Whatever you can do to make other people's lives a little easier or more joyful, or make them feel more comfortable, supported, or welcome, do it--especially for folks from demographic backgrounds that are being attacked.
Check in with people, have grace, laugh together, trade resources, tap in. 💖
#ClipOfTheDay: For this Conduit Club event in London, Egyptian Canadian novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad discusses his debut memoir, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Knopf), and reflects on “the dangers of using language for the unmaking of meaning.” at.pw.org/OmarElAkkad
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 60, “La Musica” by John Picacio: A woman faces the observer head on; her headgear is made of a split violin, followed by brass instruments twisted into what becomes a crown. Below her, the piano keys frame her collar, reminiscent of a ceremonial outfit. Piano keyboard keys swirl below her. She exudes confidence, power and beckons the onlooker closer, and the quote says, “'There’s a man on the front stoop.' The words spilled from her in a much more mundane way than Judy had expected, considering how her neck was fluttering with her excited pulse."
ICYMI! Last minute reading for the Nebula Awards?
Try the short story "A Stranger Knocks" by Tananarive Due! @tananarivedue.bsky.social
It is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
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man, yeah, this Owl Crate edition, it's got so many special features. if it were a car, it'd have side-pipes, a spoiler, mags, sport mirrors, bucket seats, hood pins, and probably four on the floor and an extra carb or two to boot. or whatever the 19th c. analogues for/of those might be . . .
If you're repping a epic fantasy/secondary world fantasy with either zero romance or a B-plot romance, could you send it my way PLEASE? #mswl
Join us for a Smithsonian talk on Sleeping Beauty on 2/25, 6:45PM ET! “Sleeping Beauty” has a complicated past, filled with goddesses, astrology, and atrocities. We delve into the story, changes it has undergone, and how it has been retold in recent times. smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
But separately, I'm really interested in how to do that better in the horror genre in general, in ways that don't contribute to our societal distrust of folks with mental health struggles by turning them into unreliable narrators of their own stories.
Noncommittal to that end is hard to pull off successfully in the long term. I'm not sure if they'll be able to maintain it through the end, and if they commit at this point one way or the other, it would feel unsatisfactory, too. So out of the options, I'm actually ok if they leave that, lol.
Not interested in hearing about the price of eggs (or anything else) unless you're actively doing something to make this trash economy better for people.
Stop telling people how much eggs cost and start building mutual aid networks and supporting the labor movement.
Nine times out of ten, it's a cost-reductive measure, to focus the plotlines around the adult Yellowjackets only and cut out any other characters who might've been in their lives and made for better and more interesting plot development. They probably don't want to pay additional actors regularly.
But like, they've lost the thread with Tai, for example. What even happened to her campaign? What about her kid and her ex wife? What happened to them? They just disappeared after the car accident and we never heard anything else and now it's all just Tai and Van. Mistake.
I think their biggest mistake was focusing too much on the Adam plotline and feeling like they have to keep the adult Yellowjackets together for the plot to be interesting--Shauna's the most interesting to me in the adult timeline not because of Adam but because she's the one we know the most about.
This is a recording of the first in a series of excellent trainings on mutual aid, the second of which is coming up this Wednesday.
Highly recommend!
#Activism #MutualAid #ArtActivism #Training
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It has occurred to me that reading Lovecraft is not altogether unlike reading Seuss at times.
The gugs in the gulf, the web-footed wamps, the glibbering of the ghouls, etc.
If Seuss had written dark fantasy/horror, I imagine it would've sounded like that.
#Lovecraft #Seuss #SFF #Horror
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To this end, highly recommend Bassem Youssef's memoir, REVOLUTION FOR DUMMIES: Laughing Through the Arab Spring. He was a doctor who started a YouTube satire called Al Bernameg ("The Show") in the vein of The Daily Show, taking Jon Stewart as his model.
