Rebecca Wilcox
@rebeccawilcox.bsky.social
SFF illustrator/writer, SAHP. Coffee, cats, & fountain pens. Brown Ajah. RevPit 2020, HiveMentor 2022. SLF Diverse Writers/Worlds finalist 2024. She/her. Hard of hearing. Not straight. No AI, ever. Never ever. https://linktr.ee/rebeccawilcox
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Rebecca Wilcox
@rebeccawilcox.bsky.social
· Jul 15
Joy to have merited the Pain: Balancing Joy and Suffering in Fiction
I have been thinking, as one does in times like these, about the balance between joy and suffering. It’s impossible to avoid the news these days, and honestly, avoiding it for too long risks missin…
swordfightsandspaceflights.com
I'm up on Swordfights & Spaceflights today! swordfightsandspaceflights.com/2025/07/15/j...
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Authors! Submissions to WriteHive’s #HiveMentor are now open! Submit your completed manuscript for a chance to work with a mentor to get it query ready, sub ready for small press, or to self publish. But hurry! The sub window closes in 3 days. 🔗 below
#WritingCommmunity
#WritingCommmunity
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Authors! Submissions to WriteHive’s #HiveMentor are now open! Submit your completed manuscript for a chance to work with a mentor to get it query ready, sub ready for small press, or to self publish. But hurry! The sub window closes in 3 days. 🔗 below
#WritingCommmunity
#WritingCommmunity
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Alright, I'm diving into pages today. Likely won't get far, because I have other *life* stuff, but I'm excited by the quality of the submissions so far in general!
Good luck all!!!
And if you haven't submitted to #HiveMentor yet, #WritingCommunity, or if you're on the fence... NEVER self-reject!
Good luck all!!!
And if you haven't submitted to #HiveMentor yet, #WritingCommunity, or if you're on the fence... NEVER self-reject!
Submissions are 🐝NOW OPEN🐝 to participate in the WriteHive Mentorship program! You have until November 16 to find a mentor for your publishing path (trad, self, small press, serialization, etc). Don't miss out: writehive.org/writehive-me...
WriteHive Mentorship Program - WriteHive
WriteHive is excited to announce another way to break down barriers in publishing. Our new Mentorship Program has various mentorships
writehive.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Alright, I'm diving into pages today. Likely won't get far, because I have other *life* stuff, but I'm excited by the quality of the submissions so far in general!
Good luck all!!!
And if you haven't submitted to #HiveMentor yet, #WritingCommunity, or if you're on the fence... NEVER self-reject!
Good luck all!!!
And if you haven't submitted to #HiveMentor yet, #WritingCommunity, or if you're on the fence... NEVER self-reject!
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Submissions are still ✨OPEN✨ for #WriteHive #HiveMentor Mentorship Program.
I'm looking to mentor lush fantasy worlds, dark and hypnotic science fiction, alien worlds, or just flat out weird shit like LINGS or the dark underbellies of MYST/RIVEN.
writehive.org/writehive-me...
I'm looking to mentor lush fantasy worlds, dark and hypnotic science fiction, alien worlds, or just flat out weird shit like LINGS or the dark underbellies of MYST/RIVEN.
writehive.org/writehive-me...
WriteHive Mentorship Program - WriteHive
WriteHive is excited to announce another way to break down barriers in publishing. Our new Mentorship Program has various mentorships
writehive.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Submissions are still ✨OPEN✨ for #WriteHive #HiveMentor Mentorship Program.
I'm looking to mentor lush fantasy worlds, dark and hypnotic science fiction, alien worlds, or just flat out weird shit like LINGS or the dark underbellies of MYST/RIVEN.
writehive.org/writehive-me...
I'm looking to mentor lush fantasy worlds, dark and hypnotic science fiction, alien worlds, or just flat out weird shit like LINGS or the dark underbellies of MYST/RIVEN.
writehive.org/writehive-me...
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One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.
Oh no I just heard we lost Alice. This is terribly sad. She was an incredible, talented, powerful voice of the disability community. She stood strong for herself and for all of us. She will be missed immensely.
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Stop doomscrolling and look at these capybaras.
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Stop doomscrolling and look at these capybaras.
In case you need to hear it: You do not have to go look at the Epstein files.
You don’t have to read the articles. Mute whatever names and words are necessary to keep yourself safe. You don’t have to traumatize yourself (or re-traumatize yourself) to stay on top of the news.
You don’t have to read the articles. Mute whatever names and words are necessary to keep yourself safe. You don’t have to traumatize yourself (or re-traumatize yourself) to stay on top of the news.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In case you need to hear it: You do not have to go look at the Epstein files.
You don’t have to read the articles. Mute whatever names and words are necessary to keep yourself safe. You don’t have to traumatize yourself (or re-traumatize yourself) to stay on top of the news.
You don’t have to read the articles. Mute whatever names and words are necessary to keep yourself safe. You don’t have to traumatize yourself (or re-traumatize yourself) to stay on top of the news.
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a Japanese storytelling game popular during the Edo period. These gatherings were held on summer nights and to begin 100 candles or lamps were lit. Participants then took turns to tell 100 ghost stories (kaidan). After each story, a candle was...
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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August 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai was a Japanese storytelling game popular during the Edo period. These gatherings were held on summer nights and to begin 100 candles or lamps were lit. Participants then took turns to tell 100 ghost stories (kaidan). After each story, a candle was...
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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A Christmas Story except the 3 ghosts are played by Issac Chotiner (past) The Menswear Guy (present) and Joyce Carol Oates (future)
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A Christmas Story except the 3 ghosts are played by Issac Chotiner (past) The Menswear Guy (present) and Joyce Carol Oates (future)
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Hey MN go outside right now
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Hey MN go outside right now
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Reading The Siege of Burning Grass by @premeemohamed.com and honestly it is a crime that publishing hasn't given this woman a million dollars to just write books forever
Her prose is beautiful, her worldbuilding exquisite, her characters fascinating
Her prose is beautiful, her worldbuilding exquisite, her characters fascinating
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reading The Siege of Burning Grass by @premeemohamed.com and honestly it is a crime that publishing hasn't given this woman a million dollars to just write books forever
Her prose is beautiful, her worldbuilding exquisite, her characters fascinating
Her prose is beautiful, her worldbuilding exquisite, her characters fascinating
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Peeps, here we go.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Peeps, here we go.
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Nia Davenport ( @niadavenport.bsky.social ) is a great writer and friend whose young family just lost a husband and father. If you've loved her books or her presence in the writing community, and you can spare something, please contribute.
gofund.me/4299d5593
gofund.me/4299d5593
Donate to Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss, organized by Lindsey Hart
Our hearts are with Nia, a beloved friend, author and advocate who has pou… Lindsey Hart needs your support for Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss
gofund.me
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nia Davenport ( @niadavenport.bsky.social ) is a great writer and friend whose young family just lost a husband and father. If you've loved her books or her presence in the writing community, and you can spare something, please contribute.
gofund.me/4299d5593
gofund.me/4299d5593
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
The only thing that sucks about making art or writing for me is trying to get people to pay me for it. Every other bit makes me deliriously happy to do even when it’s a challenge. (Sometimes because it’s a challenge! Challenges are fun when they’re stuff I like to do!)
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The only thing that sucks about making art or writing for me is trying to get people to pay me for it. Every other bit makes me deliriously happy to do even when it’s a challenge. (Sometimes because it’s a challenge! Challenges are fun when they’re stuff I like to do!)
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"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." 🥹
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November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
In case you need more reasons to jump on this one!
For absolutely no reason I'd like to re-share this little thread from @seananmcguire.bsky.social about GOD'S JUNK DRAWER.
Which--if I hadn't mentioned it--is out next week!
Which--if I hadn't mentioned it--is out next week!
It is rare, in the course of my profession, for me to encounter books which make me actively angry with their authors for thinking of them before I could. And that anger never lasts to the end of the book, because ideas are cheap: execution is what matters. My execution would not be theirs.
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
In case you need more reasons to jump on this one!
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God, a thousand times this.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
God, a thousand times this.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.
I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
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Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
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Federal Workers are not getting paid & Trump is cutting off SNAP. We have to come together & take care of our community. We’ve Organized a few spots where you can drop off non-perishable goods. AFGE will help get these items to federal workers in Central Florida. Please help out if you can 👇🏾
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Federal Workers are not getting paid & Trump is cutting off SNAP. We have to come together & take care of our community. We’ve Organized a few spots where you can drop off non-perishable goods. AFGE will help get these items to federal workers in Central Florida. Please help out if you can 👇🏾
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The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.
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Please share 🙏✨ATTENTION QUERYING AND INDIE AUTHORS✨ @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor is opening soon! This mentorship is unique in that they accept all publishing paths so if you are querying to get an agent or looking to self-publish, this mentorship is for you!
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Please share 🙏✨ATTENTION QUERYING AND INDIE AUTHORS✨ @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor is opening soon! This mentorship is unique in that they accept all publishing paths so if you are querying to get an agent or looking to self-publish, this mentorship is for you!