KJ Scott
@kjscottwrites.bsky.social
Fantasy and horror writer.
Listen to Liars and Leeches, a horror audio drama produced by Hemlock Creek Productions.
Listen to Liars and Leeches, a horror audio drama produced by Hemlock Creek Productions.
I'm looking for fiction recs that are about the end of the world/are set after the end but that aren't bombastic action stories. Something in the vein of Station Eleven. Overall, I prefer things to be hopeful to bittersweet over nihilistic. Thank you in advance!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm looking for fiction recs that are about the end of the world/are set after the end but that aren't bombastic action stories. Something in the vein of Station Eleven. Overall, I prefer things to be hopeful to bittersweet over nihilistic. Thank you in advance!!
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
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Official Jamaican government website for aid: supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Official Jamaican government website for aid: supportjamaica.gov.jm
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SNAP is getting cut next month. I’m living through food & housing insecurity. The system lets us down, but as a community we can support each other
FindHelp.org is a resource that helps you find food pantries, housing assistance, and mental health support with your zipcode www.findhelp.org
FindHelp.org is a resource that helps you find food pantries, housing assistance, and mental health support with your zipcode www.findhelp.org
findhelp.org by findhelp - Search and Connect to Social Care
Search and connect to support. Find financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help in your area, anywhere in the US.
www.findhelp.org
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
SNAP is getting cut next month. I’m living through food & housing insecurity. The system lets us down, but as a community we can support each other
FindHelp.org is a resource that helps you find food pantries, housing assistance, and mental health support with your zipcode www.findhelp.org
FindHelp.org is a resource that helps you find food pantries, housing assistance, and mental health support with your zipcode www.findhelp.org
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Using ChatGPT
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Using ChatGPT
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor
Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.
reactormag.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
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A common mistake many new writers make is crafting a character and then, without story justification or world building to support it, making them heterosexual. This leaves readers confused & takes them out of the story.
November 4, 2023 at 3:54 PM
A common mistake many new writers make is crafting a character and then, without story justification or world building to support it, making them heterosexual. This leaves readers confused & takes them out of the story.
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Star Trek celebrates Labor Day
September 2, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Star Trek celebrates Labor Day
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I'm so incredibly angry at the people who are going out of their way to make Palestinians' lives worse.
If you don't want to help people in need, just scroll past, ffs.
Stop going out of your way to be utterly shitty to folks who are asking for fucking help, who are being genocided and starved.
If you don't want to help people in need, just scroll past, ffs.
Stop going out of your way to be utterly shitty to folks who are asking for fucking help, who are being genocided and starved.
New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam
People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm so incredibly angry at the people who are going out of their way to make Palestinians' lives worse.
If you don't want to help people in need, just scroll past, ffs.
Stop going out of your way to be utterly shitty to folks who are asking for fucking help, who are being genocided and starved.
If you don't want to help people in need, just scroll past, ffs.
Stop going out of your way to be utterly shitty to folks who are asking for fucking help, who are being genocided and starved.
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Hit a mild reading slump so wound up diving into the niche that always gets me out of a slump: either a fiction or non-fiction book about the Tudors and those around them. This time, it's a biography of Catherine Howard titled Young and Damned and Fair, which I am loving so far.
July 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hit a mild reading slump so wound up diving into the niche that always gets me out of a slump: either a fiction or non-fiction book about the Tudors and those around them. This time, it's a biography of Catherine Howard titled Young and Damned and Fair, which I am loving so far.
I think I cracked why my draft hit a wall towards the end of act one, which means going back to edit/rewrite a large chunk of the opening to add in some necessary early worldbuilding. I still am hoping to have a finished full draft by the end of September though.
July 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I think I cracked why my draft hit a wall towards the end of act one, which means going back to edit/rewrite a large chunk of the opening to add in some necessary early worldbuilding. I still am hoping to have a finished full draft by the end of September though.
