Matt Dovey
@mattdovey.com
Fantasy/SF writer. Surname rhymes with 'Dopey'. He/him. #ActuallyAutistic & #ADHD
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The autistic experience of scrolling back through your photos: every now and then, a photo that is fully and entirely just a texture you liked
September 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
The autistic experience of scrolling back through your photos: every now and then, a photo that is fully and entirely just a texture you liked
The Death of Robin Hood is not a great film, I don't think, and could reductively be described as "Geralt and Merida star in The Northman", but it is kind of haunting me nonetheless. It has that same hypnotic, dreamy pacing as The Northman, or The Green Knight, and the soundtrack is stunning.
September 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
The Death of Robin Hood is not a great film, I don't think, and could reductively be described as "Geralt and Merida star in The Northman", but it is kind of haunting me nonetheless. It has that same hypnotic, dreamy pacing as The Northman, or The Green Knight, and the soundtrack is stunning.
oh man, had gotten all excited about Audacity 4 and how pretty it was, only to discover play-at-speed isn't implemented yet. Like I have the patience to edit at 1x!
September 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
oh man, had gotten all excited about Audacity 4 and how pretty it was, only to discover play-at-speed isn't implemented yet. Like I have the patience to edit at 1x!
One of the inherent contradictions at the heart of my current existence is that I abhor the reductive stereotype of ADHD as just shouting "Squirrel!" mid-sentence
whilst also interrupting whatever I'm doing to shout "Squirrel!" if I spot one
whilst also interrupting whatever I'm doing to shout "Squirrel!" if I spot one
September 6, 2026 at 10:51 AM
One of the inherent contradictions at the heart of my current existence is that I abhor the reductive stereotype of ADHD as just shouting "Squirrel!" mid-sentence
whilst also interrupting whatever I'm doing to shout "Squirrel!" if I spot one
whilst also interrupting whatever I'm doing to shout "Squirrel!" if I spot one
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@meactnet.bsky.social A must-listen story from @podcastle.org as well as @mattdovey.com’s delicious rant at the end! podcastle.org Episode 944, Mail Order Magic. Thanks to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, author!
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PodCastle - The Fantasy Fiction Podcast
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May 21, 2026 at 6:59 AM
@meactnet.bsky.social A must-listen story from @podcastle.org as well as @mattdovey.com’s delicious rant at the end! podcastle.org Episode 944, Mail Order Magic. Thanks to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, author!
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my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
August 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer
podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...
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Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.
May 24, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.
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I just read Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E.M. Faulds for the first time and fuck does it hit home about disability and mental health and wanting to tear the system down. Excellent writing and a well deserved win!
This is such a well deserved award for a writer who combines gorgeous prose, clear sight of our futures and a heartbreaking degree of empathy in her wonderful stories.
You can hear/read it here (and you really should!):
podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...
You can hear/read it here (and you really should!):
podcastle.org/2025/07/29/p...
April 9, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I just read Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike by E.M. Faulds for the first time and fuck does it hit home about disability and mental health and wanting to tear the system down. Excellent writing and a well deserved win!
Had a dream about a dream about my late father-in-law last night, wherein his spirit visited to tell me where to find some things in the attic, and it all feels weirdly meaningful given that neither he nor the meta dream have ever figured for me before. Weirdly discombobulated as a result.
April 12, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Had a dream about a dream about my late father-in-law last night, wherein his spirit visited to tell me where to find some things in the attic, and it all feels weirdly meaningful given that neither he nor the meta dream have ever figured for me before. Weirdly discombobulated as a result.
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I want everyone to understand just how much terfdom and the gc movement is a man’s rights movement
'Susan Smith, one of the three directors of FWS, also called for some of Scotland’s equality organisations to be defunded.....she singled out organisations such as Rape Crisis Scotland'
Feminism!
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Feminism!
