I am here as in so many other places a "bad queer" for having near-zero attraction to cryptids but I confess that Mothman may be an exception bc of that one tumblr vid of a guy slapping the statue's ass

Read widely across multiple genres and both fiction and non-fiction, that's my belief.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. 2026, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

oh is *this* the reason for my feed suddenly filling with genre fic stuff themed on either praying mantises or gay sex? tbc I have no complaints, I was just wondering *why*

I'd be interested in if follow-up polling has been done. - would you support launching air strikes against Glenland? betcha the results would be rather different from launching air strikes against Agrabah.

I read for prose and characterization. worldbuilding, at its best, imo, is a tool in service of character. I don't even need to like the character; they just need to be *interesting!*

@nogodsnomayors.com I realize that governors fall outside the typical purview of the podcast but former Arizona Governor Evan Mecham is one of the most mayor-coded non-mayors I know of

One of my coldest takes is that apples are just insane. 10/10 fruit. GOAT status. S+ tier fruit. Breaking the fruit meta. OP. Nerf apples.

this femme would like to be worshipped again, it's been a while

Five authors I've read at least five books by: Robert Caro Daniel Abraham Gore Vidal John M. Ford Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't remember when I discovered El's work, but I've been reading it for a decade plus and it's been both consciously and unconsciously a huge influence on my political development, my aesthetic tastes, and my writing style. anyway you'll never read anything better on this on Neil Gaiman.

Cruelty is a form of stupidity.

I always say that I want emotional ambiguity in my fiction and never in my reality.

every story I've started writing in the past year has trans characters, usually as a lead. I don't know how to write cishet characters. it's something like alien to my experience.

My name's on the cover, me alongside other talented writers. The work's written, the ink's dried, now all that's left is waiting in anticipation for the stories themselves. I hope you all enjoy these pieces that were too outlier for other magazines, only to find a fit and home with this one. 📚 👏 📖

they say that and they also say that music is just a bunch of sound ratios. still not all that great at the mathematics, though...

nothing is ever trunked forever, only put on the backburner. ofc I haven't really finished anything yet, but I've never thrown anything away, either

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

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i like to call what we're in the middle of the Weird Renascence. it's a return of "new weird"-type stuff, but with much more interest in queerness and colonialism. and "renascence" is a fun and (hehe) weird way to spell "renaissance"

things enjoyed in 2025: - hollow knight - silksong - sinners - the company of my friends - crochet - calligraphy - reading some really great books, fiction and non - to my surprise, writing!

just one? impossible. here's lots. The Names / Florence Knapp You Weren't Meant to Be Human / Andrew Joseph White Black Flame / Gretchen Felker-Martin The Saint of Bright Doors / Vajra Chandrasekera Growing Up Weightless / John M. Ford

one does worry that crochet is trying to take me down this path

yeah i know that's why i go to the gym and inject estrogen

my younger brother is reading The Saint of Bright Doors and loving it and the live reactions are phenomenal

eternal and undying life to Jensen, Garamond, Baskerville, Electra; retirement to Times New Roman, Caslon, Didot; death to Arial, Calibri.

I have long had a scene in mind, I hope I can use it one day, of a trail of pigeons moving in absolute and fearless synchronicity.

I RECOGNIZE THAT NAME you're on No Gods No Mayors!

content strives to be nothing more than an occupier of time. it is impossible to imagine something that can only be referred to as "content" being a work of art, bc movies, music, tv, books, paintings, etc, of necessity aspires to be MORE than just a time-occupant!

fucking clowns think anyone to the left of Attila the Hun is a communist. jesus crickets.

feeling very pleased that I marched however unknowingly with @philipchristman.bsky.social who is one of my favorite essayists yesterday

City of Last Chances flips the usual m.o. of many Tchaikovsky books: usually, you get a really complex set-up told in an easily readable style. w/ City you get a relatively simple set-up told in such a complex way you have no idea what's going on for half the book. it's brilliant!

Pleased to see my book "It's All Made of Shit: The Repulse Life of Glup Shitto" made the Chicago Sun-Times's summer reading list!

nope. I cobbled it together from years of oblique references in books, fanfiction, and random internet stuff talking about it.

can't say enough good things about Sakimoto's score. some of the densest, darkest chords ever in game music. no other game composer does it like Sakimoto does it.

listening mainly to Mendelssohn while reading Alex Ross’s “Wagnerism” to make sure Wagner’s ghost knows that for all his choral and melodic facility he can still kiss the first, second, third and fourth movements of my ass

one should never forget that Arizona was the home state of Evan Meacham

opening paragraph of a short fiction that I have not yet figured out a good title for

sharing this again bc a lot of people really enjoyed it. I'd love to write music for a project in this sort of faux-SNES style one day.

overview of Gaiman's career which uses his biography and art as a lens to assess the other, explaining the appeal of his work (something I'd never understood till now) and without ever making excuses for the horrific ways in which he behaved.

I'm not even a Christian (the Tao Te Ching is where it's at for me) but I'll still be reading this and badgering my local library to purchase a copy

My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”

speaking as both library user and library employee, many folks will buy a book after reading a library copy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J508... happy holidays with this arrangement of "Snow Over Northmoor" from The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall. originally composed by Eric Heberling, this tune is a personal favorite that I return to during the holiday season.

new music! perfect for if you've got nostalgia for the Ye Olden Dayes of SNES. massive thanks for the art to @derriart.bsky.social, whose art directly inspired this piece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL2A...

(Thread is an edited remake of a Twitter thread from September 2 2021, but it's new to you:) In this thread I'm going to nerd out a little about the Final Fantasy Legend trilogy, because I have Opinions.

it's now apparent to me that the post-WW2 flourishing of labor & civil rights in 1st-world countries was, in fact, a historical aberration, only enabled by the massive destruction of WW2 & by horrific exploitation across the world, which came to its end in the 80s w/ the rise of neoliberalism, 1/3

I arranged some Pokemon Ranger music for the SNES! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcwm...