rules to see mainstream publications picking this very obviously true line up and running with it

also: continue masking. i know y'all cannot afford to be sick. take care of yourself and those around you. some discomfort, temporary, is preferable to being ill, possibly forever

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A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

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literally nothing worse than being obsessed with your own first draft. i feel like narcissus rn

for some reason im obsessed with putting unicorns in sci fi settings. i don't know why i keep doing it it just feels right

genuinely uh how much does the average person know about commedia dell arte this might be an xkcd geologists moment

do we need more spec fic about commedia dell'arte? who's craving those good good commedia dell'arte references? that's what all the cool kids are craving in their sci fi right?

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it” lmaooo GET EM

sometimes you read a story that makes you want to hunt down an author and eat them to inherit their craft powers

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

No matter how much hate you have in your heart for the United States and the imperialist regime that has ruled here for so long, the capitalism that demands empire, it is not too much. It is not enough. Even if you are choking on pitch-black bile, they deserve more bile

no war on iran, hands off iran. the united states and israel are an existential threat to all human life.

good news i am no longer sick bad news i think the virus made me forget how to write

*literally the sickest i have ever been in my adult life* i need to write a short story

Happy Valentines Day! Here's a lovely* romantic** story of mine from @smallwondersmag.com to mark the occasion**: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/ *gross **you could call it that ***don't worry about it.

there are like five people i know from college in this grocery store right now and i am actually dressed like an elf

the horrid dread of the quiet discord call while listening to your writing partner read your draft

after a year and a half of mostly writing quiet melancholy flash about quietly sad lesbians, i have written a story with stupid horse by 100 gecs on the playlist

making custom magic cards for my own short story characters because my target demographic is me and me alone, i guess

finally read this and everyone else should too!! i'm obsessed with the aching character moments interspersed through this: it's a story that needs you to care about these characters and oh my god it makes you care

just read this and im going insane. multiple moments in here that made me react out loud. this story capitalizes on its premise in every way possible (especially the ones that explore the traumas and complexes and existential fears of it all, inescapable emotion)

i'm always a sucker for a story about dopplegangers/clones/shadow selves/the Self as something not singular (hashtag my dissociative disorder), and i'm especially a sucker for a story using second person to explore that. this story is such a perfect little dystopia. it's great

*two days of working on fiction in a row* i’m the best author ever. im doing it. i’m basically a star. the muses themselves want what i have *one day of not writing* anyone else convinced that they’re just a hallucination of a person and not a full individual or

One of the funnest little thingies no one tells you about having long term writing workshop friends is that years later, you still know each others’ stories by descriptors instead of titles & cheer each other on about them “the dolphin story” “the lobster story” “the weird quantum glory hole story”

finally worked on it again and my girlfriends response to the draft is “IM SCREAMING” so im feeling pretty good

its really funny to me how i never write happy things. today i had a good conversation w friends where we resolved a conflict and talked about how much we love each other, then watched two of my girlfriends get closer to each other. now it's time to sit down and just write something so so sad

really glad you liked it! :D this made me so psyched to see

im stealing the trend. 1 like = 1 line from a published piece or WIP. i might lean towards WIP even though i should be promoting my published pieces bc there's nothing i love more than to be like haha,,, yes,,, there's a piece out there but not yet...

i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla

I wrote a thing about short stories, why they get rejected, and what you can apply to your own work. clhellisen.beehiiv.com/p/a-view-fro...

writing a resume/cover letter agonizing experience. i'm really good at baking cookies and kissing my friends but no let me tell you about how i Provided Excellent Customer Service And Cash Handling

weight #art

Buddy boy, I haven't read this yet but the tags and summary are making me think I mighta created InkFoundry just to find it:

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really fucking hard when it starts looking like you might need to give up on a story you really wanted to get out into the world

just read The Center of the Universe by @nadiashammas.bsky.social in Thyme Travelers, which is a wonderful anthology, and i was so glad to find that this story is online. its stunning and puts words to feelings that ive been struggling to articulate strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

sits up in bed in a cold sweat. i forgot about my antiimperialist ghostfucker story

i'm at my best with a melancholy flash piece about girls in a strange situation feeling weird quiet sad emotions. light on plot, heavy on pretty prose and emotions and introspection. i also work a lot with stories about obsessive love, the second person, and stories shaped like spirals :3

wrote a story on voice chat in my writing group server, which was fun and rewarding, but being in that call was just listening to me being dead silent for 30 minutes and then going "oh my god. i'm doing it. i'm writing. oh my god" and then falling silent again

i have a new flash out today: about miners on jupiter, protest songs, and voices beating back the darkness, louder and louder and louder. hoping it makes you want to sing louder, too 🫀

new photo i'm using for professional stuff :3

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

death to america btw. wanna make my stance on that clear

i'm gonna be a writer again this year i'm gonna be a real person

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I have worn a mask in public for over 5 years. My husband has had profound, life-changing long Covid for over 4 years, and now our kid does as well. I can’t imagine I will stop masking unless their circumstances change. And for what it’s worth I haven’t had even a cold for the last four+ years.