RJ Becks
@rjbecks.bsky.social
writer of spec fic about sentient magic & the people forever changed by it // currently drafting
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RJ Becks
@rjbecks.bsky.social
· Mar 17
New fiction!
"The Witches Who Drowned" by @rjbecks.bsky.social
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
"The Witches Who Drowned" by @rjbecks.bsky.social
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Excited to announce that my short story about queerness, science, and everything we don't know about the deep sea is now out with Diabolical Plots!
Check it out to find out why its working title was 'Ronald Reagan sucks so I became a sea monster'
Check it out to find out why its working title was 'Ronald Reagan sucks so I became a sea monster'
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Genre rules are only guidelines anyway!
Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?
We've got all that and more!
1/3
Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?
We've got all that and more!
1/3
August 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Genre rules are only guidelines anyway!
Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?
We've got all that and more!
1/3
Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device?
We've got all that and more!
1/3
my newest way of dealing with Selkie's insisting to sleep on my laptop when I work from home is just setting up my personal laptop just for her
August 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
my newest way of dealing with Selkie's insisting to sleep on my laptop when I work from home is just setting up my personal laptop just for her
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Andrea Hayes, textile artist based in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for her textile landscapes #WomensArt
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Andrea Hayes, textile artist based in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for her textile landscapes #WomensArt
I somehow scheduled myself to do a talk, a workshop, and a read-aloud fiction event in the same 24 hour period and I've resigned myself to dying
August 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I somehow scheduled myself to do a talk, a workshop, and a read-aloud fiction event in the same 24 hour period and I've resigned myself to dying
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This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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There are some excellent-looking trans books coming up in the fall, and if you're preparing your shopping list now, here's a good post for finding them! lgbtqreads.com/2025/03/31/h...
Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!
Children’s Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown – to the library, to the dentist, even to he…
lgbtqreads.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
There are some excellent-looking trans books coming up in the fall, and if you're preparing your shopping list now, here's a good post for finding them! lgbtqreads.com/2025/03/31/h...
I don't know what it is about these last weeks but words are once again magic to me
August 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I don't know what it is about these last weeks but words are once again magic to me
Absolutely loving this book about a town marooned in different worlds and different seasons, and a family that was sliced apart in the process
#amreading
#amreading
August 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Absolutely loving this book about a town marooned in different worlds and different seasons, and a family that was sliced apart in the process
#amreading
#amreading
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"Perhaps this is what hope looks like in the age of climate change: not restoring what was, but cultivating what might come to be."
I'm deeply grateful to @wordscaper.bsky.social for this thoughtful piece about my work, walking, climate change and the lessons of a receding lake @walklistencreate.org
walklistencreate.org/2025/08/04/t...
walklistencreate.org/2025/08/04/t...
The Forest That Followed the Lake: Julian Hoffman's path to Prespa's shores
Walking offered what conversation could not yet provide: a way in, a way to begin to belong.
walklistencreate.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Perhaps this is what hope looks like in the age of climate change: not restoring what was, but cultivating what might come to be."
not the little, not the middle, but the great spotted woodpecker
June 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
not the little, not the middle, but the great spotted woodpecker
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Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
May 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
Excited to announce that my short story about queerness, science, and everything we don't know about the deep sea is now out with Diabolical Plots!
Check it out to find out why its working title was 'Ronald Reagan sucks so I became a sea monster'
Check it out to find out why its working title was 'Ronald Reagan sucks so I became a sea monster'
New fiction!
"The Witches Who Drowned" by @rjbecks.bsky.social
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
"The Witches Who Drowned" by @rjbecks.bsky.social
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
March 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited to announce that my short story about queerness, science, and everything we don't know about the deep sea is now out with Diabolical Plots!
Check it out to find out why its working title was 'Ronald Reagan sucks so I became a sea monster'
Check it out to find out why its working title was 'Ronald Reagan sucks so I became a sea monster'
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So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.
I've been thinking about Iris Murdoch's philosophy a lot these days because of this
While 'less important' isn't the right phrase for our situation, the necessity of art, nature, and human connection to see the reality beyond ourselves that we can meaningfully affect remains.
While 'less important' isn't the right phrase for our situation, the necessity of art, nature, and human connection to see the reality beyond ourselves that we can meaningfully affect remains.
February 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I've been thinking about Iris Murdoch's philosophy a lot these days because of this
While 'less important' isn't the right phrase for our situation, the necessity of art, nature, and human connection to see the reality beyond ourselves that we can meaningfully affect remains.
While 'less important' isn't the right phrase for our situation, the necessity of art, nature, and human connection to see the reality beyond ourselves that we can meaningfully affect remains.
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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.
www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
I haven't managed to read much these past couple months but wow I can't seem to put this book down
January 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I haven't managed to read much these past couple months but wow I can't seem to put this book down
appreciating the irony that two weeks after I move to somewhere famously snowy and cold, double the amount of snow as we currently have falls on where I moved from
January 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
appreciating the irony that two weeks after I move to somewhere famously snowy and cold, double the amount of snow as we currently have falls on where I moved from
somehow I always forget just how magical a little bit of snow makes everything
January 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
somehow I always forget just how magical a little bit of snow makes everything
A face so cute you'd never believe I caught her with both paws and her entire head in my trashcan
December 19, 2024 at 12:11 PM
A face so cute you'd never believe I caught her with both paws and her entire head in my trashcan