Meg Elison
@megelison.bsky.social
Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me I’m pretty. Rep: Arley Sorg at KT Literary.
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Meg Elison
@megelison.bsky.social
· Mar 12
Coming summer 2026: it's Hamilton x The Boys from Brazil. Foundling Fathers, Tachyon Publications. Happy birthday, America. It's the satire you deserve.
What a fucking Friday night.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
What a fucking Friday night.
I can't even describe how much I love this.
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I can't even describe how much I love this.
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An update from the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
An update from the team at @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
While yesterday’s all-retailer ebook sale for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity only lasted for 24 hours, the $3.99 price will continue to be available until Nov. 30th on Kindle. Apologies for the confusion, everyone 🖤
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This is a banger of a story. If you enjoy Carmen Maria Machado and/or Pemi Aguda's work, you'll probably dig this.
New story day! My twisted fairy tale, “Head of the Household,” is in the winter issue of F(r)iction.
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Koschei the Deathless, Slavic folklore’s baddest bad, has met his match in Ira: a mortal woman with a clever plan to take him down. At stake? Ira’s best friend’s freedom. Warning: contains gluten 🥖🩸
Head of the Household - F(r)iction
Kristina Ten presents the story of a woman preparing for her high-stakes marriage to an evil immortal lord.
frictionlit.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
This is a banger of a story. If you enjoy Carmen Maria Machado and/or Pemi Aguda's work, you'll probably dig this.
The longer I go without a main gig, the more elaborate my lunch plans become. Another month and I’ll be burying jars of my own sauerkraut.
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The longer I go without a main gig, the more elaborate my lunch plans become. Another month and I’ll be burying jars of my own sauerkraut.
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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“I knew that this must be the place for me first by the smell of it, Nag Champa on top, followed by the bright-colored mega sticks of incense marked “Rain” in electric blue and “Goddess” in gold and “Money” in dollar green.”
wildhunt.org/2025/11/blac...
#pagan #witchcraft #babywitch #pagansky
wildhunt.org/2025/11/blac...
#pagan #witchcraft #babywitch #pagansky
Black Friday Magick - Living, Paganism, Perspectives, Witchcraft
Witchcraft & Pagan News - "I knew that this must be the place for me first by the smell of it," writes Meg Elison. "Nag Champa on top, followed by the bright-colored mega sticks of incense marked “Rai...
wildhunt.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“I knew that this must be the place for me first by the smell of it, Nag Champa on top, followed by the bright-colored mega sticks of incense marked “Rain” in electric blue and “Goddess” in gold and “Money” in dollar green.”
wildhunt.org/2025/11/blac...
#pagan #witchcraft #babywitch #pagansky
wildhunt.org/2025/11/blac...
#pagan #witchcraft #babywitch #pagansky
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!["It's called "deviled eggs" because the voices whisper & make you eat 25 of them" [image of a couple of pretty terrible looking deviled eggs. (I'd still eat all of them.)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreialj4yqws22hxwmmgeujuqyp375qgjmdbemjg2bep3seaj4tavo5i@jpeg)
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If you're in New York tonight, Kay Vaindal will be reading Pig House 2: Pig in the City at Lofty Pigeon Books!
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you're in New York tonight, Kay Vaindal will be reading Pig House 2: Pig in the City at Lofty Pigeon Books!
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
Hard to admit that a retail establishment was the closest thing I had to a temple, but there it was. wildhunt.org/2025/11/blac...
Black Friday Magick - Living, Paganism, Perspectives, Witchcraft
Witchcraft & Pagan News - "I knew that this must be the place for me first by the smell of it," writes Meg Elison. "Nag Champa on top, followed by the bright-colored mega sticks of incense marked “Rai...
wildhunt.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Hard to admit that a retail establishment was the closest thing I had to a temple, but there it was. wildhunt.org/2025/11/blac...
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This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
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I’m starting a weekly short story club with friends, do you have any short stories that have really prompted discussion with your friends?
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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[Black & white illustration based on the book Charlotte's Web with a pig looking at a spider's web that says "fuck ICE" with the spider hanging off the bottom]
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
[Black & white illustration based on the book Charlotte's Web with a pig looking at a spider's web that says "fuck ICE" with the spider hanging off the bottom]
banana bread baking
rain on turned earth
lavender bath salt
coffee every morning made by someone who loves me
rain on turned earth
lavender bath salt
coffee every morning made by someone who loves me
I thought this said smell joys and got so excited to people listing scents they liked this week
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
banana bread baking
rain on turned earth
lavender bath salt
coffee every morning made by someone who loves me
rain on turned earth
lavender bath salt
coffee every morning made by someone who loves me
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this is fantastic, a thorough and compellingly argued theory of modern cinematic sludge
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
this is fantastic, a thorough and compellingly argued theory of modern cinematic sludge
Top five film genres:
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
Top 5 film genres
-one director’s quixotic and extravagant labor of love
-something awful has happened and nobody will ever know precisely what or why
-cool monsters
-this Hays code embodiment of a transatlantic accent wants to fuck
-I Hate The Upper Class But Damn They Know How to Dress
-one director’s quixotic and extravagant labor of love
-something awful has happened and nobody will ever know precisely what or why
-cool monsters
-this Hays code embodiment of a transatlantic accent wants to fuck
-I Hate The Upper Class But Damn They Know How to Dress
Top five film genres:
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Top five film genres:
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
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Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
“It’s not fascism until its control is total and fear of it is ruling your life” is a take designed to keep you from fighting until it’s too late.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“It’s not fascism until its control is total and fear of it is ruling your life” is a take designed to keep you from fighting until it’s too late.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
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I remember a time where all the guardrails we had in place were not only there but we knew why not to remove them. Widespread gambling, liquor commercials, even prescription drugs used to not be able to be advertised. It's taking almost no time to learn AGAIN why they were banned.
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I remember a time where all the guardrails we had in place were not only there but we knew why not to remove them. Widespread gambling, liquor commercials, even prescription drugs used to not be able to be advertised. It's taking almost no time to learn AGAIN why they were banned.
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I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
My wedding photos came back and I think I like the black and whites best.
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My wedding photos came back and I think I like the black and whites best.
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga