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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

once again smacked in the face by the proof that exercising instantly makes me feel better lol

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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em x. liu | 雯雯 @emdashliu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it is now sufficiently autumnal for me to pull all my favourite jackets back out of the closet 😌

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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

those familiar with If Found Return to Hell might see a familiar face in this short story 👀

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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

the spectre of the man he was as the man you want to be.... and yet also your yearning actively distorting his personhood... tfw he is a martyr and you were too young to see how he was foolish!

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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...

reactormag.com

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

i simply think the world needs a top grossing bajillion dollar animated film about my goat (the monkey king)

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

they played this little riff that was a variation off the theme song of the animated series when they teased a sun wukong fight scene that lit up my entire brain!!!! journey to the west cartoon was literally my whole childhood

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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

all this is to say that sometimes you need to rejig your whole process because other areas of your life demand more of your psyche than previously used to, a lesson i am sure i will take in now and then promptly forget the next time things get hard

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

and so i could do my gremlin 3am typing & emerge victorious by sacrificing only a bit of sleep and alertness the next day. something i can't do as easily for reasons of age and also way more responsibility in my day to day than in my student days

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

in any case, i think what would be helpful ultimately is actually making more of a concentrated effort to carve out specific writing time, which is something i honestly haven't had to do as much in the past, when my other obligations were way more loosey goosey

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

of course i dont want the fuel of my writing life to directly equate to what is literally being published & recognized—but i mean, i have also always believed that art is created through witnessing it, so it still is important to me that my work finds its audience

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

perhaps in part because of some fairly decent career gains in the day job field recently vs. having some downtime in terms of actual work slated to see the light of day

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

have also always deeply believed that 'i have no time' is a copout & the more accurate phrase is 'i have not been prioritizing this'—and so: it feels like im prioritizing writing time less lately. which, on one hand, im between bigger projects right now. on the other, idk, something still feels off

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

have always been a person who needs multiple things going on to have any hope of any of it being properly realized, but ive always strived to have some degree of balance in that, & i think part of what is throwing me off lately is that i find myself making less time for creative work than i used to

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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 · 28/08/2026

that would be so amazing, rooting for this project to pull through 😤

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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

stuck in waiting mode for various things and feeling creatively restless aka the worst feeling i need to read something stimulating and have ideas in a public forum again 😤

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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

in any case i think the openly derivative stuff is just in poor taste, especially in this era when i think we should all be protecting artistic integrity as writers lol

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

obviously excellent boundary pushing literature exists across the board from within genre and lit fic, but i do think it does matter what kind of stuff is given big splashy deals, and i think the glaze of slop affects us all when it comes to like the cultural impact of Books as a concept

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

this is when things get fun 😈🐍

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

this is genuinely incredible :'))) i love this book so much

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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR 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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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 12/05/2026

Do buy WRATH GODDESS SING. It is imperative

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