me: i heard you do a terrible owl impression him: where me: holy shit that is bad

i naturally read about a book or two per week on average, though that number has been declining year over year since i started translating. 2025 was my first full year as a full-time translator, and I'm on track to have "only" read 44-45 books by EOY. this is still a good achievement!

Watched "In the Mouth of Madness" last night, which is a movie all about how Southern Ontario is the most terrifying place on earth.

I had the great honour to edit Chlorophilia in this issue - a flippy little take on Ovid for the modern era. If you, like me, love an epistolary story (or any story about natural desire), take a little look at Augur 8.3 out now 👀 🌱

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Inside you'll find... 🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest 🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens 🫐 a berry world of grief and awe & so much more! 🔗 Link in bio! More details below 👀⬇️

at the end of the day you have to love the dishes. that's what separates the greats--they see the next stack of dishes as an opportunity to run the track one more time. And they take it personally. Dishes? in MY sink? you should've called ahead. you'd know better

ELPHABA and GLINDA will return SUMMER 2027 in SINNERS 2

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

this is great advice at a time where i am daily looking at my little notebook of short story ideas followed immediately by hyperventilating into a paper bag

Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦 The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.

It's my first time leading editing. The process was so eye-opening and amazing. I won't restate the editor's note but yall. Yall...I am so proud of each and every one of these stories and the authors who wrote them. Come meet some new reads.

as @ridethekick.bsky.social said of baseball yesterday: anything can happen, until it doesn't, and if not, you do it again

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA: Seundruls 2022

I'm doing a bastardized version of nanowrimo (bastardwrimo, as my friend hyemi put it). here are my november goals: 1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time 2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything 3. walk daily 4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

very exciting month ahead! halloween... jays in the world series... [flipping very quickly past the page in my planner that has a daily wordcount tracker for november] concert coming up with a friend...

Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape. redpopnews.com/13-must-read... #redpopnews

We're here! www.briefecology.com/p/annoucemen...

i'm friends with several phd students in video games (it's montreal), and when they ask me why i love management sims, i don't know what to tell them. right now it's planet zoo. i can't explain why i finish doing tasks at work just to boot up the device to finish doing tasks at simulated work

i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong

hat is also a glove

Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now! Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

this is not a complaint because it is my preferred way to be on this website, but sometimes i log on and spend the next three to five hours backward engineering why the discourse has taken a turn for the, for example, pasta

i think this is so common among learning writers focusing on sensory descriptions. you SEE how it moves; it also LOOKS unsettling. both are about how it looks, so they go together, right? takes longer to learn that sensory and comparative components need to have a direct relationship for it to scan

weird reading gripe: I'm noticing an uptick in similes and metaphors that don't quite work. it'll be like "bitter as seawater" or "in constant motion, like a cockroach." like, I get the vibe the author is going for but on a mechanical level it doesn't make any sense.

Finally, Shohei Ohtani will be on a plane to Toronto.

the problem is that I believed the mariners could beat the dodgers. the only people more aware of toronto's sports curse than toronto fans are canadians who aren't usually toronto fans, and I don't believe, even as a jays fan now, that toronto can beat anyone. it's toronto

some book-buying woes from recently. tried to preorder an indie paperback from a canadian publisher; it has been out for over a month but is still stuck in limbo at the US border. wanted to preorder a new hardcover but, alas, it is forty-one entire canadian dollars.

we all know the best baseball is when both teams and all their fans actively feel like they are dying through all nine innings anyway

📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions! We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme! ⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

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exactly my feelings. couldn't lose to a nicer team with better fans

22 professional baseball players who cannot hit the ball this is SNL

throw the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball. that's the name of the game right there

Let's go [Mariners!] I've always rooted for the [Seattle Mariners].

i've recently gotten into baseball. now when they throw the ball? i approve of that. but i think perhaps they have thrown it quite enough for one night

doing Ovid’s Metamorphoses for #inktober 1. Creation

doing a lot of nature reading lately, especially about carbon capture. here's ... here's one method i didn't expect

i get a surprising amount of mileage out of "i sleep in a big bed with my wife" considering that i don't

Chotiner interviews Janeway

✨ Augur Editor update ✨ The application deadline has been extended to SEPT 26th! 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to apply!

trying to understand the respective etymological roots of the french word "sénéchal" and the english word "seneschal" (you'd think they'd be the same. no!) has me 15 research tabs deep into ancient history. between this and my fall of Rome tabs I'm growing concerned about the fate of my weekend

A HUGE congrats to our Art Director, Martine Nguyen and Managing Copy Editor, Sonia Urlando for winning their first ever 2025 CSFFA Aurora Awards! 🏆🎊

very excited to go pick up my preorder later 🚴📖

Stairs

In September, we... make pumpkin cream soup with garlic baguette 🥖