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Elijah J. Mears
@elijah.mea.rs
sci-fi & fantasy writer • former classicist • transit nerd • gay married to @beryl.rubacky.dev • 🏳️🌈✡️ • he/him 📍 Raleigh, NC 🌐 www.elijahjmears.com
Hero shit
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
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Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4d agoAmericans, finally pissed enough, start eating their politicians. (Yes, it's a love story.) "Saul & Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" by @elijah.mea.rs has: 🚗two boys in a beater at the end of society ❤️queer love 🗽courage vs American fascists 🦺a safe zone? www.adventitious.net/stories/saul...
Speechless at this one. Genuinely blew me away, fantastic work @elijah.mea.rs! If you read this story and didn’t like it I’m stealing something from your house.
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4d agoAmericans, finally pissed enough, start eating their politicians. (Yes, it's a love story.) "Saul & Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" by @elijah.mea.rs has: 🚗two boys in a beater at the end of society ❤️queer love 🗽courage vs American fascists 🦺a safe zone? www.adventitious.net/stories/saul...
HELLO AMERICA IT IS OFFICIALLY HOT 🥵 BOULEUTOPHAGY 🍔 SUMMER 💃
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4d agoAmericans, finally pissed enough, start eating their politicians. (Yes, it's a love story.) "Saul & Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" by @elijah.mea.rs has: 🚗two boys in a beater at the end of society ❤️queer love 🗽courage vs American fascists 🦺a safe zone? www.adventitious.net/stories/saul...
HELLO AMERICA IT IS OFFICIALLY HOT 🥵 BOULEUTOPHAGY 🍔 SUMMER 💃
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4d agoAmericans, finally pissed enough, start eating their politicians. (Yes, it's a love story.) "Saul & Noah's Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" by @elijah.mea.rs has: 🚗two boys in a beater at the end of society ❤️queer love 🗽courage vs American fascists 🦺a safe zone? www.adventitious.net/stories/saul...
If you love someone, never ever ever let them buy a web domain at GoDaddy or Squarespace
it's short story dayyy!! do you want a slightly pensive story about change, giant robot bird watching, and a toxic ex that left you behind in the ruins of civilization? read "If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I" over at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ 🪶 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/if-a... 🪶
If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I - Lightspeed Magazine
Green Plumed Orbital Line A; viridis metamorphos A Common sighting; Flies along the forty-fifth latitude every 12 minutes Traveler’s addendum: Last functional line along a northern latitude; southern ...
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Got inspired by some of the authors I saw at Lavender Con this past weekend and spent tonight working on designing a little zine with some of my older stories that are out of exclusivity... 👀
Contract signed, so I can officially scream that my story "His Face, in the End, Inches From Mind" will be in the third issue of @othersidespec.bsky.social this September!!
I’m not worried about trans women in bathrooms, I’m worried about walking into one and seeing JK Rowling taking pictures there.
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It's almost time to get the hell out of your small town before it's too late—and by "almost time," I mean "it'll be out in the very next issue of Adventitious."
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨TREND ALERT🚨 Your How To Guide for the ideal Hot Bouleutophagy Summer courtesy of @elijah.mea.rs!
new story out today in @nightshadesmag.bsky.social. Yes it's a weird POV and yes its written like a long speech to text message don't worry about it! www.nightshadesmag.com/your-mothers...
Your Mother’s Speech-to-Text Instructions for Visiting Nana
by Parker M. O'Neill Listen I'm making soup right now so I'll be quick if you’re really hellbent on visiting Nana you should know there's Mold all through her house water damage hairy black fungus on...
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New story day! This one is inspired, very loosely, by George MacDonald’s 19th century fairy tale “The Day Boy and the Night Girl.” It took me nearly two years to get right, and I’m glad I allowed the time. Many thanks to editor Scott Andrews for his patience and for believing in this story.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Dreams in Burnished Silver by Christine Hanolsy
When the evening bell rang, we filed past each other once more, and this time I kept my chin lifted. You found me right away, pressed a tiny metal disc into my hand as we passed: a minuscule mirror th...
