simple flow chart: Do I need AI? -> No

The 2026 Shortlist — Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Writers Julia Elliott, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Lee Lai, Megha Majumdar, and Sonya Walger are finalists for the $150,000 prize celebrating women and non-binary fiction authors and their books in the Uni...

The 2026 Shields Prize Shortlist is Here!

Hellions by Julia Elliott (Tin House), The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes (One World), Cannon by Lee Lai (Drawn & Quarterly), A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (McClelland & Stewart; Knopf), and Lion by Sonya Walger (New York Review Books).

yeah, just....ugh

Don't forget T. Kingfisher & Silva Moreno-Garcia!

:( Sympathy. I'm in a lupus flare & kinda wish I could be confined to barracks for a few days.

She runs a nursery AND has to work at TJ's?

The Fatherless Fantasy Of ‘Bridgerton’ | Defector In the world of Netflix’s Bridgerton, the wildly popular Regency romance adapted from an equally popular book series, some things are constant: The women wear organza and brocade gowns; everyone takes...

I love when an essay points out something true—and, in retrospect, totally obvious—that I had never noticed before. All the dads in Bridgerton are dead.

what the ever-lasting fuck is wrong with people

Comic Sans is one of only a few dyslexia-friendly fonts. Don't like to read in it? Set up your machine to automatically change it when you open a document.

This was both a powerful and artful memento mori: an elegant woman looking into the mirror, and rapidly aging with the paper flap. This was printed in 1510 Germany, #skystorians

Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press An anthology of queer & intersectional speculative literature

hey GUESS WHAT

Sword and Kettle Press is kickstarting their TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY and it contains me (along with a bunch of other rad writers)

$3000 goal, digital and/or print copies!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

Santa Claus, possum version.
Image: a possum scurries across a rooftop

I’d hang that on my wall

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

Remember this from last week?

South Carolina's Freedom to Read Group has an outstanding response worth replicating.

Libraries don't have to buy these books. They can actively push back against publishers who are not helping libraries–bedrocks of their survival!–weather censorship.

Not everyone can use no straw

that would be so much better than the book

beautiful--thanks for posting!

From: Panda and the Magic Serpent (1958), dir. Taiji Yabushita, Toei Doga

The film that first inspired Hayao Miyazaki to join the animation world.

thread

"Me fail war? That's unpossible!"

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The cover of the May/June 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine depicts a drawing of two androgynous track and field athletes running on a track. In the sky, stripes in the transgender pride flag colors run parallel to the track lanes. Headline: Let Them Play, How welcoming trans athletes can improve sports culture for all by Jessica Luther.

Introducing the May/June 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with cover story by @jessicawluther.com and art by Adrià Voltà.

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Inherit the Wind, although I knew the play by heart before I ever saw the film. Maybe Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.

same but for Se7en.

These folks have fucked up my name (it's Kendra Preston Leonard; alphabetize under Leonard) but it's a nice interview nonetheless! canvasrebel.com/meet-kendra-...

Zine cover reading: MAY DAY STRONG Friday, May 1, 2026 HERE'S WHAT YOU DO No school, no work, no shopping

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

they look like massive invasions of privacy to me

Flurries!

Goodnight, Earth. Goodnight, Perth. Goodnight mush. All hush.