🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JANUARY 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @thedescenters.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @victormanibo.com @seraph76.bsky.social @remedy.bsky.social & MANY MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/151830...

We are so excited to share that Page Chewing will be welcoming @victormanibo.com as our next guest! Join us live tomorrow and drop a question for this master of multiple generes as we discuss how to thrive at the intersection of culture and storytelling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoh_...

See you in the upside down

My main gripe with the wired gay tech mafia article is that it’s boring af

I don’t often write short stories, so seeing one of mine connect with readers is a special kind of thrill. Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social and @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social! And in case you missed it, you can read “Slake” at @morningtransport.bsky.social: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/slake

TYVM to @victormanibo.com #shvetathakrar @leannareneehieber.bsky.social & @fondalee.bsky.social for a GREAT reading last night! See you 3/17 @ 7pm for tales from @kellyrobson.com @kristinaten.bsky.social @authorduderuss.bsky.social & @daphnefama.bsky.social !📚🎙️🍸 More pics here: shorturl.at/gxl4M

unfortunately, we found a fair number of best of sf anthos were just authors turned editor publishing their friends in a circle jerk of white male writers propping each other up and then by dint of that creating "classics" that did not hold up

TONIGHT!

Just got the green light—my next book is gonna be a scifi horror thriller about a grieving widower who sees his dead husband on onlyfans. Get ready for…DOPPELBANGER

LESS THAN ONE WEEK AWAY! 🌟 Don't miss out on the next BBB @ Barrow's reading Tuesday, 2/17 @ 7pm with authors @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @victormanibo.com #ShvetaThakrar & @fondalee.bsky.social ! We've also got a Gothic Strangely Delicious drink! Join us! 📚🎙️🧉👀 More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com

New blog post! Check out my review of @victormanibo.com’s new Filipino Gothic, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED: www.thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-th... 💙📚 😱📚

NEXT WEEK! 🌟 BBB returns for our monthly Fabulous Reading Event on 2/17 @ 7pm at Barrow's! Join us as we welcome authors/readers @victormanibo.com #ShvetaThakrar @fondalee.bsky.social & @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for a night of sips, socializing, and stories!📚🎙️🍸 More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

I am such a huge @victormanibo.com fan and THE VILLA ONE BELOVED is his best book yet. reactormag.com/book-review-...

My latest for Reactor!! I love this one, go read it. Yes, you. You’re going to love it. 🇵🇭❤️‍🔥🌈👹

"You cannot undo what you have inherited, no matter how violent the legacy." @mayagittelman.bsky.social reviews Victor Manibo's searing, haunted horror novel The Villa, Once Beloved:

Pausing my regular vacation posts because it’s new story day! So pleased to be back at Sunday Morning Transport. Please enjoy my latest tale in all its queer, bleak, grotesque glory— www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/slake

The new story, "Slake," from @victormanibo.com in The Sunday Morning Transport is a heartbreaker. I highly recommend reading it. And hey, it's free this month! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/slake

Paradise

The Sunday Morning Transport looks across the water today with a story from Victor Manibo (@victormanibo.com) about how some draughts cannot quench a thirst. Free for everyone to read, like all of our January stories!

Pausing my regular vacation posts because it’s new story day! So pleased to be back at Sunday Morning Transport. Please enjoy my latest tale in all its queer, bleak, grotesque glory— www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/slake

I have made a critical mistake at this japanese karaoke bar and queued up the 9+ min version of dancing through life which includes all the dialogue and the stupid boq and nessa part all the way to the ozdust ballroom and now i am deceased

Kyoto bound

Good literary criticism is just as valuable in every respect as a good novel; it's incredibly sad to see it cut out by digital performance metrics and private equity companies. Makes me grateful for places like Ancillary Review of Books & Typebar doing the good work in a hostile media environment.

Thanks for tagging! Just finished @victormanibo.com’s latest book, ESCAPE VELOCITY, which I throughly enjoyed. Also finished season one of THE PITT. Consuming new works has definitely recharged my creative batteries. #ScriptChat #ScriptSky

📖 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 📖 @victormanibo.com—best known for Escape Velocity, The Villa, Once Beloved, The Sleepless, Deadnote, and more—is coming to Awesome Con in March! 🎟️ Buy badges >> awesome-con.com/badges #AwesomeCon #Authors

Sitting next to a first date at dinner and the woman asks the guy if you were an llm, which one would you be? It gets worse—the guy says he’d be grok

Check out my review of “The Villa Once Beloved” by Victor Manibo, a modern gothic horror story set in the Philippines about the terrible crimes people will commit to obtain and maintain wealth and power. diversityhorror.com/2025/12/20/t...

Pray for me i just cued up Buttons at the office holiday karaoke party

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

This was a perfect opportunity to take a principled stance. Instead we have a weak moderate position based not on principles, but on not offending anyone who builds their career on plagiarism and chicanery. For shame, @sfwa.org.

The Villa, Once Beloved, by @victormanibo.com (pub by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social) is an excellent horror novel, a mix between classic gothic elements and Filipino culture and folklore to create a must read for the lovers of the genre. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Seriously, what says Festive Season more than cursed manor, ghosts and witches, creepy crawlies and demons, *plus* a sexy gravedigging scene? Buy Victor’s book! 👇👇👇👇

Reading this now and it is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Should have a review next weeek, but I can tell you that it's an amazing book (and the concept of Philippines' Gothic is really well executed)

Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—it’s got ghosts and witches and creepy crawlies and demons, plus a sexy gravedigging scene—and it’s out now More info ⬇️

In a new interview with @mcflycahill90.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com discusses Filipino history, "gloomth", and what drew him to gothic horror with his latest novel The Villa, Once Beloved!

Every day the list of ICE and DOJ attorneys I would like to get Nuremberg’ed grows ever longer

Had such a lovely and lively fireside chat with @ryanlasala.bsky.social for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. Thank you to The Twisted Spine for hosting us, and thank you to everyone who came and joined in on the fun! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social

good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete sex scenes are craft! goddammit!

Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?

So pleased to find THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED in such illustrious company! Thank you, @reactorsff.bsky.social!

THE WRITHING, VERDANT END IS OUT TODAY!!!!!! Need some weird weird eco-horror in your life? Then look no further than this little split collection from @ericraglin1992.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and me!!!

Tomorrow tomorrow!

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Just finished Expedition 33. Did I cry? Maybe a little. Best game I’ve played all year

I was working on a gothic this year, so

Next week! Get your tix now—

Fine ok they win they made me care about hockey