Fei Dong
@feidong.bsky.social
they/them | reader, writer, editor, fairy | i love sff fiction, bad tv, and rolling dice
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Fei Dong
@feidong.bsky.social
· Jan 2
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Hello bookworms of Toronto! If you love literary trivia, supporting publishing professionals of colour, and correcting someone when they’re wrong, come check out Um, Actually trivia night, hosted by BIPOC of Publishing in Canada (and co-emceeed by me)! www.eventbrite.ca/e/um-actuall...
September 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Hello bookworms of Toronto! If you love literary trivia, supporting publishing professionals of colour, and correcting someone when they’re wrong, come check out Um, Actually trivia night, hosted by BIPOC of Publishing in Canada (and co-emceeed by me)! www.eventbrite.ca/e/um-actuall...
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Matter Over Mind: @feidong.bsky.social reviews R.F. Kuang's KATABASIS, out this week from @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social!
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Matter Over Mind: Review of R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis
Fei Dong Under Review:Katabasis. R. F. Kuang. Harper Voyager, August 2025. In her best-selling novel Babel, R. F. Kuang wrote of how the ivory towers of the academy are entwined with the work of wo…
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August 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Matter Over Mind: @feidong.bsky.social reviews R.F. Kuang's KATABASIS, out this week from @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social!
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/28/m...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/28/m...
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HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
July 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
We want your books.
So we can acquire them.
And print them.
For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨
Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.
Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.
Pass it on 👀
New book review on my Substack! In The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui hones grand, dramatic prose to their sharpest potential, deftly manages a paradoxical, cat-and-mouse power struggle.
Two Truths At Once: Review of The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui
A thousand-year intergalactic empire, a twenty-year war, and a revenge plot ten years in the making—how does A.D. Sui pack it all in a 142-page novella?
open.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New book review on my Substack! In The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui hones grand, dramatic prose to their sharpest potential, deftly manages a paradoxical, cat-and-mouse power struggle.
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A little something in between commission work and projects: enjoying #heygirliegame (even though I'm unfamiliar with #d20)
June 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A little something in between commission work and projects: enjoying #heygirliegame (even though I'm unfamiliar with #d20)
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I had the honor of being Lucy Frostblade’s sprite artist in #heygirliegame and fell head over heels 💘 please check out the game if you haven’t already, link is below!
May 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I had the honor of being Lucy Frostblade’s sprite artist in #heygirliegame and fell head over heels 💘 please check out the game if you haven’t already, link is below!
a new substack essay about writing for the fan-made lesbian dating sim #heygirliegame (set in the world of dimension 20’s fantasy high), the parasocial tendencies of readers, and why i’ll never use chatgpt.
open.substack.com/pub/feidong/...
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May 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
a new substack essay about writing for the fan-made lesbian dating sim #heygirliegame (set in the world of dimension 20’s fantasy high), the parasocial tendencies of readers, and why i’ll never use chatgpt.
open.substack.com/pub/feidong/...
open.substack.com/pub/feidong/...
ONE MORE DAY!
hello dimension 20 fans of bsky, there’s less than a month until #heygirliegame, the fan-made kristen applebees dating sim visual novel, drops on itch.io on may 17. check us out!
raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie
raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie
Hey, Girlie! by ray 蕭, pysics, ffffrogs, dearheartling, diane, Kelpipop
A Fan-Made Kristen Applebees Dating Sim
raddishradish.itch.io
May 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
ONE MORE DAY!
