C.N. Vair
@cnvair.bsky.social
Author, dog person, candy fiend, she/her. Repped by Julie Gourinchas.
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just, painting my current vibes, like one does 🐍
March 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
just, painting my current vibes, like one does 🐍
Shamelessly pitching this to my SFF book club for November.
We are thrilled to share the cover of PROJECT HANUMAN by @stewarthotston.com a bold new science-fiction novel blending Indian mythology and classic space opera; an exploration of a utopian galactic society and how from its ashes something new comes.😮
Check out the exclusive extract below...
Check out the exclusive extract below...
February 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Shamelessly pitching this to my SFF book club for November.
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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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This kind of slimy, unprincipled cowardice is beyond pitiful. Don't offend the Nazis! You might lose a few sales!
January 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This kind of slimy, unprincipled cowardice is beyond pitiful. Don't offend the Nazis! You might lose a few sales!
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in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...
Google Quietly Installed A.I. to My Workspace. Getting Rid of It Was Creepy.
Opting out should not be a premium feature. It’s a basic right.
slate.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...
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“Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to read and article and there’s a 93 percent chance you’ll tell the author to fuck off..."
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to read and article and there’s a 93 percent chance you’ll tell the author to fuck off..."
God, I cannot WAIT for this.
We are delighted to announce Humboldt Cut by @allisonmick.bsky.social, a new ecological horror from Erewhon Books coming early 2026!
After a California forest is devastated by the logging industry...Jasmine learns there's more than trees lurking in the wilderness 🌲
reactormag.com/book-announc...
After a California forest is devastated by the logging industry...Jasmine learns there's more than trees lurking in the wilderness 🌲
reactormag.com/book-announc...
Announcing Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick - Reactor
"Horror with a funny bone, and full of heart."
reactormag.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
God, I cannot WAIT for this.
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Horror books by/incl trans masc authors that came out 2024. Please keep reading and sharing and supporting trans-authored work. I can personally vouch for all of these.
January 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horror books by/incl trans masc authors that came out 2024. Please keep reading and sharing and supporting trans-authored work. I can personally vouch for all of these.
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my wonderful client @catebaumer.bsky.social has donated two query critiques and three chapter critiques to the #KidLitforCeasefire auction. please consider bidding! 🍉
www.32auctions.com/organization...
www.32auctions.com/organization...
#KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction
Silent auction '#KidLit4Ceasefire 2025 Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
my wonderful client @catebaumer.bsky.social has donated two query critiques and three chapter critiques to the #KidLitforCeasefire auction. please consider bidding! 🍉
www.32auctions.com/organization...
www.32auctions.com/organization...
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I’m donating a query and first chapter critique for #kidlit4ceasefire 2025 Auction, which will run from January 15 to January 31st!
Donation link: www.32auctions.com/organization...
Donation link: www.32auctions.com/organization...
January 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’m donating a query and first chapter critique for #kidlit4ceasefire 2025 Auction, which will run from January 15 to January 31st!
Donation link: www.32auctions.com/organization...
Donation link: www.32auctions.com/organization...
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hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for:
- contemporary romance
- coming of age (especially BIPOC)
- gorgeous, punchy graphic novels
#mswl
- contemporary romance
- coming of age (especially BIPOC)
- gorgeous, punchy graphic novels
#mswl
January 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for:
- contemporary romance
- coming of age (especially BIPOC)
- gorgeous, punchy graphic novels
#mswl
- contemporary romance
- coming of age (especially BIPOC)
- gorgeous, punchy graphic novels
#mswl
WELL I finally finished this, and I just have to say
December 31, 2024 at 3:33 AM
WELL I finally finished this, and I just have to say
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In November, we (PodCastle) ran a month of Palestinian stories, and honestly I think it is the single best month of stories we've ever run, and you should listen to it on those grounds alone.
But I also spent a lot of time on those outros, and meant to write more about them at the time, but: busy.
But I also spent a lot of time on those outros, and meant to write more about them at the time, but: busy.
Palestinian Voices Month - PodCastle
PodCastle is extremely proud to present Palestinian Voices, our special month of stories by Palestinian authors. We will be publishing one of these fabulous stories every week during November 2024, an...
podcastle.org
December 27, 2024 at 11:55 AM
In November, we (PodCastle) ran a month of Palestinian stories, and honestly I think it is the single best month of stories we've ever run, and you should listen to it on those grounds alone.
But I also spent a lot of time on those outros, and meant to write more about them at the time, but: busy.
But I also spent a lot of time on those outros, and meant to write more about them at the time, but: busy.
