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also i have NOT been reading i have been getting terrorized by yankees baseball

ohhhhhhh good to see witch roads reminded someone else of asunder

Do not pander. Do not dumb down. Do not make your voice less magical. Trust your audience to be smarter than you. Trust them to be as curious as fuck. Never blame anyone for the tepid, lazy choices you make in your work.

I even use Garamond for my spreadsheets lmfao 🤝

Reimagining Caribbean indenture in an artistically botanical afterlife A refreshingly original art exhibit in Port of Spain, Trinidad, examines what it means to be living a post-indenture, feminist life.

also really love this article by @francomenz.bsky.social, about an exhibit engaging with art, history, gender, botany, colonialism, and indenture in the Caribbean - really cool and interesting!

Alright well 🫠🫠🫠 dnf

Lore - interesting !

The way it's written - annoying as hell

Wow I also am not enjoying my other most anticipated sff release from winter/spring 26

Giving it another 40 ish pages or so but damn man

looking at old tweets like why was *i* still reading flash in *2021*

late last night we saw three girlies in going out tops sitting on a big metal frog in a playground sharing a single cigarette…..The Norns in a magical realism novel ass kind of scenario

when u can see the title of one of ur favorite author's new books in the work system but there still isn't an official announcement so ur just sitting there like 🧍‍♀️

Like instantly charming

The rock collecting cute girls doing cute things anime has the most delightful animation 😭

A copy of Rakesfall—the hot pink cover of which depicts a skull surrounded by flowers and vines—sits on a black surface against a white wall. A small pot next to it contains a vine-like plant, which is draped across the top of the book. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist medal is in the upper right corner of the photo.

"We put on a play for ourselves, we ghosts, we people, we devils, with our superstitions like solidity, objects, time, or justice. We live in confusion, we swim in it. But the world is not a river to swim in; it is a glacial ocean, always whole, already complete." —Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟

Revolutionary-minded and dizzyingly intricate, Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall defies narrative expectations as it considers history, power, perspective, resistance, and the “dread scale” of myth and nightmare.

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

Re-upping this as a public service. It’s so excellent, and I’m sure tons of you would love it! 🐛

it's also highlighting my issue with a lot of current "retellings" and "reimaginings" but that's another thread and I do want to get thru another 30 pages of this before work lmao 🫠😭

and i do think a substantive 350 page novel based on the same material COULD be written BY THIS WRITER!! (and I'm very curious abt their future work and love the way they talk about their writing) but it would have to be somewhat different than what i think it's intended to be

this ISN'T an issue in current "litfic" - I keep mentally comparing this book to Groff's MATRIX (stunning - under 300 pages - dreamy but very material) and people love novellas so ????? what abt the 200-220 page sff novel

there are plenty of writers rn who CAN and DO meaningfully fill 350 page books. 400 page books! More sometimes! But there are even more who can't and a lot of current editorial isn't doing anything about that.

there's no real .... material. it's the opposite of my maximalist wish for sff BUT i think it could be much stronger as a much shorter old-DAW type paperback - unfortunately it's getting the $32 350+ page deluxe edition treatment that is the norm lmao

reading a book that is one of my most anticipated for next year and it's written ethereally (affectionate) enough that i will read the whole thing before fully criticizing it - but it really does highlight one of my major issues w current sff publishing - fear of the 210-page novel

me like oh all these panelists complaining abt me specifically-

Like yes the initial gut punch but then everything tender in the immediate wake...

Started TALL IS HER BODY and I dont think a book has ever decimated me this much in the *opening* 3 chapters

Maybe my period is coming up but crying at my desk on my lunch

Our 33 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books for the Rest of 2025 Lit Hub’s list of the most anticipated books of the second half of the year includes many genre titles, but, one might argue, not enough. What can I say, I’m an excitable boy, still in …

Hello?? THE WORKS OF VERMIN is one of Lit Hubs Most Anticipated books of (the rest of) 2025--"Truly on par with Vandermeer and Miéville, an absolute thrill to read."

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oh i've read so much since then give me a few days to update lmao

30 books on that most anticipated list and not a single damn one is works of vermin

ive been in ny making sure the yankees won 4 out of 5 while I was in town