G.M. Mitchell 🌈
@gmmitchell.bsky.social
Normal Guy | Queer horror & other strange fiction | "A Rare and Exceptional Delicacy" out now with Apex Magazine.
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G.M. Mitchell 🌈
@gmmitchell.bsky.social
· Aug 12
I wrote a body horror short story about loneliness, gay cannibalism (sort of), and the human relationship to generative AI (sort of). You can read it here for free:
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Since we opened to submissions, we've reached over 260 patrons! As a thank you, we're doing a Patreon subscription giveaway! This includes access to our community Discord, behind-the-scenes newsletters, and more!
To enter, like and repost this post. We'll draw a winner on Monday, January 12th!
To enter, like and repost this post. We'll draw a winner on Monday, January 12th!
Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon
a magazine of the queer fantastic.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Since we opened to submissions, we've reached over 260 patrons! As a thank you, we're doing a Patreon subscription giveaway! This includes access to our community Discord, behind-the-scenes newsletters, and more!
To enter, like and repost this post. We'll draw a winner on Monday, January 12th!
To enter, like and repost this post. We'll draw a winner on Monday, January 12th!
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If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
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Even in 2026, I forget to post the link on Tuesdays. Better late than never?
This week we have stoires from @gmmitchell.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social
Come take a look at these two delightful, delicious stories.
This week we have stoires from @gmmitchell.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social
Come take a look at these two delightful, delicious stories.
Two Fic Tuesday for January 6th
Hi, hello, and welcome!
It's a new year, but it's still Tuesday, which means I'm here to shout about stories. I've not been doing too much reading as of late, but I found these two and knew they belonged together.
I'm someone who really enjoys weird ways people get close
howsweetthewords.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Even in 2026, I forget to post the link on Tuesdays. Better late than never?
This week we have stoires from @gmmitchell.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social
Come take a look at these two delightful, delicious stories.
This week we have stoires from @gmmitchell.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social
Come take a look at these two delightful, delicious stories.
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there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone.
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
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Calling all 2SLGBTQIA+ poets! We have a message for you from our poetry editor Jess Cho: “Dear queer poets, PLEASE FUCK ME UP.” If you have something strange, dark, and unrepentantly queer… send it our way! We’re open to submissions right now and we pay $50/poem!
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January 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Calling all 2SLGBTQIA+ poets! We have a message for you from our poetry editor Jess Cho: “Dear queer poets, PLEASE FUCK ME UP.” If you have something strange, dark, and unrepentantly queer… send it our way! We’re open to submissions right now and we pay $50/poem!
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Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.
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If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today
ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today
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Organizers in Twin Cities making rare plea for folks to share broadly:
ICE ops have changed & escalated this week. They've moved to a 'flood-the-zone' strategy, nabbing anyone they can from bus stops, the sidewalk, cars, or homes. This means indiscriminate abductions and obviously no warrants.
ICE ops have changed & escalated this week. They've moved to a 'flood-the-zone' strategy, nabbing anyone they can from bus stops, the sidewalk, cars, or homes. This means indiscriminate abductions and obviously no warrants.
January 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Organizers in Twin Cities making rare plea for folks to share broadly:
ICE ops have changed & escalated this week. They've moved to a 'flood-the-zone' strategy, nabbing anyone they can from bus stops, the sidewalk, cars, or homes. This means indiscriminate abductions and obviously no warrants.
ICE ops have changed & escalated this week. They've moved to a 'flood-the-zone' strategy, nabbing anyone they can from bus stops, the sidewalk, cars, or homes. This means indiscriminate abductions and obviously no warrants.
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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
January 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
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A (slightly belated) happy new year! Allow me to introduce myself to those of you unfamiliar with my work; I’m Lee, I’m a painter from England, I’m a fan of abandoned buildings, moody narratives and quiet, mildly foreboding landscapes.
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
A (slightly belated) happy new year! Allow me to introduce myself to those of you unfamiliar with my work; I’m Lee, I’m a painter from England, I’m a fan of abandoned buildings, moody narratives and quiet, mildly foreboding landscapes.
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The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
January 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
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So, this happened today...
It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them)
Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now
It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them)
Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now
January 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
So, this happened today...
It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them)
Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now
It's not great having to ask for help - but if you've enjoyed any of our books, we'd be hugely grateful if you could let people know about them (and where you can buy them)
Word of mouth is... pretty important, right now
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A message for you all to carry through the year
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM
A message for you all to carry through the year
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let’s stay alive in 2026
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 AM
let’s stay alive in 2026
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Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.
January 1, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Happy New Year to the haters, the losers, and the far left marxist transgender extremists, which I think covers everyone here.
Lot of upheaval and change this year. Read a lot (if not as much as I wanted to), wrote (same), started and stopped new things, adjusted to my new city, grieved, watched a lot of movies, got better at keeping a journal, got published (!), lived in a state of constant sorrow at the world, kept going.
December 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Lot of upheaval and change this year. Read a lot (if not as much as I wanted to), wrote (same), started and stopped new things, adjusted to my new city, grieved, watched a lot of movies, got better at keeping a journal, got published (!), lived in a state of constant sorrow at the world, kept going.
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one of the all-time greats
![Mike F
@mikefossey
Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xsxjfbeakywwtkml5q5lhcrc/bafkreifinyulh76btvns2gb2jsibt3nanylnlktf4l4znljk3rvt7t6ajy@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
one of the all-time greats
Holy shit, happy holidays to all who celebrate New Scott Hawkins Release Day.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Scott Hawkins' second novel comes out in 2026!!!!!! The Library at Mount Char is one of my favorite books of all time and I have been waiting for this day for almost a decade oh my goddddd bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
Blacktail: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Holy shit, happy holidays to all who celebrate New Scott Hawkins Release Day.
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
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still my favorite christmas post
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
still my favorite christmas post
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hemingway if he slayed
December 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
hemingway if he slayed
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‘I’m sorry, but if reading theory makes writing harder for you? Good! You should think about your writing more. You should think more. You should struggle more.’
@thelincoln.bsky.social’s excellent interview with Brandon Taylor:
@thelincoln.bsky.social’s excellent interview with Brandon Taylor:
Processing: How Brandon Taylor Wrote Minor Black Figures
The author on embodied characters, writing process, and how “a novel should show people fighting and striving against and with and for and alongside each other.”
countercraft.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‘I’m sorry, but if reading theory makes writing harder for you? Good! You should think about your writing more. You should think more. You should struggle more.’
@thelincoln.bsky.social’s excellent interview with Brandon Taylor:
@thelincoln.bsky.social’s excellent interview with Brandon Taylor:
I've been avoiding having an opinion on the gay hockey show, but this is a good thread on how fiction is, as ever, not reality.
Again, I truly *loved* this week’s episode of Heated Rivalry, but IT IS A WISH FULFILLMENT ROMANCE. The success of a gay hockey romance TV show, largely watched by people who are neither hockey players nor hockey fans, is not “proof that the world is ready and all we would do is love you”
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I've been avoiding having an opinion on the gay hockey show, but this is a good thread on how fiction is, as ever, not reality.