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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma

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Nebula Award-winning speculative fiction writer. PhD in Language & Rhetoric. Clarion ‘24. Odyssey ‘23. Codex. Stories in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Cast of Wonders, khōréō, etc. 🇮🇩 Jakarta 🇺🇸 PNW. Rep: @thaisafonso.bsky.social Website: awprihandita.com (she/her)

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · Jun 8

Proof of life.

(I look way more put-together here than I actually feel. More soon. Still trying to process. Don’t have words yet other than thank you and I was/am very shocked.)

A selfie with my Nebula trophy, which looks like a transparent block with planets floating in it (so cool!). I’m wearing a green off-the-shoulders velvet dress, kneeling by the hotel room table where the trophy is. Peace sign. ✌️

The Nebula trophy. The writing on it: “Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. 2024 Nebula Award for Novelette. “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being.” A. W. Prihandita.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 14h

How u so talented 🥺

A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 15h

Broke 5k on this story! I’ll be trying to write even on weekdays, this week. Maybe I’ll wrap up act 1 by Sunday. 👀

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 2d

I fucking love him. My heart attack in black hair dye, my broken glass in the morning light, the only friend that makes me cry, the only good thing in the whole damn world. 🥹

A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 2d

But hey I got to have a full paragraph about the boy MC waking up 500 years after he went to bed, with his face replicated in 4K Ultra HD with smudges of super emo waterproof eyeliner still stuck at the corner of his eye, going, Oh dear, should’ve done a better fashion statement OH I MEAN deathwish.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 2d

Also today I suddenly remembered when I first started planning this I was like, oh I’m gonna make Jeanne so mad by writing a story told fully in recapitulations.

Now I’ve started drafting and everything so far is in dramatization. No wonder why my “this is JUST a novelette” plan is failing. Idiot.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 2d

800+ words today (a scene). Had to pause to figure out a character + a lot of backstory & plot details. I’m still refusing to do a scene-by-scene outline, but I’ve been rehearsing some possible act 1 sequences in my head.

This is probably a novella. The question is whether it’ll be under 22k. 💀

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks so much, John. 😭 People in the SFF writing community have been awesome!! Maybe it’s just the university lol.

A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 4d

I will never again allow myself be made to feel like I don’t belong. I will go where I am wanted and respected. If anyone makes me feel like I am anything other than enough, I will slough off their words like dead skin. Those that are celestial move with a conviction of their own orbit; so will I.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 4d

There is just too fucking much. Too fucking much, man.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 6d

Rooting for you!! You’re SO CLOSE!! It will happen!!

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Carl Brandon Society @carlbrandon.bsky.social · 28d

If you're a BIPOC writer trying to find the time to finish your book or want personalised advice for tackling your writing projects, be sure to join us for the How To Finish Your Novel workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa.

Nov 29 & 30 or get the video after!

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The Carl Brandon Society Presents
How to Finish You Novel
A Weekend Workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9d

"any philosophy of technology that is severed from the material impacts of the technology is interesting, but limited in utility: a thought exercise....A great deal of suffering arises when we act on our solitary imaginations of the world, rather than working toward clarity through dialogue."

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 9d

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 9d

Yes!! So happy with myself. Hope your writing is going well too. Maybe even a finished novel? 👀

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 9d

Also I didn’t immediately hate the scene! And this is the first time I’ve written anything since early August! To be fair I was trying to recover from tendonitis most of August & all of September, plus I’ve been prewriting.

AND my body rn isn’t hurting too bad considering I wrote for 6+ hrs today!

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 9d

I finished the first scene! It’s 2,142 words long. I’m fucked, aren’t I? 😭

I know it’s a longass scene, but to be fair there’s a lot of information the character needs to learn, and this is the most worldbuilding I’ve done in a looooong time. So maybe it’s okay. Maybe. 😬

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 10d

We're $301 from our reprints stretch goal! If we hit that, every issue will include a reprint of a queer story no longer available online. Help us archive queer stories and support queer creators in a time of censorship!

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OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 10d

Okay wait no actually I do have a semipro publication that’s a fic. Didn’t even bother to minimize the fangirl POV for that one, I don’t think. Heck, I didn’t even change the name.

A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 10d

Getting ready to embody the POV of the story’s POV character instead of the fangirl who’s writing the story. A novel first world problem!

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 10d

Laying down the final coordinates for this story before I start drafting “soon”. I’ve cried as much today as I did when writing the penultimate scene of Negative Scholarship, but that scene was the climax of that story and THIS is only late-stage prewriting. I don’t even wanna think about drafting.

A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 11d

I hope I can do it justice! (Also I hope your Tachyon even went well! I wanted to go but I got stuck in a meeting.)

A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 11d

This story has made me cry so many times and I haven’t even put down a single word.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social · 13d

Had to set a payment rate again and as usual I feel 🤮 I’m sorry for asking for so much money but 😭 I kinda need it. Also I have a PhD. And it’s literally just smack in the middle of the range of rates I found on the internet, so it’s not like it’s exorbitant or whatever. But still 😭🤮