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Shannon Phillips

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Writer and mom living in Oakland. Short speculative fiction and serialized novels at https://joshannonphillips.substack.com/. I like old things, wild places, tall tales, and the people who tell them.๐Ÿ‰

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Hey, Biscuits N Porn looks like a real step up!

07.08.2025 04:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and the reviews are solid

07.08.2025 04:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you know what that's a good looking breakfast sandwich

07.08.2025 04:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blood Red and Raven Black There are many Snow Whites. Here is one more.

Monday short story: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/blood-red-...

05.08.2025 04:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As the mom of three boys I feel like I should have something to contribute to the masculinity discourse, but... MY boys are sweet and open and goofy and funny and I deeply believe that they are and will be just fine.

So that's the only perspective I have on that!

04.08.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ME: *reading the bad news website all day* we're doomed. there's no way to come back from this

ME: *11:10 pm two beers three tacos deep watching a 65 year old Black woman in a Sunday dress absolutely rock out to a dad band covering Queen Bitch* america is an idea. and a feeling in the heart.

02.08.2025 04:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 787    ๐Ÿ” 115    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Tumblr poll from โ€œlesbianalismโ€

Do you think you could take a werewolf?
Yes: 70.6%
No: 29.4%

In a fight?
Yes: 8.1%
No: 91.9%

Final results from 35,878 votes

Tumblr poll from โ€œlesbianalismโ€ Do you think you could take a werewolf? Yes: 70.6% No: 29.4% In a fight? Yes: 8.1% No: 91.9% Final results from 35,878 votes

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

02.08.2025 15:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4219    ๐Ÿ” 1649    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 98
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Submissions - Seize The Press Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words.

If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

31.07.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 400    ๐Ÿ” 201    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however wild, might not be altogether unwarranted

31.07.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 120    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

I just saw that whites-only town going up in Arkansas referred to as Methlehem and I donโ€™t think anything funnier will cross my path for at least a month.

01.08.2025 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Will Riker wearing a v neck that goes almost down to his dick

Will Riker wearing a v neck that goes almost down to his dick

despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick

01.08.2025 00:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10367    ๐Ÿ” 1815    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 352    ๐Ÿ“Œ 165

Andor

02.08.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Details from The Fairy Fellerโ€™s Master-Stroke by the British painter Richard Dadd, born #onthisday in 1817. Read more on the man and his mesmerising work in Nicholas Tromans' essay โ€” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/richard-dadds-master-stroke #OTD

01.08.2025 11:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 177    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We've been running this "hey, let's make it nearly impossible to build new housing" experiment for decades and the results are in: Barring housing construction is to the left what tax cuts are to the right: a policy that hasn't worked and will never work but they keep pushing regardless.

01.08.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 117    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are no job losses in Ba Sing Se

01.08.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1425    ๐Ÿ” 312    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

01.08.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10783    ๐Ÿ” 1600    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 443    ๐Ÿ“Œ 153

Indeed... !

27.07.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I too am with the sickos

30.07.2025 03:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odor

29.07.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

That looks AMAZING

29.07.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ch. 24: The Millennial Sword At the novel's conclusion, Viv finally faces her true enemy

This week wraps up The Millennial Sword: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-24-the-...

28.07.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly

28.07.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Ch. 23: The Millennial Sword "In your dreams you will remember the things here that were beautiful. When you wake, remember also the things that were perilous. For Avalon may still come to you."

Monday update: joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-23-the-...

21.07.2025 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐–๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐‰๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฅ
In a stunning moment of defacement, a man literally stole our nose, carrying it away between his folded index and middle fingers.

21.07.2025 04:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 220    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A creator saying "I don't like seeing these characters of mine shipped, so please don't send it to me or put it in my tags or I'll have to block you" is an example of a reasonable boundary. Saying "don't ship these characters" is 1. nonsensically controlling and 2. totally fucking unenforceable.

21.07.2025 04:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
21.07.2025 05:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've never subscribed either, but with them taking on Trump I might consider it!

20.07.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Damn okay. Maybe the Wall St Journal really *is* the good one

20.07.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photo of a corner coffee shop named Gaslight Coffee.

A photo of a corner coffee shop named Gaslight Coffee.

You already had coffee. How do you not remember getting coffee?

19.07.2025 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2323    ๐Ÿ” 423    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

He's been released??? Oh my god I'm so relieved I was so afraid he'd die there

19.07.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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