@rmsayan
Bog raccoon with nice eyelashes who writes spec fic. Pulp and camp enjoyer. I guess I'm a horror writer now? https://rmsayanauthor.wordpress.com https://patreon.com/rmsayan he/him π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§π΅πͺ
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
"SCIENCE FANTASY ITCHIO JAM" is written in different fonts over a blue smoke cloud. (Image courtesy of Unsplash.)
Do you like sci-fi & fantasy? Do you like them TOGETHER? Then this is the jam for you!
#SciFanJam is all about making original narrative works (prose, comics, visual novels, & TTRPGs) that blend these two genres however you see fit. Come create with us!
Found out more here! β¬οΈ
itch.io/jam/scifanjam
Just learned we lost Willie ColΓ³n. Great musician and composer. A salsa maestro and a crucial figure in our music, but also a problematic guy who did a lot of folks dirty. What a weird, mixed legacyβ¦
Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
I would really like people to take this into account. Yes, arguably some of the worst people are not conventionally attractive in some way or another, but focusing on that and not their behavior, lack of empathy and compassion, only tears down everyone around you who shares that physical trait.
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as βpornography,β people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict βpornographyβ and what that actually means
Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results
β οΈ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
Okay, I'm at loss now. What do I do with a 9300-word "short" story? Horror/historical, already gone through several crit rounds, genuinely think there's no shortening or even expanding it anymore. Would like a market for it but at this pace I might just post it publicly on my blog.
Drake and Josh after riding the Demonator. Two boys looking stunned beyond words, hair messed up, after riding a rollercoaster, now wearing merch shirts.
Went to the MCR concert
Paperback preorders for THE DEVOURING are now available at:
Barnes & Noble
Bookshop
Books-a-Million
+ a few other retailers
Join Jason and Ayana on their hunt for the truth behind his brother's murder and an impossible illness. Preorder today: books2read.com/u/mvDRWX
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
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Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
bsky.app/profile/emua...
This is the local link to the Venezuelan Red Cross: cruzroja.ve
guy who pronounces ".png" as "dot pinge"
18 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Big breakthrough for sexually-active/high-risk trans ppl: study of longest-acting injectable PrEP (lenacapavir) finds NO interaction with GAMT. Trans adults have long avoided PrEP for fear it impacts their hormone therapy with just 20% using it.
Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
in the real world not nearly enough buckaroos goin around looking at clues with a magnifying glass
Convincing you to read my *short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
Mamdani political poster-style yellow text on blue background that reads "for Frodo"
Top line not working for me for some reason so I could only make this
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it π«Ά
There's a 20ish yr gap between the plausible time for my protagonist to be there and the actual historical events alluded to in the story so I hope the average reader will simply not know enough about Peruvian naval and immigration history to tell
I'm gonna have to issue a blanket apology to the 5-7 academics that will be able to tell that this fictional, fantasy story is not historically accurate
I WILL NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE!!! I WILL NOT COMPLY ON TIME!!! I MIGHT COMPLETELY FORGET TO COMPLY AT ALL!!!!! THIS MACHINE FORGETS TO DO WHAT FASCISTS TELL IT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
I WILL NOT - dashare.zone ADMIN
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover
Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Ancestral Sickos portrait man going "AYE...HA HA HA...AYE!"
Me reading all these reviews of Del Toro's Frankenstein that paint it as "What if Crimson Peak was even more Gothic, florid, and horny?"
