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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Augur Issue 9.1 is AVAILABLE NOW! 🎉 Put on your reading socks and join us for… 💃 catharsis & courage through dance 🌿 nurturing humanity in environmental crisis 💗 love represented in intergenerational stories & so much more! + You can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! 🔗 buff.ly/bBotj6s 🧵

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hello friends~ if you're an @augursociety.bsky.social subscriber you can check out my short story "morning glories at dusk" in the latest issue! it's never too late to sub and support the amazing work that augur puts out 🫶

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my version of the dead wife trope is dead older brother

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our author @briewoodfiction.bsky.social issues an update on Lily Wachowski's ongoing plans to adapt her novel BANG BAND BODHISATTVA! Buy the book: geni.us/9UNzoEN reactormag.com/lilly-wachow...

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Lilly Wachowski Still Wants to Adapt Bang Bang Bodhisattva - Reactor

There is some good news on the Lilly Wachowski production front, though

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

went to go see 八仙/all wishes come true which was very fun & adequately gay and tbh the whole time i was like wow this is such a demonstration of the leaps and bounds that chinese animation has advanced to. and then also where is my sun wukong animated film!!!!!

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

have the week basically off from day job things (admin nonsense and stray obligations notwithstanding) and have decided i'm going to use the time to at least get a decent short story draft started 😤

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

late night musings about my ideal balance between day job & writing job. though lately, it's been more like multiple day jobs alongside multiple streams of creative projects i want to pursue, which is starting to become somewhat untenable. unsurprisingly lol

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this would be fucking sick, let's make it happen

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

really need to reread this series to revisit the fresh horrors (positive)

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3

Against a blue background, tiled book covers:

THREE EIGHT ONE and THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley
RAKESFALL and THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera
THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson
THE MOUNTAIN CROWN by Karin Lowachee
THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu
SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER by C. S. E. Cooney
THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed
THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN by Caspar Geon
METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 05/08/2026

JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

life has been substantially improved after getting into the pakistani uncle whatsapp circle for imported mangos this summer

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

why is it so hard to feel fulfilled in life

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i really do think that trad pub fanfiction is on the whole a bad idea—it's really a symptom of how the commercially oriented high profile sector of the industry does not see book publishing as a vehicle for tastemaking, and tbh i do think that negatively impacts us all

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

fans of If Found Return to Hell (i know you're out there) watch out for the latest @augursociety.bsky.social issue for a little more from the world of king death & world weary reapers

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Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now! @briewoodfiction.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans cyberpunk noir buddy comedy murder mystery. I think the hardcover is out of stock. Help me move some more volume so I can finish my sequel. bsky.app/profile/brie...

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It's Pride Month! Time for a compilation graphic of Solaris books to read for 🌈Pride, & to help you Read Queer All Year! #booksky Inc. Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror & Spec Fic with a queer main character and/or a strong element of queerness within the plot! Hop downthread to see who is featured 👇

A compilation graphic of Solaris Books to read for pride month and to read queer all year.

There's too many books for alt text to facilitate, but if you head downthread they will all be listed there with authors tagged!

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

genuinely YVR is the GOAT best airport in north america hands down

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

found out today that a significant portion of my coworkers think i am married?!? which is like not offensive per se but also: what the fuck lol

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

what beautiful news, adored this book so much and im so glad it's receiving the deserved accolades!

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Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I ducked into a bookstore and found something a little bit remarkable. Toward the end of the first section of a cyberpunk anthology, Isabel Fall's Helicopter Story is in physical print. Copyright 2023. I choose to believe she's out there somewhere, that she made it. I hope I'm right.

Starting on page 216, Isabel Fall's Helicopter Story is listed on the table of contents.

The first page of Helicopter Story, by Isabel Fall.

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

i love this book so bad one of the best fantasy novels of this decade

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moby dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 12/05/2026

Do buy WRATH GODDESS SING. It is imperative

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

i write scifi on a very technical level 😌

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

has anyone read sha po lang I Would Like To Talk About Sha Po Lang

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I read some words by Cory Doctorow when I was but a wee squatter girl writing bad zines: what an artist should fear isn't piracy. It's obscurity. Those words stuck with me and have served me well.

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

in kind of tremendous danger of becoming too important at my job lately...

