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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tag urself When drafting a story are you a Surveyor, Architect, Oracle, or Excavator?

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The rememberers - Aimee bender

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Homeworld was the first video game I ever played! Definitely a core inspo, along with Civ4, AOE2, age of mythology (I only played strategy games lmao but I played them all)

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But does it have a ship esther

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Periodic reminder that dropping a note telling a writer you liked a thing they wrote takes like 4.5 seconds and recharges our batteries for 27-28 hours a pop

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When I tell folks I work on a virtual convention, they get an image of like maybe 16 hours, spread out over two days. Perhaps two dozen speakers. All about writing. They don't get FoF. They don't understand 60 continuous hours of programming, 243 program items, 168 speakers, 8 program tracks.

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Rue Sparks (They/Them) @ruesparks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just finished up watching the The Charged Field session with Sid for @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social He presented a great framework for finding, developing, and evaluating ideas based off existing obsessions, observations, and unanswerable questions. Bonus: I loved the sciencey bits cuz I'm a nerd

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My Flights of Foundry schedule! Hope to see you there!

Graphic of a brown cow against a blue sky displaying the con schedule for writer KM Veohongs at the 2026 Flights of Foundry convention including a reading on Friday 9/18 at 6 pm EDT, a panel called Revealing Plot Structures through Adaptation on Sunday 9/20 at 1 pm EDT, and a panel called Being a Good Literary Citizen on Sunday 9/20 at 7 pm EDT

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This weekend!! Still spots left to sign up. Come learn some techniques and journaling prompts to generate infinite ideas from observations and obsessions, then how to connect them together into a single story seed. metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/sin...

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Single-Session: Sid Jain teaches The Charged Field: How Writers Build

Just in time for our busy drafting season, this class is perfect for the writer looking for new ways to cultivate story ideas! Every story starts with an idea, and accumulates new ideas with every sen...

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

HEllo I think there has to be at least 5 other people who are as obsessed with this movie as I am stratigraphy.substack.com/p/sink-the-g...

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Sink the Gold

Lessons on adventure and greed from a forgotten Dreamworks movie from 2000

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reprinted my litSF story "The Agency of Metabolic Pathways" that appeared in a climate futures anthology "Phase Change" from @twelfthplanetpress.bsky.social over at my newsletter. Come for the experiments-as-metaphor-for-life, stay for the Les Mis graphs stratigraphy.substack.com/p/the-agency...

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The Agency of Metabolic Pathways

Learning how to die begins with remembrance.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos.

Some cattle with rich parents who have formed a hugely sanitised-sounding folk pop band and paid a reputable PR and branding agency too much money to get their image just right.

Some tense and jaded cattle who have just recorded their difficult third album, which the record company has informed them has no obvious hit single, and are consequently about to break up.

A physically impressive but wretchedly lonely bull who has stolen another bull's child, made a record with it, and is imploring me not to call the police and instead help them absolutely nail the cover shot that will take them all the way to the top.

A young cow whose music had been written off as "cold and aloof" so wanted to show her fans her sensitive side by getting me to photograph her having a really enjoyable scratch against this tree.

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

congratulations Esther! sounds rad!

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ever felt that you're running low on ideas, either at the start or in the middle of a story? I have some nifty tricks to never run out of ideas (and in a way, rewire your brain to always be spinning up ideas) Come join me as we play with some idea-mashing journaling prompts! tinyurl.com/4e57zhh8

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Single-Session: Sid Jain teaches The Charged Field: How Writers Build

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is tomorrow! I will try to limit myself to One comment about Andor!!

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We've got all this going on on Saturday 25th July. We start at 10am and finish at 6pm (BST), but pop in and out as you like. We're on Zoom! Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfspowr BFS members free, non members £5

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m at the lettuce parasite outbreak I’m at the air quality disaster I’m at the historic flooding I’m at the combination parasitic outbreak air quality flood

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm so happy Olivia Dean is playing sold out stadiums all over the world. She deserves all of it! Three consistently incredible albums each better than the last, and such humble yet confident stage presence.

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Other craft advice in my newsletter that I enjoyed talking about is my analysis of Demon Copperhead 's first page: substack.com/pub/stratigr...

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New craft essay on my headspace and techniques to translate an idea through its taproot stage via voice, and then through the years of growth by mulching in research and experience to turn a single image seed into a polished novel. stratigraphy.substack.com/p/escaping-t...

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Escaping the Triggering Town

~my process~

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"the noir detective—private or police—is often configured as a Lear-like figure: raging at the new ways, the chaotic universe he inhabits. His adherence to instinct, to hunches, to his gut is a kind of stubborn faith, and he is, himself, a theological remainder." lareviewofbooks.org/article/merc...

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time | Los Angeles Review of Books

A new movie about AI judges serves to expose how film noir was always about a world of artificial intelligence.

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

where do i find one of them sff writer lists to follow

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thirteen years ago this band was an epic doom band and now they play this really groovy, raw-toned rock with snaking basslines and slab-thick riffs daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...

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Monolord, “Neverending”

Thirteen years in, Monolord are still finding ways to change up their doomy formula.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Here's the sort of "The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF unsyllabus" I compiled from this thread as well as contributions from panelists Ann LeBlanc and Sonya Taeffe: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Unsyllabus: The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF

Something like a syllabus for a course that doesn’t exist…. curated for The Bog Body Motif in Trans SFF, Salon C-D, Saturday, July 11, 2026 13:00. Readercon. Ann LeBlanc dave ring (moderator) Sonya Ta...

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Come join me talk about how to write a compelling rebellion! You might get put on a list.... 25 July / 0930 EDT

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hi, I've made it to bsky! I'll be sharing many *fun* essays and newsletters and music and basically anything that catches my attention here related to writing, literary criticism, art, history, music, science, and especially ALL the intersections thereof. Be warned!

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