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Laughed with several colleagues this week about the absurdity of our dystopian survival horror, which I think we all needed. Satire is such an important tool for times like these. We can laugh our way to a re-mythologization of our present and a better future. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 🤘
Honored to be included among these incredible Latinas including my agent hermana @jenrofe.bsky.social whose work and passion for advocacy in and out of the publishing industry is work I admire. 💕
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I know it's hard to write when the fear of book bans & soft censorship looms over all BIPOC & LGBTQ writers. Especially middle grade authors who can't get into schools to promote their books anymore. Book bans are doing exactly what they want-stopping us from writing. DON'T LET THEM! KEEP WRITING!
Oh hey, Coe's my alma mater, lol
Then probably Impetigore, His House, & La Llorona, assuming Parasite & The Platform don't qualify? I'm getting alternately 2019/2020, presumably for international release dates. I haven't watched many 2020 horror films beyond these--wasn't a good year in film. Horror series were lit in 2020, though.
Watched in 2020, I assume, not necessarily had to have come out in 2020? Parasite, The Platform, and La Llorona
Yellowjackets, Mo, Get Millie Black, AlRawabi School for Girls, Kevin Can F*ck Himself, Kindred, It's Okay to Not Be Okay, The Sound of Magic, 1899, Let the Right One In (the series), Interview with the Vampire, Paranormal, I May Destroy You, Trese, Brand New Cherry Flavor, When They Cry (Higurashi)
Someone asked:
"So... public domain cosmic horrors that aren't Lovecraft. What do we got?"
The tradition that gave us Lovecraft & co. is rich and deeply weird. While they aren't all cosmic horror, they all informed it.
So. 1 like = 1 public domain weird story that isn't by H. P. Lovecraft.
A small, black, plastic desk fountain is running. The lights are dimmed, and there is a small light with a soft and bright yellowish glow at the center base of the front of the fountain, which is filled with stones. From the base rises a rectangular plastic structure with a cutout in the center. There are four small streams of water flowing from the top of that cutout down into a small spout made of the same black plastic, which sends the water in a single, thicker stream down to the base. There is a green and blue stained-glass pattern on the windows behind the scene. Beside the fountain, to the right, sits a skeleton figurine sitting cross-legged with its face lifted upwards and arms resting on its kneecaps in a meditative stance.
The same scene as the previous picture, but now rotated slightly so that the fountain is more prominent and the skeleton figurine looks as if it's resting against the fountain. A small, black, plastic desk fountain is running. The lights are dimmed, and there is a small light with a soft and bright yellowish glow at the center base of the front of the fountain, which is filled with stones. From the base rises a rectangular plastic structure with a cutout in the center. There are four small streams of water flowing from the top of that cutout down into a small spout made of the same black plastic, which sends the water in a single, thicker stream down to the base. There is a green and blue stained-glass pattern on the windows behind the scene. Beside the fountain, to the right, sits a skeleton figurine sitting cross-legged with its face lifted upwards and arms resting on its kneecaps in a meditative stance.
Finally put batteries and distilled water in my desk fountain. ❤️⛲😌
the february horror new release list is live! feat. new books from @emmaemurray.bsky.social, @eveharms.com, @hachepueyo.bsky.social, @leilataylor.bsky.social, V. Castro, @rebelsam94.bsky.social, @kojiadae.bsky.social, @angelaslatter.bsky.social, @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, and many more!
School Librarians Are The Heroes We Need!!!
We must protect them, respect them, and celebrate their vital role in schools. While we're at it, let's work to ensure that every school in America has full-time, certified, professional school librarians. ❤️📚
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A9: If you've got interests beyond what you're doing and you want to make them part of your business, why not explore them?
And to toot my own horn: If you want 1:1 guidance to help you with that, I work with lots of editors who want to try out new things. tanyagold.com/coaching-for...
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As I'm starting back in book publishing, I'd like to know of Black (& POC) freelancers w/ experience copyediting, proofreading, editing, design, marketing. The imprint I'm at is creating a #freelance database, so if you have website/LinkedIn, which every #freelancer should, lemme know. DO NOT DM ME.
