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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/06/2025

I'm still using Wordpress (the free .org platform, not the paid .com hosting). Hosted on a shared hosting site for ~$5/mth. Endless free templates out there. Secure/private w/ the right free plug-ins. Coding isn't really needed, but I would say there's a learning curve & some tech know-how required.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 21/05/2025

I have sat inside this sadness all day. RIP Alice Notley. She was one of the greatest American poets.

SHOW YOU HIS FACE YOUNG
Alice Notley

treat everyone else as if they were also
pieces of the earth projections of the
earth, he said.
all this decay of bodies, this putri-
faction? not so bad, he said.
what does the earth want me to sing
to it?
‘i love you.’ he said.

my child come this way
my child come this way
you will take home with you a good country
says the father
ghost dance song.

i dreamed my own father was young,
drinking and young. such a longing to see him Mara i say

in a church basement i say
i’m in jeans and a soft man shirt, it’s an amateur sing
all the men there will sing, will i
the seat i sit down in i see belongs
to someone who will sing from Songs of the Republic
for the book is in front of me
i must find a seat where there is no book no Republic
no named song.

show you my father’s face young
but you can’t see it because
it’s inside me
or can you see it
can you see?

if they could see inside you his young self. and he is dead,
in the uncorrupting earth,
Gaza Strip determined to resist,
having set booby traps mines and roadside
bombs Mira says, so that
“This crime was carried out
by scum who hold nothing sacred,”
Putin said after the deadliest
terror attack in Russia since

and all such attacks can be linked
and then we can kill them all,
all the Muslims we care to, in this corroborating war
which makes whatever we say
the truth of it, Mira says

Keep his mouth
away from me
whose? the mouth of male leader
keep it away

pull it away tear it away. a new
ghost dance song
i am singing Cosette says for i am new

Why am i here? i ask
the man in the black headband
Because you remember everything
and know that the earth is uncorrupting

Has gallant hair and master dust
who
the dead in mind
i’d show you my father in my mind

i love you earth, for you have allowed me my mind
for you have allowed me my form
which exists in my mind,
yours and mine
you are more than and more than by being only

i am the people of the sacred bird and the ghost shirt
soft plaid shirt

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 07/04/2025

Yeah, it's often this ambivalent feeling for me about not caring about prestige, but at the same time acknowledging that I'm writing short fiction at a much slower rate & wanting to be judicious RE: where my stories are appearing. At this point, I just want to reach as many readers as possible.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 24/03/2025

Have you ever read Diane Wynne Jones? Chrestomanci and the Dalemark Quartet series were my faves.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/03/2025

An anti-fascist hacker momentarily took over, reportedly.

A screenshot of a hacker claiming to have hacked Twitter/X in the name of anti-fascism.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/03/2025

The vulnerability is less the green card designation and more so that he's Palestinian and anti-Zionist. Plenty of people will look away and make accusations of Hamas support as a means to support ICE, including Democratic leaders. That's why Khalil was targeted.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 09/03/2025

Yes! It also makes me genuinely sad b/c I keep witnessing anti-intellectual bullying & antipathy toward those trying to practice media analysis—or trying to fill in the gaps w/ their own imaginations. I'm afraid the cult of the puzzle-box & the cult of endless exposition has won.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 05/03/2025

It makes me so sad. I just wish they would let her rest in peace. 😢

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 01/03/2025

Me, once again thwarting my cat's prison break attempts.

Mr. Milchick, a character from Severance, standing in a doorway and blocking it with his body.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 01/03/2025

I just started Common Side Effects today & I'm loving it so far. It does feel like something that could have come out of Liquid Television.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 28/02/2025

I have to confess that the phonetic transcriptions in the dictionary mean nothing to me. They are full of incomprehensible runes. Pronunciation guides to unknown incantations. As soon as I see a schwa my mind is yeeted into the astral plane.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 26/02/2025

omg tomorrow when the farm boys slay the house down boots

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 21/02/2025

My non-joke answer would be youth/father/sage. Thought process: the youth & maiden couple in "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." I considered "elder" for the final part, but I think "sage" works better b/c like "crone" it can carry supernatural connotations, i.e., age brings forbidden knowledge.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 19/02/2025

I have new letter out about the enshittification of social media, the pleasure of following your shiny magpie creative interests, and the pressure to create an author presence on all these online platforms which continue to decay and degrade around us. jdscott.substack.com/p/in-the-age...

