📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚
@ellieyellu.bsky.social
Sci-fi romance author (on sub!) 🏳️🌈
Poetry: Smoky Quartz, Literary Hatchet
🏳🌈 Bi; she/her 🚑 EMT
📚 Clarion UCSD 🩺 Nursing school
TTRPGs. No TERFs.
Guy sure looks like cat food to me.
☀:♎ 🌙:♈ ⬆:♏
Butlerian Jihad, now! AI = block
Rep: Christi Cardenas
Poetry: Smoky Quartz, Literary Hatchet
🏳🌈 Bi; she/her 🚑 EMT
📚 Clarion UCSD 🩺 Nursing school
TTRPGs. No TERFs.
Guy sure looks like cat food to me.
☀:♎ 🌙:♈ ⬆:♏
Butlerian Jihad, now! AI = block
Rep: Christi Cardenas
Pinned
A guide to Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel, a queer, heisty, spicy, sci-fi romance manuscript.
Good Heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.
Are you its reader?
😍🌈🥵🌌🚀❤️
Good Heists. Bad Decisions. Great Chemistry.
Are you its reader?
😍🌈🥵🌌🚀❤️
This is true for whalemen and for ambulance partners
an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
October 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This is true for whalemen and for ambulance partners
Why I love writing to vinyl
- Completely and simply offline
- Curate moods with albums
- Built in productivity timer (write until it's time to get up and flip the record)
- Cozy
- Completely and simply offline
- Curate moods with albums
- Built in productivity timer (write until it's time to get up and flip the record)
- Cozy
October 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Why I love writing to vinyl
- Completely and simply offline
- Curate moods with albums
- Built in productivity timer (write until it's time to get up and flip the record)
- Cozy
- Completely and simply offline
- Curate moods with albums
- Built in productivity timer (write until it's time to get up and flip the record)
- Cozy
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"Still wondering where Kate was"
Wrong answers only. My bet:
thanks for all the fish.
thanks for all the fish.
October 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
"Still wondering where Kate was"
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Join me or @ktempestbradford.com for a live @writingtheother.com worldbuilding workshop where we work through writing exercises that dive into aspects of a world/culture that authors often overlook.
📅 October 17th and 18th
🪙 $100 - $150
Scholarships available!
writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...
📅 October 17th and 18th
🪙 $100 - $150
Scholarships available!
writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...
October 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Join me or @ktempestbradford.com for a live @writingtheother.com worldbuilding workshop where we work through writing exercises that dive into aspects of a world/culture that authors often overlook.
📅 October 17th and 18th
🪙 $100 - $150
Scholarships available!
writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...
📅 October 17th and 18th
🪙 $100 - $150
Scholarships available!
writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...
violence, nudity, and bodily fluids aside, the wildest thing I've seen on the NYC subway is some guy and his hapless buddy moving 40-50 individual empty rolling suitcases by hand
the doors opened and they just started flinging them inside bucket line style saying "sorry! sorry!"
the doors opened and they just started flinging them inside bucket line style saying "sorry! sorry!"
October 6, 2026 at 1:01 PM
violence, nudity, and bodily fluids aside, the wildest thing I've seen on the NYC subway is some guy and his hapless buddy moving 40-50 individual empty rolling suitcases by hand
the doors opened and they just started flinging them inside bucket line style saying "sorry! sorry!"
the doors opened and they just started flinging them inside bucket line style saying "sorry! sorry!"
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel: the crew of the Helle Wanderer have defined heist crew roles but move fluidly between roles like Scum and Villainy (TTRPG)
When Anora joins, the roles make her feel without a place & the fluidity disorients her more formal heist background #LitHodgepodge
When Anora joins, the roles make her feel without a place & the fluidity disorients her more formal heist background #LitHodgepodge
October 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel: the crew of the Helle Wanderer have defined heist crew roles but move fluidly between roles like Scum and Villainy (TTRPG)
When Anora joins, the roles make her feel without a place & the fluidity disorients her more formal heist background #LitHodgepodge
When Anora joins, the roles make her feel without a place & the fluidity disorients her more formal heist background #LitHodgepodge
Angel: The Series is a classic amongst a showrunner's oeuvre that fails to stick the landing, especially knowing now the reason for many aspects of the ending was a misogynist fit he was throwing towards Charisma Carpenter, the show's backbone
Definitely poisons the well of that particular one
Definitely poisons the well of that particular one
What TV show got so bad it effectively destroyed your appreciation for the show when it was was good?
