Welcome to issue 11! It shaped up to be thick with liberatory gestures – on disability, fatness, Blackness, youth, and more. Creatives across/against genre and medium tackle pressing issues of disposibility and resistance. manyworlds.place/issue-11/ Some highlights:

Excited to be featured again in @manyworlds.place 🪟

‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?

Too much theoretical/critical writing on horror (and, by extension, rightly or wrongly, on weird fiction) hinges on the _why_ of reception/response (“why do people read/write this stuff”), instead of the _how_ of poetics and formalism (“how is this stuff achieved/conveyed in the text”)

so i need to start being even queerer, louder. obviously.

Also, just to up the fear factor: more iambic pentameter. Because nothing screams “I’m being drawn inexorably into the gaping maw of an elder god” than the unceasing, plodding rhythm of human progress.

1. Earlier this year, Yale and CCMC capitulated to the Trump administration and ended care for trans youth. Now, 10 families are suing them for violating state law. Hospitals cannot be made to believe throwing trans people under the bus is risk free. Our latest story.

"Moth (standing): I want to choose different. Dirt: There is no different. Moth: There exists small choices. Dirt: If you wish to believe." Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...

Moth: The sun swallowed the sky. Again, for the fifth time. This morning. Dirt: And what about it? Moth: The sky used to hardly swallow anything. Today on ergot.: 'Pulling Back the Lids' by Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Odin...

Tomorrow on ergot.: just two old friends chatting in the sun with Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social

do the mature thing. make out. tongue each other.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

You can once again purchase a PHYSICAL COPY of Salon Sinister! The links are once again linkin' after some techincal issues, so please go support queer horror and thank you SO MUCH for being patient. We love you 🖤 www.salonsinister.com

Cellophane Boy - #poetry by @odinmeadows.bsky.social epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...

Ok, friends, we are DELIGHTED to announce our nominees for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay @awritingwall.bsky.social @odinmeadows.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social Jae Casella @lyfaulk.bsky.social Sama Bell

The Salon is now open... The first issue of our queer horror magazine is official live and ready for you to consume. Step inside. Lose yourself. Find your new favorite writer or artist within. We have such sights to show you🖤 t.ly/MGy-2

if you're not nominating your contributors for the @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards, wyd?

Not sure if you have seen my zines, they may be helpful! “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” Chicago edition: drive.google.com/file/d/1e7Ym...

i would like to see a little less "the cruelty is the point" and a little more "nazis are not safe around me"

Hi, I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner and I endorse this message. People who make you feel bad about being open about your mental illness need to sit with their discomfort and not project it back onto you. Their stigma is not your problem. You are a bright shining star despite your struggles. 🫶🏻

Art isn’t “instinctive” you aren’t born with knowing how to draw. There’s nothing humiliating about putting in the work to learn a new craft.

My #poem "podunk, USA" is out now in the first issue of Outskirts Literary Journal, a journal of poetry and prose living in the periphery. www.outskirtslit.com/odin-meadows #poetry

In case you havent heard, there are 24/7 protests happening in major US cities such as Portland and LA. The protest in LA has been going nonstop for weeks. MSM isn't reporting on it, and videos are being suppressed online. Remember, the revolution will not be televised. #lamusicfestival #protest

Issue 1 of The New Monuments is live. Thank you to the contributors in this inaugural issue. Lance Olsen @lance-olsen.bsky.social Nathan Anderson @njapoetry.bsky.social Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social Rebecca Greenes Gearheart Odin Meadows Heikki Huotari Arnold Koch

reposting with alt text! #MaskUp #MasksWork #CovidIsntOver

We need a radically, militantly kind agenda championed by people who aren't afraid to be radically, militantly kind. And if that sounds gentle and cutesy, well. You are not understanding me when I say "militant"

Over 150 Jews and people of conscience are staging a sit-in at the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in New York City to demand that the U.S. stop starving Gaza immediately.

She's cute, she's sassy, she will *remove your face with a single thoughtful bite*. @slimyswampghost.bsky.social truly outdid himself with this piece for our cover. A lot of love is going into this publication, and it shows. JUST LOOK AT HER! Issue one is coming soon, but watch out. We bite 😘

Let's talk about weird art. Weird art, gross art, sexual art, violent art, all has its place and belongs. And you really need to stop acting like the existence of uncomfortable themes equals harm. That kind of censorship, which IS what that is, only serves to silence and abuse people.

My #poem "Pitch" is out now in The Soliloquist. Read online for free: online.fliphtml5.com/obsvt/jydb/ Or purchase a physical copy: www.lulu.com/shop/martha/... #poetry

Evergreen mood. (Stickers available in my shop: breelundberg.bigcartel.com )

"From inside, came the tips of fingers, then the hand, like a houndstooth glove extending between the folds of crumpled clothes in the bottom of the closet..." read Houndstooth now in the Patterns anthology edited by @sjtownend.bsky.social. mybook.to/patternspape...

Flash Fiction "Unintelligible Mutterings of a Not Yet Dead Corpse" by Odin Meadows “The corpse lies on the couch eating Cheerios while I clean.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/unin...

My poem “Shuck” is out now in Gathered Here Today, an illustrated anthology of #horror poetry from @gravesidepress.bsky.social. geni.us/gatheredhere

Bro, nobody wants to promenade anymore and I’d love to bring this old pastime back. We need to faire the tour. Do you know what I mean? Why are we not strolling the De Young and Academy of Sciences circle, arm in arm while discussing the books we read all week in our fancy wears.

AVAILABLE NOW! PATTERNS - an anthology of pattern-themed HORROR. All 2025 profit to NAPS, a menstrual disorder charity. Paperback and e-book purchase link: t.co/zIAly7U1Dp

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple: there is enough. there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe. once you accept that there's only one question: why don't we?

Kind of hard to focus when they're building concentration camps and threatening to feed citizens to alligators.

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

My story “Overlapping” is out now in Weirdscapes by @inkalchemybooks.bsky.social. You can learn more and purchase a copy here: www.inkalchemybooks.com/weirdscapes #inkalchemybooks #weirdscapes #horror

Horror authors of page and screen, I’m giving you my blessing to abandon any pretense of thematic subtlety. Now is the time to write your “The Stuff” or “Dawn of the Dead” or “They Live.” Take advantage of your power and make sure people don’t fucking forget that pulp is where the truth is.

angsty mentally-ill poem day, gang.

"Stag" by @odinmeadows.bsky.social BFB5 With a father who loves to hunt, a teenage boy must learn to live with his newly grown antlers. www.baublesfrombones.com/stag.html

Happy pride month!! Every issue of BFB features queer writers and stories, so we thought we'd highlight them here for some pride month reading! This first batch covers pieces in BFB4 & 5 - a mix of discovery, small town struggles, and gentle love. Hope you enjoy! 💀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

hi please don't share images or videos of identifiable protestors thank you

some sites on how to help/donate • Know Your Rights: If You Encounter ICE - immigrantjustice.org/for-immigran... • NO to implementing President Trump’s cruel immigration policies - act.amnestyusa.org/page/167629/... • Donate to the Immigrant Defense Project - www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/donate/

donate to help immigration detainees and their families in illinois, missouri, and georgia receive therapy: donorbox.org/therapy-for-...

It is our legal right to protest even if it doesn’t feel like it and they’re trying very hard to make it not so. Be careful out there everybody protesting today (or any day).