Fucking hell, at this point which countries aren't building concentration camps, ffs (as I watch the new BJP government in my state set up concentration camps just as they did in nearby Assam)

You can help Amir's little brother Sanad survive Israel's genocide by sharing & donating. His family's starving, homeless, & sick without income or recourse. Sanad has a high fever & Amir's mother also urgently needs treatment for an eye condition:

Happy Pride to everyone. Thinking about how my late uncle Aveek (lost to the pandemic), who was the first openly queer person I knew, gently told me I was queer many years before I realised it myself (I denied it at the time). I think it was not long after the below book was published.

I dedicated this, my second published book, to Aveek. He introduced me to the work of Borges, & gave me a copy of Woolf's ORLANDO, both of which filtered in subtle ways into this, a tale of an uncracked/cracking egg in a dragons' nest in Calcutta of the 90s/00s:

A little roundup of my queer stories for Pride. An Oral History of the Flutter Club: A gay nightclub in the Weimar Republic finds its history preserved in a most unexpected fashion. saimihanma.com/wp-content/u...

Currently, I post the family’s chuffed link (less quick to pay out) on twitter/mastodon Monday to Friday, and on Saturdays I post the family’s rent link (more direct) here. I scrape together about £250 per week, or £35 a day; their costs per day are £100+. Something has to change for everyone.

ICYMI The US cover for THE POISON PALACE, in which a vishkanya (poison maiden of ancient Indian myth) is sent to kill Alexander. Historical fiction, myth, legend and fantasy collide here: #booksky #amwriting #debutnovel

The June issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Carrie Vaughn, Claire Jia-Wen, Rebecca Campbell, Pan Haitian, Anne Wilkins, Samantha Murray, and Damián Neri. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_237 Subscriptions available at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Smaug - painted for MTG x the Hobbit Watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches It was an incredible privilege to paint Smaug, my favourite dragon in the entire fantasy genre. This is being shared with the permissions from Wizards of the Coast

Solidarity with these students who want no part in this experiment: "A small but vocal minority of Estonian students say they refuse to use AI on moral grounds, citing issues such as water consumption by data centers or political complaints about U.S. tech companies, teachers say.”

Palestinians asked us not to get accustomed to the scene. Famine. Blockade. Displacement. Help single mom Mai & her baby eat. Read that back a few times if you have to. Both aid and commercial goods are at a devastating trickle. Give/find her link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Miss Bea advocates for black trans people on Bsky, please donate to her.

I'm not going to stop using em dashes. I'm not going to stop using tricolon. I will use any device I deem necessary in my writing. I refuse to be limited because some mediocre motherfuckers choose the plagiarism machine, or the plagiarism machine, which is mediocre ab initio, has some tics.

It's my birthday today! Turning 42! 🎉 We are also halfway through the year and I had one thing that I really love out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, my novelette "The Snatchers". If you like horror satire, or The Invasion of the Body Snatchers this might be for you (there's also a podcast!) ❤️

“The strings sound distant, almost subliminal, but your subconscious is now ready for the moment when the theme makes its full entrance and poor Chrissie’s fate is sealed.”

Legendary. Won't ever forget his skincrawling delivery of the line 'Don't believe there's no good women 'til you've seen one with maggots in her eyes' as Cy Tolliver in DEADWOOD. Goddamn, that's how you write/perform a villain.

Use the code PRIDE26 to get Castration Movie for 50% off at digital.louiseweard.com

'I am Ayad. The suffering is worsening daily. The situation is extremely difficult. I need to stay safe. My campaign is what I rely on to survive. My children need care, food, & clean water. Please help me, I appreciate it. Quote, share, and donate if possible. Every donation makes a difference.💔'

Inky/watercolour 🤼 drawings still available from my small shoppe. I do them when I feel moved to do them, and that makes them extra nice #wrestling www.chloecumming.com/wrestlerdraw...

Life in North Gaza's not getting easier and Waseem has three little boys to support. Please help if you can. gofund.me/35fdca7d

67 families without donations for 2 months. You can share & give to help them survive Israel's genocide. There are millions of people here. This post will reach a fraction of those people, but even a single share/donation makes a difference.

'After many kind people helped me provide a breathing machine for my son, I am deeply grateful. 🙏 Today, I need help with something simple but urgent: food for my children. I need only $50 to provide a meal for them. My children are hungry, & I am asking for your kindness once again.'

'Night has fallen, and we can't get out because of the insects and rodents. I'm afraid something bad will happen to my children. Please, I beg you, donate to rent a safe room and protect my children.'

