Re-reading Wuthering Heights. Forgot what a maniac Mr. Lockwood is. "My new landlord is surly and unwelcoming and his dog tried to attack me so I should definitely hike miles in the Yorkshire winter to hang out with him in his weird foreboding house again today."

We have Best of American SFF, Best of Canadian SFF, Best of British SFF. I wish so badly that editors take up the task of editing an yearly Best of Latin American SFF as well. It would be great!

It's time for your periodic reminder that we count on subscriptions to keep the lights on. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Thank you.

RJL's latest is now available. We look at the writers behind two of Japan's greatest movie monsters—Godzilla and Mothra. Context, authors, stories, and a close with a reflection on why the stories behind the movies are important, even for people who have already seen the films.

It is *wild* the extent to which academics who write about sf and fantasy and horror don't operate with this basic premise of genre theory in mind.

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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

when i die let my resentment become a curse let it become like sadako and every time someone uses ai i crawl out of the computer to strangle them

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

“If I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” —Bad Bunny

Submissions are open for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We want stories that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a spec fic element; and an Arthurian element. Artworks or illustrations of stories also welcome! Check out the details: juliebozza.com/submissions-...

What a superb owl! Perky pre-Colombian finial.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

TIL that the wordes to the theme song of *Fraggle Rock* were written by the renouned poet Dennis Lee of Canada. Lee ys the original source of the sayinge (slightlye chaungid from hys wordinge) "Worke as if you live in the earlye dayes of a bettir nation."

Ferbruary #oldknees

We are being destroyed by insecure, loser men. Being killed by unfuckable loser men and struggling to survive because the whims of selfish. Loser. Men. Trump. Loser. Miller. Loser. Tate. Loser. Bovino, Fuentes, Vance, Bezos, Kavanaugh, Musk, Gaines, Kirk and Cruz. All petty, self-serving LOSERS.

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

Rising. #CemeterySaturday St. Boniface Cemetery, Chicago, IL ▪️ I just listed this original drawing in my shop if anyone is interested. www.etsy.com/listing/4450...

Jezero Crater, Mars, earlier today.

you cannot kill me in a way that matters

29/1/26 - nocturn

I am in search of those who center delight as fundamental and instructional for living

One of my absolutely favorite anthologies from the last few years. Incredible work by the authors and @xuetingni.bsky.social as editor and anthologist!

We are community or we are less. We are engines of kindness and connectivity or we are less. When decency is framed as a radical position we must remain who we are. Our resistance is also in refusing to be less openhearted and filled with compassion.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I don’t think it’s a complete coincidence that, yesterday, so many of us around the world were in awe of what Minneapolis was doing, and, today, the government brutally murdered one of those courageous people, just to show us they could. They think they’ll scare us into submission. They’re wrong.

an axe with heart-shaped holes in the blade, japan, 14th century

I think this is a haunting image. It's Uranus, the giant seventh planet in the Solar System, photographed by Voyager 2 on the outbound part of its flyby on 25 January, 1986. Out there in the dark. Waiting.

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

'Snow at Miyajima' - Kawase Hasui, 1928. #ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809 🫀🐈‍⬛💀 Here are some of the illustrations I made for the Poe sticker book for Macmillan Books in 2024

📚💙🩸 Since I'm seeing a bunch of posts about the importance of buying & supporting indies... Let me remind you that I have both a Starter Pack and Feed list of indie horror publishers who ALSO have confirmed NO AI/LLM policies: Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/UwgWqLc Feed list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Less than two weeks before we open for horror/Weird fic zine submissions. Get your piece(s) ready! We pay 10 cents per word. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

A friendly reminder for HWA members: the deadline to recommend/nominate works for the Stoker Awards is January 15! Get your recs in now! bramstokerawards.horror.org

On the way back I stopped at St Edwards Church in Stow in the Wold to see the Tolkein door. But did find some lovely skull friends

dinosaur park, rapid city, south dakota, 1987

I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell

'The Haunted Armoury' #illustration by Percy Macquoid 1881 #PhantomsFriday

See that larger white blob at lower left, and the smaller blob to its right? That's Earth and the Moon. Photographed from the orbit of Mercury.

35. The best way to horrify someone is by telling a good story. The ultimate advice for horror creators: work on your craft. The more comfortable you are with your technical skills, the easier it will be to purposefully affect your audience.

While Mortals Sleep. #Art © Colin Woolfe

Psst. This is a lightning bolt. On fucking Jupiter.

Teaching the Virgin to Read The great east window at All Saints, North Street (c.1410) contains one of medieval England's most touching images - St Anne teaching her young daughter Mary to read.

Inside Wolferton church. #normalfornorfolk