Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED

Let's give thanks for the November issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social! Get a snack, snuggle up, and check it out! ☕️

It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.

ICYMI: We love Priyanka Champaneri's story about the agonies and ecstasies of community, as exemplified by a well-meaning but single-minded neighboring auntie. Check it out before it hits the archives! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

🎉 We're thrilled to share our nominees for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards! ✨ 🎉 buff.ly/FS2olmv

Our October 2025 edition of Now Playing features heartbreak songs, action movies, and epic video games, all from our contributors! buff.ly/XMh5BH5

If you want a read, we have WINGDINGS in the archives: buff.ly/BqCVJXh ✨and✨ an interview by SLM intern Evangeline Lim with Nini Berndt: buff.ly/gkepea4

We would like to extend a huge congratulations to our nominees for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize! 🎉 buff.ly/b4NEuc9

I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry. My friends, my loves, my dears. Don't start. JOIN. These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

It was such a pleasure to be part of the editing process for Priyanka Champaneri’s short story, “Good Neighbor.” I think we’re all craving connection right now, and this story delivers. Read it and then go say hi to your neighbors 💖

This story is a great one to teach as an example of how to build emotional resonance by making excellent use of restraint. It’s a multi-layered story that satisfies on so many levels.

It's here! It's here! Our October issue is meant to be read when you're getting cozy! ☕️🧦 @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

ICYMI: Check out the uncanny lushness of Max Wheeler's "Abatement" before it hits the archives! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Our @splitlipthemag.bsky.social fiction crew has GROWN.

I loved working on "Ymelda's Infinite Eels" with Aidan and am so happy we nominated it for Best of the Net! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

It's time. . .#halloweenhorror2025

Last chance to apply! I was a contributor then a reader before I became an editor. Truly one of the most warm-hearted and dedicated crews I've been part of! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

Hey friends! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social is looking for new volunteer readers in fiction and flash. I'm a co-fiction editor, and we're a really nice crew! Spread the word and apply yourself!

Hello, hello! Get lost in our September issue this week! It's a doozy! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

"Darryl didn’t think he was lonely. He had the dogs and his thoughts and now his plants." Max Wheeler's "Abatement" in the @splitlipthemag.bsky.social September issue is so tender and strange and transporting... splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0925...

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

media: i'd like to see the left wriggle out of this one! [the shooter is revealed to be a psycho right winger like nearly all shooters] media: ah, well, nevertheless

lead the kind of life where your death will probably not be followed by a wave of threats against black universities

omg yes

Huzzah! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Nope.

I hate it here.

please help us spread the word about this mentorship opportunity for writers of color & share it with anyone you think might be interested!

ICYMI: We love all the doubling, the escalating wrongdoing, in Amelia Valasek's "Mud Season." Check it out before our September issue drops, and it hits the archives! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Yay @whatll-i-do.bsky.social! Anne has such a tender, exacting touch with editing. <3

How we feel reading your work. 🥰 🥳 Don't forget we're currently OPEN for submissions!

“I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed” whew

I love all sorts of well-considered criticism. Good criticism creates meaning in a different way than art. <3

Jesus fucking Christ.

This is grim news. A healthy publishing world needs critics.

Anyway, I wish social media wasn't so broken because I finally got around to seeing S2 of Interview with the Vampire, and oooohhhh, I have so much I want to talk about.

From "Refaat Writes Back" newsletter, here: refaatwritesback.beehiiv.com/p/if-i-must-...

Once, I wrote a short story for a Poe adaptation class instead of a paper, which I lovingly refer to as "'The Masque of the Red Death' filtered through Angela Carter." After intermittent submission, it's finally been picked up for a Poe anthology. Check her out! www.jayhenge.com/index.html

One more crucial aspect here is that Republicans are confident they can do this stuff and SCOTUS will back them up, but if a D president or congress were to try to do the same, SCOTUS would find a way to block it. (See, e.g. student loans)

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

wrote this last month!

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!