Lauren Ring

lets do it!!! 💖

YAYY i will try to find u

the crew: me, my car spider, and that other spider in the mirror who is closer than she appears

the mark: your spiders gnat store

the mission: eight-leg discount

the spider that lives on my lefthand mirror is my found family now and we are going to conduct a heist together

i will be at concurrent and at worldcon but i am so bone tired i havent really scheduled anything or made plans to hang out... if ur going pls say hi to me my hair is bright pink for easy identification

X post by @nobushiromasaki. JP text: カムチャッカ半島付近の大地震（M8.0）による津波、日本各地にも1m程度の津波が来るという注意報が出てる。侮らないで。1mは、ふつうに自動車が流されるレベルです。画像は拾い物だけど、これが本当だから。沿岸地域の方、特に気をつけて！

On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car.

#tsunami

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

A graphic with the ConCurrent Seattle logo and the words "panel schedule" beneath. The background of the graphic is purple with a rainbow at the bottom. Beneath "panel schedule" is a list of panel participants: Sam Asher, LaShawn Wanak, David Levine, AW Prihandita, Lauren Ring. There is a text box below with this text inside: 9:00 The Short and Long of It: Short Fiction, Its Mutability, and How to Transform It A craft discussion about writing, editing, and publishing fiction at every length, and growing - or shrinking - the format. But how do you know how long a story should be? Are there tricks for coaxing out specific lengths for pieces? Panelists will discuss these questions and more.

ICYMI: ConCurrent's first panel of the day will be the short fiction panel with @samasherwriter.bsky.social @tbonejenkins.bsky.social @daviddlevine.com @awprihandita.bsky.social @ringwrites.bsky.social. Two EICs, plus Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula winners all on this panel!

Here's the ConCurrent panel that is... concurrent... with this mess of a panel. It's going to be exceptionally good.

omg i didnt realize these are at the same time! excited to balance out the panel universe with my lesbian stories 😌

a man with long hair is wearing a white shirt with a blue collar and looking at the camera . Alt: a man with long hair is wearing a white shirt with a blue collar and looking at the camera, saying "It's time."

IT'S TIME!

Here's the ConCurrent panel schedule, threaded. Schedule, registration, and donation links all at the end of the thread. Oh yeah, and registration is now open.

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WAIT THE POND, WAIT THE WHISPERING OF DRAGONFLIES WINGS SKIMMING AGROSS THE SURFACE OF THE WORLD JUST ABOVE, WAIT THE GLISTENING OF THEIR BELOVED'S VOCAL SACS AS THEY STRETCHED IN NIGHTLY SONGS, WAIT THE MUD COOL AND BLESSEDLY FORGETTING, WAIT WAIT WAIT... PLEASE... WAIT

THE ONLY THING GOING THROUGH THEIR FROG BRAIN AS PINK WET FLESH AND A GRAVEYARD OF SMOOTH
GHOSTLY TOMBSTONES LOOMED NEAR WAS "WAIT WAIT WAIT..."

SURE THE PAST WAS A HAZY
KALEIDOSCOPE OF FACELESS GOLDEN TRESSES AND MELANCHOLY BUT WHAT WAS IN THE POND WAS SOLID AND GOOD AND THE MUD FELT RIGHT AND WHEN RAIN STIPPLED THE SURFACE OF THE WATER ABOVE THEM LIKE FLEETING CONSTELLATIONS ,THEY WERE NEAR TO SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS

THEY HAD MADE A LIFE TOGETHER, THEY WERE MOVING FORWARD, GETTING PAST THEIR ISSUES, IT WAS WORKING

pls read this thread its a piece of flash fiction that is so beautiful and true it changed the way i think about happiness

In the pale grey of morning they button stiff collars and try to tame once free manes. “This is better...this is progress...” they whisper to their reflections whose eyes they cannot even meet...

Sometimes at night when the forest calls they still wake, cheeks wet from tears. They sometimes find themselves standing at the tree line not knowing how they have gotten there.

All the Animals have undertaken the Crossing. They awkwardly straighten their postures, put on nooselike ties and cover their glorious pelts with dull fabrics. They take jobs, claws trying to grasp phones, paws doggedly adapting to gardening tools.

