Tim Melody Pratt
@timpratt.org
Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns
I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
East Ham least ham
West Ham
West Ham
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
East Ham least ham
West Ham
West Ham
I quit biting my fingernails, a habit I’ve had since I’ve had teeth!
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small.
✨ Started HRT
✨ Made some new, true friends
✨ Finished a novel and got through the first round of edits
✨ Finalized divorce
✨ Reclaimed some old writing
✨ Survived
✨ Started HRT
✨ Made some new, true friends
✨ Finished a novel and got through the first round of edits
✨ Finalized divorce
✨ Reclaimed some old writing
✨ Survived
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
🪿 Wrote a novella for my first queer anthology
🪿 Took care of my wife through surgery
🪿 Burned out hard, but didn't burn down my business like I was tempted to
🪿 Joined the citizen advisory board at the library
🪿 Survived
🪿 Wrote a novella for my first queer anthology
🪿 Took care of my wife through surgery
🪿 Burned out hard, but didn't burn down my business like I was tempted to
🪿 Joined the citizen advisory board at the library
🪿 Survived
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I quit biting my fingernails, a habit I’ve had since I’ve had teeth!
Muttering to myself while putting away leftovers:
“how compressible is meat”
“how compressible is meat”
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Muttering to myself while putting away leftovers:
“how compressible is meat”
“how compressible is meat”
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Just finished Liar's Blade, a Pathfinder Tales novel, and thought "that was surprisingly un-sexist book about a womanizer asshole protagonist, and it's fun to boot. I never expected a man to navigate writing like that," and I looked them up, and they are genderfluid now.
paizo.com/products/btp...
paizo.com/products/btp...
paizo.com - Pathfinder Tales: Liar's Blade
paizo.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Just finished Liar's Blade, a Pathfinder Tales novel, and thought "that was surprisingly un-sexist book about a womanizer asshole protagonist, and it's fun to boot. I never expected a man to navigate writing like that," and I looked them up, and they are genderfluid now.
paizo.com/products/btp...
paizo.com/products/btp...
I’d be there opening night for The Muppet Odyssey
We should have a Muppets adaptation of classic literature like every 3-5 years. Give the creative team time to cook
December 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’d be there opening night for The Muppet Odyssey
You can listen to (or read!) “The Sun Globe,” my latest holiday collab with @sundew.bsky.social at @podcastle.org!
podcastle.org/2025/12/23/p...
podcastle.org/2025/12/23/p...
PodCastle 923: The Sun Globe - PodCastle
The Sun Globe Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt Grace Morley was singing “Silver Bells” under her breath — it was part of the winter pageant she was organizing, and she’d heard it a hundred million times in ...
podcastle.org
December 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
You can listen to (or read!) “The Sun Globe,” my latest holiday collab with @sundew.bsky.social at @podcastle.org!
podcastle.org/2025/12/23/p...
podcastle.org/2025/12/23/p...
Reposted by Tim Melody Pratt
Reposted by Tim Melody Pratt
Reposted by Tim Melody Pratt
Huh, I should have done my Tiny Tim, Deathless Assassin story this year I guess
December 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Huh, I should have done my Tiny Tim, Deathless Assassin story this year I guess
5 perfect movies (in no particular order):
I Saw the TV Glow
Moonrise Kingdom
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
The Suicide Squad (2021)
I Saw the TV Glow
Moonrise Kingdom
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
The Suicide Squad (2021)
5 perfect movies (in no particular order):
-Tombstone
-The Crow
-The Goonies
-Inglourious Basterds
-Romeo + Juliet (1996)
-Tombstone
-The Crow
-The Goonies
-Inglourious Basterds
-Romeo + Juliet (1996)
5 perfect movies (in no particular order):
-Tombstone
-Cape Fear (1962)
-Road Warrior
-Unforgiven
-L.A. Confidential
-Tombstone
-Cape Fear (1962)
-Road Warrior
-Unforgiven
-L.A. Confidential
December 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
5 perfect movies (in no particular order):
I Saw the TV Glow
Moonrise Kingdom
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
The Suicide Squad (2021)
I Saw the TV Glow
Moonrise Kingdom
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
The Suicide Squad (2021)
is there anything cuter than mesopotamian lilith
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
is there anything cuter than mesopotamian lilith
Somehow Palpatine returned again
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
New Rumor Claims the Third AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Teaser Trailer Will Focus on a Very Surprising Character
The release of director James Cameron ’s sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash has brought the release of the first teaser trailer for Marvel’s highly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday . The first trailer was...
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Somehow Palpatine returned again
Time to re-read “In the Late December” by @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social
Still a banger after all these years
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Still a banger after all these years
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
In the Late December
Santa goes down the list, pushing the team relentlessly across the black. Little girl after little girl, little boy after little boy, absent, vanished into the emptiness of the old, dying, dead uni…
strangehorizons.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Time to re-read “In the Late December” by @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social
Still a banger after all these years
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Still a banger after all these years
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Same way I suddenly disliked a chicken sandwich many years ago when I found out its sales funded organized bigotry
Humans are actually pretty good at context!
Humans are actually pretty good at context!
“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?”
For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.
Because I care about people.
You dipshit.
For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.
Because I care about people.
You dipshit.
December 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Same way I suddenly disliked a chicken sandwich many years ago when I found out its sales funded organized bigotry
Humans are actually pretty good at context!
Humans are actually pretty good at context!
Life is a dream within a dream
In space no one can hear you scream
In space no one can hear you scream
Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
December 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Life is a dream within a dream
In space no one can hear you scream
In space no one can hear you scream
ooh a publisher paid me earlier than I expected
a cartoon of a man saying " no dog food for victor tonight "
Alt: Car salesman Victor from Futurama saying "no dog food for victor tonight"
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ooh a publisher paid me earlier than I expected
Write every day. I don’t even write every week. Time off is good, refill the creative well
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Write every day. I don’t even write every week. Time off is good, refill the creative well
coffee table poly (everyone lives in studio apartments)
December 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
coffee table poly (everyone lives in studio apartments)
oh hey this is one of my staff picks from when I was on the staff still
2025 Stories We Loved: “Wire Mother” by Isabel J. Kim locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
oh hey this is one of my staff picks from when I was on the staff still
Reposted by Tim Melody Pratt
Simply
Having
A wonderful
Having
A wonderful
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Simply
Having
A wonderful
Having
A wonderful
I left my heart in Seattle Franerisco
Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I left my heart in Seattle Franerisco
Reposted by Tim Melody Pratt
>2087
>jack into the omninet to chill with your polycule
>your soyfriend tells you xhe has a new gf
>oh shit new metamour
>she’s a puppy girl just like you
>fuck yeah
>she logs in
>see a crackling pyramid of obsidian lightning wearing puppy ears
>”a fucking clanker???”
>banned for 2020s style racism
>jack into the omninet to chill with your polycule
>your soyfriend tells you xhe has a new gf
>oh shit new metamour
>she’s a puppy girl just like you
>fuck yeah
>she logs in
>see a crackling pyramid of obsidian lightning wearing puppy ears
>”a fucking clanker???”
>banned for 2020s style racism
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
>2087
>jack into the omninet to chill with your polycule
>your soyfriend tells you xhe has a new gf
>oh shit new metamour
>she’s a puppy girl just like you
>fuck yeah
>she logs in
>see a crackling pyramid of obsidian lightning wearing puppy ears
>”a fucking clanker???”
>banned for 2020s style racism
>jack into the omninet to chill with your polycule
>your soyfriend tells you xhe has a new gf
>oh shit new metamour
>she’s a puppy girl just like you
>fuck yeah
>she logs in
>see a crackling pyramid of obsidian lightning wearing puppy ears
>”a fucking clanker???”
>banned for 2020s style racism
Over 30 selfie: She’s 49 y’all
December 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Over 30 selfie: She’s 49 y’all