yasmeen / ياسمين
@yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social
sff writer / toddler mama / و باتكلم عربي
(first four) stories in/coming to inner worlds, night shades, saros sf, if there's anyone left
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(first four) stories in/coming to inner worlds, night shades, saros sf, if there's anyone left
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Eeeee this is such a good TOC!!
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
Don’t we all dream of an encounter like this these days?
“The light of your eyes has gone dull and your heart’s been worn threadbare. That’s why I’m here, you know? An old woman of the forest whose only purpose is to provide rest.”
“The light of your eyes has gone dull and your heart’s been worn threadbare. That’s why I’m here, you know? An old woman of the forest whose only purpose is to provide rest.”
Do you need a break, a rest, a moment to recharge before the week begins again? Then pay my forest witch a visit. Just watch out for her neighbors.
Thanks to Sarah and @innerworlds.bsky.social for publishing my short story, HOOFBEATS.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-hoof...
Thanks to Sarah and @innerworlds.bsky.social for publishing my short story, HOOFBEATS.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-hoof...
Hoofbeats by J. Nathan
Mind the stones there. A centaur took out part of my stone wall in a hissy fit. Centaurs, what can you do, hmm?
inner-worlds.ghost.io
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Don’t we all dream of an encounter like this these days?
“The light of your eyes has gone dull and your heart’s been worn threadbare. That’s why I’m here, you know? An old woman of the forest whose only purpose is to provide rest.”
“The light of your eyes has gone dull and your heart’s been worn threadbare. That’s why I’m here, you know? An old woman of the forest whose only purpose is to provide rest.”
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👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾
Includes numerous CREATURES.
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#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
Includes numerous CREATURES.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
👾🌟 Here it is, pals: issue 9! 🌟👾
Includes numerous CREATURES.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
Includes numerous CREATURES.
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-nine-e...
#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic #ShortFiction #LitMag
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Frustrated about being beset by AI slop in the reading queue and other places over the past few days. I know it's been said a million times before, but I feel like it's always worth saying again: Stories written by you will always be better than stories written by the robot.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Frustrated about being beset by AI slop in the reading queue and other places over the past few days. I know it's been said a million times before, but I feel like it's always worth saying again: Stories written by you will always be better than stories written by the robot.
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Small business Saturday, you say? Consider supporting FIYAH as we approach year ten of publishing Black SFF stories and poetry! Back issues, art, gift subscriptions, merch, and more! Tell a friend, you never know who is missing out 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Small business Saturday, you say? Consider supporting FIYAH as we approach year ten of publishing Black SFF stories and poetry! Back issues, art, gift subscriptions, merch, and more! Tell a friend, you never know who is missing out 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/
Please give what you can ❤️
@lpkindred.bsky.social is halfway there, but help is still needed! Every little bit counts in helping be there for someone who's always there for everyone else 💕
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www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
www.gofundme.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Please give what you can ❤️
Important and worth the read.
In this week’s @strangehorizons.bsky.social, one of my favourite pieces I’ve edited this year — on orientalism from Star Trek to Game of Thrones.
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence,” by Tanvir Ahmed —
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence
Dragon fire on white bodies is sad. Dragon fire on not-Muslim bodies is cheered on the screen. We ache when the scimitar prows of not-Muslim ships cleave through a white human captain’s ship. But b…
strangehorizons.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Important and worth the read.
finished Red Rising last week and need to cleanse my brain of the YA male protagonist tone so, here we go
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
finished Red Rising last week and need to cleanse my brain of the YA male protagonist tone so, here we go
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It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST
Voted for @innerworlds.bsky.social for @chillsubs.bsky.social best lit mags of 2025 awards ♥️ Sarah runs an impressive operation and alone! (from what I can tell)
Vote here:
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Vote here:
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Voted for @innerworlds.bsky.social for @chillsubs.bsky.social best lit mags of 2025 awards ♥️ Sarah runs an impressive operation and alone! (from what I can tell)
Vote here:
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Vote here:
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
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We Global South women, women of colour etc have the right to write in any genre we choose. It's not all necessarily torture porn about how "oppressed" we are for your consumption nor are we required to write "revolutionary" writing based on your limited understanding of revolution or autonomy.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We Global South women, women of colour etc have the right to write in any genre we choose. It's not all necessarily torture porn about how "oppressed" we are for your consumption nor are we required to write "revolutionary" writing based on your limited understanding of revolution or autonomy.
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🛸p erhaps a reintroduction type post?
Night Shades is a speculative fiction magazine publishing flash (500 words max) 4 times a month.
🛸 pro pay (min. $0.13/word)
🛸fast response
🛸sim subs ok
🛸 no rights
Opening again Dec 26
www.nightshadesmag.com
Night Shades is a speculative fiction magazine publishing flash (500 words max) 4 times a month.
🛸 pro pay (min. $0.13/word)
🛸fast response
🛸sim subs ok
🛸 no rights
Opening again Dec 26
www.nightshadesmag.com
Night Shades
Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.
www.nightshadesmag.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🛸p erhaps a reintroduction type post?
Night Shades is a speculative fiction magazine publishing flash (500 words max) 4 times a month.
🛸 pro pay (min. $0.13/word)
🛸fast response
🛸sim subs ok
🛸 no rights
Opening again Dec 26
www.nightshadesmag.com
Night Shades is a speculative fiction magazine publishing flash (500 words max) 4 times a month.
🛸 pro pay (min. $0.13/word)
🛸fast response
🛸sim subs ok
🛸 no rights
Opening again Dec 26
www.nightshadesmag.com
How painful this must have been…
The last two years have been so traumatizing I’ve struggled to mourn the smaller losses like this one (loss of trust in systems of justice, former friends, authors I used to admire etc.)
The last two years have been so traumatizing I’ve struggled to mourn the smaller losses like this one (loss of trust in systems of justice, former friends, authors I used to admire etc.)
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
How painful this must have been…
The last two years have been so traumatizing I’ve struggled to mourn the smaller losses like this one (loss of trust in systems of justice, former friends, authors I used to admire etc.)
The last two years have been so traumatizing I’ve struggled to mourn the smaller losses like this one (loss of trust in systems of justice, former friends, authors I used to admire etc.)
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Tales of Sley House is open Dec 1–3 for cozy folk horror on Patreon 🍂🏡
Stories, poems, and art that feel warm on the surface with rot underneath. Up to 6k words, 35 dollars per piece, later in Tales of Sley House.
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social
#amwriting
Stories, poems, and art that feel warm on the surface with rot underneath. Up to 6k words, 35 dollars per piece, later in Tales of Sley House.
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social
#amwriting
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Tales of Sley House is open Dec 1–3 for cozy folk horror on Patreon 🍂🏡
Stories, poems, and art that feel warm on the surface with rot underneath. Up to 6k words, 35 dollars per piece, later in Tales of Sley House.
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social
#amwriting
Stories, poems, and art that feel warm on the surface with rot underneath. Up to 6k words, 35 dollars per piece, later in Tales of Sley House.
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
@sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social
#amwriting
Dentist now feels like going to the spa? Is this happening for everyone?
I got offered an essential oil hot towel after my fluoride treatment…not complaining, just confused!
I got offered an essential oil hot towel after my fluoride treatment…not complaining, just confused!
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Dentist now feels like going to the spa? Is this happening for everyone?
I got offered an essential oil hot towel after my fluoride treatment…not complaining, just confused!
I got offered an essential oil hot towel after my fluoride treatment…not complaining, just confused!
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This is so good! You need to watch this interview from The Palestine Festival of Literature. Rare Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates talking about Baconi’s queer Palestinian memoir: youtu.be/eYW0Iy5jUcw?...
Tareq Baconi in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about "Fire in Every Direction"
YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature
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November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is so good! You need to watch this interview from The Palestine Festival of Literature. Rare Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates talking about Baconi’s queer Palestinian memoir: youtu.be/eYW0Iy5jUcw?...
This is a good way to be! And I appreciate it as someone who doesn’t drink and doesn’t care to explain why.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is a good way to be! And I appreciate it as someone who doesn’t drink and doesn’t care to explain why.
Eeeee this is such a good TOC!!
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Eeeee this is such a good TOC!!
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
I can’t wait to read it. Includes my fabric-filled story “Wonderful” which makes me cry every time I re-read it.
A moment for the vibrant, joyous wedding I attended today 🪷 बधाई हो
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A moment for the vibrant, joyous wedding I attended today 🪷 बधाई हो
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
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Inner Worlds issue 9 will be out at the end of November, featuring this stunning cover artwork by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social ✨️🌿💜
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Inner Worlds issue 9 will be out at the end of November, featuring this stunning cover artwork by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social ✨️🌿💜
Happening now here!
video.ibm.com/asutv
video.ibm.com/asutv
Two weeks from today, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative will host "Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond," our final workshop of 2025, with speakers @jennahanchey.bsky.social and Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed! Free and open to the public. Join us in-person in Tempe or on ASU Live!
Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond | ASU Events
In this workshop, our speakers will use speculative thinking, literary criticism, and fiction writing to explore what resistance looks like in both our real world and in the imagined worlds that refle...
asuevents.asu.edu
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Happening now here!
video.ibm.com/asutv
video.ibm.com/asutv
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Two weeks from today, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative will host "Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond," our final workshop of 2025, with speakers @jennahanchey.bsky.social and Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed! Free and open to the public. Join us in-person in Tempe or on ASU Live!
Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond | ASU Events
In this workshop, our speakers will use speculative thinking, literary criticism, and fiction writing to explore what resistance looks like in both our real world and in the imagined worlds that refle...
asuevents.asu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Two weeks from today, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative will host "Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond," our final workshop of 2025, with speakers @jennahanchey.bsky.social and Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed! Free and open to the public. Join us in-person in Tempe or on ASU Live!
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We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
Project 2052 — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
www.commonnotions.org
June 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
Eeeeeee excited to join this crew! Call me “codexian” (is that right lol)
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Eeeeeee excited to join this crew! Call me “codexian” (is that right lol)