Someone once told me that, whenever she read genre fiction with political/revolutionary themes or messaging—and what genre fiction doesn’t, in this day and age—she could always tell whether the writer had gone to meetings. I think about that a lot.

If you’re reading for awards season this year, perhaps you might like to consider my Submissions Grinder dashboard, a tragedy in 42 acts

If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...

For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks: www.cursedmorselspress.com

wait until the post hears about my aunts and uncles who are all just my parents' friends from grad school

sittin on the dock of the bay

Fukuyama and Find Out

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

My reach is small, my powers are limited and my influence is non-existent but if this book is even one-fifth as good as The Fortunate Fall it stands a very good chance of being one of the best books of 2026

for more on this, consider hexliterary.com?p=2603

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from the same essay:

What a gorgeous, lush piece of brutality

this is the kind of thing that would cause a folklorist in 1919 to declare that the Dalek costume goes back to pagan times

far be it from me to cast aspersions on our state's largest export, but I feel like if Stephen King had actually ever been on well water he wouldn't be so casual about where he dumped his bodies

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

what a contradictory time to be alive. being evil is encouraged yet our society only punishes the noble Hater

The Nighthawks diner was based on a diner in Greenwich village, where Hopper was living. But this AI can’t actually provide a historical context for the painting, something for which there might arguably be a use case. All it does is give you a walking tour of West Bummer, Illinois

disco elysium did not necessarily make me any more communist than I already was, but it *did* effectively communicate to me how there is no such thing as non-extreme politics, and that by not picking a side you are still siding with someone

If my name were so available to unkind rhymes, I would be a lot more careful about the bad opinions I posted on the internet

I’m so glad this weird and weirdly moving piece is out in the world—I got to read an early draft and, like the Anatomy itself, it’s only grown more powerful 👁️🧠👁️

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible. ⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social

Touch base with me, Muse, re: rage of Achilles

i really wish i hadn't taken musicality as my dump stat, because i've been overcome with the desire for a cover of gordon lightfoot's "if you could read my mind" in the style of mount eerie. and sometimes you just know about a thing that no one is going to make that thing happen for you, you know

thank gOD we’re talking about it

some of y'all are getting really sola fide about AI on here

🚨🚨LAST 9 DAYS 🚨🚨 of the annual Strange Horizons fund-raiser! Still a host of rewards up for offer (see link), and we need around $4.4K more to hit our base goal. If you’ve been intending to support us this year, then the time is now! Donate here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

the way the gc lost its mind at this

The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2

People have started Doing Carcosa again recently, but Joe’s was one of the first (and best!) of the new guard that I read. Surreal and grotesque in a way that feels visceral but never careless

Strange Horizons is delighted to present our special issue on AfroSurreal SF, edited by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...

If you, too, would like my grubby little paws all over your extremely interesting spec fic takes, you can pitch me at [email protected] !

HELLO EVERYONE! my essay on Clive Barker, Foucaldian biopower & biopolotics, Lacanian jouissance, and the mutantopia of the queer and chronically ill body is live on Strange Horizons ( @strangehorizons.bsky.social ). 🩸💉🩸

every day i clock into the toxic yuri factory. every day i'm on the assembly line machining together the toxic yuri. i take my half hour lunch with my lunch pail my bitch wife packed for me and then where am i? right back on the line making toxic yuri

Really enjoyed this interview with Pat Cadigan and Nicola Griffith over at @strangehorizons.bsky.social about their origins, writing careers, and change. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... And not only because they are two writers I really admire and would like to be when I grow up.

tHeY cAn'T dO tHaT iT's AgAiNsT tHe LaW

at least toby keith is dead this time

Loved editing this interview and getting to hear these authors go off on genre, the state of the field, making it as a writer

I once literally bumped into Professionally Handsome Matt Bomer wearing while wearing boxers and carrying a bag of dirty cat litter

All my friends (people I follow on the internet) are at StokerCon and I’m stuck dealing with Life Bullshit™️ 🧍🏼‍♂️

buncha moby dick freaks on this app, I’m into it

Tonight!! Come thru

fun and creepy, with a real gut-punch at the end

this was so briefly, crystally devastating

This is, and I don't think I'm exaggerating here, going to be the single coolest event of the year and if you miss it you will regret it for, approximately, ever I'm just saying

Sign up to see me (and many exciting others!) read this Saturday!

hey as a lesbian, fuck you losers. you're so embarrassing lmao. you don't get to tell me i'm not gay because i think dicks are pretty grand in the right circumstances. queer people have NEVER existed under the constraints of heteronormativity and that utterly includes this. nice try though