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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But I also don't think being free from bigotry is necessarily a requirement. A world can still be queernormative (IMO) if it accepts some forms of queerness completely but struggles with others, or if it's pitted against other groups/societies where queerness is less normal.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Closer to the latter. To me, queernormative worlds are ones where a whole bunch of people are (what we would think of as) queer but also nobody comments on it or views it as being different in any way from "normal." The Preservation society from the Murderbot books is a good example.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All I'm going to say is I've been watching a lot of James Bond movies lately, so this strategy of "Give us a trillion dollars so our product doesn't destroy humanity!" feels, shall we say, familiar

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have heard of people doing this, yes.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

my story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thanks! Ugh, everyone I know in academia (and most people outside academia, for that matter) is just so burned out right now and constantly on the edge of a breakdown. I don't know what this year is going to be like.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*clears throat* Apparently even some longtime followers don't know I have a newsletter, so. NEWSLETTER! buttondown.com/ada-hoffmann... Now with a whole bunch of more fiction recommendations that I just sent out today!

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Stories I Read In the Sun

Summer is a weird time, both in publishing and in academia. Structure dissolves. Everyone’s off traveling, either for personal reasons or for urgent work...

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bet she knows you spend a lot of time typing on the typing machine!

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oof, I don't know - but like, other folks were doing other types of Lovecraft subversion around that time, so maybe wave vaguely at some of them and then at something else defiantly Black and go "X meets Y"? What I really wish is that the marketing people could just. Do this for us :P

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So I feel like the people who say this are people who've had too many weird interactions with, y'know, That Dude. The one who thinks all the good SFF was published in the 1960s (by white cishet dudes). Nobody wants to be that dude! But then they take it a little too far in the other direction.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wonder if this is one of the things where like... our literal thinking style gets in the way. Like we're over here wringing our hands because no one book is ever exactly like any other and the NTs are sitting there like "my dudes, your book has dragons, just tell me another book that has dragons"

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And to be clear I do read things that are that recent with reasonable regularity, but it is just probably not the bulk of what I read.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I also feel that it is an unreasonable demand but I am shy about saying so because I have seen other authors say with their whole chest that *of course* you have to be constantly reading books from the last 3-5 years to be a real author, how are you going to write anything relevant if you don't 🫠

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ideally, with older influences like King or Lovecraft, there have been enough people doing their own versions of those tropes throughout the years that you can just point to whoever did each one most recently and hope the resulting jumble makes sense, but still

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah! And then the marketing person is like "it needs to be within the last 3-5 years" and you're like "I started writing this more than 3-5 years ago, what do you want from me"

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would love for someone with power to finally look these people in the eye and say "Oh, okay, in that case, we agree to intervene. By dissolving all your companies immediately. Bye"

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Extremely sus of them calling it a "report card" tbqh, like who exactly is grading you here

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 23/09/2026

The question, which was reportedly intended to be rhetorical, was answered in harrowing detail by Sabeen Bhatt, 46, who began by describing every possible calamity in her immediate surroundings, before moving on to the world at large.

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Bystanders traumatised after autistic woman asked “what’s the worst that can happen?”

Bystanders have reportedly been left “traumatised” after overhearing an autistic woman answering the question “what’s the worst that can happen?” The question, which was reportedly intended to be…

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just absolutely wild to see so many people discovering the massive influence of the rationalists in real time and say things like "I wish I could unlearn what I've learned in the last 24 hours." I, and others, have been researching these people for YEARS. There is so much I wish I could unlearn.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone want to rec a SFF book/story that depicts a process of restorative justice (or any of the other types of non-carceral justice) actually working? Especially if the world of the book is built such that restorative justice processes are the norm (as opposed to a new, controversial thing)

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"people is like" oh my god ada you should not be posting at this hour go to bed

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Usually people is like "don't have the characters just say how they feel! real people don't talk that way!" and I say they have never met an autistic person HOWEVER I am now discovering that if you do let them be reluctant to say how they feel then this can make a scene 10x more delightfully awkward

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

tfw the publisher asks me for comp titles and instantly my brain is empty and i cannot remember reading a book in my life ever

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Sussysawit @sussyvr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want a dark academia novel about the provost's hiring freezes and operating cuts turning university staff into a cult of dark magic building Frankenstein monsters to help manage the work and take on all of our unpaid overtime.

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think she (using the pronoun advisedly b/c I was an egg back then) would be very impressed by most of it, somewhat disappointed by other parts, but also just... baffled. Like, by 20 y/o me's standards, my 38 y/o life is just so weird and outré.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*counting on fingers* But if we count THAT then we need to also count Ev for [spoilers redacted from book one] even though we don't literally watch her put that into motion and- Okay I need to get off Bluesky for the night and stop overthinking

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Actually, now that I think of it, in THE INFINITE we *kinda* see [spoilers redacted] start a global war on purpose. But only kinda

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The 😉version is... um... I'm not even sure if I have a published novel yet where anyone's score is above 0. But does it count if I wrote a totally unpublishable, fanficcy sequel to IGNORE that talks about all the women Rowan dated while he and Kelli weren't talking? Because. It's a lot of women

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To my own chagrin I think the highest body count 🔪 is Yasira Shien from THE OUTSIDE, who makes a snap decision early on in the series to let about a hundred people die so that a few hundred more can escape. Other characters are responsible for more death, but we don't actually watch them do it.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ninja had a queasy tummy this morning and demanded to go outside (with harness/leash, of course) to chew the grass, and I'm pretty busy today but I'm glad I went with her because that sunrise was GORGEOUS. Good instincts, kitty.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Renovating a hospital incorrectly

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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finished reading Ada Hoffmann's "Ignore All Previous Instructions" amzn.to/4wl2MmK 📖💻🖊️🪐 This was a really good #SciFi story, but an even better story about interesting people dealing with shit they shouldn't have to. #ScienceFiction @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social @tachyonpub.bsky.social #BookSky

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SUCH A MOOD but also do remember that you yourself are the "Better Comics" table for a lot of people!

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey folks If you liked the queer coming-of-age in IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS But you also like atmospheric fantasy with trippy magic rituals watch this space I might have some news for you soon 👀

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Right. A lot of this "safety testing" consists of turning off the guardrails and asking "okay, so if we tell this sycophantic AI that we are kinda expecting it to act like the evil AI in the stolen books, will it do that?" and then of course it does

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Writers... The industry can be *challenging*. Do the best you can. Find joy where you can. Celebrate everything you can. If you're putting down words, doing edits, critiques, sending submissions or queries, & more? Quick reminder: -rejection- DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer!!! Keep. Going. ❤️‍🔥

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A lot of people have already replied to this saying "SAME" but I also feel SAME quite a lot of the time

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ugh, I'm sorry so many people are being weird. Best wishes that all the treatments go smoothly and well!

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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Started reading Ada Hoffmann's "Ignore All Previous Instructions" amzn.to/4wl2MmK 📖💻🖊️🪐 Okay, so it's a #queer character study crossed with a #SciFi crime story. Got it. Totally on board. #Books #Reading #ScienceFiction @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social @tachyonpub.bsky.social #BookSky

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like there is truth in this critique, but I struggle how to reconcile it with the knowledge that the general world situation is also maximally and increasingly uncomfortable.

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I had to check my notes to see which one was actually the most recent, but it's this modern-day faerie(?) story by a nonbinary author: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/close-enco...

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Close Encounters of the Ethereal Kind

Every July, we bring you four great, free, Sunday Morning short stories!

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 06/09/2026

i also ABSOLUTELY LOVED "Ignore All Previous Instructions" by @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social. which is a wildfire of a ride through transness and a takedown of GenAI that i needed right now. if you want this too? i highly recommend!

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Ignore All Previous Instructions

A script supervisor for an AI media conglomerate is caught between her intense need for an orderly life and her deeper, darker queer desires. From the creator of the Outside trilogy, a heartfelt inter...

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes I think we are accidentally reading the same one. (Absolutely no thought went into it on my part except for "hmm, I am in the mood for some Tanith Lee, what else has she written that I haven't read...")

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