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writingtheother · 10 months

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Stories have the power to both wound and heal, and figuring out how to harness that power and subvert its harmful effects can be difficult.

In our next webinar, Healing History's Wounds with Speculative Fiction, award-winning author and editor Nisi Shawl will walk you though how to do just that, offering deep discussions into the telltale features of toxic stories, writing techniques for how to disarm them, plus live and take-home exercises to practice them.

Join us on August 20th NEW DATE: September 10 @ 10AM Pacific - or register to get the video later! The price is $50 - $75 depending on the registration option, and scholarships are available.

Learn More & Register!

#Writing the Other #Writing Classes #Creative Writing #Creative Writing Class #Writing Community #Alt History #Specfic

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circadiancrunch · 4 days

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Spare time personal work~ And I crunchified it for the internet. Ty very much to Glaze & Nightshade Probably an inferior view too some time. Whenever it's modeling time.

#art #dolphin #spinner dolphin #mild nightmare fuel #OC #original characters #model sheet #character design #creature design #scifi #specfic #scifi art #speculative fiction #Why yes I did grow up playing ecco #And watching niche scifi #Jones and Darwin live rent free in my child brain

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dianaraven · 1 year

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hey friends help a girl build her corpus

i’m doing a final project in university on detective fiction--specifically detective fiction NOT like Sherlock Holmes or Murder at the Rue Morgue. The point of this project is to analyze stories where the READER is given enough information to figure out who did it. They don’t have to be murder mysteries, no overarching plots please.

I’m trying to build a corpus, so books with hard copies are fine, but I would prefer ones that are also available online for free or online in a .txt format for easier conversion into my tagging software. Specifically non-child-lit is preferred since I already have the whole selection of Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown, and I find that child-lit are much easier to find on internet archive.

I will have a budget for this project, but that’s all coming out of my own pocket, so it’s really a budget. Books that are in public domain/free are very much preferred.

Story recs of minority authors welcome!

rbs appreciated!

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wrongpublishing · 7 months

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Author reading + open mic: Briar Ripley Page (16/09/23)

Also featuring:

Sera Miles

Alexandrine Ogundimu

Buy a copy of Traveler's Tales from Wrong Publishing:

#reading #author reading #author event #poetry reading #specfic #book reading #virtual reading #open mic #indie lit #small press #sci fi

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solarpunkpresentspodcast · 1 year

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On this episode, Ariel sits down with Justine Norton-Kertson, editor of the forthcoming BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY. They discuss what lunarpunk is in contrast to solarpunk, what inspired Justine to put together an anthology of lunarpunk fiction, and a sneak peek at some of the participating authors and the content that fans can expect to encounter!

Follow Android Press on Twitter @press_android.

Connect with Solarpunk Magazine at solarpunkmagazine.com and on Twitter @solarpunklitmag

Connect with Solarpunk Presents Podcast on Twitter @SolarpunkP, Mastodon @[email protected], or at our blog https://solarpunkpresents.com/

Connect with Ariel at her blog, on Twitter at @arielletje, and on Mastodon @[email protected]

Connect with Christina at her blog, on Twitter @xtinadlr, and on Mastodon @[email protected]

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judeinthestars · 4 months

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New sapphic book review: Lofty Mountains, Eleven Stories of Cloudy Peaks, Airship Adventure, and Sapphic Experiences

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tflatte · 6 months

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i think vampire stories should start reversing the 'that's a vampire myth' choices. garlic fucks a vampire up but they don't even blink at a stake to the heart. they turn into bats and fly around in the sun. it's fine

#specfic

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wildcards1407 · 1 year

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Paid Anthology Submissions Open!

Hey folks!

Submissions are open on the Playing With A Full Deck anthology! Due date is April 30

Amphibian Press welcomes you to take your run through the world of O.E. Tearmann’s Aces High, Jokers Wild series. We want to see stories through the eyes of people just trying to get by in this future America owned by seven corporations. Tell us your stories of hope in hard times, people making it work, and the little people figuring out the ways around the system.

Details on the culture and setting are available at https://www.oetearmann.com/the-orientation-packet

Details on the characters are available at

Word Count: 5K-10K please.

Pay: $250/story

Submission Period: December 5 2023-April 30 2023

Submissions Link: https://amphibianpress.moksha.io/.../amphibian.../3/submit

Submission Decisions Announced: June 21 2023

Publication: October 2023

What We Like: gender and culture-diverse characters, found family, positive anarchist elements and stories of hope. Bonus points if you get a cameo of one of the characters in the Aces High, Jokers Wild series in there. Details on the characters can be found at https://www.oetearmann.com/personnel-page

What We Don’t Like: nihilistic or hopeless narratives, portrayal of bigotry that reinforces or applauds it, gratuitous violence.

