We Decay in the Dark by Ayida Shonibar | Adventitious A post-apocalyptic novelette of vengeance, divided worlds, and the moment the certainty of our worldview begins to collapse.

Two great tales for Earth Day:

We Decay in the Dark by @ayidashonibar.bsky.social: "Polluted environment" takes on many meanings.🌔🎃🍆

A Place to Grow by @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social: Roots escaping the world, save it. 🍄💪

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We love ramps! I've been growing them from our kitchen scraps (we have a local farm that cultivates them) for a few years now, and a local native plant nursery sells the plants from seed. We hope to have a harvestable patch in the next 2-3 years. Happy Spring!

This is gorgeous.

🐌 Our Garden Plot by Andrew Maust

Excited to have a new solarpunk poem out at @foofarawpress.bsky.social today!

I spent yesterday morning helping out @sunandsoil.bsky.social with a gardening project, so it must be a garden-y type of a weekend.

You can "Our Garden Plot" here:

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Dandelion seed ball eclipse! #stunday #EastCoastKin

I do, in fact, love this book. A lot.

Maro Reus on Ecofiction — Brief Ecology The commercially dominant modern world is one of falsity. Advertising is a thick smog. It leaks through our window screens and oozes out of the linoleum. In our most densely populated places, it’s lou...

"There was a time when all our stories were about birds and stars and our grand, infinitesimal home. Eco fiction makes the deliberate choice to tell those stories again—and acknowledges that we never stopped."

- Maro Reus on Ecofiction
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Issue Two of Adventitious contains, among other things, a thousand-year-old monster who charges 1000 złoty to remove a rusalka from your child's iPad and then eats it in her car.

This is representative of our editorial vision.

Just to be clear-- our president, the man with the nuclear codes and the military might of the United States in his hands-- is publicly promising AND ACTIVELY COMMITTING war crimes and crimes against humanity. Hey Congress-- DO YOUR JOB and take his power away!

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Trans Rights Readathon Trans Rights Readathon 2025

@trreadathon.bsky.social Has some great stuff going on today! It's the last day of their epic auction to support @pointofpride.org , and today ONLY they have a list of a bunch of trans ebooks that are FREE! Check out their website for more info! transrightsreadathon.carrd.co

Home - Transgender Law Center Transgender Law Center Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and em...

It's Trans Day of Visibility! Hi! I'm polygender, and prefer "they" most days. I've published 3 children's books, have poems in multiple kidlit anthologies, and recently began publishing speculative short fiction and poetry. Also, these people help keep me safe. Love them. transgenderlawcenter.org

Just feel the need to tell y'all... there's a tier that includes input into *sticker creation.* Stickers!!!

Yay! Congratulations!!!!

I've been reading a bunch to raise funds for the Transgender Law Center during the #transrightsreadathon ... and ... I raise money for them year-round! I sell $5 handmade doodle bookmarks to support their work. www.sarahgracetuttle.com/shop

Back after Shabbat and there is $829 to go! Click on the embed to find out how to contribute - can we use some of the No Kings energy to get a trans person safely out of Kansas?

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Manawaker Studio

HOME CONSTELLATIONS: A SPECULATIVE ANTHOLOGY OF UNCONVENTIONAL BONDS edited by @cbdroege.bsky.social is out today, and includes my poem "Four Plus-Ones Seeking a Stable Bond" - a polycule personal ad in space, plus atom puns! Find it these places: payhip.com/Manawaker & www.amazon.com/dp/B0GV47LF64

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A Place to Grow by Sarah Grace Tuttle Tired of fighting over scraps, a being moves underground to thrive in this sharp flash fiction story by Sarah Grace Tuttle.

"This time when they stretched, they stretched toward the dark."

A Place to Grow by @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social

#FirstLineMondays

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Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now! www.othersidespec.com

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE!

Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️

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Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now for subscribers! www.othersidespec.com

We've waited so long to yell this: IF YOU'RE A SUBSCRIBER OR KICKSTARTER BACKER, ISSUE 1 IS IN YOUR INBOX! 🪐🗡️

Issue 1 will be free to read online March 15th, but if you can't wait, get your hands on it RIGHT NOW!

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With Issue 1 out soon, a reminder that we have community copies available if you can't afford to subscribe right now, donated by lovely Kickstarter backers.

Please don't stress or feel you have to justify yourself—we don't ask questions! Simply use our contact form to request a community copy 🪐🗡️

Honestly, we need queer art and stories now more than ever. And, doomscrolling tanks mental health. So, every person reading your magazine (likely a lot of queer folks!) who pauses their doomscrolling to read some soul-feeding words has taken an opportunity to mitigate harm. Promote away.

Want to know how to print Know Your Rights cards? Here's the website! If you scroll down, there are PDFs for the cards in 56 languages. You can use the PDF to print them at home. Even though these are Red Cards, you can print them on any sturdy paper! www.ilrc.org/redcards?gad...

Here are 3 ideas for resisting US fascism today! 1) Search for a local mutual aid group. Learn how to give/get help. 2) Print Know Your Rights cards and put them in a Little Free Library/on a community bulletin board. 3) Create something. ("The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation!" - RENT)

A Place to Grow by Sarah Grace Tuttle Tired of fighting over scraps, a being moves underground to thrive in this sharp flash fiction story by Sarah Grace Tuttle.

I wanted "A Place to Grow" by @sarahgracetuttle.bsky.social to close out Issue 1 because it's potent, hopeful, and "growth" is a vital theme for a plucky upstart mag. Plus, the flash piece has

🍄 retreating underground as self-care
👩‍🎨 beauty truth and love

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