Elizabeth Kilcoyne
@eakilcoyne.bsky.social
Kentuckian who writes about dead things. William C Morris Award Finalist. Author of WAKE THE BONES. 🏳️🌈🦌👻
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WAKE THE BONES posting on Bluesky, uh oh. You can check out my queer Appalachian gothic horror novel about a girl who returns home to her family’s tobacco farm to find her bone pile is roaming the devil-haunted woods she was raised in here: read.macmillan.com/lp/wake-the-...
Alright. I’ve grown wine cap mushrooms. They’ve popped up where I planted them. They have root looking rhizomes, the little ring around their long stems, they’re darkish at the tops and have a purple black spore stem………… why can’t I convince myself to eat them.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Alright. I’ve grown wine cap mushrooms. They’ve popped up where I planted them. They have root looking rhizomes, the little ring around their long stems, they’re darkish at the tops and have a purple black spore stem………… why can’t I convince myself to eat them.
Trying to give my children all my own romantic childhood memories of foraging hickory nuts and catching bass and bluegill only to realize that the difference between us is I was taught all these skills by expert relatives who relied on these skills to eat, and I am an enthusiastic amateur hobbyist.
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Trying to give my children all my own romantic childhood memories of foraging hickory nuts and catching bass and bluegill only to realize that the difference between us is I was taught all these skills by expert relatives who relied on these skills to eat, and I am an enthusiastic amateur hobbyist.
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#appalachianhorror recs - the Old Gods are stirring
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August 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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So determined not to go to the grocery store and look at people that I just mixed my own barbecue sauce from scratch. It ain’t half bad.
July 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So determined not to go to the grocery store and look at people that I just mixed my own barbecue sauce from scratch. It ain’t half bad.
The infusion center is playing Jesus Christ by Brand New over the speakers and I’m really not sure what to feel.
June 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The infusion center is playing Jesus Christ by Brand New over the speakers and I’m really not sure what to feel.
Love Kentuckians. Just walked by two horses whose owners had ridden them down to see some titties at the burlesque show.
May 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Love Kentuckians. Just walked by two horses whose owners had ridden them down to see some titties at the burlesque show.
I have recently healed an injury that would have been a death sentence a hundred years ago with minimal complaint, but I’ve just developed hay fever and oh my god it’s over. It’s over this time. I can see the light.
April 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I have recently healed an injury that would have been a death sentence a hundred years ago with minimal complaint, but I’ve just developed hay fever and oh my god it’s over. It’s over this time. I can see the light.
I’m only good at manifesting one thing and brother that thing is POISON IVY RASH
April 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I’m only good at manifesting one thing and brother that thing is POISON IVY RASH
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It’s worth noting that JK Rowling is not only funding meritless legal challenges against trans people until they can appeal up to the court that will back them, she openly gloats about how this is where her money is going. This is what the Harry Potter TV show is bankrolling.
jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.
yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.
no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.
no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
April 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It’s worth noting that JK Rowling is not only funding meritless legal challenges against trans people until they can appeal up to the court that will back them, she openly gloats about how this is where her money is going. This is what the Harry Potter TV show is bankrolling.
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The rich feel safe advocating for this shit because they have enormous resources to protect their investments & you do not. Further eroding the barriers of intellectual property between creator & corporation merely hastens the speed at which what's yours is theirs. What's theirs will still be theirs
Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit
April 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The rich feel safe advocating for this shit because they have enormous resources to protect their investments & you do not. Further eroding the barriers of intellectual property between creator & corporation merely hastens the speed at which what's yours is theirs. What's theirs will still be theirs
All this talk of hashtag ancestral diets and none of yall are out here eating pigeon.
April 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
All this talk of hashtag ancestral diets and none of yall are out here eating pigeon.
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I did see someone say that no one should comp to Gideon the Ninth because there’s nothing like it and, I’m sorry, but that simply not true!
OMG, certified microbanger! I have some books here that I think off alongside GtN and they’re all queer too:
April 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I did see someone say that no one should comp to Gideon the Ninth because there’s nothing like it and, I’m sorry, but that simply not true!
Glancing over a scene I wrote in my first trimester and tell me why I wrote “the warm roomed” and no one so far has caught it.
April 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Glancing over a scene I wrote in my first trimester and tell me why I wrote “the warm roomed” and no one so far has caught it.
Spotify algorithm recommending I “discover” A Better Son/Daughter and Rainer Maria’s Artificial Light. Do you not know me?????
April 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Spotify algorithm recommending I “discover” A Better Son/Daughter and Rainer Maria’s Artificial Light. Do you not know me?????
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please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?
March 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?
Is Substack worth it or are there alternatives y’all enjoy more? I’m creating a newsletter, just deciding where I ought to host it.
March 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Is Substack worth it or are there alternatives y’all enjoy more? I’m creating a newsletter, just deciding where I ought to host it.
There is a certain baby babble that sounds a little bit as though a tiny wizard is casting a spell on you because you dared to move him from the milk after he’d been asleep for five minutes. I choose to believe it’s a blessing.
March 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
There is a certain baby babble that sounds a little bit as though a tiny wizard is casting a spell on you because you dared to move him from the milk after he’d been asleep for five minutes. I choose to believe it’s a blessing.
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A lot of my fellow authors are freaking out after learning more about the conduct of Meta (and other AI). I'm one of the authors who has been involved in suits against Meta and OpenAI since 2023. Authors who'd like to know more about the cases and the latest updates, see llmlitigation.com/index.html
LLM litigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick
LLM litigation
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March 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A lot of my fellow authors are freaking out after learning more about the conduct of Meta (and other AI). I'm one of the authors who has been involved in suits against Meta and OpenAI since 2023. Authors who'd like to know more about the cases and the latest updates, see llmlitigation.com/index.html
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They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down.
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
March 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down.
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
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Jeremy Szal isn't the only SF/F author or fan no longer coming to Worldcon or other U.S. conventions b/c of Trump's actions. I know of many other people doing the same.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
March 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jeremy Szal isn't the only SF/F author or fan no longer coming to Worldcon or other U.S. conventions b/c of Trump's actions. I know of many other people doing the same.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
U.S. fandom has yet to truly process how all this is harming and changing international connections in the SF/F genre.
I know you’re not supposed to acknowledge the haters, but for a minority of them the real scary part of WAKE THE BONES was having to empathize with the fears and experiences of queer rural teens for like, two seconds and that still drives me nuts to this day. Can’t win ‘em all, but…
March 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I know you’re not supposed to acknowledge the haters, but for a minority of them the real scary part of WAKE THE BONES was having to empathize with the fears and experiences of queer rural teens for like, two seconds and that still drives me nuts to this day. Can’t win ‘em all, but…
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Ways to show up for our libraries:
-Get a library card
-Regularly visit your library
-Use library services
-Donate books
-Attend library events
-Become a library “friend”
-Purchase their merch or from their book sales
-Volunteer
-Get a library card
-Regularly visit your library
-Use library services
-Donate books
-Attend library events
-Become a library “friend”
-Purchase their merch or from their book sales
-Volunteer
March 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Ways to show up for our libraries:
-Get a library card
-Regularly visit your library
-Use library services
-Donate books
-Attend library events
-Become a library “friend”
-Purchase their merch or from their book sales
-Volunteer
-Get a library card
-Regularly visit your library
-Use library services
-Donate books
-Attend library events
-Become a library “friend”
-Purchase their merch or from their book sales
-Volunteer
No hate to farmers, this is said with adoration and respect, but I think a lot of the homesteady raw milk drinkers who “trust their farmer” but don’t trust pasteurization did not grow up around farmers. Pasteurization is the same every year and has never had to cut a corner to put food on the table.
March 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
No hate to farmers, this is said with adoration and respect, but I think a lot of the homesteady raw milk drinkers who “trust their farmer” but don’t trust pasteurization did not grow up around farmers. Pasteurization is the same every year and has never had to cut a corner to put food on the table.
I bet hands in the sky (big shot) is a religious experience live
March 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I bet hands in the sky (big shot) is a religious experience live
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Everyone doing this work for any period of time knew this was coming.
It's no longer "I'll do it some day," as so many thought to themselves when we threw warnings out in 2020, then 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
NOW is beyond time for doing something to protect your libraries.
It's no longer "I'll do it some day," as so many thought to themselves when we threw warnings out in 2020, then 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
NOW is beyond time for doing something to protect your libraries.
They have turned their eye toward defunding our libraries. Join @everylibrary.bsky.social and take action:
action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025
action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025
PETITION: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacks on Federal Funding for Libraries
In a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state librari...
action.everylibrary.org
March 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Everyone doing this work for any period of time knew this was coming.
It's no longer "I'll do it some day," as so many thought to themselves when we threw warnings out in 2020, then 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
NOW is beyond time for doing something to protect your libraries.
It's no longer "I'll do it some day," as so many thought to themselves when we threw warnings out in 2020, then 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
NOW is beyond time for doing something to protect your libraries.