Renay⁷
@renay.bsky.social
U.S. Southerner. Mouthy, but soft. Does stuff online: https://heyheyrenay.carrd.co/
genAI folks are not okay and this scans with how my interactions with people I work with offline who use it. When these companies paywall these tools away from regular people, we’re going to see epic meltdowns.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 10h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Please tell me your favorite space opera novel (or series, if it's too hard to choose, I'm not a MONSTER) ever. 🥹
My bookstore had A Trade of Blood out and I know we’re supposed to wait but until release day HOWEVER I deserved something nice.
Thread of ways to help Spokane fire victims. As someone who grew up and also still has family living there, this is so heartbreaking. For those who want to or need help, check out the city's official resource list, which includes a handful of places for donations: my.spokanecity.org/news/release...
Community Resources Available to Those Impacted by Fires
Local organizations and services are ready to assist those impacted by fires.
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Molly Templeton@mollytempleton.com · 2d agothis is really, really bad, and Spokane is ... not exactly on the national radar. I know there are infinite people and places that need help, and everyone's resources are finite, but some options if you are so inclined:
Okay, this time, fandom, if we decide to respond to this episode of Critical Friends let’s do some tidy blog posts or I GUESS some nice quote posts with accompanying threads, if we must. For my health. 😂
Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 2d ago🎛️ Crank up the volume, it's Critical Friends! 🏆 Uh-oh, it's some more awards chat. @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social and @amritesh.bsky.social talk to me about the Clarke, the Hugo, the Booker, the Le Guin ... ⁉️ What relationship between critic and award, award and reader? 🤔 Also: marketing. Again.
I really need SFF publishing to invest in new really long series, sometimes I just want to read twenty books in the same world like Pern or Valdemar or the like but completely new to me and I am just not into the niches where this happens in self-publishing today like LitRPG or cultivation at all
I haven't looked at the law yet, but I'm worried about ordering books from out of state, too. How does this affect online booksellers for people who live in Arkansas? I don't understand how this is at all constitutional.
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
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Incredible that fandom is so predictable that I knew before I looked what the most popular queer pairing was going to be for Clair Obscur. 😅
Your essential Mixtape is here!
Renay⁷@renay.bsky.social · 5d agoNew issue of Intergalactic Mixtape. :)
Hugo Awards deadline is next weekend, so I'm putting in my ballot so far and *damn* the Fan Artist category has some super strong finalists this year. They are all so beautiful!
patreon, like everything else, has a mobile site. there is no reason to use an app for anything, an app is just a worse web browser. everyone please stop installing apps on your phone. apps are useless you can do it with Mozilla Firefox and they have adblock on there
doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 6mo agoI'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me
*standing up on the plane* healthy participation in fandom demands the ability to engage with a text from two different directions simultaneously, in which it is BOTH a piece of media in the real world of which you are obligated to permit public critique, AND an imaginary landscape where you are God
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 6d ago*standing up on the plane* No, getting together a TV couple with will-they/won't-they romantic chemistry is NOT a mistake. You may be listening to conventional wisdom about the TV show Moonlighting, but as has been comprehensively shown by an array of critics, that program's problems had nothing t-
How do we help with this, give us a plan
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.(Bloomberg) - Larry Ellison and his family would be on the hook for $9.8 billion if Paramount Skydance Corp.’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. falls apart. @bloomberg.com $PSKY $ORCL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I don't know enough (or have enough interest in) Greek mythology to have opinions on the Discourse, but I am very happy folks are so excited about literary/media criticism. If everyone started a blog (not on Substack) we could do this all the time! :D
Lastly in A-Side, @greekchoir.bsky.social talked about the difference between fanfic and tribute anthologies. I wonder if we'll be seeing more of these as the walls between fandom and trad pub continue to fracture.
Some thoughts on tribute collections as legitimized fanworks #highfantasybooks #fantasybooktok #greekchoir
TikTok video by Greekchoir🧋| Bailey
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I've spent a few weeks sorting many of the recs in this list of Organized Labor in science fiction into my Zotero. It's my favorite resource on this topic!
Organized labour in science fiction
Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.
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Then I reread this essay by Jenny just for the joy of it. It's funny and functional!
Cassandra Khaw Books, Ranked By How Clearly I Understood Why the Characters Were Eating Human Flesh; or, Gobbets Tomorrow and Gobbets Yesterday But Never Jam Today - Reading the End
Nothing but Blackened Teeth Surprising nobody, this is my favorite Cassandra Khaw book. I love haunted house stories, and I love it when a bunch of people are stuck in an enclosed space together and a...
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I'm deep in Hugo reading so there were many videos this week, like this one! Someone reposted this onto my timeline but I couldn't find who, so thank you, mystery reccer!
Why Do Tech Bros Always Learn The Wrong Thing From Sci-Fi?
YouTube video by Demonetized
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It’s Saturday I’m starting a very long weekend and so let’s get you some books via this week’s Wombling Along with reviews and other things to read with a cuppa www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/7/...
Wombling Along! — Runalong The Shelves
Hellllooooo! It is done! I have finished work and have a lovely 11 days off in a row! Safe to say I am more than ready for a break. We are off to Sicily later this week and the important question of ...
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me aggressively ranking Ancillary Review of Books first in the Fanzine category even though I'm in the category because I'm afraid they won't be eligible next year due to having a wildly successful crowdfunding project and I NEED the future to know how great they are 😅
As @renay.bsky.social said in her Intergalactic Mixtape letter, I really appreciate these Hugo finalist Fan Writer bios that @camestrosf.bsky.social has done: camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/f...
Fan Writer 26✍️: Gotta Catch ‘Em All
Hugo voting closes soon. If you are voting in the Hugos, please vote in the Fan Writer category! Here are the finalists in alphabetical order with links to their profiles: ➻ Jay Brantner (“Tar Vol”…
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The excellent Mixtape is available!
Renay⁷@renay.bsky.social · 2w agoThe latest issue of Intergalactic Mixtape is live!
WB-Paramount merger delayed until June 2027, at least. Keep going! Drag it out! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for Months
The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.
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