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It really says something about me that I got really excited about finding a Substack dedicated to Microsoft word macros
May 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It really says something about me that I got really excited about finding a Substack dedicated to Microsoft word macros
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happy Pierre Poilievre Is Unemployed Day to all observing 🥳
April 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
happy Pierre Poilievre Is Unemployed Day to all observing 🥳
hello dimension 20 fans of bsky, there’s less than a month until #heygirliegame, the fan-made kristen applebees dating sim visual novel, drops on itch.io on may 17. check us out!
raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie
raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie
Hey, Girlie! by ray 蕭, pysics, ffffrogs, dearheartling, diane, Kelpipop
A Fan-Made Kristen Applebees Dating Sim
raddishradish.itch.io
April 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
hello dimension 20 fans of bsky, there’s less than a month until #heygirliegame, the fan-made kristen applebees dating sim visual novel, drops on itch.io on may 17. check us out!
raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie
raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie
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love BETWEEN TWO FIRES! very Dark Souls energy with some neat deep cut medieval Christian nonsense
Here are some #bookrecs from our March BWS readers Stephanie Cesca, @marionagnew.bsky.social, @meakoopa.bsky.social, and @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
love BETWEEN TWO FIRES! very Dark Souls energy with some neat deep cut medieval Christian nonsense
when reading this queer SFF dystopian, me and a friend both thought, “yeah, yeah, the mecha fights are cool, but can we get back to people sitting around a room talking about politics? thanks!” and the Heavenly Tyrant replied, “YES!” #BookReview
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Raising the Stakes: Review of Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
From Iron Widow to Heavenly Tyrant, Wu Zetian goes from "fucks around" to "finds out."
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April 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
when reading this queer SFF dystopian, me and a friend both thought, “yeah, yeah, the mecha fights are cool, but can we get back to people sitting around a room talking about politics? thanks!” and the Heavenly Tyrant replied, “YES!” #BookReview
open.substack.com/pub/feidong/...
open.substack.com/pub/feidong/...
Finished Heavenly Tyrant. Time for Sunrise on the Reaping.
April 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Finished Heavenly Tyrant. Time for Sunrise on the Reaping.
listening to this on repeat while I think about Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots
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The Water Is Fine
Chloe Ament · Daisies · Song · 2021
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March 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
listening to this on repeat while I think about Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots
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"Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the disproportionate levels of poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces compared to cisgender people."
text: glaad.org/tdov/
image: blackrj.org
text: glaad.org/tdov/
image: blackrj.org
March 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the disproportionate levels of poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces compared to cisgender people."
text: glaad.org/tdov/
image: blackrj.org
text: glaad.org/tdov/
image: blackrj.org
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March 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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these 2 bad bitched have been neck and neck for a week. as soon as I finish both, it’s sunrise on the reaping time.
March 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
these 2 bad bitched have been neck and neck for a week. as soon as I finish both, it’s sunrise on the reaping time.
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If you’ve published a book — enter your name… www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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March 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Mickey 17 is a really fun and great movie! It is also a movie that was really sure Trump was gonna lose the election, which, as I was watching it, made me think “Oh I’m not watching a dystopian movie. I’m living in the dystopia — the movie’s the escape.”
March 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Mickey 17 is a really fun and great movie! It is also a movie that was really sure Trump was gonna lose the election, which, as I was watching it, made me think “Oh I’m not watching a dystopian movie. I’m living in the dystopia — the movie’s the escape.”
What’s also interesting about Iron Widow / Heavenly Tyrant is that, though both books, at a glance, revolves around A Heterosexual Marriage, it tries to explore that het marriage through a queer lens — bc of polyamory, bc of characters explicitly pushing back against gender roles
March 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
What’s also interesting about Iron Widow / Heavenly Tyrant is that, though both books, at a glance, revolves around A Heterosexual Marriage, it tries to explore that het marriage through a queer lens — bc of polyamory, bc of characters explicitly pushing back against gender roles
Heavenly Tyrant is just scenes after scenes of “the worst man you know just made a really good point.”
March 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Heavenly Tyrant is just scenes after scenes of “the worst man you know just made a really good point.”
had to dig up my uni notes on Russian Formalism to write this review of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (@tordotcom.bsky.social). enjoy! feidong.substack.com/p/defamiliar...
March 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
had to dig up my uni notes on Russian Formalism to write this review of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (@tordotcom.bsky.social). enjoy! feidong.substack.com/p/defamiliar...
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Got a question for our upcoming Brockton Writers guest speaker or readers? Drop it in the comments.
March 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Got a question for our upcoming Brockton Writers guest speaker or readers? Drop it in the comments.