a week late in having my copy arrive, which means an extra week of celebrating the gift of @sesmith.lol’s new book “all my dead cats.” i’m so very proud that this book exists & my friend wrote it—hfs, it was once just an idea?! celebrating are the skulls of my dead cats, moxie (L) & whimsy (R)

i rlly hope this anthem is better this corny music is absolutely slaying me

oh boy

i do so wish the @wpbl.bsky.social was giving us some facts, details, history, or literally anything from announcers during this rain delay ???

someone in new york city please tell me, a south floridian, how to dress for visiting the city this week

over the last few years, i’ve been trying to read some of “the classics” that i missed (for whatever reason)—books that defined a genre, are (in)famous & wildly referenced. many have been excellent! but y’all. idk if i can finish the big sleep or the three musketeers

busted link, here’s the functional one, but my entire heart is exploding at being in such esteemed company and from such lovely words by @mariahaskins.com about my short story “meet the mets”! locusmag.com/review/night...

Night Shades, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, and Escape Pod: Review by Maria Haskins - Locus

Night Shades 4/17/26, 4/3/26, 3/6/26 Strange Horizons 3/30/26 PodCastle 3/24/26 Escape Pod 3/26/26 Another one of my favorite publications for flash fiction is Night Shades, which publishes 500-word, ...

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Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · last mo.

“Everything Must Go” by Mercer Eddy from @nightshadesmag.bsky.social, “Meet the Mets” by @mortuaryreport.bsky.social from @escapepod.org, and more short fic recs from @mariahaskins.co locusmag.com/review/...

if kitty doesn’t get some revenge on d’artagnan, i’m going to be mad through the rest of this entire book

hello! did you know that if you replace your shitty grass front yard with natives, a bunch of native animals will show up as a result?

hello! did you know that if you replace your shitty grass front yard with natives, a bunch of native animals will show up as a result?

i cannot recommend enough that @theflytrapmedia.com is worth spending your hard-earned $ on; i am so lucky to be among MANY incredible writers here!!

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2mo ago

Our latest Bitch Media reprint at @theflytrapmedia.com is this fantastic piece by @mortuaryreport.bsky.social, writing about the need for disability in queer spaces and how disabled LGBTQIA+ people are often stuck on the margins due to lack of physical and attitudinal access.

there are very few simple pleasures as sensorily decadent as stepping outside from a house with the AC set to 70 into the humidity of the floridian nighttime where the mockingbirds and tree frogs are calling

i just spent an inordinate amount of time cutting and shaping a steel rod for a project that i now cannot find anywhere

the dogs are all sleeping in derek’s room so nobody warmed my bed up for my toesies this is awful

christ almighty this basketball game

apparently the original post i made with this story didn’t include the link so i’m reposting both for pride month and so i can pin it 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Escape Pod@escapepod.org · 4mo ago

Step right up and greet this week's story, sapients on the street - you're guaranteed to have the time of your life! We've got ourselves a ball tale, "Meet the Mets" by @mortuaryreport.bsky.social. Feel free to holler and cheer!

i am feeding the spiders so i’m gonna post spider pics

aggressively bummed to have @steampowered.com shut down my help ticket entirely instead of trying to actually assist me in getting access to my 15-year-old account… because i don’t have 4 digits of a credit card i used in 2010??

are all the musketeers supposed to be so deeply unlikable

can confirm having just had a convo with an ADA specialist: a sterile environment is a place where in order to enter hair, clothes, & shoes must be covered by gown & PPE, & no visitors are allowed—like an ICU, operating room, or burn unit. if you can bring someone w/you, your service dog can come

ace tilton ratcliff@mortuaryreport.bsky.social · 2mo ago

by ADA definitions, is the piercing room of a piercing studio a “sterile” environment in which a service dog is not permitted? my gut feeling is no; sterile means surgical while a piercing room is sanitary with sterilized implements, but i’m willing to be wrong

by ADA definitions, is the piercing room of a piercing studio a “sterile” environment in which a service dog is not permitted? my gut feeling is no; sterile means surgical while a piercing room is sanitary with sterilized implements, but i’m willing to be wrong

can’t believe this is finally coming into existence. i know it’s going to be SO good.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3mo ago

My book on grief, mourning, and how the way America does those things sucks (spoiler: capitalism) comes out July 28! Threading some ways you can support, starting w/preordering (print, ebook, or audio) from your favorite bookstore.

i am reading “on the calculation of volume” book 1 and finding to to be terribly and unbearably slow. i am nearly done & thus will probably finish it but do the rest of them stay similar?

ok so i’m like halfway-ish thru the three musketeers and so far it is mostly one musketeer and he’s not even a musketeer yet he’s a musketeer in training????

deep cut but give me all of your best long form videos about the history of france & the world during the setting of the three musketeers AND your videos about alexander dumas’ family history AND about dumas writing the book thank you

ahahaha i subluxed my elbow in the pool

the nice thing about having floridian parents is there is a built in pool for me to dangle in when my spine has gone fucky and something is dislocated but also this does not actually seem like a decent or real excuse for jobs or anyone i owe things to

i got to read this story before it went live in the world and phew. big feelings, y’all. it’s always a joy (and sometimes horrifying in the best way bc of what i’m going to FEEL) to read for @reveleth.com. go. read.

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 3mo ago

Oh it turns out I can link directly to an online version of my story! www.lumina-journal.com/sniff I am good at internet.

i am so sick of living in a body that makes me pay for everything. you’d think you get used to it at some point but nope

please clap, i just rehoused my cobalt blue tarantula as well as my golden blue legged baboon AND my purple earth tiger