Lev Mirov
@thelionmachine.bsky.social
poet, novelist, graduate student, time traveler. in my sock knitting era. Jewish genderfluid bone wizard writing queer trans speclit in hell. Medievalist inexplicably writing a dissertation about Anna Akhmatova's queerness. no English pronouns, thanks.
Last year I finally listened to This Is How You Lose The Time War, and I bought the audiobook with a credit after Christmas, and it was because of bigolas dickolas. Just tell people about stuff you love. Just do it!! You never know!!
like the bigolas dickolas thing was extremely funny because it wasn't even the writers posting, it was just a random person!
January 20, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Last year I finally listened to This Is How You Lose The Time War, and I bought the audiobook with a credit after Christmas, and it was because of bigolas dickolas. Just tell people about stuff you love. Just do it!! You never know!!
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We're live! With the 1860s chicken races and more silliness on #LikeADragonIshin-- subscribe to support my work, follow to help grow my reach! twitch.tv/riversidewings
riversidewings - Twitch
So anyway, there I was, in Bakumatsu era Kyoto
twitch.tv
January 20, 2026 at 3:08 AM
We're live! With the 1860s chicken races and more silliness on #LikeADragonIshin-- subscribe to support my work, follow to help grow my reach! twitch.tv/riversidewings
I so seldom think a movie is necessary but we queers deserve a biopic miniseries based on Rachel Holmes' Scanty Particulars, her biography of Dr James Barry.
Name a book that should be made into a movie or TV series
January 20, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I so seldom think a movie is necessary but we queers deserve a biopic miniseries based on Rachel Holmes' Scanty Particulars, her biography of Dr James Barry.
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Hey friends! We're bringing back one of our wishlists specifically looking for hand & foot warmers for the folks who have to be outside to protect the community! With temps plummeting in the Twin Cities, this is a quick & easy way to help!
@naomikritzer.bsky.social will be collecting again!
@naomikritzer.bsky.social will be collecting again!
Check out my list on Amazon
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January 20, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Hey friends! We're bringing back one of our wishlists specifically looking for hand & foot warmers for the folks who have to be outside to protect the community! With temps plummeting in the Twin Cities, this is a quick & easy way to help!
@naomikritzer.bsky.social will be collecting again!
@naomikritzer.bsky.social will be collecting again!
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Fiction submissions are open now!
The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️
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The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️
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January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Fiction submissions are open now!
The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
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Ok, great news! I got the line dug up and I don't need the couplers, just the conditioner and cement, so if anyone can kick me like $14 I can have running water again! Paypal.me/starbroken #mutualaid #phelpsky #solidarity #materialaid
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Ok, great news! I got the line dug up and I don't need the couplers, just the conditioner and cement, so if anyone can kick me like $14 I can have running water again! Paypal.me/starbroken #mutualaid #phelpsky #solidarity #materialaid
I know it's about Dante's Inferno but it's genuinely so cool that Hozier's Francesca is making me cry when it's about people who died over 700 years ago, people whose inclusion in the Divine Comedy was meant to give this murdered woman sympathy and personhood. Extraordinary.
January 19, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I know it's about Dante's Inferno but it's genuinely so cool that Hozier's Francesca is making me cry when it's about people who died over 700 years ago, people whose inclusion in the Divine Comedy was meant to give this murdered woman sympathy and personhood. Extraordinary.
What do you MEAN the solution to my general low grade misery was a bath with sparkles in it even though that bath was not really hot enough
January 19, 2026 at 8:42 AM
What do you MEAN the solution to my general low grade misery was a bath with sparkles in it even though that bath was not really hot enough
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Calling all poets: Eye to the Telescope is accepting submissions for issue 60, edited by Angela Acosta, on the theme of Paying Tribute.
Find more details and a form to submit here:
eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
Find more details and a form to submit here:
eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Calling all poets: Eye to the Telescope is accepting submissions for issue 60, edited by Angela Acosta, on the theme of Paying Tribute.
