stop trying to get me to capitalize brands, spellcheck. i do not have that kind of respect for styrofoam
Malda Marlys 🍉
@aardwyrm.bsky.social
sentient curio cabinet. writes fantastika, spouts dog nonsense. slush reader for giganotosaurus. the bird's name is rambo. hwa (for now), codexian, ey/em https://maldamarlys.com/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/aardwyrm
i've taken up doing one of the exercises in Le Guin's Steering the Craft daily and i highly recommend it. some take a few airy minutes and some feel nearly impossible (and i bet, like any other workout, which ones each person experiences which way is quite individual), but it's an excellent routine
well that's an interesting thing to put in just a facebook group and not send out to the membership or post anywhere else i can see (somebody who has threads check threads? i'm not touching twitter sorry)
Malda Marlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · 10h agoi don't have anything clever to add about the hwa mess but i did peek over at the facebook wasteland where the author posted this, uh, defense. we're all bullies, because it's the wild west, and see we're all proving her point, and who really understands ai, fuckin magnets how do they work amirite?
i don't have anything clever to add about the hwa mess but i did peek over at the facebook wasteland where the author posted this, uh, defense. we're all bullies, because it's the wild west, and see we're all proving her point, and who really understands ai, fuckin magnets how do they work amirite?
hey so I will not be shutting up about this for the foreseeable future. fully rabid. is it possible and worthwhile to track down all the saurs stories? yes. but. you absolutely need them in your life, no exceptions, and soon this will not require hunting for 20 year old paper issues of f&sf.
Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚)@mythicdelirium.bsky.social · yesterdayCOVER REVEAL & NEXT BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Mythic Delirium Books (aka Anita’n’me) is/are proud to share that our lil press’ next title will be ONE BIG PLACE, collecting all the “Saur” stories of Richard Chwedyk. Coming April 2027–preorders available now! mythicdelirium.com/one-big-plac...
just made the last appointment for the poor cat. his cancer's gotten much worse in the last few weeks, he's been in a cone for weeks and he's still managing to hurt himself constantly, he's losing weight and energy, but he's only 12 and still enjoying his silly little life. making the call sucks
we require everyone's gay dollars please process them here (if you have straight dollars we will take them as well but the exchange rate is weird so you should give us twice as many)
Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · last wk.You can back the crowdfund here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
actually a delight to see DCC honestly critiqued on its merits and lack thereof instead of lazy "cringe, cringe, all of you are cringe!" AND acknowledgement that antimemetics is just as derivative and internet poisoned. (also, "anarcho-syndicalist revolt against the system" is... prescient)
Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 3d agoOh, look! It’s @chloroformtea.bsky.social and me, hacking our way through this year’s Clarke Award shortlist. Which niche British references do we employ? Which random GIFs? And … why Tom Cruise? Also, careful critique of a set of six texts claimed by the judges to represent the best of UK SF etc
Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)
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it is better that bubble wrap has slipped out of fashion but popping that shit remains one of life's grand little pleasures
love this miserable goblin thing. looking forward to knowing the no doubt profoundly fucked up reasons she is the way she is
New story up at GNS: It took Corey Liao seven days to wrench herself free from her body. And with the help of three wu, she has seven more to avenge her own murder. Read “Four Sparrows” by Angela Hsieh @hisiheyah.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2026/08/01/four-sparrows
Four Sparrows - GigaNotoSaurus
It took Corey Liao seven days to wrench herself free from her body. The skeins of fascia and sinew lashing soul to body had been stubborn. She’d painstakingly scraped herself free, thread by thread, w...
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📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/
/sporadic push for more storygraph friends so i can feed the ravenous tbr. it makes so many graphs for you. love a good graph
rumination born from a discussion with a friend about an indie that got a trad pub pickup with very little editorial support. as we were griping about this disservice to everyone, she made the point that it could have easily been restructured to have a traditional novel structure. and. yeah. but why
Malda Marlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · last wk.you ever think about how extremely new The Novel is?
A thread of the many beastie hand rests of Stowlangtoft Church
Neon Hemlock's Kickstarter campaign for volume SEVEN of their novella series (!!!) is at $13,132 out of the $14,500 base goal great job everybody! Let's keep it rolling! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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it is fascinating the way a 1 hour appointment can devour an entire day
most of culinary history is devising and synergizing brown stuff
Malda Marlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · 7d agoexpanding my cooking repertoire has turned out to be mainly increasing the number of bottles of brown stuff I find necessary
expanding my cooking repertoire has turned out to be mainly increasing the number of bottles of brown stuff I find necessary
love when animals are described as "secretive" (instead of elusive, shy, etc). like yeah this bird. is up to. clandestine shit. shames. sins. it's not that you and your binoculars are scary he just takes his privacy seriously. my guy is into opsec
SIMPLICITY has been out for ONE YEAR today!!!! happy birthday to my little book :) we don't get paperbacks very often in the graphic novel world so it's tough to keep attention on something when it's no longer new, but i still think it's the best thing i've ever made. simplicitybook.xyz
