necessary read & eternally timely unfortunately—what strikes me is how often writers are stuck with that feeling of "was that racist or....?" when dealing with an industry that we're always told is deeply subjective. in my experience usually the answer is yes! lmao

sometimes a really specific brand of crazy hits you (a guy you like a lot stars in a musical you have wanted to see for years) and you find yourself feverishly googling round trip flights to seoul

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Going to re-up our call to nominate On Spec for Best Semiprozine at the Hugos With Canadian identity under attack by USA-based alt-right political forces, it's an important moment to celebrate things that are weirdly Canadian This is also their last year of eligibility. Throw them a vote, please.

so fucking hyped for this can barely put it into words

we out here.

and we're live, folks! THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!

gorgeous gorgeous cover :')) if you're a fan of august clarke this should be on your radar already and if you're not then you really should be!!

for hopeful new year vibes you might like my novella ft. family dumpling scene (you might like the other one if your energy moving into this new year is closer to unhinged)

it's reposting this cover of the villain song from the death note musical & think about toxic femme lesbian light yagami o'clock www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66o...

Everyone else is doing their awards nomination posts, so I guess I should do mine before I forget what I even wrote this year... 😅 Poetry has been a big deal for me, so considering any of my @seattlein2025.org poems for a Rhysling, or Con-Verse for a Best Related Work Hugo, would rock my world!

who wants to talk about this movie with me

sometimes you get back to home/work from vacation and that is sad but then your little cats curls up on top of you and it is less sad

have been in an amateur film bro phase lately which mostly means actually going to local indie theatres and watching reruns of old hk movies and i am genuinely having a blast & filling the creative well in ways previously untapped

A nice simple List of One this year! My first ever novella eligibility, which I'm excited about.

My #SFF curations get more traction, but I'm primarily a nonfiction author. During #nonfictionnovember, I'm spotlighting this output. Starting with #books. This sociocultural guide to deities was a crazy endeavour of telling the stories of 60, I'm delighted with its wide and lasting impact. 1/

I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!

every time i think about sex writing, i think about this excerpt from a book i read once that talked about how broadly speaking, vaginas get hard and penises get wet, and the emphasis of what is like physically happening in each circumstance is incredibly gendered (sorry i forget which book now)

brainwashed early by the High Achieving Asian Disapora culture in my weird insular high school cohort; ruled out business (evil), engineering (too much screen time), law (can't handle being wrong occasionally) > guess i'm gonna do medicine

We lost some work because some authors who showed their weirdness and rough edges asked uncomfortable questions about the power structures too many people accept as given, and then a bunch of the "community" tormented them until they hid away. Isabel Fall was one for starters.

everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.

"Novels of female interiority have dominated literary fiction for nearly a decade." Happy almost 11 months of pub to CLUB CONTANGO. ✨️😮 Did you know!✨️ It has a not-young MC, and takes on "themes of migration and money"! 🎲📉

my monday routine these days is doing my little rounds and seeing if there are any updates for Things That I Am Waiting On

impossible to tell if this is a not enough caffeine headache or a too much caffeine headache

guys not to be like this but i am sitting on some bomb ass short stories that are currently being run through the submission grinder. and i'm like ik patience is the game but man. one of them in particular i am actually quite proud of, it is perhaps the best complete thing ive written in a while

spent all day doing research to write one (1) paragraph and i'm really not even sure if it reads well, classic

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current resting state of our household at this moment is no more than three cats stay in the same room at the same time. time will only tell if we can achieve the rare four cat equilibrium

going to do nano this year for the first time in forever wahaha wish me luck

every few months i'm like hm why do i suddenly hate the way i look and want to delete every photo anyone takes and then i realize it's time to get a haircut

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read this book right now if you haven't yet

A list of reasons to make art: -horny -spite -for the bit -if you don't who will

discovering that working 14 days in a row the last 7 of which are 24/7 on call days is mentally exhausting even if the daytime stuff is lighter than usual...

was going to write something today to get the rusty wheels turning again. spent all evening playing hades ii instead oops

dreamed that some AI generated newspaper flawlessly hallucinated a deal report for my book with the very specific premise intact. i'm not even on sub??

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

midday vibes

With all the traveling I've been doing this month, I've been lax in my marketing responsibilities and, as a result, we're down 13 over this time last month. So here I am, taking a very jet-lagged moment to remind you that each subscription makes a difference: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Other trans writers on here are taking the opportunity to push their books atm so I thought I'd stop worrying about looking opportunistic for a moment and shill the trans cyberpunk noir mystery I originally drafted in 2019. The world is vastly and grimly different than it was back then. 1/2

plot of my next book

goodreads thinks you should read my book and i am inclined to agree

it's contemplating novellas i don't have time to write o'clock

:') jazzed to have been two noms away from making the astounding ballot again this year what an incredible slate of authors to be listed amongst!

Reskeet for the #LaborDay crowd!

there are some pretty great books in this bundle if you ask me

I'll be running the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast fiction series again in 2026. Here's the Call for Submissions. Please spread the word. alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...