Erin Barbeau (ze/zir)

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 👀

FF is at FoF! I'll be hosting a limited-seating chill-n-chat on Saturday the 27th at 9 AM Eastern. Join me to chat about anything short fiction related!

Enter the lottery to get a seat! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

And if you haven't heard of FoF, it's only the greatest virtual con going!

Come hang out with us! Ask us your burning magazine questions, learn more about our vision for the first issue of OTHERSIDE, or just yell excitedly with us about all our favorite queer SFF. See you there!

As I toil away in the meat mines on this labor day, what are some of your favorite labor related sf? Mine are Metal From Heaven, Ancillary Mercy, & Going Postal.

the reconstructions are really good too! as a long time cambrian fan i have seen some things ahahah

I got curious about Hugo-finalist ages over time (specifically ages of authors whose works were finalists in the Novel/Novella/Novelette/Short Story categories), so I extracted some data from ISFDB and created some charts.

www.kith.org/jed/2025/08/...

Mate-seeking spiders looking to smash are getting smushed by cars in Southern Colorado. So the state is building tarantula crossings.

A wielder in a yellow spacesuit works on the fin of a giant sprawling space station or spaceship, with three small yellow space craft modules nearby.

Oliver Frey

this is one of my favorite websites just to noodle around on when i'm bored. It's a really well done digital exhibit. I've seen a lot of stinkers, but this one is the perfect balance between info and interactivity.