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Sam J Miller
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Gay shit. Sometimes even award-winning gay shit. BLACKFISH CITY; etc. RED STAR HUSTLE is a USA Today Bestseller! https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
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A lot of people should make it their New Year's Resolution to stop posting like "Did you know Twitter is bad? Here's a screencap of the worst tweet I saw today. Isn't this bad? Here's one more. No one should use that site. I'll post another screencap tomorrow so you how bad it is."
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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This is excellent advice. (It just moved me to unfollow someone on another platform who is one note and that note is whiny.) Now is also a good time to unsubscribe from annoying marketing emails, too.
I opened up Instagram for the first time in 2026 and the 1st thing I see is rage bait from a fun queer meme account I follow... and I just... unfollowed? And it was that easy? And that's my energy moving forward? Everything that tries to enrage me I will abandon!!!
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I opened up Instagram for the first time in 2026 and the 1st thing I see is rage bait from a fun queer meme account I follow... and I just... unfollowed? And it was that easy? And that's my energy moving forward? Everything that tries to enrage me I will abandon!!!
January 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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I could share this just for the title, but the story is even better, and that's saying something. Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead by @sentencebender.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com

#booksky 💙📚
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Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine
Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My beloved underloved underappreciated baby is only $0.50!

It made Kass Morgan say “Sam J. Miller has cemented his status as one of the most visionary fiction writers of his generation. A staggering, stunning novel" !!!!🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭
Heads up: ass noted by @galatfemme.bsky.social, Destroy All Monsters by @sentencebender.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $0.50; I got some for random giveaway, and one for me.
December 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Heads up: ass noted by @galatfemme.bsky.social, Destroy All Monsters by @sentencebender.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $0.50; I got some for random giveaway, and one for me.
December 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Movies aren’t always meant to be shunted into categories of like and don’t like. If you leave the theater or press “exit” and you’re thinking “Ok I don’t know about some of that, I have thoughts,” congratulations you’re engaging with art! Its own special thing.
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Holiday self-promo thread: if you're looking for last-minute gifts...

For the person who wants their cozy fantasy heavily anticapitalist and queer, with a dash of sexy incubus: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...
Wiz Duos – Book 3
ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-917950-23-7 EPUB: 978-1-917950-22-0
wizardstowerpress.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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For anyone in the US or Canada, Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for just 7 days, starting today.

Enjoy!

www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch...

www.kobo.com/us/en/search...

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the...

www.indigo.ca/en-ca/wooing...

#romancelandia
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm loving the year four anthology of Baffling! @bafflingmag.bsky.social

Standouts today are "The Six Most Common Questions Asked by Customers in Rubian Brothels" by Morris Hinkle and "A Demon Dates in New York City" by Jared Povanda!! Magnificence.
December 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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14. A review of a splendid book I'm happy to have a chapter in! Mythologies of Outer Space, University of Calgary Press 2025. It's all open access too!
🏺🔭 #TABCLOSED
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier - ROOM Space Journal
How cultural positioning affects perception of space
room.eu.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Pagans, @jamesbluecat.bsky.social

Honourable mentions

Novels:
- Seven Recipes for Revolution, @ryanprose.bsky.social
- Red Star Hustle, @sentencebender.bsky.social
- The Door on the Sea, Caskey Russell

Collections:
- Amplitudes, @leemandelo.bsky.social
- Call and Response, @seraph76.bsky.social
Hey smart people QT this with the best book you read this year
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reading William Gibson's ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES, about a coming "nodal point" where tech disruption changes everything, which for the characters has such transformative potential. So much sense of wonder!

And. Watching an actual AI "nodal point" unfold... in real life it's just so fucking boring.
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Three months ago, my dear friend Hani was murdered while trying to feed his family.

His sister Faten has cancer, and sleeps in a freezing tent with her hands, feet, and eyes swelling more and more every day.

I love this family with all my heart. I can’t keep watching them die.

gofund.me/2550fc5e2
December 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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And 'Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead' by @sentencebender.bsky.social. Basically A.C. Wise has great test and you should read the whole list
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Upstate stars 🤩🤩🤩
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Solstice sunset.

Hoping y'all are finding the light and the love and the warmth and the hope on this longest night of the year.

From here on out every day is a little longer.
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Why this so true through?
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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May I recommend for next year’s reading fest six favorite books of mine:
Boys, Beasts and Men by @sentencebender.bsky.social
A&H Club Vol. 2 by @rickgriffin.bsky.social
Alone Against Tomorrow by H. Ellison
Other Ever Afters by @mgillman.bsky.social
The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle
And Paradise Lost
Another year another pile of books enjoyed! Not pictured are Marnie, some Medieval history book from the library, and another pile of ones I just didn’t get anything out of.

A couple yrs ago I could barely finish a book bc I was so busy. I clawed my way back into the habit and VERY glad I did so.
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Got several lovely prezzies from @robwillb.bsky.social for Solstice this year, including one of the latest reads from the amazing @sentencebender.bsky.social and @maryrobinettekowal.com ! <3
December 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We just saw Fantasia and wow The Sorcerer's Apprentice hits different in the age of AI

The naive child who believes this magic can make his life easier and allow him to control the seas, the storms, the stars - but he can't control it and it runs amok and destroys everything

In this essay I will
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Probably an unpopular opinion but Quentin Tarantino only achieved true greatness twice: Jackie Brown and Kill Bill.

Those are also the two whose protagonists are women.

When his toxic masculine obsessions don't derange him, he can really create something special.
December 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM