Ronan Sadler
@ronansadler.bsky.social
Editor, reader, pet parent, and eventual author of disabled trans futures, feuds, and fantasia. Lambda Literary Fellow 2024, Tin House workshop 2025. Work with me! ronansadler.com
i rly do think that if you want to improve as a spec fic writer, the skill you need to focus on is just scene craft. it's not lore or conlangs or magic systems. it's nuts and bolts stuff. rising action - turn - consequences. what does your character want in this scene? and so on.
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
i rly do think that if you want to improve as a spec fic writer, the skill you need to focus on is just scene craft. it's not lore or conlangs or magic systems. it's nuts and bolts stuff. rising action - turn - consequences. what does your character want in this scene? and so on.
composing posts like "my most unchic opinion is that i actually do believe in the necessity and potential function of government" and then realizing that i'm so deep down a rabbit hole that this is functionally illegible
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
composing posts like "my most unchic opinion is that i actually do believe in the necessity and potential function of government" and then realizing that i'm so deep down a rabbit hole that this is functionally illegible
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HST is still applied to new bicycles.
Thanks to Mark Carney and The Liberals, there’s never been a better time to buy a private jet or a yacht!
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
HST is still applied to new bicycles.
pokes the corpse of the ndp with a stick
Zohran #Mamdani was just elected mayor of New York City!
It should now be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives — proving that people-first politics rooted in fairness, affordability, and real unity is the way forward.
#Canada #NDP #DemocraticSocialism #DSA
ricochet.media/politics/zoh...
It should now be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives — proving that people-first politics rooted in fairness, affordability, and real unity is the way forward.
#Canada #NDP #DemocraticSocialism #DSA
ricochet.media/politics/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani’s victory should be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives
Mamdani's win proves that people-first politics rooted in fairness, affordability, and real unity is the way forward
ricochet.media
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
pokes the corpse of the ndp with a stick
[through gritted teeth] the future is a group project
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
[through gritted teeth] the future is a group project
THIS! You simply must first understand what the work is trying to do + is accomplishing. Everything else is downstream of that.
Without understanding what a piece of art is trying to achieve, and where it is successful, all negative or critical feedback becomes a matter of opinion.
And too many people assume that their opinion—what they don’t like, essentially—is the same as critique.
And too many people assume that their opinion—what they don’t like, essentially—is the same as critique.
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
THIS! You simply must first understand what the work is trying to do + is accomplishing. Everything else is downstream of that.
This is free to read here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings
Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is free to read here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
"who is the audience for your book." i'm going to be honest with you, it's gay people with classical educations who feel complicated about that. that's sellable right.
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"who is the audience for your book." i'm going to be honest with you, it's gay people with classical educations who feel complicated about that. that's sellable right.
since it's spooky season, i'm gonna speak my truth: the nightmare before christmas is a bad, low effort film gilded by a high effort animation style and an overdeveloped, ultimately hollow aesthetic
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
since it's spooky season, i'm gonna speak my truth: the nightmare before christmas is a bad, low effort film gilded by a high effort animation style and an overdeveloped, ultimately hollow aesthetic
amadeus (1984) rly is the peak of emotionally relatable cinema
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
amadeus (1984) rly is the peak of emotionally relatable cinema
TIL that you can have mice. in your car. mice can live in your car.
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
TIL that you can have mice. in your car. mice can live in your car.
my spicy take for the day is that simply complaining about the physical sensorium of your disability is not necessarily political speech. you have to connect it to systems.
October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
my spicy take for the day is that simply complaining about the physical sensorium of your disability is not necessarily political speech. you have to connect it to systems.
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everyone!! read rakesfall
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
everyone!! read rakesfall
YES! So deserving. This one is genre-defining, folks.
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
YES! So deserving. This one is genre-defining, folks.
i am so deeply sorry to everyone in ottawa who had to share the road with me this weekend
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
i am so deeply sorry to everyone in ottawa who had to share the road with me this weekend
If you missed the panel, the TLDR is: bcs it is explicitly taking place in a heightened fantasy world, romantasy offers a permission structure to explore the erotic potential of things that we would NOT want to happen in real life #cancon2025
omg @ronansadler.bsky.social over here nailing all the thinky thorny troubling dynamics that have bugged me in romantasy yes please 🔥🔥🔥 #cancon2025
October 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If you missed the panel, the TLDR is: bcs it is explicitly taking place in a heightened fantasy world, romantasy offers a permission structure to explore the erotic potential of things that we would NOT want to happen in real life #cancon2025
Day 2 of #CanCon2025. guys they're letting me talk about my thoughts on the structure of romantasy vs fantasy
October 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Day 2 of #CanCon2025. guys they're letting me talk about my thoughts on the structure of romantasy vs fantasy
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When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
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This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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fictional representation and getting a book deal are not activism
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
fictional representation and getting a book deal are not activism
nerding out about the editorial process 🤓😍✨💜📝😎
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
nerding out about the editorial process 🤓😍✨💜📝😎
I love the past decade or so of queer joy but personally i'm ready to let queer tragedy back in the house
October 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I love the past decade or so of queer joy but personally i'm ready to let queer tragedy back in the house
my book features a blowjob on page five, which i might have reconsidered if I'd thought about how many introductions I'd have make by strolling into people's inboxes talking about dick.
October 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
my book features a blowjob on page five, which i might have reconsidered if I'd thought about how many introductions I'd have make by strolling into people's inboxes talking about dick.
I am reading He Who Drowned the World and I am sitting in the stands with a foam finger and opera glasses as these queer people commit atrocities
October 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I am reading He Who Drowned the World and I am sitting in the stands with a foam finger and opera glasses as these queer people commit atrocities