I remember saying during the 2016 election that while I don't think Trump has eaten human flesh, given his fastidiousness, I'm 100% certain he's been in a room where human flesh was being eaten.

I got snipped at the last time I went off on Trope Derangement Syndrome…but every time I see one of those graphics I get incredibly sad for my profession. Art is more than the sum of its TV Tropes tags! Our work is not “content!!” Let us not go gentle into that extremely online night!!!

Philip K. Dick took 40 amphetamine pills a day and they named a writing award after him

has a bad writing day: my creativity has deserted me forever. I will never create again. has a good writing day: this is amazing, I am a literary giant and I will never die. has a bad writing day: my creativity has deserted me forever. I will never create again. has a good writin

Moratorium on 'deluxe limited editions' of SFF books if they don't have notes, introductions, or supplementary material, please and thank you.

next time i ask the universe for more old man yaoi, I am going to be a LOT more specific

I have a pretty new website so I should put up an awards eligibility post, right?

I mean, Jirel tells me what to write but the rest of you? Get going!!

KEEP HONKING I'M LISTENING TO THE HONEYED LIES OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER

You all may disagree but I found this line in GDT's new Frankenstein movie to be absolutely haunting

If it came out that a political candidate I had supported was very obviously and credibly a pedophile, I would simply stop supporting them

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

The belief that one gets some kind of gold star for being correct first is one of the worst parts of terminally online political discourse. We were all mad when Dems surrendered the shutdown, so why are we waving the white flag?

Read your contracts, friends.

Convincing you to read my collection with the first sentence. (“Another Country Doctor”, first story in Constellations of Ruin, 2023 Trepidatio Publishing: journalstone.com/bookstore/co...)

The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art

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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (This is the opening of BENNY RAMÍREZ AND THE NEARLY DEPARTED.)

Convincing you to read my novel with the first few sentences. (No clean break after first sentence, sorry!) Share yours if you want. KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST Why not a @bookshop.org link today? bookshop.org/p/books/kali...

Convincing you to *pre-order my *novella with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (And Side by Side They Wander, May '26: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...)

Yay yes 100% this

*sips milk* You remind me of someone I have a fixation on.... can't put my finger on it tho.... *holds glass of milk to the camera*

FRANKENSTEIN, Guillermo del Toro (2025)

I think the best part of the del Toro FRANKENSTEIN is when William looks right at Victor and says, “Victor, YOU are the monster!!!!” Boy, if only Mary Shelley had thought to put that line in her book she would have saved us all a lot of head-scratching!

And he ended it with a quote from Byron. Give me a fucking break. I quit

Mary Shelley: I am going to write a novel about how men, to the misery and folly of the world, think they understand everything better than women, including making new life! Male filmmakers: I understand the story of Frankenstein much better than its author

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.

Wow.

There is also someone in a very natty suit, much like that guy from the photograph!

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

I had never heard of this show before and now I will 100% be watching it

I'm doing my "first pass" proofread on my forthcoming Tordotcom novella, about an interstellar art heist, and was delighted to remember I'd included the "art banana" (aka Comedian, by Maurizio Cattelan) among the various works mentioned.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Anybody confident in their Latin who would be willing to do me a very quick favor please DM or reply to me!

I don't think we should depend on the afterlife to punish those currently in power

Amazon: "continue these series you've started!!!" "The Stranger: Reckoning" by Chris Striker (book 2 of 2 of "The Stranger") Wtf did I start reading? When did I buy this? [Clicks book 1] "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Congrats to the winners and nominees! A lot of tough choices this year but very excited this is finally out there in the world.

New author photo??

My rep! 🤝

Is the baseball still happening or is Bluesky safe again

What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.

Eat shit Nigel

I set up a monthly donation to my local food bank last week when I was feeling particularly bleak about the state of things!

as someone who used and occasionally still browses that site: yea, it's a tool that could be put to so much better use but we have to grapple with the fact that fandom brain has been largely deleterious on our collective comprehension

I blame TV Tropes for making fiction and stories puzzles to solve instead of experiences to enjoy. Cinema Sins and other youtubers would follow. Also the site began as a Joss Whedon fansite which fucking explains everything.

Look at the shitty little smile on this shitty little Nazi's shitty little face

My judgment is the product of years of observation thank you. TV Tropes is terrible for consumers and artists alike. When authors start to talk about the "tropes" in their work I want to die. Trope-think is reductive and flattening. Art is more than the sum of its parts. At least it should be