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Abhijeet

@bingingout.bsky.social

Writer, editor, doodler | Work in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Translunar Travelers Lounge, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and more | Associate Editor @escapepod.org | Viable Paradise 2025 | abhijeetmakesthings.com (WIP)

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 2d ago

Real milestone moment

Convention badge with a fox astronaut illustration. Ribbons under it. Blue for peofram participant. Yellow for Hugo award finalost. Purple for viable paradise.

Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 6d ago

For the night crowd: A dead grandmaster resurrected as an AI chessbot. Imprisonment of the digital soul. Techlords owning us forever. Can we get a happy ending? Kings_Gambit.exe by @yelenacrane.bsky.social www.adventitious.net/stories/king...

Kings_Gambit.exe by Yelena Crane

A Grandmaster is resurrected as AI and forced to play forever. Free sci-fi story by Yelena Crane at Adventitious.

adventitious.net

Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 7d ago

Some news. Would appreciate help not tooling around on socials as i enter the home stretch which is scary. www.thebookseller.com/rights/priya...

Priyamvada Gopal’s ‘landmark' history of colonialism goes to Allen Lane

Allen Lane has acquired Priyamvada Gopal’s On Decolonization, described as a “landmark new history of how colonialism continues to shape our world”.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · last wk.

Food and caste in colonial #India, with real historians and cool illustrations. Lovely video. Excited for more from this channel.

Ep 12- Food and Caste in Colonial India

YouTube video by Historically Tempered

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me reading the Economist article as it dunks on Acemoglu's malaria paper

Man staring sadly into the camera. Headline over him says: "heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point"

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just got my pre-ordered copy of @amalsingh.bsky.social's Slow Burn. If you have even a tangential interest in Bollywood, this one is for you. One of the best Indian SF writers writing in an underexplored setting. Good use of your time IMO

Slow Burn

When Rishi Tripathi, a failed actor, falls through a mirror in an inverted Mumbai, he invites fame like he has never seen before. In this inverted city, he’s a superstar and a critically acclaimed dar...

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finally felled the banana plant so we can hand the pot over to its clone. Behold @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social researcher's jury-rigged stem drying stand. Hashtag women in STEM.

An upside down stool stuffed with banana stem strips

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 2w ago

Calling LLMs as a DDoS attack on human-supported infrastructure gave me a new wrinkle in my brain. What would be peer review's Cloudflare or reCAPTCHA? What about magazine submissions?

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

2. LLMs are also useful tools for DDOS attacks on our scientific publishing infrastructure. Paired them with broken incentive systems that count papers as products, and we have a perfect storm of slop targeted at journals, conferences, etc. >>

A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 2w ago

No one, ever, in all of history, has believed everything written in a religious text or performed all of the actions dictated therein, not because people are imperfect but because that is simply not how religion works, anywhere, ever, for anyone.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 3w ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 2w ago

ime nonviolent communication can solve a lot of relationship problems. but, um. not all of them. at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes ...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!

Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Is that meat?” The question falls out of my mouth in a desperate tumble. “Everything’s meat.” 🥘❤️🦝👩‍🎨 For your unsettling Sunday night: Life Imitates by @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social and @riolombana.bsky.social (Scope the CWs please.) www.adventitious.net/stories/life...

Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 3w ago

my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...

poster with the words “revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”, “fantasy”, “3500 words”, “history from the bottom-up, emperors get decapitated, but we keep farming rice” “@thelialao”

on the left side are picture of rice paddies and on the right side are two men wearing hanfu

Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 3w ago

I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 3w ago

Recent transplant NRIs, heed my words: if you miss cold coffee you want a regular iced latte with an extra shot

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 3w ago

Is true. I have a brick-shaped hole in my bookshelf where I kept Dune before it mysteriously disappeared. SpooOoOoOOOOooOky

Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol@yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 3w ago

EXCUSE ME?

A Mismatch in Taste?

The NYT suggests men should read Sally Rooney & Elena Ferrante to expand their horizons.

But these books focus on themes that don't engage men.

Men naturally gravitate toward books like Crime and Punishment, Dune, of The Way of Kings.

