iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Thank you for including “Symbiotic” on the 2025 list!! What great news to wake up to :) 🤿⚡️🦑🧬

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 26/01/2026

we recognize that amazon is NOT AN IDEAL TOOL for this moment, so for those who don't want to give them money (fair!!!) please visit standwithminnesota.com and pick someone from the MANY OPTIONS. There are so many folks who need help! 💓

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 23/01/2026

fifteen hours left on this goodreads giveaway if anyone wants to toss their hat in the ring :3 www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

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Sublimation

Sublimation is the debut novel by Isabel J. Kim, winner…

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thank you for having my story “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet” on the BSFA longlist! 🥹 So thrilled to be featured with so many good friends and talented authors!!

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

I've got a good feeling about this bank of mysterious fog moving against the wind to blanket our isolated small town.

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

1232 words on the book today! i swear to god if i delete any words at this point i will do the SAME number of pushups

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The pitch for the novel is Journey to the West x Fight Club. I am about to disrespect my childhood hero on every level imaginable. This is my second rewrite (And like 30th beginning.) Someone put me out of my misery

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ceej @ceej.online · 10/01/2024

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We had a good run

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Patrick Claybon @patrickclaybon.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Sumerian engineers 2000 years ago

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Wow! Yearly wrap up!! In 2025, I published one Novelette, one Short Story, and an Essay! I also sold another story to Clarkesworld and two reprints to Science Fiction World, coming up in 2026 :) Here's my work so far if you'd like to kindly consider me for an award (Astounding, Hugo, Nobel, etc.)

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Wow @acwise.bsky.social !! Thanks for having SYMBIOTIC on your favorite short fiction of 2025 list!! The horribly tethered boys and their squid (not like that) sure do appreciate it. Story here :3 clarkesworldmagazine.com/zhao_04_25/

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Symbiotic by Carolyn Zhao

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

oh my god they released Mecha-Hildegard

engraving of hildegard von bingen with pixilated red energy crackling from her eyes

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

thanks @clarkesworldmagazine.com for accepting my plot twist fuel hauling spaceship story, this is not a good pitch because well. any more info and i'd reveal the plot twist(s.) Ah i've said too much already

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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 21/09/2025

What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

they should invent logging on that is good for you

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11/09/2025

I don’t want to be alarming but I suspect that there might be a darkness in the heart of my fellow man

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 11/09/2025

youre looking quite epic tonight darling. very for the win

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Oh man Silksong is SO SMOOTH. If anyone needs me in the next 3 weeks I’ll be in Pharloom. Oh my god. I can’t believe it’s real.

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Drew Weing @drewweing.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Sometimes you're looking through old sci fi novel covers, and you have to share one.

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

my story "The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet" is out at Strange Horizons!! Read on for a world where if you break your heart, you immediately go to Pluto. Why? There is no why. that's it. also, there's an ice rink and teenage angst. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet

I ended up on Pluto on the night of my nineteenth birthday, after breaking my own stupid heart. It wasn’t even over anything important.

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

i cannot stress enough that my online persona is three monkeys in a faux-couture runway raincoat. the monkeys also run a discord server. one of them is constantly stressed. this is the vibe.

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

not sure how to tell all the new subscribers coming from my heart-wrenchingly raw personal essay w @roxanegay.bsky.social 's the Audacity that I, in fact, write only weird fiction about squids and timeloops. sorry for the whiplash. My upcoming story at Strange Horizons has similar themes, though!

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

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Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

updated September 2, 2025

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It’s me, I’m friend, and this story IS SO GOOD!! ❤️

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 01/09/2025

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

the very hungry caterpillar superimposed on an illustration of gregor samsa from the metamorphosis as a beetle

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Finishing a new short story: 😄🎉🍾🥳💃🎊🙌 Checking for open markets: ☹️💀💔🤡🧎🫠🪦

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Ramon Villalobos @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Obsessed with images of a giant promotional statue of King Kong that accidentally caught fire

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

@tiatashiro.bsky.social's advice for me to never talk about my book idea so that i can actually finish the damn thing is, unfortunately, working very well. how dare you be correct

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

don't worry, no one can stop me from putting my guys through unbelievably heartbreaking situations that change their lives forever after

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

bugs bunny in the bit where she does gossamer's nails in a super gay way

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 28/08/2025

prose is the art of interiority and if your interiority is extremely fucked up, you might as well give everyone a tour

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I use AI when I want a quick and dirty answer to a complicated question Google won’t answer without a wikipedia deep dive. It was really cool at first but it was also obvious you’re not learning anything along the way, unlike the epistemological katamari that a Wikipedia deep dive is.

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

intentionally added rickrolling to my Sad and Serious spotify writing playlist. Just a sprinkle. I’ll report back on how this goes

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Draft 2 of my spaceship story done. But at what cost.

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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲 @jodyhouser.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Having a bad day? Have you tried Too Much Pasta™? Solve none of your problems and feel uncomfortably full with Too Much Pasta™!

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

every now and then i think about my squid guys and what an awful time they're having in the story. it's like two guys in a hot tub but they're in each other's bodies and minds. which is not gay. but also maybe. they're working it out.

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! Carolyn ! @carolynzhao.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

@pelagicnatasha.bsky.social hi a bunch of SFF authors are on a chill writers server (iz j kim, tia tashiro, rich larson, MR robinson, claire jia wen, etc.) and your stories are sick, please join us, i cannot DM you bc you do not follow me. so here i am. tagging you. want a discord link (polite?)

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Again with the ruins and roots

Ink drawing, an overgrown building in ruins

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