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R. K. Duncan

@rkduncan.bsky.social

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Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author.
He/him. Abolish the police.
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Mandy's avatar Mandy @gaardnous.bsky.social
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Vulcan Freaky Friday is the best Freaky Friday

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P. H. Low (preorder THESE DEATHLESS SHORES 9 July '24!)'s avatar P. H. Low (preorder THESE DEATHLESS SHORES 9 July '24!) @lowph.bsky.social
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these deathless shores is out today! (almost) everywhere books are sold ~ deepest thanks to everyone who helped make this happen 💚

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Lincoln Michel's avatar Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social
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Similarly, there's no connection between enjoying art and morality. Reading happy, hopepunk work doesn't make you a good person. Enjoying dark, and challenging art doesn't make you a bad person. We are all drawn to create and consume art for many indiscernible and unknown reasons.

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Lincoln Michel's avatar Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social
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People really need to give up the idea there's any connection between morality and art. Immoral people are capable of creating moving, empathetic art. Nothing about writing dark and violent art implies the artist is themselves dark and violent. Etc. There just isn't a connection.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia's avatar Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social
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Also this is mindset is extremely dangerous for POC and GLBTQ authors. Because they're already vulnerable, so people can easily say oh "black writer wrote horror story? We must yank it from shelves because it's horror, horror is only written by immoral people."

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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Are you familiar with the concept of a philosophical zombie? I've found it the best way to explain him to myself.

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Amal El-Mohtar's avatar Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com
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Oh hey y’all guess what I have a new book coming out in March 2025 & you can pre-order it if you want!
You can do so from anywhere, I recommend your local indie, but meanwhile here’s Macmillan’s link us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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Help get another amazing student to Viable Paradise. Everyone who's accepted deserves the same kind of help I got to go there.
gofund.me/97797b90

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Zamira Rahim's avatar Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social
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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Luke's avatar Luke @llobrow.bsky.social
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WERNER HERZOG: cast into the wilderness by an uncaring mother, the child must choose a companion, a beast of unnatural capabilities through which to channel his will. they will not rest until every gymnasium lies in ruin. ASH: where's professor oak HERZOG: this lizard is on fire

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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the GOP wants to illegalize big tiddy goth girls and dragon vore, and I can think of nothing less American than that

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John Wiswell's avatar John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social
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programming a robot politician to simply do the opposite of whatever NYTimes op-eds say

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Taka Hanazawa's avatar Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social
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POSTAL BANKING is a great idea and it leads me to my other great idea: FEDERAL SANDWICH. Guaranteed access to a sandwich to anyone who wants one at ANY US Federal Govt facility. Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up:

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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Would you not be concerned about being pursued as a delicacy by Finnish museum guides if you became a badger?

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Effie Seiberg 's avatar Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social
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This includes covid-safe considerations!

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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Yeah. I care about a lot of things, politically, but this November I am a single issue voter for don't fucking kill trans people.

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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JPL founder and sex wizard Jack Parsons sure is a weird yet historically accurate phrase.

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Story Accept! why do these always come right after I've sent a newsletter?

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Yeah, and it's not better to use misgendering as an attack on cis TERFS like Rowling. Misgendering is the weapon of the enemy. We (as allies) do not use it.

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Every trans person I know is vehemently against misgendering anyone for any reason. Using the correct pronouns and names for people isn't a privilege to be taken from people you don't like. It's unconditionally expected good behavior. Don't do this like you don't misgender Caitlyn Jenner.

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typed "the end" on a novel this afternoon. So that's cool

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Roxane Gay's avatar Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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When the sun came out at like 8:15, I was looking through my (daylight LED lit) kitchen to the backyard and it was like the outside was filtered to indicate mexico in a movie.

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The party would have to break it's own rules to have one. Biden has won the primaries. The delegates are bound by party rules to vote for him.

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This will go out later today, so last chance to sign up for this month's poem

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Perhaps you would enjoy this story about the folk process, musical magic and long-postponed comeuppance finally falling due.

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John Wiswell's avatar John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social
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Happy Pride to folks who mask and socially distance at indoor events.

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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Perhaps you would enjoy this story about the folk process, musical magic and long-postponed comeuppance finally falling due.

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I hadn't read this since it came out. I still think it's really good.

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Ann LeBlanc's avatar Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social
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If you want to hold this gorgeous art by @lyssmenold.bsky.social in your hands, pre-orders are now open for EMBODIED EXEGESIS!

This anthology includes:
- incredibly weird cyber bodies
- weaponized cringe posting
- a transgender coffee maker
- literary explorations of trans motherhood
- & more!

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today's prehistoric fiction writing dilemma: does a 4,000 year old Sumerian reference to rabies license me to write a 5,000 year old person in Ireland as knowing about the disease to describe someone as a mad dog?

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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A mask ban makes our communities LESS safe. It makes everyone more at risk of COVID and other health concerns. It increases harassment of higher risk people, Asian people, and many others. It increases profiling of Black and Brown communities.

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Rabbi Emily Cohen's avatar Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social
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I am not immunocompromised. I don't need to be immunocompromised to know that mask bans are cruel and do not make me safer. I don't need to be to care about immunocompromised people continuing to have access to public life.

If you're Jewish, take a look: www.jewsformaskrights.com

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R. K. Duncan's avatar R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social
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I hadn't read this since it came out. I still think it's really good.

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writers, post something random from your backlist. don't think. Just do it. "Hassan the Executioner Walks Out of Jawasar for the Last Time."

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Check out this old story, rescued from a defunct magazine's site and posted to mine. If you like it, sign up for my newsletter and get a new poem this friday

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I often say, only semi-flippantly, that there is only one Western conspiracy theory, and it's that Jews spread the Black Death. Scratch the surface of pretty much every serious conspiracy theory and it winds up being new paint on the same blood libel structure that dates back to at least that far.

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Check out this old story, rescued from a defunct magazine's site and posted to mine. If you like it, sign up for my newsletter and get a new poem this friday

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The pre-order kickstarter for EMBODIED EXEGESIS: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures is now ALIVE!! Get some weird transhuman transfem cyberpunk!!! Seventeen stories, two poems, and the most beautiful cyborg cover in cyberspace!

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Eddie Clark's avatar Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social
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2017: Hunger Makes The Wolf @katsudon.bsky.social. Do you want space western bikers, lesbian witch unionists, and gay vampires fighting space capitalism? Yes, yes you do. So read this remarkable books and its sequel.

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I would ask if you would consider it appropriate for you to do 10-20 hours of work on a promotional adjunct to a stranger's game for the chance to be paid $50-100, and if, as I assume, you wouldn't do that, why you are asking writers to do that for you.

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