l.s. johnson
@lsjohnson.bsky.social
prima materia, chase & daniels, rare birds, vacui magia. writer, indexer, proofreader, cat wrangler. sfwa, hwa, codex. https://www.traversingz.com/
Support them. They have great authors. It's all weird and horrific and a lot of queerness. I've not been dissatisfied yet. I got stickers and a pin too 👑
Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 5h ago🔥eBOOK SALE🔥 I (Matt) am currently locked indoors w/150+ AQI & forest fires ablazin' across the PNW. We know that's been a lot of you all over the world too. We need some instant gratification sooooo: 50% ALL EBOOKS! Emailed instantly. Read Weird🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
absolutely horrendous. please consider helping in one of the ways suggested robindgkelley.substack.com/p/in-support...
In Support of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Most academics in the U.S., as well as activists resisting the genocide in Gaza, are familiar with the case of Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a renowned Global Studies scholar at the University ...
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If you want to know the secret to being super prolific, it's having a wife or wealth, so other people clean your toilets and feed you while you work.
Tansy Gardam@tansyg.bsky.social · last wk.obsessed with Ian Flemming's daily schedule - swim - brunch - write 1500 words no edits just freestyle - lobster hunting - pink gin - lunch - siesta - sit in garden - another swim - 500 more words - "a couple of powerful drinks" - dinner - scrabble with wife - sleep
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoGeorge Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
I ask myself this every time I sit down to write 😂
Malda Marlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · 3w agowhy is novelette the most natural length for a story to be and the hardest to sell
I was going to say this game is like watching paint dry but I stand corrected 🇳🇴😃
Still available: In Her Mind a Darkness, my novella about a haunted teenager in 1980s NYC. Limited to 300 hardcovers, with cover and interior art by Alex Eckman-Lawn, cover design by Najla Qamber. Only $15, and US shipping is free. Get yours today! shop.traversingz.com/b/4eCxW
Remembering the legendary and soulful Bill Withers, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, on his 88th birthday. Celebrated for his hits ""Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean on Me", "Lovely Day", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", and "Grandma's Hands". He was #BOTD on 7/4/1938.
Highly recommend! Amazing book 🔥
Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last mo.Bookshop.org is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can get THE DEVOURERS slightly discounted there. A mythic realist, queer dark fantasy about love, sex, violence, & shapeshifting set in contemporary India & the Mughal Empire. It won a Lambda Award.
if the knicks win for the first time since 1973 we're bringing back subway graffiti and kicking out all the oligarchs investing in unused midtown terrace lofts. times square will revert to its natural roots as a porn emporium
Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 2mo agothe day the knicks win is the fourth day of the condor. the day the french get connected. the day the taxi gets driven. the untaking of the pelham 123
It's been a hell of a week. Looking at huge vet bills for a dog that isn't mine, and another brain surgery in Brandt's future (less invasive but still...). So now's a good a time to mention our nerdy apparel and accessory shop: @bleachykeen.bsky.social We also do custom orders and small runs!
An interesting dialogue that provokes questions of where genre comes from as much or more than questions of what it is. Does its description derive from an interpretation of observable form and tendency? Or is the naming of genre instead an *invocation* of form? lareviewofbooks.org/article/lett...
Letter to the Editor in Response to the ‘New Qweird’ | Los Angeles Review of Books
The editors of the anthology ‘New Queer Weird’ provide a critique of the other label, recently outlined by LARB contributors.
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My June newsletter goes out tomorrow, with some thoughts on boredom, doing cons in your 50s, and what interests me about Gorgons. Sign up today! www.traversingz.com/newsletter
