Luke Tolvaj
@luketolvaj.bsky.social
he/they. Writer. White queer trans man. Icon by sinistersunsart. http://www.luketolvaj.com/.
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Thrilled to announced that my short story 'We Are Not Them' is included in Flame Tree Press' anthology OF LOVE AND DRAGONS next March.
Dragons! Romance! Little bit of banter! #romantasy
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Dragons! Romance! Little bit of banter! #romantasy
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Romantic Fantasy | Contents Announcement | Of Love & Dragons
We’re very pleased to present the list of stories selected for one of the first two titles in our new Romantic Fantasy series: Of Love & Dragons!
blog.flametreepublishing.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thrilled to announced that my short story 'We Are Not Them' is included in Flame Tree Press' anthology OF LOVE AND DRAGONS next March.
Dragons! Romance! Little bit of banter! #romantasy
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Dragons! Romance! Little bit of banter! #romantasy
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
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Unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's "sinister project for Gaza"
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August 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's "sinister project for Gaza"
aftermath.site/microsoft-az...
aftermath.site/microsoft-az...
I feel, perhaps, that by this age in life Arial should have decided what it wants to look like between font sizes. And yet.
July 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I feel, perhaps, that by this age in life Arial should have decided what it wants to look like between font sizes. And yet.
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SHOP OPEN [for preorders!] 🩸
acrylic photocard keychains, micro-charms, sticker sheets, embroidered keychains! decorate your stationery, let your freak flag fly, flirt with the macabre.
us & canada only ( for now ) —
sabattons.bigcartel.com
many thanks & rps appreciated 🖤
acrylic photocard keychains, micro-charms, sticker sheets, embroidered keychains! decorate your stationery, let your freak flag fly, flirt with the macabre.
us & canada only ( for now ) —
sabattons.bigcartel.com
many thanks & rps appreciated 🖤
June 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
SHOP OPEN [for preorders!] 🩸
acrylic photocard keychains, micro-charms, sticker sheets, embroidered keychains! decorate your stationery, let your freak flag fly, flirt with the macabre.
us & canada only ( for now ) —
sabattons.bigcartel.com
many thanks & rps appreciated 🖤
acrylic photocard keychains, micro-charms, sticker sheets, embroidered keychains! decorate your stationery, let your freak flag fly, flirt with the macabre.
us & canada only ( for now ) —
sabattons.bigcartel.com
many thanks & rps appreciated 🖤
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My 2nd book, THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, is about an uncracked egg, as it were, in a dragon's nest in Calcutta. The mc Ru is *not* me, but my experiences growing up queer in India without realising it did flow into Ru's life.
June 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My 2nd book, THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, is about an uncracked egg, as it were, in a dragon's nest in Calcutta. The mc Ru is *not* me, but my experiences growing up queer in India without realising it did flow into Ru's life.
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I have a new story out – my serialised sci fi ‘In The Star’s Brilliance’ starts today. It has aliens! Romance! Loneliness! And a tiny bit of hope! I hope you enjoy it if you take a look. Thanks.
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/in-the-sta...
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/in-the-sta...
In The Stars' Brilliance — Part One
By Georgina Kamsika
dailytomorrow.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I have a new story out – my serialised sci fi ‘In The Star’s Brilliance’ starts today. It has aliens! Romance! Loneliness! And a tiny bit of hope! I hope you enjoy it if you take a look. Thanks.
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/in-the-sta...
dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/in-the-sta...
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I’m so pleased to share that my story will be serialised in @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social! 'In The Stars’ Brilliance' is about family, and loneliness and connection. More about it later when it's out!
June 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I’m so pleased to share that my story will be serialised in @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social! 'In The Stars’ Brilliance' is about family, and loneliness and connection. More about it later when it's out!
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Check out the Kickstarter for this anthology! I have a story in it!
Rising Tides is a short fiction anthology featuring nineteen stories of heroic pirates from a diverse array of super-talented authors.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/133...
Rising Tides is a short fiction anthology featuring nineteen stories of heroic pirates from a diverse array of super-talented authors.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/133...
Rising Tides: A Pirate Anthology!
My crew an’ I bring ye tales of daring! Of makin’ a difference in the face of oppressive guv’mints and fearsome beasties!
www.kickstarter.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Check out the Kickstarter for this anthology! I have a story in it!
Rising Tides is a short fiction anthology featuring nineteen stories of heroic pirates from a diverse array of super-talented authors.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/133...
Rising Tides is a short fiction anthology featuring nineteen stories of heroic pirates from a diverse array of super-talented authors.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/133...
Just finished my fifth book of the year already, which feels wild and wonderful. Thanks, ADHD meds!
I've been tracking reading progress on Storylace: www.storylace.com/user/luketol...
I've been tracking reading progress on Storylace: www.storylace.com/user/luketol...
luketolvaj's Storylace Profile
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January 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Just finished my fifth book of the year already, which feels wild and wonderful. Thanks, ADHD meds!
I've been tracking reading progress on Storylace: www.storylace.com/user/luketol...
I've been tracking reading progress on Storylace: www.storylace.com/user/luketol...
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'What Is Sensitivity Reading?' was just published on
@sfwa.bsky.social's blog, where I expanded on my experiences as a sensitivity reader. If you are interested in learning more about this work, consider giving it a read!
www.sfwa.org/2024/04/02/w...
@sfwa.bsky.social's blog, where I expanded on my experiences as a sensitivity reader. If you are interested in learning more about this work, consider giving it a read!
www.sfwa.org/2024/04/02/w...
April 3, 2024 at 4:57 PM
'What Is Sensitivity Reading?' was just published on
@sfwa.bsky.social's blog, where I expanded on my experiences as a sensitivity reader. If you are interested in learning more about this work, consider giving it a read!
www.sfwa.org/2024/04/02/w...
@sfwa.bsky.social's blog, where I expanded on my experiences as a sensitivity reader. If you are interested in learning more about this work, consider giving it a read!
www.sfwa.org/2024/04/02/w...
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Trans day of audibility? Listen to Skiffy & Fanty show podcast interviewing me about my weird novel Kinning: skiffyandfanty.com/podcasts/765...
The Skiffy and Fanty Show: 765. Nisi Shawl (a.k.a. The Empathist) — Kinning
Empathic fungi, revolutionary politics, and dirigibles, oh my! Shaun Duke and Brandon O’Brien are joined by Nisi Shawl to talk about their new novel, Kinning, the sequel to the much-loved Eve…
skiffyandfanty.com
April 1, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Trans day of audibility? Listen to Skiffy & Fanty show podcast interviewing me about my weird novel Kinning: skiffyandfanty.com/podcasts/765...
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Ramadan Mubarak to all celebrating! ❤️
If you’re able to, please donate eSims through Crips for eSims— organized in part by @SFDirewolf —as eSims have been vital for Palestinians to contact family & friends, & make a huge difference:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
If you’re able to, please donate eSims through Crips for eSims— organized in part by @SFDirewolf —as eSims have been vital for Palestinians to contact family & friends, & make a huge difference:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
March 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Ramadan Mubarak to all celebrating! ❤️
If you’re able to, please donate eSims through Crips for eSims— organized in part by @SFDirewolf —as eSims have been vital for Palestinians to contact family & friends, & make a huge difference:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
If you’re able to, please donate eSims through Crips for eSims— organized in part by @SFDirewolf —as eSims have been vital for Palestinians to contact family & friends, & make a huge difference:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
I recently finished Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco and would highly, highly recommend it. I'm very much looking forward to the sequel, which is incoming April 2nd. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Silver...
Silver Under Nightfall
Full of court intrigue, queer romance, and terrifying monsters—this “deliciously fun” (Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregul...
www.simonandschuster.com
March 10, 2024 at 7:27 PM
I recently finished Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco and would highly, highly recommend it. I'm very much looking forward to the sequel, which is incoming April 2nd. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Silver...
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Enter to win a copy of my debut novella!
Win a copy of Lambda Literary Award finalist @izzyxen.bsky.social’s propulsive and stylish debut novella THESE FRAGILE GRACES, THIS FUGITIVE HEART #goodreads
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"Wasserstein makes her propulsive, stylish cyberpunk murder mystery sing on every page." @karenosborne.bsky.social
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"Wasserstein makes her propulsive, stylish cyberpunk murder mystery sing on every page." @karenosborne.bsky.social
March 9, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Enter to win a copy of my debut novella!
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a little late with the promo but I have an essay in this month's Uncanny, which came about when I was procrastinating on working on my novel, the message I am taking away from this is to procrastinate as much as possible, anyway check it out if you like musings about fictional languages!
