The fascist US government's scapegoating of trans people has strong historical precedent. Time for US democrats to cease their policy of cringing appeasement.

Every character in my WIP

"[ECO24] is a triumph. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactful." ⭐ Thank you so much to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the starred review of ECO24! 💜🍄 Read the full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781955765404 Preorder your copy of ECO24 FOR 30% OFF below!⬇️

only TWO DAYS LEFT to submit to our FLORA - FAUNA - FUNGI microfiction contest to celebrate the release of ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction!🌺🐛🍄 Don't forget to email your microfiction (max. 300 words) to [email protected] before midnight on Sep. 25th! 📧

It's bi visibility week. I'm bored with the representation of bi people as "greedy sluts". "We can't pick one lmao we're so gluttonous!" Well, we can't pick one because no one picks their sexuality. If we could, who would choose bi? Its a life sentence to an eternity of "Am I gay" BuzzFeed quizzes.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

I can tell it's autumn because all I wanna do is EAT FOOD

Forget the rapture I'm enraptured

Discover what your body is capable of in THE FLESH GARDENS 🩸🪷🩸 We're so excited to host @hironennes.bsky.social's "Our Best Selves" in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION! Don't miss this natural wonder of a book and preorder for 30% OFF at www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco... 🌿🍄💸

Ginkgo, 2024. A poem about what the 'living fossil', last of its genus, remembers. #ecopoetry #concretepoem #writesky #poetsky

"Already weeds have begun colonizing the burial mound. And with the recent rains, there are now mushrooms." Read 'Forest' by @jolantru.bsky.social CW bereavement, grief inner-worlds.ghost.io/forest-by-jo... #FlashFiction #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #Fabulism #Fantasy #Fungi

The 2025 Berlin Sci-Fi FilmFest is looking for volunteers! Volunteers will get two free tickets and can attend any other screening during the festival if their schedule permits and when there are empty seats. Follow the link to the sign up form. Thank you! forms.gle/yDfAUbADuSez...

New ECO24 blurb from the fantastic @sueburke.bsky.social! 🖤👽 Want to snag this natural wonder of a book? Preorder ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction and get 30% OFF HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco... 🌿🍄💸

#bookreview no.20: The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. Second time reading it and the family trauma storyline hit me so hard this time. This book is a matryoshka of increasingly vast tragedies. And it's excellent 10/10 no notes

@innerworlds.bsky.social Issue 8's Mary Wanjiru in this Must-Read list!!

Can't talk rn I'm therapizing my solastalgia

Low key tho as someone with one working arm my biggest fear is somehow messing up the only one that works lmao

Heute zum ersten Mal dieses Jahr Adventskalender gesehen 🙃

"I study her face. Skin like parchment. Gossamer, as if it might tear at any moment. Her pale blue eyes are rheumy and clouded by cataracts, but her mind’s still sharp as a pin." Read 'Soul Cakes' by @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/soul-cakes-b... #SpeculativeFiction

Pure gold

My fable "Strangler Fig" is in @innerworlds.bsky.social I struggle with contextualizing this story as it's about my disability, which is a hard thing to talk about. Most of the moments in this tale are memories. I hope you enjoy it 💪🏼🌿

I come from a proud line of extremely anxious people

this is what they said was “trans ideology” on the casings? you’ve got to be kidding me

OUR MICROFICTION CONTEST IS BACK!! ✍️🌺🐛🍄 We had such a great turnout for our first contest that we're back for a second round to celebrate ECO24! Check the pictures/alt text below for full details. The deadline to email your submission to [email protected] is SEPTEMBER 25TH @ midnight!

Bruh how is my novel draft 40k words and 128 pages and it's not even like half done rn

Quick reminder to #clifi writers about this upcoming pitch event next week! Thinking about doing a little community-building/ mutual promo stuff to start the week, let me know if you’re interested #clifi #solarpunk #pitchevents #clifipit solarpunkmagazine.com/cli-fi-pit/

Not a real book review but a DNF: The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson. Some good turns of phrase, mostly insufferable name-dropping. Found myself falling asleep every time I picked it up; halfway through I let myself give up.

#bookreview no.19 - re-read The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. I don't often pick favorites but this is one of my top series of all time. Re-read was for "research" purposes but I got too into it as usual and sped through it :o

I think I deserve a lil treat and that's starting to feel like it might involve a trip to the BOOKSTORE

Here's your daily dose of climate fiction! The Sunflower Covenant When Dee is transferred to the swanky Wicker school, their education in conformity is quickly derailed by another misfit willing to fight for a different world. grist.org/climate-fict... #Fiction #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #CliFi

Enter to win a copy of ECO24!!! You know you wanna, and those pics are pretty inspiring ;)

Happy fungi Friday here's some fluted birds nest fungus I spotted in the Grünewald by Berlin last weekend ❤️ #fungifriday #olympus

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇

I have had this blue towel and twin-size duvet for over a decade and I never use them anymore but I emigrated with them when they were brand-new. They took up half my suitcase and were my first comforts in a new country so I can't get rid of them.

"On my walk I pass underneath a tree, and hanging from the branches, about twenty feet up, is a pair of shoes." God DAMN! @amykdebellis.bsky.social bringing the heat this week with the incredible and creepy and wonderfully written "Incompleteness!" This is such a perfect start to the fall season!!

If your writing practice centers around the ennui of rich yuppie art scene life in Berlin or New York you might be a really boring person

Reposting from the gram: My short-story "Slow Day" is available to read in SAND 28, and you can pick up a copy at the @indiemags.bsky.social fest in Hamburg!!

Happy Birthday Inner Worlds 💞💞💞

If your sci fi world has plastic, that implies it has petroleum, which implies at some stage it had billions of years in which organic matter decayed anaerobically into kerogen which then stayed at around 50C for millions of years to undergo catagenesis. And that's just boring honestly?

Migraine so bad you can't sleep but the only cure for a migraine is sleep

So pleased that Strangler Fig is out in @innerworlds.bsky.social ❤️ a fable about a woman born with a plant parasitic disease. This one's full of memories. Thanks for reading 🌿 share.google/8zTUR53uIuLT...

"I was born with a tree branch on one side instead of an arm" The opening line is so simple, and odd and brilliant, just like the rest of this piece. And the part of the story with the little boy is painful in the most special way. Read "Strangler fig" here inner-worlds.ghost.io/strangler-fi...

This Welsh Halloween tale by @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social was such a tear-jerker 😢 inner-worlds.ghost.io/soul-cakes-b...

Just read "Lungs" by @busayo.bsky.social in Issue 8 of @innerworlds.bsky.social! Very rich & vivid prose in this familial ghost-story inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus...

So thrilled to have "Strangler Fig" featured in @innerworlds.bsky.social Issue 8!

I've been voting by mail for a decade. It's not easy. But In the election for Wisconsin's supreme Court (which trump lost) this spring, I experienced more than the usual difficulty. (1/2) Can Trump really ban mail-in voting? - BBC News share.google/mNSnkiogDtZn...

Show me the first image that burned into your brain when you first discovered the horror genre. At age 5 I saw Matilda and had nightmares about the Chokey. Matilda was straight up school horror for kids. So many deeply fucked up moments in that one 😂😂

Finally sharing a pic from the Tropez reading beginning of August! I made my top by hand-stitching hundreds of glass beads on an old blouse. Proud of that too 💅🏼 it's supposed to be reminiscent of a lung infection. The beads are all booger colored. Here's a close up just for fun.

Don't threaten me with a good time!

Almost time to hit @hexliterary.bsky.social with those gems you've been hoarding 💎💎💎💎💎