It's a great article, yeah, and does raise my interest in Badlands. (Note though, it does contain *heavy* spoilers for Badlands, and I guess technically all three films). But yeah, that's an interesting throughline for the films, and I agree it frames them in fascinating light.

Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.

A Deal with the Devil is finally out! 5.4k of WLW lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers glacially cold revenge fic: how far will Eresh go to destroy Hulngal, the woman who murdered her wife? Subscribers already have it. Yours for $1 at: www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/a-dea... huldrahouse.itch.io/a-deal-with-...

I'd expand this to all authors. In a broader field that is often so isolated and without direct conversation between writer and reader, it is an extraordinary gift to reach out and tell someone how their work impacted you.

A little late out the gate this week, but there's a new Hulderotica story: lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers revenge fic. As always, very queer. A little erotica ... a little monsterfucking. You know, the fun stuff. Links in the QRP:

This is today!!! C'mon out and support some awesome Canadian SFF

If all you think about Black Southern History and all you bring up is slavery? Then you are missing out. Black southern history and culture is not about suffering. It's about art, history, language, music, food, and our accomplishments.

Lake Kaindy is a valley lake made by flooding in Kazakhstan, whose water is so cold that it preserved the spruce trees that grew in the valley for over 100 years. Underworld environmental design drop for you!

With the release of a new story it's worth mentioning again: for those for just want to follow specific pairings through the Hulderotica series, there's a tracking blog (Follow Your Favourites) for who's in which stories up on the Huldra House website: www.huldrahouse.com/into-the-for...

A Deal with the Devil is finally out! 5.4k of WLW lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers glacially cold revenge fic: how far will Eresh go to destroy Hulngal, the woman who murdered her wife? Subscribers already have it. Yours for $1 at: www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/a-dea... huldrahouse.itch.io/a-deal-with-...

Saw a thread on table displays the other day, & while I did reply to that directly, I thought it would be fun to do a thread on it, too. Learn from my mistakes! (photo is from WWC 2025, photo credit: David Kotsibie / Persuasion Photo and Janis Isaman / Photos of People) 1/7

Ryan Coogler and Guillermo del Toro really said “look bitch some of us still know how to make a good movie.” It’s also not shocking that both movies are paranormal thrillers. Enough with movies about boring rich white people talking.

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

[Spelled coupon wrong 4 times writing this (How?!?)] 25% off a bunch of our books from now until year end using code SBP25 smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa... indiepubs.com/collections/...

Free tomorrow afternoon? Like books launches and Canadian spec fic and poetry? Then head down to Bakka-Phoenix Books at 3 pm and grab a copy of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol. 3, meet some of the contributors (me included) and maybe get some books signed, grab some snacks, and just hang out. :)

Like language does not work like this. Translators read for meaning and context they can see the layers in a story and choose a word that works with the theme style and tone of the work, and which will make sense in the translated text. AI can't do that. DISRESPECT everywhere here.

I would like Countess and Skin Thief available in French BUT they must be translated by a human who gets paid. I work with words, and I do not support taking work away from translators. Translation isn't just Word equivalent computing. I don't want that for my books or translators.

have a look at this big long painting of a marl pit I made

Monthly Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #BookSky

HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS RUN WITH THE HUNTED

Thank you to Alex Brown for including Countess on this list. It's especially wonderful to be on it with @brentclambert.bsky.social and @ebonidunbar.bsky.social who I 🖤 I knew I took risks when I wrote Countess. But my goal as an artist is to be bold. Its heartening to see that appreciated. 🔥✊

COMMON BONDS lovers, you can get even more of the good stuff. An entire anthology of short stories and poems that have: 💚 science fiction and fantasy 💚 aromantic MCs 💚 a focus on platonic relationships! Publication in 2026; preorders through late pledges: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... 🌈📚

We're raising $30,000 to keep our nonprofit newsroom running and growing into 2026 and beyond. Great news: Any contribution you make today will matched — that means every dollar you donate will be doubled! 💰 DONATE NOW: blockclubchi.co/3XhDyoZ

i have been DYING to share this cover for SO LONG so everyone please look at it and not my face.

2008-2025 Fuck 🖕 AI

Yes, please, PLEASE make your covet text legible. Contrast is wonderful. Playing with size, tonal values, bordering, highlights, and shading all help. Pick genre complementary fonts, yes. But READABLE ones. It's an accessibility issue, but it's also just good to grab people's attention at a glance.

I should note that price is for novella/novel critiques. I seldom just do evals on shorter work. (I'll edit shorter, but if you're going to pay for shorter fiction evaluations I feel like it should involve direct editing.)

Our next zine sub call is open December 1st through 7th with five themes you can write for: -Cunty Horrors -Cursed Concerts -Monstrous Dating Profiles -Batshit LinkedIn Posts -Nightmare Grifters Pay is 10 cents per word. #writingcommunity cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

We've already met our original goal for this bundle thanks so much !

Don't snitch tag, not even to dunk on or drag people. Especially not when there's a power differential. Trust that if people wanted someone involved in a thing, they'd've tagged them already.

you'll definitely wanna go and make sure because turns out they had engaged the nanny locks for everything on mine

Artists Meeting Artists

Being stuck short $250 of Nov.'s rent, and my week's grace period to get that in ending tomorrow, I'm temporarily bringing back the old price for manuscript critiques as an emergency: $250. Anyone need one? Or have other editing work to pass along? I'm a bit up against it. mathesonfreelancing.com

This is a very good starter pack full of cool trans writers (and also me)

If you call upon the best people in romancelandia, no weapon formed against you shall prosper. @mostlybree.kitrocha.com made these whistles & is sending TONS mo’ to Chicago. I just made these whistle packets to hand out at Broadview ICE & elsewhere. Teamwork really makes the Fuck ICE dream work!! 💚👊🏻

Can not overstate how important this is

There are TOO MANY incredible comic making folks in here to not make its goal, its over 2/3 of the way there with a week left!! Get it to the finish line!!!

Until the 15th November, Synthetic Sea is included in the Trans People Take on The World book bundle - featuring 32 books but 32 trans authors ! If you're looking to stock up your dreaded for the winter take a look ! itch.io/b/3352/trans...

It's gloomy and windy out there; in here we have books, coffee/tea, and a bucket of leftover Halloween candy! Stop by for one, or all three! 🧡👻📚 @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social

Reminder that I have a new story in this awesome anthology with awesome writers:

Part of me looks at this and wonders how much is purely gauche, and how much of this is staff doing or talking him into agreeing to post signage as way pointers/landmarking for someone who we already know has self-described taking a memory assessment test (the one he thought was an IQ test).

Haymarket Books are amazing, 80% off is such a bargain, please go browse

People who table at cons: Please hit me with your best, non-obvious advice? Like: * do you get more business in jeans and a comics tee or in more business casual? * is it better if you're Doing Something or Smiling Aggressively? * better to label books with prices or make people ask? I am baby.

Wish I could've gotten more views on my latest video, 'cos I worked hard and I'm extremely happy with it, I think the script was the best I've written so far, but it's just not getting seen as much compared to my previous video, which is a little disappointing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Oq...

Japan’s METI is really not happy about the payment processor censorship situation automaton-media.com/en/news/no-i...

Check out the latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social! Stories from Claire Jia-Wen, Michael M. Jones, Raja’a Khalid, Madi Haab, Gina Thayer, Rose Maxwell and Bastian Hart. And thank you to @anoteinpink.bsky.social for illustrating the cover! www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky