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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)@mayadeane.bsky.social |
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mayadeane.com.
I wrote Wrath Goddess Sing, a book that drags other books behind its chariot and boasts about it.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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some have said Wrath Goddess Sing killed several other retellings during a wild rampaging aristeia that culminated in the death of Hector, which is why there's still no retelling entitled HECTOR THE HORSE-TAMER.
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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Okay, all 3,000 of you go buy a trans book.
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Aaron W. Gordon
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Excellent but dire report from @ndhapple.bsky.social on why NJ Transit commutes are consistently miserable lately www.curbed.com/article/amtr...
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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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write me tall enough to reach up to the sky and free your celestial boyfriend from the gods' space station (where he has been confined for the past three aeons pining for you from afar)
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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on your shoulders much depends your pen moves the clouds write me taller and hotter please. and richer.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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brb, forming a conspiracy theory that violet allen is writing reality, in which case reality actually has literary merit
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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celebrating pride month by becoming taller than i've ever been. these cirrostratus clouds are weak. i am going to eat them.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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This is how you preorder the glorious Maya Deane's very serious and eat-your-vegetables story A NOTORIOUS INTERGALACTIC CRIMINAL, which is NOT a hilarious rant delivered to a coffee machine by an irate middle manager.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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Please find within "A Notorious Intergalactic Criminal," by the illustrious Maya Deane. "I am human. You think you’re human too, but you’re actually a machine for consuming surplus coffee. There was an excess of coffee, so you were born; it was I who made you to perform this function."
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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Please find within "A Notorious Intergalactic Criminal," by the illustrious Maya Deane. "I am human. You think you’re human too, but you’re actually a machine for consuming surplus coffee. There was an excess of coffee, so you were born; it was I who made you to perform this function."
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Reactor (formerly Tor.com)
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We're thrilled to help reveal the cover for Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures! This collection, edited by Ann LeBlanc, contains 19 speculative stories by transfem authors. You can check out the table of contents and cover now!
reactormag.com/cover-reveal...
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Erik Fredner
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Pollsters are simulating political surveys with AI because nobody answers the phone:
ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi...
"The big difference between humans and AI agents is that the AI agents always pick up the phone..."
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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looking for a man who can tell me (without googling! without ChatGPT!) whether the Tilapia Niloticus stayed loyal to the Emperor during the Horus Heresy
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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So glad to be in it! and I am tickled pink to read the others!
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violet allen
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And here are the ones you can read if you buy them with money! people seem to particularly like (or very strongly dislike) the one in Out There Screaming:
www.neonhemlock.com/books/lumine...
www.amazon.com/Wastelands-A...
www.amazon.com/dp/B09KQZ8HK...
www.amazon.com/Out-There-Sc...
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violet allen
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imagine a dystopian world in which the state uses your very dreams as a means of control. imagine levar burton reading it to you. i'm linking the text, but if you search you can find levar burton reading it to you. i made him say "tit," among other things.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/mist...
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violet allen
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this one is a sequel to a story that i didn't post bc it is being reprinted and it seems like i shouldn't advertise the free one when the reprint is about to come out, so preorder it here (www.planetscumm.space/shop/planet-...) but this one is also good.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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violet allen
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this one is about conversion therapy, and how the cruelest conversion therapist is, in fact, the self. maybe a little on the nose, but people seem to like it, and there's some stuff with cakes that i think is very fun.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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violet allen
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ignore the byline! a wondrous tale about complicated friendships between artists and pizza restaurants as a medium of expression. perhaps the purest "violet" story available. ignore the byline. we don't know her.
liminalstoriesmag.com/issue1/you-c...
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violet allen
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a tale of magic, love, and consumption. my first published story, which i got published to spite my friend who said i never finish stories. someone once said it's about vore, and it's not about vore, but if you like vore you'll probably like it.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/well...
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I have a new story forthcoming in Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social: "When the Devil Comes From Babylon." Check out the TOC here.
The Stories in Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity Showcase a Spectrum of Queer Experiences - Reactor (reactormag.com)
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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some have said Wrath Goddess Sing is a book. others call it a temporarily embarrassed movie.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wra...
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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the kids tell me my roe salad should have a topical, memetic nickname. i shake my head in sorrow. that time has passed.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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as a tipping point trans I do not say "yeag." I leave this solemn office to my daughter.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I would love to see these books in explicit conversation, though I suppose Lewis is too busy being a ghost to be susceptible to panel proposals. But TWHF is IMO his best book, and it's striking how much that book has in common with OKPsyche.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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but! OKPsyche! Anya's book manages an incredible feat of hovering in the moment of piercing loss and finding beauty in ephemerality. the near-near-future worldbuilding, the weirdness, the cyberpunk elements, all of it was incredibly precise, like watercolor done with a very sharp brush
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I was delighted to see so much of Apuleius's picaresque technique was being used, and also enjoyed the way the worldbuilding was definitely a back-projection of a Roman neoplatonist synthesis into an imagined ancient world. A lot of retellings tend to live in Received British Classics Greece
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I liked P&E. It's very much in dialogue with Apuleius, except that where Apuleius is teeing everything up to veer into Isis mysticism, the author of P&E is ultimately focused on bringing love-and-the-soul into conversation with Persephone-as-Death. It's not exactly neoplatonist but it's not not
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I loved OKPsyche! Beautiful. When I read it, I also had 2023's other Psyche book Psyche and Eros on the brain, and CS Lewis's Till We Have Faces, so OKPsyche stimulated a lot of ideas about the way the Psyche story, whether played straight or extremely slant, is about living in the shadow of loss.
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Roseanna Pendlebury
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I have a new review up at NoaF today, of a book that somewhat defied description.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I loved OKPsyche! Beautiful. When I read it, I also had 2023's other Psyche book Psyche and Eros on the brain, and CS Lewis's Till We Have Faces, so OKPsyche stimulated a lot of ideas about the way the Psyche story, whether played straight or extremely slant, is about living in the shadow of loss.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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read everything he wrote. Anne Carson's translations are very nice. Euripides was Alexander's favorite, along with Homer. Frequently Euripides offers variants on myths; he's also fond of humanizing everyone, no matter how awful their deeds, and presenting them writhing in fate's grasp.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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many such cases. just once I want someone to get big mad at Euripides for changing the mythology
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Julie C. Day says preorder Storyteller a Tanith Lee tribute anth
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The 🧚🏾♂️Tanith Lee tribute anthology STORYTELLER’s Kickstarter🧚🏾♂️was just selected by Kickstarter as a #ProjectWeLove!!! Mind blown!
I just got the news a minute ago.
💛Thank you all so much for supporting this project 💛
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Julie C. Day says preorder Storyteller a Tanith Lee tribute anth
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We just hit 75% funded! Even better, the Tanith Lee tribute anth STORYTELLER’s Kickstarter has 184 backers! Thank you for your interest & enthusiasm. This book is personal for everyone involved. So many of us owe her so much as both readers and creators.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ess...
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Julie C. Day says preorder Storyteller a Tanith Lee tribute anth
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We are live! And the backers are showing up! Early bird specials for the first 48 hrs. Open call after the Kickstarter funds! +Amazing rewards from all our authors and Editors!
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Julie C. Day says preorder Storyteller a Tanith Lee tribute anth
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Rewards from contributing author @mayadeane.bsky.social include an in-depth critique on a short story of 5,000 words or less & an exclusive 60-minute remote conversation with Maya! Plus a signed copy of May's novel in our add-on section! #kickstarter #live #TanithLee #tribute #anthology
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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there's also that famous and possibly fictional letter he sent the last Kassite king of Babylon, which has such per my last email energy that I rendered it as an email
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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currently living for this thread and also amoxicillin
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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the deir el-medina papyrus documents the post-Amarna ascendancy of Hittite-backed denizens of Redwall, briefly held in check by Horemheb, here depicted preparing for a rich feast of smashed fava beans, wheat flatbread, pickled fish, mallow soup, and beer flavored with date syrup and hyssop.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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She Who Became the Sun, Juno Dawson's witch books, and more that I will doubtless remember just after I hit reply
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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anything by Alina Boyden, Hailey Piper's No Gods for Drowning, Kai Cheng's Fierce Femmes, *sorta* Light From Uncommon Stars
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Julie C. Day says preorder Storyteller a Tanith Lee tribute anth
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Kickstarter pre-launch activated! I'm thrilled to finally begin the countdown🌈😍💪
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ess...
Amazing rewards & add-ons!
Open submissions after the crowdfunding campaign!
@terriwindling.bsky.social @marthawells.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social
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Hailey Piper
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This Trans Day of Visibility, make sure your eye pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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I thought everyone knew. It's like being in the world's most powerful girl gang.
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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing)
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Tanith Lee has the best words.
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Dr. Tessa Fisher
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I have a new short story out today! This one was a ton of fun to write, and was inspired by my work with a SETI seminar on universal messaging and art
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️⚧
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Ugh yes. This quote is so incredibly damning. He's basically admitting the bill probably will be misused, in exactly the way we've been warning it will be. If you write letters to your reps, please copy/paste this paragraph and tell them: "See? Even Blumenthal admits it could be a problem."
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