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Christopher Caldwell

@seraph76

Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy. Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland. Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press in October 2025. Pre-order here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response

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The Constitution is law. There are processes to applying this law.

He has not been convicted of engaging in an insurrection. He is the sitting President. You saying he is not the President does not make that true. You do not have the power to remove him; congress does.

11.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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submissions β€” neon hemlock

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go.

www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

09.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5

He’s pretty, but relying too much on slinky litheness

11.03.2026 10:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Like I already have a short story to here a terrifying diva has a parade in I Want that Twink Obliterated, so I probably shouldn’t write that

11.03.2026 10:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a lot on my plate right now!

11.03.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Except for Quistis, none of the heroic characters have style worth gagging over.

Now Edea….

11.03.2026 09:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

They what now?

11.03.2026 09:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They only clarified that caffeine containing beverages weren’t restricted in 2012!

11.03.2026 09:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean there was that whole thing where they forbid Black people from ordination and therefore their highest level of salvation until 1978

11.03.2026 09:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can’t just move it into place?

11.03.2026 07:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello as a greeting is about as old as the telephone

11.03.2026 07:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I use kilograms as default.

Pounds are a British weight! Which is why people who use Stone are 12 Stone 8 pounds or whatever

11.03.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In theory, I think the democratisation of criticism is a good thing. In principle it’s tainted by people who don’t bother to learn anything about what they’re reviewing, and are mostly looking for freebies

11.03.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just watched a food influencer send back a dish with actual black truffles because it wasn’t truffle oil…

11.03.2026 05:44 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have no real idea how many pages 5000 words is. MS pages don’t translate to book pages, and I won’t even pay attention to the MS pages until I’m ready to send it in.

11.03.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I heard someone refer to the agents as sloppelgangers and couldn’t stop laughing

11.03.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Almost certainly some sort of fraud, and potentially defamation. It could absolutely be reputation damaging

11.03.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If there were any justice, Grammarly would be burnt to the ground and the earth whence it stood would be salted so nothing could ever grow again.

11.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dreich, drookit, pure Baltic, smirr

11.03.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, at least in repose his cold, dead eyes would be closed

11.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I prefer Fahrenheit for cooking. The extra granularity is useful. Am okay with Celsius for weather

11.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And they mix it with pounds *and* it doesn’t scale up by 8 or 16 like other imperial measurements

11.03.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHow many stone did he lose?” Might as well be β€œHow many apples tall is she?”

11.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I may be British now, but I refuse to learn what a stone as a weight of measurement is.

11.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m too innocent for such things

11.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ohh. That’s the stabbing meme guy.

Who would ever want to stab you with a dagger?!!

11.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Has Mr Beast ceased being famous?

11.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

But he doesn’t even have a moustache!

11.03.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, I don’t know who Flynn is, and barely what tangled is

11.03.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If he touches cold iron he’ll have to release you from bondage and be banished for 7 years

11.03.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0