open, post one art to promote yourself. unstamatic.com/portfolio/ma...

STP Issue #9 is out now for subscribers! Apocalyptic pig fiction, latex sorcery, and Cadaver Synod horror. Plus reviews of DEHISCENT and MOTHTOWN, non-fiction tackling disability archetypes, Ex Machina, & Chainsaw Man, AND an interview with FLESHPOTS author R.L. Summerling.

Irrelevant to anything, but my hair has crossed over into serious bog witch territory today

so if i described "Pig House" by @kayv.bsky.social as 'mother and daughter go on a road trip to visit a pig' you might at first blush expect lighthearted and potentially sappy but haha sike this is @seizethepress.bsky.social were talking about here

imagine getting this kind of opportunity as a writer holy shit

Why did no one tell me about Kelly Link before? What other writing soulfriends are you keeping from me?

Sometimes I wonder if I could be someone’s nemesis

Blueski’s open, quote one photo of your cat to promote your cat This is Mr Meowgi with his usual look of confusion as to why he is anywhere

Really happy with the stories I’ve written in the last couple weeks. I wonder if they’ll still be good next month