Faun by Moonlight - Literary Magazine
@faunbymoonlight.bsky.social
📚Literary Magazine📚
✍️Publishing Literary Fiction and Non-Fiction✍️
📢Submissions Open-We are a paying Market📢
Find out more at: faunbymoonlight.com
More links: linktr.ee/faunbymoonlight
✍️Publishing Literary Fiction and Non-Fiction✍️
📢Submissions Open-We are a paying Market📢
Find out more at: faunbymoonlight.com
More links: linktr.ee/faunbymoonlight
Ah, yes I understand now.
Yes, it’s true AI chatbots can be incorrect, but technically so can any other source you use for research. I suppose it depends on how you use it, not if.
For more information on our view on AI, please read our statement: www.faunbymoonlight.com/ai-statement
Thank you!
Yes, it’s true AI chatbots can be incorrect, but technically so can any other source you use for research. I suppose it depends on how you use it, not if.
For more information on our view on AI, please read our statement: www.faunbymoonlight.com/ai-statement
Thank you!
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ah, yes I understand now.
Yes, it’s true AI chatbots can be incorrect, but technically so can any other source you use for research. I suppose it depends on how you use it, not if.
For more information on our view on AI, please read our statement: www.faunbymoonlight.com/ai-statement
Thank you!
Yes, it’s true AI chatbots can be incorrect, but technically so can any other source you use for research. I suppose it depends on how you use it, not if.
For more information on our view on AI, please read our statement: www.faunbymoonlight.com/ai-statement
Thank you!
Hi Mari, sorry it seems that your comment was hidden for some reason! Hopefully us commenting on that will fix it.
Are you referring to our submissions guidelines? Just so I can better understand your comment
Are you referring to our submissions guidelines? Just so I can better understand your comment
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hi Mari, sorry it seems that your comment was hidden for some reason! Hopefully us commenting on that will fix it.
Are you referring to our submissions guidelines? Just so I can better understand your comment
Are you referring to our submissions guidelines? Just so I can better understand your comment
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Also very tedious when you login and the first thing you read is something like a Dr. Saying there’s no evidence washing your hands prevents infections
True story btw…
Also very tedious when you login and the first thing you read is something like a Dr. Saying there’s no evidence washing your hands prevents infections
True story btw…
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Also very tedious when you login and the first thing you read is something like a Dr. Saying there’s no evidence washing your hands prevents infections
True story btw…
Also very tedious when you login and the first thing you read is something like a Dr. Saying there’s no evidence washing your hands prevents infections
True story btw…
Hey! Absolutely, short form content (I mean the internet overall) isn’t imune to those kinds of things.
Paying for that behaviour has only come to worse those tendencies…
Paying for that behaviour has only come to worse those tendencies…
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hey! Absolutely, short form content (I mean the internet overall) isn’t imune to those kinds of things.
Paying for that behaviour has only come to worse those tendencies…
Paying for that behaviour has only come to worse those tendencies…
Despite good pre-order sales, and very healthy website visits, we are still quite new in this space.
If you wish to support great literature, even just a follow and interaction goes a long way.
Thank you, and remember: Be Unpublishable
#art #literature #books #writers #thread
If you wish to support great literature, even just a follow and interaction goes a long way.
Thank you, and remember: Be Unpublishable
#art #literature #books #writers #thread
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Despite good pre-order sales, and very healthy website visits, we are still quite new in this space.
If you wish to support great literature, even just a follow and interaction goes a long way.
Thank you, and remember: Be Unpublishable
#art #literature #books #writers #thread
If you wish to support great literature, even just a follow and interaction goes a long way.
Thank you, and remember: Be Unpublishable
#art #literature #books #writers #thread
In fact, continuing to participate and engage in that environment will serve only to legitimize it.
So, here we are.
If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work. We would leave to hear from you.
So, here we are.
If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work. We would leave to hear from you.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
In fact, continuing to participate and engage in that environment will serve only to legitimize it.
So, here we are.
If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work. We would leave to hear from you.
So, here we are.
If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work. We would leave to hear from you.
If our stated mission is to find and promote the best voices of our generation--voices that have probably struggled to be heard for quite a while--then we won't find it there.
Not because they're not there, but unless we engage in the same behavior, they won't find us.
Not because they're not there, but unless we engage in the same behavior, they won't find us.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If our stated mission is to find and promote the best voices of our generation--voices that have probably struggled to be heard for quite a while--then we won't find it there.
Not because they're not there, but unless we engage in the same behavior, they won't find us.
Not because they're not there, but unless we engage in the same behavior, they won't find us.
For contemporary literature, which has been consistently outperformed by older titles, this aversion to criticism only serves to prolong the stagnation it is currently experiencing.
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
The Death of Literature
And why it isn't happening--From the Editor of a Literary Magazine
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November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
For contemporary literature, which has been consistently outperformed by older titles, this aversion to criticism only serves to prolong the stagnation it is currently experiencing.
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
However, the environment it has festered in the creative community is particularly damaging to the medium.
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion, or providing criticism.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion, or providing criticism.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
However, the environment it has festered in the creative community is particularly damaging to the medium.
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion, or providing criticism.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion, or providing criticism.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
This is how echo chambers are created, and curated.
For the common user, this is damaging because it prevents them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
For the common user, this is damaging because it prevents them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is how echo chambers are created, and curated.
For the common user, this is damaging because it prevents them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
For the common user, this is damaging because it prevents them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
The popularity of these absolutist takes means users will naturally be forced to choose one position or another, without the benefit of a "middle ground" where opposing ideas may thrive.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The popularity of these absolutist takes means users will naturally be forced to choose one position or another, without the benefit of a "middle ground" where opposing ideas may thrive.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.
Creators know that if they strip away nuance, they increase the chance of "context collapse."
Strangers will misunderstand the tweet, get mad, and reply. This triggers the algorithm to show the tweet to more strangers.
Being clear reduces your reach and, by extension, how much you make.
Strangers will misunderstand the tweet, get mad, and reply. This triggers the algorithm to show the tweet to more strangers.
Being clear reduces your reach and, by extension, how much you make.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creators know that if they strip away nuance, they increase the chance of "context collapse."
Strangers will misunderstand the tweet, get mad, and reply. This triggers the algorithm to show the tweet to more strangers.
Being clear reduces your reach and, by extension, how much you make.
Strangers will misunderstand the tweet, get mad, and reply. This triggers the algorithm to show the tweet to more strangers.
Being clear reduces your reach and, by extension, how much you make.
The more outrageous, the less nuanced, the more polemic your tweet, the more engagement you will have.
But now engagement pays--and it pays quite well.
But now engagement pays--and it pays quite well.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The more outrageous, the less nuanced, the more polemic your tweet, the more engagement you will have.
But now engagement pays--and it pays quite well.
But now engagement pays--and it pays quite well.
Yet, since Elon's takeover of X, the short-form format has become less of a problem than the algorithm itself, which actively promotes outrage as the currency with which one buys an audience.
Whereas before you risked being misunderstood, now misunderstanding has become the goal.
Whereas before you risked being misunderstood, now misunderstanding has become the goal.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yet, since Elon's takeover of X, the short-form format has become less of a problem than the algorithm itself, which actively promotes outrage as the currency with which one buys an audience.
Whereas before you risked being misunderstood, now misunderstanding has become the goal.
Whereas before you risked being misunderstood, now misunderstanding has become the goal.
Short-form content on social media inherently promotes the compression of complex topics into soundbites.
Nuance, naturally, dies at the door when you're trying to explain any opinion in 250 characters.
On Twitter this was always an issue, as it is on Bluesky, Mastodon, etc.
Nuance, naturally, dies at the door when you're trying to explain any opinion in 250 characters.
On Twitter this was always an issue, as it is on Bluesky, Mastodon, etc.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Short-form content on social media inherently promotes the compression of complex topics into soundbites.
Nuance, naturally, dies at the door when you're trying to explain any opinion in 250 characters.
On Twitter this was always an issue, as it is on Bluesky, Mastodon, etc.
Nuance, naturally, dies at the door when you're trying to explain any opinion in 250 characters.
On Twitter this was always an issue, as it is on Bluesky, Mastodon, etc.
In fact, continuing to participate and engage in that environment will serve only to legitimize it.
So, here we are. If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work.
So, here we are. If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In fact, continuing to participate and engage in that environment will serve only to legitimize it.
So, here we are. If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work.
So, here we are. If you are one of these voices, we ask that you please head over to our website faunbymoonlight.com and send us your work.
This is then why we've taken the decision to stay away from X altogether.
If our stated mission is to find and promote the best voices of our generation—voices that have probably struggled to be heard for quite a while—then we won't find it there.
If our stated mission is to find and promote the best voices of our generation—voices that have probably struggled to be heard for quite a while—then we won't find it there.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is then why we've taken the decision to stay away from X altogether.
If our stated mission is to find and promote the best voices of our generation—voices that have probably struggled to be heard for quite a while—then we won't find it there.
If our stated mission is to find and promote the best voices of our generation—voices that have probably struggled to be heard for quite a while—then we won't find it there.
For contemporary literature, which has been consistently outperformed by older titles, this aversion to criticism will only serve to prolong the stagnation it is currently experiencing.
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For contemporary literature, which has been consistently outperformed by older titles, this aversion to criticism will only serve to prolong the stagnation it is currently experiencing.
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
In our opinion piece "The Death of Literature," we expand on this very issue: shorturl.at/L6Aru
However, the environment it has festered in the creative community is particularly damaging to the medium.
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other, sometimes for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other, sometimes for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
However, the environment it has festered in the creative community is particularly damaging to the medium.
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other, sometimes for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
Here, writers actively insult, block, and doxx each other, sometimes for the crime of disagreeing with an opinion.
It's not uncommon to see things like this:
The result is users are pushed towards the curation of their own echo chambers.
For the common user, this is damaging because it stops them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
For the common user, this is damaging because it stops them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The result is users are pushed towards the curation of their own echo chambers.
For the common user, this is damaging because it stops them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
For the common user, this is damaging because it stops them from engaging with different opinions, especially in politics, where extremist content has become more popular than ever.
The popularity of these absolutist takes means users will naturally be forced to choose one position or another, without the benefit of a "middle ground" where opposing ideas may thrive.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The popularity of these absolutist takes means users will naturally be forced to choose one position or another, without the benefit of a "middle ground" where opposing ideas may thrive.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.
This, inversely, leads the users to lose their own sense of nuance, and their tolerance for it.