I think it's clear the CIA psy-opped Trump into doing the American State Fair to probably kill like 5-10 specific people.

More Strange Visions coming 2027 from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social baby! Let’s go!

You can't see it, but I'm blushing. I'm honored to have a book coming out with Malarkey, and it would mean the world to me if you pre-ordered it 💙

I want to make it clear that I have not stopped writing or submitting. It’s just that none of the new writing I’ve submitted has been accepted.

Imagine one of these ICE freaks getting off his shift, heading home and seeing WHEREVER YOU GO YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF freshly sprayed on a wall in his neighbourhood.

May The Void bless whatever post-collapse critics get to do the analysis of this particular strain of the post-Slipstream/High Olde Weird voice that so many of my faves are doing. I can hear parts of Tanith Lee, Mervyne Peake, Amos Tutuola, Melville, The Bilbe, Juan Rulfo, who eles?

Movico, Alabama Pop: 88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movico,_Alabama Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127774070 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48477937

Just had one more thought about this: SF writers/readers SHOULD reverse colonize literary fiction, do their The Roads and The Handmaid’s Tales but for like middle-class boyhood novels and stories where straight women are secretly bored during sex

I think this is the one that answers the question best and right away: plenty of readers don't care about genre rules or how to use some trope in a way that genuflects to the noble Genre Fan's expertise. But some readers do care. A lot. For some reason.

A fun, smart conversation that also feels precisely calibrated to evolve into a 2008 M. John Harrison reddit thread (complimentary)

I mean, the simple answer is they are looking for a type of experience the book isn't offering, and don't/can't adjust. SF fans, as readers, can be a kind of hybrid of rules-lawyers and pseudo-academics. This may take a couple more posts to elaborate.

We've got a bunch of DSA members running in November! Portland: Angelita Morillo (D3), and Tiffany Koyama Lane (D3), Mitch Green (D4), Jeremy Smith (D4) State legislature: Lesly & Myrna Muñoz, Tammy Carpenter, Farrah Chaichi, Travis Nelson, Mark Gamba. Beaverton: Evelyn Kocher (P1) Maybe more!

The sniper is an American folk archetype, white people mostly: taking careful aim, shooting at people too far away from us to be a threat, etc. What can I say, it's in our blood

Dreamworks/Pixar movie opens on Marko scampering across the sniper rooftops of the siege of Dubrovnik; "Haha *kpwing* *kpwing* [little bullet ricochet sounds] I’m off to steal Börek for my widowed mom like usual — [parkour ledge slides, singing]: "When I will come of aaaaaaaaaaage?!’”

front mission 3 / psx square, 1999

Second person should not be used so casually; it should not be used to protect the writer from what the person in the story is doing. Second person should only be used to hurt and frighten the reader.

The moon is like something out of Speculative Fiction

just saw a lady pushing a propane tank in a stroller. signs and wonders.

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

Dame Elisabeth Frink, Eagle Owl, 1972 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1118722

Oh man, when that first "you" hits in this story...

🎵 make a little birdhouse out of drones

Indie Lit is only like 78%.

American Metal and F/SF communities equally obsessed with indexing and taxonomizing their respective art communities because American Metal and F/SF readers are both like 83% Mormon or Evangelical.

Me talking about Jesus in 8th Grade

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I thought I'd make a thread of some of the things that people who care about trans rights people and human rights could do to help. We really need more cis people stepping up. • Post about it sometimes. Make sure people who see you online know that you're aware of what's going on, and you care.

After the Chernobyl meltdown, a persistent myth was that vodka cleansed you of radiation

Leave it to Addison to tease out the particular melancholy of that perfect saint, the happy dog.

"Like Dad, the customer had lost everything" lands like a tennis ball covered in backspin

Bluesky Writer Ragebait: -Most Books Would be Better if Written by AI - But Especially Saphic Fantasy! -Use AI to Update the Pop Culture References in Your Unpublished 2008 Novel...or Perish! -Posting More Than Twice a Day on Social Media is Embarrassing -Form Rejections are Fine

THE SMUGGEST CIS PERSON ON EARTH: weh heh heh look at stephen miller's fake hair.....that's gender affirming care if u think about it. in a lot of ways HE is the stinky ugly disgusting tranny actually hee hee get it

My millennial drink-from-the-hose post is How did my friend Joe Cashiola drive a stick shift while also rolling a joint and still smoking a cigarette AND also putting on a Page 99 CASSETTE TAPE??

One of the reasons like half the Andrew Tate guys get so into Lord of the Rings is because all the men are sad

Welp it's been a week now since I received these orders to assassinate the mid-level administrator of the political regime my organization opposes and, frankly, minor events in my life keep inviting introspection: will carrying out my orders really change anything? lol random.

Hellarkey v.5 is open for submissions! Send us your weird, spooky, strange, and scary stories! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Excuse me - God doesn't have a dick? God is MADE of dicks. And He is terrifying to behold!!

Sometimes I go on social media and I’m like “wait do I have the language set to Dutch?!” But actually there’s just some dumb sport thing happening

I open up my wallet it’s full of blood

Happy Memorial Day

lol at the possibility that SF could be apolitical

Brad's modules are absolute peak "dumb as hell," just grade-A, pure, real-deal DaH. An icon. You know when the vampire Michael B. Jordan is like, "I like that Real" in the polarizing last scene of Sinners? He was talking about this.

Green leaves, gray skies, can't lose

Green leaves, gray skies, can't lose

Star Wars is violent, Manos: The Hands of Fate is violent Gnostic dreck, Croatian plays are violent, magical realism is generally violent, Bimbofication is violent. Masscult under liberalism is inherently violent. Sorry to spoil your 'fun'.

It reminds me of when all the poets were trying to dunk on Rupi Kaur or Drake's poetry collection and all the things those two were getting yelled at for were things that tons of poets do all the time, had in fact built whole aesthetics out of

I still think the most offensive thing about AI writing is how it's literally designed to mimic the dull, conservative, formulaic, pick-me writing that boring writers have been churning out for decades and on purpose, aspiring to AI as an aesthetic before it even existed.

I step from the tumbling fog of my Time Travel Machine to shake 2015-me violently by the shoulders for too long: "Listen you fool! There's going to be this thing called 'cancel culture' -- and we've got make sure it actually happens!!!"