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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 17h

New story day, and it's a short one! “Ivan Ivanovich” is about spacecraft dummies & the illusion of safety & an adriftness that makes you feel far from your own self. Based on a real Soviet test flight mannequin from the '60s. In @othersidespec.bsky.social! 🧑🏼‍🚀 othersidespec.com/pieces/ivan-ivanovich

The cover of Otherside, issue 3. In shades of orange to yellow against a black background, a figure looks toward a grand stone structure with columns, a staircase, and two giant statues. There are leaning trees and what looks like wind or smoke. The issue is dated September 2026 and the contributors' names are listed in white at the bottom.

A screengrab of the Otherside page hosting my short story, "Ivan Ivanovich." Otherside's illustrative purple banner is at the top, followed by the story's word count (1500 words) and the first three paragraphs of text.

A photograph of the Ivan Ivanovich display at the National Air and Space Museum, sourced from Wikipedia. The mannequin is in the foreground wearing a helmet and orange flight suit.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 21h

One could argue that as the most widely read genre, romance is most deserving of care and attention, a refusal to concede to bland extruded text from the Average Intelligence machine. The potential to reach the greatest number of readers with your art, with your intellect, can be through romance.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The men who take up so much space on my feeds/DMs have gone awful quiet in the wake of the Cornell 7 case reopening. Where is your fury if not here? What will move you to action if not this? If you're gonna insist "not all men," you better show us which man is not: www.threads.com/@adventure_e...

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They destroyed their cage Yes YES The snails are out

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Editing, and just ran into two dudes who 100% without a doubt absolutely committed petit larceny of a hog, c. 1910, but insist that they 100% without a doubt absolutely just "found his hogship on the road and drove it home." HIS HOGSHIP.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/09/2026

YES THANK YOU SIR I NEED THE REST OF THEM TO UNDERSTAND HOW HARD THIS ISN'T JESUS CHRIST

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reminder this is happening, and it's going to be rad!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026

In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban

“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The vapors! Gracious, the vapors!

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Found a post-it from an old novel outline that says, "Tolly finds grimoires. Reads them. Historian tendency. Also a nosy bitch." And another had drifted under my desk. All it says is, "Man, why you gotta." I am a deeply unserious person.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me: And now I submit my invoice and this university will pay me with a gd check like it's 1992. Brother: It's academia. You're lucky they're not paying you like it's 1882. They could be sending you horses.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My brother just yelled at my boss for making me work on Labor Day. It is me, I am my own boss, he yelled at me. But he also threw a handful of (wrapped) York Peppermint Patties at me, so

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yesterday, caught my youngest niece (2) flinging herself backwards up the stairs in some kind of inexorable, demon-possessed slither-crawl, stopping every so let out an unhinged laugh and bang her feet against the wall. And this is why I refer to my nieces as my Creepy Doll Army.

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚨 Washington state is a vote by mail state which means we may not even receive the ballots if the USPS follows this protocol. I've had a ballot disappear in the mail due to theft so I know you can print a new ballot & check to see if it was sent & again if received or accepted!

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VoteWA Voter Portal

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Turns out I feel like a witch when I do a canning project and my brother feels like a mad scientist. The true fantasy vs science fiction divide.

Nine clear glass quart jars filled with pickling ingredients: habaneros, garlic, dill fronds.

One glass quart jar filled with pickling cucumbers. They are green and bumpy , and sitting on top habaneros.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This shit is exactly why I was 41 years old before I had my first trans teacher. And I have done A LOT of school. No shade to the otherwise queer and allied teachers who did their best by me. Just saying, a trans dude in rural Illinois would have changed my life, and I want that for kids today.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

May whatever queer heaven Tim Curry went to provide him with a never-ending scenery buffet. May he know how many of us learned to raucously devour the world because of him.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tim curry's genius was in knowing full well how ridiculous a part was and giving it everything he had regardless, treating it as the most important character that had ever been written and in the process making it real

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I had four coaching appointments this week alone where the solution to the client's problem was simply, "you should write what you want to say, not what you imagine a reader wants to hear." Both academic and fiction clients. Just saying.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Mom: Did I ever tell you about the time I got treed by a skunk? I climbed up of my own volition, but it wouldn't let me back down. Me: Scary for a kid! Mom: Oh no, I was about 60.

