This goes doubly for queer creators. I guarantee you that even if you have nothing racier going on than longing looks and perhaps holding hands, if you write anything other than straight, gender conforming, and preferably white characters, they WILL come for you too.
05.12.2025 14:36 β π 98 π 45 π¬ 0 π 0
Submissions close tomorrow!
December 4th is the last day to submit to Variant for our winter issue. Still time to send your poems, flash/micro series, or short stories to us! β¨οΈ
variantlit.com/submit/
03.12.2025 15:18 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Icons π
01.12.2025 22:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
this story scared the daylights out of me as a child
01.12.2025 18:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Weird fiction
01.12.2025 17:58 β π 80 π 25 π¬ 3 π 0
Sama'a's account has been deleted again. This concerted action against Palestinians fighting for survival on the part of Bluesky's moderation team is pure, unalloyed evil. Please give what you can.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
29.11.2025 18:24 β π 69 π 63 π¬ 1 π 0
this book is an excellent romcom antidote π€
27.11.2025 17:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I think my favorite romantic comedy is The Lighthouse.
27.11.2025 17:19 β π 67 π 13 π¬ 9 π 0
Kiowa Gordon confronting a zombie soldier in Blood Quantum
Beatrice Dalle covered in blood, from Trouble Every Day
Doomed family prays over dinner in The Witch
Michael Gambon eats a corpse in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
colonial meat day moodboard
27.11.2025 17:20 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fuck STRANGER THINGS (on Netflix)
Noah Schnapp (plays Will Beyers) is a Zionist, racist, and genocide supporter.
Heβs made horrible comments and been allowed to keep his job whilst they fired Susan Surandon and Melissa Berrara for speaking up for Palestine.
26.11.2025 13:46 β π 1676 π 527 π¬ 63 π 23
Can you sum up your gender in 4 fictional characters?
27.11.2025 05:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My Children Lost Their MotherβDonβt Let Them Lose Life Too
Hello, my name is Sherif Samir Abdullah.I am 38 years oldA father of three children:
I was breaking, and you became the strength that pulled me back to life. Your support didnβt just save me it changed my childrenβs future. We still need you. Please donβt let go of us. Your presence keeps us alive. Bring us to life again .. ππ«π€ππ
Donation .. Share .. Pray π
20.11.2025 01:12 β π 35 π 47 π¬ 3 π 6
two acceptance emails today, which eldritch god do I thank for this?? π
25.11.2025 20:44 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π why is this true though
25.11.2025 01:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
recently had a dream that was fully cel-animated like a 70s children's program, in which I was slowly turning into a chaos gremlin lol
22.11.2025 19:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
My solution was to not make arguments in favor of Israel, but I guess I'm just built different
22.11.2025 15:39 β π 38 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
Curiosity is sexy
22.11.2025 16:11 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful. Generative A.I. has no imagination and offers no new insights. It's a mere predictive engine that uses statistics to find the most likely next thing. What's the next word in a sequence, the next pixel in a picture? This is the opposite of imagination, which is so often about finding the least likely thing, the startling incongruity. I worry that so many of us are outsourcing our imaginations and our whole creative selves to these stochastic parrots.
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
22.11.2025 18:31 β π 205 π 90 π¬ 5 π 4
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand wrecked my sleep for a night or two π
21.11.2025 05:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#Shocktober Saloum (2021) - AMAZINGLY sweaty. Love a military vs supernatural film. Digs deep into local Senegalese lore to create a genuinely unique adversary. I really dig the central threesome and the filmmaking is beautiful, but I do wish the supporting cast got a little more characterization.
20.11.2025 17:18 β π 24 π 3 π¬ 3 π 2
Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those weβve lost over the past year.
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) π€
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide π―οΈ
#tdor
21.11.2025 01:25 β π 313 π 179 π¬ 1 π 1
Copied from Equality Florida:
We hold space, grief, and love for every life taken β including Girlalala, a 21-year-old Black transgender woman who was brutally murdered in Broward County just days ago.
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance
20.11.2025 20:49 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
A still from Pan's Labyrinth. In an underground cavern with a carven monolith, a tree-like faun stands across from a girl in a nightgown.
rewatched Pan's Labyrinth for the first time in 10+ years and it's even more exquisite than I remembered. perfect viewing for the times, and the faun is a top 5 creature design
16.11.2025 00:38 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Horrorβs lack of respectability is a strength of the genre. It gives us freedom and prevents (some of) us from taking ourselves too seriously
14.11.2025 15:30 β π 86 π 14 π¬ 3 π 0
Still, fruitlessly, holding out for a second season of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities. There are so many stories that would make an incredible episode of an anthology horror series.
13.11.2025 02:43 β π 587 π 39 π¬ 26 π 0
An old travel poster for Palestine.
Hold on, friends! It's going to get spooky! To celebrate 10k followers, I'm answering your questions about Palestinian folklore here in this mega thread.
09.11.2025 13:48 β π 345 π 139 π¬ 2 π 5
Just watched Save the Green Planet, can't WAIT for this
08.11.2025 06:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
05.11.2025 02:41 β π 17809 π 3490 π¬ 123 π 72
Variant Literature is a small press and magazine.
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Submissions open now!
Before the war I was full of life managing a restaurant and loving art
I lost my wife, Lina, and then the war took everything
I stand for my land and my rights, and I need your support to regain my strength
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οΈ Molly Shah
https://chuffed.org/project/sharif
Writer. Film lover. Horror evangelist. Anti-fascist. Night owl. Misfit toy. Pragmatic idealist, and skeptic at the same time. Autistic. AI is for suckers. If youβre interested in my pronouns, ask. Having a unisex name is useful in certain ways.
I donβt think Iβve been lost. she/her
And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)
https://www.allisonwyss.com
He/Him. Screenwriter/TV writer living in Toronto. Open to work/connections. Iβm autistic and bisexual. Insomniac. I read a lot so I post about that. Star Trek/Simpsons/literature fan. Intersectional anti-capitalist. Hostile to transphobia & AI on sight.
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Strange but not a stranger. Comicsmith. Medievalist. Podcasting librarian selecting media (@SPLTurnthePage.bsky.social). Face/Off enthusiast. She/her. π
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low lives + high strangeness | open for general submissions | next special: CLOAK & DAGGER (December 21)
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Michigander. Horror writer. Three novellas, CURSE CORVUS, MELON HEAD MAYHEM (Shortwave Publishing), and REANIMATED REX out now. he/him
alexebenstein.com
Author, Sarabande Books
BIG BAD: Longlisted, The Story Prize
RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES: Mary McCarthy Prize, Gold IPPY, Bronze INDIES
www.whitneycollins.com
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Horror small press (est. 2012) & spooky indie bookstore (est. 2023) based in San Antonio, TX | Magazine: Ghoulish Tales
Phenomena Press is a Melbourne/Naarm based indie book press focusing on aromantic and asexual speculative fiction stories
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Logic with a dash of whimsy π¦
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Writer | Filmmaker: The Outwatersπ
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Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.
Got poetry, art, op-eds, or short stories with a genre spin? If selected, publication is free and comes with editing help if needed.
salonsinister.com
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