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mjj-writes.bsky.social
Writer. M for Marie; M.J.'s fine. Words in EMBALM/Myriad, Tales to Terrify and Gwyllion Magazine. Pseudonymous. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her
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A calm, sunny day in late winter. The northern side of Aberaeron harbour, Ceredigion, Wales, UK - where the Georgian buildings are reflected in the still water...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Anyone got any thoughts on where I can send a fairytale retelling which veered into commentary on the similarities between selling your child to the fae for material prosperity and marrying your child off for the same? I'm 20 rejections in and I've run out of ideas (but not stubbornness).

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I wrote about my experience submitting short SFF non-stopping for ten years. It's out now in my newsletter! renanbernardo.substack.com/p/ten-years-...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Right. Transphobic asshats have got a petition to repeal the GRA to over 10,000 signatures. Fuck that. Let's get this one higher: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

ME: The great thing about writing fantasy is that you can make stuff up! ALSO ME: *spends twenty minutes reading about isopod pseudo-lungs to make sure it’s accurate*

submitted 13 days ago • 84 comments

I'm really proud of Quod Volunt Credunt. It's a love letter to all the Rosemary Sutcliffs I read as a kid, wound through with the fantasy I love, and mixing genres like paints on a palette. talestoterrify.com/episodes/649...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

But *why* is it so much easier to cut words than to make very simple revisions??

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is both heartrending and gutchurning at once.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Roses are red Dead is romance...

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Saw something this weekend about accepting that authors will write with AI. No. Don’t accept it, don’t forgive them.

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

We're open for short story submissions. Www.wyldblood.com

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

If you haven't yet read this flash about a sad mammoth who manages a human mortuary, then you really should:

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

[calmly, but with emphasis]: WHAT.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

#oldknees

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

Three days till we reopen to submissions and launch our Kickstarter, and omg there's still so much to do! February 1st: Submissions open at 12 AM EST! (Friday night) The Kickstarter launches at 1 PM EST! (Saturday afternoon) So get ready to send us your stuff and please support us if you can!

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

hey psychopomp blog is back we want your death or fantasy focused articles got budget to acquire a few articles a month currently (buy our books!) read the guidelines + pitch at the link below (would *really* appreciate if you could share this paid writing opportunity).

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Oh my God, it's beautiful!!

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

submitted 38 days ago • 48 comments

Can't resist shouting out the wonderful @gwyllion.bsky.social here :)

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

"Is romantasy ruining Welsh culture?". No. Anglo fantasy novelists have been doing cringe Celticism for over a century now, it's not become a crisis because the books are now explicitly aimed at women and have more hot fairy sex

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

WITCH KING: No man can kill me <Tree blows over onto him>

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

Friends! 📣📣📣 We're open until the end of the month for short fiction (500-3500 words) and poetry! Make it weird, make it grotesque, make it cozy, just make us FEEL something. We want all your SFF words that focus on long-term relationships. www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments