Aura Martin
@auramartin.bsky.social
Writer of Centos | Full-length BUTTERFLIES OVER FLAME at ELJ Editions | Published at Emerge Literary Journal, Kissing Dynamite, perhappened, and more | https://auramartin.weebly.com/
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And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
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I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm very disappointed in SFWA's soft stance on LLM and the Nebulas. Any use of LLM, disclosed or not, should not be awards eligible. It's plagiarism and crap, period
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I added this little gingerbread astronaut necklace to my shop this morning, and have a handful more I'll be adding over the next few days! Check it out at xxyxxy.com
#ceramic #gingerbread #astronaut #necklace
#ceramic #gingerbread #astronaut #necklace
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I added this little gingerbread astronaut necklace to my shop this morning, and have a handful more I'll be adding over the next few days! Check it out at xxyxxy.com
#ceramic #gingerbread #astronaut #necklace
#ceramic #gingerbread #astronaut #necklace
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Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
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This absolute obsession with Dorian Greying your face is so depressing to me, generations of women passing up the opportunity to pass into their powerful crone years
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This absolute obsession with Dorian Greying your face is so depressing to me, generations of women passing up the opportunity to pass into their powerful crone years
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We are hiring now for our spring internships! These remote, volunteer positions offer hands-on experience with editing, writing, and contributing to the social media of a nationally recognized independent literary press. Applications are due 11/21/2025!
www.sundresspublications.com/openings/
www.sundresspublications.com/openings/
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We are hiring now for our spring internships! These remote, volunteer positions offer hands-on experience with editing, writing, and contributing to the social media of a nationally recognized independent literary press. Applications are due 11/21/2025!
www.sundresspublications.com/openings/
www.sundresspublications.com/openings/
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Last week, the New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast asked, “Did women ruin the workplace?” The headline changed twice — but the real issue wasn’t the wording. It was the premise.
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Last week, the New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast asked, “Did women ruin the workplace?” The headline changed twice — but the real issue wasn’t the wording. It was the premise.
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Never recovering from this page
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Never recovering from this page
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.
Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.
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Seeing a weird turn in some of the online criticisms leveled against us for our unwillingness to allow "AI" in any way at Clarkesworld. Now they are claiming our decision comes from a place of being "traumatized" by the bad people using "AI" and that we just need time to recover. Keep dreaming.
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Seeing a weird turn in some of the online criticisms leveled against us for our unwillingness to allow "AI" in any way at Clarkesworld. Now they are claiming our decision comes from a place of being "traumatized" by the bad people using "AI" and that we just need time to recover. Keep dreaming.
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Kelly !!!!!! @kellylink.bsky.social
![often processing them in a torrent. You look at something horrible on Twitter or somewhere else, but it's surrounded by other kinds of information, and so you don't have the space to have the intensity of feeling that we should have when something horrifying or traumatic happens. [highlighted by me] Supernatural horror is a technique for restoring the right kind of emotion to the horrifying things that people do or that are done to people. You're reestablishing that a terrifying thing is, in fact, terrifying. That a horrible thing is horrifying. That trauma has actual weight. You're giving space for the person reading to have the actual emotional response that is appropriate to the thing that just happened. [end highlight]
CMM: That speaks to me as a person who intellectualizes her feelings and often is very bad at experiencing them. It's a defense mechanism, obviously, a way of keeping yourself safe. Analyze it or put it in a framework, and it's not going to be as scary.
I've had therapists tell me, "Sometimes, you have to just experience a feeling; you have to let it run through you." So that makes a lot of](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rwr4qlpo3yvnqyvr4hrtmzkd/bafkreigq2ve7hvdpm7yok4asu7vd3riwdefajq6u4gw3vnatngpdkpw4km@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Kelly !!!!!! @kellylink.bsky.social
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"Fourteen minutes later, Deadspin replied from its official account: “@realDonaldTrump Go fuck yourself.” "
This Post Should Have Been Shorter
My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Fourteen minutes later, Deadspin replied from its official account: “@realDonaldTrump Go fuck yourself.” "
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it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines!
natraum.com/workshops
natraum.com/workshops
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Slots are full for the moment, but I may be able to open a few more by the weekend! If you know anyone wanting an in-depth star chart analysis, point them my way!
Taking on a few natal chart clients again! I have capacity for five right now. Full chart analysis in PDF with highlighted focus on any specific areas you want to question.
$75 per, DM me if interested!
$75 per, DM me if interested!
a zodiac circle with the signs of the zodiac inside
Alt: a wheel of western zodiac symbols
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Slots are full for the moment, but I may be able to open a few more by the weekend! If you know anyone wanting an in-depth star chart analysis, point them my way!
I have had my chart read by her! Highly recommend 💫
Taking on a few natal chart clients again! I have capacity for five right now. Full chart analysis in PDF with highlighted focus on any specific areas you want to question.
$75 per, DM me if interested!
$75 per, DM me if interested!
a zodiac circle with the signs of the zodiac inside
Alt: a wheel of western zodiac symbols
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I have had my chart read by her! Highly recommend 💫
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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hi folks, i'm here to plug my workshops again. even if you have no experience doing any of these things, they will be very fun and you should sign up for one or maybe all of them.
icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live?
tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!
tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!
October 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
hi folks, i'm here to plug my workshops again. even if you have no experience doing any of these things, they will be very fun and you should sign up for one or maybe all of them.
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I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️
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Thank you, @debutiful.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/10/01/1...
12 noteworthy debut books you should read this October
Debutiful’s Adam Vitcavage recommends noteworthy debut books for readers to discover each month.
debutiful.net
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thank you, @debutiful.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/10/01/1...
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1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.
I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.
If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
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If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.
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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.
I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
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That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why
The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem
www.salon.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
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I did not know this! JSTOR is a fantastic resource, I used it all the time in college and it's great to have access to it again.
www.jstor.org
www.jstor.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I did not know this! JSTOR is a fantastic resource, I used it all the time in college and it's great to have access to it again.
www.jstor.org
www.jstor.org