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happy pride im gay if you are a hot girl please fall in love with me not doing so is homophobic this month okay thanks

ahh shit I forgot to leave out cookies and bricks for the pride elves last night

Wanna join the Informed Ignyte Voter Book Club? I hear the @theignyteawards.bsky.social Nominees have been notified, which is very exciting because the Ignytes celebrate the works of People of the Global Majority within Speculative Fiction! The Ignyte Awards are special, in part, because they

i am SOBBING i love her SO MUCH HOLY SHIT

just don't be a dick to your kids it's actually not that hard.

For fellow writers and readers of fantasy lit, @mollytempleton.com article on portrayal of magic in fantasy is absolutely spot on. (h/t @ellenkushner.bsky.social) reactormag.com/magic-doesnt...

okay friends i'm curious about something — how do you feel about content warnings for books, and what genres do you mostly read?

Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you: the first six months of the 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈 I'm organizing this by month so click on through!

just a loving reminder that when you pitch editors, please include a bio and some kind of writing sample! and/or links to your website & socials if you want! okay thank you!

"In 1985, 20th Century Fox tried to convince audiences to go to the theater and see a tender story of connection between an all-American fighter pilot and a pregnant nonbinary enemy combatant..." That was Enemy Mine–and it deserves to be remembered: reactormag.com/enemy-mine-i...

legit if i had money i would fund a whole trans/nonbinary shakespeare company im so stoked about this

“In mainland China, the portion of patients going to ER with COVID more than doubled in the last month — from 7.5% to more than 16%. The portion in hospital for COVID also doubled, to more than 6%” The new “razor blade throat” variant seems to cause more severe cases…and it’s already in the US 🧵

join my film covennnnnn

I have long suspected the eventual fight will come down to either killing copyright or killing the tech industry. If copyright wins, you're potentially looking at $25k per infringement. If AI wins, you're looking at the collapse of copyright and IP, which means the collapse of creative industries.

we also wish we could just go back to a pre-pandemic normal. we’re exhausted. but as long as you refuse to take basic precautions like masking, we can’t.

Pro-tip: if you want to let an editor or publisher know about your newsletter or web fiction or whatever it is, the worst possible way you can do that is to subscribe them yourself to your Substack.

love to play ttrpgs with friends love to put my wretched little guy in Situations

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP It is always a good morning for June Jordan.

dear mr ryan coogler sir i know you are a very busy man but if you ever have the time i would please like to request a whole movie about the choctaw vampire hunters from sinners please thank you love you bye xx

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

There are approximately 1.5 million transgender American citizens. Approximately 1 in 5 of those transgender Americans rely on Medicaid to cover their healthcare. The United States House just told them to get fucked. I am NOT playing when I say this: You Need To Contact Your Senator NOW.

rewatching stranger than fiction (2006) and how absolutely fucked up is it that the professor tells harold 'you have to die because it's her greatest novel' like ????? sir her book is not more important than his life???? she can write a shittier novel it's fine????????? what the fuck bro

Just called Gillibrand and Schumer to demand they not only vote against the murderous Republican budget bill, but that they deny unanimous consent at every opportunity and do everything else they can to gum up the works. This is intolerable. Find your senators here and make your own calls: reps.fyi

lord grant me a zohran win and a rent freeze/reduction there is only one apartment in my neighborhood listed under 2k and it is at $1,999

this thread is specifically about approaching a masculine silhouette if you've got wide hips and is (as derek's threads always are) incredibly helpful, but THIS bit is my favorite thing about clothes in general, regardless of gender.

i just cant actually believe murderbot got made into a real actual tv show that is so cool

no kings, no cops, no billionaires, no fascists, no enablers, no terfs, no bigots, no scolds, no joy thieves, no antisemites, no genocide apologists, no AI

i just need everyone to know that someone on the reactor team asked the rest of us to pick a set number of favorite movies and everyone is fucking losing it

should i do a list of very real sff books you should read this summer or are we not there yet

It's especially obnoxious that this AI book list news is all over the place today, a Tuesday, a day for talking about new releases. There's a new Alison Bechdel! Yiyun Li's memoir! Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive? Caitlin Starling's Starving Saints! Madeleine Thien's Book of Records! & more!

I will never get tired of reading these stories of ICE agents etc getting turned away/thwarted because people KNOW THEIR RIGHTS.