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#wintersolstice is a time of change...
@samkhorton.bsky.social's deliciously dark folkloric tale GORSE was many readers' favourite book of the year. In 1700s Cornwall changeling Nancy Bligh fought to keep the balance, but now her dreams are haunted with strange visions...
https://geni.us/gorse
@samkhorton.bsky.social's deliciously dark folkloric tale GORSE was many readers' favourite book of the year. In 1700s Cornwall changeling Nancy Bligh fought to keep the balance, but now her dreams are haunted with strange visions...
https://geni.us/gorse
December 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
#wintersolstice is a time of change...
@samkhorton.bsky.social's deliciously dark folkloric tale GORSE was many readers' favourite book of the year. In 1700s Cornwall changeling Nancy Bligh fought to keep the balance, but now her dreams are haunted with strange visions...
https://geni.us/gorse
@samkhorton.bsky.social's deliciously dark folkloric tale GORSE was many readers' favourite book of the year. In 1700s Cornwall changeling Nancy Bligh fought to keep the balance, but now her dreams are haunted with strange visions...
https://geni.us/gorse
"I just want the cookie recipe, I don't want to read about how your grandma made them for your grandpa in the war!"
STOP. Just stop. This complaint is five years old. There's a "jump to recipe" button RIGHT THERE. We all know it. You're embarrassing yourself.
STOP. Just stop. This complaint is five years old. There's a "jump to recipe" button RIGHT THERE. We all know it. You're embarrassing yourself.
December 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
"I just want the cookie recipe, I don't want to read about how your grandma made them for your grandpa in the war!"
STOP. Just stop. This complaint is five years old. There's a "jump to recipe" button RIGHT THERE. We all know it. You're embarrassing yourself.
STOP. Just stop. This complaint is five years old. There's a "jump to recipe" button RIGHT THERE. We all know it. You're embarrassing yourself.
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vulpes ferus - 2024 #sculpture #surrealism #popsurrealism #mixedmedia #noai #handmade #ellenjewett #coldporcelain #naturalhistory #fox
December 12, 2024 at 12:36 AM
vulpes ferus - 2024 #sculpture #surrealism #popsurrealism #mixedmedia #noai #handmade #ellenjewett #coldporcelain #naturalhistory #fox
Just got off A Call and this is how I'll be until January.
a young boy is sitting at a table in a living room and smiling .
ALT: a young boy is sitting at a table in a living room and smiling .
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December 18, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Just got off A Call and this is how I'll be until January.
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You might be cool, but you’ll never be Cloud Strife fighting a collapsing building with two swords kinda cool.
December 18, 2024 at 3:39 PM
You might be cool, but you’ll never be Cloud Strife fighting a collapsing building with two swords kinda cool.
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Just realized that it's around the anniversary of my holiday horror story "The Sounds of Reindeer," published in @reactorsff.bsky.social.
Looking to read a story about toxic family traditions and the sounds we listen for on Christmas Eve? 🦌
reactormag.com/the-sound-of...
Looking to read a story about toxic family traditions and the sounds we listen for on Christmas Eve? 🦌
reactormag.com/the-sound-of...
The Sound of Reindeer - Reactor
Ada's holiday trip to meet her girlfriend's family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she discovers the family’s unusual Christmas Eve tradition...
reactormag.com
December 15, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Just realized that it's around the anniversary of my holiday horror story "The Sounds of Reindeer," published in @reactorsff.bsky.social.
Looking to read a story about toxic family traditions and the sounds we listen for on Christmas Eve? 🦌
reactormag.com/the-sound-of...
Looking to read a story about toxic family traditions and the sounds we listen for on Christmas Eve? 🦌
reactormag.com/the-sound-of...
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What really boils my piss about generative AI is that they are proven to intensify racist and sexist bias with terrible outcomes already being recorded (do your own homework) but white people step over that without comment because it summarises an email and reproduces stolen images for them.
December 14, 2024 at 12:26 PM
What really boils my piss about generative AI is that they are proven to intensify racist and sexist bias with terrible outcomes already being recorded (do your own homework) but white people step over that without comment because it summarises an email and reproduces stolen images for them.
Just two little guys who have had a hard year but still have each other.
December 14, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Just two little guys who have had a hard year but still have each other.
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like. this. this is the whole thing right here: "Fewer good stories will be told. It is stolen valor to demand the prestige of creation without the trial of actually doing it."
December 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
like. this. this is the whole thing right here: "Fewer good stories will be told. It is stolen valor to demand the prestige of creation without the trial of actually doing it."