Find more details and a form to submit here:
eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
Find more details and a form to submit here:
eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
Imagine deciding Anna Akhmatova isn't "Christian" because none of her poems are about trusting in the unmerited divine love of GD or surrendering her life over to Jesus in explicitly Protestant terms.
That is what this particular out of print book about her spirituality is about 🙃
That is what this particular out of print book about her spirituality is about 🙃
January 18, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Imagine deciding Anna Akhmatova isn't "Christian" because none of her poems are about trusting in the unmerited divine love of GD or surrendering her life over to Jesus in explicitly Protestant terms.
That is what this particular out of print book about her spirituality is about 🙃
That is what this particular out of print book about her spirituality is about 🙃
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I came up with things for my angel and devil pigeons to say, please feel free to use this as a reaction image for dem politicians.
January 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM
I came up with things for my angel and devil pigeons to say, please feel free to use this as a reaction image for dem politicians.
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Frog made a fresh pot of tea. He sat down and began a story.
January 18, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Frog made a fresh pot of tea. He sat down and began a story.
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I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
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Urgent!
Please help El keep the utilities on!
They are one of my closest friends, someone who is family to me, & they need our help right now to keep utilities on, including heat. They have been working themselves ill just trying to survive.
💕💸
#MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2026
#DisabilityCrowdfund
Please help El keep the utilities on!
They are one of my closest friends, someone who is family to me, & they need our help right now to keep utilities on, including heat. They have been working themselves ill just trying to survive.
💕💸
#MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2026
#DisabilityCrowdfund
$125/$293 for late utilities and phone bills—almost half way there! Thank you so much.
Being disabled and freelancing means a budget with no margin for error/accident. Your generosity and reposts are helping me literally keep the lights on (& the heat), and tethering me to the outside world. :)
Being disabled and freelancing means a budget with no margin for error/accident. Your generosity and reposts are helping me literally keep the lights on (& the heat), and tethering me to the outside world. :)
January 17, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Urgent!
Please help El keep the utilities on!
They are one of my closest friends, someone who is family to me, & they need our help right now to keep utilities on, including heat. They have been working themselves ill just trying to survive.
💕💸
#MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2026
#DisabilityCrowdfund
Please help El keep the utilities on!
They are one of my closest friends, someone who is family to me, & they need our help right now to keep utilities on, including heat. They have been working themselves ill just trying to survive.
💕💸
#MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2026
#DisabilityCrowdfund
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I know there is a lot going on in the world that needs our help but still sitting at $582/$705. Only $123 left to go to cover rent & insurance!
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated? TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated? TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
January 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM
I know there is a lot going on in the world that needs our help but still sitting at $582/$705. Only $123 left to go to cover rent & insurance!
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated? TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated? TYSM!!
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
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$125/$293 for late utilities and phone bills—almost half way there! Thank you so much.
Being disabled and freelancing means a budget with no margin for error/accident. Your generosity and reposts are helping me literally keep the lights on (& the heat), and tethering me to the outside world. :)
Being disabled and freelancing means a budget with no margin for error/accident. Your generosity and reposts are helping me literally keep the lights on (& the heat), and tethering me to the outside world. :)
January 17, 2026 at 4:38 AM
$125/$293 for late utilities and phone bills—almost half way there! Thank you so much.
Being disabled and freelancing means a budget with no margin for error/accident. Your generosity and reposts are helping me literally keep the lights on (& the heat), and tethering me to the outside world. :)
Being disabled and freelancing means a budget with no margin for error/accident. Your generosity and reposts are helping me literally keep the lights on (& the heat), and tethering me to the outside world. :)
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Y'all. Please. Today and every day. Do not write down criminal intent. Do not post about doing illegal things. Don't email your revolutionary plans via gmail. Don't make murder jokes on discord. Use a tiny bit of filter. Don't assume you're too insignificant to matter. Just don't write it down.
important message to all bluesky users
January 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Y'all. Please. Today and every day. Do not write down criminal intent. Do not post about doing illegal things. Don't email your revolutionary plans via gmail. Don't make murder jokes on discord. Use a tiny bit of filter. Don't assume you're too insignificant to matter. Just don't write it down.