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey: Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine for the lowest price out there! Part of Stillhouse Press's just-up sale on their speculative fiction titles, along with these other great books.

Graphic features five books that look like they'e hanging from a clothesline—Necronauts; Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine; Leafskin; Super Normal; and Finding Meaning in the Age of Immortality—against a blue sky with a tree and wispy clouds overhead. A combination of orange and white text reads: Stillhouse Press Speculative Fiction Sale; sale ends November 15th; all featured titles 20% off on stillhousepress.org.

Graphic features my book Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine (yellow cover, pink text, brown bunnies racing around the corners) against a background of blue sky with wispy clouds and a tree overhead. Included in a white text window is a snippet from David Lewis' review of the book in The Masters Review, which refers to it as "wonderfully weird."

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Super amped to do this again! I had such a blast last year, and can't wait to read more from wonderful queer stories. If you're nervous about submitting your work, feel free to comment below with questions and concerns. I don't want anyone to miss this opportunity if I can put your mind at ease. 💚

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yessssssssss so good Pro tip: Histories written before 1970 are basically just the "Personal Life" section of a Wiki page chucked into a blender with the author's undimmed psyche. See: E. P. Thompson's MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS where we find out he really hated his dad.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sometimes these two directives overlap for me, and I enjoy the act of elevating minds. But the majority of the time, I just want to hang out with my characters around a fire and listen to their charcoal-colored, cracked-open conversations. I also enjoy when they do sex and spells and sex spells.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/08/2026

When is it appropriate to call what we are witnessing attempts at Black scholasticide and the undermining and devaluing of Black intellectual labor?

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Couldn't think of the word "labs" or "blood work" and referred to them as "stats." Like, hold on, I think I leveled, I need to rearrange my skill tree and bank some HP and defense.

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Seleucid Dreamer @smollusk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the best part is most of the "wait, there might be reasonable exceptions" posts are about the human skin book

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My body and I survived the Lambda Literary Retreat, in large part because the online ecosystem was so gentle, affirming, conscientious, and deeply aware of the intersections between queerness/neurodivergence/chronic illness. So, I got to play. With zero shame, impatience, or judgment.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.

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Wordcraft Writers Workshop

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If anybody was excited that Science Fiction Weekly is aiming to "revive" Daily Science Fiction, you should know they are straight-up lying about having gotten permission from writers to republish DSF stories on their website. (Yes, I have sent a DCMA takedown notice.)

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Angelica Huston in Ever After: Catch a Chicken

Alt: Angelica Huston in Ever After: Catch a Chicken

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just described my WIP to someone as "cornmaxxing" only partially in jest

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not to brag but if I put on fresh lounge clothes it only takes me fifteen minutes tops before I spill something on them

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just saw Macbeth for the first time and you know what, it whips. Also all the shit the witches throw in their cauldron are euphemisms for plants, so probably he was just tripping balls during Prophecy 2.0. Fave character: Banquo at the feast, or Lady Macbeth yelling about Banquo at the feast.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is absolutely no reason for any trans person to give Democrats cover to abandon full trans equality on any issue, in any region, in any race, to even the tiniest iota.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Me, advising on research: You've definitely reached saturation, time to start writing Me, designing my research: Better find five new books on this fringe topic tangentially related to this entirely subtextual story beat

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I am heading out of office on July 24th, to rest and read and prep for the Lambda Retreat, and all my brain is saying right now as I try to wrap up is --romanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromanceromancerom--

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

The worst fictional character to entrust with the task of taking the ring to Mordor would have to be Sonic the Hedgehog

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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you would like to help indigenous communities in northern Ontario who have lost everything in the wild fires, you can donate with True North Aid. Miigwech. truenorthaid.ca

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Home - True North Aid | Canadian Charity Supporting Indigenous Communities

True North Aid provides practical humanitarian support to northern and remote Indigenous communities in Canada through community-led projects

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

khōréō is at $14,390 out of their $16500 goal with THREE DAYS left! Share! Donate and share! Let's get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Do others remember MapQuest eventually becoming a meme for its unreliability? Like "Take exit 148B. Turn right at the first light. There will be an oak tree. Ask the owl who lives there for a bag of mouse bones. Put them on your dash if you wish to survive the night."

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