Starting a list of MOSTLY random speculative poems from 2025, partly for Hugo Award consideration, mostly because we could all use a touch of beauty:
Bella Chacha's "Orbit Decay," a poem that might be about a relationship, or might be about a star, or both:
www.heartlines-spec.com/orbit-decay-...
The wealthy farmers that live in the rural part of the White MAGA slum where I reside, have no problem with public handouts for maintaining a county blacktop stretching to their palatial house/ machine shed. If some black kid gets a scholarship to a public college, that’s considered DEI welfare.
I knew I felt a little off
you have to read to write. a lot. Like you have to read way more than you write for your writing to be worth anything. there are zero exceptions to this
Describe your plot in five words or fewer - if you dare.
Tween enby challenges temporal knights.
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …
“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
A male - male grounded three prong cable
I heard there was a secret cord
That David made and displeased the Lord
As a Catholic kid who grew up reading the lives of the saints and having completely normal things like "favorite saints," I had him at the top of my list.
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Bosconian
Don't lie, you've never heard of it.
Every time somebody sings "La Bamba" in karaoke I get annoyed at Ritchie Valens all over again.
I don't know how we come back from putting the worst people in the country in charge of everything.
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Huh. This new batch of Triscuit I just opened seem thinner and less crunchy--like more crispy than crunchy, if that makes sense. Triscuit are like my #1 snack, so I hope they haven't changed the recipe.
Nothing quite like starting to touch-type while one of your hands is accidentally one row above home so it looks like you just had a stroke . . .
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You've heard of "fake it til you make it,"
but have you tried
"whine about it 'til you're fine about it?"
Every. Time.
Writing Craft Discourse: Writer A: I have articulated this way of holding a story in my head and examining when it's not working. Writers B, C, D: This is The Way. Everybody who doesn't think of stories like this is a doomed amateur who doesn't know craft. All my feedback from now on will be in the form of noting adherence to or deviations from The Way. <time passes> Writers E, F, G: This is an utter hoax. It has no value whatsoever and anybody who claims otherwise is a charlatan and not a real writer.
I threw this together for insta and figure I may as well share it here too.
TRANS FACTS The regret rate for Trans surgeries is <1% The regret rate for hip replacement 5-10% Getting tattoos 15-25%, having children 5-14% Trans women who molested cis women in toilets = 0 Children do not have irreversible procedures There are several variations outside XX and XY "Biological sex" is a spectrum not a binary Intersex people have used bathrooms forever Intersex people compete in sport with no issues Trans women have no physical advantage in sport Trans kids who are supported live longer Anti-Trans legislation causes spikes in Trans su!cides 99% of Trans people say hostile media coverage damages their mental health
Pass it on...🏳️⚧️
Every house needs a secret door that leads to a secret room, but well, there are secret rooms and then there are...
I have started to get author spamscam emails that feature an AI generated rundown of everything that is BAD about my book, so that, I guess, I will want to pay the money to help me fix my writing?
Anyway, what is the environmental impact of burning down AI, because that's what I want right now.
I think the Iran war being launched to distract from Epstein is a pretty simplistic analysis but even if it were it's not working, a bipartisan house committee just voted to subpoena pam bondi on the subject
the AI bubble, the private credit bubble (this one), the Wall St Bitcoin thing, etc. are all about writing down a big number with a $ in front on thin justification, then borrowing against it
this runs into issues tomorrrow. but not today!
I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”
Starting this Saturday in the Bay! My intro to fiction workshop, which unlike many workshops has led to positive results: short fiction published in paying venues, novels, etc.
sfwriting.institute/course/intro...
Please reskee!
It's another stellar lineup for our live classes! @kcoopergriffin.bsky.social, Elle Ire @elleeire.bsky.social & José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social
#gclswa #sapphicwritingprograms #lesfic #wlwbooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerWriters
When we do active shooter drills, I'm gonna start having my kids text their families that they love them.
You gotta practice those soft skills too, you know?
IMO, it's not that people want to feel alive, it's that their lives of easy decadence make them overly focus on stuff that simply isn't important, leading them to do things like elect a tyrant.
They don't *want* to upend their easy lives, they've been made to believe their lives aren't easy.
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When I watch other kidlit authors give school presentations, they features TONs of photos of their childhoods, and I've got like none of that. I feel at a distinct disadvantage.
