Duncan Whitmire
@duncanwhitmire.bsky.social
Words in McSweeneys IT, CRAFT, the Rumpus, Colorado Review, and Quarterly West. MFA-Fiction grad from Bennington Writing Seminars. #FreePalestine
What a time to be alive
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What a time to be alive
Just glad that Cheney lived long enough to see the expansive exec powers he helped create turned against his own family by the living embodiment of reactionary hate he cultivated. A lesson in there somewhere, if only he hadn't also worked so hard to purge the GOP of critical thought...
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Just glad that Cheney lived long enough to see the expansive exec powers he helped create turned against his own family by the living embodiment of reactionary hate he cultivated. A lesson in there somewhere, if only he hadn't also worked so hard to purge the GOP of critical thought...
Mainers watching Andor Season 2 like
April 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Mainers watching Andor Season 2 like
Surprising myself by discovering new levels of hatred for RFK Jr today. Did not know that well could go any deeper, and yet...
April 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Surprising myself by discovering new levels of hatred for RFK Jr today. Did not know that well could go any deeper, and yet...
Chuck Schumer—a losing loser who couldn't strategize his way out of a wet paper sack—is playing some real 4-D checkers on this cloture vote.
March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Chuck Schumer—a losing loser who couldn't strategize his way out of a wet paper sack—is playing some real 4-D checkers on this cloture vote.
In 2025 I will no longer be "adding a can of stewed tomatoes and breaking them up with a wooden spoon." I'm not your Sicilian grandmother.
January 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In 2025 I will no longer be "adding a can of stewed tomatoes and breaking them up with a wooden spoon." I'm not your Sicilian grandmother.
I have a new essay up at CRAFT! www.craftliterary.com/2024/11/20/p...
Persuasion, Camouflage, and Inoculation: Introducing Magical Elements in Fiction - CRAFT
By Duncan Whitmire • Nothing is more disruptive to a reader than the emergence of the cynical voice inside their head—and nowhere is this more true than with books that traffic in magic and speculatio...
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November 20, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I have a new essay up at CRAFT! www.craftliterary.com/2024/11/20/p...
I guess the hope is that Trump's entire administrative apparatus is so focused on their own petty grifts they forget to do fascism?
November 13, 2024 at 8:47 PM
I guess the hope is that Trump's entire administrative apparatus is so focused on their own petty grifts they forget to do fascism?
This time around I won't be reading every deep dive into Trump's cabinet picks. They suck; that's the whole article. Gonna use the countless hours I save to write a short story about whether or not crows can read our thoughts.
November 12, 2024 at 8:39 PM
This time around I won't be reading every deep dive into Trump's cabinet picks. They suck; that's the whole article. Gonna use the countless hours I save to write a short story about whether or not crows can read our thoughts.
Going to try to use this app more. Blanket following people who follow my favorite lit mags is the move, right?
November 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Going to try to use this app more. Blanket following people who follow my favorite lit mags is the move, right?
My kids are 9&10 so this is the first election they really get what's going on, and it's breaking their brains.
November 6, 2024 at 2:20 PM
My kids are 9&10 so this is the first election they really get what's going on, and it's breaking their brains.
Karate is so weird, like, let's all go to a gymnasium and watch our kids punch each other. Also, sometimes they do little dances that involve intermittent screaming.
October 21, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Karate is so weird, like, let's all go to a gymnasium and watch our kids punch each other. Also, sometimes they do little dances that involve intermittent screaming.
Best part of watching The Rings of Power, the most expensive series ever made, is the ad breaks Amazon places at random throughout the show, sometimes mid-dialogue. What a flex.
September 5, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Best part of watching The Rings of Power, the most expensive series ever made, is the ad breaks Amazon places at random throughout the show, sometimes mid-dialogue. What a flex.
The NaNo stuff is so sad. I never "wrote a novel" but my friends and I had fun being manically generative a few times, which benefitted all of our manuscripts. AI, like capitalism, is a parasite sucking goodness out of the world for the financial benefit of a handful of dicks.
September 4, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The NaNo stuff is so sad. I never "wrote a novel" but my friends and I had fun being manically generative a few times, which benefitted all of our manuscripts. AI, like capitalism, is a parasite sucking goodness out of the world for the financial benefit of a handful of dicks.
