Megan Wegenke
LightNews LightNews
banner
megparsec.bsky.social
Megan Wegenke
@megparsec.bsky.social
250 followers 330 following 320 posts
Writer, sci-fi nerd, 50-foot woman.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
lurnoise.bsky.social
Slipper lobsters.
Color illustration of some red slipper lobsters resting atop of a tiled, half flooded floor. The tiles are blue and yellow, with fleur-de-lis flowers drawn on them.
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
70sscifiart.bsky.social
Uncredited 1977 cover art for 'A Medicine for Melancholy,' by Ray Bradbury
A cutaway shows a giant red fish with fangs under the water of a lake. Above the lake are the ruins of a house between some trees.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
emilystjams.bsky.social
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you.

And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
wolfears.net
i once saw graffiti on the bathroom stall that said “tomorrow needs you”. i think about it every time i get into a bad headspace.

happy trans day of remembrance.
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
julesetc.meangirls.online
with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.

come over.
We Have Enough Dead Friends by LENA OLEANDERSON Come over. The doors are open, my flat's a mess and so is my heart but the doors are always open. Come over. I will make soup, probably from frozen but the important thing is we will both eat. You don't have to be dying, but if you are, or you feel like you are, or if living's been hard, call me, and I will show up. It doesn't have to be that bad, it doesn't have to be bad at all, but if it is, please call. Do you want me to do the groceries? Do you want me to mop the floors? Do you need to be held; you don't have to be dying to be held. If you want me to be there, I want to. I'm on the bathroom floor again, and breathing is hard, and eating's been hard, and sleeping, the world is a laden thing rolling around on my chest lately. Just being alive is heavy tonight, but we have enough dead friends. Come over.
July 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
bebopott.bsky.social
I love how Chicagoans just DO NOT FUCK with these boondoggles
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
basil-mage.bsky.social
Mood
Drawing of a tired puppy with the caption; "this too shall pass but like holy f"
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
hypercubexl.bsky.social
For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
Wendy surrounded by synthesizer keyboards, computers, and audio gear, holding one of her siamese cats with another perched on an equipment rack Wendy sitting in front of multiple computers with her keyboards visible to the side, holding one cat while another two cats and a parrot are on top of the monitors a color image of Wendy sitting side-on to a computer or similar device, with all of her gear along the wall, and a cat and fluffy dog sitting on the carpet next to her looking up at her closer in of the previous device she was sitting at that seems to have a roll printer built in, she's behind it with her hands on two synthesizer keyboards and one of her cats is on top of it batting at the fan exhaust in a series of images
November 14, 2023 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
michaelwarburton.bsky.social
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
zoewithasword.bsky.social
NOW YOU'RE JUST SOME BODIES THAT I USED TO KNOW
Jacob Elordi's The Creature from Frankenstein
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
mrsambarlow.bsky.social
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
megparsec.bsky.social
I would do anything for love, but I won't Douthat
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
boodoo.co
Disco Elysium dialog options: 1. - (Whisper.) "Are women bourgeois?" 2.- Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
blackwallmancer.bsky.social
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
clpolk.com
Haymarket Books are amazing, 80% off is such a bargain, please go browse
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
ironspike.bsky.social
As a Chicagoan it's against the law for me to be happy for/envious of NYC, but I'll allow it tonight, as a li'l treat
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
megparsec.bsky.social
I see Cuomo's election night party is going well
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
spacetwinks.bsky.social
today mamdani has let his haters become his waiters at the table of success
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
kgd26.bsky.social
shout out chicago.
a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
remnantglow.bsky.social
carmilla (1872) 🩸

#art #vampires
November 17, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
alisonatkin.bsky.social
Sticking with the maritime theme! This time a Minoan octopus vase inspired design. I'm hoping to display this one coming out of water, so I tweaked the angle.

I have photographed this one, but I might wait and do it again tomorrow, because this is a very *wet* pumpkin (unintentional storytelling).
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
owillis.bsky.social
democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposted by Megan Wegenke
megelison.bsky.social
you do not have to be king
you do not have to make your knees
into trunkless legs of stone
looking upon your works and despairing
you only have to let the level sands surround your body
boundless and bare
announcing your place
in the antique landscape of things
bullcityfats.bsky.social George W Harris @bullcityfats.bsky.social · 24d
This is just to say

I have gazed upon
your works
That were in
an antique land

And that by
your shattered visage
You meant to inspire
despair

Forgive me
they were vast
and trunkless
thatandromeda.bsky.social Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 24d
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
megparsec.bsky.social
🎵Ozy
I met a man
For your reverence he'd beg
Now he's just a pair of legs
Ozy
Life had just begun
Now the lone and level sands stretch far away 🎵
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM