Summer Fletcher
@thesummerfletcher.bsky.social
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Hugo & Ignyte finalist.
Formerly: PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed
Code Coven IGM Ghost
they/them
Hugo & Ignyte finalist.
Formerly: PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed
Code Coven IGM Ghost
they/them
Pinned
The sharpest spoon in the west
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just sent ~270 form rejections for Fantasy Magazine - the mag is closing and issue 100 will not be published
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
Shingai & I felt this issue would be extremely important, particularly given the state of things in the US and the world
sending warmth & love to folks: keep going, keep shining!❤️🔥
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Hey I made a game in twine you should play it, it's very silly.
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
Barbarian Bestie by Summer Fletcher
A twine game -- replete with nonsense!
thesummerfletcher.itch.io
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Hey I made a game in twine you should play it, it's very silly.
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
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Fuck these people. FUCK THEM ALL.
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Fuck these people. FUCK THEM ALL.
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🚨 It's official: Google wants to scan your Gmail 🚨
Here are the plans: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Disable Gemini now! We explain
👉️ How to disable Gemini
👉️ How to deinstall Gemini
Stop #Google now: 👉️ tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Here are the plans: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Disable Gemini now! We explain
👉️ How to disable Gemini
👉️ How to deinstall Gemini
Stop #Google now: 👉️ tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🚨 It's official: Google wants to scan your Gmail 🚨
Here are the plans: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Disable Gemini now! We explain
👉️ How to disable Gemini
👉️ How to deinstall Gemini
Stop #Google now: 👉️ tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Here are the plans: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Disable Gemini now! We explain
👉️ How to disable Gemini
👉️ How to deinstall Gemini
Stop #Google now: 👉️ tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
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NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. The first time I heard about it was in 2016 when Jeff was the Trias Writer-in-Residence at Hobart-Wiiliam Smith College and we were living in Geneva, NY.
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. The first time I heard about it was in 2016 when Jeff was the Trias Writer-in-Residence at Hobart-Wiiliam Smith College and we were living in Geneva, NY.
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance
#TransgenderDayofRemembrance
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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 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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 🥖🩸
As a way to be less reliant on caffeine, I've started listening to high energy music on the way into work
After responding to "good morning" with HELL YEAH LET'S FUCKING GO I might need to switch back
After responding to "good morning" with HELL YEAH LET'S FUCKING GO I might need to switch back
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As a way to be less reliant on caffeine, I've started listening to high energy music on the way into work
After responding to "good morning" with HELL YEAH LET'S FUCKING GO I might need to switch back
After responding to "good morning" with HELL YEAH LET'S FUCKING GO I might need to switch back
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Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
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man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
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Don't you love it when everything you fear materializes at once?!
Yesterday was the first time ICE kidnappings hit my village directly. Three kids are now down a parent and forced to uproot mid-school year. Fuck ICE, Flock, Palantir, Homeland "Security", Border Patrol, Police, and anyone I forgot.
Yesterday was the first time ICE kidnappings hit my village directly. Three kids are now down a parent and forced to uproot mid-school year. Fuck ICE, Flock, Palantir, Homeland "Security", Border Patrol, Police, and anyone I forgot.
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Don't you love it when everything you fear materializes at once?!
Yesterday was the first time ICE kidnappings hit my village directly. Three kids are now down a parent and forced to uproot mid-school year. Fuck ICE, Flock, Palantir, Homeland "Security", Border Patrol, Police, and anyone I forgot.
Yesterday was the first time ICE kidnappings hit my village directly. Three kids are now down a parent and forced to uproot mid-school year. Fuck ICE, Flock, Palantir, Homeland "Security", Border Patrol, Police, and anyone I forgot.
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“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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If you couldn’t make it to any of my events on tour, it’s your lucky day! I bring to you a few of the questions I was asked on tour that stuck with me, including, “Who hurt you?!” and “How are you like your TTRPG characters?” and “Can you talk about the balance of physicality/agency in your work?”
Some Great Questions from Tour
A few interesting questions from the various events that I wanted to share. Not questions from Touraine.
clclarkwrites.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you couldn’t make it to any of my events on tour, it’s your lucky day! I bring to you a few of the questions I was asked on tour that stuck with me, including, “Who hurt you?!” and “How are you like your TTRPG characters?” and “Can you talk about the balance of physicality/agency in your work?”
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I am not proud of a lot of my behavior on Twitter in the Before Times. It was a brave new world and all that; we weren't taught or equipped to handle it. But all I can do is do better now that I'm aware of the game.
Times change. We grow. We learn. *We* change.
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I am not proud of a lot of my behavior on Twitter in the Before Times. It was a brave new world and all that; we weren't taught or equipped to handle it. But all I can do is do better now that I'm aware of the game.
Reminded of this Ologies episode on creepiness, particularly the balance of horror, terror, and fear in film and how crucial it is to have the right buildup. Otherwise you'll get camp, cheesiness, or comedy.
Serpopsychology(WHAT IS CREEPY?) 👻🤡
Dates that give you the willies, creepy clowns, haunted dolls, college goths, dark alleyways, evolutionary neurobio, what NOT to get Oprah, horror-comedy, phobia of balloons, flirty tips, and why you should replace your bathmat:
www.alieward.com/ologies/serp...
Dates that give you the willies, creepy clowns, haunted dolls, college goths, dark alleyways, evolutionary neurobio, what NOT to get Oprah, horror-comedy, phobia of balloons, flirty tips, and why you should replace your bathmat:
www.alieward.com/ologies/serp...
Serpopsychology (WHAT’S CREEPY?) with Dr. Frank McAndrew — alie ward
Are you creepy? How would you know? What’s “creepy” as opposed to scary or eerie? We talk to the pioneer of this research, Serpopsychologist Dr. Frank McAndrew, a professor emeritus at Knox College. W...
www.alieward.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Reminded of this Ologies episode on creepiness, particularly the balance of horror, terror, and fear in film and how crucial it is to have the right buildup. Otherwise you'll get camp, cheesiness, or comedy.
(silly)
I wonder if vampires and I share similar neurodivergence, in that we wait to be invited because if we just jump in and "be ourselves" the result is over the top and upsetting
I wonder if vampires and I share similar neurodivergence, in that we wait to be invited because if we just jump in and "be ourselves" the result is over the top and upsetting
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
(silly)
I wonder if vampires and I share similar neurodivergence, in that we wait to be invited because if we just jump in and "be ourselves" the result is over the top and upsetting
I wonder if vampires and I share similar neurodivergence, in that we wait to be invited because if we just jump in and "be ourselves" the result is over the top and upsetting
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How was the hipstere knighte moost grievouslye woundid?
Wore the chainmail bifor it was coole.
Wore the chainmail bifor it was coole.
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
How was the hipstere knighte moost grievouslye woundid?
Wore the chainmail bifor it was coole.
Wore the chainmail bifor it was coole.
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Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Psst! I've added a whole bunch of new links to my eligibility and recommendation round up post with further updates to come. Keep sending your links my way!
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
acwise.net/what-have-yo...
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Hell yes, Germany!
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Hell yes, Germany!
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There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations