Ann LeBlanc

I used to work with dichloromethane in a lab setting and that stuff is SCARY. We would double glove and set timers for glove changes. Dimethylformamide was the other solvent we used and was just as nasty.

Using DCM for furniture restoration is nuts! Finger-hammering is warranted imo

selfie of me holding up 4 copies of DUDES ROCK

got some extra stock on hand so who wants to buy a signed/personalized copy of DUDES ROCK ✨ $20 but i’ll pay domestic shipping! DM if interested

as lady bracknell famously said, magic is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. the whole theory of modern fantasy is radically unsound

I never expected in our mundane cyberpunk future we'd have to resort to just snail mailing each other cash

I agree with this.
I've been doing local organizing over the last year, and it's been great. Publishing physical objects that people can hold is way more fun than anything on the internet has ever been. Plus it feels more robust against censorship.

Okay, well.

Queer & especially trans authors of erotica and other content deemed 'nsfw' by major platforms, please drop links to where people can find your stories in the replies.

Everyone else: Repost people's links. Stop worrying about the sanctity of your feed & help the most impacted authors.

I have an article series on this for anyone who wants to know about the legal precedent for anti-queer censorship ⬇️⬇️⬇️

It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.

Welp, time to turn off all revenue sharing to itch then, as a recommendation to anyone who uses the platform. Y'all don't deserve your shares of our work anymore.

Some starting points on how to organize against payment processor censorship (in the US):

* Contact your local politicians
* Contact the ACLU & other free speech orgs
* Send tips to reporters abt this issue
* Create infographs and spread the word
* Get the word out via TikTok shorts, YouTube videos

Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted A dangerous escalation against free speech and literary preservation from a longtime haven for transfeminine literature.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others.

Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.

MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.

Feels like we're mice scurrying from hole to hole, finding only temporary safety, while the owners of the house relentlessly find and exterminate us. And I'm so tired of it.

ooh, It's been way too long since I've had dim sum; I need to rectify that soon. Now I'm craving cheung fun real bad!

Thank you so much!!!

what's your favorite hole-in-the-wall or cheap food place?

these weird little fish dudes were one of my first exposures to cosmic horror,

and influenced a good deal of my later work,

including this story about a babysitting demon's apocalyptic transition into the desert of the real

apparitionlit.com/infinite-cla...

I am a *happy camper*

I really like the sequels! especially all the weird programs like the architect and the merovingian who just love to talk talk talk because in the absence of the physical all you really have is discourse.

“sense of place” is abandonment disguised as a free church It’s starting to rain Sloping into the river That incarnation lotto That pull-tab: 3 golden bells and a strike-through The question of what deserves to be perceived after all. knowing-trash and shame-trash

My stubbornness The schoolbus rusting in the forest backwards People’s lives get destroyed all the time

So i ! have a chapbook ! of a long poem ! coming out later this summer !
From the Yew, or the Nocturne (might tweak the title)
From @the-ethelzine.bsky.social
I'm thrilled about it.
Here's a small excerpt.
Please keep an eye out for it!

I'm curious to hear what you think when you finish* it!

*[footnote redacted for spoilers, (though honestly i think the nature of the narrative renders spoilers impossible an ineffective)]

it's SO good, and so unlike anything published today in mainstream SF&F

I will probably still be rotating it in my mind 13 years from now!

I read DHALGREN this year, and I don't think I'll ever recover

Apologies to those hoping to see me at Readercon. I tested positive for covid so I couldn't go.

The good news is that because I tested beforehand, I never was there, so there is zero chance I infected anyone. Thank goodness for rapid tests.

I am really sad I had to miss it though :(

Oh my goodness thank you so much! This means so much to me to hear. I'm SO sad I had to miss readercon. Here's hoping next year goes better!

Saturday, July 19, 2025 11:00 EDT 09:00 MDT "Dhalgren" at 50 Salon I/J, Duration: 60 mins Ann LeBlanc Elizabeth Hand Gregory Feeley (moderator) Ian Randal Strock Jim Freund Samuel R. Delany's sprawling novel "Dhalgren" appeared in 1975 and has never been out of print since. Chronicling the coming-of-age adventures of "the Kid" (or "Kidd", or just "kid") in the ever-shifting city of Bellona, it challenges its readers by revealing more and more about its characters and setting in ways that force them to re-think everything that came before. Let's discuss this 50-year-old masterpiece, one of the most enormously influential novels in the history of science fiction. 14:00 EDT 12:00 MDT Let's Do the Time Loop Again Salon G/H, Duration: 60 mins Alexander Jablokov Andrea Kriz Andrea Martinez Corbin (moderator) Ann LeBlanc Carl Engle-Laird David R. DeGraff John Chu The time loop is a favorite premise in science fiction, fantasy, and, increasingly, romance. What is the nature of its appeal, and has it been growing over time or does it only feel that way? What are the different fun variations on the theme, what does the fascination with going over and over until you get it right say about our society, and how many times have you read this description now? Are you sure? 18:00 EDT 16:00 MDT Kaffeeklatsch: Ann LeBlanc Suite 830, Duration: 60 mins Ann LeBlanc Kaffeeklatsch with Ann LeBlanc Sunday, July 20, 2025 12:00 EDT 10:00 MDT Reading: Ann LeBlanc Empower / Embrace, Duration: 30 mins Ann LeBlanc Solo reading featuring Ann LeBlanc. 14:00 EDT 12:00 MDT Book Club: The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed Salon I/J, Duration: 60 mins

I'm going to be at Readercon this weekend! Please say hello and/or ask me about woodworking!

Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day!

I really loved Redundancies and Potentials! Some of the best fucked-up time travel I've ever read.

A/S/L is SO GOOD. The character work is so intricately and lovingly done; the whole book is just incredible from a craft perspective. It felt like one of those books that was written just for me.

I really enjoyed how deft that book is at showing just how casually fucked up and weird things can get with posthuman tech

Cover of WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed. On a blue background, a circle containing an orange-and-white cactus flower eclipses a black circle.

My book has a cover! Look how beautiful this is

WHAT WE ARE SEEKING, coming April 7, 2026