Announcing The Random Prompts TTRPG Jam! Sign up today for this jam hosted by @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social and we'll send you (on Friday, the official start date) a random prompt from our archive for you to make a #ttrpg Thing (game, module, scenario, setting, whatever) based on that prompt.

The amount of support we’ve received since starting up our Patreon continues to blow us away. There are 189 of you—both free and paid—and in these times? That means a lot. As a thank you, when we hit 200 patrons we’ll do a giveaway of a 6 month Patreon subscription which gets you our first issue!

sometimes i dislike a book enough to go to goodreads to find haterism comments but the minute all the haterism comments are like "this book used too many big words" i'm gone. how dare you insult this book

Our Kickstarter launches in TEN DAYS! September 29 is in fact SOMEHOW ten days away!!! We’re nervous and excited and SO ready. We're only screaming intermittently. Sign up to be notified when it launches. We have a lot of fun rewards and goals planned… you won’t want to miss this 👀

"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com

watched excalibur (1981) for the first time and was so excited to notice shots that monty python and the holy grail parodied! ...only to realize monty python and the holy grail came out in 1975. did excalibur (1981) reference monty python, i ask you.

Strange Horizons was my first sale and this anniversary makes me so happy!!

actually does anybody have recs under this criteria?

6) Cozy SFF works best when there's a bit of contrasting spikiness. Sure a pure idyll is nice, but having some psychological depth, some challenge, a hint of a not completely benevolent world makes the day to day niceness stand out in relief. Not universally so, but the genre tends bland w/o that.

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This is just one of the many panels that's happening Oct 4 & 5 at the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Full schedule at www.rainbowspacemagi... #LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

I love this edition of @70sscifiart.bsky.social newsletter focusing on Black and White Sci-Fi art. It's absolutely freaking gorgeous.

I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live

Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️‍🌈😍🦄

we must tear down Online and replace it with the Internet of Parrots. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Today's read is a book I'm incredibly excited for - last year's award-winning cyberpunk anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @robotleblanc.bsky.social! Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨

comment section of an example of a wolf fifth on youtube

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think barbershop music might be numerology a little bit

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Come to Rainbow Space Magic! It’s virtual, it’s free, you can chill and/or chat with us! Plus, it’s one of the only cons where I’ve ever seen the schedule and thought “oh, I want to go to EVERY ONE OF THESE PANELS!”

"Cook would do what she loved until the end." 😭😭😭😭 love a story that makes me cry before 9am

My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)

Book Release Day! Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in various ebook vendors for purchase! www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

feed my gluttony

For safe handling, always remember to clearly label whether your toxic yuri is neurotoxic, hemotoxic, infectious, corrosive, radioactive, carcinogenic, mutagenic, or other.

recommend me a story that broke your brain craft-wise? where you came away thinking "wait you can just DO that? a story can BE that?" mine are "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K Le Guin (info meted strategically via monologue/direct address) and the entire Tiptree collection "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"

One of the problems of short fiction is *finding* it. There's so much out there, it's hard to know how to find what you'll like. Enter InkFoundry. There are so many ways to search! Search by venue (Small Wonders, for example), by author, by tags... or have the site surprise you ! inkfoundry.net

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

1) This story fucking rules, read it! 2) LSQ makes gorgeous books

I have a reprint out in this, with many other fabulous authors! "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild's First Dragon" is about what happens after you save the world, and have to babysit your grandchild. Now available to order at the link below!

we put the cats on a diet several months ago and im proud to announce that nyx has gained a pound since then 🤩 hard work pays off

I'm very happy to be one of this year's Guests of Honour, alongside Sheree Renée Thomas, Anna Martino, and Trick Weeks! Flights of Foundry is free, online, and a good time. You should totally come

My story, “Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine,” is in this issue! Gracie has to save the camp bully from being eaten alive by forest gods, which is NOT as fun as making friendship bracelets would have been

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My story, “Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine,” is in this issue! Gracie has to save the camp bully from being eaten alive by forest gods, which is NOT as fun as making friendship bracelets would have been

Listen, everyone says "start a newsletter" so that's what I'm doing. Your motivation to sign up is next week ONLY IN MY NEWSLETTER I will reveal my dog's weird and very specific rice preferences. You know you're curious. www.kmveohongs.com/newsletter

tonight and tomorrow, my work will appear ONSTAGE!!! this is more terrifying than being onstage myself, actually. if you're in LA, come along for a night of original new works presented by Arroyo Rep! www.eventbrite.com/e/arroyo-rep...

Laura Ford’s sculpture Beast on display in the Tigers & Dragons exhibition at Glynn Vivian, Swansea. A little forlorn; a reduced diminished power who may rise up one last time or who may weaken & fade away. Her figures have such presence it’s easy to believe they might suddenly twitch into life.

here we gooooo

me thinking “I don’t ACTUALLY know a ton abt magical girl anime, I have my favorites but am otherwise a poser” then spending half an hour infodumping to an unsuspecting friend about the conceits of the genre while drinking a VERY nice sour

I cannot stop looking at this cover. @tropicalgloom.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with the artwork.

Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜 🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆

I had a hell of a good time creating this! contains a journey through the salt flats, not a small amount of gender stuff for a Conan pastiche, and being forced to third wheel Death and her obnoxious jock PDA boyfriend

gossip rag (mirandy, devil wears prada)

do you love weird little stories? do you love reading weird flash fiction? The Cosmic Background has so many of them and they're doing their year three fundraiser. if you want more strange little things in this ridiculous world, could you spare a little dollar or two at this link?

goddamn bean can’t do anything by themself

hustling. thriving

scourge of the “we have day jobs” crit group