iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1h

[pokes self] Looks that way.

000

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 5h

I can't blame anyone. I have actively been a nosy bastard.

120

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 5h

Worst. Starship Troopers Fanfic. Ever.

000

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 6h

... These people would probably tell you, "You know what you can use to make bleach?"

240

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 6h

Follow-up question: No, what the actual fuck?

260

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 11h

Do you think JCO was just sitting at home and thought, "Man, I've not pissed off the internet in MONTHS. I need a hot take that'll really get them mad at me."

3476

Reposted by Marshall Ryan Maresca

Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Burn September down to embers with Story Hour! This week, favorites Meg Elison and Jordan Kurella return. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! www.storyhour2020.com

Color photo of author Meg Elison, a fat and fair-skinned woman with high cheekbones. She wears her curly black hair in a short bob. She wears a red-and-white colorblock dress, a key hanging from a chain around her neck, and red lipstick. She poses in front of a neutral gray background, tilting one shoulder up as she looks straight into the camera with a knowing smile.

Color photo of author Jordan Kurella, a fair-skinned man with dark, curly hair worn in a short pompadour. He wears a black tee, faded black jeans, a black belt with a silver buckle, and black earrings. With his hands in his pockets, he poses in front of greenery and looks to the side, off camera, with a big, delighted smile.

23111

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 12h

Meanwhile that small bit of her psyche that is still who she always was is SCREAMING. But she really does not remember. Even though the voices in her head are calling.

100

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 12h

In 1982 we were told a story of a woman who sought vengeance against those who wronged her, and did so by creating a false identity so complete she forgot herself, got in so deep that she hadn't even realized she'd been made, that her enemies had her number, had the alias she'd been living under.

100

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 14h

I imagine it's like watching a Hallmark movie where the end is suddenly just hardcore porn.

120

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 30/09/2026

There was a summer when I was a kid where this and LOST IN SPACE were back to back in syndication every morning, and I was OBSESSED.

020

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 30/09/2026

LAND OF THE GIANTS, in which a standard suborbital flight (as, you know, we had in 1983) goes through a dimensional barrier and crashes on a planet where everything is twelve times bigger, and the crew and passengers struggle to survive.

Still frame from the credits of LAND OF THE GIANTS, with the title looming large, as if cut from stone, with a giant figure in shadow.

6332

Reposted by Marshall Ryan Maresca

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/09/2026

ALSO is it that time of year again?? Is the air getting crisp?? Are ghosts beginning to whisper from the dark corner behind the bookshelf?? ("Actually we're roasting" OK I can't help where you live, ignore the above) Time to read THE APPLE-TREE THRONE! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

kobo.com

The Apple-Tree Throne ebook by Premee Mohamed - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Apple-Tree Throne" by Premee Mohamed available from Rakuten Kobo. It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the st...

414961

Reposted by Marshall Ryan Maresca

Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

1819994

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 29/09/2026

Like, in a queernormative world, I feel, no one "comes out" as any particular orientation, because there's no societal need to define or label any sexuality, because there's no boxes, just personal attraction.

140

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 29/09/2026

There's a few levels to it, but I see it as a world where it's not merely "not met with bigotry", but is a societal norm. Which can be a fuzzy line to define, of course.

130

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 29/09/2026

I suspect there's an entire tea party coming soon.

140

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 29/09/2026

I got one of those AI-written "do you want to be featured in our reading group?" scam emails, but this one was amusing because it was nominally about my standalone dieselpunk novel, but it's clear the AI mixed up the details with the Maradaine series so the whole thing is extra messy AI slop.

060

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 29/09/2026

Gary stop sucking so much and girls might like you

010

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 28/09/2026

The wild thing about that spam is... I can't believe it's worth the trouble. Who gets that call and is all, "Yes, I do in fact want that?" Even at volume, I can't believe it pays off for anyone.

110

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 28/09/2026

So she lived with my old roommate. 😆

110

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 28/09/2026

This is disrespectful to both piñatas and spiders.

140

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 28/09/2026

There's a reason songs like "Goodbye Earl" and "Before He Cheats" were ones chosen at the @armadillocon.bsky.social karaoke night.

020

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 28/09/2026

Like, Dasha's "Austin" is a country song with a similar theme (where she realizes her man doesn't want to leave Texas with her, and thus excoriates him), but is a far more interesting song. And Dasha doesn't whine, she's all, "Fuck you, then, stay, have a shitty life."

150

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 28/09/2026

I have jumped on the grenade and listened to the song. It's honestly a whiny song (with a whinier video) in which the Tennessee singer goes to Lubbock with her man (who grew up there) and realizes he's gonna leave her for his ex who's still there. He's gonna "choose Texas". Don't recommend.

140

Reposted by Marshall Ryan Maresca

Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Writer friends: What are the best way to promote your newly launched book from a traditional publisher at various cons? A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE comes out on April 6, 2027. I'd like to hit as many cons as I can. +

43812

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

The podcast gets a number of "have me/this author on your show" pitches that are clearly AI written, and, man, there's no faster way to get yourself sent to the Oubliette Of Never Being On The Show than that.

1130

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

The sea will have an edit letter for you.

030

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

I remember someone saying that every reunion after 20th is just the "check in to see who's still breathing".

020

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

"If I can give up my health insurance, you can watch a different TV show." Hell yes.

051

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

I LOVE THE MURDERBONER BLUEBALLS PROLOGUE SO MUCH

110

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

Oh, yeah, I went the "film school but then don't work film" route instead.

110

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

Is there a "putter around in various jobs until you have a nervous breakdown at 34 about what you're doing with your life" version?

240

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

I've LIVED in Texas for 30 years and this post is literally the first I've heard of it.

010

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

I was told we don't kinkshame.

110

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

Does a mop head or broom bristles count as "wig"?

120

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

BUT STINA what if I also but googly-eyes on a device in my house. Then it's DEFINITELY a Person.

130

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 27/09/2026

I clicked on this LITERALLY to talk about Widow's Bay set dressing.

030

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 26/09/2026

Here's me reading the first chapter from what I've been calling my "generational trauma fantasy" that I've been writing with @liveinspanish.bsky.social (psst, that's my wife), and folks seemed to like it, so, hey, we might have something here.

1101

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 26/09/2026

I really was, I don't know why my face is doing that.

020

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 26/09/2026

I gotta work on looking SO SERIOUS in photos.

120

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 26/09/2026

I once got rejected at an interview because “it’s clear you have a lot of ambition and we’d need to replace you in six months.”

4344

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 26/09/2026

Are you playing your namesake to Shaun's Conan?

010

Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 26/09/2026

Ok, now thinking back to our G&T, I know there were seven of us in that cohort, but I cannot remember for the life of me who the seventh person was. Even gender is just NOPE.

020