Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred

It's doubly hilarious because I'm also a person who puts good books down because the style throws me off.

It’s another Saturday at the Library!!!

The books, they whisper to me.

So many perfect reads, so little time.

Yes! But all that to say, I expect rhythm or cadence to change versus voice.

I revisited a piece this week I haven't touched in years and it was funny because I recognize the voice but love the idea of finding its rhythm so I can finish the story.

Uh... no shade or slick shit when I ask this: why do you recommend it?

Thank you!

I’m teaching a class in fan fiction focusing on protest conversation w source material—FF that pushes back. I asked for the pushback on the notorious JK terfer. Colleague & friend @lpkindred.bsky.social provided. Thank you @chucktingle.bsky.social for all you’ve been doing and keep doing.

Dispatches from @capriconsfcon.bsky.social !
Reading alongside @andreahairston.bsky.social and @tbonejenkins.bsky.social was amazing! I love reading with friends!

Bastian needed to get scooped up so bad!

Thank you, friend.

Heard. Grist for the mill of my ideas on an adult portal fantasy....

Speaking of adult portal fantasies, I'm rereading PALIMPSEST by Valente next. There's a story here.

I don't think people should say this without proof -- they are literally not "now in ICE." Most of them are in the Portland PD, if you want to make a point of it.
Yes, right-wing dudes are in the police everywhere and all at once. This line is just a way to maintain police exceptionalism.

I wasn't the only boy who wanted console Atreyu when Artex died, right?

I wasn't the only boy who wanted to be the MacGuffin at the end of Atreyu's quest, right?

I'm not the only person who saw Bastian was in love with Atreyu.

Right?

To the Queerdoes of a Certain Age:

Am I making this ship up, am I?

So the Neverending Story?

I wish I could do this for the first time again.

Update to an Update!

I was on-time!

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Everyone's struggling & the world's on fire so I'm sorry to ask, but I need your help again.

If you could donate and/or share my Go Fund Me campaign, it would go a long way to helping me pay for increased costs for my breast cancer treatment. Details in my update.

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Contributions. Middle school, high school, the first 3 colleges.

But y'all see me.

And when I lose sight of who I am and why I'm doing, y'all told me to remember who I am in the Heritage of Octavia and Chip.

That energy is what I'm walking into 2026 and beyond with.

Thank you severely.

Octavia by any means but I am outside and writing and trying to make SFF a better place.

Your faith in me and my journey are the reason I'm running into class on a 5 Hour Energy and a pineapple upside down muffin from Lost Larson.

Institutions, purportedly, meant to enrich me overlook my

Late Update!

I have class in 34 minutes. Thank you.

Last year, I ran a gofundme to the tune of $7k in order to keep me in school so I can graduate before the DOE is a picked-over husk and because my art school doesn't know how to value my contributions to literature. I don't believe I'm Chip or

Déscartes is long-winded.

Guess it's official, my first residency, at the Singapore Management University's College of Integrative Studies. I'll be holding a flash workshop too. Me!

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A Gothic Horror Retreat, Reading Joy & All the Onions in the World January!

Nods to @lpkindred.bsky.social @justkeepwriting.bsky.social & onion jam!
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Please give a warm Capricon welcome to @swcarpenter.bsky.social @alexjennings.bsky.social @lpkindred.bsky.social & @tbonejenkins.bsky.social, plus CBS team members, @isisasare.bsky.social & (past Capricon GoH) @badger2305.bsky.social Find their panels here: guide.capricon.org

Her DMs are open.

So if @shingai-be-like.bsky.social had a collection who'd be interested?

I've been informed that the man in this video is Matthew James Obadiah Allen, better known as Twin Cities hip hop artist Nur-D

You're the best

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

4 out of 5 previews on my audible home screen are for Harry Potter related items. I have a hard time believing that that's the level of demand.

It's why i keep reiterating the point that if you just "read what looks good", the likelihood is high that you're reading what someone else wants you to.