Hey y'all! Remember how AL took all our money? They claim we still owe $20k & have to pay $900/month to avoid having our accounts frozen again. The lawyers are working to straighten this out still but... well. lolcry TIME FOR ETSY THREADS! The giant clicky purple d20s are back!

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I imagine someone beat me to this. (I'm not checking that many quote posts.) But it had to be done.

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On sale until July 31! It's 2020 and Norah inherits her estranged father's family home a few months into pandemic lockdown. Sure, it's haunted, but at least she no longer has to shelter in place with Greg. Ghosts? It's a lot like choosing the bear. 🥰 books2read.com/dwelleronthe...

Just under fifteen hours to go and we're so close to $2k. Who wants to help push us over the line? People are also welcome to get us to $3.3k (200%)... That would also be cool, but let's at least finish this with something over $2k, yeah? :)

I really hope TNN can hit $7,000 before this weekend's out — we're about $500 away right now — on our fundraiser. We're trying to keep the lights on and, if things go well, start badly-needed fellowships for particularly marginalized trans journalists.

Another reason to financially support magazines/small publications is so that they'll be able to subscribe to whatever tool/resource becomes available to combat this influx of bad-actor submissions because capitalism will not sleep on this opportunity. 💁🏽‍♀️

Every single story about Sam Neill is the best story about Sam Neill.

yet somehow i manage without an automatic liar built out of stolen data and bullshit get fucked with this smol bean shit

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Thinking about how fun it would be to hit 69 buyers for this bundle We need 18 buyers to get there & we have a little less than two days left, so it probably won't happen but... what if it did 👀

NEW: A federal book banning bill has been introduced in the Senate. It's time to make our voices heard. Tell your Senators to REJECT pro-censorship legislation like S. 4925 that would limit the freedom to read! We need every advocate to speak out against censorship: action.ala.org/campaign/S4925

If any of the comic publishers is looking to revamp this, I have a co-writer lined up and we are READY!

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Seven more days until the big move, so I'm doing one last bump for the "help Lee get out of Kentucky and settle in Chicago!" fundraiser 🫡 I'm so grateful for everyone's help boosting and donating, and can't express how much of a difference it all makes www.gofundme.com/f/help-lee-m...

I think the only way we get out of this is solidarity between artists, including artists whose work is too weird or explicit for your taste but also including artists whose work is too twee or insipid for your taste, no one's work is so bad it should be considered fair game to plagiarize and exploit

That is why this broad and indiscriminate scraping is so awful, there is no work so weird or authentic, so personal or human or heartfelt, so politically progressive or righteous, that its text can't be ingested, digested, recombined, and reproduced- that is the entire problem and the entire outrage

I think to claim any aesthetic or thematic niche is immune from detectable generative AI works is misguided, automated scraping isn't a human curating only the most successful and average work to reproduce- weird niche works were scraped too, broad and indiscriminate, and they can be spat out again

Change/wash your filters! Home HVAC filter? Window a/c unit filter? CPAP filter? Car HVAC filter? Filters!

Coming off reading Birdie Schae's Smash or Pass (YA Autistic POV Sapphic Romance), and there's just something really lovely about seeing Autism front and centre done well, written by an autistic author, actually coming out from trad pub. Doesn't hurt that it's also actually quite a good book. :) ->

"What made you decide to transition?" Well...

I think it’s more simple than that - American science fiction (at least the kind they’re drawing from) IS reactionary futurism!!

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.

Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South

Share this with anyone who doubts the effect of anti-trans laws. Then imagine a kid whose parents are specifically unsupportive and school officials who are the same. These laws are murderous.

"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses." - Utah Phillips

this is where I mention I wrote a Māori midgrade fantasy novel with a trans MC that we ended up taking to market *right* as Trump swept into office and every publisher got extremely gun-shy about trans books all of a sudden. I still have it. It'll probably never come out.

Doug Ford is dangerous. #onpoli #cdnpoli

ATTENTION ALL NEW YORK TRANNIES WHO GOT FUCKED BY THE TECH INDUSTRY

I’m especially interested in: - reviews / close readings of SFFH fiction and scholarship (new or old), by or about QPOC - evidenced analyses of the current SFFH publishing landscape, performed through a queer-of-color lens Seeking 1K - 3500 words and paying $0.05/word — take a chance! (2/2)

Attention SFFH Writers & Critics who are queer people of color: This is a reminder that @anathemamagazine.bsky.social will be open to submissions until July 20th! I’d love to see more nonfiction submissions before this window closes — (1/2)

Two days left for the Strange Horizons fundraiser and we’re in sight of our final stretch goal: 10 cents a word for our fiction writers! Help us get there!

I don't know anyone who works as hard as Hailey does. If she didn't have to be her mother's full-time caretaker and cover all the extra costs of her cancer treatment, she wouldn't be in this mess. She's one of the first trans ppl to run for political office in Brazil. PLEASE HELP.

AI discourse is taking up too much oxygen (in addition to water) in writer spaces and it's bumming me right the fuck out. What is a delightful/weird/delightfully weird story you've read this year? Include read/purchase links. Get some humans paid.

I just wrote a bunch of PC ministers to ask them to do their damn jobs and help the Northern communities currently being devastated by wildfires. You can find their contact info here: www.ola.org/en/members/c...

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payment for novelettes will be flat-fee based, and we'll have more info for you in the future. this is for just in case you wanted to write a gloomy, tomb-y longboi in advance of October. thank you for visiting The Deadlands. (3/3)

😱💀🤔 we want to read your best death fiction from 7,500 to 17,500 words during the month of October. all deathy all Death swish (2/3)

HELLO AUTHORS. The Deadlands will open to short story submissions (up to 5,000 words) for the entire month of October. but wait there's MORE For the first time everrr we are opening to NOVELETTE SUBMISSIONS (1/3)

So these last two weeks have been so emotionally draining for me as a dementia caregiver that I barely have the motivation to think about freelance writing. Can I get at least $65 for my monthly therapy session? ko-fi.com/latonyap

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There’s too much snide whining and whinging and blaming going on, and some of it is being aimed at the wrong people: blame the Ai techbros and the scammers. Extend editors some grace. It’s not an easy job and it’s done for love. We all want the same thing.

I need to take a moment to remind everyone that the vast majority of fiction editors are doing the best they can in very difficult times for little money with little time. If all those editors decide to step down, you know what? your work won’t get published. There won’t be anyone to publish it.

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man it sucks to see people blaming small SFF magazines and their volunteer staff for getting got by AI submissions. this is like those smug jerks who think they're too clever to get taken in by phone scams. I get it, man. I'd like to be unfoolable also. but unfortunately none of us are.

I'm not being flippant - there is a deeper issue here. For years, many corners of the publishing industry cultivated a preference for a specific type of story structure and voice, which are now being regurgitated by AI. Editors who read widely can spot it, folks who don't read widely can struggle