Elizabeth Rubio
@rubiowrites.bsky.social
SFF author from Austin, TX. they/them
"I can't afford it" well 1) that's what libraries are for and 2) it was literally 99c at the time.
Authors make hardly any money and you steal from us anyway, making it even worse.
Don't pirate books. Ever. For any reason.
Authors make hardly any money and you steal from us anyway, making it even worse.
Don't pirate books. Ever. For any reason.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"I can't afford it" well 1) that's what libraries are for and 2) it was literally 99c at the time.
Authors make hardly any money and you steal from us anyway, making it even worse.
Don't pirate books. Ever. For any reason.
Authors make hardly any money and you steal from us anyway, making it even worse.
Don't pirate books. Ever. For any reason.
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I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
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Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey.
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
This is so heartfelt and heartbreaking and just a little bit heartwarming.
Also, read Cinder House. It's both the story you know and a totally new one. As a person who has often felt trapped both in my home and in my body, it spoke very loudly to me.
Also, read Cinder House. It's both the story you know and a totally new one. As a person who has often felt trapped both in my home and in my body, it spoke very loudly to me.
This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥
booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...
booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...
Housing the Heroine in “Cinder House” | BookTrib.
If you asked me today, and if you'd asked me two years ago, I'd tell you I'm very fond of my house. It's nothing special. It's a townhouse surrounded by other townhouses that look just like it, formin...
booktrib.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is so heartfelt and heartbreaking and just a little bit heartwarming.
Also, read Cinder House. It's both the story you know and a totally new one. As a person who has often felt trapped both in my home and in my body, it spoke very loudly to me.
Also, read Cinder House. It's both the story you know and a totally new one. As a person who has often felt trapped both in my home and in my body, it spoke very loudly to me.
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I heard about MRM’s terrible contract and I have heard that individuals have negotiated a more reasonable contract. But MRM didn’t change their boilerplate.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I heard about MRM’s terrible contract and I have heard that individuals have negotiated a more reasonable contract. But MRM didn’t change their boilerplate.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
SFF writers can’t unionize, but I won’t send stories to them until their contract is fair for every writer. Solidarity is solidarity.
It's such a shame that the most prestigious markets in the business have been taken over by a company that values only profit--not profit over other values, but a complete absence of any value besides profit. Kudos to Scott for standing up for all of us even at the cost of a dream of half a century.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
www.scottedelman.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It's such a shame that the most prestigious markets in the business have been taken over by a company that values only profit--not profit over other values, but a complete absence of any value besides profit. Kudos to Scott for standing up for all of us even at the cost of a dream of half a century.
Something worth keeping in mind
Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
So don't let it.
This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable.
My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Something worth keeping in mind
I've been a freelance education writer full time for over a decade. Two years ago was my best year on the books. Now I'm struggling to stay afloat and actively looking for full time work.
The apocalypse may not be widespread but within the creative arts it's very real.
The apocalypse may not be widespread but within the creative arts it's very real.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I've been a freelance education writer full time for over a decade. Two years ago was my best year on the books. Now I'm struggling to stay afloat and actively looking for full time work.
The apocalypse may not be widespread but within the creative arts it's very real.
The apocalypse may not be widespread but within the creative arts it's very real.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
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Alan and Jack from
@freyamarske.bsky.social's the last binding trilogy. I love their whole dynamic.🥰
(sorry for the repost I found a mistake 😭)
#thelastbindingtrilogy #apowerunbound
@freyamarske.bsky.social's the last binding trilogy. I love their whole dynamic.🥰
(sorry for the repost I found a mistake 😭)
#thelastbindingtrilogy #apowerunbound
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Alan and Jack from
@freyamarske.bsky.social's the last binding trilogy. I love their whole dynamic.🥰
(sorry for the repost I found a mistake 😭)
#thelastbindingtrilogy #apowerunbound
@freyamarske.bsky.social's the last binding trilogy. I love their whole dynamic.🥰
(sorry for the repost I found a mistake 😭)
#thelastbindingtrilogy #apowerunbound
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he's on a mission from god
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
he's on a mission from god
OFMD S1. Incredible writing, excellent queer rep, brilliant music, gorgeous sets, even the costumes are perfectly inspired. I can truly say it changed my life.
Name your fav season of TV
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
OFMD S1. Incredible writing, excellent queer rep, brilliant music, gorgeous sets, even the costumes are perfectly inspired. I can truly say it changed my life.
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Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool
A friend gave me The Left Hand of Darkness in college and I realized I was doing literary analysis on my own for the first time in my life, thinking about it.
20 years later when I had Thoughts about gender it felt a little obvious that that was my fave book 😅
20 years later when I had Thoughts about gender it felt a little obvious that that was my fave book 😅
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
A friend gave me The Left Hand of Darkness in college and I realized I was doing literary analysis on my own for the first time in my life, thinking about it.
20 years later when I had Thoughts about gender it felt a little obvious that that was my fave book 😅
20 years later when I had Thoughts about gender it felt a little obvious that that was my fave book 😅
Gay sex
What do you like now that 16 year old you would hate you for?
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Gay sex
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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What movie do you consider "perfect"?
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 AM
What movie do you consider "perfect"?
To be clear, I have not been idle these past 10 years! So far all my publications have been short stories: rubiowrites.com/fiction
October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
To be clear, I have not been idle these past 10 years! So far all my publications have been short stories: rubiowrites.com/fiction
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
Ten years ago this week I was being released from the hospital having been diagnosed with cancer and barely surviving the removal of a third of my lung. I vowed to start taking writing seriously.
Today I wrote the final sentence in my novel manuscript.
Promise: kept.
Today I wrote the final sentence in my novel manuscript.
Promise: kept.
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ten years ago this week I was being released from the hospital having been diagnosed with cancer and barely surviving the removal of a third of my lung. I vowed to start taking writing seriously.
Today I wrote the final sentence in my novel manuscript.
Promise: kept.
Today I wrote the final sentence in my novel manuscript.
Promise: kept.
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what ho!!
MY LITTLE SPOOKY BOOK IS A BESTSELLER 👻🥳
MY LITTLE SPOOKY BOOK IS A BESTSELLER 👻🥳
October 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
what ho!!
MY LITTLE SPOOKY BOOK IS A BESTSELLER 👻🥳
MY LITTLE SPOOKY BOOK IS A BESTSELLER 👻🥳
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No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)
Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)