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Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social · Sep 15

The Kickstarter for Into the Dark is officially live! My story “Second Love” is in this anthology. Please share and consider backing the anthology if you’re able to. www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Into the Dark

A Dark Fantasy and Fantastical Horror Anthology

www.kickstarter.com

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 9h

Morning Funny People ☕🙃

It's Wednesday. Here's Bernie.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 14h

for those of us up at 4am for no good gotdamn reason:

the string queens... enjoy!

youtu.be/fO05disYkhg?...

The String Queens LIVE!

YouTube video by The String Queens

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 1d

This might be this era's "Bella Ciao"...

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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🎃 Spooky pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 1d

Great to know that Kermit had joined the ranks!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 1d

It seriously is. Fun. Funny. Snuff is a delightful narrator. The way Zelazny brings everything together in the final chapter is a masterpiece in subtle, slow-burn storytelling.

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Funny People ☕🙃

This Week's Tuesday Title: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

As Halloween approaches, Snuff the Dog and his fellow familiars search through a tiny Hamlet in the countryside to determine who the players in the great game are...and where their allegiances lie.

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 1d

I've contemplated the structures and concluded they're the same.

The 5-Act structure is 3-Act, with Act 2 broken down further. 7-Point is 5-Act with the transitions between and within acts further detailed.

So, it doesn't matter which you use; in theory, the result is the same: a story that works.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the thing

I don't know how to go about indie publishing. It wasn't part of the plan at first, but now with these manuscripts piling up and no serious interest from the trad structure, I'm thinking maybe it's the better route to take.

Any advice?

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 2d

Morning Funny People ☕🙃

Any other Resident Alien fans out there?

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 3d

Just gonna leave this here...
#SpecialEducation

Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 4d

Fair enough. True that.

Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 4d

You think they'll stop at that? You're optimistic.

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 4d

So, I appear to have drafted something by accident that I genuinely never thought I'd ever write.

I appear to have drafted the first chapter of a contemporary romance novel.

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 4d

Wonder how all those white nationalist militias that live in Idaho will react.

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 6d

Morning Funny People ☕ 🙃

This week on Sci-Fi Thursdays: Brian Aldiss

A figure of British New Wave Aldiss' best-known works include the Helliconia Trilogy and the short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," which served as the basis for the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 6d

#Podcast
youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc?...

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 7d

Morning Funny People ☕🙃

It's Wednesday. Here's Adam.

Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 8d

*whispers* Because it was...

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 8d

The tide is turning. Just 13 per cent of young people think Brexit was right - and fewer than one in five under 50 agree. A clear majority of Britons now believe leaving the EU was a mistake.

Attacks on migrants will not return Tories to power, Lord Heseltine warns Badenoch

Lord Heseltine warning comes as Robert Jenrick is caught up in a racism row

www.independent.co.uk

Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 8d

Easy to get mad at things you're incapable of understanding.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8d

Paul Thomas Anderson's celebrated family drama and political thriller is far from the "apologia for radical left-wing terrorism" its conservative critics claim it is.

Right-Wingers Are Getting Mad at (and Misunderstanding) 'One Battle After Another'

Conservative critics and commentators like Ben Shapiro are complaining about, and misunderstanding, Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another."

www.rollingstone.com

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 8d

The creature is a fascinating and sympathetic character, for sure. But Victor's descent into a form of rage and vengeance-driven madness from having been a curiosity-driven, almost idealist is pitiful. Those last paragraphs of his narrative, before Walton takes over again, are heartbreaking.

Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 8d

Morning Funny People ☕ 🙃

This Week's Tuesday Title: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The tale of Victor Frankenstein's foolhardy quest to create life, only for it to lead to his undoing, remains as haunting and captivating as when I first read it at nine-years-old.

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 9d

Morning Funny People ☕🙃

Spidey thinking he needs coffee, pillows, and a week inside a sensory deprivation tank.

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Ian Martínez Cassmeyer @iansmc.bsky.social · 11d

What's the fucking point?