Turns out hockey is bad

At this point just hoping this week doesn’t break the Canes all season. Jeez

Oh for fuck’s sake

Phew, that was a big save to prevent the Canes from going up 3-0 on a Florida team

#poetry. Tar Vol reviewed "The Sign of the Dragon" on their website, where there are also reviews of many other speculative fiction books: www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/23/f... I don't have contact information for Tar Vol, but in case they read this: thank you!!! :-) 🐉

Remind me to repost this when people aren’t distracted by holidays, because The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee is not one to miss www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/23/f...

Remind me to repost this when people aren’t distracted by holidays, because The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee is not one to miss www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/23/f...

tbh it flew under the radar because the ‘98 Cardinals were a hell of a lot of fun

How do you have three-goal leads two nights in a row and only take one point out of it

Blowing 3-0 leads two nights in a row 🤦‍♂️

Let’s not do this again

Let’s not do this again

1. Yay 2. A commanding lead on the road in Florida, what could go wrong?

This seems like the offseason of win-now overpays for the Orioles. Which…works if you win now? I’d rather have appropriate pays, but if you complained two years ago about being too in love with your prospects to take risks…that’s not happening anymore

Taking a much-needed break from new releases only to discover that @thomasha.bsky.social had the absolute audacity not to inform @shortficbookclub.bsky.social that Distal Brook wasn’t the only banger he had published back in the early days www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/wher...

Really blown away to have both ‘Four People’ and ‘Numismatic Archetypes’ in Jay’s recommendations this year, surrounded by some absolute bangers of stories! Honestly, I’m thrilled

So much great stuff in the list: looking forward to picking up the ones I missed.

Same

Ah! Appreciate the rec for "In My Country" (short story) and shoutout for "Uncertain Sons" (novelette). See a lot of great stories by @aardwyrm.bsky.social, @angelaliu.bsky.social, @mimulus.bsky.social, @tiatashiro.bsky.social and a ton more I can't tag. Thanks very much.

Thank you so much for the honorable mention for my story “Steel Holds the Heat’s Memory,” in the Summer 2025 Kaleidotrope!

Delighted to see Tanvir Ahmed's "Wilayat in Seven Saints" highlighted here! A beautiful story -- check it out, and the rest of the list! kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

My 2025 Recommended Reading List is finally ready! Honestly, just writing these descriptions made me excited about this year's sci-fi/fantasy all over again. www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/18/t...

“We Used to Wake to Song” by @leahning.bsky.social has a bit more body horror than I can usually handle, but it’s a wonderfully complicated family story set against the backdrop of a dying earth and the grotesque attempts to heal it www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

“Liecraft” by @moskatanita.bsky.social is an emotionally intense tale in a world with fascinating deceit-based magic that forces every major revelation to drop indirectly www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

I reviewed some stories from the most recent issues of Apex and Uncanny—check them out! Or stick around for a short favorites thread

I reviewed some stories from the most recent issues of Apex and Uncanny—check them out! Or stick around for a short favorites thread

Last Magazine Mini before I work up my annual posts. I took a look at the last 2025 issues of Apex and Uncanny and found some cool stuff www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/15/t...

Reposting my Clarkesworld review! Also check out my favorite from this month…

I read some short fiction this month! (What else is new). Check out my thoughts on the December issue of Clarkesworld! www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/14/t...

holy hell

Me, watching an episode of Stranger Things: This bad boy is 82 minutes long, that’s a motion picture

My seven year-old told me that “strawberry elephant is a brain rock, like 21 and 67” 😂

That was fun. Work tomorrow might not be, but that was fun

I have been to four games by myself in this building. They have all gone to overtime

On the whole, the Canes probably deserve better, but they can’t be happy about this third period. Not long to reverse it

That’s been coming. Third has now been played at the level of the second

Really tremendous period of hockey. Unfortunate to be tied, but do that again and see if we can get two points

Somebody watching on TV want to tell me when Staal got in PP1?

The post for first star

That’s unfortunate—feels like the Canes have been carrying the play

Probably shouldn’t be 0-0 right now. Canes have looked great for about 90% of the period but a couple breakdowns have given Washington the best individual chances

Loving the puck movement so far but there have been a couple defensive zone breakdowns that we’re very lucky were not goals

This might be heresy, but having seen both up close, I have confirmed my opinion that last year’s away sweaters were better

Let’s do that hockey

This is the year we can help boost the fan categories if we all work together.

Two Year’s Best reviews in two weeks! I reviewed Think Weirder: The Year’s Best Science Fiction Ideas, edited by Joe Stech. There are some real good stories in this one www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/08/s...

😮

Becoming buds with the other people who talk about the same weird books that you like is an excellent strategy that I highly recommend

Two Year’s Best reviews in two weeks! I reviewed Think Weirder: The Year’s Best Science Fiction Ideas, edited by Joe Stech. There are some real good stories in this one www.tarvolon.com/2025/12/08/s...

Are Bama and BYU going to both play themselves out of this thing?