I read the new Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social #book "Cinder House" last night. Part Cinderella retelling, part ghost story, part chronic illness analogue. Full of lush language and fraught emotion. Easily queer. Very satisfying read.

Gail Simone once again proves love is real.

It’s so disheartening. Dems don’t give a shit.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

Oooh. Y’all should go buy this.

I just finished the new T Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com #book “Snake Eater” and it is delightful. A modern fantasy in the Southwestern desert about running away and finding oneself, replete with the odd characters one finds in a very small town, some old gods, and a Very Good Dog. Highly recommend.

A new Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social came out ON MY BIRTHDAY and nobody told me. You all have a lot to answer for.

Capitalism.

“Wearing the Lion” by John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social reimagines mythology with a well meaning Himbo Heracles, a cranky Hera, and a cast of gods and heroes. It’s about trying your best, deceiving ourselves, and found family. The main characters are complex and unreliable, but fully compelling.

Turns out voters care if the candidates are humane and loving people.

Yes, that’s Lupita Nyong’o, as well.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

We don’t need to throw away people to win.

What are some trad pub SFF/H books that have been out at least a year that you think didn't get enough attention? Adult or YA. Marginalized authors preferred, and small press titles encouraged. Not looking for big bestsellers or award-sweepers.

This is tragic. Teens deserve excellent political journalism, too.

How to describe “The Sins on the Bones” by Laura R Samotin? ( @laurarutledge.bsky.social ) A queer normative dark fantasy full of Ashkenazi Jewish mysticism and 19th c Eastern European court intrigue and civil war. Spells and demons and longing and a traumatized exiled tzar. I want more!

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Fully support this. It goes with my parenting style of CTFO. (Chill The Fck Out)

I'm sure I've seen an apocalyptic movie start like this.

dooooo eeeet

The poster for the film about this game just dropped

rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Yeah, this is how I feel. It’s not people, but JFC, enough already.

This is what they've done.

Whooooooa

As a middle school parent, seconding this thread.

The halcyon days of TWO DAYS AGO

Would watch.

I live in a Spanish speaking neighborhood and my kid is in an immersion program at a 75% Latinx middle school. If Trump succeeds in sending the guard and ICE here in force, the effect on our community will be catastrophic.

Ooh, I’m looking forward to this

This is why I will never tell my trans kiddo that he always needs to walk away.

"We can provide labor."

I CACKLED

Portland, you are beautiful. Absurdity is resistance.

<cackle>

This made me so happy

@kjcharleswriter.com ! “All of Us Murderers” came out on my 50th birthday. Given… everything… that is a very dubious happy birthday to me. I shall go to London next week and see old houses and fancy gardens about it.

What if there was a Baba Yaga hut on a cliff in Carmel in the 20s and it was found by a woman with a sentient sourdough starter? “A House Between Sea and Sky” by Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social is about grief and making connections in unexpected places. Queer and sweet and quirky and delightful.

Co-signed.

Useful analysis

If I have to see this, so do you.

We may not deserve it, but we definitely need it.

Highly recommended. A joy to read.

How about Sapphic Indian Great British Bake Off in Spaaaaaace? “Interstellar Megachef” by @lavanya.bsky.social Lavanya Lakshminarayan is great fun, exploring culture and colonialism and how our relationships are mediated and affected by food through the lenses of chef and a VR designer. #2, plz!

The most useless “Internet of Things” object was a kitchen scale that required an iPad to read it.

Here are some books + folks to get you started! (In no real order) @pdjeliclark.bsky.social - P Djeli Clark - "A Master of Djinn" @riverssolomon.bsky.social - Rivers Solomon - "An Unkindness of Ghosts" @clclark.bsky.social - CL Clark - "The Unbroken" @clpolk.com - CL Polk - "Midnight Bargain" 1/

Does anyone know if there is a script or even better, video, of the Ursula Vernon / @tkingfisher.com Slime Mold speech?

“The Raven Cycle” by Maggie Stiefvater @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social is a series about five teens each with a different relationship to the magic surrounding them. There are complex friend, family and class dynamics, Welsh lore, trauma, hit men, robo bees, and snark. I would die for all of them.