S.R. Lee (she/her)
@srleeauthor.com
YA SF writer, emphasis on lived experience with disability and cPTSD. Futurescapes alum. Library advocate. Spoonie. PNW. 1 husband, 3 cats, no fascists. UNEXPECTEDLY SEEKING NEW REP.
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![satire - [woman thinking] - Chronically Ill Woman Not Sure If She Should Stay In And Feel Depressed Or Go Out & Flare For Two+ Weeks - mybodyistryingtokillme.com](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbzmdmsaz6lkhb4tv3culzme/bafkreib5hzg55sahudnxazj5wrmjxwdzatstk3mbs5bvbzl77n3jz5xlce@jpeg)
My nose while I’m sitting: Oxygen is so great! Have some more!
My nose while I’m standing: Breathe In through the me! Out through the me! Yay!
My nose as soon as I’m lying down in bed: I’m going to suffocate you slowly while I force your family to watch.
My nose while I’m standing: Breathe In through the me! Out through the me! Yay!
My nose as soon as I’m lying down in bed: I’m going to suffocate you slowly while I force your family to watch.
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My nose while I’m sitting: Oxygen is so great! Have some more!
My nose while I’m standing: Breathe In through the me! Out through the me! Yay!
My nose as soon as I’m lying down in bed: I’m going to suffocate you slowly while I force your family to watch.
My nose while I’m standing: Breathe In through the me! Out through the me! Yay!
My nose as soon as I’m lying down in bed: I’m going to suffocate you slowly while I force your family to watch.
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The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
www.ala.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
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Periodic reminder that @librariesftp.bsky.social is interested in your stories of taking action in support of your local public library systems. Let us know what you are up to and we'd love to feature your stories in our newsletter.
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Periodic reminder that @librariesftp.bsky.social is interested in your stories of taking action in support of your local public library systems. Let us know what you are up to and we'd love to feature your stories in our newsletter.
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Some darlings are great; if we killed them all, Shakespeare would be awfully bland.
But some darlings don't belong in the story you wrote. Better to determine what needs to go during the editing phase. Don't bother during the first draft phase. That's the official Darlings Recess. They get to play.
But some darlings don't belong in the story you wrote. Better to determine what needs to go during the editing phase. Don't bother during the first draft phase. That's the official Darlings Recess. They get to play.
You don't have to kill ALL your darlings, okay?
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Some darlings are great; if we killed them all, Shakespeare would be awfully bland.
But some darlings don't belong in the story you wrote. Better to determine what needs to go during the editing phase. Don't bother during the first draft phase. That's the official Darlings Recess. They get to play.
But some darlings don't belong in the story you wrote. Better to determine what needs to go during the editing phase. Don't bother during the first draft phase. That's the official Darlings Recess. They get to play.
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IT'S TRUE
Plus if you're in the mood for it you can write an entire book based on a sliver of a scrap of a shred of a darling that you do not want to give up and it might then win the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award (I am just saying if it happened once it could happen again)
Plus if you're in the mood for it you can write an entire book based on a sliver of a scrap of a shred of a darling that you do not want to give up and it might then win the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award (I am just saying if it happened once it could happen again)
You don't have to kill ALL your darlings, okay?
December 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
IT'S TRUE
Plus if you're in the mood for it you can write an entire book based on a sliver of a scrap of a shred of a darling that you do not want to give up and it might then win the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award (I am just saying if it happened once it could happen again)
Plus if you're in the mood for it you can write an entire book based on a sliver of a scrap of a shred of a darling that you do not want to give up and it might then win the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award (I am just saying if it happened once it could happen again)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: (how do I choose only 5?!)
Ocelot
Giraffe
Humpback Whale
Sloth
Several species of sea turtles
Bonus mention:
Toucan
Baboon
Howler Monkey
Eyelash snake
Several species of hummingbirds
Ocelot
Giraffe
Humpback Whale
Sloth
Several species of sea turtles
Bonus mention:
Toucan
Baboon
Howler Monkey
Eyelash snake
Several species of hummingbirds
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Tundra swan
Barn owl
Blue whale
Bufflehead
California condor
Tundra swan
Barn owl
Blue whale
Bufflehead
California condor
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Whale shark
Jelly fish
Snowy owl
Black bear
Centipede
Whale shark
Jelly fish
Snowy owl
Black bear
Centipede
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: (how do I choose only 5?!)
Ocelot
Giraffe
Humpback Whale
Sloth
Several species of sea turtles
Bonus mention:
Toucan
Baboon
Howler Monkey
Eyelash snake
Several species of hummingbirds
Ocelot
Giraffe
Humpback Whale
Sloth
Several species of sea turtles
Bonus mention:
Toucan
Baboon
Howler Monkey
Eyelash snake
Several species of hummingbirds
This is AMAZING news! @rahaeli.bsky.social if you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. You’ll find it fascinating!
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is AMAZING news! @rahaeli.bsky.social if you haven’t seen this yet, you need to. You’ll find it fascinating!
What my cats are thankful for:
Fidget - an old shoelace tied to a wand toy
Sploot - a magnet on the end of a string that’s meant to go with magnetic wand toy lures. He’s only interested in the magnet.
Tinker - electric warming beds behind closed doors so he gets some peace and quiet for once
Fidget - an old shoelace tied to a wand toy
Sploot - a magnet on the end of a string that’s meant to go with magnetic wand toy lures. He’s only interested in the magnet.
Tinker - electric warming beds behind closed doors so he gets some peace and quiet for once
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
What my cats are thankful for:
Fidget - an old shoelace tied to a wand toy
Sploot - a magnet on the end of a string that’s meant to go with magnetic wand toy lures. He’s only interested in the magnet.
Tinker - electric warming beds behind closed doors so he gets some peace and quiet for once
Fidget - an old shoelace tied to a wand toy
Sploot - a magnet on the end of a string that’s meant to go with magnetic wand toy lures. He’s only interested in the magnet.
Tinker - electric warming beds behind closed doors so he gets some peace and quiet for once
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Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
Yes, yes, and yes. Buy books when you can, pre-order is even better, or request them from your local library so they buy them and you can read them!
This is an excellent summary of how "the author getting paid" works for traditional publishing! To which I'll add: it is super common for books (especially genre fiction) to not "earn out" the advance, so a lot of writers learn to not count on royalty money ever happening.
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Yes, yes, and yes. Buy books when you can, pre-order is even better, or request them from your local library so they buy them and you can read them!
Are we still saying hot damn? Is that a thing? Because Hot. Damn.
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Are we still saying hot damn? Is that a thing? Because Hot. Damn.
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Community health centers in the Seattle area are bracing for an influx of patients who can’t pay for their care.
These Seattle-area clinics plan to take care of people who’ve lost their health insurance
Community health centers in the Seattle area are bracing for an influx of patients who can’t pay for their care.
www.kuow.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Community health centers in the Seattle area are bracing for an influx of patients who can’t pay for their care.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Puget Sound Energy folks, let PSE know how you feel about this ⬇️
Oh my GOD.
Puget Sound Energy gets you to donate to their “Warm Home Fund” and then turns those funds over to the Salvation Army, the Christian supremacist hate group known for refusing queer people shelter when temperatures are dangerously cold.
The irony is painful.
Puget Sound Energy gets you to donate to their “Warm Home Fund” and then turns those funds over to the Salvation Army, the Christian supremacist hate group known for refusing queer people shelter when temperatures are dangerously cold.
The irony is painful.
Something else I regularly share for those of us in the Seattle-ish area...
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Puget Sound Energy folks, let PSE know how you feel about this ⬇️
For Caturday, and every day really, here’s a minute of Sploot kneading a blankie I tossed on my office chair and a very forceful and happy bunt after he realizes I’m watching him. 🥰 (Alt text: A fluffy tabby kneads a fuzzy blanket with gusto. Notices me, walks over, and bunts my phone/face hard.)
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
For Caturday, and every day really, here’s a minute of Sploot kneading a blankie I tossed on my office chair and a very forceful and happy bunt after he realizes I’m watching him. 🥰 (Alt text: A fluffy tabby kneads a fuzzy blanket with gusto. Notices me, walks over, and bunts my phone/face hard.)
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I have no words for the incandescent rage at the casual erasure of disabled folks, because this shit happens far too often. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was fierce about living life & speaking truth in ways we can all learn from. Honour her memory by masking up & protecting public health.
The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column.
