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aniking.bsky.social
Ani King (they/them)
@aniking.bsky.social
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Michigan writer and stuff. gender noncompliant. Spicy about AI. Anti-Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night: Stories (Mason Jar Press, 2026)
— SmokeLong Submissions Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (permanently closed)
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aniking.bsky.social
Hope your day gets better!!
Picture of two cats snuggling on a green blanket - the black cat is curled into the grey tabby and the grey tabby is stretched around the black cat.
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
aniking.bsky.social
Might I recommend one for your e-reader (THANK YOU for being available on Kobo!) and one for your shelf? Then you always have a copy close by or to lend a friend :D
Picture of a Kobo e-reader with the cover for Bitter Over Sweet, next to a physical copy of Bitter Over Sweet, laying on a soft green blanket.
November 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Hey friends and mutuals: writtend.bsky is almost certainly not Ottessa Moshfegh’s Bluesky account. She states very clearly on her s*bstack about page that she doesn’t use social media. And this is pretty textbook impersonation vibes. I’ve reported the account, please do the same.
Picture of the writtend account claiming to be Ottessa Moshfegh. There is only one post from a month ago, and the follow behavior is pretty consistent with impersonation accounts. Picture of a conversation between myself and the Ottessa Moshfegh impersonator where I ask them to reply to the email I sent today if they want to confirm they are really her.
October 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Ahem, in the grand tradition of the comments section: FIRST!

Absolutely delighted to have this out here in the wild(s of urban Michigan). @lumchanmfa.bsky.social dropped another banger!
Picture of a book with a bold blue, yellow, black, purple, red-orange and white cover in a Hawaiian print, with the title BITTER OVER SWEET in all caps.
October 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
aniking.bsky.social
I really love this tiny chapbook!
Picture of a small chapbook with a purplish-blue background and a round full moon with abstract light and dark pink flowers.
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
aniking.bsky.social
lol. I cancelled a few days ago, but raising prices while two of the bundle companies were just on blast for censorship is a bad look. We weren’t going back anyway 😌
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September 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Skelly thoroughly enjoyed Lives of the Dead by @fionamckay.bsky.social, but in an enraged way, because this novella in flash is the perfect melding of fairy tale, "benevolent sexism", and the impact it has on women's lives when they don't get to be in charge of their bodies. 10/10!
A bright pink plastic skeleton (Skelly) with a crocheted beanie is sitting in a very relaxed position in rainbow outdoor folding chair, indoors. A colorful silk art scarf is draped over the chair this week. Skelly is holding a copy of The Lives of the Dead, by Fiona McKay.
August 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Yay! My autographed copy of Rakesfall by @vajra.me, from the @strangehorizons.bsky.social annual fundraiser came!
Picture of a hardcover copy of “Rakesfall” by Vajra Chandrasekera which has a bright pink cover featuring an animal skull and soft yellow flowers with green viny leaves. The book is sitting on a worn wooden table surface.
August 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
aniking.bsky.social
These two sentences mean the same thing:

“New Richard Siken dropped” and “go ahead and hurt me, then.”
Picture of an all black hardcover book with the title, “I Do Know Some Things”, and the authors name, Richard Siken, written in white font that resembles hand writing. The book is sitting on a textured sage green blanket.
August 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Skelly's back! Listen, The River Has Roots has sisters who support each other, romance with a non-binary being that is Complicated (tm), and as always with work by @amalelmohtar.com, it's beautifully written and lyrical AF. And of course, there's a little death to deal with, which is Skelly's jam.
A bright pink plastic skeleton (Skelly) with a crocheted beanie is sitting in a very relaxed position in rainbow outdoor folding chair, indoors. A colorful silk art scarf is draped over the chair this week. Skelly is holding a copy of The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar.
July 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Skelly and I are feeling some kind of way this weekend.
A pink plastic skeleton wearing a color-flecked cream beanie sits on a multicolored lawn chair with a colorful scarf behind it. (Dancing Water by Isabelle Gougenheim.) The skeleton is staring into the void. I am staring into the void.
July 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Skelly's next rec is "Bad Seed" by Gabriel Carle. trans. by Heather Houde. Personally, this book hurt me. This book pushed me down & stuck me in the kidneys. This book fucked me up in an alleyway with a broken beer bottle. This book wants to push me down some stairs right now. You should read it.
A bright pink plastic skeleton (Skelly) with a crocheted beanie is sitting in a very relaxed position in rainbow outdoor folding chair, indoors. A colorful silk art scarf is draped over the chair this week. Skelly is holding a copy of Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle, trans. by Heather Houde.
June 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Finally all moved in and set up in the new office, and Skelly even has their own chair. To that end, Skelly would like to recommend some summer reading over the next couple of months. First up, All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social.
A bright pink plastic skeleton (Skelly) with a crocheted beanie is sitting in a very relaxed position in rainbow outdoor folding chair, indoors. Skelly is holding a copy of All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury by Mario Aliberto III.
May 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
aniking.bsky.social
🫶🫶🫶
April 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
aniking.bsky.social
45 on the 10th
A noir stylized black and white picture of a white person with dark hair swooping to the right, and a bright silver streak in the swoop. The person is sort of smiling but also squinting a little, which is how most of their pictures come out.
February 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Delighted to have 'Horsegirl' in @messymisfitsclub.bsky.social Volume 6: Filth, which you can grab a digital copy of for 2USD here: tinyurl.com/296b9ztn
January 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Welp. I guess I have a newsletter now. 😂 I ended up going with @buttondown.com, largely because a couple of the more ethical about emailing and other practices people I know like and use it.

Sign up for Five-ish Things at aniking.net or buttondown.com/mxaniking
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January 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Just started Someone You Can Build a Nest in by @wiswell.bsky.social and it is of course charming from page one. Queer monster books are 🫶.
April 15, 2024 at 2:38 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Last year I knit four sweaters (tricked myself, that’s how) and was like NO MORE SWEATERS except this blue though.
A pile of vivid blue Malabrigo yarn skeins on a light-finish wooden table, the tags are white with a dark blue strip that reads “Matisse Blue” A vivid blue Malabrigo yarn cake on a light-finish wooden table, in the colorway “Matisse Blue” A knitted sleeve cuff in vivid Matisse Blue Malabrigo yarn on a light wooden table.
February 23, 2024 at 1:40 PM
aniking.bsky.social
It’s heeeeeeeere! Halfway through my full reread of MurderBot by @marthawells.bsky.social, gonna start System Collapse this weekend I CANNOT WAIT.
November 15, 2023 at 11:03 PM
aniking.bsky.social
My final spooky month reads:

Evil Flowers by Gunnhild Øyehaug 15/10
The Factory Witches of Lowell by CS Malerich (labor matters every month)
The Water Outlaws by @slhuang.com (lesson: cannibalism is the answer to shitty men)
The Gold Persimmon by Lindsay Merbaum (I’m scared, confused & like it)
Three books are stacked with one off to the side, in front of a silver boombox, on a light wooden surface. The top book on the stack has a psychedelic cover with bursts of neon pink, orange, yellow, blue, green on a black background. The title, Evil Flowers, is in a sans serif font in all caps and is upside down. The authors name is in the same font, but right side up. It is stacked on The Factory Witches of Lowell, which is stacked on The Water Outlaws. The book off to the side has a white spine and a cloudy grey cover with a spooky hotel who’s name/book title (The Gold Persimmon) runs vertically in orange letters, the author’s name is horizontal in smaller capitalized letters, on the corner.
October 30, 2023 at 1:58 PM
aniking.bsky.social
October reading so far setting a really high bar, ❤️ them all:
Homesick: Stories by @ninocipri.bsky.social
What Moves the Dead by @tkingfisher.bsky.social
Monstrilio by @samanito.bsky.social
Not pictured because e-book, Siren Queen by @nghivo.bsky.social

Next, Evil Flowers by Gunnhild Øyehaug
Four books are lined up on folded over quilts in shades of blue, with small pops of neon yellow. Homesick: Stories has a cover with olive green 2D houses floating on blue waves that variate from light teal to blue-black. The title is in light teal block letters. What Moves the Dead has a block letter titled laid over a brown, sketched hair that is morphing with pink and red fungus, with a black background. The image is unsettling. Monstrilio is written in white cursive on a grey back ground that has various rhomboid and triangular shapes in bright red, green, periwinkle, and yellow. There is a vintage style illustration of a bat like monster with red eyes layered wit the shapes. Evil Flowers is written upside down in white sans serif capital letters, while the authors name is written right side up in the same font, across a psychedelic green, blue, purple, yellow, and neon pink cover.
October 10, 2023 at 12:36 AM
aniking.bsky.social
How your old elm tree finds me
September 28, 2023 at 11:44 AM
aniking.bsky.social
Today’s coffee brewing omen is actually a picture of me with covid brain. Maybe my eyes ARE inside my mouth. You don’t know.
Top down picture of pour over coffee brewing in a ceramic filter. Two bubbles look like eyes and a larger, darker “C” shape looks like a mouth. It looks like an unhinged puppet face.
September 25, 2023 at 5:25 PM
aniking.bsky.social
Listen this is the sweater I wore today and I wasn’t feeling well so I ended not having A SINGLE VIDEO CALL. Travesty.
A color blocked sweater closeup that is pink on one side, light beige on the other, with primary blue neckline and teal-green waistline, that has a tower of cats in black, with multicolor plastic eyes that follow you.
September 13, 2023 at 7:57 PM