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In the Age of Enshittification

a few thoughts on decay & growth

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 12/02/2025

You're a noble Candles $3,600 in a sea of Everyone Dies One Day Even Wolves.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 09/02/2025

I have a newsletter out today about my PhD studies & searching for trans fiction-writer ancestors in the 20th c. The letter mentions about ten trans novelists publishing in the last century—some you may not have ever heard of! jdscott.substack.com/p/trans-fict... 🌈🚀💫 🌈🎓 #queerwriters #queerAdultSFF

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Trans Fiction Writers in the 20th Century

and the Self-Determination of Trans People in the 21st Century

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 09/02/2025

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Trans Fiction Writers in the 20th Century

and the Self-Determination of Trans People in the 21st Century

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 06/02/2025

If Warnock is so concerned with Project 2025, perhaps him & Ossoff should not be aiding it by voting for bills like the Laken Riley Act, which will inevitably be used to jail immigrants w/o due process & give far-reaching authority to punish a group that's already racially profiled & over-policed.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 06/02/2025

💯%! I actually gasped when I saw the announcement. I hope she comes back to haunt the hell out of whoever made this decision.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 04/02/2025

Hey queer scholars, writers, & readers on the 🦋 site: I'm looking for recs for pre-21st century novels by trans writers (particularly I'm looking for post-WWII up to 1999). I'd also love recs for 20th century novels by queer writers that depict non-cis characters. Thank you! 🌈🎓 🌈🚀💫 #queerwriters

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 30/12/2024

I can't say enough good things about this novel (published in 1991) & how poignantly ahead of its time it was in terms of discussing race, US history, violence, sexuality... all through the model of the vampire. Go out & buy yourself a copy of the Gilda Stories immediately if you've never read it.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 27/11/2024

"100 Notable Books of the Unread Stack on My Nightstand I Feel Silently Judged By"

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 19/11/2024

Using AI to generate creative writing is stealing valor from all of us with unhappy childhoods.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 17/11/2024

Yesss. Same. It never lost my interest for a second. Also one of my favorites of the year.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 16/11/2024

One of my favorite parts of having multiple cats is when they form a battalion to escort you to the bathroom like tiny eunuch swordsmen ready to fight to the death for your honor.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 15/11/2024

Hi I'm a queer writer who has published two books, and I'd love to be added 🌈👋🏻

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 15/11/2024

I would love to join the SFF one, thank you 🙏🏻

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 14/11/2024

I re-read GR beside the Talented Mr. Ripley at the beginning of this year & found so many ways both books spoke to each other + nods to The Ambassadors by Henry James... Re: structure.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/11/2024

You didn't have to make my financial illiteracy & emotional dysregulation sound so punk.

A news headline that reads 'People Are ‘Doom Spending’ to Deal With the State of the World'

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/11/2024

I'd love to be included in the poets starter pack if you're still adding new people 🙏🏻

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 10/11/2024

I would love to be added to the Queer Horror writers starter pack if you're still adding folks — thank you ! 🙏🏻

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 09/11/2024

Thank you for organizing! Tags for Literary, Upmarket, & Magical Realism might be good genre additions as well.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 09/11/2024

Another book I'm unfamiliar with—thank you for the rec. PS: I was looking for a book on my anthology shelf this morning & found a queer/magical one you edited! How serendipitous.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 08/11/2024

I had no idea! I've only read ROOM. Thanks for this recommendation. This sounds like it would be a great text to be in conversation with Carter's THE BLOODY CHAMBER (which *is* on my tertiary list—which is global 🙌).

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 03/11/2024

Ah, thank you for sharing! I'm somewhat on a "queer studies" island in my English program, so it's refreshing to see someone else's list & find some overlaps. I also know what you mean RE: odd text assortment. My tertiary list is focused on fairy tales & postmodernism, so my lists appear sundry. 🌈🎓

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 02/11/2024

I did the same thing w/ the booster! I'm on a MWF teaching schedule this term & since we have Election Day off, all the T classes are being pushed back to W with the make-up day replacing normal W classes, meaning I get W off too. 😎

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 02/11/2024

I'm preparing to (finally) take my comprehensive exams (comps) in the spring w/ my primary list focused on "Post-WWII Queer, Transgressive Novels in the U.S." I'm still working on my theory/criticism list—so I'm open to recs of all sorts if any queer academics (🌈🎓) or #queerwriters have suggestions!

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 01/11/2024

If anyone is looking for alternatives to NaNoWriMo or other means to track your word count & cheer ppl on this month—I compiled about twenty different resources for novel-writing in November (including some Bsky hashtags: #NoAIWriMo + #NovNov + #FirstDraftFall): jdscott.substack.com/p/nanowrimo-...

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NaNoWriMo Alternatives

writing goal trackers, subreddits, discords, oh my!

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 07/10/2024

It looks like I'm late to the whole Starter Pack trend! Would there be any way to still join #3? Thank you!

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 07/10/2024

If Providence, RI counts as "Greater Boston," I'd love to be added!

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 07/10/2024

I own the full set of the version on the right! They're among the very favorite books I own.

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JD Scott @jdscott.com · 07/10/2024

I have all three of the version on the right from the original trilogy. They're very dear to me because I found them at three different used book stores/thrift shops!

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