October 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Angel: The Series is a classic amongst a showrunner's oeuvre that fails to stick the landing, especially knowing now the reason for many aspects of the ending was a misogynist fit he was throwing towards Charisma Carpenter, the show's backbone
Definitely poisons the well of that particular one
Definitely poisons the well of that particular one
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Bisexual visibility month is over; I shall diminish, and go into the board game store
October 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Bisexual visibility month is over; I shall diminish, and go into the board game store
Saw someone complaining that author advice about frontloading "stakes" in a query / pitch doesn't work for literary fiction because
"blah blah some snobby opinion about genre fiction I won't repeat blah blah"
let me just say: if your literary fiction doesn't have stakes, you're writing bad fiction
"blah blah some snobby opinion about genre fiction I won't repeat blah blah"
let me just say: if your literary fiction doesn't have stakes, you're writing bad fiction
October 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Saw someone complaining that author advice about frontloading "stakes" in a query / pitch doesn't work for literary fiction because
"blah blah some snobby opinion about genre fiction I won't repeat blah blah"
let me just say: if your literary fiction doesn't have stakes, you're writing bad fiction
"blah blah some snobby opinion about genre fiction I won't repeat blah blah"
let me just say: if your literary fiction doesn't have stakes, you're writing bad fiction
Bisexual visibility month is over; I shall diminish, and go into the board game store
October 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Bisexual visibility month is over; I shall diminish, and go into the board game store
I write romance.
My partner is whisking me off for a surprise weekend away for my birthday
♥️They say write what you know♥️
My partner is whisking me off for a surprise weekend away for my birthday
♥️They say write what you know♥️
October 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I write romance.
My partner is whisking me off for a surprise weekend away for my birthday
♥️They say write what you know♥️
My partner is whisking me off for a surprise weekend away for my birthday
♥️They say write what you know♥️
"This is the most Philly thing to have ever happened"
STOP
No it's not
The most Philly thing that ever happened was when they killed the hitchhiking robot
STOP
No it's not
The most Philly thing that ever happened was when they killed the hitchhiking robot
Caught on Cam: Man attacks worker with cheesesteak at Pat's King of Steaks
Caught on Cam: Man attacks worker with cheesesteak at Pat's King of Steaks
The owner of Pat's King of Steaks is offering $5,000 for info leading to the arrest of a man who, he says, assaulted an employee on Wednesday.
trib.al
October 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"This is the most Philly thing to have ever happened"
STOP
No it's not
The most Philly thing that ever happened was when they killed the hitchhiking robot
STOP
No it's not
The most Philly thing that ever happened was when they killed the hitchhiking robot
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We are now OPEN to submissions of speculative fiction + poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from October 1-7. If that's you, send us your work! This issue's theme is exploration.
We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!
We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!
Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
othersidespec.com
October 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
We are now OPEN to submissions of speculative fiction + poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from October 1-7. If that's you, send us your work! This issue's theme is exploration.
We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!
We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!
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Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now!
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
October 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now!
