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one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint

OH WOW, that is surprising. But I support you because I understand the feeling haha

Now, I don't think it's the kind of thing people should spout on moment one, but a few weeks later when you're looking around like "wait I can say this now?" Feels kind of relieving tbh.

Like, I'm a Firefly hater. Do you know how dangerous it used to be to say that? They would hunt you for sport over that shit. You would have to leave the party you were at if that came out into the open. Do you know how good it felt when I could openly hate it with relative impunity?

One thing ppl miss when complaining about ppl saying "well, X person's work has always been bad" is that not everyone is doing it because of some false correlation between art & the morality of the creator. Sometimes it just feels good to finally openly hate that thing ppl used to hunt you for lol.

1. This is despicably evil.
2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

a series of tweets. one person asks Richard Siken: “why did you have to admit to writing wincest 😓” Richard Siken replies: “I’m not afraid of being alive and I’m nog afraid of trying things and I didn’t live through the AIDS pandemic and a significant stroke to be afraid of literature. Literature that makes people uncomfortable is still literature. It’s valid. I will not support censorship.”

whenever i feel scared about my writing or get in my head about how others perceive me/the state of censorship i remember this tweet from the closest human i’ll ever have to an “idol”, richard siken & immediately feel like 10x lighter

Will probably surprise you zero percent to hear that I support this 🙌

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

Before you spend your money, don't forget what they did to Melissa Barrera for simply being a good human taking a stance against murder.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

the first word you learn in Supernatural fandom is Wincest

Great news, authors: The 2026 Unpublished Novel Award is now OPEN for submissions! Four writers will receive a $10,000 grant to support their manuscript on its journey to publication.

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news every week and seeing some new fucked up legislation being executed against trans people. And then of course the added 🙃 experience of seeing just how much even the left people are clinging to gender essentialism right in front of your trans masc face

Continually such a weird experience for this year and the last to be the ones where I make a bunch of gender-affirming changes in my life. Like, I feel more like myself than ever before after name change, physical presentation changes, getting on t, etc. and there's that joy up against opening the

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

Michael B Jordan 'disgusted by racial slur at BAFTAS as parents left in tears' Michael B Jordan was with Delroy Lindo on stage to present an award at the Baftas when John Davidson’s outburst shocked the audience.

So... does anyone care about this? That Michael B. Jordan's parents flew to London to see their son and they left the BAFTAs in tears? That he was repulsed?

Still don't think an apology was owed? Some of you people are wretched fools.

my ideal living space is the Sunnydale High library i fear

I can’t believe this is coming so soon I’m jumping out of my skin

I just don't see how this wasn't intentional on the BBC's part

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

What Not Reading Does to Your Writing More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.

Since everyone is (sigh) debating if writers benefit from reading books, I dissected a passage shared as “evidence” that non-readers can write great prose: countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...

Good luck! ❤️

It's so funny that SF/F writers will frequently come up to me unprovoked to tell me they hate lit fic and think all of us should never write again and yet... They think they are the ones being persecuted lol. I am literally just existing and you're coming up to *me* to say this??

SF/F writers who think everyone who writes literary fiction is their Professor Who Said Something Mean About Genre Writing to Them 20 Years Ago need to calm down. Whoever made you feel dismissed a thousand years ago... that has nothing to do with any of us.

Omg... someone who needlessly started an argument with me on here two weeks ago just tried to start it up again for some reason?! You know what... this will get me in trouble to say, but I am so tired so...

Yep that too.