VERY blurry photo from @sentencebender.bsky.social and @maryrobinettekowal.com ‘s c-c-combo book launch @ the twisted spine !!

aspirational. this is the way.

Running for office and revealing a giant back tattoo that just says WOMEN. Nobody can agree if it's good or bad

sincerely the people in this book are freaks.

write what you like reading because BOY will you read what you wrote a LOT if it gets published. dont mind me. im just reading this draft for a EIGHT MILLIONTH time.

a week late but i think the metamorphosis was at least partially written as the eras version of a shitpost. if i told my friends i was going to write about turning into a big bug and that id write it completely straight no jokes, my friends would all be like lol. lmao. big bug.

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

you ever think to yourself that youve never really understood the humble comma.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

ok this thought has been haunting me for the last. oh. about a year and a half. but im PRETTY sure its my fault that people started saying "omelas hole" instead of like. other nomenclature constructions for the Kid Location In Omelas.

hey someone let me know that my latest clarkesworld story was apparently going to be ON THEIR EXAM. alright. checking off an author milestone i didnt know i wanted to reach. im laughing in real life right now. sorry kids for the Test Question.

two york

hey has anyone made a jd vance meme inflatable suit for protesting yet? i think that the....way he is...in that meme would lend itself incredibly well to an inflatable suit.

>:3 im problematic now!

yeah Boi my milquetoast, educational corporate monolith considers it a worse idea to cooperate than to have a spine!

making my partner look over my novel draft for no credit just like so many male authors made their wife edit their work for no credit, im flipping misogynist labor standards on their head, this is feminism

sure ill repost this

<totters out onto porch> <settles into rocker> <thumps cane a few times> Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

:V newsletter update, featuring my review of taking a cross country amtrak trip earlier this year. also, lite book updates, and some story behind the scenes stuff. ijknewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/iz-a-newsl...

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

had a blast on our ~ crossover ep ~ with This Guy Sucked, talking about The Computer (derogatory)!

need a ghost of yotei mod that just replaces some of the voiced dialogue with stuff erika ishii says while on dropout / playing ttrpgs

look i think hades 2 is OVERALL a very good game but the ending...........they dont earn their ending.............and they could have actually very easily earned their ending! but the stakes of the plot vs the ending given really dont match up as it is. i have a lot of opinions about this.

explaining to my partner that i had only meant to write a medium bleak future in my latest story and that people seemed to think it was REALLY bleak and theyre like "no. its even bleaker than other people were saying it is." a classic IJK experience.

there are only 2 categories of creative project: thing that you shit out in 5 minutes as a joke/for a deadline that inexplicably goes viral, and thing that you labor over for years crawling and scratching for every bit of attention

do you think theres something special about "frogs" as a totem that makes them particularly susceptible to being made the face/icon of a movement

this was supposed to be a 'fun' book to write but it is giving me Agonies and what i am learning from this is that i should just bite the bullet and write books about Themes and Serious Things because either way. we are in the pit.

honest question should i take the "artistic genius before her time" off of my website? i feel like this was more clearly a joke when i was twenty-two and mostly dicking around on the internet, lol.

¡Mi traducción de «¿Por qué no matamos al niño del agujero de Omelas y ya está?» de @isabel.kim disponible en el nuevo número de la @windumanoth.com! Ganó el BSFA, el Nebula, el Locus y fue finalista del premio Hugo de este año. Merece la pena echarle un ojo :) windumanoth.com/windumanoth-...

it's not FOR us

the next book will be about the disillusionment of feeling like the world began crumbling the moment you reached adulthood and that all authority is both going mad and stagnating into deep gerontocracy, after a childhood of being promised progress. aka trump was elected my junior yr of college lol

rewriting this action scene for the third time and FURIOUS about it, next book is going to be one of those evocative literary books where nothing happens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the portland frog situation makes me realize that superhero costumes would actually work this way. imagine you're a a federal agent with a gun. you shoot at the guy in the weird costume who doesnt seem scared of you. he absorbs your bullets. am i talking about the portland frog or superman

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

the most charitable reading of techbos attitude toward AI and creative pursuits (ie, "why not use AI to help with a draft") is that its people who see outcome ("the software works") as different from process ("i have to write software") not understanding that for creative stuff 99% of the time—

this would be a CRAZY format for a ttrpg though.

small domino: going book-viral with my short story big domino: 7 figure book deal

im sick so im watching love is blind and yall the hell is wrong with these people. its riveting. bad but riveting.

you could hand an ancient roman one of those lil snack packs of olives and blow their fucking mind. improved olive snack tech.

sometimes i google myself (because of my deep narcissism, of course) and its always rly funny to me that one of the "people also search" things is "isabel kim age" why are the people googling how old i am. why do they want to know that. also now that they want to know im not telling you.

:V very kind summation and recc for my very normal space diving story!

happy chuseok everyone go eat a rice cake. youre being assigned rice cake by me. preferably this type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songpyeon

nobody steal my Literary Short Story Idea (Just A Real Anecdote From My Life) ok so the other weekend me and j were at my cousins babys first birthday, and there were like a zillion korean ppl bc the first bday is a big fucking deal for korean people. then two days later we were at j's uncles 80th—

nobody asked for this. heres theodore roosevelt as mario, nikola tesla as luigi, john harvey kellogg as waluigi, and jp morgan as wario. the criteria was "were u alive at that time period and have a mustache / how evil are you (debatable)"

in some ways the computer is a type of guy. :3 a type of guy who can suck, even.

I told everyone not to quit their day job. Despite quitting my day job. #hypocrisy

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

back at my alma mater to be on a panel on book writing for the newspaper and reliving my college years by being unsure if I am supposed to go into this lecture hall or if I’m in the wrong place

CLAUDE: Claude birkin bag. Practical Claude possession bag ME: No, Claude. You can't have a Birkin bag. CLAUDE: Good Birkin good Claude give beautiful Claude deserve LLM ME: Claude, we simply can't afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. CLAUDE: jealousy woman

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl