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Suzan the chalant goth

@sillysyntax.bsky.social
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Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder "SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin suzanpalumbo.carrd.co

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 20m
Brainstorm is a badass word and I don't know why anyone would want to let a machine do it for them. Writers: My brain is experiencing lightening and gail force winds about this idea. Can you taste the rain in the air? The bro: I'd rather press a button. Vibe check failed.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1h
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 12h
And each trope, can we be rethought, refigured, played out in a thousand different ways, which questions, challenges, reinforces ideas previously explored. You can have more complex conversations precisely because you're entering a pre-existing discussion.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 12h
Engaging with an existing trope or plot pattern, isn't about simplicity or robot formulas. It's rather about an acknowledgement of the history of your field, a constant intertextual conversation with (or against) the meanings that have built up around certain tropes.
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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · 17h
Three years ago (holy shit where does the time go!!) I got to introduce this world and these characters into the SFF ecosystem. I still admire the cover art constantly tbh. Could not be more grateful to @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @completelycathy.bsky.social www.neonhemlock.com/books/a-nece...
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A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock
This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 17h
Congratulations to the 2026 winners and nominees! Thank you to the jury and those who voted. A shout out to everyone who boosts, reviews, reads, recommends and buys work by BIPOC authors. And dear BIPOC authors writing in these rough times, your work is important and needed. Solidarity. 🖤
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 19h
Congratulations to all the finalists and to the winners! Thank you for your work and your wonderful stories! Thanks also to @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app, @sillysyntax.bsky.social especially, & everyone else involved, for working so hard every year to give us these fantastic awards!
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 18h
The collective noun for Trinidadians anywhere even on sff panels is "ah lime." I'm very much looking forward to reading Disco's book which I learned has dialect and includes soucouyant folklore. 👀👀 All the panelists were great. 🖤🖤🖤
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
That's it! This year's trophy art will be revealed later this month. Until then, thanks to all of our winners and finalists for their outstanding contributions to genre literature. View the full list here: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2026-results/ Happy Saturday! #2026IgnyteAwards
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2026 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience Cursed Daughters – Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday) Harmattan Season – Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor Books) Mothea...
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
Finally, the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award recognizes Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre Congratulations @strangehorizons.bsky.social who also won the inaugural award in this category in 2020.
2026 Ignyte Community Award winner: Strange Horizons
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards Ember Award is given to acknowledge a writer, organization, or entity who has made unsung contributions to the field of genre literature through authorship, patronage, initiatives, and all the quiet ways that make our spaces stronger. Congratulations @marthawells.com
2026 Ignyte Ember Award winner: Martha Wells
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards for Creative Nonfiction recognizes works related to the field of speculative fiction. Congratulations to @gautambhatia88.bsky.social and THE SECRET HISTORY OF INDIAN SCIENCE FICTION
2026 Ignyte Award winner for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction: The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works goes to WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social (Saga Press) See the contributor list in the alt text
2026 Ignyte Award winner in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works: 

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope: EDs. Dr. Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, Malka Older 

CONTRIBUTORS: Charlie Jane Anders, Samit Basu, Tobias S. Buckell, Reo Eveleth, Jaymee Goh, Nicola Griffith, Alejandro Heredia, Vida James, N.K. Jemisin, R.B. Lemberg, Sam J. Miller, Abdulla Moaswes, Laia Asieo Odo, Kelly Robson, Nisi Shawl, Ursula Vernon, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Izzy Wasserstein. Interviewees: adrienne maree brown, Andrea Dehlendorf, Walidah Imarisha, L.A. Kauffman, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Kendra Pierre-Louis (Saga Press)
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Fiction Podcast recognizes excellence in audio performance and production for speculative fiction. Congratulations again, @khoreo.bsky.social
2026 Ignyte Awards winner for Outstanding Fiction Podcast: khōréō
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards Critics Award recognizes contributions to reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature Congratulations again, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
2026 Ignyte Critics Award winner: Alex Brown
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry goes to THE LANGUAGE OF FIREFLIES by Angela Liu (The Deadlands)
2026 Ignyte Award winner in Outstanding Speculative Poetry: The Language of Fireflies by Angela Liu
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The Outstanding Short Story category recognizes speculative works ranging from 2,000-7,499 words. Congratulations to COMMENSALISM, OR THE LABYRINTH'S VESSELS by Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem) #2026IgnyteAwards
2026 Ignyte Award Winner for Outstanding Short Story: Commensalism, or The Labyrinth's Vessels by Albert Nkereuwem
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The Outstanding Novelette category recognizes speculative works ranging from 7,500-17,499 words. Congratulations to WE BEGIN WHERE INFINITY ENDS by @somtoihezue.bsky.social #2026IgnyteAwards
2026 Ignyte Award winner for Outstanding Novelette: We Begin Where Infinity Ends by Somto Ihezue
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The Outstanding Novella category recognizes for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words Congratulations to THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by @amalelmohtar.com #2026IgnyteAwards
2026 Ignyte Award Winner in Outstanding Novella: The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Middle Grade goes to THE GLADE by @jamsternazzy.bsky.social (Bittersweet Books)
2026 Ignyte Award Winner in Outstanding Middle Grade: The Glade by Naseem Jamnia
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
Our next category, Outstanding Novel: Young Adult highlights novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for the young adult audience Congratulations to THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury YA) #2026IgnyteAwards
2026 Ignyte Award Winner for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult: They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
As ever, we begin with the #2026IgnyteAwards winner in Outstanding Novel - Adult for novel-length (40k words+) works intended for an adult audience Congratulations to THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER (Saga Press/Titan Books) by Stephen Graham Jones!
2026 Ignyte Award Winner: Outstanding Novel - Adult - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter x Stephen Graham Jones
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The #2026IgnyteAwards recognize outstanding achievements in genre literature or community work from 2025. Works from 2026 will be acknowledged by the 2027 awards. Congratulations to all the finalists! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/current-fina...
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Current Finalists - The Ignyte Awards
The Awards seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding eff...
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
The Ignytes were created in 2020 as an award series that centers BIPOC perspectives and contributions to speculative fiction. The works nominated on our ballots are the creations of people from these lived experiences, or are works/entities/individuals they hold in high regard. #2026IgnyteAwards
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 20h
Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are celebrating BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION all month long!!! What’s on your TBR for October? 🪐🧞🧛🏿‍♂️
A piles of speculative fiction books by Black authors, including “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” “Forged in FIYAH,” and “A Necessary Chaos.”
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been heartened to see Zachary Gillain's weird fic/ekphrasis call for Agita and Michael Kelly's announcement of his occasional journal Pale Grey Idol. I'm also happy to see Three-Lobed Burning Eye fund for another year, which disclosure I will have a story in!
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a large part of Countess. I'm 2 years out now so I can speak to the fact that story doesn't follow the SF path of revenge but a gothic one of self realization. Virika has been taught to love her colonizer. She IS in love with one of them. It is a pyschological story of realizing that.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Viens a moi to cap that all off. It is a perfect phrase for the gothic. youtu.be/7bVd69ejz1Y?...
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This short thread really is 🔥
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HELLO! Thank you! It's about ALL those things. It's why I love it!
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Horror fans rejoice!
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Here's the starter pack featuring most of the authors who have been featured in Buy a Book Friday! go.bsky.app/PaGkisY
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Matt Neil Hill @mattneilhill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heartily seconded! @sillysyntax.bsky.social's SKIN THIEF is one of the best single author collections I've read in a long while. Just be prepared to have your heart broken a few times (in a good way, of course).
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is part of a big thread with books to buy. And yes, please feel free to buy my short story collection. Short stories are my love!
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!
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absolute horses @carriempruett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think about Carter's 'The Company of Wolves' all the time but also had to hijack this thread to recommend @sillysyntax.bsky.social 's 'Laughter Among the Trees' www.thedarkmagazine.com/laughter-amo...
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Laughter Among the Trees - The Dark Magazine
The highway to the campground cuts through the granite Laurentian Plateau like a desiccated wound. It’s been twenty five years since I’ve retraced this road and, though the comfort stops along the rou...
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love Angela Carter. The Lady of the House of Love haunts me everyday and I wrote a vampire novella partly inspired by it to try and expiate my obsession.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I signed up to play group badminton at 8 am on Saturday morning. I am clearly unhinged and am easily convinced by people in my life.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Owl @aninnocentowl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
woe, lesbian vampires be upon ye
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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Why was she drinking?" Why do you think people (women specifically, usually) who drink should be assaulted? "Why did she go in that house?" Why do you think that ppl who accept invitations to parties should be assaulted? Like this is what you are saying when you ask these things.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When #MeToo first broke in 2017, I realized how many times I had been harassed, assaulted, or just had boundaries crossed by men while reading all the detailed reports and features for my fellowship at CJR. It was incredibly painful. And I have to avoid thinking about it too much or I can't work.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Women have to go out into the world and be around other people. There is no clear way for women to do all the right things and avoid harassment or assault. It doesn't matter if they wore different clothes or avoided alcohol. It happens with intimate partners, family members, teachers, and friends.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have been assaulted sitting quietly on the bus going to work, fully clothed and completely sober. I had a man follow me off a grey hound bus when I was commuting ti university insisting I come to hos house, I was clothed and sober. I hid in the bathroom for 30 mins hoping he left the station.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October issue
The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The good men, the friends and lovers even, say to me later "well why didn't you just tell that creep off" as though I wouldn't be accused of starting shit, as though they'd stand up for me and not interrogate me to make the creep comfortable instead. Experience tells me most men will do the latter.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It happens so often it can be hard to even see. Men having the same experience I am, but I hit a place where the attention becomes unpleasant. Inuendos start. I have to wiggle out of something I did not start (cautiously! trying not to upset any dangerous egos!) so I leave, while the men get to stay
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