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And yes, we’re all pressed for time, but reading exclusively from award nomination (or winner) lists is so limiting. You’re missing so much. Find some hidden gems and then talk them up. Read the smaller mags. Read diversely across the board.

Waffle, bacon, hash browns, grits, coffee ☕

These armour studies have been great for getting me out of a creative funk! All done on Procreate @procreate on the iPad Pro

Contract signed! My story "In the Blue Hour" will appear in a future issue of Apex ✨ I'm unbelievably excited!

Hands down "Still Life with Cranberries." It is the angriest, most honest story I have ever written. Bog bodies. Strange plants. A desperate search for yourself in the past. The desire to preserve your experience for those who will come after you. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/stil...

a 13th-14th century seal depicting a squirrel encircled by the words I CRAKE NOTIS ('i crack nuts')

I walked away from a contract with Asimov's over, among other things, a refusal to guarantee they wouldn't use GenAI for promotional images. It's not just solidarity, it's the reputational harm everyone associated with the project suffers when slop is used to promote it.

Drunk Monk - 14th century, Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 5128, f. 76v

I think we could do with a little less "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm traumatized in these ways." and a lot more "Don't worry, I'm allowed to make this art because I'm allowed to make any art. And also, it's none of your fucking business whether or not I am traumatized."

Millipedic rat-catcher about to skewer

The walls of my dentist office are all glass which means that every time I get a cleaning they get to watch me leave and beeline straight for the Krispy Kreme drive-thru

all of this comes down to the extremely stupid idea that there are pure and correct forms of desire (kissing, hugging, cuddling, "intimacy" lmfao) and impure forms (arousal, desire, depiction of genitals, self-pleasure) and once again this is all just puritan horseshit designed wield shame as power

i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.

Literally under $10 away from having enough to cover this bill (and having pennies left but that's not the point the bill will be covered). 96% of the goal. Cover that and then you can stop seeing my sorry-ass donation post all over your feeds every day. 🥺 ko-fi.com/hyenalope/go...

Vincent van Gogh Trees and Undergrowth, 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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Hands down "Still Life with Cranberries." It is the angriest, most honest story I have ever written. Bog bodies. Strange plants. A desperate search for yourself in the past. The desire to preserve your experience for those who will come after you. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/stil...

discord i was TALKING

Exile 320x180px 13 colors #pixelart

Big if true

The S line (the S stands for salmon) #art

Contract signed! My folk horror flash story "The Deading Veil" will appear in a future episode of Podcastle!

For those who enjoyed the Red-Winged Blackbird photo from yesterday, here's a slow motion video that gives you another perspective. #wildlife #birds (No sound as it was captured at 120fps).

Author's note: I personally like every character in this novel you're about to read and agree with all the choices they make.

Tomorrow the first car I ever bought is going to the big CarMax in the sky and while it is making room for some good changes in my life I'm also feeling very sad about it. Thanks for the memories, little Honda. You were a good one.

"The Girl Detective" is one of my absolute favorite @nadiaradovich.bsky.social stories. Girlhood, point-and-click Nancy Drew games, and doing our best to remember the friends we lose prematurely. It's a quick, gorgeous read.

👏🏻 no one writes in isolation 👏🏻

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Turning ai slop emails from scammers into horror poetry

The Knights Hospitaller fortress of Feraklos, Rhodes, held by the order from 1307-1522. Resplendent today with wildflowers and in bright sunlight. Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting my fieldwork on the 1480 Siege of Rhodes and its cultural repercussions

Pleased to report that my $50 ebay serger appears to be in perfect working order and as far as I can tell conceals no horrors beyond human comprehension. Every now and then a gamble pays off

Val had tasted fear in her apprenticeship days. Medical memories: final thoughts extracted from those who had donated their bodies to science, used for training purposes. The drop of cadaver fear had clung to her fingertip like a burr, writhing anxiously. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-if-y...

PONDERING MY BORB

32x32px Creatures #pixelart

Monstera Mantis🌱 #art #design

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

calling all my queer ships the peqoud now

I know I repost my regular link every other day, but I have bills coming up next month I don't know that I'll be able to cover on account of school vacation next week (ie, no paycheck for me next week and only $90 this week) You know the drill. 💕 ko-fi.com/hyenalope/go...

this is an astounding way to refer to an adaptation of Neuromancer. incredible headline work if your goal is to send a bunch of thirtysomethings on a rage spiral.

Val had tasted fear in her apprenticeship days. Medical memories: final thoughts extracted from those who had donated their bodies to science, used for training purposes. The drop of cadaver fear had clung to her fingertip like a burr, writhing anxiously. inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-if-y...

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

Four years ago today, I posted my first beetle moses comic

this is my fave beetlemoses for many reasons, one of which is the great face at the end that holds so many feels

Alfred Kubin, 'The Creature from Mars,' 1906

"The Girl Detective" is one of my absolute favorite @nadiaradovich.bsky.social stories. Girlhood, point-and-click Nancy Drew games, and doing our best to remember the friends we lose prematurely. It's a quick, gorgeous read.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying