Straith🍉
@straith.ca
D.A. Straith (they/them) - Toronto-adjacent fiction person - nonbinary trans & queer settler - work in FFO, Augur, Fusion Fragment, On Spec, elsewhere - writing hallucinatory Gawain bullshit for the Clarion West Novel Workshop '25 - straith.carrd.co
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Straith🍉
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Issue #26
“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution”A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction…
fusionfragment.com
what if you could f*ck and be f*cked by the planet mars but like, in a religious ecstasy kind of way 🚀💞🌌✨
(...is the bold question I ask in my latest short story)
ENJOY: fusionfragment.com/issue-26
(...is the bold question I ask in my latest short story)
ENJOY: fusionfragment.com/issue-26
neither grimdark nor hopepunk, but a secret third thing (absurdism in technicolour)
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
neither grimdark nor hopepunk, but a secret third thing (absurdism in technicolour)
someone is probably already doing this but dear monsterverse please let me pitch you a comedy monsterverse film that does for the franchise what thor: ragnarok did for the mcu
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
someone is probably already doing this but dear monsterverse please let me pitch you a comedy monsterverse film that does for the franchise what thor: ragnarok did for the mcu
if your godzilla isn't wall-eyed and a little bit goofy then what are you doing
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
if your godzilla isn't wall-eyed and a little bit goofy then what are you doing
I haven't seen the monsterverse films yet, but if they don't contain this level of cuteness and humour then I'm gonna be miffed
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I haven't seen the monsterverse films yet, but if they don't contain this level of cuteness and humour then I'm gonna be miffed
Convincing you to read my most beloved short story - share yours if you want 👀
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Convincing you to read my most beloved short story - share yours if you want 👀
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mashroom Myceli perfec t size for put human in to l\ive! Inside very Soft and Happy human sleep soundly put human in Fungus Asteroid. Put Human In Fungus Asteroid. no problems ever in funggus teroid because good Shape and Connective for human mind weak of big human individual. Amashroom Asteroid yes
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
mashroom Myceli perfec t size for put human in to l\ive! Inside very Soft and Happy human sleep soundly put human in Fungus Asteroid. Put Human In Fungus Asteroid. no problems ever in funggus teroid because good Shape and Connective for human mind weak of big human individual. Amashroom Asteroid yes
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Jesus Christ Joyce.
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Jesus Christ Joyce.
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there is a curse in the posters' tongue: Joyce Carol Oates be upon ye
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
there is a curse in the posters' tongue: Joyce Carol Oates be upon ye
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Art by • Donato Giancola
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Art by • Donato Giancola
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Huge turnout today for the launch of The Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, stretched from wall to wall to wall @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Huge turnout today for the launch of The Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, stretched from wall to wall to wall @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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UGH. I had ONE translation COURSE in college: that taught me good translation is an ART. This approach just creates slop in a different language.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
UGH. I had ONE translation COURSE in college: that taught me good translation is an ART. This approach just creates slop in a different language.
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One more sleep! See you at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon!
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
One more sleep! See you at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon!
time to sit down for a little pre-dinner revision work if anyone wants to join me in LOGGING OFF for a while
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
time to sit down for a little pre-dinner revision work if anyone wants to join me in LOGGING OFF for a while
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Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!
BE THERE!!
On Dec 6th I'll be part of a panel discussion on writing, publishing, and selling SFF!
It'll be at the Merril Collection and I'd really appreciate y'all sharing this with any Toronto people in your life.
facebook.com/events/s/cra...
It'll be at the Merril Collection and I'd really appreciate y'all sharing this with any Toronto people in your life.
facebook.com/events/s/cra...
Crafting Worlds: Pitching, Publishing, and Promoting your SF / Fantasy Ideas
Event in Toronto by Donald Simmons on Saturday, December 6 2025
facebook.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
BE THERE!!
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Folks this is NOT a drill, the big official long-awaited Charles Saunders biography finally has a locked-in title and release date and is open for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Leave-Warrio...
To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy
To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy : Tattrie, Jon: Amazon.ca: Books
www.amazon.ca
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Folks this is NOT a drill, the big official long-awaited Charles Saunders biography finally has a locked-in title and release date and is open for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Leave-Warrio...
past me is out to get me. what's this *six thousand three hundred word* chapter. who is responsible for this
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
past me is out to get me. what's this *six thousand three hundred word* chapter. who is responsible for this
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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If you are making 2026 reading plans ahead of time, I would like to endorse "reread the early volumes of those series you liked so you can catch up on the new volumes that have come out since you left off," this has been a lot of my 2025 reading and I have enjoyed it
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you are making 2026 reading plans ahead of time, I would like to endorse "reread the early volumes of those series you liked so you can catch up on the new volumes that have come out since you left off," this has been a lot of my 2025 reading and I have enjoyed it
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But he pushes through the fatigue and fear and finds something strange and beautiful out there on the Martian surface that goes beyond winning or losing. It's haunting and lovely and very much worth checking out. As is the whole issue!
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
But he pushes through the fatigue and fear and finds something strange and beautiful out there on the Martian surface that goes beyond winning or losing. It's haunting and lovely and very much worth checking out. As is the whole issue!