capsicum hanging off a shrub

Subho Noboborsho, peeps! Ushering in the Bengali New Year w some home-grown capsicums!

You must! They're releasing the episodes weekly so I have something to look forward to every Monday!

I remember reading the manga back in uni & being enchanted by the endearing characters and a v aesthetic magic system (not a surprise given Shirahama graduated in design), reread it during the pandemic and now tempted to learn Japanese so I can do another reread and catch up with the latest issue!

Got very excited to learn that WITCH HAT ATELIER is finally getting an anime adaptation. The first three episodes are brilliant, wondrously painted with a Ghibli-esque touch, and if they do it right, I'm sure this will go down as one of the best fantasy anime shows ever made.

Yesterday was Monday. Monday means #MustRead horror. This week: @willowylungs.bsky.social talks queerness thriving in body horror @crimereads.bsky.social, @architamittra.bsky.social recommends 6 of @davidmoody.bsky.social's most terrifying books @the-line-up.bsky.social ...

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more pocket-sized books. more books that fit in coats like contraband and can be taken out to avoid eye contact in any situation.

Picked up the book because I got a lil attached to Rocky and I'm pleasantly surprised by all the science-y bits!

Welcome back to the Artemis II crew :) Such a huge relief watching them arrive safely!

And if any editors out there want to give this book a paper home in N. America or elsewhere beyond S. Asia, well, you know what to do. THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR won a British Fantasy Award, a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, & was nominated for the Locus Awards.

THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:

So...the new approach to the Strait is, "You're not breaking up with me, I'm breaking up with you!"

I'm I reading this correctly?

Manhole cover with a grid pattern. Some squares of the grid are filled with fallen cherry blossoms

Found art

It's been ages since I went to the movies, but I think Project Hail Mary was decent fun, though I enjoyed The Martian wayyy more and had to suspend my disbelief at how quickly the stranded human and alien learned to communicate.

The solution in question being JUST WRITE IT YOURSELF FOR GOD'S SAKE, YOU'RE A HUMAN, YOU HAVE THE GIFT OF LIFE AND THOUGHT AND FEELING, USE YOUR HUMAN MIND AND HANDS AND IMAGINATION, DON'T LET THEM ATROPHY, DON'T OUTSOURCE THEM TO A MACHINE, STRIVE TO TRY AND FAIL AND LEARN AND BETTER YOURSELF

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

Ah I can't wait to read it!

📚💙Forgot to post this before in the flurry of health emergencies, but I wrote an essay for @locusmag.bsky.social about my fave books of 2025, reading in hospital waiting rooms and how art might not be able to save us, but still help us to make sense of suffering & grief
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omg guys it's new angela liu story drop day!

📚💙Forgot to post this before in the flurry of health emergencies, but I wrote an essay for @locusmag.bsky.social about my fave books of 2025, reading in hospital waiting rooms and how art might not be able to save us, but still help us to make sense of suffering & grief
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This is the same kind of flimsy argument as "patriarchy harms men too" like, sure, but we shouldn't let such a broad statement exist without acknowledging the primary targets and primary harm being done. The point of "the poor little imperial soldier is being exploited" is to distract us.

I know I haven't published anything new in a while due to Life Stuff, but if you'd like to peruse my reviews in @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @locusmag.bsky.social and The Portalist, and consider my non-fiction for any awards, you can find the links here! 🧵

I also curate SFF listicles & round-ups for The Portalist, so if you're looking for recs on what to read next, you'll find a treasure trove here!

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Archita Mittra ARCHITA MITTRA (she/they), Contributing Editor, is a writer, critic, editor and artist from Kolkata, India. Her work has appeared in Lightspeed, Locus, PseudoPod, Reactor and Strange Horizons, amon…

My reviews for @locusmag.bsky.social 👇 (yes, I also miss my cherry-coke-hair era)

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I know I haven't published anything new in a while due to Life Stuff, but if you'd like to peruse my reviews in @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @locusmag.bsky.social and The Portalist, and consider my non-fiction for any awards, you can find the links here! 🧵

Archita Mittra Archita Mittra is a writer and artist with a love for all things vintage, whimsical, and darkly fantastical. She occasionally reads tarot cards, has more hobbies than she can count, and loves blueberr...

Then we have @architamittra.bsky.social. I first found Archita Mittra's work when I read her review of In the Shadow of the Fall at Strange Horizons, where I have continued to enjoy her reviews.

As it's Hugo time, I wanted to talk about a category I care about, and which I think could do with a bit of extra love when it comes to nomination time - it's best fan writer!

(this is gonna be a thread of me doing hype, which I'm bad at, but that is much deserved by all here linked, pls be nice)

Thank you so much!

Thank you!