Marshall Ryan Maresca
@mrmaresca.com
Fantasy Author & Podcaster | Co-host of 5x Hugo Finalist
Worldbuilding for Masochists | Maradaine Saga | Velocity of Revolution |
http://mrmaresca.com
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Worldbuilding for Masochists | Maradaine Saga | Velocity of Revolution |
http://mrmaresca.com
https://linktr.ee/marshallryanmaresca
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Marshall Ryan Maresca
@mrmaresca.com
· Nov 11
Since we have another burst of new followers: Welcome! I work on all sorts of things, including:
-a big interwoven fantasy epic
-a dieselpunk fantasy of motorcycles and mayhem
-a 4x Hugo nommed podcast
-An anthology of magical gates to travel anywhere but bringing nothing
Check it all out!
-a big interwoven fantasy epic
-a dieselpunk fantasy of motorcycles and mayhem
-a 4x Hugo nommed podcast
-An anthology of magical gates to travel anywhere but bringing nothing
Check it all out!
You better not disagree, because I'm not arguing that with you.
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
You better not disagree, because I'm not arguing that with you.
To be clear, it's not just the Team Hivemind, but also the things I see folks saying with their whole chest, where it's clear they weren't paying attention. Some pure, "They literally told you the opposite in the scene, where are you getting this?" stuff.
I’m astounded by the number of PLURIBUS watchers who are STILL Team Hivemind after the latest episode.
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
To be clear, it's not just the Team Hivemind, but also the things I see folks saying with their whole chest, where it's clear they weren't paying attention. Some pure, "They literally told you the opposite in the scene, where are you getting this?" stuff.
What's deeply stupid about this is it's no different, in terms of results, than just hiring an actor to play George Washington. Like, there's no effects here, it's just a Old Gym Bro with Revolution-era hair.
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What's deeply stupid about this is it's no different, in terms of results, than just hiring an actor to play George Washington. Like, there's no effects here, it's just a Old Gym Bro with Revolution-era hair.
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It's time for the #Smashwords End-of-Year Ebook Sale!
This year, I've included ALL of the Aven Cycle! From Unseen Fire, Book 1, is FREE; Give Way to Night & The Bloodstained Shade are half-off!
Only on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
#EOYSale25 #books2read #BookSky 🌈📚 #AuthorSky
This year, I've included ALL of the Aven Cycle! From Unseen Fire, Book 1, is FREE; Give Way to Night & The Bloodstained Shade are half-off!
Only on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
#EOYSale25 #books2read #BookSky 🌈📚 #AuthorSky
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It's time for the #Smashwords End-of-Year Ebook Sale!
This year, I've included ALL of the Aven Cycle! From Unseen Fire, Book 1, is FREE; Give Way to Night & The Bloodstained Shade are half-off!
Only on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
#EOYSale25 #books2read #BookSky 🌈📚 #AuthorSky
This year, I've included ALL of the Aven Cycle! From Unseen Fire, Book 1, is FREE; Give Way to Night & The Bloodstained Shade are half-off!
Only on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...
#EOYSale25 #books2read #BookSky 🌈📚 #AuthorSky
Today was a traveling day, original ETA home was around 3pm.
Actual ETA, almost 1am.
Bleh.
Actual ETA, almost 1am.
Bleh.
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Today was a traveling day, original ETA home was around 3pm.
Actual ETA, almost 1am.
Bleh.
Actual ETA, almost 1am.
Bleh.
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Anyway this was my first time watching Kill Bill at all and I hate how much I like Tarantino’s movies because that fucking ruled
Gender affirmation: the guy two seats away from me kept loudly cutting into my conversations with Sarah to explain Tarantino to me
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Anyway this was my first time watching Kill Bill at all and I hate how much I like Tarantino’s movies because that fucking ruled
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nominations for the Nebula Award and the BSFA are happening now, so please allow me this repost. it will be reposted again. as is the nature of the thing.
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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this year i published two things:
novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social
short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
nominations for the Nebula Award and the BSFA are happening now, so please allow me this repost. it will be reposted again. as is the nature of the thing.
There’s a monologue at the beginning of YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS where Jon Hamm’s character talks about how expectations came with every raise, and thus him and everyone they know spends absurd amounts on “lifestyle” to still be living check to check.
Scalzi had a recent post up about the people making $500k/year who are still living paycheck to paycheck, in large part because of this phenomenon: wanting to emulate a level of affluence and therefore "success" that is similar to the folks making $1M, 10M, 100M+ whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/28/p...
Poor Little Rich People
The YouTube video above fascinates me, because it details how people making $500,000 a year — economically fortunate by any sane measure — are still frequently living paycheck to payche…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
There’s a monologue at the beginning of YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS where Jon Hamm’s character talks about how expectations came with every raise, and thus him and everyone they know spends absurd amounts on “lifestyle” to still be living check to check.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
In the summer of ‘88, I had a job where I installed cell phones into cars. No one has needed that skill in over 30 years.
In the summer of ‘88, I had a job where I installed cell phones into cars. No one has needed that skill in over 30 years.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
When I was a security guard 40+ years ago, a number of posts had manual elevators. I got very good at getting the elevator to line up perfectly with the floor at which I wanted to exist.
When I was a security guard 40+ years ago, a number of posts had manual elevators. I got very good at getting the elevator to line up perfectly with the floor at which I wanted to exist.
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
In the summer of ‘88, I had a job where I installed cell phones into cars. No one has needed that skill in over 30 years.
In the summer of ‘88, I had a job where I installed cell phones into cars. No one has needed that skill in over 30 years.
