It's fine not to like things! You not liking it doesn't make the thing you don't like "pointless."

Books are bottled empathy. They’re telepathy in physical form. Fiction makes us better people because it gives us a safe place to experience and learn to care through the most complex pain. Remember: fascists have designated empathy a sin & moral failing. They don’t want you caring for anyone.

My body has a lot of opinions for something that doesn't work

Just finished And Side by Side Wander by @mollytanzer.bsky.social Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com (LOVED all three of these SO MUCH) And am halfway through Life Underground by Terry Williams

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [lute solo to rocke the ren fayre] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

For my fellow sound designers, what services do you use and love? I have my personal foley lib (made my moi), but used to supplement with Storyblocks before they started allowing AI.

For my fellow sound designers, what services do you use and love? I have my personal foley lib (made my moi), but used to supplement with Storyblocks before they started allowing AI.

Even the pope wants you to finish that screenplay

5) by buying the book, you're helping me, yes, and you're also helping me volunteer more time to help other authors with layouts and wording and feedback. There you have it. Five reasons, one book. But seriously, buy this thing. I'm so fucking proud of it. prismata-press.itch.io/mara

We’re accepting shortform writing in all genres for guest judge @crsutton.bsky.social’s Flash 405: “Loop” writing contest! Send us your multi-genre work by July 5 for your chance to win cash prizes, publication, and entrance into the #ExpoFam. Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlashLoop.

In this new (free!) essay, Miranda Jensen dreams about what speculative fiction could be and what it might mean to embrace all the possibilities it can afford. Read it here: www.speculativeinsight.com

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Blocking anyone making pro-genAI apologia based on using it as a “brainstorming partner.” Get out of here w/that brain-stultifying BS. Brainstorming is a human communal process that pushes the limits of serendipitous orthogonal connections OUR BRAINS make together&the satisfaction that entails.

And they've ALWAYS offered pro-rates, even from the very beginning. Now they need to reach at least $30,000 to keep their above-pro-rate of 10c a word. Consider supporting @strangehorizons.bsky.social so we can keep seeing all the great spec fiction, poetry, and articles they publish. (3/3)

50% off all ebooks until July 4th in dishonor of Amaz*n. Use code COMPOSITE at www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks.

My newsletter got a bit spicy this week buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Keep your whimsy. Even if it makes you look "cringe". Just cause you're older doesn't mean you have to drop things you liked as a kid or still enjoy. We lose so much of ourselves cause of fear of judgment but you will realize that noone really gives a fuck in the long run. Allow yourself happiness.

Does anyone have recs of how to send money internationally in ways equivalent to venmo and zelle? I have authors outside the US I want to approach for Sci-Fi Snack Stop episodes and want to be able to pay them.

Does anyone have recs of how to send money internationally in ways equivalent to venmo and zelle? I have authors outside the US I want to approach for Sci-Fi Snack Stop episodes and want to be able to pay them.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. @atthisarts.com www.straitstimes.com/life/arts/si...

Anyone using AI 'to research' has no idea how to properly do actual research. Signed, A PhD who still has finger cramps from editing her literature review, footnotes and bibliography.

Congrats to all the Nebula Award winners, including Story Hour guests @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social (who seems to be on a roll), and @effies.bsky.social! Watch Effie read her Nebula-winning story alongside the marvelous @jrdawson.bsky.social with her nominee! youtu.be/5T5WrJV2v40

When Nikita was writing this, she was at an intersection of inspiration and grief. In less than 100 words, you can feel that so fully in this story.

Print copies now available for readers in the US and UK, coming soon to more locations/retailers! Order here: tinyurl.com/yey7rhrx 🧡 Want a print subscription? Join the Pathfinder or Cartographer tiers in the next 24 hours to make the Issue 2 shipment cutoff: www.patreon.com/c/othersides... 💜

When Nikita was writing this, she was at an intersection of inspiration and grief. In less than 100 words, you can feel that so fully in this story.

Spend a minute and 37 seconds getting a great story into your brain through your ear holes 😍

Esraa from Gaza has been accepted with a fee waiver to a master's program at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, but in order to qualify for a student visa she needs money for her evacuation, resettlement, and living expenses.

Five years ago, I started writing a strange little short story about a family of time-traveling refugees. Today, “Immigrant Girl from the End of the World” was published in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 🥹 Read it here: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/immi...

Spend a minute and 37 seconds getting a great story into your brain through your ear holes 😍

For over 30 years, Subterranean Press has created beautiful, thoughtful special edition books and published beloved stories within the SFF community. We are sad to hear the news about Subterranean's impending closure and wish the best for the team moving forward.

Literally just finished the audio book of The Language of Liars by @slhuang.com and when I tell you I cried buckets, I am not exaggerating. Highly highly recommend this stunning work. And, speaking as a voice actor and director, the audio performance was perfect!! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The AG is wrong. Protect libraries as the public good that they are. Licensing to libraries is already onerous for the libraries. Libraries are no enemy here.

It goes without saying that libraries love authors. They purchase books and licenses. They give authors opportunities for speaking engagements. Go after publishers. The greed. The piracy. Not libraries.

New Sci-Fi Snack Stop episode just went up!!! Cosmic Hope by Nikita Bawa. It's dreamy and raw and powerful. www.sistersofscifi.com/2026/06/10/s...

There will be an army of vloggers catching trains and planes to get to Belfast to try and help stir shit up, reminder that if a man with a GoPro starts filming you, you can always ask "aren't you that paedo guy?" to ensure the clip doesn't end up online.

F-king same, Murderbot... f-king same...

New Sci-Fi Snack Stop episode just went up!!! Cosmic Hope by Nikita Bawa. It's dreamy and raw and powerful. www.sistersofscifi.com/2026/06/10/s...

If you are too excited to wait for tomorrow’s Sci-Fi Snack Stop episode (going up at midnight PST), you can hear it’s author, Nikita Bawa, playing Dr. Hhhhttthhhh on the latest episode of Earth Crew 2042! Snippet (and link) below! www.sistersofscifi.com/2026/05/27/s...

If you are too excited to wait for tomorrow’s Sci-Fi Snack Stop episode (going up at midnight PST), you can hear it’s author, Nikita Bawa, playing Dr. Hhhhttthhhh on the latest episode of Earth Crew 2042! Snippet (and link) below! www.sistersofscifi.com/2026/05/27/s...

"The flaw in the [AI] imitation game is not the mimicry of the machine, but the mirror test of humanity which has such difficulty recognizing itself to begin with. How much more readily the present of this future ascribes personhood to an app than acknowledges it in a rainbow." --Sonya Taaffe

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Another episode of Earth Crew 2042 comes out next month!! Catch up on the latest episode (which came out last month) on the SoSF page (link below) or wherever you listen to pods. www.sistersofscifi.com/2026/05/27/s...

Another episode of Earth Crew 2042 comes out next month!! Catch up on the latest episode (which came out last month) on the SoSF page (link below) or wherever you listen to pods. www.sistersofscifi.com/2026/05/27/s...

Don't forgot that this entire month of #Pride, I am some other amazing, talented creators have a bundle going. We are close to the first goal. Help us SMASH through it and get onto the next one! Brighter than the Stars by Maria Ying and 26 others - itch.io share.google/cD8jDzhleb5A...

I’ve been in this industry for decades and it is exploitative at best. This sh*t is so normalized when I’ve reported abuses I've been told that’s just how the industry works. My sets are NEVER like this. People get taken care of. And if more money comes in, we give them more. F**k film bros.

30+ Black Authors Writing Queer Comfort gailcarriger.com/2020/06/08/2...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

No, no, it’s fine. This technology is stealing from people and burning up the planet, but hey, you finally got to make that book cover or album you always wanted without having to learn how to draw or play music or collaborate with anyone else who had.

I have said it my whole life. This dude is a hack. He's not an artist, he's just loud and funded. He gets by on other people's talents and consistently aligns with the worst people. Maybe everyone will now see it. F**k this guy.