Christopher Caldwell
@seraph76.bsky.social
Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy. Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland. Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
I was considering entering my rake era, but I fear the Stitch bag I’m holding impedes my progress
I wish someone would tell him America is two continents, and just the United States of
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterdayWASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signs order directing interior secretary to rename Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' as Canada trade war persists.
The main draw to having this convention here appears to be an over abundance of thick bodied midwestern dads in heterosexual marriages looking to get railed surreptitiously in Mickey Mouse t-shirts
Of course there are problems with registration at Worldcon
Straight people on this plane won’t stop making out. They could at least wait until takeoff
I always feel like the heroine in a 1950s melodrama in Glasgow airport.
The US is rounding up mustangs and killing then cheaply for meat? Isn’t that the plot of the Misfits?
The barriers to writing something are: you need to be literate, have something to write in. The barriers to drawing: you need a pencil or a pen, and something to sketch on. paying money to soulless corporations to have machines regurgitate bits from other people’s work is not democritization
The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 5d agoIn defence of AI slop: we should embrace open access to creativity, not condemn it Look past the Donald Trump superhero memes and the new software gives us the chance to democratise creative production. No wonder art’s cultural gatekeepers are worried ✍️ Jack Riley https://bit.ly/3SpzFQ4
I just saw a reel where someone mused “maybe Stephen King doesn’t like writing horror and really wanted to write fantasy..” I don’t know how they missed his enormous 8 book fantasy epic. One of the volumes is called Wizard and Glass.
Keep thinking about how Annie Proulx in “Brokeback Mountain” says gay sex was something Ennis had never done before, but no instructions were needed. That’s just not true.
Worldcon is in one week! Here’s where you can find me!
If you've been reading this year's Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction shortlist, mark your calendars for October 5th, when A Meal of Thorns discusses the shortlisted books!
A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · last wk.10/5: Le Guin Prize shortlist w/ @chloroformtea.bsky.social 10/19: Lee's REVENANT GUN w/ Alexandra Pierce of @speculativeinsight.bsky.social 11/2: Szilard's THE VOICE OF THE DOLPHIN w/ @gerrycanavan.bsky.social 11/16: Danielewski's HOUSE OF LEAVES w/ @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Glad I just started up Stardew Valley and it wasn’t BG3
Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 2w agoYou're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?
I think I might just miss Doomsday. Controversial take: looks bad.
Muttering to myself, “all this hate giving me a pretty face. I eat hate, that’s why I ain’t got a waist…”
A university student on this game show says he has never read a book.
A version of the Odyssey with all the sex, monsters, and gods put back in
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2w agoyouve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd
Just saw an ad for a global watch party for Coraline with no one commenting on the source of the film…
Why have they yassified Sora and sent him to Mexico?
Five years ago today I walked into my GP office to pick up a repeat prescription and didn’t come home until eleven days later. If not for the receptionist who was also a nurse, I might have died of acute hypercalcaemia.