The best thing about hormones is becoming incredibly hot and also crying
John Elizabeth Stintzi
@jestintzi.bsky.social
Trans author and artist. Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me Jes. [She/her, they/them if yer nasty] 📚: BAD HOUSES, MY VOLCANO, VANISHING MONUMENTS, JUNEBAT Next: GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (novel, spring 2028). linktr.ee/jestintzi
If you need a "spooky" read, I can recommend my latest, BAD HOUSES, for your perusal! Magical Jesus action figures, living with a literal elephant in the room, trolls harvesting pumpkins on a farm, weird mold monsters, and many figurative but also one literal bad house. bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...
Bad Houses
A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre nove...
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I am firmly in my "giving them one last chance" era. Which I am guessing is probably a good sign, emotionally.
Just took a big breath and almost started crying.
Saw this going around and didn't have time to watch it until this morning If I hadn't canceled my NYT subscription ages ago, I'd do it now. Jacob clearly states that the Times uses language which softens the harm the Trump admin does, and their response is "Language isn't as important as knowledge"
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2w ago🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
Rumor* has it that my new novel, GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (which should be out in Spring of 2028), is my best yet. Watch out!! *from my guy Tony, who has done instrumental, deep editing passes for all my novels to date.
Also wondering how many of the people deciding to use AI ever designed a cover, or wrote copy, or pitched a review or an event to a bookstore, or read a fucking book
Adam Morgan@adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 3w agoFor @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
Sincerely hadn't crossed my mind that Anne Carson hadn't already been given a Nobel Prize. Very deserving!
easily the best introduction to her work and Brick is great, they do a lot for poetry in Canada, show them some love and pick one up
Assembly Press@pressassembly.bsky.social · 3w agoCongratulations to Anne Carson, the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature! Brick Books is the proud Canadian publishers of 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙨, Carson's first full-length work of poetry. There's no better time to snag your copy! www.brickbooks.ca/shop/short-t...
There has never been a greater time to solicit poems from me, as I have just been quietly hoarding about 34 million great poems out of pure dislike toward submitting them the last like 6 years since my first book came out.
Can't wait to get into a new relationship so that once that one ends in a horrible, traumatic mess, baring me and all my insecurities into full-view, I can write about that one instead of this one.
Do you want to read a troubling sadsack newsletter? read this one! (don't worry about me I'm doin okay) substack.com/@jestintzi/n...
John Elizabeth Stintzi (@jestintzi)
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So far my (very short) time free of a day job has resulted only in depression.
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
Every single piece of trans history is a blaring klaxon telling us: We can't rip ourselves apart, we must put our preternatural prickliness aside, we can and should disagree greatly but our futures are linked and the stakes are too great, we must figure that out no matter the emotions it raises.
I am in the "reading 500-1000pg books only" stage of dealing with my divorce.
"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...
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Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 4mo agoI want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
I feel obligated to extend a blanket apology to poets, as I have always said that one should not date poets (I say as a poet myself) and the past few months have basically only been on dates with people who write poems (among other things), and it has been quite nice.
@jestintzi.bsky.social gave us MY VOLCANO, a strange nonbinary-Canadian authored surreal SF novel via @twodollarradio.bsky.social...a terrific #PrideMonth read, says my 4.5* #Booksky. 🌈📚 expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2022/06/my-v...
Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
Single, sexy, been awake since 2 a.m. (kill me)
