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My medications have unexpectedly increased, and this month I'm having a hard time affording them.
These are maintenance medications for my heart and nerve damage.
Any help would be appreciated! Can trade editorial services!

hex Submissions Open Recent Contributors: Angela Liu * Ivy Grimes * Jose Hernandez Diaz Recent Awards: Best Microfiction * Best Small Fictions hexliterary.submittable.com/submit

We are feeling lucky today... Open now! Submissions capped at 200. Send us something cool! 😈💜

Fiction submissions opening 3 submission windows for 2025

General April 16th Novelettes (10,000 to 18,000 words) June 4th Indigenous Authors November 3rd

Strange Horizons will have 3 FICTION SUBMISSION WINDOWS in 2025.

General
April 16th
with a 1,000 story cap

Novelette (10k to 18k words)
June 4th
with a 300 story cap

Indigenous Authors
November 3rd
with a 500 story cap

Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.

Meme- Old man labeled ‘’me” holding a demon labeled “my feel need for a lil treat” Painting

#indieauthors Im offering editing services (dev, copy, proofread, etc) on a PAY WHAT YOU CAN BUDGET! Fast turnaround, references can be provided upon request. Accessiblity 🤝🏻 happy book. No genre or subject matter off limits. Email me
TheCozyGinger@gmail.com
- word count, deadline, synopsis

Kindly, my pink-toed tarantula passed away today. I have arachnophobia and Kindly was my second tarantula over the years to help me see the beauty of spiders.
You’ll be missed little buddy, thank you for teaching me to be a little less afraid 🖤

My heart goes out to you bc it’s hard to convey the feeling of bursting out of your skin and the rampant particles you think about. It’s exhausting. I hope you find something that helps you xoxo. I’m here for support!

I used to be an Esthetician, providing facials, massages and waxing. I have the same thing and I discovered laying, facedown, on the floor settled me a lot quicker than anything I tried before. I ultimately had to stop that profession but I use Sacred Floor Time 2-4 x week and it’s so wonderful.

🥹🫶🏻

#Writers! I’m taking on a few short pieces to edit (dev, line + copy edit included) and it’ll be PAY WHAT YOU CAN / tipping!
Referrals a bonus and have letters of recommendation 🖊️
🩷All genres, no triggers. Message me with your word count, synopsis, deadline and budget🩷

She's beauty and she's grace, she's here to eat your face.

Bone Knuckles & the Rose Scavenger releases May 15!

Nelka Mazur on Substack I’ll be updating with a ton of femme rage reviews over the weekend and ps they were all amazing and deliciously fucked up.

substack.com/profile/1180...

Can't wait to update my substack with all my femme rage reads I've been binging. #booksky

Small white kitten with blue eyes being held by an older calico cat with double paws. They cuddle together on a blue cat tower

Mochi and Maple being precious. Pardon me while I scream myself into orbit.

I recently returned to Substack for my review posts, so here are some of the recent ones, plus a brand new one! Head to my bio to read about some amazing books!

A photo of a hobbit hole with a gate from the Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit movie. Text says ‘This and a woman with a bush.’

I’m a simple creature
#queer

Opposing bills and submitting testimonies in my state has become a nightly thing for me. It's especially rewarding when we win. Winning so we don't set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the country. Fighting for my friends. Fighting for my found family. Fuck the musky orange and butthole lips.

I’m feral and ready to edit. Just a little heads up!!

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

‘It’s a cheat day’

Quality time with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

Book cover: Black woman holding a futuristic space blaster in coveralls for flight crew. Behind her is a spherical machine with the words ‘Don’t Open The Door’. Title: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

CR: The Scourge Between Stars
By: Ness Brown
Sci-fi space horror for the femmes in STEM. 35% in and rlly enjoying this. Author is a literal bad ass. 🪐

😂 YOU’RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE! My edits play no favorites lmao. We’re doing the thing!

The vibes I bring to the function:

No 😭 it was saved in my meme folder on my phone. It’s literally perfect

Sunbathers Sin is hot but purity is blistering.Hordes of cannibali…

5 star review of SUNBATHERS:

"oh my god?? genuinely one of the best queer dystopian books i've read in a while. mc is very morally grey but she still has qualities i love ... this book also tackles real queer issues and i really enjoyed. absolute peak"

ABSOLUTE PEAK, LADS, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST

Yessss!!!

Your Happy Ending Is Almost Here- A Letter From The Editor 'How To Survive This Fairytale' is releasing tomorrow

On the eve of the release, I got sentimental editor goo all over @smhallow.bsky.social Proud of you 💙📚
Your Happy Ending Is Almost Here- A Letter From The Editor open.substack.com/pub/hedonebo...

The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet "After procuring several fervent assurances that his wi…

I only need 8 more adds of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET on Goodreads to reach 1000! 🌈💐
Who wants to help this queer, tender romance get there?

A Dark Fantasy Romance for fans of T. Kingfisher's THORNHEDGE and Tamsyn Muir's HARROW THE NINTH, comes a story crafted by S. M. Hallow. Twining together a dark fairy tale retelling w/ mental health and disability rep + queer normative world building splashed with a cozy horror game vibe.