As an English-as-second-language writer, I found this essay on the use of pseudotranslation in Fantasy worlds fascinating. I will be revisiting it, when I feel the urge to make up a language for my WIP
by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Pseudotranslation and the Art of Made Up Words - Uncanny Magazine
A little while ago I was working on the draft of a novel when I came up against a task I’ve never found especially interesting: making up a word to describe a fictional concept. I enjoy higher-level l...
www.uncannymagazine.com
March 7, 2024 at 4:25 PM
a little late with the promo but I have an essay in this month's Uncanny, which came about when I was procrastinating on working on my novel, the message I am taking away from this is to procrastinate as much as possible, anyway check it out if you like musings about fictional languages!
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Also announcing a special call for Palestinian narrator auditions from 8-22 April, 2024. Please read our narrator guidelines: escapeartists.net/narrator-gui... and upload your audition at our submission portal: escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/8
March 10, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Also announcing a special call for Palestinian narrator auditions from 8-22 April, 2024. Please read our narrator guidelines: escapeartists.net/narrator-gui... and upload your audition at our submission portal: escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/8
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Announcing a special submissions call for fantasy stories by Palestinian authors. Please read the message from our editors, linked below. The submission period is from 8-22 April, 2024.
podcastle.org/2024/03/08/s...
podcastle.org/2024/03/08/s...
March 10, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Announcing a special submissions call for fantasy stories by Palestinian authors. Please read the message from our editors, linked below. The submission period is from 8-22 April, 2024.
podcastle.org/2024/03/08/s...
podcastle.org/2024/03/08/s...
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The term "flour massacre" is so incredibly dense with horror that it should be the name of a single awful historic event, but for the IDF it's just a tactic.
There was another one today
March 5, 2024 at 10:30 AM
The term "flour massacre" is so incredibly dense with horror that it should be the name of a single awful historic event, but for the IDF it's just a tactic.
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"will require a breakthrough energy source" my dude, it requires nothing because it doesn't need to exist. you WANT a breakthrough energy source to keep playing, and you can get in line behind the people who actually need it #comemierda
«Le monde se dirige en fait vers une très grave crise énergétique à cause de l'IA, à moins que nous ne résolvions quelques problèmes» [EN] futurism.com/sam-altman-e...
Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.
futurism.com
January 31, 2024 at 11:32 AM
"will require a breakthrough energy source" my dude, it requires nothing because it doesn't need to exist. you WANT a breakthrough energy source to keep playing, and you can get in line behind the people who actually need it #comemierda
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Having read through this, I found it disappointing. Not enough pushback on disingenuous answers. Schatz seems to admit KOSA overreaches, but still supports it? Why? No mention of state AG enforcement. Also, they won't hide LGBTQIA+ content and abortion info for kids, they'll hide it for *everyone*.
Fitting, since folks were talking about KOSA a lot last week and over the weekend, but we just talked to Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) about children's online safety and a whole lot of other stuff.
www.theverge.com/24054658/sen...
www.theverge.com/24054658/sen...
Sen. Brian Schatz is ready to regulate social media: “An algorithm doesn’t have a First Amendmen...
The Democratic senator from Hawaii discusses KOSA and the First Amendment.
www.theverge.com
January 30, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Having read through this, I found it disappointing. Not enough pushback on disingenuous answers. Schatz seems to admit KOSA overreaches, but still supports it? Why? No mention of state AG enforcement. Also, they won't hide LGBTQIA+ content and abortion info for kids, they'll hide it for *everyone*.
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If you're an academic in the West, here are a few suggestions for opposing Zionist genocide:
So You're a Professor? Here's What You Can Do to Oppose Genocide - Steve Salaita
Feeling helpless does not mean being useless. It is possible to support Palestinians from afar.
stevesalaita.com
January 7, 2024 at 6:05 PM
If you're an academic in the West, here are a few suggestions for opposing Zionist genocide:
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"One in four Palestinians in Gaza is STARVING, and the rest face crisis levels of hunger, according to the U.N."
Cumbersome process and 'arbitrary' Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say
A cumbersome process of Israeli inspections and other hurdles are slowing the entry of aid into Gaza.
apnews.com
January 7, 2024 at 7:37 PM
"One in four Palestinians in Gaza is STARVING, and the rest face crisis levels of hunger, according to the U.N."