#scifi #specfic #anthology #submissions call #lgbtq community #lgbt representation

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tryerofpods · 1 year

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I am not a religious person, but sometimes you get a weird and interesting podcast in that vein. So... Let's talk about The Gospel of the Flood from Jonas Kyratzes and @astronautdown . The Gospel of the Flood is an philosophical, apocalypse, religiously-framed fiction podcast that seems to be set inspecifically in the modern day. On the day the continents started to sink into the ocean, our main character, a priest, loses his faith. It just evaporates from him. Gone. And so, he travels to visit his brothers in faith. He wants to see how they're fairing, do they still have their faith? What are they doing now that the ocean is rapidly rising? Now that the world is literally and metaphorically sinking. Can he do something/ anything in the face of global death? Can he/should he reclaim his faith? The show is introspective, gentle, and philosophical. As an atheist who was brought up Christian, believe me when I say, I'm not looking for "God" based content. But this is an interesting one. What does a miracle mean when someone survives a large scale event above all those other people? Can something be a miracle for one, when hundreds, thousands, millions die. Surely God can't have only looked at one person. It's desturbing when you zoom out and think about it for too long. What does a prophet look like? What would you do in the face of global annulation? 7, 15 minute episodes of moral philosophy that will either confirm your faith, or your atheism, depending on how you look at it. *Shrug* So, if you like thoughtful philosophy, maybe like if Almehem had a baby with The Tower? Or maybe with Still Lives? Then, The Gospel of the Flood is for you! #drama #dramapodcast #postapocalyptic #specfic #speculativefiction #fictionpodcasts #podcastsunday #trypod #podcasts #podcast #podcastrecommendation #podcastrecommendations #recommended #podcastsunday #audiodramasunday #gospeloftheflood #moralphilosophy #religion #christianity #christianityasaframingnarrative #jonaskyratzes #chrischristodoulou https://www.instagram.com/p/CpzEcInOjBG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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victorianations-writer · 1 year

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Writeblr Introduction

I'm Victoria Nations (she/her), and I write horror fiction and poetry, often with monsters. I love the Gothic and the weird. Many of my stories are hopepunk. Even without happy endings, there is a light that shines through brutality.

I'm also a biologist, and my stories are often set in liminal spaces between wild areas and the mundane.

I'm a cis pan woman, and most of my characters are queer. I believe in creating equitable spaces that elevate marginalized voices.

My primary blog is on my website, VictoriaNations.com. You can find my publications and social media here.

I post about my writing and publishing, beautiful and odd things in nature, and creepy things that bring me joy. I look forward to connecting with y'all here.

#writeblr #writeblr intro #writeblr introduction #horror writer #horror writing #gothic writing #queer writers #women of horror #queer horror #weird fiction #gothic fiction #hopepunk #specfic #horror poetry #poets of tumblr #makehorrorgayaf #florida gothic

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the-sinkmire-symphony · 1 year

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and so thats how it ended!

@insomniac-fowxy @chitter17 @symphoniuschordata @locationyourmomsbed

@dictionarydyke

i’ve got a project coming up, and you five have been selected as the first to know of it, it’s a worldbuilding project that’ll be starting on a side blog of mine, if you’d like to know more about it, then just go ahead and ask!!! it’s a project called helix rebuilt, and it’s about a bizarre bunch of things, it’s hard to explain!!!!

#sci f #specfic #speculative biology #speculative science

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writingtheother · 10 months

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Healing History's Wounds with Speculative Fiction

When: August 20, 2023 | 10AM - 1PM Pacific Can't make the live webinar? Register to get the recording after Where: Online — Zoom Classroom Price: $50 - $75 Scholarships Are Available - Deadline June 30th!

Stories can wound or heal. In this webinar, award-winning author and editor Nisi Shawl will talk about the ways stories can hurt, the ways they can help, and how you can use their power--particularly when writing speculative fiction and alternate history. The webinar will cover:

The kinds of harm toxic stories can do to their audience

Telltale features of many toxic stories

A review of specific stories with harmful effects

Discussions of ways to subvert or pass the harmful effects by

Writing techniques for disarming said harmful effects

Live and take home exercises to provide practice in these valuable techniques

Join us to learn the special, restorative power of writing speculative fiction and alternate history!

Learn More & Register!

#Writing the Other #Writing Classes #Creative Writing #Creative Writing Class #Writing Community #Alt History #Specfic

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treemarrow · 1 year

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[Flash] Sticky Justice

[Flash Fiction: speculative, light-hearted. A responsibility-minded house spirit does battle with a useless robot vacuum.

Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash.]

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It comes awake again.

The days grow subtly darker each time it does, so its passage back into wakefulness cannot possibly be determined by the motions of the sun. This hateful disk of off-gassing plastic does not respect natural cycles. It doesn’t respect anything.

They think that counting the ticking of the house-clock would help understand this maddening problem, but their house-humans have changed ticking hands on a logical circle to something square that glares out with artificial light. With numbers, they suppose.

Numbers are also on the plate of perverse uncleanliness.

They’ve decided they don’t like numbers.

The rotational nemesis brushes over one of their many-toed feet, doing just as poor a job of cleaning that as it does the floor. It bashes itself against a piece of molding and changes direction, tragically never so hard as to knock itself senseless. With resentful determination, they follow it and collect scattered dust and delicate strands of fur. They find a forgotten whisker and collect that too, saving it for later. Aside from this single offering, the cat hasn’t been much help with the ceaseless twilight struggle, preferring to sit atop the enemy and watch their efforts with scornful curiosity every time it comes awake.

