Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans? Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/ Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

single author collections with weird heads and released on 9.16.25 that i am currently aware of ✅

The amount of support we’ve received since starting up our Patreon continues to blow us away. There are 189 of you—both free and paid—and in these times? That means a lot. As a thank you, when we hit 200 patrons we’ll do a giveaway of a 6 month Patreon subscription which gets you our first issue!

May I suggest payment processors and their bullshit puritanical crusades?

We're up to 193 since posting this 👀 7 more members, free or paid, and we'll do a giveaway for a 6 month Patreon sub which will get you (forever) access to our Discord server, and our first issue when it comes out in March!

Scam alert: a scammer is soliciting authors in the name of the Crime Writers Association, offering "trend analysis" and other bogus services. I suspect this is another of the Nigerian PR scams that are so prevalent right now thecwa.co.uk/news/beware-...

My OB-GYN friend posted this elsewhere, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

The word is out! I'll be Guest of Honor at Arisia this January! This is baby's first Guesting. I don't think I've ever been a 'guest' at any event. But now I shall guest... WITH HONOR.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

This is the key point. There is no legally definable organization. But that won’t matter when they’re black bagging random protesters and renditioning them to Gitmo. They’re gonna use PATRIOT ACT tactics to deny rights and pack on elevated charges on simple 1A actions.

It's officially fall, which means you're now legally required to purchase THE WHOLE SHEBANG (every horror/Weird fiction ebook and digital zine we've published as of August 2025) for yourself and your morbid friend/family member. #booksky www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

Won't be around much the next couple of days for Rosh Hashanah. May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life for a healthy and safe new year. May this be the year of universal liberation for everyone. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

feels like a reallllly good time to repost this piece. It's specific to vaccine misinfo, but applicable to all of the nonsense from today.

Or I guess technically one of those publications could accept the story the day I post this. Which, um, yeah, there's my first short story sale to a market under my lived name. (Also technically breaking a four-year drought...) Details to follow once a contract is signed. But hey, story sale. :D

One of the things keeping me afloat during last week's personal shit is that two different markets (both allowing simsubs) have had the same subbed story on hold for further review for a while now. Meaning there's a non-zero chance of the funniest thing happening...

Coming up real soon! October 4 & 5 at the Tranzac Club in Toronto: Little Ghosts Festival! Stelliform will be there with authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, and Syr Hayati Beker! Come for the best indie books, readings, and panels, plus indie horror films!

So, I recently moved and multiple things were destroyed in the move, including one of my monitors, the stand for my other monitor, and my desk. If you want to help me replace these items which I need to write, you can donate to my Kofi or Patreon. Thank you 💜 dax.ink/tip dax.ink/patreon

Check this out and support your NSFW artists 🩷 now more than ever

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The submission window for Reckoning X closes at the end of tomorrow! Now paying 15c/wd for prose, $75/page for poetry and art! Please submit? reckoning.press/general-subm...

This is an issue. The thing with my mental health and I'm only going to speak for myself here...is that I have had this my entire life. I had thought when I was in uni that when I got better that it would never happen again. It's happened 4 times since. I had no info on it being a lifelong thing.

Emphasizing this excellent point: speaking only positively of any health condition isolates people who are really suffering. Even if it isn’t a policy, discouraging people from talking honestly about conditions, treatment, etc endangers people at the highest risk to protect people from discomfort.

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

Veronica Park did these covers! She is AMAZING and you can FEEL the love of birds/nature/mushrooms/all sorts of cool stuff when you look at her portfolio! veronicapark.com

i'm against the new TOS because no matter how uncomfortable you are with certain subjects, it's very easy to see how bad-faith interpretations of art could be weaponized, especially against marginalized artists, who are more likely to be targeted for harassment #bskycensorship

HOW TO LET BSKY KNOW THEIR POLICY CHANGES HARM ARTISTS: A GUIDE FOR MOBILE USERS! 🧵 Sending feedback is SUPER easy, and takes just a few clicks! 1. Open the left tab menu, and click that "feedback" button 2. Put your concern in the box. I'll copy paste a script to use! (CONT.)

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Seriously. If I wanted to host/run/mod a walled garden of a fucking forum, I'd already be doing that.

I see from various posts that the weird coding guy who maintains the "engages political drama, ugh* blocklist is bulk adding people again. I've been on there since end of January when we were all watching the orange fucknut roll out a blur of nightmare policies. So "neutral" here = conservative. ->

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Do you not know how to be sure your art doesn’t break Bluesky’s new rules? ✨I made a guide for you✨ Follow these simple rules and you won’t get blocked (⁠◡⁠ ω ⁠◡⁠) (If I get blocked after this post, don’t use this advice)

I've got about a month left until my move to Montréal. For anyone who wants to chip in and help a transfemme author get to a safer place for school, I have two ways I'm fundraising. A GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum... And a book bundle itch.io/s/159177/the...

Hi, Rhodes Scholar and Oxford grad here. This is trash.

Yeah, holy shit. I just checked, mine and @shaxbert.bsky.social 's comments calling them out- which have 2.6k and 1.6k likes respectively, are just fucking GONE. Can't even find them by scrolling down anymore, they straight up 'hid' them. Fucking cowards. bsky.app/profile/did:...

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

A Study on Magic and Crystals is coming out October 24th and you can get it now on pre-order! Or, request an eARC and read early! Talita must travel to the fairy city to learn magic and count on Marcela and Solis for help Preorder: maybarros.com.br/a-study-on-m... eARCs: forms.gle/MpadTKhTshki...

Exactly. This is the time to bitch and moan about the issue. Don’t tell me you don’t know how to complain about crappy policies because we know that’s not true

The solution right now is not saying “move to Mastodon, to Pillowfort, use Picarto galleries” etc, bc that won't stop this silent escalation of censorship and sexual repression on the internet. The issue is not which platform we choose, but rather raising our voices against what is happening.

Would you like some free queer Weird Fiction/post-apocalyptic romance? How about *3*? Links in the blog below to the free-to-read Titan and Serpent stories. Also, a not so subtle reminder the full collection is out in 2026, and I'm fundraising toward that come October... And again: FREE STORIES!

everything changed, everything destroyed, everything gone

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

I really need people to learn that boycotts do not work on a short time frame and if you plan on returning even if stated demands aren't met. It's performative. Instead, submit feedback and your demands, support artists (especially those who are marginalised). They'd just see silence as compliance.

Tomorrow, Monday 22 September the general submissions story portal for Translunar Travelers Lounge will be open. Speculative fiction of 5000 words or less. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/