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Monique AC

@moniqueac.bsky.social

Queer SF writer. Space, cats, writing, running, & politics. SFWA. Codex. First Reader (Diabolical Plots & Small Wonders). Con stuff, Rainbow Space Magic & Can*Con. Settler. On unceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa, Canada). notwhereilive.ca

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Are there any actual artists involved or is this just going to be a corporate event?

07.10.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg that’s awesome!!

07.10.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Live Can*Con β€” Can*Con

We're heading to Ottawa for @canconsffh.bsky.social in a couple of weeks on Oct 17-19! www.can-con.org/live-cancon

Going to be there and have books you'd like us from us? Order online for pick-up at www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com and leave a note that you'll be at Can*Con. We'll bring your books to you!

07.10.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh, more new music from the Mountain Goats ❀️

07.10.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's nothing stopping him from registering, though. Then he could accept donations.

07.10.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pathetic, but also truly unsurprising from Engler

07.10.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So excited for people to read my northern Ontario ghost/climate horror story in Ghost to Ghost to Ghost! You can pre-order the ebook now πŸ‘‡

06.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So excited for people to read my northern Ontario ghost/climate horror story in Ghost to Ghost to Ghost! You can pre-order the ebook now πŸ‘‡

06.10.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank

My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb

06.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 10

Did you (despite my posts ;-) ) miss this year's @spacemagiccon.bsky.social? πŸ‘‡

06.10.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh. I know you're right & I constantly avoiding the different length ones (& more than a single questionable selfie).

(thank you)

05.10.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read: "Spiders Terrible hotel stay Narrator makes fun of golf Latin passages Eerie disembodied voices Confirmed bachelor main character Vengeful spirit Evil magician Working-class character as comic relief Bleak East Anglian coast Visit to an archive Narrator in guidebook mode FREE SPACE Unholy doings in a church Frogs or toads Queen Anne style house Cursed artifact Don't buy that rare book! Something hairy and horrible Someone gets too curious Tentacles Story told via old manuscript Research trip gone horribly wrong Beds are scary Tactile horror

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

05.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 25

This is amazing!

05.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Writing About the Past to Talk About the Present. Jessica Lucci, Robin S. Blackwood, E.H. Lupton, Gideon Marcus, Thomas Wrightson. Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

Writing About the Past to Talk About the Present. Jessica Lucci, Robin S. Blackwood, E.H. Lupton, Gideon Marcus, Thomas Wrightson. Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

Starting in about 10 minutes!
www.rainbowspacemagi...

05.10.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Rainbow Space Magic – the craft of writing queer SFF

Another day of queer speculative fiction at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social is starting in 40 minutes! You can register (it's free!) at rainbowspacemagic.org

05.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œLLM AIs are actually people and you mustn’t bully them” thing is like instituting a full murder investigation into that train that got walled up in Thomas the Tank Engine because it had a face on it.

05.10.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 398    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 10

There are several great magazines fundraising right now, or about to start fundraising, and we encourage y'all to support them!

04.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

In 5 minutes!

04.10.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so looking forward to this! Register (it’s free!) at rainbowspacemagic.org

04.10.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tomorrow & Sunday! Two days talking about queer speculative fiction! Free & virtual, register at rainbowspacemagic.org πŸŒˆπŸš€πŸͺ„

03.10.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

David, I'm so sorry for your loss

03.10.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It certainly made my run this morning a little more interesting than the intended out to Carleton & back lol

02.10.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Writing Trans Joy. Dayna M. Reidenouer, Alyssa Askani, S. Morgan Burbank, Em Haeger, K.S. Murphy. Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

Writing Trans Joy. Dayna M. Reidenouer, Alyssa Askani, S. Morgan Burbank, Em Haeger, K.S. Murphy. Rainbow Space Magic. October 4–5. RainbowSpaceMagic.org. Logo: A fountain pen draws a circle around the rainbow-colored letters RSM, ending in a little flying dragon and a ringed planet. Background: A starry sky with a rainbow.

This year's RSM is October 4 & 5, and is about writing with resistance, Imagining a better future. Don't forget to register on rainbowspacemagic.org.
#LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

02.10.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us this weekend for 2 days about queer speculative fiction!

(And my panel πŸ‘‡ in particular :-) )

02.10.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

01.10.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 28536    πŸ” 7715    πŸ’¬ 1266    πŸ“Œ 1969
Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229

Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

01.10.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.

Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.

πŸ†• The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable πŸͺ

On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.

Read more πŸ‘‰ www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
πŸ”­ πŸ§ͺ β˜„οΈ

01.10.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 17

Spring sounds awfully optimistic

01.10.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Across Ottawa, from fairs and markets to townhalls and meetings, I’ve been hearing the same thing: people are frustrated and want a new direction for our city. We need a city that works, with reliable transit, strong services, repaired roads and community centres.

30.09.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

What an absolutely stunning collection πŸ’€πŸ¦β€β¬›

30.09.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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