Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...

They’re so jealous you can write. They’re so jealous you can draw. They’re so jealous you can make music. They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill: Cuts $930 billion from Medicaid 16 million lose health care Slashes nutrition aid by $186 billion Less income for bottom 40% of families Increases debt by $3.3 trillion $45 billion for immigration jails Billions for defense contractors

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Soon they're going to lean as hard on the "ICE is just a bunch of people doing a thankless job" deflection as they did on "thank you for your service." Fuck every syllable of that noise.

Thank you all so much for your support! Because of Indiegogo technical difficulties with our page, they have extended us for a week to see if we can hit our goal :) igg.me/at/locusmag2025

Reading My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, I'm reminded of seeing K Flay perform after her hearing loss and watching my partner reinvent herself and her music through a disability and (mis)diagnoses, treatments, and the typical mistreatment by health care insurance and practitioners.

Late to the party on this one but My Favorite Thing Is Monsters was phenomenal @fantagraphics.bsky.social @emilferris.bsky.social can't wait to snag the next one www.fantagraphics.com/products/my-...

#SeattleWorldconRoomies don't make me sleep in the bushes outside they told me i had to but i don't want to

Doing a violence on demons whose lust for resources and unchecked growth caused them to betray their obligations in order to victimize and profit from the defenseless.

Where do you fall on the #dnd alignment chart as a writer? True Plantser all the way, no question, but I also resonate with: - Knows the end, writes toward it - Loves to worldbuild - Who writes things down??

Learn from your surroundings. Let your pug drink the spilled milkshake on the side of the road

"Can u write that in Python" "u should learn Python" my brother the snakes wont talk to me 😭😭😭

Me getting the car ready to go see Nosferatu

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

#worldfantasy2024 I'm reading at 1pm, come see me!

anyone going to #worldfantasy2024 looking to split a room? @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social Also I'll be reading Friday at 1pm, come say hi!

Fukin found him

Bene and Geordi for your morning

In the careere. straight up "attending it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. The 2024 World Fantasy Convention in Niagara Falls bsky.app/profile/worl...

I love Werewolf (the revised White Wolf game). All about the power of friendship + the power of incredible violence.

BIPOC writers! the @apparitionlit.com MERCURIAL issue (which i am guest editing) is currently OPEN!!! we'd love to read your stories and have them in this absolutely amazing call! the submissions window is linked in the next post. here's a blog post of what we're looking for!

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

me: *digging up honeysuckle, crying* honeysuckle: Tears water our growth

kind of want a superhero movie where the power really is hitting people with cars. Fast and Furious is really close to this but they use wrenches more often.

Le Guin was 100% right when she called Harry Potter "ethically mean spirited". People focus on her critique of the prose of the book, or the style, or the fact it's bland. But, I think, Le Guin saw Rowling for who she really was, and wouldn't be surprised at the terf Rowling is now

Thanks to Stephen Graham Jones now I can't resist picking up any Horror novel with a deer on the cover.

this week! this week! this week! a good(?) cat, a haunted house, a weird neighbor: Evan deals with it all while the past comes crawling for him. that’s all in: “Evan: A Remainder” thank you so much to @reactorsff.bsky.social and @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social for making this happen!!!

Nominations for the 2024 Hugo Awards are now open. I'm eligible for Best Fan Writers for my Genre Grapevine. I'm also eligible for Best Related Work for my collected writings on how machine learning (AI) affects writers, artists and the SF/F genre. 1/3

Thank you--I'm excited to work on some unearthly new stories together

(2 of 2) Their book, FLIES IN THE HONEY, set in the underbelly of modern-day Chicago, reveals how far one brilliant honeypot will go to protect her daughter. We can't wait to get this fast-paced thriller into your hands. Learn more on our website: buff.ly/3S91V5B

(1 of 2) It's an awesome Monday when you get to tell the world that the most amazing neurospicy, queer writer picked you to represent their career! A native of Chicago, River Ari channels chaos into ink around six kids and a large collection of crystals. #editors #writers #authors #writerscommunity

(1 of 2) Victress Literary was lucky enough to scoop up literary fiction writer, Leah McMichael! Leah lives with one foot in Indianapolis and the other in 4th century Anatolia. #writerscommunity #write #writinglife #authorscommunity #writersofbluesky #authorsofbluesky

Reposting for you gods and monsters who successfully turn off social media on the weekend

I’ve got news - I’m now represented by @victresslizz.bsky.social of Victress Literary. We’ll be working on my phantasmagoric, sycamore-shrouded novel Rust River Gothic, and I’m humbled to collaborate with a champion who believes so much in my work and shares my vision @victressliterary.bsky.social

tHiNgS are happening 👀

first Geordi of 2024, looks like he's already done with it

Ohio Gov Mike DeWine vetoed a bill that would have banned gender affirming care for minors. DeWine said if the bill became law that “Ohio would be saying that the government, knows better what is medically best for a child than the two people who love that child the most, the parents.”

no more Positive Self-Talk it is time for Excessively Aggrandizing Self-Pro-Wrestler Intro

babies in Columbus OH, plus one perfect 1-year-old boi who needs a home. These kitten are all adoptable and looking for homes. Please DM me if interested!

If there's anything you can spare, please help my friends save their cat who was recently diagnosed with FIP. please repost, respond, etc. if you can to help me get some visibility gofund.me/bbf6e9a1

The US Copyright Office is seeking comment on AI as it affects writers and other artists! If multibillion-dollar corporations want to use YOUR labor and skill to benefit their shareholders, you probably have an opinion about that! Comment here (link at bottom): www.copyright.gov/policy/artif...

Look, I dislike doing a politic on here but it should be beneath no one's notice that Florida has suffered a white supremacist attack and the primarily white legislation has blocked educators from talking about the how, why, and what to do to prevent it from happening again.

I am setting up social media for World Fantasy 2025. Could I get some followers and re-skeets please? @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social

friend-shaped emissary on the Little Miami River blessed my kayak

Please Repost! "Uncanny Magazine Is Looking for Submissions Editors Once Again!" We are taking applications until September 4! Come and join Team Uncanny! www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-maga...

I'm Dave, I'm mainly querying contemporary, transporting fantasy that has one foot in the real world and one claw/tendril/squiggly appendage in another (The One Who Roars Back and Rust River Gothic). Outside of that, I maintain an ongoing epic/dark fantasy webnovel called RAZE.

I'm slowly ramping back into my free web serial novel RAZE. It's a thoughtful, darkly epic fantasy and it'd be rad if you checked it out at my link in bio, or just gave it a boost here: https://topwebfiction.com/listings/raze/

Because it needs to be said again