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Campaigners call for scrapping of Nicola Sturgeon’s equality body
For Women Scotland says the National Advisory Council on Women and Girls should go as the group marks a year since its Supreme Court victory
www.thetimes.com
April 12, 2026 at 9:56 AM
I want everyone to understand just how much terfdom and the gc movement is a man’s rights movement
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This is not a joke.
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series!
And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series!
And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
April 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This is not a joke.
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series!
And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series!
And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
Duolingo has many flaws, I'm sure, but it sure does know its audience when it teaches you "I want to quit" as the first sentence in a module on discussing work
April 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Duolingo has many flaws, I'm sure, but it sure does know its audience when it teaches you "I want to quit" as the first sentence in a module on discussing work
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“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.”
Sex testing in sport harms women.
Sex testing in sport harms women.
Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth
Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.
theconversation.com
March 31, 2026 at 2:30 AM
“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.”
Sex testing in sport harms women.
Sex testing in sport harms women.
I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I've read my Orwell, you can't get me that easily
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what a story to go out on!!
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
the time has come
the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
the final GLORIOUS story ✨
"When your skin peels away from your loosening flesh in coils, trailing soft, brown ribbons in its wake, your lovers swathe you in cotton-gauze and bring you to the sea."
Ichthyosis by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Ichthyosis - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
This is how it begins.
psychopomp.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
what a story to go out on!!
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
we are so grateful to all of you
for reading
for sending in your stories and poems
and though we shall diminish now, and go into the west
we send you all our hopes for joy and peace and good reading ✨💖🦄🌈
I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.
December 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I get some weird ADHD earworms sometimes, but singing "Euripides, Euripides!" to the tune of O Christmas Tree is a bit odd even for me. No idea how it came about.
Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.
It’s a sci-fi Friday release! We have a brand new story from Matt Dovey, titled “Reflexive Benevolence Imperative,” in which a fish-ship and its human pilot contemplate the emotional toll of being first responders.
#flashfiction #scifi
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www.flashfictiononline.com/article/refl...
#flashfiction #scifi
@mattdovey.com
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/refl...
Reflexive Benevolence Imperative
If Mx Milia N weren’t so intimate with their fishship, they wouldn’t have noticed anything amiss until they were in a rush to depart. The immense ichthycraft streamed through the upper-…
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December 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.
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Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning
Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!
AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Oh I loved this. Tender and weird and just what I needed first thing this morning
Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!
AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Flash Fiction Online December 2025
The theme of Flash Fiction Online’s December 2025 issue is “Menagerie.” Within these stories we follow a variety of creatures – scaled and feathered, warm- and cold-blooded.…
www.flashfictiononline.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey, would you look at that! I actually have some NEW ORIGINAL FICTION out for the first time in fucking ages! Weird af community action/self care/mycelial SF for a thousand brief words. It's better for your brain than 3 minutes of doomscrolling would be!
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...
Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
growinguptransgender.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If you're not trans, please take a couple of minutes to skim through the linked blog post.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
It's an overview of (some of) the questions trans kids and their parents will have to through, just to participate in the NHS puberty blocker trial.
I won't make any further comment here.
Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.
New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...
PodCastle 918: Waterways - PodCastle
Waterways by Diana Dima When his father died and left him the boat, he thought to himself, I can do it. I’m a boat-son, a boat-man, I’m no longer a child and no longer have to go home at sunset, w...
podcastle.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Really, deeply loved this one, and if I were going to do all the layers of it real justice in the outro I'd have had to take a year to write it. It resonated in so many ways for me, some of which I can't even name.
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New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...
PodCastle 918: Waterways - PodCastle
Waterways by Diana Dima When his father died and left him the boat, he thought to himself, I can do it. I’m a boat-son, a boat-man, I’m no longer a child and no longer have to go home at sunset, w...
podcastle.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
New story up at PodCastle! I can't describe "Waterways" better than @mattdovey.com: "like a dream, like something told to you on a too-hot-day where you’re not quite in focus". Thank you Matt for the gorgeous narration & kind words, and @podcastle.org for featuring it podcastle.org/2025/11/18/p...