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)
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
this reboot of young frankenstein isn’t nearly as funny as the original
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
this reboot of young frankenstein isn’t nearly as funny as the original
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ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
also hey, this issue is stacked??
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
I have a new batch of mini-reviews up at my Patreon, mentioning books I read and liked by Premee Mohamed and Joe Hill and Caitlín R. Kiernan and Gretchen McNeil and more
www.patreon.com/posts/143134...
www.patreon.com/posts/143134...
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I have a new batch of mini-reviews up at my Patreon, mentioning books I read and liked by Premee Mohamed and Joe Hill and Caitlín R. Kiernan and Gretchen McNeil and more
www.patreon.com/posts/143134...
www.patreon.com/posts/143134...
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
For me too. If I didn’t like writing I’d do something else. Why would I spend so much time and energy on something entirely optional that I didn’t enjoy
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
For me too. If I didn’t like writing I’d do something else. Why would I spend so much time and energy on something entirely optional that I didn’t enjoy
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I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
I fear neither death nor dishonor
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I fear neither death nor dishonor
My child is no longer a child: he turned 18 today. What an amazing trip it’s been
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My child is no longer a child: he turned 18 today. What an amazing trip it’s been
Hmm maybe I should finally do that Dark Urge playthrough
I’d replay The Phantom Pain but I don’t think I can endure that prologue section again
Or I never finished my remastered Oblivion replay
Or I could play the Dishonored games again
Free time choice paralysis
I’d replay The Phantom Pain but I don’t think I can endure that prologue section again
Or I never finished my remastered Oblivion replay
Or I could play the Dishonored games again
Free time choice paralysis
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Hmm maybe I should finally do that Dark Urge playthrough
I’d replay The Phantom Pain but I don’t think I can endure that prologue section again
Or I never finished my remastered Oblivion replay
Or I could play the Dishonored games again
Free time choice paralysis
I’d replay The Phantom Pain but I don’t think I can endure that prologue section again
Or I never finished my remastered Oblivion replay
Or I could play the Dishonored games again
Free time choice paralysis
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When your husband is lost at sea so your mourn and grieve but then you get remarried because someone’s got to provide for these kids but then your first husband miraculously returns from the dead
this dummy has one ever had one toy he cared about—pooh bear—until we lost it about a year and a half ago. it took him another six months before he landed on gumby. well, we found pooh behind some furniture, and now whenever he’s in the room with both he loses his mind and just starts whimpering.
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When your husband is lost at sea so your mourn and grieve but then you get remarried because someone’s got to provide for these kids but then your first husband miraculously returns from the dead
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Day 312: Drawing another animal without seeing it first, featuring the Hellbender
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Day 312: Drawing another animal without seeing it first, featuring the Hellbender
Yesterday it was pretty warm and sunny I was like “ooh I could grill” because I forgot sunset was at 5 pm and in Berkeley the temperature drops ten degrees immediately at dusk
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Yesterday it was pretty warm and sunny I was like “ooh I could grill” because I forgot sunset was at 5 pm and in Berkeley the temperature drops ten degrees immediately at dusk
Since I finished all my contracted writing I get to play video games
Great news, I no longer need a social life because now I have Balatro
Great news, I no longer need a social life because now I have Balatro
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Since I finished all my contracted writing I get to play video games
Great news, I no longer need a social life because now I have Balatro
Great news, I no longer need a social life because now I have Balatro
I vacillate between thinking I’d love to live in a minimalist modern apartment and thinking I’d love to live in the house Galen Dara painted for the cover of Heirs of Grace
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I vacillate between thinking I’d love to live in a minimalist modern apartment and thinking I’d love to live in the house Galen Dara painted for the cover of Heirs of Grace
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Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.
One of six stories revised! (It's a suite of connected Mythos stories, about 20K total)
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
One of six stories revised! (It's a suite of connected Mythos stories, about 20K total)
nobody expects the bavarian illuminati
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
nobody expects the bavarian illuminati
I have revising to do today, but then I'm caught up on all my deadlines
Nothing on my calendar except my monthly Patreon story
Once I get editorial revisions for a couple things, I'll be out of contract
Day job ends in three weeks
Gonna chill from Thanksgiving to New Year's, only write if I want
Nothing on my calendar except my monthly Patreon story
Once I get editorial revisions for a couple things, I'll be out of contract
Day job ends in three weeks
Gonna chill from Thanksgiving to New Year's, only write if I want
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I have revising to do today, but then I'm caught up on all my deadlines
Nothing on my calendar except my monthly Patreon story
Once I get editorial revisions for a couple things, I'll be out of contract
Day job ends in three weeks
Gonna chill from Thanksgiving to New Year's, only write if I want
Nothing on my calendar except my monthly Patreon story
Once I get editorial revisions for a couple things, I'll be out of contract
Day job ends in three weeks
Gonna chill from Thanksgiving to New Year's, only write if I want
Since October 11, I've written eight short stories and revised a novel, producing about 40,000 new words. This is WITH a day job. It all feels like good work too (the bits people have seen so far got good responses). I'm in a creative era. Good time to switch to writing full-time
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Since October 11, I've written eight short stories and revised a novel, producing about 40,000 new words. This is WITH a day job. It all feels like good work too (the bits people have seen so far got good responses). I'm in a creative era. Good time to switch to writing full-time
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In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.
sweet mama coffee take me in your warm embrace
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
sweet mama coffee take me in your warm embrace