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Okay, I ended up having way more to say about The Odyssey after last night so I threw up a pretty lengthy post on my long-neglected blog about it!
Elijah J. Mears | Thoughts on Nolan’s Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's take on the Odyssey is the biggest thing in theaters right now, and I definitely have thoughts.
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Okay, seeing The Odyssey in about an hour and a half. I'm always super nervous about Classics adaptations but I'm cautiously optimistic based on the rave reviews, so... we'll see!
This is apropos of nothing except that I need to get better about occasionally mentioning I send a twice-monthly newsletter about my writing if I want people to actually sign up to receive it! elijahjmears.com/subscribe
Can I send you an email? | Elijah J. Mears
Hey! So this is the dedicated page where I try my hardest to get you to give me your email. Usually, people will promise to give you some kind of cookie in exchange for it—usually a free eBook, or a s...
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I mentioned a while back that FF#24 was poised to overtake FF#20 as our bestselling issue of all-time and, well, it happened! But suddenly FF#20 moved a bunch of copies and now we're tied. So, which will catch your eye? www.fusionfragment.com/issue-20/ www.fusionfragment.com/issue-24/
What if I told you about King Midas. What if I did it three more times. What if it was queer. What if it was trans. What if it was in Small Wonders TODAY.
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 3w agoYou know the story of Midas, right? Stories shift and warp though, so let's hear that old tale a few more times. Let @elijah.mea.rs tell us how "He Washes His Sins In the River" :
What if I told you about King Midas. What if I did it three more times. What if it was queer. What if it was trans. What if it was in Small Wonders TODAY.
Small Wonders@smallwondersmag.com · 3w agoYou know the story of Midas, right? Stories shift and warp though, so let's hear that old tale a few more times. Let @elijah.mea.rs tell us how "He Washes His Sins In the River" :
I'm still waiting for a true modern successor to Railroad Tycoon II. There are now games that far exceed it in terms of transportation logistics, and there are a few games that match or come close to it in their economic/company simulation, but nothing I know of has really done both at once since.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4w agoName your dream videogame announcement.
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Really glad to see Team Bona standing up for human authors *and* making sure that others can benefit from what they've learned here—and I'm as excited as ever to be able to share "Attack of the 50-Foot Faggot!" with everyone when Wrath Month finally smashes through your window later this year!
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 4w agoAI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
My partner and I are still fundraising to help cover the costs of their gender affirming surgery next month! We're nearly halfway to our goal and extremely grateful to all the support we've received so far!
Elijah J. Mears@elijah.mea.rs · 2mo agoHappy Pride! As some of you know, my partner, Beryl, has been working toward gender affirming surgery over the course of the last year, and we are currently fundraising to help cover the associated costs! We would sincerely appreciate any help you can offer as well as sharing across your networks. 🙏
this is my official contribution to the discourse the other week about whether or not authors should use unfamiliar words in stories 🥰
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 4w agoWords I had to add to my spellcheck because of @elijah.mea.rs: Bouleutophagy oneg frotted
I've got a new story coming out in Adventitious next month... and I can't wait for you to taste it 👀
Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · last mo.Issue Four lands August 1. But who's in it?🧵 ...(so far)... P.A. Cornell @cornellwriter.bsky.social 🤖 Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com👹 Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social ❤️🩹 Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social 🍇 Stewart C. Baker 🌌 Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs🍽️ and...
A market which shall remain nameless rejected a story set in fantasy Appalachia and told me they would have accepted it but that it had "too much dialect." There was, like, maybe one "ain't" in the whole story? And one time calling a valley a holler and that was basically it for "dialect."
S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.
okay so maybe keeping this story to only 2,000 words was overly ambitious 🫠