In case anyone gives a hoot, I am mostly on Threads these days (I know). @ mado.christie over there! I may lurk here from time to time but mostly post there.

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This pod has been choreographing a dance for three lifetimes of a small sun. I hear them counting to each other in integers unfathomable to human cognition. The numbers sound like the background hum of what poets have been seeking for our brief centuries.

IO: MA PERCHÉ NON HO MAI SOLDI? IL MIO GATTO:

It’s about a young, classical violinist making terrible decisions and being exploited while she strives for musical perfection and ignores her feelings (what feelings?)

a just and loving god would have let Hilary Mantel live to hear “the pope is weak on crime”

The soup recipe did it for me

There is so much to read and so little time, sob. How to even begin.

National pet day you say?

Maybe the body should keep the score TO ITSELF for once

Please cite the deep magic to me, I was listening but my cat walked across the keyboard and muted the Zoom.

WRYTE WEIRDE BOOKES

HORATIO: Look, my lord, it comes. HAMLET’S DAD’S GHOST: (rockets past at inconceivable speed) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Lovely writing news today! I had a great time cooking up my flash entry to this contest. Thank you to the judges for longlisting “Tanglewood”!

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

Having Thoughts about people — even those saying they won’t support it anymore — looking back on Harry Potter itself with such fondness (I am guilty of this too). I need time to articulate them.

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy TDOV from me to you ♥️ no visibility without care, without safety, without community support.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

You only need to let the soft animal of your body start a new Stardew Valley file

Uh oh! I caught a whiff of cigarette smoke and suddenly I don’t care about cancer.

Listening to Feist’s The Reminder for the first time in years and it’s an absolute vibe

A very important goal of mine is to help de-stigmatize psychosis and psychotic disorders through my writing and other avenues.

i will add that the lack of Black soloists, conductors, and composers in this season in a city that is almost 30% Black speaks to a lack of effort from their artistic staff imo. @chicagosymphony.bsky.social

I will not buy a switch 2 just for pokopia. I will not buy a switch 2 just for pokopia. I will not buy a switch 2 just for pokopia.

People just keep saying shit, huh

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

You bastards made the first five minutes of UP and you expect us to believe you’re worried about the audience needing therapy?

My first job was at 12 years old pretending I had diabetes for medical licensing exams

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

“Trambopoline! I gotta go!” The urgency of the scene is just perfection

The libretto of my dreams, about a woman returning to Toronto post WW1 with a fiancé that is actually an animated pile of straw. Eventually the straw man gets infected with the ghost of her dead father. One day!! One day.

no cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist Perfect

I hope all the substacks I’ve been coveting but abstaining from move to ghost!! This is my snow day prayer.

St. John’s has gotten almost a meter of snow in the last five days and b’ys… we’re drowning here

It takes more effort than it used to, to turn the pegs, but Mr. Heidelberg’s ghostly fingers still manage to help tune all the pianos at the Neubert Community Music School. Those keys take a pounding every day, and the new piano tuner could use all the help she can get.

“Being anti-AI is gatekeeping!” I’m *literally* saying there is no gate. Unlike the people telling you the only way through it is AI.

Going to try to approach my writing this year like a botanical garden. A protected space, with different biomes in different wings. Finding the right soil pH for whatever a project needs, cultivating seedlings, just tending to a part of myself in a really intentional way.

Thys was my Heated Rivalrye

Thankfully it only works when it’s time, when they’re ready, when the grey at their muzzles paints age over their puppy hearts. When it would hurt too much to stay another day. I accept no coin. I sing to them softly, and every time, their sighs help soothe their owners’ tear-chapped cheeks

Finally saw Sinners tonight. Omg. So great.

A friendly reminder that submissions CLOSE for our upcoming issue this Saturday. Keep them coming! Share with a Black SFF writer in your circle 🖤🖤🖤 Guidelines here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Some days I have extreme social anxiety around online spaces, other days I dream of starting a short form video series about practicing/professional piano life.

I have drafted a query letter!! My first ever! I am terrified haha 🙃

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

He’s not “insane”, he’s an evil, entitled despot surrounded by handlers and enablers. He COULD do differently: he just doesn’t want to.