Gender Ideology: Both a completely new liberal concept that no one 5 years ago ever heard of before AND somehow infecting the writings of ancient Greek philosophers.

I feel this in my cockles.

ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨ We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).

"...the touch of magic in the world (at Christmas) is amplified by the collective consciousness focusing on quiet beauty, kindness, and generosity."

They did a lovely job with this frame story and so many good stories inside too. <3 Have a listen.

We should all be enraged by this, because there is literally nothing to stop it from happening to all of us now. Anything is fair game to the magic insta-gratification machines.

Add your voice to the AI conversation.

I'll just ditto this and say that I also don't use AI to generate any of my cover images. I use stock photos and hire human artists. Because the stock photo sites have been inundated by AI 'art' if you see an image on one of my books you suspect involves AI please tell me so I can investigate.

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📚🐻Junebug remembered, she was not a kelpie either. Not unicorn anymore nor fully kelpie. She was, as General had been, a creature with both natures. She still had her horn, even if her teeth, her coat, her belly had been born anew. She had magic. www.patreon.com/posts/kelpie...

"Wet Rat Winter" shall be the name of my grunge band. Toilet Rats is a close second. The king of disaster headlines.

A very good model to consider. I will be making a statement for the webpage shortly with this one in mind.

This entire thread, up and down. Why art is about process and why handing the process over to a machine will never result in your own art. Ever. Process always trumps product. <3

This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands

Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable. There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same. pwlearninglab.com

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Life is too short to be anything other than kind to yourself

Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

#amwriting today for the first time in a long time and I can't believe I let it go so long. Feels amazing to make words!

Y'all should buy this. Like... everybody.

Time for some free fantasy reads, including the first Changeling Race novel and the start of Kingdom's gone. Happy holiday reading! claims.prolificworks.com/gg/5H907Smp3...

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

This is quite clever and, in my experience, accurate.

Wholesomeness. Enjoy

This is horrific.

I have a couple books in an Itchio bundle coming up, organized by @aimeecozza.com. If you want to support artists whose incomes have taken a hit by Mastercard's Queerphobic Bullshit, well, on Friday we get 100% of all sales. itch.io/b/3410/creat... #BookSky #FurryLit 📚📦

Cover reveal for Plott Hound Issue 3 (by @madbrake.bsky.social) ✨🍂

Very sorry and angry to hear this today.

Let this quote reign. "Then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Adorables.

A really exceptional addition to the world of Dr. Moreau tributes. I love this one. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

When the dead character is not really dead but the live character is really undead... writer vague-posting. 💙📚

Holy fuck

100% will use your work to train AI. adios

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world. That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today. So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based. Image by HEO (from above!) 🔭🧪

"My reflection off the mirror reminds me that I’m not enough." "Write a story about someone who breaks an unwritten social rule and the consequences they face as a result." "I've been trying to find the perfect gift for..." #WeeklyPawmpt

Happy Samhain!

My little free library is my pride and joy. Please download the app, get free books, trade books, enjoy and promote reading books! Come to the library. There could be several within walking distance.

Scarburst

Stoked about this news!!

y'all please tell me I'm not the only one low-key traumatized by these images of the East Wing being demolished by Trump (I'm horrified by everything else too, but this image...it's the literal destruction of *our* white house to make a palace for Trump...why is *anyone* okay with this??)

Highly recommend listening to this one- such great insight into how climate fiction writers can benefit from understanding different story structures #clifi #climatefiction #climate #solarpunk

I am. Despite *flails at everything*.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Great piece: "Anything can be rejected, and for any reason, and there is pretty much nothing you can do about it. Certain rationales for rejection are forever beyond your control." Yes! I have to send out a lot of rejections and there are So Many reasons, and none of them are personal. Keep going!

October is Furry Book Month, and I realize I haven't started a sale yet, so you can save 10% at my store with the code FBM2025 on print books! dancing-jackal-books.square.site

In honor of banned books week, the best kids book about rabbits which I never knew was a banned book but still checked out 115 times as a kid. Most excellent and most sweet. And proof book banners are crazy af. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rab...