queer SFF author, essayist, poet. he/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
insomaniackills : aristocrating : its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking “author A obviously ripped off author B” discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like. Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept as ever:
villiedoom : Stylized and surreal illustrations for my fantasy world. this is stunning!
hkamenar : The Tithenai Chronicles by @fozmeadows are my perfect books. Secondary-world fantasy, dual POV, and a romance that earns every beat instead of manufacturing conflict to fill pages. The worldbuilding is lush, the prose is mature and elegant, and both leads are finely drawn, likeable, and flawed. Do mind the content warnings — they’re deeply integrated in the story, not incidental.…
elodieunderglass : ovenroastedtwerkey : masterofbirds : cantnotknope : joanws : jennytrout : legit-writing-tips : fozmeadows : Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for…
coriphallus : I. Introduction: A Question of Language Now that the Qunari have been thoroughly butchered, I wanted to compile my thoughts on gender under the Qun into a more comprehensive ‘essay.’ This is not primarily an essay about politics, identity, or even gender in the contemporary Western sense. It is an essay about language. More specifically, it is about what happens when we…
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beaswellgirl : yep, pretty much
samiholloway : notalittleatall : quasi-normalcy : quasi-normalcy : quasi-normalcy : quasi-normalcy : I actually think that science fiction has done everyone a disservice by presenting escaping to another planet as a remotely feasible near-term solution to problems on Earth. Like, I’m sorry, but if terraforming Mars is an option then why can’t we just terraform the Earth? (I mean, this last bit…
It is absolutely immoral, completely counterproductive to the goal of learning things, and turns out incredibly subpar work. As for unavoidable….you understand that the vast majority of people who have ever graduated college throughout history did so without ever once using AI, right? You understand that? wenevergotusedtoegypt : You understand that the point of writing papers isn’t just to have a…
flagellant : tlbodine : soundoftheirwings : Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the…
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bsaka7 : excerpts from erin in the morning’s article on the ioc’s ban on transgender women and sex testing policy
hiseumingo : ALT ALT Finally my sketches of Cae and Vel—the first being the image of them in my mind as I read and second after consulting refs and potential face claims~ :) Cae and Vel belong to @fozmeadows ahhh, these are so gorgeous!! <3
fozmeadows : jewishtransdyke : txttletale : couple years ago i made a post listing a bunch of silly joke political ideologies and one of them was like “queer sex positive feudalism” and i was blissfully unaware that this basically describes the setting of vast swathes of the modern fantasy genre. Stop That Quite a lot of actual historical feudal aristocrats were queer, and they were…
jewishtransdyke : txttletale : couple years ago i made a post listing a bunch of silly joke political ideologies and one of them was like “queer sex positive feudalism” and i was blissfully unaware that this basically describes the setting of vast swathes of the modern fantasy genre. Stop That Quite a lot of actual historical feudal aristocrats were queer, and they were just as…
I already posted about this over on Bluesky , but for anyone wondering how dire the current glut of AI-enabled, author-targeted scam emails is, this is what the spam folder for my professional email address currently looks like: Like. It’s absolutely fucking insane. I go into more detail on the Bluesky thread, but these scammy slopportunities are everywhere at the moment, and the ones that…
If you are hungry you should eat, always. We're having pizza cause we're on vacation and that's what's available honestly a lot of the time when she gets the night time hungers she wants scrambled eggs lol. We let her eat and then she goes to bed and everyone is happy! One of the most eye-opening aspects of parenthood for me has been how socially ingrained it is for parents to be coercive and…
Ahh, thank you, yes! I've actually been meaning to post about this - my next book has indeed been retitled as Godburned , though we're keeping The Weight and the Measure as the series title, which I think works very nicely. The new release date is 26 January 2027, and ARCs are now becoming available! I'm really excited for people to start to read this one; though I should clarify for anyone coming…