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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 15/09/2026

The autistic experience of scrolling back through your photos: every now and then, a photo that is fully and entirely just a texture you liked

A close up photo of some tree bark with lichen. That's it. That's the whole frame.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 13/09/2026

The Death of Robin Hood is not a great film, I don't think, and could reductively be described as "Geralt and Merida star in The Northman", but it is kind of haunting me nonetheless. It has that same hypnotic, dreamy pacing as The Northman, or The Green Knight, and the soundtrack is stunning.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/09/2026

oh man, had gotten all excited about Audacity 4 and how pretty it was, only to discover play-at-speed isn't implemented yet. Like I have the patience to edit at 1x!

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 06/09/2026

One of the inherent contradictions at the heart of my current existence is that I abhor the reductive stereotype of ADHD as just shouting "Squirrel!" mid-sentence whilst also interrupting whatever I'm doing to shout "Squirrel!" if I spot one

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Kohala @kohala.life · 21/05/2026

@meactnet.bsky.social A must-listen story from @podcastle.org as well as @mattdovey.com’s delicious rant at the end! podcastle.org Episode 944, Mail Order Magic. Thanks to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, author!

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PodCastle - The Fantasy Fiction Podcast

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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...

poster with the words “revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”, “fantasy”, “3500 words”, “history from the bottom-up, emperors get decapitated, but we keep farming rice” “@thelialao”

on the left side are picture of rice paddies and on the right side are two men wearing hanfu

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 24/05/2026

Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 09/04/2026

I just read Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E.M. Faulds for the first time and fuck does it hit home about disability and mental health and wanting to tear the system down. Excellent writing and a well deserved win!

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/04/2026

Had a dream about a dream about my late father-in-law last night, wherein his spirit visited to tell me where to find some things in the attic, and it all feels weirdly meaningful given that neither he nor the meta dream have ever figured for me before. Weirdly discombobulated as a result.

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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I want everyone to understand just how much terfdom and the gc movement is a man’s rights movement

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Tony Wolf @tonywolfness.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Alan Moore on now.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

The cover for the original volume of Thyme Travellers.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 01/04/2026

Duolingo has many flaws, I'm sure, but it sure does know its audience when it teaches you "I want to quit" as the first sentence in a module on discussing work

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.” Sex testing in sport harms women.

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Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth

Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 05/01/2026

I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily

A sheet of paper stuck up by a hotel stairwell. It reads: "Please use Room 101 as a toilet, upstairs first room on the left. Thank you"

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

what a story to go out on!! we are so grateful to all of you for reading for sending in your stories and poems and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 27/12/2025

I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 21/12/2025

Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.

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Jessie Roy @jessieroywrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 02/12/2025

Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 21/11/2025

1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999. * the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers

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Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office

Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...

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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 23/11/2025

If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post. It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial. I won't make any further comment here.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 20/11/2025

Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.

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Diana Dima @dianadima.com · 19/11/2025

New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...

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PodCastle 918: Waterways - PodCastle

Waterways by Diana Dima When his father died and left him the boat, he thought to himself, I can do it. I’m a boat-son, a boat-man, I’m no longer a child and no longer have to go home at sunset, w...

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 08/11/2025

Lovely wife got some fresh baked mince pies from the bakery and they're... just a lid? What am I meant to do, eat it in the fucking foil? Mind-blowing

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site

This zine was not created by AI. It took me a year to write, from early 2023 to early 2024. I spent several more months agonizing over edits, desperately rephrasing sentences out of coherence and back again. Even with all of that work, it isn't perfect. It will never be perfect. I will never be perfect. Imperfect people will read it and I love that for us.

This zine was not created by AI. I wrote it and rewrote it during a really hard time in my life. Many times, it seemed like I'd turned 40 and had been unceremoniously dropped back to Square One by life. I couldn't see how I could make anything work. So, I made a zine.

This zine was not created by AI. Every time I almost gave up, I worked through it instead. By the time it was finished, it felt like a small epiphany for how I wanted to make art going forward.

This zine was not created by AI. Finishing it was a gift I gave myself when I felt devalued and defeated. It's a love letter to myself, horror movies, and I guess to all of us.

This zine was not created by AI. It was created by me.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 31/10/2025

Currently sat with a pint at the back of the main hall, just off the bar area on upper ground, if anyone is about?

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 30/10/2025

Ah, pre-con social anxiety, my least favourite part of the weekend. Knowing it will be fine in three hours is no use right now, alas. Stupid brain. Probably be registered for World Fantasy and inside around an hour from now, so maybe see some of you about?

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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/10/2025

"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve

patrick cosmos' now international theory of "everyone is twelve now"

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 @gremlin.world · 05/10/2025

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

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Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno · 14/10/2025

Congratulations to @podcastle.org for winning an Ignyte Award! 👏 What a beautiful happenstance that my new narration is up there today - 'Vedritsa of the River' by @catchingwords.bsky.social is a sapphic Rusalka story with cli-fi elements, and I was deeply honoured to work on it. Give it a listen!

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PodCastle 913: Vedritsa of the River - PodCastle

Vedritsa of the River by Adriana Kantcheva The Kamchia river had grown turgid after a storm. I surfaced from my habitual pool and bent over the young girl as she lay washed on the bank, her limbs co...

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 14/10/2025

They're trying to sell us AI as the future, meanwhile I ask my phone out loud to "set an alarm for ten to four" and it goes ahead and puts one in for 16:50 💀 Did that fine for a decade on the old Google Assistant, so I guess congrats on burning the world up for the sake of a worse product, berks

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 14/10/2025

Has just occurred to me that the Social Model of Disability is basically the Double Empathy Problem writ large on a societal scale. Just meet people halfway, in communication and in environments & opportunities.

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 13/10/2025

Another day, another form rejection from Uncanny. 21 in a row! I'm on a streak! (c'est la vie, I suspect I don't write their kind of fiction, and that's fine, but doesn't mean I'm going to stop sending stuff in: it's their job to reject me, and not my place to do that job for them)

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 13/10/2025

It's a small thing, but I really appreciate @theignyteawards.bsky.social's use of "Outstanding" in the awards names. Not "best", not an implied ranking that sets us all in competition with a false authority of objective worth, but instead a recognition of who is doing work that deserves recognition.

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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Aaaaahhhhhhh this is such an honour!! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! 😭🎉🎉🎉😭

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 12/10/2025

OH SHIT YOU GUYS 😭😭😭

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Submissions are open until 15 October!

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Matt Dovey @mattdovey.com · 01/10/2025

Gosh, what a coincidence that the car I was looking to buy has suddenly gone up £400 as soon as I booked a test drive for it 🤔🤔🤔

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Brian McNett @bmcnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

UK peeps! Someone You Can Build A Nest In is a UK Kindle Deal for just 99p! Dark cozy fantasy by @wiswell.bsky.social.

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 01/10/2025

IMO every publication and every publisher should have a clear statement about their generative AI policy. To dictate what is acceptable writer usage, yes, but also to declare their own usage (or lack thereof). Do they use it for slushreading, editing, illustration, correspondence?

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

She who steals the leaves from the trees

A horse skulled lady in a cloak of triangular sectional with floral and leaf pattern with a crown of antlers with leaves forming a halo

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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