Clarissa C. S. Ryan
@wintersweet.bsky.social
I guess I'm here now? But also wandering.shop? Where are any of us, really?
🏳️🌈🚀 sf/f writer, artist/designer, former English/ESOL adjunct professor, fan of things, GW2/WWM player. Forever temporospatially disjointed. Southern Tier NY. She/her, ish. 中文 OK
🏳️🌈🚀 sf/f writer, artist/designer, former English/ESOL adjunct professor, fan of things, GW2/WWM player. Forever temporospatially disjointed. Southern Tier NY. She/her, ish. 中文 OK
all sorts of stuff here from computer games (do we still say that?) to TTRPG resources
No ICE in Minnesota bundle is live! Get Gunhouse, Hyper Gunsport, and 1,400 other things for $10 or more.
itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
all sorts of stuff here from computer games (do we still say that?) to TTRPG resources
ONE MORE TIME!!
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer
🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer
🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏
February 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
ONE MORE TIME!!
man if I had to actually understand lyrics to enjoy or dance to a song I wouldn't be able to listen to ANYTHING, including songs in English!
(feel free to ask me about hit 80s song "On the Ice" from "Dirty Dancing")
(feel free to ask me about hit 80s song "On the Ice" from "Dirty Dancing")
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
man if I had to actually understand lyrics to enjoy or dance to a song I wouldn't be able to listen to ANYTHING, including songs in English!
(feel free to ask me about hit 80s song "On the Ice" from "Dirty Dancing")
(feel free to ask me about hit 80s song "On the Ice" from "Dirty Dancing")
Watched Taiwanese horror-comedy 鬼才之道 Dead Talents Society and was SURE (between that music video/karaoke, the Japanese horror references, and the Perfect Blue thing) that the director must be about my age, and sure enough! Anyway STRONG rec; it's on Netflix in the US currently. Watch the credits!
February 9, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Watched Taiwanese horror-comedy 鬼才之道 Dead Talents Society and was SURE (between that music video/karaoke, the Japanese horror references, and the Perfect Blue thing) that the director must be about my age, and sure enough! Anyway STRONG rec; it's on Netflix in the US currently. Watch the credits!
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I would really like to write the story I've been solicited to write for this collection. (Space opera! Fashion! Politics!)
But it needs to get funded for that to happen.
But it needs to get funded for that to happen.
We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.
February 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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☞ ☞ ☞ the index finger is a pointing gesture to be found in manuscript and print traditions. It was used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text or image. This slow-moving thread highlight a few of them:
February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
☞ ☞ ☞ the index finger is a pointing gesture to be found in manuscript and print traditions. It was used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text or image. This slow-moving thread highlight a few of them:
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SCMP, he is Chow Yun-fat. Why would you ever ask us mortals to be like a god
www.scmp.com/lifestyle/he...
www.scmp.com/lifestyle/he...
How people like 70-year-old Chow Yun-fat keep pushing their endurance limits
Chow ran a half-marathon last year, while silver stars like Natalie Grabow, Jeannie Rice and Hiromu Inada are breaking records. Here’s how.
www.scmp.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
SCMP, he is Chow Yun-fat. Why would you ever ask us mortals to be like a god
www.scmp.com/lifestyle/he...
www.scmp.com/lifestyle/he...
reading these 2 articles has given me a lot of additional new questions about the history of mangos in China and Taiwan (Taiwan is where I learned that mangos that aren't the dominant US variety, Tommy Atkins, are actually good)
daily.jstor.org/when-maos-ma...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
daily.jstor.org/when-maos-ma...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
When Mao’s Mango Mania Took Over China - JSTOR Daily
A fleeting cult built around a mango exposes the logic, and illogic, of Mao’s personality cult.
daily.jstor.org
February 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
reading these 2 articles has given me a lot of additional new questions about the history of mangos in China and Taiwan (Taiwan is where I learned that mangos that aren't the dominant US variety, Tommy Atkins, are actually good)
daily.jstor.org/when-maos-ma...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
daily.jstor.org/when-maos-ma...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
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FUCK ICE!
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
February 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
FUCK ICE!
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.
www.novaandmali.com/shop
It’s a little cold (Fahrenheit, Celsius)
February 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
It’s a little cold (Fahrenheit, Celsius)
good news for me personally
(if you’ve started it and you’re like “hmm, this is a bit TOO fluffy”…hang in there)
(if you’ve started it and you’re like “hmm, this is a bit TOO fluffy”…hang in there)
#HowDareYou, starring #WangChuran and #ChengLei, achieved 3rd place in iQIYI’s history for first-day popularity among new dramas of 2025–2026, reaching S+ advertising level.
Just hours after its premiere, the series surpassed 6.000 and peaked at 7.891 by the end of the day.
Just hours after its premiere, the series surpassed 6.000 and peaked at 7.891 by the end of the day.
February 7, 2026 at 6:23 AM
good news for me personally
(if you’ve started it and you’re like “hmm, this is a bit TOO fluffy”…hang in there)
(if you’ve started it and you’re like “hmm, this is a bit TOO fluffy”…hang in there)
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February 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Digital Classes are BACK!
Yes, we will mail you taste-along sample boxes! Yes, these classes are available worldwide!
www.eventbrite.com/cc/digital-c...
Yes, we will mail you taste-along sample boxes! Yes, these classes are available worldwide!
www.eventbrite.com/cc/digital-c...
Digital Classes
Digital workshops to enhance your tea experience!
www.eventbrite.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Digital Classes are BACK!
Yes, we will mail you taste-along sample boxes! Yes, these classes are available worldwide!
www.eventbrite.com/cc/digital-c...
Yes, we will mail you taste-along sample boxes! Yes, these classes are available worldwide!
www.eventbrite.com/cc/digital-c...
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I need to make some money, so I'm again offering COMMISSIONS $50 for a digital portrait! Anything you want, provided it's a portrait of a person or an animal, and it's not of someone gross like, I don't know, Johnny Depp or something.
Commissions
50 dollars for a drawing. Seriously! It's a good deal dude!
www.joehumphrey.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I need to make some money, so I'm again offering COMMISSIONS $50 for a digital portrait! Anything you want, provided it's a portrait of a person or an animal, and it's not of someone gross like, I don't know, Johnny Depp or something.
I think I missed this from last year: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette
Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.
news.harvard.edu
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I think I missed this from last year: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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However good you think is is going to be, it's better than that.
squee! Demented one-man blues Band BOB LOG III has a video with tiny fuzzy kittens in it. The track is all about the kittens too. You'll have to click through this Bandcamp page, but it's worth it for the smol and fuzzy:
boblogiii.bandcamp.com/track/consue...
boblogiii.bandcamp.com/track/consue...
Consuela Did It, by BOB LOG III
track by BOB LOG III
boblogiii.bandcamp.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
However good you think is is going to be, it's better than that.
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Canadian writers! Please do this. Help others discover your work. Stephen’s Best of Volumes are an amazing snapshot of not just the best short fiction out there but also a great summary of the previous year in publishing.
ONLY 24 DAYS LEFT! Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume 4 (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025--details in the link below. Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
(And why 24 day? Well, because I forgot to post this on a day that is a multiple of 5!)
(And why 24 day? Well, because I forgot to post this on a day that is a multiple of 5!)
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Canadian writers! Please do this. Help others discover your work. Stephen’s Best of Volumes are an amazing snapshot of not just the best short fiction out there but also a great summary of the previous year in publishing.
wassup Jing Ke
February 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
wassup Jing Ke
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ah, the romance of a life at sea! 💀
globalmaritimehistory.com/of-toerags-a...
globalmaritimehistory.com/of-toerags-a...
Of toerags and spice boxes: Sanitation at sea - Global Maritime History
Welcome to the second instalment of our series on “Health at Sea in the Age of Sail.” This time, we are talking about sanitation at sea. If you have always wanted to know how those sailors of old exec...
globalmaritimehistory.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM
ah, the romance of a life at sea! 💀
globalmaritimehistory.com/of-toerags-a...
globalmaritimehistory.com/of-toerags-a...
these are SO great (many more in the thread)
I wasn't going to paint more of my 2019 Defy Mask series but current events convinced me otherwise. This one is inspired by the Portland protest frog.
February 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
these are SO great (many more in the thread)
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Hey folks!
Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.
Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Hey folks!
Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.
Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.
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7. I think that's everything? tl;dr, DONATE SOME MONEY TO A MN RENT FUND, email RentFundRaffle@gmail.com, we will pick a name at random and someone will get an ARC.
www.standwithminnesota.com#mutualaid
www.standwithminnesota.com#mutualaid
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM
7. I think that's everything? tl;dr, DONATE SOME MONEY TO A MN RENT FUND, email RentFundRaffle@gmail.com, we will pick a name at random and someone will get an ARC.
www.standwithminnesota.com#mutualaid
www.standwithminnesota.com#mutualaid
every time I read a reference to Claude-the-"AI" this is all I can hear
a cartoon character is upside down with the words `` you clod '' written on the bottom .
Alt: Peridot from the Steven Universe animated series shouts "You clod!"
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 AM
every time I read a reference to Claude-the-"AI" this is all I can hear
reminding myself that I can, in fact, put the poetry in later, and that a rough draft's only job is to exist
(if I say it enough times will it stick??)
(if I say it enough times will it stick??)
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 AM
reminding myself that I can, in fact, put the poetry in later, and that a rough draft's only job is to exist
(if I say it enough times will it stick??)
(if I say it enough times will it stick??)