And these books are disappearing.

Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · last mo.

WorldCon schedules are up! Come listen to me talk about being queer and fighting (in fiction) (but also IRL)

Where to find Rio at WorldCon:
The Bi Standard: Respecting Bisexual Identity in Storytelling - Thurs Aug 27 6 PM
Anything You Can Do: Women and Nonbinary Warriors - Fri Aug 28 12 PM
As You Are: Identity Acceptance in SFF - Sat Aug 29 9 AM
And Now, I Die: Fight Choreography for Writing - Sat Aug 29 12 PM

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 3w ago

My knee doesn't hurt but squeaks like a cheese curd when I press the tendon-y bit. That's good, right? Means it's fresh?

Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

An update regarding the second volume of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF. We will be opening a second round of submissions soon and hope to read more from all of you. Here’s the detailed note from the editor @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · last mo.

I've aged so far out of receiving lolla ads that I only know it's here when I see hordes of dressed-up youthses on my morning commute. Like seeing a demoiselle crane and knowing winter is here

Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

We are thrilled to reveal the cover art for our summer issue #36, coming out in August! More here: www.orions-belt.net/issues Cover Art “SUN II” by David Alvàrez, with design by @ashsmash.bsky.social. To subscribe & read it as soon as it’s released, & support our work: bit.ly/orionsbelt-patreon

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · last mo.

Emily Wilson is just like me frfr

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm going to piss off everyone involved but BEHOLD my mexican biryani going in to dum

Dutch oven full of rice, herbs and orange sauce

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · last mo.

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18?

The Dark Knight Joker's Police Car Scene

Alt: The Dark Knight Joker's Police Car Scene

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Natalie Zutter@zutsuit.bsky.social · last mo.

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18?

C.M. Sullivan 🍉@cmsullivan.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W

An agent's guide to Thief of the Vastborn by C.M. Sullivan, adult fantasy + romance, ~112,000 words. The graphic shows a dragon and a sailboat with charts and maps as the background vector.

TEXT: Pitch: In a flooded world survived by waterborne cities, young Zev is given a prophecy that he will die by the same illness that killed his mother. A decade later, when a dying Zev decides to take fate into his own hands, he accidentally swaps fates with the Prophecied Divine, a handsome and sheltered man destined to end the worldwide flood. The graphic shows a sailboat and more charts.

TEXT: Tropes: Queer M/M romance, fate swap, drowned world, sea-dragons, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow burn, animal companion, prophecies, pirates, cults. The graphic shows a leaf, an hourglass, and more charts and maps.

TEXT: Comps: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, high seas adventures; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for mythical doomed yaoi; The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon for dragons; The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart for drowned world. The graphic shows columns and charts.

Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · last mo.

Starfall: a queer space opera heavy on the intimate-stakes character drama, elfy science-fantasy, and swashbuckling starship adventure about a telepathic space elf who joins off-brand Starfleet. He's a stabby cinnamon roll who doesn't want any friends! (This is a lie.) #Questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF

Title slide that reads "Starfall, Queer Space Opera Adventure, 139,000 words, R. J. Howell."

Slide that reads: "Pitch: Erendesirel was raised for two things: political marriage and political skirmishes. Sadly, the galaxy doesn’t have much call for a well-trained ornamental husband or sword-wielding duelist. Banished from his technologically-hostile homeworld, unskilled, and entirely broke, he applies to the Galactic Survey and Security Fleet,
a company of space-faring scientific contractors.

He just has to somehow pass a basic competency exam he is woefully unprepared for. And agree to a 10-year debt contract to pay for his tuition. And avoid being driven insane by the thoughts and feelings of a crew of a hundred and twenty souls serving on a very small starship. And navigate all the well-meaning people trying to be his friend.

Oh, and not get kidnapped by pirates." There is another section below it that reads "Comps" and show the covers of Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Slow Gods by Claire North, and Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. There is also an illustration of a space elf named Eren.

This slide reads: "Excerpt: Erendesirel—the nameless, the houseless, the planetless—had tracked his quarry down to a victuals shop on the outskirts of the space station’s medical district. From his hunter’s hide on a public bench opposite the establishment, he glowered at the incongruously-wooden door, breathed in the smell of roasted nuttiness and sticky sugar wafting out through the open bay window, and fought for equanimity.

His hand tightened on the hilt of his family sword, the blade pressed against his leg to accommodate the rather unfriendly design of the bench. Galactic architecture was, as always, crafted for comfort and unobtrusiveness but singularly failed to take into account a full-length sword at one’s hip. It didn’t matter that of all the peoples of the galaxy, there was only one that insisted on carrying true steel swords instead of some technological marvel that, oh, made the sword shrink or disappear or be constructed entirely out of light.

He would never stoop to touch such a thing. No, the sword and dagger set of his clan would serve him for this purpose just fine.

No matter that they were considered contraband. By both his people and station security, if for rather different reasons."

This slide reads "The Trope Nebula" and contains a series of trope-related terms: All the feels, found family, to boldly go (but contractually), swords but space, touch-adverse telepathic space elves, starships!, stabby cinnamon roll, disaster bisexuals, qu3eer, student debt?, lesbians with laser canons, and friendship! (whether you want it or not).

Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · last mo.

wrapping up edits so here's an updated agent's guide for #questpit! :)) [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #A #Litfic #SF #LGBT #OV #Q

slide that reads "an agent's guide to FACELESS". line under reads "literary speculative fiction / 95,000 words @thelialao)

background is a blurry photo of an asian woman with a blue tint

Pitch

[BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN

the opulence of CRAZY RICH ASIANS
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the futuristic atmosphere of LOCAL HEAVENS & THE BOOK OF RECORDS
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the socio-satirical tone of THE IMMORTAL KING RAO

set in a floating city owned by tech conglomerates, in a world ravaged by climate change

inspired by Silicon Valley & East/Southeast Asia

@thelialao

Background picture is a black robot in a glass box

First Page

It’s a beautiful night to die.

From the balcony, Fay Soon stares down at the celebration: the silken gowns, the crystal chalices, the laughter resounding like shattered glass. It’s the end of semester which means yet another overpriced soirée for Chang’E National University’s elite. After seven years here, the scene is hardly unfamiliar. She studies the expanse of the university gardens.

There’s a cyclical nature to it. Young and eager minds unfurling: the undergraduates, loquacious in their attempts to impress one another, each conversation, each gesture, carefully selected like the finest blossoms in a greenhouse.

There are those on the other end of the cycle too. Senescence. The doctoral candidates wilting in the shadows. Hoping for their ideas to be transfigured by wind or water or even the sorghum wine they’re cradling in their hands.

But no matter how many times Fay experiences it, she doesn’t think she’ll ever get used to the spectacle.

No one in the outer circle speaks like that, not in those sprawling, unmanicured streets. It’s opulent; it’s hypnotizing. It’s—

—a complete and utter waste of funds.

@thelialao

Background is a chandelier in dim lighting

Epigraph

As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever

…

We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.

– Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

@thelialao

Background is a white wall with the shadows of leaves

EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · last mo.

My short story "New Game Plus" will be in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social soon! Keep an eye out if you like video games, wobbly fourth walls, or knowing why you can't play cards in the jungle

Abhijeet@bingingout.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Waiting for the contract to announce it, but just received an acceptance from an exciting market!

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the best books I've read in recent years, even if turning the page takes forever seconds of clicking and walking

Disco Elysium Quotes@discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

VOLITION - You got up from this floor because of a holy vow you made sixteen years ago. With *me*. To wake up exactly 07:30 every morning until the day you die.

Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE BLESSÈD EVER-CHANGING MAP An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across their magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss? #BluePit #📖 #Q #F #A #LGBT #ND

Pitch: Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To escape this curse, she’ll have to break her vow of silence, not fall in love with (or murder) the chatterbox traveling with her, and confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL X THE WIZARD OF OZ

FIRST LINE: The monastery's map had just gone out of date again when Remi found another crack in the world.

Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This meter is a bit too pleased to see @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social

A utilities meter with doodles on it that make it look like a man