Meet the king of the Weird Little Guys, the Butternut Woollyworm (Eriocampa juglandis), native to North America.
They're the larval form for a wasp-like sawfly & they secrete tufts of wooly substance from epidermal glands to aid in camouflage.
All hail the king!
(📷: Robert Gromotka)
Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f...
If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!
Any time any where someone brings up recovered memory therapy & forensic hypnosis as proof for XYZ, I'm rolling my eyes so hard they're doing 360s off a half pike bc it's been repeatedly demonstrated that's completely bunk. I'm looking at you ufologists.
Consider writing really wierd stories so Joe pays you in cold hard metal coins
Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.
An illustration of two beetroot blacktip reef (beet) sharks against a soft pink background. They are a deep wine red with three large green leaves on their dorsal fins. The dorsal fins are stylised to look like a sliced open beetroot, while the very tips are darker like their namesake. Both sharks appear to be delighted with their cheeky catch, a ripe beetroot held on the lower right shark's mouth. Smaller beetroots float around them. They wish you a very happy Friday, filled with tasty treats!
Blacktip beet sharks 🦈 #art
So I definitely will not be coughing but the 90$ to renew my membership to SWFA especially with returning to school for degree three. Cancelling membership & not renewing directly impacts sfwas ability to operate so let ur wallet speak
It's just really disappointing to see this stance from SWFA especially after they worked with writers impacted by LLMs using their work in a class action lawsuit :/. We can't be wishy washy lads.
This is a slippery slope that will lead to more slop further undermining the spec fic publishing industry imo.
The scariest thing is getting the library newsletter on Halloween to see the friends of the library are sponsoring workshops on chatgpt/AI and ALSO essential oils 😬😬😬
me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it
the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
More Cake ???? More Cake !!! 2026 is going to be a great year for queer sff short fiction, we are up to 4 queer sff mags !
Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.
craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...
5:45am "you shouldn't draw attention to yourself" talking at is a great start to the day. This time triggered by teaching a cosplay workshop to teens about animal ears. It's a rather boring way to live to actually not draw attention and counterproductive too imo.
Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas:
Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme
Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer
Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn
Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter
i have no more excuses for not having a copy of nana like a good little jfashion enthusiast.
Did you miss @spacemagiccon.bsky.social ? The 2025 panels are all up on youtube for viewing pleasure including the one I was on, Defining Genres: Do We Need To! youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiLg-RonFvaDdTJwMN6avZaNjKn6Jr_S&si=aNGPhtQTjElChGy6
I also really enjoyed the Queer Desire panel <3
REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!
You can request a copy here:
forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH...
I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)
working at the deli requires a REALLY BIG BUBBLE WAND just saying, maybe even a BUBBLE MACHINE.
And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.
UM WHAT our campaign is officially a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! Now more than ever supporting queer speculative art, poetry, and stories is so important—it means a lot that our want to create space for queer artists, poets, and writers resonates so strongly!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
*slaps roof of car* this bad boy can fit so much fucking gay words in it.
Have you backed @othersidespec.bsky.social on kickstarter yet? They have 1.5 years of queer spec fic funded with each issue at a 15k words. Let's fill that bad boy UP.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
Translunar Traveler's Lounge is open for speculative fiction, 5000 words and under. Please check the guidelines before submitting, but other than that, don't self-reject. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/
OP: Maxicimam
Blouse, headdress, bloomers: BTSSB
Actually my comfiest MAM piece thus far but MAM has a lot of comfy pieces i love them ahhhhhh
#jfashion #eglcomm #ロリィタ #ロリータファッション #ロリータ #lolitafashion
get in the otherside kickstarter launch shinji
yes
researching a maritime disaster in 2025:
Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat
Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes
Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor
I am currently reading the Extinction of Irena Rey and it's so unhinged. The first chapter is like I am a beautiful horrible translator do not sue me. Second chapter is fungi evil. It just goes to 100 and does not stop
