Erin Barbeau (ze/zir)

Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f...

If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

Any time any where someone brings up recovered memory therapy & forensic hypnosis as proof for XYZ, I'm rolling my eyes so hard they're doing 360s off a half pike bc it's been repeatedly demonstrated that's completely bunk. I'm looking at you ufologists.

Consider writing really wierd stories so Joe pays you in cold hard metal coins

Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.

An illustration of two beetroot blacktip reef (beet) sharks against a soft pink background. They are a deep wine red with three large green leaves on their dorsal fins. The dorsal fins are stylised to look like a sliced open beetroot, while the very tips are darker like their namesake. Both sharks appear to be delighted with their cheeky catch, a ripe beetroot held on the lower right shark's mouth. Smaller beetroots float around them. They wish you a very happy Friday, filled with tasty treats!

Blacktip beet sharks 🫜🦈 #art

So I definitely will not be coughing but the 90$ to renew my membership to SWFA especially with returning to school for degree three. Cancelling membership & not renewing directly impacts sfwas ability to operate so let ur wallet speak

It's just really disappointing to see this stance from SWFA especially after they worked with writers impacted by LLMs using their work in a class action lawsuit :/. We can't be wishy washy lads.

This is a slippery slope that will lead to more slop further undermining the spec fic publishing industry imo.

The scariest thing is getting the library newsletter on Halloween to see the friends of the library are sponsoring workshops on chatgpt/AI and ALSO essential oils 😬😬😬

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

More Cake ???? More Cake !!! 2026 is going to be a great year for queer sff short fiction, we are up to 4 queer sff mags !

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

5:45am "you shouldn't draw attention to yourself" talking at is a great start to the day. This time triggered by teaching a cosplay workshop to teens about animal ears. It's a rather boring way to live to actually not draw attention and counterproductive too imo.

Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas:

Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme
Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer
Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn
Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter

2025 Lambda Literary Awards and Special Awards Winners The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the winners for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender b…

2025 Lambda Literary Awards and Special Awards Winners

i have no more excuses for not having a copy of nana like a good little jfashion enthusiast.

RSM 2025 - YouTube Rainbow Space Magic 6.0 took place October 4-5 2025

Did you miss @spacemagiccon.bsky.social ? The 2025 panels are all up on youtube for viewing pleasure including the one I was on, Defining Genres: Do We Need To! youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiLg-RonFvaDdTJwMN6avZaNjKn6Jr_S&si=aNGPhtQTjElChGy6

I also really enjoyed the Queer Desire panel <3

Get an e-ARC of SONG OF SPORES! This is for reviewers to request a copy (epub, pdf) of the weird trans, intersex space opera book Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, Broken Eye Books (upcoming Nov 4 2025). Please do not self-reject :) I ...

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH...

I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

working at the deli requires a REALLY BIG BUBBLE WAND just saying, maybe even a BUBBLE MACHINE.

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF! A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

UM WHAT our campaign is officially a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! Now more than ever supporting queer speculative art, poetry, and stories is so important—it means a lot that our want to create space for queer artists, poets, and writers resonates so strongly!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

*slaps roof of car* this bad boy can fit so much fucking gay words in it.

Have you backed @othersidespec.bsky.social on kickstarter yet? They have 1.5 years of queer spec fic funded with each issue at a 15k words. Let's fill that bad boy UP.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

Translunar Traveler's Lounge is open for speculative fiction, 5000 words and under. Please check the guidelines before submitting, but other than that, don't self-reject. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

OP: Maxicimam
Blouse, headdress, bloomers: BTSSB
Actually my comfiest MAM piece thus far but MAM has a lot of comfy pieces i love them ahhhhhh

#jfashion #eglcomm #ロリィタ #ロリータファッション #ロリータ #lolitafashion

get in the otherside kickstarter launch shinji

yes

researching a maritime disaster in 2025:

Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat

Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes

Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

I am currently reading the Extinction of Irena Rey and it's so unhinged. The first chapter is like I am a beautiful horrible translator do not sue me. Second chapter is fungi evil. It just goes to 100 and does not stop

I'll be yapping about genre as a tool and the post cyberpunk genres in October at Rainbow Space Magic! Hope to see you there

Our Kickstarter launches in TEN DAYS! September 29 is in fact SOMEHOW ten days away!!! We’re nervous and excited and SO ready. We're only screaming intermittently.

Sign up to be notified when it launches. We have a lot of fun rewards and goals planned… you won’t want to miss this 👀