They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books. But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular. It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.

I’m looking for a good contemporary novel. I’ve been reading a lot of medieval poems & sagas and realized I’d read hardly any recent fiction this year. I love a book that’s a bit cerebral, a bit strange, and tells a solidly plotted story with a minimum of fuss.

"what's your schedule like? how do you squeeze in time to be creative?" how I squeeze it in:

Best ecofiction day! Snag a copy!

“This isn’t so bad,” thought the ghost. “Being dead.” 👻🪽

Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure

Hello, French post office made shipping to the US possible again. Also, new tariffs don't apply to art (for now). So I made purchase from the US available on my shop again.

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Day and night ♥️

In the Name of Venus

In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.

I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together

I've got a new flash story in this one. Lots of great weird west stories. Come and get 'em! 😁🙌💙

'One Small Step'

I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.

Two very rare "Tenshi no Tamago" (Angel's Egg) small artbooks are being reissued in December in Japan : "Shoujo Ki" and "Animage Bunko" issue (first published in 1985). Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

Liberal use of the symmetry tool in Timelapse.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

We can't give up now. ❄️

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Flowers in a jar

I kiss cold marble, wishing it was you

Happy Halloween! If you are looking for something small and spooky to enjoy today, maybe consider my short story MALO MALO MALO MALO, which contains five seasonal essentials: - creepy trees - Latin inscriptions - strange babes - supernatural vengeance - a man called Michael Carrington

Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!

Every now and then I read passages from Helen Keller's memoir and they are so beautiful it stuns me:

Am continuously amazed by the quality of stories I read that somehow didn't make the "final editorial cut." I'll sometimes even like them better than the final lineup.

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

Sepia drawings on tea-stained and burned parchment. 2015-2016. Swamp Thing: 12”x18” Nevermind, Vitalogy: Private commissions. 20”x30” Pale Man. 11”x17” in the private collection of Guillermo Del Toro.

The Blue Whale rises.

"The world of adults was full of invisible walls she could not see and no one would explain. She had been dropped like a mouse into what looked like an empty field but was an endless maze."

One of my favorite poems of all time was written in 1862. Two sisters live together in a house of their own, drawing water from the stream each night. They have only each other, and they are very, very close. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/...

my top 10 horror tropes: 1. doing the dishes 2. tax forms

Little Sunfish

If I ruled the world, I'd give everyone the day off if it's a Friday, and it's cozy gloomy weather with steady rainfall, in late autumn. like it is today for me. Vote for me and my occasional long weekend platform

I made the otter a sibling

Autumn & Winter

I'm thinking about how creative ideas are a dime a dozen and an artist's concern over idea "theft" often indicates a fear that their voice is replaceable. To assuage that fear, an artist must develop confidence that their voice matters, even in a crowd.

Unreal to hold a book with a story of mine translated into different language. Absolute dream come true 😭

Listen, when a friend introduces you to amazing music and then ends up being a fucking scumbag, YOU get custody of that music in the friend divorce. Same goes for movies, books, games, etc. Them's the rules!

you gotta draw or the bad people will win

Moon in the wires

It’s not enough for this character to be psychologically shattered. They also have to be stupidly hot.

vulcan porn stars under 90

there's an unbreakable ancient bond between writers mentally preparing to write what's next and our characters mentally preparing for whatever the hell we have planned next

“If dreams can’t come true, then why not pretend?” A little lost bluebird wanders through The Unknown, trying to find his way home 🍁🍂 #otgw