Victoria Mbabazi

I like how my brain works I’m finishing gone girl after 49393 months cuz it was missing at Adina’s house for a minute and Amy Dunne describes herself as a product because of the Amazing Amy childrens books and I realize she’s Jojo Siwa and I can’t unrealize that it’s all I know forever

The cover of The Siren in the Twelfth House by Victoria Mbabazi. Swirling colours of blues, purples, fuchsias, and oranges drip among a swimming mermaid, clouds, and twinkling stars. A house-like object in the background is being bisected by a bright comet. The whole effect is dreamy and mesmerizing.

Poet @victoriambabazi.bsky.social discusses the cover of their collection THE SIREN IN THE TWELFTH HOUSE (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social) with its illustrator, Isabella Fassler, for today's #beautifulbooks.

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PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities.

$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛

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A cream knitted tank top which has blue rules and then author, title, due date and borrowers name also knitted . It’s a library card

Library Card Vest knitting pattern

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Long overdue. Thanks @ronmcquade.bsky.social

I like writing poems that ask the question “what the fuck is wrong with you?”

Well i got like 100 scam DMs today. Thats pretty good. It could have been 200 or 1000. I guess theres no way to make this happen less often. The devs are doing their best. Its basically impossible to program a computer to do any thing

Drake Withdraws Legal Petition Accusing Spotify and Universal Music of Artificially Inflating Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Drake has withdrawn his legal petition against Spotify and UMG after claiming they artificially inflated Kendrick Lamar's 'Not LIke Us.'

Drake has withdrawn his petition against Spotify and UMG after accusing the entities of launching an illegal “scheme” to boost numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”

thank u everyone for playing my game. unfortuantely as soon as I posted it i logged off and forgot this app existed for 10 days

Let’s play a game! What are you reading and why?

I’m reading I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel because I’m writing vignettes an it’s in vignettes!

I tag @ryannekap.bsky.social @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social

Let’s play a game! What are you reading right now and why?

I’ll start—I’m rereading the Percy Jackson series by @rickriordan.bsky.social because I want to re-experience a childhood fav.

I tag @victoriambabazi.bsky.social @manahil.bsky.social and @patrycjasara.bsky.social. ❤️

Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

here is my new poem in The Paris Review, about a toilet www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8360/...

(Biden after reading 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'): I have to pardon my son

I’ve noticed this!! I’ve only been once and it was frozen LMAO

Remind me not to get pizza when I visit lmfao

Fave thread on bluesky so far

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This was amazing Conyer!! I loved your piece ❤️

The Garden Read Conyer Clayton's short story "The Garden" in the Schism issue of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

My latest story “The Garden” was just released in the Schism themed issue of The Ex-Puritan. It’s a neo-gothic, lightly speculative look at violence, release, and attempt at control over bodies in relationships, through the lens of a garden. Thanks for reading xo

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This is amazing news for all the amazing and talented SFF poets out there!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

It’s official: in 2025, the Nebula Awards and @sfwa.bsky.social will recognize poetry as a new award category. Poetry has been a vital part of SFF from the earliest pulps. I’m so thrilled to see it recognized in this way.

Who keeps beating up Jay Leno? What did he do?

Just another day of wishing my country would stop arming war criminals.

"I loved him, he was my safety" the mantra of every child successfully groomed by an adult old enough to be their parent, ever.

Often, I find myself back and forth between the white nonsense of CanLit and the white nonsense of SFF. This refusal to relinquish, or, sometimes, even acknowledge, power. Where to rest?

Madeleine Thien wins the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a mid-career fiction writer.

She will donate her $25,000 prize to 3 charities, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Lebanese Red Cross.

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I'm in an abusive polycule with the book I just published, the next book I'm publishing, and the book I'm currently writing