Beyond excited to share that my debut collection, HER CONSUMPTION, will be out next year with the Honeythief Imprint of Edge & Busby Press. ๐๐ช๐คค
My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.
The Democrats broadly and even to an extent institutionally turning against trans people in explicit terms is perhaps the most predictable piece of ugliness imaginable, but it still makes my fucking skin crawl. Segregated swimming pools all over again.
Finished season two of the Sopranos. Thoughts. Tony is still my โfavorite character.โ The constant policing of each otherโs masculinity is fascinating to watch. I enjoy watching Christopher fuck it up. Poor Dr. Melfi (and I do know about Employee of the Monthโฆ)
Cyanide Constellations turns a year old today! It seemed like a good time to finally make one of these graphics because I always like the ones other authors make for their books ๐โจ
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Guys, โThe Mourning Robotโ won 2nd place in the Rhysling Awards! Huge thanks to all the readers and @uncannymagazine.bsky.social for giving this one a home.
This poem (+ spec poetry in general) has taken me to so many places this year (nebulas! hugos! my first pub in China!), and I am so grateful.
Since Iโve never once used Chatgpt or anything similarโฆeasy peasy, lemon squeezy. Let me know where I need to sign up to shut down data centers please.
So the "advice" doled out in this column makes me INCREDIBLY fucking angry as a former kid who was repeatedly taken to task by teachers for "inappropriate" drawings, culminating in a 9th-grade suspension spurred by Columbine paranoia and residual Satanic Panic. Arionne here says that was JUSTIFIED.
Personally, I do think that horror is a broad genre. I love writing, reading, and watching it because horror is supposed to be uncomfortable, introspective, and shouldnโt leave you with any neat solutions.
It has to be a little mean and very honest. If a horror story canโt do that wellโฆ Iโll pass.
We really need to get into the gender essentialism happening here. Cozy=girly/Scary=man. It's incredibly anti-feminist patriarchal framing in the service of defending a straight guy against an actual nonbinary queer person who presents very feminine. I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind.
I am not worth this much of a big thread taking down an essay you clearly did not read while you try and position me as a sexist coming after "girly things" which jfc the gender essentialism that comes up in these topics.
Ding! Ding! Ding! One the nose!
โHorror is where we donโt have to lie about the bad things. We can talk about them. They give us a language to acknowledge evil when everything else is telling us we have to be positive and to bury our grief, our anger, and our pain.โ
incredibly humbling to have been first through the breach on this. no trans woman had ever had a horror novel at a big five publisher before MANHUNT, which is not to slap myself on the back but to comment on how lonely and scary it was.
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One of Benโs friends has taken in his fiancรฉeโs motherโs 19 year old cat.
I got to pay this esteemed grandma my respects. Meow Mei is a beautiful lady.