Kat Kourbeti

oh lawd he comin

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire Alt: Elmo from Sesame Street is standing in front of a wall of fire with his arms raised in supplication

Oh no

THE BOULDUS

Poetry Submission Guidelines How to submit poetry.

I'm reading poetry subs at Strange Horizons this month. You can submit up to 6 speculative poems in a single file or separate files. I recommend separate files, because we allow simultaneous submissions and it's easier to withdraw individual poems. Guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/poetr...

If you know anyone who's ever come to the UK to live alongside you, and you'd either miss them if they were gone, or at the very least reckon they deserve to be treated humanely, please put aside some time to fill this in.

Today is the last day to respond to this govt consultation. It takes a little while to complete but Praxis has provided a very helpful guide. Please do this. These proposals are so cruel and punitive, we must try and stop them
www.praxis.org.uk/consultation

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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

The Hugo Award Nominations are now open!

Eligible in the Best Fancast category with @darthj.uno for our 'Strange Horizons @ 25' project.
also eligible as part of 'Strange Horizons' in the Best Semiprozine category.

Please consider us with your nominations.

I also feel perpetually 28, what's up with that

I literally said to someone today, "god it's been a week and a half, and it's only Tuesday" 🫠

Ooh I like this, it's very nice and clear! And makes sense to me both for pronunciation and spelling.

A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying ladies and gentlemen the weekend

Wanna Judge? - The Ignyte Awards For the 2026 cycle, we are opening up our longlist judging cohort to folks who may be a good fit (interested, available, organically well-read in a diverse and inclusive titles in sffh whether profess...

Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14.
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/

You've been in my thoughts every day. Hugs and strength to you ❤️

If Lovecraft can do it, you can do it!

This is so cool! The latest Storybundle offers 3 translated SFFH books for $5, or the whole lot of 12 books for $25 (or more, if you want)! For those looking to read some awesome, global speculative stories and/or are passionate about translated fiction, check it out 👀

White text atop a blurry purple and blue background reads: Issue One, March 2026 Original Fiction Your First Days Back in the Court of Arthur - Abigail Eliza The Homeowner's Bride - Ayida Shonibar Vitrification - Ishmael Grey This Is Not Your Extinction Event - Elena Sichrovsky Situationship - Seoung Kim The Claywife - tanadrin Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive - Nadia Radovich Reprint Fiction Mother Mansrot in the Glass Mountain - Sarah Pauling The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet - Simo Srinivas

White text atop a blurry purple and blue background reads: Issue One, March 2026 Original Poetry blessing for molly grue. - Elisheva Fox Eat It Out - Cypher Ignore All Previous Instructions - Ann LeBlanc Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be - Rick Hollon Electrolysis - Nico Santana Nonfiction He Is Survived by His Wife - Jackie Hedeman

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️

More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

This, 100%. And also, poring over a girl's texts and video messages to parse whether or not the unexpected sexual experience she had the night before were consensual is just.... a choice

It's the roundabout stuff about Johnson and the TERFs (world's worst band name, lol) that gets me personally, mixed in with the really weird microanalysis of victims' texts and whether or not they consented 🤮

Oh there's way more than 3 articles

I wonder. I've been reading that blog all afternoon (which then led me to its subreddit) and dude seems to have wayyy too much time on his hands

Apropos of nothing at all, y'all should read this.

I have gone down a rabbit hole based on stuff mentioned in that post and it is truly a never ending spiral of nonsense

I also have ADHD, so... this tracks. I often cite the list of irregular verbs I had to memorise as a kid (anything that doesn't use -ed for past tense) as a source of frustration because of how many people say "learned" now 🤦‍♀️ Why did I have to do all that if I could just wing it anyway??

And to be fair, my own accent is a hodge-podge of influences, mostly American but with the odd British-ism here and there because of living in London for half my life, so I'm very often confused by different words and sounds, and my ESL ass is anxious like, "what is the RULE?? is this correct??"

Maybe I'm the one mispronouncing it then whoops 😅

FIYAH first issue cover! Art by Geneva Benton. Edited by Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins. Stories from Malon Edwards, Brent Lambert, Wendi Dunlap, DaVaun Sanders, V.H. Galloway, and L. D. Lewis.

FIYAH second issue cover! Art by Geneva Benton. Edited by Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins. Stories from Maurice Broaddus, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Russell Nichols, Christopher Caldwell, Wole Talabi, Barbara L.W. Myers, and Eden Royce.

FIYAH third issue cover! Art by Geneva Benton. Edited by Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins. Stories from Danny Lore, Sydnee Thompson, Jennifer Marie Brissett and Xen. Poems from Mame Bougouma Diene, Uche Ogbuji, Rodney Wilder.

FIYAH fourth issue cover! Art by Geneva Benton. Edited by Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins. Stories from C. L. Clark, Stephanie Malia Morris, Emmalia Harrington, Arnica Ross, and Melody Gordon. Poems from Resoketswe Manenzhe and Constance Collier-Mercado.

So we're definitely celebrating FIYAH's cover art for Black History Month! Feast on this absolutely legendary run from @gdbee.bsky.social to set off year one 🥰 Of course you're following Geneva already, and this is your reminder to scoop up a print, her graphic novel, and more: gdbee.carrd.co

Well, sounds like double S is common enough in UK English that you could, in theory, adopt it 😇 (and drive me mad whenever I read your blog, lmao)

It's infinitesimal to be fair, but oh boy, it grates on me 😖

Interesting! I wouldn't have considered 'excusing' a rhyming possibility for 'focusing' at all, as the parent word doesn't rhyme.