Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

ANNOUNCEMENT 1. Afterlives 2024 curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has been COVER REVEALED 2. the collection will be available FOR FREE to paid patrons of @thedeadlands.com 3. join now, read The Deadlands, and receive the book magically when it is released beginning of November go see! 👇

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Thrilled, honored, and ecstatic to be part of this. Thank you for including my story. Excited to read the rest of them come October 😁

As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’ Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.

Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.

It's been difficult to ask for help, but I'm a foreign student in🇰🇷 who's in such a crisis financially and health-wise that it's about survival--for me & my parents in India. Full story below. If anyone can help, even a little, even just by sharing, it would mean the world. ⬇️

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If LAPVONA by Ottessa Moshfegh ever gets picked up for a movie adaptation, I want Yorgos Lanthimos to direct it. It's such an absurd, bleakly funny book, only he can do it justice. Nobody else, only him!

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Hossam Shabat a journalist in Gaza posted this on Twitter, on Monday Israel killed him.

you’re not promoting your book, you’re helping the person who needs it, find it.

If you're a Democrat and are curious why I don't like your party and have generally bad feelings about it, here is just one tiny tiny example [ there are so many others ]

Keep writing. Your story matters now more than ever.

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

Merry Christmas and Free Palestine 🇵🇸

The author of the book below, Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, is the pioneer in establishing literacy and liberation among Bengali Muslim girls in early 20th century colonial India. Her birthday came to pass some days ago (Dec 9) and she was an AMAZING woman in personal life as well. This is her.

Hello, I'm Rukman Ragas and this is my first year of publishing stories. I have 7 stories out this year, 4 of them are SFF and all my work can be found here. rukmanragas.com#work

I have five short stories eligible in the short fiction category. 1) THE PITHA SELLER OF QISMAT SQUARE, Translunar Travelers Lounge, issue 10 (About an elderly eldritch roadside cake seller meteing out justice as she sees fit) Link: translunartravelerslounge.com/2024/02/15/t...

Cotard's Syndrome, or Cotard's Condition, is a belief that you are dead, missing body parts or blood, or do not exist at all. It is named after psychiatrist Jules Cotard, who said in 1880, it was "le délire des négations." There are only 200 cases known worldwide. #morbidminute

140 days 20 books 7997 pages 1 me Longest book: THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton Shortest book(s): ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey + MOON ON THE CRUSTED SNOW by Waubgeshig Rice My most favorite book(s) so far: THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) + MILKMAN by Anna Burns (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

I have read 1552 pages this month so far 😁 Left is THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton, and the novel is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction (p. 848) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Right is NIGHTS OF PLAGUE (2017) by Orhan Pamuk, who is the 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (p. 704) ⭐⭐⭐ #booksky📚💙

Since I've gotten more than five pieces published by now, I realized I should make a thread about it. Below you'll find all my published pieces so far. I'll add my upcoming pieces once they're out, with links. Pic credit: Sixteen Miles Out from Resplash