Finally some useful writing advice.

After hardly writing for weeks, I sat down and drafted a short film tonight, channeling some feelings about the large and terrible Everything onto the page. Is it good? TBD Will it go anywhere? Unclear But it feels good to have it written all the same.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Some days, being a writer is a negative balance on the author compensation report, and this is okay too. (But if you want to buy the battle unicorn book, I certainly won't complain)

Movie theater just ran an entire AI short film before the actual trailers and, to no one's surprise, it was vapid trash. Get that nonsense out of my theater experience.

Do we need any further proof that media consolidation has gone too far than the fact that Poor Thing and The Toxic Avenger are now streaming on Disney+?

Back home from Boskone 2026 and it was a wonderful time of panels, readings, and spending time with so many incredibly talented writers. Hugely grateful for everyone who made this year's con such a fun and refreshing weekend.

Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Excited to be part of Boskone programming this weekend with so many others incredibly talented people. Horror, romance, libraries--so many fun topics to chat about.

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

I was already worried about current media literacy, but the number of people complaining that Green Day "didn't get political" as if they didn't play American Idiot at the literal Super Bowl.

what a shot

FUCK YEAH BAD BUNNY

With the announcement of a BG3 tv show, give me your pitches for a plot. 1. Mystery thriller where they have to hunt down the strange ox in the city after it begins murdering people.

Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish: www.404media.co/icezine/

If you know anybody who wants to help out a trans Girl Scout... open.substack.com/pub/erininth... @gailsimone.bsky.social @gregrucka.com

A bunch of Minneapolis authors are coming together to offer incentives for donating. If you DM me proof of donation, I’ll send you a bookplate and a piece of microfiction that is set in the word of The First Bright Thing.

It's a lot right now so here are some constructive things you can do: Save timestamped posts with facts (see @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) Donate to MN support groups www.ilcm.org Donate to @runforsomething.net Call your reps. Call volume matters. AND THEN GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE DAY

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I think about this one a lot

It took me way too long to realize the manuscript I've been agonizing over was really about grief the whole time

All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.

uh holy SHIT?

I am also in this issue!

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Gotta love drafting a new thing and wondering if anyone else will find it amusing or just weird

I've got a story in the latest @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social Christmas episode if you want to spend some post-holiday time with one creepy, undead Santa. www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s23...

If you're still looking for holiday gifts, might I suggest a book about a gunslinger and a snarky battle unicorn getting up to shenanigans? Land of Outcasts is available most anywhere books are sold.

The website I was using to play tetris has started displaying full- page banner ads with no clear way to close them, and additional pop-ups that didn't used to be there. We really can't have nice things, can we?

This acceptance speech for Expedition 33's music is so lovely

I do and do not have a joke about Schrödinger.

If you're nominating for awards this season, please consider my nonbinary Pygmalion story about a person who must revise themself based on others' feedback. It came out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social January 2025.

With every new Benoit Blanc movie, Rian Johnson proves himself an incredible filmmaker who also understands the moment we live in. Wake Up Dead Man is beautiful.

“Netflix is the biggest streaming service in the world. Consolidating its power over the streaming video market not only kills jobs but also raises prices and hurts the U.S. entertainment industry.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

Dan Trachtenberg and co. are out here creating some of the best Predator movies in the franchise and exceptionally cool movies in general. Badlands is an utter delight.

Y'all should read this while it's available

Everything is still very much everything, but I will take this bit of hope watching the election results come in tonight

NYT just called it for Mamdani

I'm not a huge sports fan, but I'm very glad I got to watch Messi score a goal live at least once.

I'm sure it's to drive web traffic in an age of SEO and AI summaries, but the rise in every website crafting teasing headlines while burying the key details deep in the article is making the internet even more frustrating to use than it already was.

I've got a lot of good to say about the new Frankenstein, but man, del Toro knows how to make a gorgeous movie

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Between Event Horizon and In the Mouth of Madness, I'm catching up on just how much of a horror icon Sam Neill is.

Scrolling the featured movies on a streaming platform to find a bunch of the regular titles and... Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen

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