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
Stardew Valley modders are unparalleled
Nexus mods will have a cool utility automating some part of the farm you find annoying, next to a cute expansion for the farm cat that might make you cry, and a mod that turns all your cows into mooing Naked Haleys
yall are bonkers I love you never change
Nexus mods will have a cool utility automating some part of the farm you find annoying, next to a cute expansion for the farm cat that might make you cry, and a mod that turns all your cows into mooing Naked Haleys
yall are bonkers I love you never change
October 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Stardew Valley modders are unparalleled
Nexus mods will have a cool utility automating some part of the farm you find annoying, next to a cute expansion for the farm cat that might make you cry, and a mod that turns all your cows into mooing Naked Haleys
yall are bonkers I love you never change
Nexus mods will have a cool utility automating some part of the farm you find annoying, next to a cute expansion for the farm cat that might make you cry, and a mod that turns all your cows into mooing Naked Haleys
yall are bonkers I love you never change
I have finished this horror-tinged short story and it is pretty good as is...but I think if I completely changed the second half, it would really shine
I love the restriction of the structure of a short story but dang why does it always feel like you're trashing half of it in edits 😭
I love the restriction of the structure of a short story but dang why does it always feel like you're trashing half of it in edits 😭
October 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
I have finished this horror-tinged short story and it is pretty good as is...but I think if I completely changed the second half, it would really shine
I love the restriction of the structure of a short story but dang why does it always feel like you're trashing half of it in edits 😭
I love the restriction of the structure of a short story but dang why does it always feel like you're trashing half of it in edits 😭
From the opening of Always Get In a Spaceship With a Scoundrel: Anora's mentor / gang's boss gives her the hyperspace treasure maps which will set her on the path to meet Jayro, our titular scoundrel
CW: sci-fi blaster violence; a close but not gory description of a chest wound #WIPSnips #WriteSky
CW: sci-fi blaster violence; a close but not gory description of a chest wound #WIPSnips #WriteSky
October 1, 2026 at 11:46 AM
I have now twice entirely by accident frightened a stoner with Fermi's Paradox deployed at the wrong time
September 30, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I have now twice entirely by accident frightened a stoner with Fermi's Paradox deployed at the wrong time
we all know that one guy
He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.
September 30, 2026 at 4:48 PM
we all know that one guy
I was fighting virulently with a woman about something and a man jumped into the replies on my side but in a racist way towards her so we both paused our fight for a minute to roast the hell out of him and once he slunk off we resumed eviscerating one another
anyways whats the best interaction you've ever had with a man on the internet
i called a guy perry mason once and he responded by explaining who perry mason was
i called a guy perry mason once and he responded by explaining who perry mason was
September 30, 2026 at 12:20 AM
I was fighting virulently with a woman about something and a man jumped into the replies on my side but in a racist way towards her so we both paused our fight for a minute to roast the hell out of him and once he slunk off we resumed eviscerating one another
bisexual visibility month is waning so entering the tarot exhibit at the Morgan this afternoon I said loudly to my partner "there's gonna be SO MANY bisexuals here" and like three bisexual heads whipped around to see who could still perceive them
good place for bisexual spotting, the tarot exhibit
good place for bisexual spotting, the tarot exhibit
September 29, 2026 at 8:18 PM
bisexual visibility month is waning so entering the tarot exhibit at the Morgan this afternoon I said loudly to my partner "there's gonna be SO MANY bisexuals here" and like three bisexual heads whipped around to see who could still perceive them
good place for bisexual spotting, the tarot exhibit
good place for bisexual spotting, the tarot exhibit
Every ad in the NYC subway right now is for an AI software
But it's definitely not a bubble, don't worry
But it's definitely not a bubble, don't worry
September 29, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Every ad in the NYC subway right now is for an AI software
But it's definitely not a bubble, don't worry
But it's definitely not a bubble, don't worry
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In 2005, my father, also my high school biology teacher, came into my bedroom early in the morning and woke me up to tell me not to wake up: we wouldn't be going to school that day because the gym was on fire.
On guns, school shootings, and the day my school gym burned down:
On guns, school shootings, and the day my school gym burned down:
September 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
In 2005, my father, also my high school biology teacher, came into my bedroom early in the morning and woke me up to tell me not to wake up: we wouldn't be going to school that day because the gym was on fire.
On guns, school shootings, and the day my school gym burned down:
On guns, school shootings, and the day my school gym burned down: