Wm Henry Morris
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gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
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Wm Henry Morris
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· Oct 7
Oddities: Fantasies & Science Fictions, story collection | WHM
Wm Henry Morris's first collection of science fiction and fantasy short fiction
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No story collection is worth buying for just one story, and I’m definitely not suggesting mine is.
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
What I can say is my story “After the Post-Apocalypse” interrogates both post-apocalyptic fiction and the literary impulse itself, and I think you should read it.
wmhenrymorris.com/fiction/oddi...
Son of The White Mare is a visual masterpiece, but it's also a major landmark in the use of synths for soundtrack/sound design (for example, it pre-dates The Thing by a year).
Unfortunately, I can't find anything where the composer István Vajda talks about how he created it/what gear he used.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything where the composer István Vajda talks about how he created it/what gear he used.
January 2, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Son of The White Mare is a visual masterpiece, but it's also a major landmark in the use of synths for soundtrack/sound design (for example, it pre-dates The Thing by a year).
Unfortunately, I can't find anything where the composer István Vajda talks about how he created it/what gear he used.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything where the composer István Vajda talks about how he created it/what gear he used.
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If you're a writer or other creator with a stack of unread nonfiction you bought for research, my Worldbuilder's Book Club reading challenge is back for 2026 with twelve prompts to help you deepen different aspects of your created worlds!
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
December 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you're a writer or other creator with a stack of unread nonfiction you bought for research, my Worldbuilder's Book Club reading challenge is back for 2026 with twelve prompts to help you deepen different aspects of your created worlds!
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
(StoryGraph challenge and printable zine links below!)
two female kpop idols parody parkour bros -- ball is now in the parkour bros court -- time for them to do some dance challenges: youtu.be/lUVqP4pv5jE?...
⚠️파쿠르 정기모임, 위험하니 절대 따라하지 마시오⚠️ #fromis_9 #프로미스나인
YouTube video by fromis_9
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January 1, 2026 at 7:02 PM
two female kpop idols parody parkour bros -- ball is now in the parkour bros court -- time for them to do some dance challenges: youtu.be/lUVqP4pv5jE?...
a major bright spot of 2025:
And finally, it was great to bring back the Critical Friends podcast this year. Every conversation has been a joy, each built off a sparkling review I haven't even linked to here.
Critical Friends - Strange Horizons
strangehorizons.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
a major bright spot of 2025:
Standard Ebooks was ready for the turn of the year and just dropped a bunch of new editions: standardebooks.org/blog/public-...
Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog
Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!
standardebooks.org
January 1, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Standard Ebooks was ready for the turn of the year and just dropped a bunch of new editions: standardebooks.org/blog/public-...
"we very much appreciate both how this reads one text through another—here, Jeffer’s novella and Ekman’s monograph Urban Fantasy—and how it reads the balances and tensions between the mundane and the magical."
It's always a pleasure to have readers who understand what you're trying to do.
It's always a pleasure to have readers who understand what you're trying to do.
Last post of the year! We present ARB's Notable Criticism of 2025—ten articles that highlight the vitality and possibilities of speculative criticism:
ARB’s 2025 Notable Criticism
In the field of speculative criticism, many of the challenges and positive developments we noted last year are still in full effect. 2025 has brought even more precarity for culture writers and aca…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
January 1, 2026 at 5:45 PM
"we very much appreciate both how this reads one text through another—here, Jeffer’s novella and Ekman’s monograph Urban Fantasy—and how it reads the balances and tensions between the mundane and the magical."
It's always a pleasure to have readers who understand what you're trying to do.
It's always a pleasure to have readers who understand what you're trying to do.
My 2026 goal is to use all 15 Kanopy tickets that my library allots me per month at least once.
January 1, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My 2026 goal is to use all 15 Kanopy tickets that my library allots me per month at least once.
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*I reach one eyestalk tentatively out of my mammaloid chrysalis and then begin to emerge*
New year, new me.
New year, new me.
January 1, 2026 at 3:37 AM
*I reach one eyestalk tentatively out of my mammaloid chrysalis and then begin to emerge*
New year, new me.
New year, new me.
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Last post of the year! We present ARB's Notable Criticism of 2025—ten articles that highlight the vitality and possibilities of speculative criticism:
ARB’s 2025 Notable Criticism
In the field of speculative criticism, many of the challenges and positive developments we noted last year are still in full effect. 2025 has brought even more precarity for culture writers and aca…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Last post of the year! We present ARB's Notable Criticism of 2025—ten articles that highlight the vitality and possibilities of speculative criticism:
not enough talk about class in relation to dark academia (and when there is, it’s a very surface aesthetics level)— this is a good start to remedy that:
A Meal of Thorns #39: @chloroformtea.bsky.social is back on the show, exploring class, style, and the roots of dark academia in Donna Tartt's THE SECRET HISTORY!
A Meal of Thorns 39- THE SECRET HISTORY with Roseanna Pendlebury
We’re tracking down the wellspring of “dark academia” in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, and plucking on threads that stretch out to current fantasy and science fiction li…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
not enough talk about class in relation to dark academia (and when there is, it’s a very surface aesthetics level)— this is a good start to remedy that:
Finally watched Rashomon.