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

No one writes about the bereaved frog spouse and abandoned tadpoles in fairy tales. THEY HAD MADE A LIFE TOGETHER THEY WERE MOVING FORWARD IT WAS WORKING SURE THE PAST WAS A HAZY KALEIDOSCOPE OF FACELESS GOLDEN TRESSES AND MELANCHOLY BUT WHAT WAS IN THE POND WAS SOLID AND GOOD AND THE MUD FELT RIGHT AND WHEN RAIN STIPPLED THE SURFACE OF THE WATER ABOVE THEM LIKE FLEETING CONSTELLATIONS THEY WERE NEAR TO SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS THE ONLY THING GOING THROUGH THEIR FROG BRAIN AS PINK WET FLESH AND A GRAVEYARD OF SMOOTH GHOSTLY TOMBSTONES LOOMED NEAR WAS "WAIT WAIT WAIT..."

WAIT THE POND, WAIT THE WHISPERING OF DRAGONFLIES WINGS SKIMMING AGROSS THE SURFACE OF THE WORLD JUST ABOVE, WAIT THE GLISTENING OF THEIR BELOVED'S VOCAL SACS AS THEY STRETCHED IN NIGHTLY SONGS, WAIT THE MUD COOL AND BLESSEDLY FORGETTING, WAIT WAIT WAIT... PLEASE... WAIT

well i saved (bc i adored it) if u want it!

have u ever posted it on bsky? i would really like to share it again but im not on twitter anymore 😅 the one that ended with WAIT THE POND

A beautiful illustration of a griffin sitting on a cat bed with a catnip mouse beside her. The illustration is signed "Tallulah" by the artist, Tallulah Cunningham.

The same griffin illustration is now surrounded by a circle of text, as in a certificate, and it reads: This emotional support griffin believes in you.

It's Disability Pride month! And guess what?

After "Mail-Order Magic" (the first short story I've written that involves M.E./CFS) came out, SO MANY readers contacted me saying they wished they had griffins of their own.

So, with wonderful artist @papertigress.bsky.social 's help...here you go! ❤️

(this post is about a tweet thread about the frog prince that @jordanshiveley.bsky.social posted years ago bc i think about so often it feels like a part of my heart but all i did was like and retweet)

authors: your work may have already had a huge impact on someone who youve never met and you will never know this unless they tell you

readers: tell them

The Futility of Warning You by P.A. Cornell The moment I return from the future, all I want is to talk to you, but so much gets in the way. First the debrief, with endless hours about what I saw, the analysis of the recordings, and the tedio…

The July Issue of @factorfourmagazine.com is out and I’m back to playing with time in a little story called, “The Futility of Warning You.” I hope you like it.
factorfourmag.com/the-futility...

trope graphic for HAMMAJANG LUCK but oops it's all lesbians. the cover of the book is of a person with brown hair and brown skin wearing a red hoodie seated in front of a futuristic cityscape with golden clouds. the cover is on a background of a painted lesbian flag. the tropes are "lesbians!" "so many lesbians" "butch lesbians" "chapstick lesbians" "femme lesbians" "trans lesbians" "lesbians of color + their adopted white woman" "Indigenous lesbians" "they/them lesbians" "he/him lesbians." the text at the bottom reads "Happy pride! be gay do crime!!!"

SALE ALERT!!!

Hammajang Luck is now $1.99 at most ebook retailers! that includes B&N, Kobo, and Amazon. that's almost 90% off!

what a steal 😎

be gay do crime this pride month with the heist lesbians!!!

Your Daily Dose of #Empathy (myreadinglife.com/2025/06/24/e...)

A female programmer who can create golems uses them to thwart the very software she develops at work.

(emet) by @ringwrites.bsky.social‬ (2023) — 7,470 words

I first heard it on @podcastle.org‬ , published 30 May 2023.

2025 Ignyte Awards logo on a neon pink and sparkly background

3...2...1... Let's jam.

2025 Ignyte Awards Shortlist Announcement: Public Voting Now Open June 9-Aug 15

Public voting for the #IgnyteAwards is now open thru August 15. Voting is free and open, no membership required. The voting page includes links to where you can find the published works and hopefully engage with them to inform your vote.

ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/