Aimee Jodoin
@aimeejodoin.bsky.social
Writer of speculative fiction. Eater of plants.
Still thinking about @meghamaj.bsky.social's A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF days later. What a brutal, beautiful, heart-wrenching book.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Still thinking about @meghamaj.bsky.social's A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF days later. What a brutal, beautiful, heart-wrenching book.
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It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
October 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It's Black Speculative Fiction month!
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.
1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...
2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2
THE BLOODLESS QUEEN by Joshua Phillip Johnson hits right where it hurts. Slow build with a powerful ending. 10 out of 10.
October 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
THE BLOODLESS QUEEN by Joshua Phillip Johnson hits right where it hurts. Slow build with a powerful ending. 10 out of 10.
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Especially weird when a popular argument was that it would be better for the left if Trump won because it would make liberals protest and resist things again...
seeing internet leftists (of which I am one!) get mad at these protests is pretty dispiriting lol
October 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Especially weird when a popular argument was that it would be better for the left if Trump won because it would make liberals protest and resist things again...
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“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...
Who gets to live a "long" life in America?
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October 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
Had me in the first half.
"Will publishing this story make anyone other than me feel anything other than my own urge to have written it?"
"Is this ... my clumsy attempt at confronting myself with myself in the vain hope that I will be reborn as a new self?"
Gets better and hurts more as you go.
"Will publishing this story make anyone other than me feel anything other than my own urge to have written it?"
"Is this ... my clumsy attempt at confronting myself with myself in the vain hope that I will be reborn as a new self?"
Gets better and hurts more as you go.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Had me in the first half.
"Will publishing this story make anyone other than me feel anything other than my own urge to have written it?"
"Is this ... my clumsy attempt at confronting myself with myself in the vain hope that I will be reborn as a new self?"
Gets better and hurts more as you go.
"Will publishing this story make anyone other than me feel anything other than my own urge to have written it?"
"Is this ... my clumsy attempt at confronting myself with myself in the vain hope that I will be reborn as a new self?"
Gets better and hurts more as you go.
I see generative AI used shamelessly, and I want to run into the woods, transmute myself into a beast, and never return.
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I see generative AI used shamelessly, and I want to run into the woods, transmute myself into a beast, and never return.
Just finished THESE MEMORIES DO NOT BELONG TO US by Yiming Ma. It's such a striking and innovative novel about surveillance and resistance.
October 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just finished THESE MEMORIES DO NOT BELONG TO US by Yiming Ma. It's such a striking and innovative novel about surveillance and resistance.
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Trying to figure out how many ways we can flash the red lights here. This was NEVER EVER ABOUT BOOKS. Books were the tool.
THEY ARE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS.
THEY
ARE
STEALING
YOUR
RIGHTS.
THEY ARE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS.
THEY
ARE
STEALING
YOUR
RIGHTS.
Reporters, here’s the assignment:
Next time an elected or appointed official responds with, “it’s not banned because you can still buy it,” the mandatory followup question is, “Do you believe Americans have a First Amendment right to access and share speech in our publicly-funded libraries?”
Next time an elected or appointed official responds with, “it’s not banned because you can still buy it,” the mandatory followup question is, “Do you believe Americans have a First Amendment right to access and share speech in our publicly-funded libraries?”
In order for Judge Winsor to get to the conclusion that access elsewhere was an acceptable solution for a school to remove a book based on viewpoint, he had to deny patrons and authors their First Amendment rights in the library.
Let that sink in.
floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/02/s...
Let that sink in.
floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/02/s...
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Trying to figure out how many ways we can flash the red lights here. This was NEVER EVER ABOUT BOOKS. Books were the tool.
THEY ARE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS.
THEY
ARE
STEALING
YOUR
RIGHTS.
THEY ARE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS.
THEY
ARE
STEALING
YOUR
RIGHTS.
Hope is always justified.
October 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hope is always justified.
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Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
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I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this:
everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...
It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.
everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...
It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.
Let's All Remember When We Saved The World
To remind ourselves we can do it again.
everythingisamazing.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this:
everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...
It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.
everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...
It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.
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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
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Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.
September 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.
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I cannot stress enough how much media consolidation under billionaires is not only part of the discussion about censorship, it is THE discussion. Oligarchs don’t care about ideology, they care about money, and if a leader offers them unlimited wealth, they’ll sell their own mother out to get it
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I cannot stress enough how much media consolidation under billionaires is not only part of the discussion about censorship, it is THE discussion. Oligarchs don’t care about ideology, they care about money, and if a leader offers them unlimited wealth, they’ll sell their own mother out to get it
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
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Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
September 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
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I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.
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Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
September 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
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Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.
September 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.
Only took two weeks away but so ready to dive into revising and editing. Fingers crossed for a plot-hole-less plot!
I just completed the first draft of this book! About 79K words, 315 pages. Written in a whirlwind four months, a speed I never before thought myself capable. And I think it is promising! But now I need a rest. Phew!
September 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Only took two weeks away but so ready to dive into revising and editing. Fingers crossed for a plot-hole-less plot!
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Office Hours Recap! (September '25)
Thanks so much to everyone who attended Office Hours last Thursday! In case you missed it, you can watch the video above (if you’re reading via the newsletter, please click here to see it). I forgot t...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Bransford's blog is an incredible free resource that I've been following for going on fifteen years. Literally as far back as I can remember in my writing career. If you are not subscribed, you are missing out on priceless knowledge and publishing wisdom!
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I know the problems feel big.
I know you feel like nothing you can do will ever be enough.
You’re right. It won’t be.
That’s why we work together.
I know you feel like nothing you can do will ever be enough.
You’re right. It won’t be.
That’s why we work together.
September 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I know the problems feel big.
I know you feel like nothing you can do will ever be enough.
You’re right. It won’t be.
That’s why we work together.
I know you feel like nothing you can do will ever be enough.
You’re right. It won’t be.
That’s why we work together.
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Like, wow. 2nd Amendment Defenders really did the math and said “yep, all those dead school children and dead churchgoers and dead grocery shoppers and dead movie and concert attendees are ABSOLUTELY worth my bad faith argument about defending myself from an invasion by the federal government.”
September 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Like, wow. 2nd Amendment Defenders really did the math and said “yep, all those dead school children and dead churchgoers and dead grocery shoppers and dead movie and concert attendees are ABSOLUTELY worth my bad faith argument about defending myself from an invasion by the federal government.”
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Animals are not objects, yet, in the animal agriculture industry, they are treated like products. 💔
Don’t be the reason someone is reduced to a number. Go vegan. 🙏💚
👉 Vegan Pledge: https://drove.com/.2A4o 🌱
Credits on video
#veganmovement #veganshare #veganism #animalrights #animalliberation
Don’t be the reason someone is reduced to a number. Go vegan. 🙏💚
👉 Vegan Pledge: https://drove.com/.2A4o 🌱
Credits on video
#veganmovement #veganshare #veganism #animalrights #animalliberation
August 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Animals are not objects, yet, in the animal agriculture industry, they are treated like products. 💔
Don’t be the reason someone is reduced to a number. Go vegan. 🙏💚
👉 Vegan Pledge: https://drove.com/.2A4o 🌱
Credits on video
#veganmovement #veganshare #veganism #animalrights #animalliberation
Don’t be the reason someone is reduced to a number. Go vegan. 🙏💚
👉 Vegan Pledge: https://drove.com/.2A4o 🌱
Credits on video
#veganmovement #veganshare #veganism #animalrights #animalliberation