Nothing makes me feel more like a dad than extreme weather events. Gathering batteries, testing flashlights, shouting out snowfall totals and wind gust speeds.
April 4, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Nothing makes me feel more like a dad than extreme weather events. Gathering batteries, testing flashlights, shouting out snowfall totals and wind gust speeds.
Say what you will about this Avatar show, New Sokka has a very Sokka-shaped face.
February 25, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Say what you will about this Avatar show, New Sokka has a very Sokka-shaped face.
Reposted by Duncan Whitmire
They imprisoned him.
They tortured him.
They tried to forget about him.
They didn't plan on him getting out.
This Summer, Jason Statham is turning a paradise into hell.
OMELAS
No one's walking away from this.
They tortured him.
They tried to forget about him.
They didn't plan on him getting out.
This Summer, Jason Statham is turning a paradise into hell.
OMELAS
No one's walking away from this.
February 13, 2024 at 11:26 PM
They imprisoned him.
They tortured him.
They tried to forget about him.
They didn't plan on him getting out.
This Summer, Jason Statham is turning a paradise into hell.
OMELAS
No one's walking away from this.
They tortured him.
They tried to forget about him.
They didn't plan on him getting out.
This Summer, Jason Statham is turning a paradise into hell.
OMELAS
No one's walking away from this.
Sensing that I wanted to work on the couch l, the dogs have teamed up to make this space a whole lot sleepier
February 7, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Sensing that I wanted to work on the couch l, the dogs have teamed up to make this space a whole lot sleepier
Me: owns roughly 7,000 bookmarks, most from my favorite bookstores & libraries, some made lovingly by my children, others literal works of art.
Also me: wedging piece of cardboard from the recycling bin into my current book.
Also me: wedging piece of cardboard from the recycling bin into my current book.
November 30, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Me: owns roughly 7,000 bookmarks, most from my favorite bookstores & libraries, some made lovingly by my children, others literal works of art.
Also me: wedging piece of cardboard from the recycling bin into my current book.
Also me: wedging piece of cardboard from the recycling bin into my current book.
Gotta love how the characters in my stories only get around by "making their way." They've evolved beyond walking, couldn't amble if you asked them to, would never be caught running.
November 21, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Gotta love how the characters in my stories only get around by "making their way." They've evolved beyond walking, couldn't amble if you asked them to, would never be caught running.
Ah, here we find the chiweenie burrowed deep within his natural environs. He may spend upwards of half his life in blanket stasis, conserving his energy to spring into action whenever a squirrel ventures too close to a nearby window.
November 17, 2023 at 4:26 PM
Ah, here we find the chiweenie burrowed deep within his natural environs. He may spend upwards of half his life in blanket stasis, conserving his energy to spring into action whenever a squirrel ventures too close to a nearby window.
Sometimes when I'm feeling sad or hopeless I just think about the Four Seasons Total Landscaping incident and all my worries melt away.
November 7, 2023 at 1:51 PM
Sometimes when I'm feeling sad or hopeless I just think about the Four Seasons Total Landscaping incident and all my worries melt away.
To all the brands flooding my inbox to tell me they Stand With Lewiston, your words are meaningless until they contain the phrase, "and that's why we're calling on lawmakers to ban certain firearms and strictly limit who may own or carry a gun."
October 26, 2023 at 11:25 PM
To all the brands flooding my inbox to tell me they Stand With Lewiston, your words are meaningless until they contain the phrase, "and that's why we're calling on lawmakers to ban certain firearms and strictly limit who may own or carry a gun."
Finally quit the other place for good and the immediate impact on my mental health is palpable.
October 16, 2023 at 6:57 PM
Finally quit the other place for good and the immediate impact on my mental health is palpable.
The old Marine who lived across from me moved away and the new couple just raised the banner of Gondor. A day may come when the coolness of neighbors fails, when we forsake our lore and break all bonds of fandom. But it is not this day!
September 21, 2023 at 5:58 PM
The old Marine who lived across from me moved away and the new couple just raised the banner of Gondor. A day may come when the coolness of neighbors fails, when we forsake our lore and break all bonds of fandom. But it is not this day!