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I have no words for the incandescent rage at the casual erasure of disabled folks, because this shit happens far too often. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was fierce about living life & speaking truth in ways we can all learn from. Honour her memory by masking up & protecting public health.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
So sad to hear of Alice’s passing. Her words taught me a lot about about my internalized ableism and living with my disability, disability justice, and the need for disabled community. What an incredible life well-lived 🖤
You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
You made a difference—so much of a difference.
Rest always in peace, and always in power.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
So sad to hear of Alice’s passing. Her words taught me a lot about about my internalized ableism and living with my disability, disability justice, and the need for disabled community. What an incredible life well-lived 🖤
Get to know your Bluesky friends!
10 things you like:
1. Writing ✍️ 📚
2. Good stories 📚 🎦
3. Observing nature’s weirdos 🐙
4. Chocolate + peanut butter OR mint; never both 🍫
5. Animal friends 🐈
6. Autumn 🍁
7. Making art 🎨
8. Playing coop games ♟️ 🎮
9. Good food I didn’t make 🍱
10. Old trees 🌳
10 things you like:
1. Writing ✍️ 📚
2. Good stories 📚 🎦
3. Observing nature’s weirdos 🐙
4. Chocolate + peanut butter OR mint; never both 🍫
5. Animal friends 🐈
6. Autumn 🍁
7. Making art 🎨
8. Playing coop games ♟️ 🎮
9. Good food I didn’t make 🍱
10. Old trees 🌳
[1. Travel
2. Waffles
3. Running
4. History
5. Fall
6. Cats
7. New Jersey
8. Wine
9. Naps
10. Painting]
2. Waffles
3. Running
4. History
5. Fall
6. Cats
7. New Jersey
8. Wine
9. Naps
10. Painting]
Get to know your Bluesky friends!
10 things you like:
1. Mötley Crüe 🤘
2. Jane Austen 📚
3. The smell of plumeria 👃🏼
4. Math jokes 🤓
5. Trivia competitions 🏆
6. Anything flavored mocha, mint, or maple 🍁
7. Grammar 🤓
8. Judith Martin (Miss Manners) 👵🏻
9. So many podcasts 🎧
10. Genealogy 🧬
10 things you like:
1. Mötley Crüe 🤘
2. Jane Austen 📚
3. The smell of plumeria 👃🏼
4. Math jokes 🤓
5. Trivia competitions 🏆
6. Anything flavored mocha, mint, or maple 🍁
7. Grammar 🤓
8. Judith Martin (Miss Manners) 👵🏻
9. So many podcasts 🎧
10. Genealogy 🧬
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Get to know your Bluesky friends!
10 things you like:
1. Writing ✍️ 📚
2. Good stories 📚 🎦
3. Observing nature’s weirdos 🐙
4. Chocolate + peanut butter OR mint; never both 🍫
5. Animal friends 🐈
6. Autumn 🍁
7. Making art 🎨
8. Playing coop games ♟️ 🎮
9. Good food I didn’t make 🍱
10. Old trees 🌳
10 things you like:
1. Writing ✍️ 📚
2. Good stories 📚 🎦
3. Observing nature’s weirdos 🐙
4. Chocolate + peanut butter OR mint; never both 🍫
5. Animal friends 🐈
6. Autumn 🍁
7. Making art 🎨
8. Playing coop games ♟️ 🎮
9. Good food I didn’t make 🍱
10. Old trees 🌳
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![fibromyalgia [fi-bro-my-al-gia] painful noun The feeling of being run over by a bus, dipped into a bucket of acid, and repeatedly thrown off a cliff without any physical proof.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbzmdmsaz6lkhb4tv3culzme/bafkreiekhd656sgistkfm6rgortxfrrjqjfft5nae5n6xgiskpzszanuam@jpeg)
Just went to throw away a piece of garbage and remembered, oh wait, that garbage is actually a cat toy.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just went to throw away a piece of garbage and remembered, oh wait, that garbage is actually a cat toy.
Worthwhile for anyone publishing short stories these days, even if you aren’t publishing SFF. Comb through those contracts, folks, and don’t be afraid to walk away if it doesn’t feel right.
Scott Edelman (@scottedelman.bsky.social)
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buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Worthwhile for anyone publishing short stories these days, even if you aren’t publishing SFF. Comb through those contracts, folks, and don’t be afraid to walk away if it doesn’t feel right.