Purple background, white text, which says Grimes challenges the comfort of places like the home, often bringing the unknown into the known, and space into place. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood
Ben Lockwood - @benlockwood.bsky.social - points out how complicated place & space can be as he examines Ivy Grimes' short story collection.
Differentiating place & space is something I only considered when I had to teach geog!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
03.08.2025 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hahahaha BEAR
04.08.2025 05:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GAH. I am DREADING December when Australia tries to bring in its stupid social media ban on under 16s.
03.08.2025 22:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purple background, white text, which says Grimes challenges the comfort of places like the home, often bringing the unknown into the known, and space into place. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood
Ben Lockwood - @benlockwood.bsky.social - points out how complicated place & space can be as he examines Ivy Grimes' short story collection.
Differentiating place & space is something I only considered when I had to teach geog!
Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
03.08.2025 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Purple background, white text, which says Combined, the narrative style and generic settings of short stories create unique geographic interactions within the text via reader interpretations. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood
New essay! In which Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) made me stop and consider how place & space can work in short stories, in ways I previously hadn't appreciated (thru Ive Grimes' collection).
Read now! It's free! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
02.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Me, the last few years: well, guess I'm never seeing the final season of Snowpiercer. Le sigh.
Me, three days ago: OMG the entirety of Snowpiercer is on a free to air channel right now!!!!!
(We're only four eps in because life, but *flappy hands*)
02.08.2025 22:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purple background, white text, which says Combined, the narrative style and generic settings of short stories create unique geographic interactions within the text via reader interpretations. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood
New essay! In which Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) made me stop and consider how place & space can work in short stories, in ways I previously hadn't appreciated (thru Ive Grimes' collection).
Read now! It's free! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
02.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Purple background, white text, which says Upon revisiting the pieces I found that Grimes is doing much more with the places and spaces her characters inhabit than I initially realised. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood
Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social)
brings a geographer's eye to Ive Grimes' 2024 short story collection in this new essay. He finds place & space doing intriguing things in the stories.
Read it now (for free!) and tell your friends - www.speculativeinsight.com
01.08.2025 21:58 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
ICYMI!
01.08.2025 05:15 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
This is an extremely thoughtful analysis of Glass Stories by one @benlockwood.bsky.social. And I've enjoyed reading Speculative Insight!
01.08.2025 23:05 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Ping @ivygrimes.bsky.social !
01.08.2025 22:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yeh I think I'm glad I've finally had it explained to me very clearly so that I no longer feel like I should read it!
01.08.2025 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purple background, white text, which says Upon revisiting the pieces I found that Grimes is doing much more with the places and spaces her characters inhabit than I initially realised. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood
Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social)
brings a geographer's eye to Ive Grimes' 2024 short story collection in this new essay. He finds place & space doing intriguing things in the stories.
Read it now (for free!) and tell your friends - www.speculativeinsight.com
01.08.2025 21:58 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
ICYMI!
01.08.2025 05:15 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Minimal pick up so far this week and we lock copy today. If you've got something that's a good fit, today's the day, folks.
31.07.2025 09:38 — 👍 10 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
they didn't let me have bilby the other day. I was a bit grumpy about that.
31.07.2025 08:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We did 'em big over here.
31.07.2025 04:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's not just me, then! Excellent!
30.07.2025 22:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s the first time I’ve ever done it, and it was only because of the nature of the beast. I would never do it for my own thing!
30.07.2025 22:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I foolishly agreed to engineer a history audio walk recently, so I had to learn how to do de-click and pop… 😱
30.07.2025 21:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Alright, social community. I want to find more cool peeps interested in the awesome things I like:
#ScienceFiction #TTRPGs #Podcasts #Writing #Horror #EDM
Bonus points for other folks who are learning about podcasting, streaming, and editing video stuffs!
Where my peeps at? Say hi!
30.07.2025 21:08 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Learning the audio-engineering side of podcasting is SUCH a wild ride.
30.07.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
No one gets to have Sparta u til yall learn to behave.
30.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
🎉🎉 @understatesmen.bsky.social !
30.07.2025 20:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purple background, white text, which says "From the first time I dove into a solarpunk submission pile, I noted a trend: gardens. The genre is full of gardens... "The Solarpunk Garden: Moving Beyond Eden" -- Phoebe Wagner
About this time last year we published an excellent essay about gardens in (particularly) American solarpunk, by @pheebz.bsky.social, and it's brilliant. And you can still read it for free! Right on over here...
www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/the-solarpunk-garden
30.07.2025 08:12 — 👍 24 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
Anyone else want one?
29.07.2025 23:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather and reviews elsewhere. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
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SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
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Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️🌈 Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
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Weegie bookseller and book enthusiast. SFF reader. Co-head of Programme, Eastercon 2027. Angry queer. Nonbinary. They/them.
Author of Speculative Blackness, editor of The Black Fantastic
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PhD candidate in queer science fiction theatre across the US/UK @uniofyork.bsky.social
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Been there, done that, bought too many t-shirts. Reads, writes, has a podcast, organises nice cons (Åcon!) and takes dogs out. Civil servant at Helsinki City Hall.
Oh yes, I post pics of our dogs over at https://www.instagram.com/mogensardapreston/
