The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

Vance's release date is June 16!
Also searching communion by bell hooks or communion book hooks, etc. is a fun and free way to keep hooks near the top of search results.

CONGRATS RB!!!

I was able to get an updated COVID-19 and flu shot for free today at CVS (scheduled online). KS peeps, do NOT miss this opportunity when access to these vaccines are becoming so restricted!!

I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤

Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!

And if you’re making or even reviewing stationary and you don’t have a left handed person try it, I wish you a very dominant hand injury

Reactor newsletter: the Reactor header, red text with a rocketship. A picture of the cover of The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin. "Featured essays" header. Article title: The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season by Tiffany Fritz. Article preview text: "Is the sex scene relevant? Does it move the plot forward?" Does it matter? Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments in N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season--and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work.

I've got an article in Reactor today! I presented this paper at the 2024 Sturgeon Symposium, and I'm very excited it has found a home in Reactor. reactormag.com/the-necessar...

an important thing to remember in the "is this what they voted for" discourse is that the average voter is so fucking dumb that it would bend your understanding of the human mind

Thunderbolts was good actually?

I didn’t realize there were still discoveries to be made in the field of egg-cracking. This is why we must fund science.

I’m citing a lot of Polygon articles in a paper I’m writing at the moment and every one is a new gut punch.

We stan Kij Johnson!!!

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Eleven Emerging Writers Named Finalists For 2025 Chautauqua Janus Prize - Chautauqua Institution Welcome to Chautauqua Institution! We are a community of artists, educators, thinkers, faith leaders and friends dedicated to exploring the best in humanity.

Exciting news about a story I have coming out in Analog's next issue!

www.chq.org/announcement...

The guy answering phones at Rep. Mann's Manhattan KS office said that basically no one else has called to express concern over the leak putting our military in danger. Apparently I'm the ONLY person in all of KS 1 that thinks it's an issue & am unreasonable for calling.
Their phone # is 785-370-7277

Literally every time I write sensory detail I feel like I’m faking it lol

I'm really frustrated with the news media reporting on Trump's illegal and unconstitutional machinations as if they are actually happening.

I almost wanna say nuanced lol but I know that’s not it

Wrote about some of the bad stuff for the @thestar.com this weekend.

Thanks so much for asking me to do this @debdundas.bsky.social.

Look out for each other, friends, it's raining out there.

USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.

I WISH I COULDVE BEEN THERE 😭

What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.

Hi there Blue Sky! I'm Mary, I'm moving over to posting my art here, and I have some puffins to get us started ✨

wrong, bad, immoral. go chiefs.

Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story? Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.

Hi! Some-time lurker, first time poster.

For this week’s @newyorker.com, I dove into a romantasy plagiarism lawsuit that raises deeper questions about tropes, authorship, and the grubby imperatives of selling books in a post-literate world.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m currently on my fifth watch of Wicked: Part One, which means I’m living exactly the life seven-year-old me imagined.

Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam YouTube video by MegaLag

This is wild
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4y...

Wild listening to this episode as a Kansan. It’s like listening to an episode titled “Here’s Everything You Vaguely Remember from Your KU PoliSci Degree.”

Don't miss @onlynarrative.bsky.social's story about dragons who hoard records at Electric Spec:
electricspec.com/Volume19/Iss...

Read my friend's awesome story!