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INTERACTIVE FICTION FROM JOHANNES T. EVANS????? BE STILL MY HEART AND BE UNSTILL MY (typing. Typing!!!!) FINGERS

Johannes T. Evans@johannestevans.co.uk · 23h ago

Your name is Oli, and you're a trans masc messenger who is trying to get an urgent message to the other side of this dangerous magical family's fancy gardens, through which you're trespassing. And there's monsters with their dicks out! johannestevans.co.uk/2026/10/20/t...

In Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter, I write about the difficult experience of growing up aesthetically misaligned with my “prom queen” mom and how my queerness exacerbated my sense of ugliness.

Because my job can be a real bummer, when I am searching for instances of sexual violence among men in a defined group, you don't search for "sexual assault," you search for "hazing." We have euphemized language because we really, really don't want to address this in any real terms.

Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck@readingtheend.bsky.social · last wk.

increasingly I have come to believe that men sexually assault and harass *other men* far more than is clearly understood, and I suspect that grappling with that will be crucial to bringing about real change.

A couple weeks ago I signed up to get one on one help with applying for a creative grant (very grateful to Bombyx in western MA for hosting these) and forgot about it until it popped up on my calendar for this week. Nervous.

This is a masterclass in what to expect from a short story magazine. Don't compromise on this.

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · last wk.

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

Listen, this is only 99p until after Fantasycon. And you'll be busy then, right?

Bibliotta Webinars@bibliotta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Brand new "How to Sell Your Speculative Fiction Short Story" from E.M. Faulds. Introductory price, 0.99p until the 12th of October... get it now! bibliotta.com/product/sell...

My next post of notes from Readercon is up on my patreon.

Readercon 2026: Fealty, Knights, and Imperialism | Anthony Mire

Readercon 2026: Fealty, Knights, and Imperialism by Anthony Mire on Patreon. Join Anthony Mire's community for exclusive content and updates.

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"Lots of trans guys I’ve talked to have had a Loren Rex Cameron story, and this is mine …” www.thebeliever.net/looking-for-...

Looking for Loren Rex Cameron - Believer Magazine

Lots of trans guys I’ve talked to have had a Loren Rex Cameron story, and this is mine: Some years ago now, when I worked up the courage to confess to my spouse that I wanted top surgery—we were newly...

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Monthly Trans Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #WriteSky

I'm finally organizing my notes from #readercon into blog posts for my patreon. If you have $3 you can buy access to this specific post, or subscribe for $3/month and get notified as I post the rest of my notes through the end of the year.

Readercon 2026: Faux-Victorian Scientists in Fantasyland | Anthony Mire

Readercon 2026: Faux-Victorian Scientists in Fantasyland by Anthony Mire on Patreon. Join Anthony Mire's community for exclusive content and updates.

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"stop fetishizing catholicism" catholicism actually works best as a form of bdsm

mods are asleep, time to post the fairy smut

I wrote a little essay on substack about how actually, quite a lot of people outside the academy are interested in books and other real things. The main reason to read this piece is that I discuss Frances, she of the bread-and-jam. emily613.substack.com/p/let-us-eat...

Let Us Eat Cream-Cheese-Cucumber-Tomato-Sandwiches, On Rye-Bread

I love my students and my colleagues, and I love the discussions that are possible in the classroom and among scholars, in academic contexts.

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A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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there was a time in this country when white liberals insisted black people could achieve parity if they would only slow down and stop rushing societal progress.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

I deeply regret to inform you that this is probably necessary reading at this point

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3w ago

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

If you say shit like this If you are running an award show that has to say this You are not equipped to run the show. You are missing the necessary pieces—access

Mari Ness, writer of things@mariness.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The backstage is for walking partipants," something that I was just told by a Worldcon staffer. #LACon #Worldcon #Hugos

There are only two stories that won a Hugo whose screen adaptation also won a Hugo. “All Systems Red” is the second one. The other is “Dune” Congratulations @marthawells.com.

Live in North America and sad you missed out on the recent solar eclipse? Well we've got a partial lunar this coming week (Thursday night/Friday morning, peak at midnight ET). Moon gets red, no need for glasses, event lasts for hours so it's easy to glance outside www.space.com/stargazing/l...

Partial lunar eclipse August 2026: Where will it be visible from?

Here's where the 96% partial lunar eclipse will be visible from on Earth.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's the compilation of all the different stages of the #LunarEclipse for which I got useful photos (you may need to expand the image to see all three rows and columns). Two different cameras with two very different zoom capabilities, but I think you get the general idea!

IM RIGHT IM LITERALLY ALWAYS RIGHT

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

I got nothing.

If you're in Springfield, MA, I encourage you to raise absolute hell about this with the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership. Email: info@sezp.org Mail: SEZP 1500 Main Street P.O. Box 15331 Springfield, MA 01115 www.wbur.org/news/2026/08...

Springfield is piloting an AI-driven classroom. The teachers' union is trying to stop it

A Springfield public school intends to partner with a for-profit education company to bring AI into a classroom this September. The teachers' union is threatening legal action if the pilot program isn...

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Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

I should note that this (3000-word) piece is slightly less “general public” than most of my writing, since I wrote it for a newsletter intended for researchers. But if you’re interested in dark energy, there’s way more about it in my first book, “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)”!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

So... what's up with #DarkEnergy? 🤔 I wrote up a summary of the current status of possibly-weirdly-changing dark energy for @perimeterinstitute.bsky.social's shiny new researcher-focused newsletter; you can read the piece here:

The primary job of science fiction is to discuss the present via the illusion that it is the future

GaBigMike@gabigmike.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As an author of sci Fi isn't the most glaring non prediction social media? Jet packs and robots and ray guns but nothing on oligarchs turning is against each other on socials.

It's great that some people are genuinely not obsessed with anything but i cannot imagine personally being attracted to such a person. I could not desire someone so cultivatedly balanced as to contain no extremes. sorry but you can't get crazy hot pussy if you exclude the crazy from the equation

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Johannes T. Evans@johannestevans.co.uk · 2mo ago

Not to be bigoted against normie queers but like. Their books are just boring. Like yeah i'm sorry that you were yearning over his "toned" and "taut" body for ten years and that you're "so in love with him" and he feels identical about you and your identical body but like. Who cares. Kill somebody

and he invented Google

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Have to reshare this every time I see it. Raymond Chandler mocking science fiction in 1953 and sounding cool as hell. He should have written some space stories.

[James Stewart as Odysseus] now listen here, Agamemnon, I'm going home, y'see. You keep your fancy armour, I'm getting off this crummy ol' beach. [Spotting the Cyclops] now here's a curious fella, he's only got one peeper