Reading Å hate Gud/Girls against God by Jenny Hval. I only knew Hval as a musician, now I know her as a witch of words. She does not mince them. Hate: a powerful tool in the hands of girls. Girls: ridiculed, minimized, taught they are worth nothing except perhaps what their bodies can deliver.

We want to ask anyone who comes across this study to avoid and not to participate in it. www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaan...

I’ve promised myself to write something here about aliens and faeries through the perspectives of writers like John Keel and Patrick Harpur, and I hopefully will, because it’s incredibly interesting and haunts me. Probably essay material, but who has the energy to write essays?

Skellefteå! Den 10/2 har jag äran att gaffla med Paloma Halén Roman från Transammans. Vi kommer sitta i Hubben, kom dit och häng. skellefteapride.se

I blurbed this because it was so good it made me cry. If you’d like a fresh queer take on zombies, this is the one to read. But be warned: it has teeth.

Today’s short read was ”How To Build A Homecoming Queen: A Guide By A Bad Asian Girl” by @tinazhu.bsky.social. I love the feeling of realizing halfway through the story that I got sucked into something deeply weird and didn’t realize, because it’s so elegantly done and multilayered. Great stuff.

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger. Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social

Did you start following me while I was away? Not sure what to expect? Hi, I’m a Swedish non-binary author of speculative fiction and I need a nap. I don’t like social media much but I can’t always be a digital hermit. I have opinions. I think about social justice and writing and music. And dogs.

It’s been a year since I left Bluesky, so coming back feels appropriate. I did some stuff, wrote some things, built a birdhouse. I don’t know how frequently I’ll be posting here but I guess we’ll find out.

The traits that can make you successful don’t always come along with being kind.

New novella! Contains: - space dragons - resistance fighters - sneaking around - found family - the ex you regret showing up again - parenthood - did I mention the space dragons? SCALES OF RESISTANCE, available from various retailers: books2read.com/ScalesOfResi... (ebook only).

Tell me about an album you think must be listened to in its entirety, and what memories accompany it. Had flashback to Fields of the Nephilim’s Elizium. I interviewed Carl McCoy for a fanzine when I was 17 and asked whether it was true that they put flour on their shoulders onstage. Answer: no.

So far in 2025, I have met a very sweet dog, broken my personal record in bench press, and thought (yet again) about how the divide between ”genre” and ”literary” is bullshit. I’ve also decided to try to care more about social media. We’ll see how long that lasts.

hello all! i am really sorry to do this *right now* but Stella got attacked by a dog yesterday and the vet bills cleaned me out completely. could really use help. gofund.me/a8ed9376

I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income. If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING. This is the best short story I read in 2024, and soon it shall be yours. Tamara Masri's "Inside the House of Wisdom" is brutal and devastating, as befits the subject matter, but the horrors are framed with so much hope and joy. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/insi...

I said this in a reply to someone else, but someone else needs to hear this: You are a real person doing real work to make real art. Don’t forget.

Hey, random reminder that it’s never too late to come out to yourself, loved ones or the world. I’m late GenX and grew up without language for being non-binary. No role models either. Came out at 43. It can take a little time. You’re not too old.

I barely know what day it is but someone mentioned “wizards” in Rings of Power and I immediately rattled off the names of the istari. Do i know what I did last week? No, but I know that the okapi can lick itself in the ear.

The What Magic Is This? podcast released an episode on Robert Anton Wilson. I had a flashback to when I worked in a bookshop in the late 90s and assisted him during a visit. I had read all his work and was a nervous wreck. He was very patient and kind, like an occult Santa.

A thing I have in common with Aleister Crowley: climbing. A thing I don’t: never got into a magical fight with William Butler Yeats.

Anyone who understands Swedish might want to check out Historiepodden podcast today - there’s a rundown of Swedes in the 17th century who were accused of having sexual congress with the fae. The loose translation is “illegal mingling”. It was punishable by death.

Btw turns out that this is a great place to catch Mesopotamian memes apparently. Send me everything. I’ve been interested since I wrote a high school essay about similarities between Inanna, Ishtar, Cybele, Isis and the Virgin Mary and the religion teacher temp told me I’d go to hell for blasphemy.

Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers. Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be. go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W

On the topic of writing in English as a second language, I harbor a special dislike for the word “the”. It’s cluttery. Sometimes I’m confused by all the “the”, like they’re ants scurrying around on the page. Would love to just tack definitethe articles onto endthe of words instead.

Once a great first line of a story appeared in my head. I wrote the story down from beginning to end. It was good, it was the story “Beatrice”. All other days, I sift through barely legible notes and wonder what I meant by “there’s an egg in a handbag!” or “humanity extras”.

Because you’ve been wondering whether arctic explorer Peter Freuchen (as he wrote in his memoir) actually fashioned a knife from his own frozen poop to hack his way out of a lavine: scientists have tested this, thoroughly, and could not duplicate the feat.

This is not only useful in the US but also in countries like Sweden where we’ve been looking at the rise of fascism for some time.

I have a book in the Trans Lifeline auction, and it's THE UNBALANCING! Ships worldwide. If you get this book, I'll sign and draw a bird on it. You need your queer Atlantis if you haven't gotten it yet - makes a good gift too, especially now. www.32auctions.com/organization...

So I created this account a month ago and for some reason 500+ people are now following me. Look, I’m not great at bite-sized political commentary (I’m writing an angry book instead) or memes, and social media is a lot. But I think a lot about the outer reaches of reality. And mushrooms.

I live under a social media rock but will give this a try. Hi, I write stuff that is mostly labeled as weird fiction. Most of my works are available in English. I used to fence with longswords but then I took an arrow to the knee. I’m a middle-aged trans nuncle. Follow me for possible ramblings.