Do you like horny teens and corny trouble? 🌽🌽🌽 Last week I submitted Bury Me at Makeout Station for the Sci-Fi Derelict Jam 2025 hosted by @glitched-tabletop.bsky.social! It's been a while since I wrote a TTRPG but damn it was fun making roll tables again jay-arr-elle.itch.io/bury-me-at-m...

Given the grim news in the political reporting at Teen Vogue, we need to support media like The Flytrap even more!

every media outlet should disclose its financials.

Huge shout-outs to fellow panelists @loukoren.bsky.social and @rebecca-b.bsky.social for a great panel on (sustainably) running a magazine. Also to @moniqueac.bsky.social and @ympang.bsky.social for such a fun talk about submitting short fiction. Could've talked with you all for hours!

I had a fantastic time at CanCon on my very first panel with @andregeleynse.com and @rebecca-b.bsky.social! Yall made it easy and I had an absolute blast! ✨️

ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

Can anyone remember the name (and ideally link) a short story that made the rounds a few years ago: - girlfriend with chronic disability coping with a VR cat game - POV is their partner adjusting to the video game addiction (I mostly just remember cat video game)

living in a golden age for distopian sentences written in a tone like it's the coolest thing ever

Get ready, we open soon! Early subs for equity-deserving groups: August 24 General subs: September 1 If you're still tinkering, @rebecca-b.bsky.social created a list of Vibes and Comparables! It's not an exhaustive list but it should kickstart some words. www.heartlines-spec.com/vibes-and-co...

Enjoyed the visceral writing and the textures of the seaside town in the Water Doesn't Want you by Rebecca Bennett, published in Augur 7.3. @rebecca-b.bsky.social augursociety.org/the-water-do...

Sensory memory activated 😬

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

Louder for the people in the back!! Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor ✨✨✨

Kudos to editor @mariaschrater.bsky.social for her Birds issue of Eye To The Telescope, which gets a nice review here! therevelator.org/environmenta...

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

Well… welcome back to that Sunshine retelling that lingers in my mind

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck. Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special. "She probably doesn't mean me" I do.

Hi, I’m here for the piss take:

The preorder store for Emergence is now open! emergence-ssto.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... Plus, a brand new teaser video for this new funnel module for #mothership www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDPj...

Fuck the UK Supreme Court, fuck transphobes, and fuck J.K. Rowling in particular. Trans lives matter. Trans women are women. Buy trans books, and support trans people and trans rights now and always.

Love the embrace of Another Old Country by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social -- published in one of the last issues of Apparition Lit and is a banger of a story everyone should read apparitionlit.com/another-old-... (it's not all about awards but holy hell is recognition nice)

Canadian peeps. Our election is coming up. We can already see what's happened south of the border when you let the anti-woke mob inside the gates . Don't let it happen here. VOTE. VOTE as if your future depended on it. Vote to keep Poilievre and his minions out. www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

Stacie is super talented and I can't wait to read everything she's ever written 😍

I wonder if Roman elites watching the fall of their empire also thought: “This is so stupid.”

It gives me such joy to see this story continue to be read. I almost didn't write it. And then when it was written it was @jenralbert.bsky.social who pushed me to get it published. 📸: @rebecca-b.bsky.social at @banffcentre.bsky.social

Christopher Griffin's work is etched into Ottawa. He's an important artist to our city and I'm so proud that he stood for his morals

tech bro is short for technically broken

If you're one of those "where are the protests" because the news has been ignoring them the past two months, there are 25,000 people gathered in DC today, and 20+ blocks full of people in Manhattan, and that's just two cities. The protests have been happening; you're just being lied to again.

What does it mean for a book to be fully Canadian-made? LPG publishers are committed to keeping Canadian stories, talent, and production close to home, checking all the boxes.

I have a short story you can nominate! The Water Doesn't Want You published in @augursociety.bsky.social and recently reviewed by @mariahaskins.com Do you like ice cream and dread? Everybody likes ice cream and dread, come on augursociety.org/the-water-do...

It's both highly lucrative and highly dangerous

baby's first recommendation! “The Water Doesn’t Want You” pubbed with @augursociety.bsky.social was mentioned in What to Read! Creeping dread, restlessness, and hauntings all pair well with ice cream!

Call it anecdotal, but my Canadian friends who are cancelling their US travel are not doing it because of tariff worries at all; they’re doing it because the US government is currently actively threatening Canada’s sovereignty and economy and they’re all justifiably furious

This novella is amazing and I still think about it, definitely get a copy!

🇨🇦CANADA: PLEASE SHARE AND SIGN🇨🇦 Official HOC petition to ban use of X/Twitter for all #Canadian government communications. 🍁MP Sponsor is @charlieangus104.bsky.social #CanadaSky #canpoli #canada #socialmedia @bsky.app

At the end of the day, we tell you that generative AI is built on unethical copyright theft, exploits and underpays its workers, causes catastrophic environmental damage, and produces increasingly terrible looking shit, and you just decide not to care.

After months of rumors, I can confirm that the "big 3" SF/F magazines of Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have been purchased. The new owner is Steven Salpeter and a group of investors. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/123173...

If you played TTRPGs between 1970-2004, PhD Candidate Geoffrey Ramirez (Binghamton U) is seeking participants for “Character Creation: The Tabletop Role-Players Oral History Project” as part of his dissertation. Interviews will be archived at the Strong Museum of Play (can be time-locked, etc)

Not a crossover I expected, but one of the characters on Season 3 of White Lotus must be inspired by this I Think You Should Leave sketch...

Never underestimate the power of kind words, especially in these awful times. We're all getting worn down by the news and it's easy to fall into a cycle of anger, but it's still okay to enjoy and celebrate the things you love. We fight better when we remember the joy we're fighting for.

Emergence, a funnel adventure for #MothershipRPG is crowdfunding for #ZineMonth + #ZineQuest! Escape a prison plunged into chaos. Beyond the failing power system and rising groundwater levels, horrors emerge from the inmates, revealing the truth of this prison.

Canadians are watching as Silicon Valley takes over the US government, but few realize Shopify executives are trying to bring a similar project to Canada — and the leader of the Conservative Party has started praising them for it. Read my latest for @thebreach.bsky.social:

“Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? Younger, more beautiful. More perfect.”

me core (I contain multitudes)

Just good advice in general

It's hard out there for a semi-pro zine! If you're a weirdo writer, they are the perfect place for strange story structures or genre-breaking conventions. If you find a mag you love, help them out! Money is always great but so is cheering them on and spreading the word 💓

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