It's time for my semi-regular request/plead that if you run a speculative fiction magazine, for the love of all that is holy in this world have a contact form or email available on your website! Preferably one that isn't just tied to submissions.
Like I said. Kobo has been over there keeping on keeping on this whole time. If you don't know about them, it's a great time to learn!
It was already quite funny, but this is just the heap of buttercream and sprinkles on top of the gourmet cupcake.
Seen several people say "success" in comics requires "connections." And yeah... a bit. But how do you think connections are made?
Here is a story of how my connections led to me working on the X-Men for Marvel
In 2016, I am tabling at a comic convention in Portland, OR. I meet Peach Momoko
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TIL--Fridge magnets have a solidly St Louis connection.
Once again explaining that the Pope is only infallible under certain highly specific circumstances. What he is in this case is an *expert* backed up by a whole bunch of other experts.
The snort I snorted.
Okay, this too good not to repost.
god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology
JD Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology
We used to say “not The Onion,” but this is actually funnier than anything the current iteration of The Onion puts out www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
I read much of this thread like 😬 so I'll reassure you it's not like that, BUT IT COULD BE, and that's why you should read and share it too.
i have been enjoying kobo personally
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Meme update of the ol’ I…worked on this INFERNO for a year…and…he just…he tweeted it out
Dante, if he could hate post:
It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.
Tomorrow's NYT: "Many Popes Have Been Catholics. Here are 5 of them."
Wednesday will be "Many Bears Have Shit in the Woods. Here Are 5 of them."
Time for the annual 48 or so hours of Lilac Gratitude!
Thank you to everyone with lilacs in your yard, you make everything smell lovely for a day or two!
The most famous battle they're known for was *checks notes* a defeat.
lol what baby brains. what if your neighbor likes a different sports team. oh no they might have a different color house. what if they like choo choos more than vroom vrooms. I hear some don’t even agree apple is the best juice. I don’t feel safe
was thinking about emergent themes in fiction. you don't have to make a conscious choice to Have a Theme to have one-- if you dive deeply enough into making a compelling character or plot or situation one or more themes will fall out.
they may not be the themes you wanted! but they'll be there.
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#AncientBlueSky
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#romancelandia
it shouldn't be socially unacceptable to have a full role of toilet paper in your purse. tp is cheaper than those little Kleenex packets by like 500x and I'm not made of money, okay. I'm made of snot
That said, no do not warm up my leftover pizza breakfast. What you do with yours is between you and your conscience.
<clears throat> Any take claiming superiority for any food preference is a bad one. Also, since one can and should eat whatever one prefers regardless of anyone else's taste, such takes are irrelevant.
Counter-pizza breakfast is also acceptable.
FOR BREAKFAST of course.
No, you do not reheat leftover pizza, what kind of savage are you. You eat it cold out of the fridge as God Herself intended.
Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.