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Any combination of: queer (SFF-focused) bookstore, cafe, community maker space w/classes. Just a nice little spot for me and all my fellow freaks to hang out and craft and do cool things together 💚

SFBC is finishing our season on our favorite post: the Short Fiction Book Club Awards! We read many gems this year, but we've voted on our favorites. I'm happy to present our slate of awards (with very normal award names and presenter speeches). www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

For my fellow professional procrastinators, here are a few things I think are worth your attention as you scramble to get your #HugoAwards noms in for @laworldcon.bsky.social! (Deadline is March 28!)

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

100% crimes, as it turns out. Maternal side were kicked out of Denmark when an antecedent beat up his boss after not getting paid; paternal great-grandfather had to be smuggled out of Ireland because he’d been running weapons for the IRA.

One of my favorite quotes...

This. Fuck, this so often

You ever meet someone & think like “Jesus Christ where have you BEEN, why haven’t we been friends this whole TIME” but are faced with the harsh reality of having to BE COOL and not be all “hey uhhh I know we’re both 30-40,with deep friend benches, but can you please make room for me immediately??”

get weirder and weirder forever until you have alienated all but your staunchest allies.

Eligibility post: I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club 🧵

Have been grumbled at repeatedly over the holidays because I'm bad at Posting Art where people can see it so uh...guess I'm doing that now! Will start with this piece that started as a Pride Month 2023 project & morphed into a gift for my grandmother. Handpainted paper roses on a grapevine wreath.

wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

real and true

Rough week for fans of games made by human beings. I really need studios to understand that it does not matter how many of your games I love - this is an immediate and permanent dealbreaker and you will never see another cent from me.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

this AI shit is not gonna break me. I am still a writer and I'm still gonna write shit and it's gonna mostly be "just OK" workaday prose elevated by my little poetic flourishes but it's gonna be something only I could write. and maybe I won't even do anything with it, but it will exist

it's important for everyone to know that if I ever fall off talking to you or interacting with you I almost certainly still like you exactly the same amount that I always have, my brain is just made of potato

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

The announcers keep saying that both teams are almost out of pitchers, but they’re forgetting that pitchers and catchers report soon.

The AI book promotion scammers would like to help the r/Fantasy mod team sell our book that totally exists! Isn't that nice of them?

at the end of the day can the government just hop off my nuts

Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.

I don't care how good your How To podcast is, I can read faster than they can talk, stop speaking and link me to the transcript tyvm

My expectations were low, but I didn't think I needed "left out of the apology entirely" on my bingo card.

I'm sure we could get more than 80 signatures based on just the people whose names y'all didn't read or mispronounced, including the r/Fantasy team whom you snickered at the size of before ignoring entirely at the ceremony, and did not even include in this apology 🙄

Years ago my first novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and when it came time for the nominees to be read out I got to hear the MC, a brilliant fantasist whose work I love, absolutely butcher the title. Just trip over it repeatedly. "The Lies of Lack... Lockey... uh, Lackey Lammer-ah?" 🧵

A delightful poem by my incredibly talented friend @digicara.bsky.social! Check it out!

i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it

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

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

"what's your creative process like?" bold of you to assume I have a process instead of the sudden obsessions that come to me in the form of a hazy delusion that I have little control over

Unbelievably stoked to share that the r/Fantasy team has been nominated for Best Related Work! We're up against an impressive field but it's an incredible honor just to have our fun not-so-little game included! See y'all in Seattle! ✨🚀

New "Mesocyclone" dice by @runesael.bsky.social have arrived and I am in LOVE, I cannot stop looking at them! Absolutely gorgeous work, couldn't be happier 🤩💙🌀 (...and the resident Orange Dingus has already tried to steal one!)

The Cubs won the World Series

A friend linked this to me, and I think it's important and validating reading in these times. Small actions count. The fight is always worth fighting. Fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

My custom Watchers notebook from @speechlessbard.com arrived! Absolutely gorgeous work, everything I hoped for and I can't wait to start using it. Noor was a delight to work with on this - can't recommend them highly enough for all your TTRPG leather needs! 🖤💜

This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.

r/Fantasy's Book Bingo has been going on for a decade now. Consider if it deserves a Hugo nomination for "Best Related Work"! (in my wholly unbiased opinion it definitely does) redd.it/1ic5f25

In a liminal place where extinct species walk beside the souls of lost humans, Osian, ferrier of the dead, must rediscover how to be human after being tasked with caring for his murdered siblings’ living children. Piranesi x The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands #2025Pit #A #SPF #LGBT

Nyn was a bright light in the WoW community. I didn't know her well, but the few conversations we had were so positive and her care for everyone came through so clearly - she was truly one of the helpers, and she'll be dearly missed. 💚

Have we done the research yet to figure out if the same people vehemently against non-binary pronouns are the same ones who had issues using the correct "their" and "they're" during the pre-autocorrect era of the internet?

Fledgling Manor is available now with a special launch discount! Please enjoy our funny, sexy, weird game about vampires, reality TV, and a metalhead from upstate New York store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/...

My favorite World of Darkness artist @shaydh.bsky.social - and friends! - are making a delightful vampire game and you should go check it out and wishlist it and all that good stuff so they will keep making delightful vampire things ok thanks byyyeeee 🖤🩸🧛

RIP to one of the greatest to ever play the game.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