the fact that i need to spend any amount of my one precious life on insurance companies' phone trees is yet another sign of a profoundly sick society

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

this is the best way anyone has ever described anything i've written

Austin Dewar@austindewar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Celebrate Bastille Day and International Non-Binary People's Day in one swift blow by transing the guillotine 🔪 This messy-queer time-traveler retelling of “The Green Ribbon” by @goosemixtapes.bsky.social suggests the “T” in “LGBT” may stand for Terreur: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Celebrate Bastille Day and International Non-Binary People's Day in one swift blow by transing the guillotine 🔪 This messy-queer time-traveler retelling of “The Green Ribbon” by @goosemixtapes.bsky.social suggests the “T” in “LGBT” may stand for Terreur: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Guillotine

The guillotine was conceived as swifter, painless, more humane. You touch your throat. You wonder.

strangehorizons.com

new story of mine came out today, just in time for Bastille Day :3c tune in if you like dimension-hopping, weird dyke sex, martyrdom, insanity, charles dickens' a tale of two cities, etc, strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Guillotine

The guillotine was conceived as swifter, painless, more humane. You touch your throat. You wonder.

strangehorizons.com

ancient greek bard: in my story i invented the labyrinth as a cautionary tale ancient greek bard (after i explain sam altman’s whole deal to him): ok you can put that guy in there

what kind of shit is this. no one‘s dunking any donuts in here at all. drinking coffee mainly

ifwhen behind the bastards ever does a nixon series it’s gonna be my coachella

ISSUE 2 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Tiger princesses! Cyborgs! Spacefaring scientists and sword-wielding students! Our second issue is warm, tender, hopeful, and sometimes horrifying in the best way. It was a joy to assemble, and we hope you enjoy it too🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.com/issues/issue-2/

YES. YES. YES. YES. YEs. YES. YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm v proud of it. I didn't hold back & gave it everything. Indo-Pak poetry & politics, passion & decadence, delight & magic, lots of magic, rest in these pages. A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE goes into production next month at Putnam Books and should be out spring of 2027. I hope you all like it.

I need to make sure you all heard that right because this did not make enough noise the first time around—THE Crawford, Stoker, World Fantasy and British Fantasy award winning Usman T. Malik, who has published incredible short fiction for over twenty years, will have a DEBUT NOVEL out NEXT YEAR

Usman T. Malik@usmantm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm v proud of it. I didn't hold back & gave it everything. Indo-Pak poetry & politics, passion & decadence, delight & magic, lots of magic, rest in these pages. A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE goes into production next month at Putnam Books and should be out spring of 2027. I hope you all like it.

i cannot promise a liveblog of estro junkies idk if i have that livetweet dog in me but as inspired by helsi: i'm really into the way the prologue sets up katherine being a hazard, especially to kaal. in rcbg it seems like nichole is neglecting housework equally but here we have katherine as--

Seeing some Estro Junkies livereads rn & I just want to say…if you’re not going to mention race at all? Completely glossing over Rashmi (A MAIN POV CHARACTER!) Ru, Tahani, & heck, even Laura’s struggles? Read the damn book over again. This is a book about racism. Internalize that.

through gritted teeth, sweating blood: we stay silly

so true from JCO

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

this story has been longlisted for the british science fiction awards! consider checking it out if you have voting powers, or if you don't have voting powers, or whatever, i'm not the boss of you! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️@goosemixtapes.bsky.social · 2y ago

potentially my favorite short story i've ever written comes out today and you can read it for free! don't let that title fool you, no... er, one? dogs were harmed in the making strangehorizons.com/fiction/dead...

Late to the celebration, but congrats to everyone on the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist and most especially all FOUR of my @clarionwest.bsky.social students on the list: @champwongs.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @goosemixtapes.bsky.social Rutendo Chidzodzo!

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

Stellbound: Stellraiser II@antlervel.vet · 9mo ago

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

Again, what ICE does EVERY DAY is devastate relationships and destroy people. This is their job. Rage for Renee needs to not mark her murder as especially egregious because of her citizenship status. Rather, this was an escalation of force in the defense of a massive project of ethnic cleansing.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

if ice agents don't like this i have a suggestion about the "rest of their lives" bit

ceej@ceej.online · 9mo ago

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Since the year's winding down, my 2025 award eligibility and the stories I had published: Links and story info in the thread below, as well as on my site at adrianwardwrites.wordpress.com/work/ Thank you for your consideration!

realizing belatedly i should make an awards eligibility post. it's literally just dead dog. nominate my story about being a dead dog in a human body for an award and you will win: my undying loyalty

One of the better interviews with me you’re likely to read. They gotta send me more grad student interviewers

Sarah Edwards@eddysarah.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“They got to send me more grad student interviewers” says @themountaingoats.bsky.social after talking with @indyweek.bsky.social writer (and current grad student) Shelbi Polk. Read their sprawling conversation here. indyweek.com/news/culture...