Cops Don't Belong at Campus Protests The police are making it abundantly clear they're not there to protect students. But that’s also not news.

to the many folks mentioning the brutalizing of student protesters in 2023-2024 — yes, I covered this extremely closely at the time:

last night I fell asleep with the Zelda: Ocarina of Time shop theme stuck in my head and this morning I woke up with the same song stuck in my head so I made this

looks like this lil guy from "the temptation of saint anthony," by a follower of pieter bruegel the elder (ca 1550 or 1575)

one of the funny truths you learn if you write in the cross-genre romance space is that people who don't like the sex will hallucinate massive amounts of it in your book, and people who wanted more sex will be able to estimate an exact sex word count within like 75 words.

They'll both be mad tho.

If you know someone who is really great at running an RPG, you have got to hold on to them, you know?

Carpe DM, friends!

It’s always a good day when I get to record with these two!

The book Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher on a bookshelf under Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction.

Went to Bangkok to see some friends and found a @tkingfisher.com book on the self!

It's not just a heist. It's a rescue mission.

On 10 February 2026, Relooted arrives at a museum (and store page, we guess) near you.
#indiegame

The Thirteenth God Taking down a god isn’t easy… In order to escape a prison at the edge of the world, con artist Kalsis Chiroptera agrees to do the impossible: overthrow the Princeps, the immortal ruler of all mankind...

Today's my birthday! And I'm launching a new thing, which is a bit scary and I need your help to spread the word.

So! Today THE THIRTEENTH GOD, my new military progression fantasy magitech Mad Max x Final Fantasy x Gurren Lagann serial starts over at Royal Road!

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...

Working on this project was one of the highlights of my (Very Rough™️) year. It was an honor, a pleasure, and a point of pride to put out each and every one of these essays.

(And getting to add some of my art to vol 3 on top of everything else was a dream come true.)

A Reflection on Love Letters Love Letters 12.30.2025 - Stone Soup

Some reflections on my first year of publishing Love Letters: Reasons to Be Alive. What an incredible year it has been. How very, very lucky I am.

(Unsurprisingly, content notes here for frank discussions of grief and suicidality.)

2026 Community Awards Eligibility Roundup It's the time of year when I ask folks to share their awards eligibility with me! Send us your information using this form. We'll round up all the eligibility information people chose to share and wil...

At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.

Coming out of my cage
And I'm doing not great
I was just in a cage
(I was just in a cage)

COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

She hath risen.

I hope you all read this from me.

All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule Here's what to know about the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens. The schedule is approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics and based on ongoing review of the most recent sc...

Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against).

* pin it & share it *

Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

Summer in the House of the Departed by Josh Rountree shows a house that is absolutely haunted, yep.

I hope you joined us for @joshrountree.bsky.social's book release today, and if you didn't, well, there's tomorrow and the next day, too. A story of melancholy, regret, and pain. But one of love, too.

a man with a beard is holding a light saber and looking at it . ALT: a man with a beard is holding a light saber and looking at it .

Absolutely. It's just staggering how wrong he is on every level.

This guy has obviously never seen a company rebrand in the last 10 years. Logo simplification is basically a cliché at this point.

I put an info graphic of hand stretches into the mix to remind myself to take breaks every rotation.

I mean, same!

(I change my computer wallpaper way too often to ever commit to a tattoo.)

You know, there are very few images that I see and think, "I want a tattoo of that" and yet...

Run enough #ttrpg campaigns over a long enough time and all of the different systems start to mix into a weird mechanical stew…

An alignment chart with three columns, Business, Chaos, and Disaster, left to right, and three rows, Straight, Bi, and Gay, top to bottom. In the squares from left to right, top to bottom, are Pathfinder and Starfinder iconics in the following order: Ezren, Amiri, and Valeros, in the top row. Navasi, Merisiel, and Dae in the middle row. Kyra, Mios, and Quinn in the bottom row.

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The Year in Review 2024 by Arley Sorg What happened, 2024? Where did we all go wrong? Even if it was a weird, rocky, stressful year in many ways, it was still another great year for fiction! After closing Fantasy Magazine in late 2023 …

My "Year in Review" essay is up on the Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social site!

locusmag.com/2025/02/the-...