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Abigail Sims

@potentialyeti

Connoisseur of consequences. God's own personal inconvenience. Married to the em dash. | @witnessmag @grisgrislitjour @sfpoetry @SandHillsMag ⚔️ https://abigailesims.com/

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Ever wondered what goes on inside a snake’s mind? It’s more than just rats and cozy rocks to hide under… but not much more. New stuff in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social!

Narcissus at the Water Dish: jakethemag.com/narcissus-at...

23.06.2024 01:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I cannot pretend anything, with a shin on my throat,
with elbows webbed around my arm,
weakening, weakening —

Three poems for grapplers by
@potentialyeti.bsky.social: bruisermag.com/sims_threepo...

16.05.2024 15:07 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Current Issue | Ghost Girls Zine Read our most current Ghost Girls zine here!

So, I’ve grown a habit of writing (one of my favorite hobbies) about my other favorite hobby: martial arts.

On that note, I have some thoughts on how incredible pain can be soothed w/ incredible violence in the latest issue of Ghost Girls! Read 'em: ghostgirlszine.wixsite.com/ghostgirls

02.02.2024 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Romance novel female lead: [taller than most men]

Me, with delighted anticipation: Oh? Yes??

Romance novel male lead: [somehow a full six inches taller than the female lead and accompanied by constant descriptions of how strong and masculine he is]

Me, with familiar disappointment: Oh. Yes.

19.01.2024 19:58 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.

The law only ever serves capital.

08.01.2024 16:34 👍 27228 🔁 13689 💬 187 📌 236

But I think a lot of people, myself very included, still have so much nostalgia for the early writing and the lore potential.

So, SUPER excited to see what Overwatch: Declassified - An Official History does with all that. Just ordered!

07.11.2023 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everything after that point seemed like the writing had been de-prioritized. And OW2's paywalling model spoke to Blizzard's real priorities at this point in a way that seems to have killed a lot of the enthusiasm for the franchise.

07.11.2023 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this is coming from someone who has written an absurd amount of fanfic on the subject attempting to do exactly this. Arrive at a cohesive story that compels like the potential of the original 2016 shorts through like... Retribution.

07.11.2023 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

so I know overwatch is like, not cool anymore, but SEANAN MCGUIRE WROTE AN OVERWATCH NOVEL AND IT'S OUT TODAY ????? www.amazon.com/Overwatch-De...

I have been praying for them to let good writers into that lore for years. /it has so much potential/

07.11.2023 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don't know how I didn't know about this until this post???? holy shit holy shit holy shit one of my favorite authors tackling the one of the great bastions of under-utilized game lore?

PLEASE EXCUSE ME WHILE I SCREAM INTO A PILLOW AFTER SMASHING THAT ORDER BUTTON

07.11.2023 19:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 panel comic. Panel 1: A yellow-headed cat labeled "artists" fishes in a river, a bucket full of caught fish sits on the bank next to him. Panel 2: A new cat appears. Panel 3: The new cat sits next to the first and fishes out of the bucket. It is labeled "Artificial Intelligence".

3 panel comic. Panel 1: A yellow-headed cat labeled "artists" fishes in a river, a bucket full of caught fish sits on the bank next to him. Panel 2: A new cat appears. Panel 3: The new cat sits next to the first and fishes out of the bucket. It is labeled "Artificial Intelligence".

31.10.2023 01:25 👍 4694 🔁 1743 💬 25 📌 25

[finally standing up to a bully] hey asshole...
[but remembering that first and foremost I am a poet] I will engulf you like a fog

01.11.2023 20:04 👍 2572 🔁 618 💬 22 📌 25
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This is the one everyone likes (for me it's a split between this one and the Queen with the wolf one) and talks to me about. Melinoë, Herald of Thebes, Destroyer of Men.

11.09.2023 15:31 👍 102 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 0
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I’m honored (& a little awed) to share that my work appears in the latest issue of Witness Magazine! This story, Wilderness, New Mexico, is dear to my heart. It holds a little loneliness, a lot of snark, and dust. Lots and lots of desert dust.
witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/winte...

18.10.2023 00:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Introduce yourself using three books you love

- Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
- Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
- Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

23.09.2023 23:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize | Judged by Sequoia Nagamatsu Longlist - Uncharted Congrats to the writers of these 34 novel excerpts! We’re so honored when submitters trust us with their writing, especially excepts from their novels in progress. We’re working on narrowing this ...

First big announcement on the new site? An excerpt from my novel Lovely as Marrowbone was longlisted in this Uncharted contest! www.unchartedmag.com/uncharted-ma...

23.09.2023 23:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well what do you know: the sky IS bluer on the other side!

23.09.2023 23:43 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0