Ares J Benoit

This story is so good!

Please send your five minutes!

Goals for the week:

My motivation/energy is down, so I'm giving myself room to adjust.

1. Send my rejected-but-held poem to a couple other markets
2. Revise the poem I wrote based on a nightmare

#queerwriters #writingcommunity

Congrats!

Good to see people remembering what the pipes are *for*.

Today is brought to you by existential screaming

I had to make a second Starter Pack! If you have any recs for Latinx Spec Fic authors, let me know and I'll try to add them when I can. Much love!

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Maybe a stupid question but would this work with a Chromebook?

"Indeed, even in democracies, choice can sometimes seem to be not only an illusion (is there any real difference between the scores of toothpastes or breakfast cereals in contemporary supermarkets?) or a headache to contend with, but a regressive force."

Oh this sounds really good

Happy Black History Month 2026! It's Black History Month, and we're celebrating as we do with books by Black authors (almost entirely) starring Black characters! For even more titles, check out past years' posts. Picture Books Dancing with Water by Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel An intergenerational story about a nonbinary child who learns the tradition of well digging in this picture book about community, hope, and protecting the Earth’s water.

Happy Black History Month 2026!

It's Black History Month, and we're celebrating as we do with books by Black authors (almost entirely) starring Black characters! For even more titles, check out past years' posts. Picture Books Dancing with Water by Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel An…

AND getting access to the Otherside discord is magical and life-sustaining 🙌🏻

Paging Cyberpunks old and new:

Sh*tty poem of the week:
My gorgon brings all the boys to yard
Damn right, it's better than yours
And that's why I have so many
fine warrior sculptures for sale

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

What's that you say!

It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

What a good topic!

Won't shut up about battle scars when chatting with chicks

Take your joy where you can get it. Doesn't mean you stop fighting or that the world is all better now, but you have to let some light and warmth in if you want to keep going.

Whenever I see répétitions w/ minute changes in my writing, I think, I see you Philip Glass!

*because

My kid is HOH and I've started learning ASL (side note--it's exciting to learn but can also be complex!). I did beta-read a chapter with a character who uses ASL.. I hope the writer took my feedback to heart!

Crossing my fingers for your hold!

Love Philip Glass' music, love this move!

Not understating, not quoting to show the ridiculousness and let the viewer come to their own conclusions (Benatar we all know there are segments of populations who will blindly accept quotes at face value as truth.)

Okay I don't know this guy and maybe that makes me uninformed, but he looks like a media professional and it's SO FREAKING REFRESHING to see someone reacting appropriately to this shit show in media.

As editor, do you ever suggest alternative titles? Or just reworking, or nothing at all?

I'm so excited to check this out!!

@mruthrobinson.bsky.social

Amazing!! Congrats!

I need everyone to understand that this could not happen anywhere else exclusively because the people of minnesota started showing up for george floyd and then never stopped

this isn't a "sudden event", this is the culmination of nearly seven fucking years of steady leadership and participation