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Started noodling on something that can best be summed up as ”harried customer service in space”. I have to use my years of getting yelled at over the phone for something. (I can do two things: fiction and customer service. I don’t want to go back to customer service ever)

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Someday! I was once asked why I never write sexy stuff but it just hasn’t been a thing. Maybe smutty space opera is what was waiting for me all along.

Clearly, I need to write more space smut

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Exactly. How are you going to credibly raise someone’s chin with the tip of your meteorite-forged nano rapier if they’re not kåträdd?

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Yes, definitely, into it. Terrifying, brooding, hot. It induces the reaction that we in Swedish would call ”kåträdd”, horny and scared at the same time.

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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am VERY in favor of impractically high, wide and stiff necklines that go up to your chin, like a turtleneck but make it architectural. Like if you’re the prince of a smuggling empire and also use magic, you might favor that. Asymmetrical boatneck is verrrry good though.

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I’m so happy to share my SF horror flash, ‘The Worldbuilder,’ published today in @lightspeedmagazine.com! The story is an homage to Joanna Russ’ ‘We Who are About To…’, enfolding the morbid xenophilic curiosity of ‘Alien’ (hi, welcome to my work 😈) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Lightspeed magazine cover: a humanoid holding a scythe streaks across a desert

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I did make it in the end. But it took wrath and grit and pushing past endless ”career is over” moments. I still have those because I’m a very slow writer and because I’m human. Moral of the story: keep pushing. Maybe your career isn’t over. Maybe it begins now. You can’t know until after.

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Before that, no one wanted to buy my poetry collection that I had carefully put together from dream notes. Again, career over before it had even started. Nope. ->

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Before that, I thought my career was over before it even started because my first collection (Swedish) fizzled out when the publisher disappeared without a trace along with the book. At Clarion, Jeff Vandermeer said ”in a while, it’s just going to be a blip in your history.” He was right. ->

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I was asked yesterday about copies of Amatka in Swedish. Flashback to when I dragged home 100 remainder copies of the book while the rest was pulped because it didn’t sell. Thought my career was over before it even started. Reader, it wasn’t. I got angry instead and translated it. Cont’d ->

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Försnacket gick ut på att jag vet lite för mycket om proteinpulver och att Paloma har bra intel om skidskyttedrama.

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Jag var i Skellefteå och hängde på Hubben och gafflade med Paloma Halén Roman från Transammans. Det var astrevligt och de lokala queersen var hur gulliga som helst. Ämnen: medelålders queerhet, att skriva världen man vill kämpa för. Att vi lever i en guldålder för queer fantastik. För det gör vi.

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Du får bara säga något om du håller med! Annars får du skrika din kritik i en burk och gräva ner den. Tänk på min ömtåliga själ.

Det är väldigt mycket böcker som makuleras för att de inte säljer jättemycket jättefort. Hård värld!

Jag svarade @nollbok.bsky.social som skickade upp nödraketen: har inga att göra mig av med men tycker själv bättre om den engelska (som jag översatte och bearbetade själv). F ö är Amatka orsaken till att jag bytte språk. Den sålde så dåligt att upplagan makulerades. Jag blev vred.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Jag har bara två ex kvar, båda jobbex som jag har klottrat i (de kan säkert auktioneras ut efter min död). MEN jag vill poängtera att jag översatte den engelska utgåvan själv + skrev om den så att den blev en bättre bok.

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And the first album I’m spending time with in 2026 is the new one from Florence + the Machine. To be frank I would also like to become a giant squid and howl at the stars. I’m sure some of you would join.

K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The final album I spent time with in 2025 was Massive Scar Era’s Assyad. I discovered it through The Devil You Know podcast’s extra episode ”Arab Spring, Satanic Summer”, an interview w founder Cherine Amr. I keep finding new things in it with each listen.

massivescarera.bandcamp.com

ASSYAD, by Massive Scar Era

7 track album

K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Oh lovely! Thank you. I only had This Lush Garden Within as a teenager, before the Internet, when finding a strange and beautiful record was like discovering treasure.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Found my old cd player and am digitizing some hard to find stuff. Albums and EPs by Black Tape For a Blue Girl, Curve, The Tea Party, The Creatures, and last but not least the iconic Gothic Rock anthology from 1992. The 90s were great for goth. The 90s were harsh on my eyebrows.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It was such a joy to blurb (although you made me cry)

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Yay! Let’s talk about it when we’re done.

One poetry collection and enough short stories to fill a couple of books. So a myriad of small trunks rather than a few big ones, continuously during my career.

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Like Hval, I grew up as a girl in the Scandinavian 90s. I was also into metal, but girls couldn’t be trve kvlt. (I turned to goth, where girls could be witches) I didn’t have to deal with oppressive Christianity, but much of the rest is familiar.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Reading Å hate Gud/Girls against God by Jenny Hval. I only knew Hval as a musician, now I know her as a witch of words. She does not mince them. Hate: a powerful tool in the hands of girls. Girls: ridiculed, minimized, taught they are worth nothing except perhaps what their bodies can deliver.

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I’ve promised myself to write something here about aliens and faeries through the perspectives of writers like John Keel and Patrick Harpur, and I hopefully will, because it’s incredibly interesting and haunts me. Probably essay material, but who has the energy to write essays?

Skellefteå! Den 10/2 har jag äran att gaffla med Paloma Halén Roman från Transammans. Vi kommer sitta i Hubben, kom dit och häng. skellefteapride.se

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Thank YOU for letting me read!

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I blurbed this because it was so good it made me cry. If you’d like a fresh queer take on zombies, this is the one to read. But be warned: it has teeth.

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In mine too! I’ll be looking up more of your work.

K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Today’s short read was ”How To Build A Homecoming Queen: A Guide By A Bad Asian Girl” by @tinazhu.bsky.social. I love the feeling of realizing halfway through the story that I got sucked into something deeply weird and didn’t realize, because it’s so elegantly done and multilayered. Great stuff.

lightspeedmagazine.com

How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl - Lightspeed Magazine

We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement. Her mom was one of those chill Asian moms who liked having an artsy-fartsy daughter she could brag about at Bible study. She was already pushing ...

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

cover for an ebook titled BY YOU, HOPE STANDS; it shows two wolves (one golden, one black) howling underneath an arch with the phases of the moon above, and a starry sky in the background; the text is white with the subtitle "stories of hope and resistance"

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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger. Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Oh and I will mix Swedish and English depending on the subject.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Did you start following me while I was away? Not sure what to expect? Hi, I’m a Swedish non-binary author of speculative fiction and I need a nap. I don’t like social media much but I can’t always be a digital hermit. I have opinions. I think about social justice and writing and music. And dogs.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It’s been a year since I left Bluesky, so coming back feels appropriate. I did some stuff, wrote some things, built a birdhouse. I don’t know how frequently I’ll be posting here but I guess we’ll find out.

K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I was part of an effort to expose one such genius. It fell through because people were afraid to talk about it in public. Because of the possible consequences. It sucks to see that person idolized. But here we are.