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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm getting ready to chat with @marissalevien.bsky.social and her writing class at Stony Brook University. Gosh, after all that income tax stuff, sharing with students is SUCH a breath of fresh air!!!!!! 🤩 btw--Marissa is super cool and a fantastic writer!!! www.marissalevien.com

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Marissa Levien

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I should be done in an hour or two… It’s been a long weekend though. Times like this I wish someone could just call and say hey do you want to go to the beach and watch the stars for a while? And I’ll have a thermos full of hot chocolate so we can sip while we watch and listen to the tide? ✨🤩✨

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I hope you all had a good weekend at least. My weekend has just been spreadsheets and itemizing stuff. 🫠I’m actually looking forward to Monday.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey, everyone! Come by, come by! Times listed are in Pacific time, so I should be there with no complications, and I hope good folks like you will be, too. Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026 Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Pacific Location: Online mountainview.libcal.com/event/17274404

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Author Talk with Ryka Aoki

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After spending the day writing, grading essays, and recording lectures, I decided at the last minute to go dancing at @club.wenzdaysparty.com . SO MUCH FUN! Best of all--afterward, coming home from the club, my Lyft driver said that I looked kind of...dangerous! Really? Me!?!

Me not looking dangerous and laughing at the thought.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why so many blue Jolly Ranchers?? I bought a bag of assorted Jolly Ranchers and they are mostly blue. Yes there are other colors, but sooo many blue. Is that a thing that I was not aware of? Are they cheaper? Do people particularly like blue Jolly Ranchers? It is so weird!

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Author Talk with Ryka Aoki

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To everybody who was going to come to my creative session for the VICFA Conference— I truly apologize for my no-show. I was ready to give my talk at five pm when I realized the schedule was on Eastern Time. It was the time zone mixup and I apologize. #VICFA2026

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey all! :D Name an SF/F book or series that you wish you had written--one that you read and reread and go, "Wow, it would have been so cool to have written this." I'll go first: The first five books (Corwin's) in Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny.

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Free livestreamed author talks run by the Mountain View library (both of these require advance registration): Charlie Jane Anders, Sept. 22, 6:30 pm Pacific time: mountainview.libcal.com/event/17233884 Ryka Aoki, Sept. 24, 6:30 pm Pacific time: mountainview.libcal.com/event/17274404

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Author Talk with Charlie Jane Anders

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seriously, see for yourself! Whose hair products got discontinued?

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My favorite hair serum is discontinued and now I hate the world. ACK!!!! THIS IS HOW SUPERVILLAINS ARE BORN!!!!

A 1.7 oz bottle of arbonne pure vibrance.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Chopin's Nocturne in C# minor (the posthumous one). I was playing this piece years ago--and then I picked it up again, and suddenly I realized something that I'd never noticed before. It seriously feels like a revelation. I guess that's what great pieces do--they teach you over and over again. 🎵🎹💖

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If I ever post something to the effect of, “I think I should get a Gaboon viper,” please reply to my post with, “No Ryka, you should not get a Gaboon viper.” Every once in a while, Peppermint goes on holiday from her enclosure and I am very happy that she is a ball python and not a Gaboon viper.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just a quick shoutout to @rportnoy.bsky.social who's been my editor at @boom-studios.com. He's off to another adventure with @readtinyonion.bsky.social, and they're super lucky to have him! My project with BOOM! continues 🌸 (more on that l8r) but for now, I just want to say THANK YOU to Ramiro💖 !

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This Worldcon, I was up for no awards. I signed up for no panels, no table discussion--nothing. So other than helping to staff the @sfwa.bsky.social table, I was free to hang with friends, meet cool people, cheer my colleagues, and just take everything in. It was SO MUCH FUN!!!

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had a lot of fun at Worldcon! My goodness, there are so many fantastic writers out there!!! ✨😊✨ I mean…y’all know who you are, but seeing you gathered in one hotel bar in the midst of whatever brilliant conversations you were having was freaking amazing!!! 🤯

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I would like to think that as I get older, I will speak more and more like a pirate. And because I have gotten older, it will not seem silly, but wise and full of gravitas.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Somewhere, somebody on a school board is saying,”I’ll bet we can raise our students’ math scores if we replace all the numbers with cute pictures of cats.“

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I just want to know who the heck sees a bear and thinks, "I am going to teach it how to ride a bicycle."

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

WHERE TO FIND RYKA AOKI AT WORLDCON! -Wandering around. -Perhaps at the SFWA table. -At the bar with some sort of fruity drink.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Shoes that really fit are waaaaaaaay better than shoes that don't fit--even if they barely don't fit.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, Renaissance Faire. But what about Renaissance Foule?

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I ordered Panda Express for the first time in a while. It used to be a guilty pleasure. Today it was kind of…wow…has the quality slipped? Did it get sold to a private equity firm or something?

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

One difference I've notice between comics writing and novel writing is with novels no one really cares about the exact page count. But comics writing is strict. Comics writing is like crafting a sonnet--being aware of symmetry, dividing into quatrains, hitting your beats. It's so cool!

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

😬 Sorry sorry sorry! I meant to write that I wanted a baked pot-A-to...

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

TBH, it would be pretty helpful to know which genre of anime my life is supposed to be...

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sometimes, just remembering that leek human predated leek vocaloid is enough to brighten my day.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Well, here we go. I am writing my first graphic novel, and in it, I am writing my first gnome.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Watching "My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked" and I know it's not a super profound masterpiece of anime...but I am crying...omg my heart.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What else would be good in a biskit? Shrimp in a Biskit? Codfish in a Biskit? Beef in a Biskit? Bacon in a Biskit would rock. How about Ham or Sausage in a Biskit? Scrambled Eggs in a Biskit? Mashed Potatoes in a Biskit? Thoughts?

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Uncanny Magazine Issue 71 Part 1 also features essays by Ryka Aoki and Lizbeth Myles; poetry by Chisomaga Umenyi and Gwendolyn Hicks; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing P. Djèlí Clark; and Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Flower Crown as the cover! buff.ly/621EVvi

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 71, "Flower Crown" by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe: A Black woman stares at us with large eyes of honey-gold iris but blue pupil. Her hair is a mass of red, pink, dark blue, green, and yellow flowers and orange thistles that fill the cover. A white butterfly or moth sits on her finger, her hand raised to the center of her chest. She wears a shoulder-less bodice of dark crimson and deep green. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "July/August 2026," Issue Seventy-One," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New Essay! "The Strange Worlds Among Us—of Turing, Trans People, and the Road to Laniakea" by Ryka Aoki! buff.ly/HFpt3Sx

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My power went out a couple of hours ago. So I had some candles burning for a while. Then I put them out to go to bed. And now I rest in darkness. And the darkness smells like vanilla cinnamon lavender pumpkin spice. Yes. That is the smell of darkness.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

right now, I am craving a Fudgsicle, a bag of Munchos, and a jar of crispy dill pickles. That is all.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I think Munchos are better than Pringles.

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just turned in my grades for this semester. Happy to be done with grading...but now that sort of teary sadness I get after classes end. This was a great bunch of students. <3

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

*Waves at @prismcomics.bsky.social* Thank you for putting this on! See you on Saturday! #qcon2026

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Check this out! QCON! How cool--and it is freeeee!! It's in West Hollywood and I'm going to go check it out. 🙂 qconprism.org

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I guess small talk is difficult for me. I think I’m having a casual chat and then I catch myself asking, “What do you really want out of existence, and can you envision a relationship that complements your artistic goals?“ 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Me. "I really need to grade papers." Also me: "Why not practice the Japanese national anthem on my shakuhachi?"

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JoCo Cruise @jococruise.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Wishing our awesome JoCo Cruise featured guests a Happy Pride! Photo (of @rykaaoki.bsky.social) from JoCo Cruise 2026 by Kristin Amsden

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This #PrideMonth, check out PEN America’s newest reading list, which features nearly 100 stories of LGBTQ+ love: bookshop.org/lists/2026-pride-love-…

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

THANK YOU EVERYONE I MET AND HEARD AT THE NEBULA AWARDS!!! I learned so much. I was starstruck. Awestruck. I was inspired and renewed by your work, your talents, your wisdom and energy.... I and now, I am back home at my writing desk creating worlds, and it's the best thing ever! Thank you. 💖

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Just did my last lecture of the semester to my writing classes. I got all teary. I am going to miss them!

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Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I had so much fun editing this! There are some great stories here!!

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