Vajra Chandrasekera
@vajra.me
Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
I'm very happy to have got the chance to participate in this project, and particularly enjoyed reading *this* post lol
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 4h agoIn March of 2011, Ursula wrote a colorfully titled blog post about colorful language: "I remember when swearing, though tame by modern standards, was quite varied and often highly characteristic." On this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, author @vajra.me reads "Would You Please Fucking Stop?"
"No new 70mm projectors have been built in my lifetime" was the most startling thing in the excellent amusing @vajra.me review. I did not know this. vajra.me/2026/07/27/o...
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In March of 2011, Ursula wrote a colorfully titled blog post about colorful language: "I remember when swearing, though tame by modern standards, was quite varied and often highly characteristic." On this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, author @vajra.me reads "Would You Please Fucking Stop?"
In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin: Vajra Chandrasekera reads "Would You Please F—ing Stop?"
Vajra Chandrasekera reads post 17, "Would You Please F—ing Stop?" You can read Ursula's original post, from March of 2011, here: Vajra's website is
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There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
Today marks the one year anniversary of this book coming out in the US/Canada, almost the three year anniversary of it being out in India, and nearly the nine year anniversary of when I started it in 2017. The moral of this story is I’m old.
the fine gradations and overlaps between scab, arsonist, gullible, and advertisement
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 20h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
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Bruno Schulz! The original thick describer & champion of the viscous. How can a short story be so clotted, so rich, so textured, so worlded, so adjectived? Just amazing.
Most of Delany's work, including his notorious DHALGREN. A lot of Alan Moore's work, including the novel of his I've read (VOICE OF THE FIRE). Olga Tokarczuk's (alas) THE BOOKS OF JACOB (trans. Jennifer Croft), DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS by Milorad Pavić (trans. Christina Pribićević-Zorić).
aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · yesterdaythis is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous
people have already mention M. John Harrison and Antoine Volodine, so let me add basically anything by Michael Cisco
aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · yesterdaythis is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous
this is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous
Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · yesterdayit is just such a pleasure to read a text so thick, so viscous
finally actually reading BOOK OF THE NEW SUN and recognizing all the places where people thought I'd been referencing it
“Neighbours tell me that people are still coming to our house in black vehicles. The UP Police are also still visiting our house. My daughter and I have shifted to another location. She studies in Class 10, and I used to teach students. I don’t know what our future holds now.”
‘Stop hounding us’: Mother of 15-year-old who abused PM says driven out of home
The 15-year-old allegedly made remarks against PM Narendra Modi during the Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar. Her mother said they left their Noida home owing to constant harassment.
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Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2d agoBig strong Prime Minister of the most virile and glorious superpower India sending cops and rapist mobs and his regime's Goebbelsian media after a child for abusing him.
dopamine. oxytocin. adrenaline. cortisol. long ago, the four hormones lived together in harmony
Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 2d agoI see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing
The only *guaranteed* piece of craft advice I can give -- I mean the advice that is universally applicable -- is that if you kill many other writers and eat their scribere gland (roughly the size of a black-eyed pea, so be careful not to damage it) then your prose will improve immensely
always happy to hear RAKESFALL mentioned all over an episode haha
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.
🎛️ 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.
Critical Friends Episode 26: On Awards
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Amritesh Mukherjee and Abigail Nussbaum join Dan Hartland to talk about literary awards.
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Credit goes to demonbloodsausagedog on tumblr for this absolutely marvelous post: booksandchainmail.tumblr.com/post/8051158...
Assorted Objects — demonbloodsausagedog: aristoteliancomplacency: ...
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novipodes is so funny
Dan Hartland@danhartland.bsky.social · 2d agoOh, look! It’s @chloroformtea.bsky.social and me, hacking our way through this year’s Clarke Award shortlist. Which niche British references do we employ? Which random GIFs? And … why Tom Cruise? Also, careful critique of a set of six texts claimed by the judges to represent the best of UK SF etc
probably a good sign that my auto complete suggests "sorry for the delay on my end" after i type the word "so"
Per latest Locus, the Feminist Press will be publishing the Collected Stories of Joanna Russ. I am so delighted.
guys I opened my laptop and was about to start work when I noticed one of the many files on my desktop was called "Alan Moore getting a cake.jpg" and I thought it would be a joke or something but no