PLEASE FRIENDS HELP ME GET A HOME🚨 Friends I still can't get a safe home I'm halfway there, I would like to get a little more support to end this nightmare, could you please help me? Every help means a lot🏳️‍⚧️👏🏼 #Translivesmatter #MutualAid Goal:$560🚨 goget.fund/4nLrlW2 www.paypal.me/wjmftrans

These are the photos Kazem sent me today showing the conditions in which he and his family are living. With the increased heat, the presence of rats, disease is spreading quickly. Please help if you can. chuffed.org/project/1641...

This is so beyond horrific. People don’t want to hear it, but Iran is literally the only potential check on this genocidal campaign given the collaboration of the Global North.

bathing in your warm light (happy pride month 🔆🧡)

i need to have at least 100CAD by June 9th in order to ensure my ability to get to/from the MRI. 💸💕 30 / 230 thank you for all the shares and/or boosts! ☕ ko-fi.com/nouhfisk 💕 paypal.me/noahfisk & for emt (for canada): 📧 [email protected]

You can help little Jamal survive Israel's genocide right now by sharing & donating for his insulin & asthma meds. He needs donations to live, to no fault of his own or his family, but because he was born in Gaza & abandoned by the world to extermination sponsored by our taxes:

You can help Ahmed's family survive Israel's genocide by sharing & donating. They're starving, homeless & sick, & his mother's in danger of going blind from a retinal bleed & needs urgent treatment that's unaffordable. Ahmed is exhausted & discouraged by the falling support:

Such a strange and compelling fever dream of a novella. Saving for later!

You can share & donate to help the LGBTGIA+ community in the Gorom refugee camp in South Sudan. They're survivors of violent persecution, & urgently need help affording necessities including healthcare, food, and clean water:

She managed to get in touch. Unfortunately, as I suspected, Naser's been hospitalised again. She's been through this trauma so many times I've actually lost count. I wish we could get her some recurrent support. 💔❤️‍🩹

🚨!! URGENT APPEAL !! 🚨 Sophie has been hospitalized with serious injuries and needs to raise $1200 to be treated!! She is overwhelmed by the amount and is scared of what will happen to her if she cannot raise it. Share widely and give if you can! I talk with Sophie often and can vouch for her. 💫🙏

"I am the sacred property of Hera-in-the-Plain: Kyniskos the butcher dedicated me, a tithe from his works." Sybaris, c. 520 BCE. I wasn't looking for this object, but now I love it so.

he had that shit on

#Junesploitation DAY 1: 90S ACTION FULL CONTACT (1992) Ringo Lam Lam's nasty stylistic side-step away from sociological hotbeds choreographed by legend Lau Kar-wing & featuring some truly astonishing bullet POV camerawork—get the funk out of town if you have not seen this film.

Hey friends we are just a couple dozen followers shy of 2000! Reskeet to help a small indie publisher spread the word about speculative fiction against the caste system, Indian-language pulp novels in translation, & weird horror featuring kleptomaniac penguins! www.blaft.com/collections/...

UK readers, I've got a surprise for you! For Pride Month, Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just 99p on Kindle! Do you need a lovable flesh-eating monster in your life?

Gaza is in ruins, but Sama'a still has children to feed and a family to care for. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/1575...

For Pride, you can preorder my & @cypayseur.bsky.social's favorite queer speculative stories of 2025! There have been many discussions lately about how queer publishing in the US is being squeezed from all directions. Pls support this ONGOING series & make sure it *remains* ongoing 💕 It matters!

I think one of the things to really drive this home was GR reviews of THE DEVOURERS where people comment on how this is clearly a book written by a man, and I can feel my body's gender ghost recoiling. Actually, why just GR reviews, it happens whenever anyone refers to me as a man.

With times being as dark as they are, the need for commentary, criticism, and critique surrounding the horror genre has never been more needed. And here we are, ready to speak. Darker Times is a new worker-owned horror magazine, follow us into the dark… darkertimes.com

I can draw without computer, hear me roar.

Marilyn Monroe as Theda Bara by Richard Avedon for Life, 1958

for our @darkertimes.bsky.social intro series, I wrote a little bit about why cultural criticism still matters: www.darkertimes.com/getting-back...

Emily has done a tremendous amount to shape the landscape of modern horror publishing, both through her brilliant critical work and her staggeringly thorough monthly cataloguing of upcoming horror novels. Mark my words, this is going to be fucking tremendous.

I checked Twitter, and I came out as genderqueer/nb (haltingly, not entirely sure yet) in May 2018. Even just seeing the way I posted on Twitter back then was startling--truly lifetimes and eras ago. Nowdays it feels so organically unnatural to think of myself as cis.