R. F. Daniels (they/he)
@rfdwrites.bsky.social
Queer trans speculative fiction author. Frequently trapped under a cat. https://www.rfdaniels.com/
SOME GOOD NEWS! continue to contact your reps re: KOSA and the KIDS Act, but also give yourself a pat on the back if you called! Your voice mattered!
Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 3h agoSCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoEvery now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
The sooner we fund, the sooner we can reopen to submissions and achieve our awesome stretch goals!!!!
Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 5d agoBreaking News, Space Unicorns! Highly detailed analysis of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 KICKSTARTER has revealed that having made VERY GOOD progress it is IMPORTANT to KEEP GOING!! LETS MAKE ANOTHER YEAR OF UNCANNY HAPPEN!! (Also, even this graphic beats AI!!) buff.ly/9vsnOnl
Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
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it's short story dayyy!! do you want a slightly pensive story about change, giant robot bird watching, and a toxic ex that left you behind in the ruins of civilization? read "If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I" over at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ 🪶 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/if-a... 🪶
If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I - Lightspeed Magazine
Green Plumed Orbital Line A; viridis metamorphos A Common sighting; Flies along the forty-fifth latitude every 12 minutes Traveler’s addendum: Last functional line along a northern latitude; southern ...
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🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
Some Queer Short SFF - June 2026 | Charles Payseur
Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part
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Breaking my mental health hiatus to let yall know that an AI slop farm wants to know authors' opinions on AI. Do with this what you will. I will see you all next month. 💜 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Future Fiction Academy — AI & Authorship Survey
Thanks for helping us understand how authors are really using AI. This survey should take about 5–7 minutes. Your individual answers will not be shared. We will only publish results in aggregate, so n...
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I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN JUNE 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's May's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...
Some Queer Short SFF - May 2026 | Charles Payseur
Pride Month might be wrapping up for many people, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to stop paying attention to awesome queer short SFF. Now,
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DO YOU PUBLISHED WITH INGRAM SPARK? Please, for the love of Draso, opt out of their AI sales nonsense. I can't believe I have to post this.
Steve Kenson ❌👑@stevekenson.com · 2w agoPublishers, if you work with Lightning Source or are distributed through Ingram, take note that Ingram is offering an opt-out if you don't want your books sold to AI companies buying them to scan for AI training. ⬇️
You want extremely fun and insightful queer adult sff book tips for the rest of the year? REJOICE! For Sia has your back:
Every Month is Pride: Queer Adult SFF for the Rest of 2026 - Every Book a Doorway
PRIDE LASTS ALL YEAR: or, queer Adult SFF releasing from July-December!
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In honor of today's Cozy Up with Fantasy sale, this week's Friday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which you can snap up today for just 99c/99p: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave And check out all the other fabulous books on offer, too! cozyupwithfantasy.com #romancelandia
Featuring stories from @fusionfragment.bsky.social, @othersidespec.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lunastation.bsky.social, @unchartedmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @pseudopod.org, @trollbreathmag.bsky.social, @flashpointsf.bsky.social, and @escapepod.org.
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2w agoNew short speculative fiction time! My picks from June: reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago
STARS IN BLOOM (complete, 100k) 🌌 A galaxy-spanning hunt for ancient technology 🦹🏼♂️ A race to save their home from corporate destruction ☀️ Grumpy/sunshine pairing 🙅♀️ Support women's wrongs 🏳️🌈 Nonbinary aroace MC in a queernormative world 🍄 Cool space fungus 🐈⬛ Don't forget the cat! #QuestPit #Q #A #SF
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The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume Seven
Novellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weekly
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COVER REVEAL Thrilled to share the *incredible* cover for “Not Like Other Girls,” my upcoming story at @reactorsff.bsky.social ! Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer Preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Many thanks to @camestrosf.bsky.social profiling all the finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer, including myself. I'm really proud of my work last year on being a neurodiverse writer, along with my regular journalism and reports. 1/
Camestros Felapton@camestrosf.bsky.social · 2w agoFan Writer 26✍️: Jason Sanford ➻ Name: Jason Sanford➻ Pronouns: He/his➻ Blog: Bluesky: Mastodon: Patreon: So far in this series of profiles, each of the fan writers has been primarily a reviewer, but fan writing has other modes. Jason Sanford's fan writing has an emphasis on news and journalistic…
The answer to "why does everything suck now" almost ALWAYS goes back to "venture capital." Which goes back to "a lot of people have too much money and don't know what to do with it." Which goes back to: "We need to tax rich people more." It's like it's the solution to 99% of our problems!!
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
friends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating
The second issue of Blanket Gravity Magazine is out, with a story from yours truly about being able to reset your own memories, and how different types of pain can compete when you have limited spoons to deal with them: www.blanketgravitymag.com/past-perfect
Past-Perfect — Blanket Gravity Magazine
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When this is over, and it IS speeding toward an ugly death, How will they create? Sustain? Think? They won’t be able to. All the studies already show the long term affects. They’ll burn out and be very lost. But I’ll still be here making fantastic, beautiful fucking art, and you will too.
This. & the thing is those who care SO much about our art & refuse to give into this bullshit will win out in the long run. We’re already seeing it. Remember, it’s not survival of the fittest, it’s survival of the most adaptable. & Adapting sure as hell doesn’t mean slop slurping like some think.
Deval 『CEO of Girl Kissing』🔞@deval.gay · 3w agoI think a major thing genAI has revealed is that a huge swath of creators of all sizes to not give a single FUCK about what they make, and how replaceable they think artists and editors are. They don't care about the quality or human element, or supporting other people, they just want "content"
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day! You can learn more about non-binary folk through my novels: PROUD PINK SKY is speculative fiction exploring non-binary life in the world's first gay nation. THE GIDDY DEATH is a touching story of non-binary identity in Wales. Get your copy today! 💛🤍💜🖤
We have decided to remove a short story from Issue 153 of Apex Magazine. After meeting with our reading and editorial teams, we'd like to share with you what happened, and importantly, how we plan to move forward from here. Thank you for sticking with us. 💜👽
And I've already seen the flares of anxiety from creatives who feel like they can't meet this or that burden of proof, but as someone who works with folks generating text for dayjob, they can't even remotely speak to what's in that text. Trust me: if you wrote the words, you'll know the words.
I also think their process is as good as it can get, for now. As I said in another post, AI checkers are bunk and anyone who relies on them will get as many (if not more) false positives as true. But talking to a writer? A creative? Asking them about their process? You can't generate creative joy.
![Romantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
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