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wendell the expletive pronoun @wendellwrites.bsky.social · 3h

if you take this course, i will officially be jealous. i'm overbooked for the next few months, but anya's writing is exquisite, and the texts sound like they'll be amazing.

One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 12h

Register today for Worldbuilding for Any Story with @adeniro.bsky.social. We will read writers such as Ursula LeGuin, Kelly Link, Jorge Luis Borges and Anna Kaval to explore how they create a sense of spatiality in their stories with just a few phrases and sentences. bit.ly/4o3zsfy

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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 3h

Anya's worlds are some of my favorites out there. Don't miss this stellar chance to learn from the best!

One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 12h

Register today for Worldbuilding for Any Story with @adeniro.bsky.social. We will read writers such as Ursula LeGuin, Kelly Link, Jorge Luis Borges and Anna Kaval to explore how they create a sense of spatiality in their stories with just a few phrases and sentences. bit.ly/4o3zsfy

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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 12h

Register today for Worldbuilding for Any Story with @adeniro.bsky.social. We will read writers such as Ursula LeGuin, Kelly Link, Jorge Luis Borges and Anna Kaval to explore how they create a sense of spatiality in their stories with just a few phrases and sentences. bit.ly/4o3zsfy

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 9h

For the MAC they can be exchanged for Kohl’s Cash

Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 12h

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 12h

this is not a mascot of honor

Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

Getting a Wu Tang Clan tattoo

Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

v v true… that one is more geared for people who DO read a lot of short fiction in the genre but don’t pick up literary mags

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

Believe me in 25+ years of writing I have seen everything… nothing phases me anymore w stuff like this

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

100 percent

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

Steampunk is, with a few exceptions mostly written by Nisi Shawl, a neo-colonialist enterprise.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

now were cooking! There isn’t one god damn hinge on this whole thing

Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

Most speculative poetry isn’t very good And having it exist in its own little soap bubble ecosystem reinforces bad habits and disincentivizes finding actual poetry sf/f readers would enjoy, of which there is actually a lot!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

People in the genres should read a literary magazine every once in awhile. Self-servingly when I write sf/f that appears in a literary magazine it magically doesn’t exist for people who seem to read only sf/f

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say too that knowing that a couple editors are creeps cuts them out of the submission pool too so… yeah, not a ton to work with sometimes! With that said I have been also very grateful for lots of great editors

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

Good thread .. it feels very broken as someone who maybe has only two maybe three stories good to go at the same time (I also submit to lit Mags which … is its own thing )

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 1d

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

"All it took was an international terror campaign run by the government to prove it's natural to be cis"

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

Frying brains online

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

I think he likes people but dislikes humanity… the FBI had a file on him as a possible suspect for being the Unabomber. 100 percent on Naipaul too

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 1d

I feel this way about William Vollman lol

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 2d

History is weird

Flynn went to Cuba in late 1958 to film the self-produced B film Cuban Rebel Girls, where he met Fidel Castro and was an enthusiastic supporter of the Cuban Revolution. He wrote a series of newspaper and magazine articles for the New York Journal American and other publications documenting his time in Cuba with Castro. Flynn was the only journalist who happened to be with Castro the night Batista fled the country, and Castro learned of his victory in the revolution.[86] Many of these pieces were lost until 2009 when they were rediscovered in a collection at the University of Texas at Austin's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.[24] He appeared in a short titled Cuban Story: The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution (1959), his last-known work.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 2d

this is arguing with people in the quotes but there's no length a book "should" be. some need to be short. others need to be long. and a long book is not a failure of editing, because the goal of editing is not inherently to make something short

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 2d

Someone once described DN as the living equivalent of a knife you buy at a gas station in reference to this clip

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 2d

Hardrockers is one of the best monikers ever

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of nothing, but also not for nothing, Technique is a perfect album

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