Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk Mike Davis's City of Quartz Each of these, in some essential way, taught me how to be a person.

thoughts on grace and finding it in risking your life www.publishingishard.com/grace-will-f...

new Publishing is Hard on the singular joys of jumping in an alpine lake. spoiler: it sucks. www.publishingishard.com/go-find-a-la...

Exciting news! Tickets are on sale NOW for our Writing Retreat on a Cruise Ship! Join @maryrobinettekowal.com @howardtayler.bsky.social @dongwon.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social & @sandratayler.bsky.social in 2026 in a voyage to Alaska www.tickettailor.com/events/writi...

This week's episode of @writingexcuses.bsky.social is focused on my own personal creative practices. I talk about how being bored is one of the best ways to keep moving forward towards your goals. This was a fun conversation and you can check it out below: redcircle.com/shows/848724...

woah woah woah, two weeks in a row with newsletters? is this habit forming? www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...

"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'" Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay: www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...

being open to subs after the advent of generative ai sure is... different.

Hello! I'm open to unsolicited submissions for the first time in ages... Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...

forgive me for i have committed newsletter www.publishingishard.com/do-it-yourse...

immigration is good, actually.

Gotta say, these protests and the city of LA fighting to take care of their neighbors is the most hopeful I've felt in a bit.

You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.

We are excited to announce that @dongwon.bsky.social will be joining @maryrobinettekowal.com and @sandratayler.bsky.social in Minnesota from June 15th-21st for our 2nd (re)Generate Retreat!

Anyway, the truth is it’s not hard to stand up to genocide apologists. Just say “This is awful; I cannot fathom how any person could justify this.“ And then when they try to justify it you say, “No, I don’t think you understand: This is unfathomably cruel.” That’s it! You did it!

i gotta be honest... i've played all 3 mass effect games multiple times and i have no idea what n7 means or why it matters. it really never comes up in the games? i was always confused why it was on all the branding/shepard's uniforms.

Ode to butterbutts.

it doesn't fly so no, mister detective bladerunner would not have driven it.

oh this is thrilling news for so many reasons: www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1... well. for certain definitions of thrilling I suppose.

reminder to everyone to turn off your phones, don't take photos of people's faces, and please god use signal or something similar to coordinate if you're going to protests.

PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data. You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly. More on this feature here: https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/

leaving october with a very different life than the one i entered with

Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊ Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.

That Home Depot/milkshake analogy is going to live absolutely rent-free in my head forever.

Idea for a blades in the dark style inventory system for D&D 5e. The core idea is that you would have a number of abstracted slots for useful items (think rope, bag of caltrops, a set of masonry tools, false identification papers). Everytime you find an inn or a shop you can reset your inventory.

chaotic neutral. look, i read a lot of contracts and portrait mode makes sense for that.

It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday. “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

it's very very good

BURY YOUR GAYS cover has been released today and theres something TRULY INCREDIBLE about it, something that bends timelines and melts away the edges of the void and brings tears to my eyes. can you see it? let me explain in a thread as you PREORDER NOW...  tornightfire.com/catalog/bury...

Starting now! Come through and say hi!

I'm starting to keep (public) development journals for my analog games projects! The first one is for a set-matching card game called Witch Please, which is also going to have a roleplaying layer. First journal is open to non-subscribers: www.patreon.com/posts/911003...

Honestly, this broke me a little bit.

I'm not bad news, this is out today for any WoW players out there ☺️ www.amazon.com/World-Warcra...

Devil: Here's the deal: you can be the greatest city in the world... NYC: Fuck yeah! [signs contract] Devil: ...but I choose your mayors.

same, bud. same.

it's nice to find out you're not the only weirdo who holds a contrarian belief www.polygon.com/23894643/ful...

Finally the New York Times publishes something good

Finished the Noumenon trilogy by @marinalostetter.bsky.social. Started out as a "let's explore the stars" series, and...well, you'll have to read the series to see just how far it goes (and I would recommend that you do it, it's that good).

baylan's after the world between worlds right? that's what he's going for, right? like there has to be an entrance here now that the one on lothal is gone.

there's no real difference between a cleric, a paladin, and a warlock. it's just do you want honey mustard, bbq, or buffalo for those chicken nuggies.

We'll be doing a live Q&A on YouTube tonight! It starts in about 10 minutes, and we'll post the link as soon as it's ready. On deck tonight: @dongwon.bsky.social and @howardtayler.bsky.social !

Tomorrow, KNOW YOUR STATION VOL 1 – the collected issues of the comic I created with legendary artist @lianakangas.bsky.social – comes out everywhere books are sold. If you want to see billionaires get what’s coming to them, this book is for you. Here’s all the places you can buy it 🧵

went back to cyberpunk after the 2.0 release this weekend and after putting many hours into starfield... guys, i think we were too mean to cyberpunk. or not mean enough to starfield. starfield is just... so bland. even the edgelord nonsense of night city seems nourishing now.

UNIONS!

So, last night was *supposed* to feature a YouTube Q&A with @dongwon.bsky.social and @howardtayler.bsky.social, but the calendar technology daemons decreed that neither of them should actually know about it. We'll make it up to you, but we need to tidy up this summoning circle first...

me playing a bethesda game 1hr: wtf are these faces so scary 3hrs: ugh these menus are so bad 10hrs: i hate this combat 60hrs: wow this game is awful 2000hrs: this game sucks 10000hrs: when are they making a sequel

Reminder to new users: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

Finally occurred to me to put my newsletter link in my bio. Stone Soup features essays, recipes, and guest features from truly incredible writers. It's also the spot where I share what I'm reading and highlight upcoming new releases. god help me I really love the damn thing and maybe you will too

trying to source a very specific device for a very specific need. For reasons I've banned my phone from my bedroom, but I'd still like to know what layers to put on to walk the dog on waking. I want a standalone, small object that will display current weather conditions and that's it.