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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student
@eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
Pen name. Writes dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging.

Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, particular about coffee and tea, and a year-round summer camp counselor for two cats.
"Sir, a second Joyce Carol Oates post has hit—"
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sounds pretty wholesome to me, I dunno
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Black cat blep forces reporting in
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Just opened up issue 1 of @goblins-galaxies.bsky.social, and I know which story I'm gonna read first
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Me when I'm budgeting for my next overseas trip:
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Happy Halloween to the local cemetery and its groundskeepers.
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Did someone say PhD candidates??
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Once again, the Brassica oleracea principle of plant cultivation applies to everything
October 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Much deserved!

And seemingly, the award committee has a sense of humor, too. Choose your (wife) character, etc.
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just sharing one of the default states here
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My order for this year's Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy just came in, and something about the color scheme feels very @speculativeinsight.bsky.social to me
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Well,
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Something something the scourge of populism in our politics today
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Illiterate and then some
October 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Choose your, uhh, fighter?
October 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I found this passage in particular simply marvelous:
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Thank you, YouTube's AI™, for explaining the comments on this video to me. No way I could've puzzled this one out using my meat-based hardware alone
October 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
When you tell the New Age types that 90+% of them were farmers in many of their past lives:
October 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Oh, y'all might also like this essay if you have a serious appetite for footnotes.
October 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
It's dangerous out there (though arguably it's dangerous over here, too). Here, have some company.
September 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
All things considered, I think I need to take a social media hiatus for most of the week, every week
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Creature sighted. Our best zoologists caution against positively IDing it as any previously documented species. Our worst zoologists say it totally looks like a cat.
September 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
September 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM