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Jeremy Lo

@whogetstobelong.substack.com
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Queer writer in science fiction and fantasy. | Focused on who gets to belong, and what body do they get to bring? | whogetstobelong.substack.com

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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 09/10/2026
I woke up today. Looking around, I saw fields arrayed: the resonance of my television, the cancer of my phone, the evil of the internet, blessed by Macbook temple home. I wonder if my humanity, exists within my soul; I know that these technologies have created too deep a hole.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 11/09/2026
Is Hope Punk the polar opposite of Grim Dark? Or rays on a radial coordinate system? If Grim Dark is vigilance with violence, Hope Punk is vigilance with collaboration; each emanating from a vigilance for an unknown future. Humanity is a self-fulfilling prophecy creating our own destiny.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 14/08/2026
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 29/07/2026
Releasing my new novel, Ruin Runes!!! This is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Autobiography on Addiction, Artificial Intelligence, Apocalypse, Consent, Complicity, and Power. #writingcommunity #authorsky #scifi #fantasy #writersky #AI open.substack.com/pub/whogetst...
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 29/07/2026
Releasing my new novel, Ruin Runes!!! This is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Autobiography on Addiction, Artificial Intelligence, Apocalypse, Consent, Complicity, and Power. #writingcommunity #authorsky #scifi #fantasy #writersky #AI open.substack.com/pub/whogetst...
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 29/07/2026
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 19/07/2026
Would we be as cavalier with the cost of AI if it was priced in units of water instead of tokens?
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 15/06/2026
You walk down the forest path and realize that you’re weeping, and you have no idea why you’re weeping and yet you know that you have stepped over the mantle of sacred ground. You are being bathed by the forest, held in the embrace of trees.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 14/06/2026
Naming God: AI’s Zombified Speech A companion essay interrogating how AI-generated language hollows out the meaning-making process, endangering human cognition and the public knowledge sphere #writingcommunity #authorsky #scifi #fantasy #writersky #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AIEthics
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Naming God: AI’s Hollowed and Zombified Speech
A companion essay to Ruin Runes Serial interrogating how AI-generated language hollows out the meaning-making process itself, endangering human cognition and the public knowledge sphere.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 15/06/2026
Liminal Daddy Vonnie #authorsky #gay
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 14/06/2026
The essay draws on four core thinkers: 1. Charles Sanders Peirce - #semiotics #icon #index #symbol #interpretant 2. Bhartṛhari via Francis Clooney - #speechstages #paśyantī #madhyamā #vaikharī 3. J.L. Austin #performativespeech, and 4. Lev Vygotsky #innerspeech #privatethoughtnner
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 14/06/2026
Naming God: AI’s Zombified Speech A companion essay interrogating how AI-generated language hollows out the meaning-making process, endangering human cognition and the public knowledge sphere #writingcommunity #authorsky #scifi #fantasy #writersky #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #AIEthics
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Naming God: AI’s Hollowed and Zombified Speech
A companion essay to Ruin Runes Serial interrogating how AI-generated language hollows out the meaning-making process itself, endangering human cognition and the public knowledge sphere.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 11/06/2026
𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 Peregrin was in Portland to save his dog. The paw prints at the river bend were Cooper-sized but there was an extra pair of paws. Stranger, there was no evidence of footprints made by a dog snatcher—did Coopy get here by himself!? From St Louis!? #gay #microfiction #booksky
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 10/06/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙 In June of 1983, 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐞 did what no American woman had been allowed to do before: fly to space. But this was only one of many historic firsts for Ride, being a lesbian woman who refused to be defined by labels. Citation: lnkd.in/ge26RPP2 #queer #pride
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 09/06/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐮́𝐚 is the author of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, and influential shaper of contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer identities. Anzaldúa’s writings are in over 100 anthologies to date. Citation: lnkd.in/gEiWpD2m #queer #pride
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/06/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 is a gay indigenous activist born of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in northwest North America. In 1975, Burns co-founded North America’s first LGBTQ+ indigenous organization, the Gay American Indians GAI. Citation: lnkd.in/gUhZwBJJ #Queer #Pride
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 05/06/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 was a key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest advisors, especially on techniques of nonviolent resistance. #Queer #Pride Citation: nmaahc.si.edu/bayard-rustin
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 05/06/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙 𝐊𝐢𝐲𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐲𝐚 was born on May 9, 1943 in... a WWII Japanese-American concentration camp at Hart Mountain... From Black Power to Gay Liberation, there seemed to be no movement that Kuromiya was not involved in. #Queer #Pride Citation: lnkd.in/gHWbaP-Z
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 02/06/2026
Remember kids. Pride is not a happy month. It’s a rage and it’s fury. Pride was born as a riot. Lest the children forget — blood must be bled for Pride, not purchased at a Target and honored with a social media post. Queer children, do the work. Act up. Fight back. Fight oppression.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 29/05/2026
Dropping CH 4 of Ruin Runes! After you have been forcibly transported into world made of trees, Cooper smuggles you to safety as a goddess destroys an entire continent you were standing on. And witness a royal court of trees have a reverse harem orgy. #writingcommunity #booksky #fantasy #gay
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Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. (@whogetstobelong)
Proud to share chapter 4 of Ruin Runes: Dawn of Seam! PLOT: After you have been forcibly transported into world made of trees, Cooper — your kujapada guide — smuggles you to safety as a monstruous go...
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 28/05/2026
Plot: A dog conscripts you to fight two monstruous goddesses. You are a drunk and a thief, which is exactly what this world needs right now. You enter via cognitive construct of time shaped as an airport filled with dog people. #writingcommunity #authorsky #booksky #fantasy #scifi #microfiction
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Becoming the Seam
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 19/05/2026
Plot: A goddess falls, mercurial miners made from a mother massacred by meat missiles, a detective duo dragged into the devil’s dimension determined to be delicacies #writingcommunity #authorsky #booksky #fantasy #scifi #microfiction
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Plot: A goddess falls, mercurial miners made from a mother massacred by meat missiles, a detective duo dragged into the devil’s dimension determined to be delicacies
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 17/05/2026
Ai.Slop’s Fables - The Boy and His Sword #writingcommunity #booksky #AI #fables
new edition of ai.Slop's Fables
A boy found a sword that made him a hero. He chopped down villains and monsters. The villagers cheered. So excellent was he that the local adventuring guild was driven from the village. What need had the village for regular adventurers when a magical hero lived in their very square?

One night the sword grew cold in his hand, and would not lift. The villagers, seeing him in the morning, saw the boy for a boy. 

Their cheering stopped. 

"But I am a hero," the boy said.

The magic was never you.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 16/05/2026
Trying! 🤓
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 16/05/2026
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐀 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 My Son, You will need another ten inches to scale the centurion’s tortuga shield wall. Use the weight of your badass bone bludgeon like a lever. —Babi #gay #booksky #writingcommunity #fantasy #fitness
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 15/05/2026
Good morning BSky! I was hoping to ask for your help! I have entered my work into a writing challenge called Pandemonium on Substack. The challenge is a group effort, so please! Any likes or restacks on the actual story help! #booksky #writingcommunity #microfiction #gay #fantasy
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Mūlaśruti: The Book of Root Reading
Table of Contents
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 14/05/2026
This microfiction is titled: Fig Fall (It is part 6 of a larger story, Creating the Seams) Plot: An accomplice in the destruction of two galaxies, a world tree mother goddess receives a prophetic vision while compressing herself into an avenging fig. #writingcommunity #fantasy #solarpunk #booksky
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Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. (@whogetstobelong)
This microfiction is titled: Fig Fall Plot: An accomplice in the destruction of two galaxies, a world tree mother goddess receives a prophetic vision while compressing herself into an avenging fig. ...
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 14/05/2026
How To Be A Barbarian My son, More. Harder. Insufficient. At your age I could press an obese mammoth named Chub above my head easily. Chub was a good dog. —Babi #booksky #gay #writingcommunity
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 10/05/2026
Hey moms! Happy Mother’s Day! May I interest you in this cosmic world fig tree mother goddess creation story? It also has two tree angels with mommy issues that manipulate an entangled space fungus into creating a willow. —Vonnie #writingcommunity #booksky #fantasy #scifi
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Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. (@whogetstobelong)
Hey moms! Happy Mother’s Day! May I interest you in this story about a cosmic world fig tree mother goddess creation story? It also has two tree angels with mommy issues that manipulate an entangle...
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 10/05/2026
𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: Execute, Sister 𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭: Two tree angels enter Pandemonium itself to force an enslaved space fungus to create life. 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰: Part 3 at 7:30 AM tomorrow morning and Monday morning #booksky #microfiction #writingcommunity
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Creating the Seam 2/3: Execute, Sister
Two tree angels prompt an enslaved space fungus to compose a willow they lost.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 09/05/2026
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐀 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ My son, A kind reminder that your mother’s calves are bigger than yours. I pray you find a partner with calves bigger than hers. Do not come back to the Worldbreakers without one. #microfiction #writingcommunity #gay #booksky —Babi
A mothers calves in heels
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 09/05/2026
𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: Arboreal Prompt 𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭: Two tree angels with mommy issues reminisce about a willow with an enslaved space fungus. 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰: Part 2 and part 3 at 7:30 AM tomorrow morning and Monday morning #booksky #microfiction #writingcommunity
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Creating the Seam 1/3: Arboreal Prompt
Two tree angels with mommy issues reminisce about a willow with an enslaved space fungus.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 08/05/2026
𝗢𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗲 𝗔 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 My son, To be a Worldbearer barbarian, one must test the whole of the shoulder, tricep, and serratus; lest the seams split when lifting your badass bone bludgeon from its holster. —Babi #booksky #writingcommunity #gay whogetstobelong.substack.com
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 08/05/2026
𝗢𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼 𝗕𝗲 𝗔 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 My son, When the hordes of Cthulaman are at your back, you will be asked to bare the full brunt of their attack. Lift the weight of Brother Bear at a thousand pounds or go live with the city folk. —Babi #writingcommunity #booksky #gay whogetstobelong.substack.com
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗻 - 𝟯/𝟯 This is why cities make poor lovers. Here he was, sickle in hand, cutting lavender for Portland. He'd wake exhausted. He always did. But he'd show up to the city with a gift in hand. Bouquet-bound, lavender-tight, full of bees. #writingcommunity #gay #microfiction
a man with sickle and a bundle of lavender
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗻 - 𝟮/𝟯 As the hazy waves of heat rolled off the fields, astringent lavender dominated this kingdom with floral fist. The bees, its master, murmurated, transmutated into apis-humanis. They had eyes for him, and only him. '𝙖 𝙜𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙' #writingcommunity #gay #microfiction
a man with a bee necklace
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗻 - 𝟭/𝟯 Peregrin woke up groggily to a bee vibrating at sufficient resonance to chap his nose. Eyes darting left, then right—he'd gone to bed in St. Louis—his ascent to reality climbed like rocket ship; for before him, acres of lavender. #writingcommunity #gay #microfiction
man in lavender field in Oregon
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗻 - 𝟯/𝟯 This is why cities make poor lovers. Here he was, sickle in hand, cutting lavender for Portland. He'd wake exhausted. He always did. But he'd show up to the city with a gift in hand. Bouquet-bound, lavender-tight, full of bees. #writingcommunity #gay #microfiction
a man with sickle and a bundle of lavender
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗻 - 𝟮/𝟯 As the hazy waves of heat rolled off the fields, astringent lavender dominated this kingdom with floral fist. The bees, its master, murmurated, transmutated into apis-humanis. They had eyes for him, and only him. '𝙖 𝙜𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙' #writingcommunity #gay #microfiction
a man with a bee necklace
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗻 - 𝟭/𝟯 Peregrin woke up groggily to a bee vibrating at sufficient resonance to chap his nose. Eyes darting left, then right—he'd gone to bed in St. Louis—his ascent to reality climbed like rocket ship; for before him, acres of lavender. #writingcommunity #gay #microfiction
man in lavender field in Oregon
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
Welcome to Episode 8 of Bedtime with Cooper where I read “The Salt Sage” by Maryellen Brady to a Great Pyrenees! #booksky #writingcommunity #gay
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Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. (@whogetstobelong)
Please enjoy this latest episode of Bedtime with Cooper with @Maryellen Brady 💗📚 and the artwork of @The Circus Dragon!
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
Welcome to Episode 7 of Bedtime with Cooper where I read “One Last Adventure” by Bradley Ramsey to a Great Pyrenees! #booksky #writingcommunity #gay
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Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. (@whogetstobelong)
Welcome to Bedtime with Cooper, where I read stories by other Substack authors to Cooper, my Great Pyrenees, official listener, and resident literary familiar. Tonight I’m reading “One Last Adventure...
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 06/05/2026
Welcome to Episode 6 of Bedtime with Cooper where we read “Would You Like More Help” by Ian Taniels! #booksky #writingcommunity #gay
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Bedtime with Cooper - Would You Like Some More Help by Ian Taniels
A recording from Vonnie G. Clemens Jr.'s live video
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 05/05/2026
Did you know… that turnips could turn up? Turnips Tank the Titanic #writingcommunity #booksky #fantasy #microfiction #alternatehistory
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Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. (@whogetstobelong)
Hey @Siobhan Gallagher I’m restacking this story I wrote because you turn-upped the house with turnips.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 02/05/2026
Adventure is a good dog of mine, always finding his way back home.
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 02/05/2026
I wanted to challenge myself so I decided to write a creation story of divine world-tree goddess named Aśvattha that: - passes the Bechdel Test, and - was written in Third-Person Omniscient, First Person, and Second Person - decolonized from western civ #writingcommunity #booksky #author #fantasy
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A Price for Naming
A Prologue to the Mūlaśruti: The Book of Root Reading
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 02/05/2026
I cleaned up my book website, because it was filthy and needed a bath. Hopefully it smells nicer there now and you all want to stay. #writingcommunity #booksky #author #fantasy #scifi #fiction Click here for my work: whogetstobelong.substack.com
image of my book site directory
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 01/05/2026
Ai.Slop’s Fables - The Poet’s Muse #writingcommunity #booksky #AI
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 01/05/2026
Ai.Slop’s Fables - Present an Oracle Cannot Give #writingcommunity #booksky #AI
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Jeremy Lo @whogetstobelong.substack.com · 01/05/2026
Ai.Slop’s Fables - The Crow and the Polished Pool #writingcommunity #booksky #AI
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