If Kurosawa can tell 4+1 stories in 90 minutes, how come you can’t even manage to tell 2/3 of a story in three hours?
If Kurosawa can tell 4+1 stories in 90 minutes, how come you can’t even manage to tell 2/3 of a story in three hours?
December 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Finally watched Rashomon.
If Kurosawa can tell 4+1 stories in 90 minutes, how come you can’t even manage to tell 2/3 of a story in three hours?
If Kurosawa can tell 4+1 stories in 90 minutes, how come you can’t even manage to tell 2/3 of a story in three hours?
My final book read of 2025 is Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My final book read of 2025 is Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir
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There are 5.5 hours left in 2025, but nevertheless I'm going to take the chance that my year's reading is concluded. Here are my best reads of 2025, an idiosyncratic bunch of choices in a year that did not seem to have many big, zeitgeisty books. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...
2025, A Year in Reading: Best Books of the Year
I read 183 books in 2025, a little less than last year but still in the same ballpark. Despite—or perhaps because—of this breadth of reading...
wrongquestions.blogspot.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
There are 5.5 hours left in 2025, but nevertheless I'm going to take the chance that my year's reading is concluded. Here are my best reads of 2025, an idiosyncratic bunch of choices in a year that did not seem to have many big, zeitgeisty books. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025...
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As someone who has a little bit of experience in crisis PR/comms, this is exactly right and it’s a playbook used in the higher ed and nonprofit world as well.
In the world of politics, such surveys, unscientific and with randos inserting themselves, are a way to deflect taking responsibility for an issue, or to use said survey to support whatever those in control wanted to do in the first place, before it became controversial. 4/?
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
As someone who has a little bit of experience in crisis PR/comms, this is exactly right and it’s a playbook used in the higher ed and nonprofit world as well.
As someone who has a little bit of experience in crisis PR/comms, this is exactly right and it’s a playbook used in the higher ed and nonprofit world as well.
In the world of politics, such surveys, unscientific and with randos inserting themselves, are a way to deflect taking responsibility for an issue, or to use said survey to support whatever those in control wanted to do in the first place, before it became controversial. 4/?
December 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
As someone who has a little bit of experience in crisis PR/comms, this is exactly right and it’s a playbook used in the higher ed and nonprofit world as well.
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Some of my favorite works of #SFinTranslation from 2025:
December 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Some of my favorite works of #SFinTranslation from 2025:
One of those novels that went up in my estimation after getting some distance from it plus reading others opinions of it (even lukewarm to negative ones)
December 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
One of those novels that went up in my estimation after getting some distance from it plus reading others opinions of it (even lukewarm to negative ones)
Thanks to my Bookshop wishlist, my mom and dad gave me a Josipovici book for Christmas instead of something I will never read or wear.
(they’re very generous but they do want to sometimes not just send a gift card so I have something to open, which I totally get)
(they’re very generous but they do want to sometimes not just send a gift card so I have something to open, which I totally get)
December 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Thanks to my Bookshop wishlist, my mom and dad gave me a Josipovici book for Christmas instead of something I will never read or wear.
(they’re very generous but they do want to sometimes not just send a gift card so I have something to open, which I totally get)
(they’re very generous but they do want to sometimes not just send a gift card so I have something to open, which I totally get)
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anybody have a waterproof blue tooth speaker? I have an idea...
December 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
anybody have a waterproof blue tooth speaker? I have an idea...
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The momentum continued & between Thanksgiving Day & today I completed the first draft of a ~20k word novella.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
I've long been an only write fiction/criticism on the weekends kind of writer, which means I usually write about a thousand new words a week. And some weeks none at all.
But I'm in the midst of a new fiction project and including last Saturday I've managed 5,558 words in less than a week.
But I'm in the midst of a new fiction project and including last Saturday I've managed 5,558 words in less than a week.
December 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The momentum continued & between Thanksgiving Day & today I completed the first draft of a ~20k word novella.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
if the Niners has a pass rush, they’d be a serious threat in the NFC
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
if the Niners has a pass rush, they’d be a serious threat in the NFC
The momentum continued & between Thanksgiving Day & today I completed the first draft of a ~20k word novella.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
I've long been an only write fiction/criticism on the weekends kind of writer, which means I usually write about a thousand new words a week. And some weeks none at all.
But I'm in the midst of a new fiction project and including last Saturday I've managed 5,558 words in less than a week.
But I'm in the midst of a new fiction project and including last Saturday I've managed 5,558 words in less than a week.
December 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The momentum continued & between Thanksgiving Day & today I completed the first draft of a ~20k word novella.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
When in my longtime social media bio, I write “Gently painting genre (and sometimes litfic) into a corner”: this one is finally the litfic w/an emphasis on gently.
anybody have a waterproof blue tooth speaker? I have an idea...
December 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
anybody have a waterproof blue tooth speaker? I have an idea...
And now he's compiled all of his posts on writing criticism into a helpful index: ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/o...
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
And now he's compiled all of his posts on writing criticism into a helpful index: ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/o...
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From 2018 (not AI)
Last Christmas Love Tore Us Apart, by Alex Reed
1 track album
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December 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
From 2018 (not AI)