Found Footage saved my life

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Supreme Court affirms right of straight people to torture their possessions

Sincerely, one of the coolest, most transgressive, most transcendent things about modern fiction writing is how little it matters

Raging righteously against an imaginary AI industry interested in replacing human fiction writers or whatever is a great way for writers to manage the horrors of 2020s global collapse without engaging in any of the period's political or even material realities

Some of you nostalgia guys gotta learn about I statements

It's released!! I want to thank the editing powers and help of Marissa van Uden at Violet Lichen, and the great support of folks at @apexmag.bsky.social (Nichole, Ori, Jason, and more)! Thanks for taking this journey with me! And thanks to Jack Hillside and Mikio Murakami for the beautiful cover!

Excited to announce that the entire Liminal Horror Dev Team, @unenthuser.bsky.social @emo-sludge.com and myself, will be tabling Between Two Cons in Portland, Oregon, on Fri 6/26 and Sat 6/27, birthed by @yochaigal.bsky.social @bradkerr.net @betterlegends.bsky.social betweentwocons.com

The CIA campaign to get you to read Lord of the Rings for some reason continues apace

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

"...not when he hangs, half-enveloped, from her lips, stretched so thin with the taking of him that they crack and bleed;"

Got that ADHD like

can be applied to fiction in general

gonna be fixed in Weird Fiction 2.0

My main critique of Weird Fiction: not weird enough

*looking up from watching thousands of people march across war-ravaged wastelands, digital images of real people, each with infinitely rich, inner lives, real children starving and injured and exhausted and dying* "Why do the characters always find a cozy bunker full of blankets and chili?"

Leading the "Glorious Impossible Bunkers of Food and Rest" seminar at this year's Post-Post-Apocalypse convention.

I know it smell crazy in there

Nancy 3/11/26

Evangelical Christianity SO horny for the Antichrist. They love that guy.

Lol feels like I'm reading just the dumbest fucking Nostradamus-ass, 1990s, The-REAL-book-of-Revelations, grocery-store book ever

Reading the news today

Finished @aaronburch.bsky.social‘s Tacoma sitting on the toilet w/ a kid banging on the door and I am so impressed by this book’s ambition and execution. Makes good on a promise implied by this wave of autofiction that I have never seen before: to take seriously the reimagining of one’s own life

Believe the phrase you're looking for is K-Mart Folk Weird.

The recent wave of New Autofiction should be called The Sentimental Readers

Somehow I hunch that contemporary genre literary criticism is about a mile ahead of non-genre indie-lit criticism, and the genre criticism that has nourished me the most is this amazing podcast www.patreon.com/cw/SFULTRA

Like, the litfic vs genre thing isn't totally wiped from the world because I'm sure we can dig up a current example of anything if we try. But every time I see it cited, it’ll be something someone said in 1987. It’s not something that has, in the main, characterised my experience of genre or litfic.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 23 Tears Rei III

As someone whose pet issue with contemporary literature is that there isn't nearly enough literary criticism, this essay is a gift. Feeling very superior as I read, critiquing the writer's ideas and words, getting that sweet Friday morning hate-read dopamine, thinking about art w/ brain, etc

Everyone's answers to this are like "Oil Crane Puller/Blue-collar intellectual who worked as a bi spy during WWII"

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As the owner of AWP, want to remind attendees to enjoy themselves but also remember that anyone with a clinical "introvert" diagnosis should set aside time to "recharge" alone. Same goes for ambiverts and anyone under 37. The rest of you middle-aged people - get out there and do hand stuff!

Reminder that we encourage all our attendees to tip their Uber/Lyft drivers AT LEAST $18 for every social media post attendees make mentioning said driver. That's anecdote labor. Also, reminder from me (owner of AWP): pictures are not allowed at AWP. Enjoy AWP!

As the owner of AWP, I am grateful for the money everyone pays me to attend. I love AWP!

This is bad, and part of what makes it so bad is that this is clearly pulling from *genre* understandings of reality, which the statistical linguistic machine seemingly cannot distinguish from other text included in the training data. Truly an ideology machine where every episode of CSI is true.

Trump posts AI video of him riding a red horse in circles around a burning toilet in the desert, suggests 3.5 more years "oughta be enough to do it all."

Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥

There are 88 modern constellations. A ridiculous number, too many or too few or both. I realize I have not thought enough about constellations to avoid getting dizzy doing so now.

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

Saw the Tarkovsky Solaris in the theater last week and something about that movie I keep thinking about now is how all three men on the space were kind ashamed of each of their respective hallucination golems? Real "Don't come in!" keep-it-in-the-closet type stuff.

"...she and her three kids watched through a window as guards swept through their room in late January, removing drawings from the walls and placing colored pencils and crayons in plastic bags before taking them away."

This feels like a foot-in-the-door bill--if they can pass it, then the next bans will only further expand its scope. Let's stop this campaign of trans and queer erasure here and now. Please contact your representatives to demand that they oppose this bill. www.house.gov/representati...

Weekly review! It's Swamp World from @bradkerr.net ! I go on a bit about how much one should try to fit in a pamphlet, but this thing really is great to read, and I expect I'll bring it to the table later this year. #TTRPG #OSR blog.catshavenolord.page/review-swamp...

Literary flash fiction feels like a front to me - but for what? A unit of swift, friendly exchange in a public square that is mostly online: quickly manufactured, published, and shared, it builds connections between writers that would have otherwise taken years to develop. Basically the Poets model

A network of artists, trans people, sex workers, and broke stoners have done more to help the people of Gaza than the entire democratic party.

Wendy Williams "The Killer" super cut: probably the most forward-thinking piece of media this decade www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszq...