max franciscovich, aeneid guy 🏳️‍⚧️

so true from JCO

happy birthday!!!

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

THANK YOU... ;--;

this story has been longlisted for the british science fiction awards! consider checking it out if you have voting powers, or if you don't have voting powers, or whatever, i'm not the boss of you! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Late to the celebration, but congrats to everyone on the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist and most especially all FOUR of my @clarionwest.bsky.social students on the list: @champwongs.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @goosemixtapes.bsky.social Rutendo Chidzodzo!

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

im always thinking about that tumblr post you (ms. bhatt) shared with the excerpts... absolutely dire. look at our transmasc rep we're going to jail

😭 okay yes i have read the article in question and also found it... uh, questionable! makes sense

do you have any sources for... better legal theory here SDNFDNKSFNDS :0 i have enjoyed jgp's work but would love to read more critiques/it sounds like. more correct information in this case

Again, what ICE does EVERY DAY is devastate relationships and destroy people. This is their job. Rage for Renee needs to not mark her murder as especially egregious because of her citizenship status. Rather, this was an escalation of force in the defense of a massive project of ethnic cleansing.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"

you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

if ice agents don't like this i have a suggestion about the "rest of their lives" bit

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

A list of Adrian Ward's 2025 award eligible stories: Alien Girl On the Balcony, a 2000 word literary fiction story available in Windhover volume 59, All That I Am, A Failed Dream, a 275 word fantasy piece available on Apex's blog, and My Sincere Apologies For the Demon, an 1800 word fantasy piece available in Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue 443. Ward is also in his first year of eligibility for the Astounding award and other new writer awards. Thank you for your consideration!

Since the year's winding down, my 2025 award eligibility and the stories I had published:

Links and story info in the thread below, as well as on my site at adrianwardwrites.wordpress.com/work/

Thank you for your consideration!

realizing belatedly i should make an awards eligibility post. it's literally just dead dog. nominate my story about being a dead dog in a human body for an award and you will win: my undying loyalty

One of the better interviews with me you’re likely to read. They gotta send me more grad student interviewers

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

LARS AND ME IN THE TRENCHES OF QUESTIONABLE TASTE TOGETHER

i have something to confess and i understand if people lose respect for me. i think imagine dragons is pretty good actually

Opening of "The Spindle of Necessity" on Strange Horizons: "Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That would be asking for it."

cover of Mary Renault's The Charioteer, a young white man with reddish hair in a green coat

my beloved "sad man tries to crack dream-Mary Renault's egg and she says no" story from 2024's @strangehorizons.bsky.social just got a lovely podcast treatment, produced by the excellent @darthj.uno and read absolutely beautifully by @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social!

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if it helps, it went platinum in the court of me explaining the central concepts to my parents + grandparents against their will!

Claim: Mamdani is a communist. False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

I was walking in an antique land late one night
When my eyes beheld such an eerie sight
Two vast and trunkless legs began to rise
Near them on the sand a shattered visage lies

(Ozymandi-AS) OzyMANdias
(Ozymandi-AS) He was a graveyard smash
(Ozymandi-AS) No thing beside remains
(Ozymandi-AS) Ozyman-

GLAD TO SPREAD THE WORD

Career Day - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD... is the all-time favorite in my house

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Hello everybody!

As some of you may know, my partner and I are planning a pretty big move. Without going into too much detail, this move will be the beginning of a much needed healing journey for both of us.