Nigel Faustino
@nigelfaustino.bsky.social
Short fiction at Lightspeed, Baffling. Bylines at Polygon, Into the Spine
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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror
We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.
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Idk I’d like a rival but in like a Yugioh kind of way where our rivalry results in me building a jet to the afterlife just to fight one more time
Jukka Särkijärvi@nitessine.bsky.social · 5d agoThe idea of authors being in competition with each other is bizarre to me. Books aren't cars. We don't get just one.
mayor mamdani your silence on the hiss invasion of manhattan is deafening
NEW: Public records obtained by 404 Media show administrators taking meetings with parents and alumni when they take issue with student reporting. This comes as student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun earned recognition for breaking the “Cornell Seven” story.
How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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This list is fine idk. Specific rankings are whatever. Extremely funny to see some of the shows people insist belong here
E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 2w agoJust a bizarre top end of the list. Parks and Rec at #50, 30 Rock as the best comedy of the 21st century at #8? Fleabag at #5? Game of Thrones at #6? Girls at #13? White Lotus at #21? Black Mirror at #26? And I loved Succession, but #4?
🥁DRUMROLL PLEASE!!!! We are ✨THRILLED✨ to announce this year's contest winners for emerging artists and writers.
i am once again begging you to support rascal; good people writing on important topics. the ttrpg industry deserves so much better in journalism and critical analysis than "here's how to optimize your build in 5e" listicles or "new splatbook ports Avatar to dnd".
Rascal News@rascal.news · 2mo agoAdding some context to this: Rascal's membership peaked in January this year at around 2500 subscribers. This was due to our 1$ sale in December where around 300 people signed up. But ever since then, it's been a steady decline... (1/x) bsky.app/profile/rasc...
These games do a lot to my brain chemistry (in a good and bad way) but “playing” the Radical in Ball x Pit is genuinely one of the weirdest experiences and made me think long and hard about what I get out of these types of games
Jank@jank.cool · 2mo agoDeath to the self-playing game. www.jank.cool/death-to-the...
I thought I was reasonably caught up and took psychic damage when I remembered the rhythm game
headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 2mo agoi have done what many said is impossible. i have made an order guide for playing the entire kingdom hearts series, for normal people. i hope this can be a helpful resource to at least one person out there:
Can a dog download a car-ass hypothetical
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you're opposed to machine learning making outputs based on training on copyrighted art, are you opposed to ai in general doing it, or opposed to the current types of models doing it? That is, if you had C-3PO, would the same rule apply?
Very happy to say I’m going to @viableparadise.bsky.social this fall ✨ I received a Writer of Color Scholarship and am fundraising for the rest. Earning in pesos makes getting to a U.S. workshop its own exercise in speculative economics, so any help (or share) means a lot! gofund.me/198c28fdb
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I saw ONE NIGHT ONLY (2026) (aka The Sex Purge movie) so you don't have to. Review (with bonus rules for THE SEX PURGE UNOFFICIAL TTRPG) is now live (and in replies)
Being the finance lead for rascal the last year has been a gradually worsening job, only because I have to be the bearer of bad news each month as the global economy gets worse and worse. If you want Rascal to continue to exist for years to come, we need your support
Rascal News@rascal.news · 2mo agoState of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
Finally saw the Odyssey after the discourse and mostly came away liking it, rating a little below Oppenheimer, a movie with similar themes. I’m looking past the very clunky dialogue at the end and chewing on whether the movie actually thinks civ will rise again and their mistakes will be forgotten
Am I allowed to say that as this essay attempts to correct a misreading of the original story, it does a misreading of Kim's?
Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Those who treat Omelas as a utilitarian allegory wish to view the child as a concession, a 'gotcha' moment illustrating the ethical quandary alleged to inhere in all joys and comforts. But such a reading is erroneous."
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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I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.
This halftime show is infuriating. Any one of these guys could score a goal for Spain right now and they simply choose not to
I agree with chunks of this (there's a real conversation about current short fiction trends and tastes) but if I asked a market what they were going to do about AI and how they would respond to publishing it by accident, I would not be satisfied by "we're too niche and weird for that to happen"
Dorian Dawes@doriandawes.bsky.social · 3mo agoHi, SFF Apex, Bona Books, Agita Publishing, And all the others who have gotten tricked by AI, Let's have a nice talk.
it's important to remember "the left" is an ideal you commit to and not a politics you have to enact by specific means so you should basically assume any time someone refers to "the left" and it having a problem they are personally attacking you and your beautiful soul. the only good faith is yours!
6 days left and we are 70% funded—toss a coin, spread the word, help us reach the finish line!
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō is at $12035 out of their $16500 goal with FOUR DAYS left! Donate and share! Let's get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
khōréō: Year 6
Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!
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I dunno man, really don't like the framing I'm seeing in a lot of news of "Obsidian is making a new Fallout, hooray"
THIS. THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS you may have seen @reckoningmag.bsky.social's post. we found multiple publications for that person that had certain hallmarks.... to be clear, you can't be sure unless the person tells you or there's tags/prompts left in the text, but sketchy behavior is suggestive!
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼@bonabooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoMaybe you thought, like us, that if you read AI fiction you’d just *know*. We thought they’d feel obvious, but AI stories are already passing editorial scrutiny with magazines and presses around the world. That’s the most alarming lesson in this.
