This time last year, @tansyrr.bsky.social gave us her list of the great (male) brutes and villains of the #Discworld... Read it here (for free!): www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/brutes-villains

Last Year in Marienburg is a noirish Warhammer fanfic that I am sharing on Patreon, with a twist - my community are helping me write it! Anyone can read it for free and paid supporters can vote on what happens next! #Warhammer www.patreon.com/posts/last-y...

I’ve realized!! If you care about medical justice and want to make a direct material difference in my case for totally free, here’s something quick that anyone can do: Send a brief impact statement to [email protected] For both general audiences and fellow creators.

Cecile! This collection is fantastic, definitely recommend and a thoroughly well-deserved win.

#Hellweek25 Day 7: Halloween / Free day! Hell's Kitchen. 👻🍳 #Art #Illustration #DCcomics #Hellblazer #JohnConstantine #Artsky

Hehe. Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social

When You need something vaguely Halloween costumish and end up as budget (and overwhelmed and sleep deprived) third/eleventh Doctor.

What Az has faced is horrific. Please, take a second to read this and if you know a way to help, or know someone who might be able to, do what you can.

Call for Lakota and Native American sensitivity readers!!

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

Ey folks Could anyone possibly extend a helping hand of about 20-30 bucks to my venmo so myself, my partner and our two cats can stay another night in the motel we are in? We are ALMOST at a place we can recover from but not quite yet x.x Username is MxJanusu, Picture of kitties for algo

After four years, the WFRP game I started during the pandemic has finally come to its conclusion. This monthly game with my incredibly talented and funny friends was a gift. I feel so blessed we could tell this story together. And the Slayer survived!

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

Hey all 👋 my living situation has dramatically changed. I should be fine for a few months, but if you'd like to help me make - significantly increased - rent, then any change would be greatly appreciated. Patreon: www.patreon.com/spice8rack Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/spice8rack PayPal: [email protected]

Coming soon! Our Banned Books Week stories! #JoyThatSustains #BannedBooksWeek

Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social britishfantasysociety.org/divergent-pa...

A perfect cup of ADHTea. To make ADHTea, start making a cup of tea, then forget about it for an hour. The third time you do this, you’ve made ADHTea.

Translunar Traveler's Lounge is open for speculative fiction, 5000 words and under. Please check the guidelines before submitting, but other than that, don't self-reject. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

If you're tired and need a hug today, I'd like to offer this story of mine. It's about a haunted house so lonely that it promises it'll behave if anyone will just live in it.

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Just gave this a read and it is a wonderfully wicked little flash piece, a glimpse into a future I find too depressingly real with a great sting in its tail.

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

HOPE is the word we see most in comments. Considering you've given me and Lou some of ours back, that means a lot. Episodes 1 & 2 of The Last Threshold are live now. If you want, you can come watch.

Joseph Heller I’d say.

Attention, sophonts! We've finished changing the locks and Escape Pod is now OPEN to all your amazing, amazing submissions! Consult our submissions page if you want to refresh your minds on what we're looking for - ignore that "CLOSED" bit at the top - and we hope to see rad work from you all!

Today’s little doodle, a cozy spider.

Anyone have any interesting recommendations for Jim Henson-style 80s fantasy or fairy tales? I’m any medium. I’ve got a real hankering to visit Elfland lately. (Art by Arthur Rackham)

YOU HAVE THREE DAYS LEFT.

I think this might genuinely be a reason I have just taken up sketching and doodling. Out of sheer spite for AI, and because it’s nice to be creating something without the pressure of being perfect I have with my writing.

We’re going to be closing to submissions from 12pm BST tomorrow (12th September). Not sure exactly how long for, until we get caught up. If you want to get something in, send it in before then.

I love this so much I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

Cross posting two bits of advice for a newbie writer: 1. Read like a writer (sometimes). Find out why you like the writing you like, and see if there's anything you can adopt from that writer. This needs a level of intentionality that's not there when you're just reading for pleasure. 1/

If you haven’t read John Wiswell’s work yet, you’re doing yourself a disservice. They always leave me feeling a little more hopeful for people.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Drop an old person you’re going to turn into.

2025 SLF Working Class Writers Grant Applications Open

Speculative Insight is opening for pitches in September, for authors of Indigenous, Asian, Maori, Pacific Islander, Latinx and Black heritage. Check out www.speculativeinsight.com/about and existing free essays to see if you might fit our vibe.

Thoroughly recommend this book.

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

🪓 Bring your pitchforks, your emojis, and your peasantcore rage: https://youtu.be/DVci8mOC1PQ

STRONG opinion incoming: zombie by the cranberries doesn't belong on halloween playlists. it's a protest song about the children who were victims of a 1993 bombing during the troubles. it's not about the living dead!! stop putting songs on halloween playlists just based on the title please!!!

✨ Press Update ✨ Novella & novelette submissions will remain open until September 15 !! Get polishing, Augurians 👏👏

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

OPPORTUNITY - Remote - Narrative Writer Not affiliated. Shares welcome Compensation: 20,000–30,000 RMB/month See thread for details - contact THEM with questions. Responsibilities - Write and develop story arcs for a mystery-themed hidden-object mobile game. Craft compelling characters - 1/3

Apparently the UK government are doing an emergency alert test on the 7th of September so just in case anyone knows any current domestic abuse victims who would need to have their safety phones switched off so as not to be outed, please pass it in.

Anyway at least the City of Edmonton Shelterbuddy links are validated and live now! edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima... edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...