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

i think my social circle is somewhat cosmically out of balance at the moment because it is mostly strava friends and not enough letterboxd friends

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Some awards eligibility periods are closing soon! 👀 Please check out "As The Earth Dreams" for your anthology considerations! 💜🩵🖤 Filled with beautiful and haunting stories of ancestry, memory, labor, freedom, and more, this is the first Black Canadian SFF anthology, and hopefully not the last.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/03/2026

One day I'll remember how to post a newsletter at a time when people read their email but in my defence I am on a ship in the Pacific ocean & time is, among other things, a social construct from which I have been abstracted for the foreseeable future ANYWAY MY NEW BOOK IS OUT TODAY

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Seasons of Glass and Iron Release Day!

Dear Friends, It's here! Today's the day! Seasons of Glass and Iron is available wherever you get your books! In the normal order of things I should be where my book is – in a shop signing stock, or...

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

CLUB CONTANGO is sold out at Kinokuniya!😭 Get it at the usual platforms, @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social and more. Or the audiobook, narrated by @valory.bsky.social 🎲🌠 Watch out for THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANIZING MANUAL '27 via @starsandsabers.bsky.social

Sticky, an 8 year old holding OTHER MINDS by Boey (not CLUB CONTANGO, but the next best thing), at Kinokuniya bookstore Singapore.

Valory (not Boey), in a burgundy blmber jacket, holds a paperback copy of CLUB CONTANGO at a table surrounded by youtiao, century egg porridge, and soy milk. Photo by Valory

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

i have given into the impulse (bought tickets for kyuhyun death note musical 😪) so for the next 4 weeks i need to marathon all of death note in order to be maximally insane about this series and reap the maximum emotional catharsis of my decisions

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Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now! @briewoodfiction.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

instead of buying me a pizza just get my book honestly

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

took an uber to work today because it is raining buckets and i am mildly ill and when i got in, the driver's phone chimed like "DESTINATION: CANCER CENTRE" and he very audibly Startled and i said, "don't worry i'm going to work" and he was like Oh Thank God

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

necessary read & eternally timely unfortunately—what strikes me is how often writers are stuck with that feeling of "was that racist or....?" when dealing with an industry that we're always told is deeply subjective. in my experience usually the answer is yes! lmao

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

sometimes a really specific brand of crazy hits you (a guy you like a lot stars in a musical you have wanted to see for years) and you find yourself feverishly googling round trip flights to seoul

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tpwrtrmnky. @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Going to re-up our call to nominate On Spec for Best Semiprozine at the Hugos With Canadian identity under attack by USA-based alt-right political forces, it's an important moment to celebrate things that are weirdly Canadian This is also their last year of eligibility. Throw them a vote, please.

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

so fucking hyped for this can barely put it into words

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

we out here.

Author of THE MARIGOLD and coauthor of THE HANDYMAN METHOD Andrew F. Sullivan's EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD, pitched as Nosferatu meets Succession and drawing on Irish folklore, about territorial, supernatural beings desperate to thrive in the modern world and the ramshackle attempt to halt their domination, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid (world English)

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

gorgeous gorgeous cover :')) if you're a fan of august clarke this should be on your radar already and if you're not then you really should be!!

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

for hopeful new year vibes you might like my novella ft. family dumpling scene (you might like the other one if your energy moving into this new year is closer to unhinged)

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

it's reposting this cover of the villain song from the death note musical & think about toxic femme lesbian light yagami o'clock www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66o...

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[복면가왕] '희로애락도 락이다'의 가왕 방어전 무대 - Death Note, MBC 240218 방송

YouTube video by MBCentertainment

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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Everyone else is doing their awards nomination posts, so I guess I should do mine before I forget what I even wrote this year... 😅 Poetry has been a big deal for me, so considering any of my @seattlein2025.org poems for a Rhysling, or Con-Verse for a Best Related Work Hugo, would rock my world!

Verse Brandon O'Brien Wrote in 2025:

- monster hunter as underwriter (Seattle Worldcon Program Book)
- Jah Files for Asylum in the Caribbean Sea (Seattle Worldcon Program Book)
- "its hour come round at last..." (Seattle Worldcon Program Book)
- Landing: Seattle (Seattle Worldcon Opening Ceremonies Poem)
- "We're gathered here on this momentous eve..." (2025 Hugo Awards Best Poem Presentation)

Essays Brandon O'Brien Made in 2025:

- Con-Verse (Seattle Worldcon Blog)
- Better Earnestness Through Incantation: Speculative Poetry and Sincerity (Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Five)

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

who wants to talk about this movie with me

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