A shivering glop of something fallen from the house-infant’s chair the mealtime before now lies in the way of the unhelpful robot servant. So distracted are they with a missed pebble that they notice too late as the two shapes collide, helpless to intervene. Time slows as though they were once more in the Other Realm and then cruelly, cruelly speeds up again.

If they had a voice, they would scream.

Once the inevitable violence has reached its conclusion, all that remains of the glop is a growing neon smear stretching out behind the hateful disk and its furry charioteer like a footpath through a field of white carpet.

Too much. It’s too much and now abundantly clear that there is no point to waiting for another rise of the sun. They turn and release themselves from their cleaning duty for there is a duty greater still to perform: that of putting an end to this nightmare. Whisker in hand, they grimly march away to the black altar at which the disk slumbers each day after belching forth its meagre offerings.

It will never do so again.

There is an art to rehydrating the gummy refuse left behind by house-humans in crinkled, minty wrappers. The cat’s water dish is big enough to accommodate this effort and with the help of a bristle-ended plastic stick that acts both as a plunger and a paintbrush, a concoction is made and then spread with great deliberation.

Squidge squidge squidge.

A web of entrapping spell is woven at the foot of the altar, the cat’s whisker tied in an extravagant knot and placed at its centre. Around and around the sticky smears turn, beckoning and waiting with glistening patience. An inescapable spiral.

The hateful disk arrives after an eternity of banging around to no great effect. It hums and rattles forward as though satisfied with its sorry performance, but the thing begins to slow. The web has it now.

Around and around it turns, gumming up its hidden brooms and whatever secret thing gives it life. Soon it can do little more than twitch back and forth, back and forth. Unable to adapt. And sooner again…

Sooner again it is silent.

The house-spirit watches this ignominious ending a while longer and when satisfied, picks up their broom of mouse fur and gets to work. Today will be tended to with respect for the natural order of things.

Along the way, they find a gummy wrapper and set it aside.

Just in case.

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This work is published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

#how heckin annoying would roombas be to house spirits #can you imagine #specfic #flash fiction #original fiction #amwriting

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circadiancrunch · 1 year

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Weird Puppy from the awkward angles~ I’m thinking the claws work slightly more like hooves, cause in the original game, their feeties look like hooves but in the original concept art they’re clearly claws. So I wanted to marry them. And that led me down the path of horny growths like chestnuts on horses, I think they would just kinda, grow. Also many thanks to everyone that liked the fused leg~ It’s a weird idea, but I’m glad some folks enjoyed it <3 It’s fun. I think after this weird puppy is done, I’ll do another that’s a full redesign instead of taking so much from the original. I of course, love the original design, which is why I started here lol

#houndeye #halflife #fanart #creature design #speculative biology #specfic #videogame #ps2 #we keep calling them soundhounds rofl #weird puppy #sound pupper

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scallopshell · 1 year

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Hi!

Hi Tumblr! My name's Scallop, and welcome to my blog! I'm going to try to finally be active this year, after six(?) years of lurking on this site.

This is primarily going to be a reading and writing bookblr. I plan on posting book reviews, monthly reading recaps, and updates on my WIPs.

I mainly read middle-grade and adult specfic, with a focus on high (secondary-world) fantasy, but I'm also very interested in space-ship sci-fi (as opposed to planetary sci-fi), fabulism, fairy tale retellings, fantasy manga, and comics. This year is also my grand adventure into litfic, so I'd love any recommendations you might have!

#about me #writblr #readblr #fantasy #sci fi #specfic #i'm not really a fan of LitRPGs #which is sad because i love tabletop rpgs (love to actually play one someday) and the litRPG genre is growing kind of quickly rn #anyway nice to meet y'all!

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scifrey · 1 year

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TRIPTYCH is now available on @radishfiction! Kalp is a widower, burdened with an unimaginable grief, who escaped his dying world with nothing but his own life and a half-finished toy for a child that will now never be born. Gwen is a language expert covertly recruited for a United Nations initiative to integrate a ship-full of alien refugees into life on earth. She becomes Kalp’s teammate and lifeline. Basil is the engineer who lives with, and loves them, both. But he has no idea how to defend his new relationship against the ire and condemnation of a violently intolerant world. Part "District 9", part "Lost in Translation", and part "Stranger in a Strange Land", TRIPTYCH is a poignant, character-driven science-fiction story about tolerance, love, loss, and the desperate attempt to find connection in a world that no longer makes sense. Named one of the best books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly (@pwpics). Link in Linktree in bio. . . . #scifiromancebooks #sciencefiction #scifi #polyromance #polycharacters #polycule #readpride #polyculeromance #cinnamonroll #amreading #mustread #Booklover #book #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #specfic #speculativefiction #alienlover #alienromance #District9 #LostInTranslation #StrangerInAStrangeLand #OwnVoices #booktok #Booktokker #thrupple #thrupplelove #radishromance #radishfiction #romancefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCN3rCAHwR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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