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If I hadn't been expecting that ending I would've missed it. So when Buddy Guy is playing and the credits start to run and HBO shrinks the window and offers you other to stuff to watch, you need to hit your enter button to go back to the movie so you don't miss the ending. 2/2
My PSA for the day.
My PSA for the day.
July 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If I hadn't been expecting that ending I would've missed it. So when Buddy Guy is playing and the credits start to run and HBO shrinks the window and offers you other to stuff to watch, you need to hit your enter button to go back to the movie so you don't miss the ending. 2/2
My PSA for the day.
My PSA for the day.
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Just saw Sinners on HBO. Y'all have probably heard plenty about it already, but I wanted to warn anyone who decides to watch it on Max that the ending is probably the best part of the movie, and it happens after a lot of the credits have run. HBO tries to switch you away before you get there. 1/2
July 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Just saw Sinners on HBO. Y'all have probably heard plenty about it already, but I wanted to warn anyone who decides to watch it on Max that the ending is probably the best part of the movie, and it happens after a lot of the credits have run. HBO tries to switch you away before you get there. 1/2
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the early K/S shippers in the 60s / 70s / 80s, living in eras of intense queer persecution and trauma while writing fanfic where two men in love get to have a happy ending on their little spaceship 300 years from now, speaking into existence a future they couldn’t even see, are absolute icons to me
Women started the first STAR TREK conventions, the fanzines, and gave birth to Shipping and Spirk, which was called Slash then with Kirk and Spock, i.e. K/S. They kept the franchise alive in the 1970s.
Bjo Trimble, the most famous of them all, saved the show from cancellation.
Bjo Trimble, the most famous of them all, saved the show from cancellation.
... When will men realize that women are the biggest part of sci-fi fandom.
July 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
the early K/S shippers in the 60s / 70s / 80s, living in eras of intense queer persecution and trauma while writing fanfic where two men in love get to have a happy ending on their little spaceship 300 years from now, speaking into existence a future they couldn’t even see, are absolute icons to me
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Behavior I am constantly working to unlearn. Absolutely poisonous to art.
Social media makes writing harder. Your brain becomes wired to look at every single thing you write and imagine the most bizarre, bad-faith reading of it imaginable and then find yourself revising to try to preclude it.
October 1, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Behavior I am constantly working to unlearn. Absolutely poisonous to art.
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I don’t care if it’s corporate marketing, I like that the cunty murderbot said trans fucking rights
M3GAN tells trans fans: ‘Your existence is not a debate’
M3GAN tells trans fans: 'Your existence is not a debate'
Ahead of M3GAN 2.0, gay icon M3GAN shared a heartwarming message for trans fans: "you are radiant, revolutionary and real."
www.thepinknews.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I don’t care if it’s corporate marketing, I like that the cunty murderbot said trans fucking rights
I'm trying to find an in-person creative writing group in LA that meets regularly and close-ish to me, and beyond checking MeetUp I have no idea how to do that. I'm at the point where I'm considering starting one myself but I also don't know enough writers irl to have anyone attend
June 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I'm trying to find an in-person creative writing group in LA that meets regularly and close-ish to me, and beyond checking MeetUp I have no idea how to do that. I'm at the point where I'm considering starting one myself but I also don't know enough writers irl to have anyone attend
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At some point, you gotta just look in the mirror and admit to yourself that you live in a bad country. If you can't do that, we can't fix any of this.
June 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
At some point, you gotta just look in the mirror and admit to yourself that you live in a bad country. If you can't do that, we can't fix any of this.
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Vital resources for trans youth, adults, and their loved ones in the wake of SCOTUS' decision in 'U.S. v. Skrmetti.'
These Mental Health and Mutual Aid Resources Are Here for Trans People Post-Skrmetti Ruling
Vital resources for trans youth, adults, and their loved ones.
www.them.us
June 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Vital resources for trans youth, adults, and their loved ones in the wake of SCOTUS' decision in 'U.S. v. Skrmetti.'
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