I’m astounded by the number of PLURIBUS watchers who are STILL Team Hivemind after the latest episode.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I’m astounded by the number of PLURIBUS watchers who are STILL Team Hivemind after the latest episode.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
You ever notice how on Star Trek when they talk about the 21st Century, it’s mostly just saying “oh, yeah, those were some BAD years. We didn’t even keep good records. Those years sucked.
WELL HERE WE ARE.
WELL HERE WE ARE.
I harp on about this, but here in the 21st century we have the arrogance & gall to call the period of western civilisation between the 5th & 10th century 'the Dark Ages'...
History is NOT going to be kind on us in centuries to come.
History is NOT going to be kind on us in centuries to come.
It's just insane that no pilot thought of this route before AI brilliantly came up with it!!!!!!!!
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You ever notice how on Star Trek when they talk about the 21st Century, it’s mostly just saying “oh, yeah, those were some BAD years. We didn’t even keep good records. Those years sucked.
WELL HERE WE ARE.
WELL HERE WE ARE.
This was literally a joke in COBRA KAI that Johnny was being an idiot insisting the plane “fly straight” to get there faster.
It's just insane that no pilot thought of this route before AI brilliantly came up with it!!!!!!!!
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This was literally a joke in COBRA KAI that Johnny was being an idiot insisting the plane “fly straight” to get there faster.
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The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
I used to have TMP on a VHS tape, and let me tell you, as much as I enjoyed it, every time I watched it, I employed the fast forward button LIBERALLY.
Look, I'm sure the ship looked gorgeous on the big screen in 1979, but there was no need for it to be a six-minute shot.
Look, I'm sure the ship looked gorgeous on the big screen in 1979, but there was no need for it to be a six-minute shot.
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I used to have TMP on a VHS tape, and let me tell you, as much as I enjoyed it, every time I watched it, I employed the fast forward button LIBERALLY.
Look, I'm sure the ship looked gorgeous on the big screen in 1979, but there was no need for it to be a six-minute shot.
Look, I'm sure the ship looked gorgeous on the big screen in 1979, but there was no need for it to be a six-minute shot.
Listen, I don't mean to brag, but every once in a while I'll hear about some Hot New Restaurant in Austin, go look at their menu on their website and think, "I can do better."
December 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Listen, I don't mean to brag, but every once in a while I'll hear about some Hot New Restaurant in Austin, go look at their menu on their website and think, "I can do better."
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
I say this as someone who greatly enjoys all three of these things: We need to start making new things, people. This is too much nostalgic auto-fellatio.
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I say this as someone who greatly enjoys all three of these things: We need to start making new things, people. This is too much nostalgic auto-fellatio.
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I think it's not impossible, esp with a 12 hour drive to & from Florida coming up, but I'm'a need some shorter audiobooks. Everything currently loaded is, like, 20 hour historical tomes. 😅
Anyone wanna rec me some SFF novellas, historical romances, or contemporary geek romances a la Olivia Dade?
Anyone wanna rec me some SFF novellas, historical romances, or contemporary geek romances a la Olivia Dade?
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I think it's not impossible, esp with a 12 hour drive to & from Florida coming up, but I'm'a need some shorter audiobooks. Everything currently loaded is, like, 20 hour historical tomes. 😅
Anyone wanna rec me some SFF novellas, historical romances, or contemporary geek romances a la Olivia Dade?
Anyone wanna rec me some SFF novellas, historical romances, or contemporary geek romances a la Olivia Dade?
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Apropos of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, we felt like reminding you that @natania.bsky.social's first appearance on the show was Episode 73: This is Cerulean, Right?: Fashion, Politics & Power
Just. Y'know. In case you were wondering about such things.
Just. Y'know. In case you were wondering about such things.
Episode 72: This is Cerulean, Right?: Fashion, Politics, and Power, ft. NATANIA BARRON | Worldbuilding for Masochists
Fashion: not just a frivolity, but a component of worldbuilding that can communicate so much about your world's resources, industry, and power structures, as well as characters' individual choices and...
worldbuildingformasochists.podbean.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Apropos of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, we felt like reminding you that @natania.bsky.social's first appearance on the show was Episode 73: This is Cerulean, Right?: Fashion, Politics & Power
Just. Y'know. In case you were wondering about such things.
Just. Y'know. In case you were wondering about such things.
I referred to a potential future project as “cozy” and got some side-eye and pushback until I said “mostly what I mean is no one is using stabbing as a problem-solving strategy.”
Thread, as Seanan talks about a book, and its context in the cozy horror genre.
The cozy genres have had an understandable boom in the last five years; people are bruised and traumatized, even if they don't fully admit it in words, and they want books they can sink into like feather duvets. This is great! It's also complicated, because when anything grows fast, confusion...
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I referred to a potential future project as “cozy” and got some side-eye and pushback until I said “mostly what I mean is no one is using stabbing as a problem-solving strategy.”
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
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Darcie Little Badger, a member of the Lipan Apache Tribe, said she was “taken aback” by the prohibitions under HB261 and calls it censorship.
An Indigenous author felt compelled to cancel her Utah appearance after this university gave her a list of banned DEI words
Darcie Little Badger, a member of the Lipan Apache Tribe, said she was “taken aback” by the prohibitions under HB261 and calls it censorship.
www.sltrib.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Darcie Little Badger, a member of the Lipan Apache Tribe, said she was “taken aback” by the prohibitions under HB261 and calls it censorship.
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
I mean, fuck, folks, I talk a lot about movies and shows and books and stories, I guess.
December 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I mean, fuck, folks, I talk a lot about movies and shows and books and stories, I guess.