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Well now that a lovely yarnian has received her package, I can post some glamor shots of her order. Zamor Satin Silver & Lichen-Sage Guardian. Both colors are gonna wrap her in revolution, since she chose some gorgeous colors that were inspired by revolutionaries and medieval guardians. 🧶
#yarnsky
#yarnsky
January 17, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Well now that a lovely yarnian has received her package, I can post some glamor shots of her order. Zamor Satin Silver & Lichen-Sage Guardian. Both colors are gonna wrap her in revolution, since she chose some gorgeous colors that were inspired by revolutionaries and medieval guardians. 🧶
#yarnsky
#yarnsky
Ads are very aggressively advertising to me a monster erotica in one of those closed system reading apps whose entire premise seems to be "what if you had to fuck your way to the final boss lover". In case you were worried the conservative trends in books are ruining the uncommercial weird stuff.
January 16, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Ads are very aggressively advertising to me a monster erotica in one of those closed system reading apps whose entire premise seems to be "what if you had to fuck your way to the final boss lover". In case you were worried the conservative trends in books are ruining the uncommercial weird stuff.
Louisiana made a new rule several months before the presidential election that to vote, your LA state driver's license can't be too new, you had to have had it before the law was passed. I TRIED to register to vote. But I'm trans and my license is in limbo because of the gender marker.
Do you think that maybe the bomb threats had something to do with that? Do you think the voter roll purges had something to do with that? Do you think the piece-by-piece dismantling of the Voting Rights Act had something to do with that?
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Louisiana made a new rule several months before the presidential election that to vote, your LA state driver's license can't be too new, you had to have had it before the law was passed. I TRIED to register to vote. But I'm trans and my license is in limbo because of the gender marker.
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Now at $85 of $293 to cover my late utility & mobile bills after a payment error interrupted my ability to squeak by. I really appreciate all your help so far. 💜
I’m a disabled freelancer who tries their best to budget down to the dollar, and having no margin can be tough. Please share widely.
Pay Elizabeth Leinback using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/aislinndelyon and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Now at $85 of $293 to cover my late utility & mobile bills after a payment error interrupted my ability to squeak by. I really appreciate all your help so far. 💜
I’m a disabled freelancer who tries their best to budget down to the dollar, and having no margin can be tough. Please share widely.
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Holy SMOKES, y'all.
I went to clean my kitchen & came back to find we're at $582/$705! Only *$123* left to go to cover rent & insurance! THANK YOU!
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
I went to clean my kitchen & came back to find we're at $582/$705! Only *$123* left to go to cover rent & insurance! THANK YOU!
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
January 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Holy SMOKES, y'all.
I went to clean my kitchen & came back to find we're at $582/$705! Only *$123* left to go to cover rent & insurance! THANK YOU!
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
I went to clean my kitchen & came back to find we're at $582/$705! Only *$123* left to go to cover rent & insurance! THANK YOU!
Please help a disabled queer trans artist stay housed while being medically complicated?
💕💸🏳️⚧️
#MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund
CshApp/Vnmo: foxrook
I began crying with laughter watching the two videos in this thread, this is SO funny. I got so much emergency dopamine from this.
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
January 16, 2026 at 7:06 AM
I began crying with laughter watching the two videos in this thread, this is SO funny. I got so much emergency dopamine from this.
Gotta be Return of the King. I simply do not like it. I go out of my way to avoid watching it. The good moments, which are incredible, do not make up for the intensity of my hatred for the rest of the film.
What is the movie you have seen the most times that you would say you do NOT like?
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Gotta be Return of the King. I simply do not like it. I go out of my way to avoid watching it. The good moments, which are incredible, do not make up for the intensity of my hatred for the rest of the film.
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I love that Wikipedia's edit history is public because it only takes two clicks to get to the very first version of the "ant" article in its entirety from 2001. Happy 25th birthday Wikipedia! You've come so far
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I love that Wikipedia's edit history is public because it only takes two clicks to get to the very first version of the "ant" article in its entirety from 2001. Happy 25th birthday Wikipedia! You've come so far