Rebecca Bennett

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ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS:

An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

Can anyone remember the name (and ideally link) a short story that made the rounds a few years ago:
- girlfriend with chronic disability coping with a VR cat game
- POV is their partner adjusting to the video game addiction

(I mostly just remember cat video game)

living in a golden age for distopian sentences written in a tone like it's the coolest thing ever

Vibes and comparables One question Heartlines Spec often receives is: what does a long-term relationship mean? What does a long-term relationship story look like? Long-term is something that varies for every person. It co...

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Early subs for equity-deserving groups: August 24
General subs: September 1

If you're still tinkering, @rebecca-b.bsky.social created a list of Vibes and Comparables! It's not an exhaustive list but it should kickstart some words.

www.heartlines-spec.com/vibes-and-co...

I'm embarrassingly under read, blah blah reading subs blah blah burnout, so take that into account

The Water Doesn't Want You by Rebecca Bennett The closer they are to the beach, the more Jay's ice cream tastes of salt. Persimmon and vanilla swirl, tart and sweet just three feet back, ebbs into a burning taste.

Enjoyed the visceral writing and the textures of the seaside town in the Water Doesn't Want you by Rebecca Bennett, published in Augur 7.3.
@rebecca-b.bsky.social
augursociety.org/the-water-do...

ahhhhhhhhh thank you 💗

Sensory memory activated 😬

I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.

Louder for the people in the back!!

Issue 8 released yesterday and is a labyrinth of delicious words: 8 short stories, 5 poems, 1 Horizon Zero Dawn essay, 1 review on spec-fic books

Not to mention the delightful @angelvleal.bsky.social acting as Guest Poetry Editor

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Earth Versed: 10 New Poetry Books About Our Relationship With Nature • The Revelator From a collection set in a landfill to an author’s cultural exploration of a critically endangered species, these books celebrate Earth and mourn its destruction.

Kudos to editor @mariaschrater.bsky.social for her Birds issue of Eye To The Telescope, which gets a nice review here!

therevelator.org/environmenta...

Headline from The Conversation: More people are considering Al lovers, and we shouldn't judge

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

Well… welcome back to that Sunshine retelling that lingers in my mind

Ahhhhh congrats!!

That theme song lives in my brain forever

Digital monsters. Digital guardians. CHAMPIONS!!

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.

Hi, I’m here for the piss take:

YouTube video by Single Stage to Orbit Press Emergence: an escape funnel for Mothership RPG

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Plus, a brand new teaser video for this new funnel module for #mothership
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Fuck the UK Supreme Court, fuck transphobes, and fuck J.K. Rowling in particular. Trans lives matter. Trans women are women. Buy trans books, and support trans people and trans rights now and always.

Love the embrace of Another Old Country by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social -- published in one of the last issues of Apparition Lit and is a banger of a story everyone should read

apparitionlit.com/another-old-...

(it's not all about awards but holy hell is recognition nice)

Ways to vote – Elections Canada Ways to vote in the 2025 federal election in Canada.

Canadian peeps. Our election is coming up. We can already see what's happened south of the border when you let the anti-woke mob inside the gates . Don't let it happen here. VOTE. VOTE as if your future depended on it. Vote to keep Poilievre and his minions out.

www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

Stacie is super talented and I can't wait to read everything she's ever written 😍

I wonder if Roman elites watching the fall of their empire also thought: “This is so stupid.”

A photo listing suggested reading that includes the short story Mother by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

It gives me such joy to see this story continue to be read. I almost didn't write it. And then when it was written it was @jenralbert.bsky.social who pushed me to get it published.

📸: @rebecca-b.bsky.social at @banffcentre.bsky.social

Christopher Griffin's work is etched into Ottawa. He's an important artist to our city and I'm so proud that he stood for his morals

tech bro is short for technically broken

If you're one of those "where are the protests" because the news has been ignoring them the past two months, there are 25,000 people gathered in DC today, and 20+ blocks full of people in Manhattan, and that's just two cities.

The protests have been happening; you're just being lied to again.