Monique AC
@moniqueac.bsky.social
queer SF/horror writer - first reader (Diabolical Plots & Small Wonders) - con stuff (Rainbow Space Magic & Can*Con) - settler - she/they - notwhereilive.ca
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Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in a Grimdark World
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On NetGalley? @inkedingraypress.bsky.social's Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in a Grimdark World (edited by AJ Van Belle, with stories by me! & 19 other people) is on there now.
Available everywhere on September 29th 🚀 🎉 (pre-order it now from your local bookstore)
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Available everywhere on September 29th 🚀 🎉 (pre-order it now from your local bookstore)
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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It's September 18, which means that in exactly one month, my special call for @diabolicalplots.com, Diabolical Rot, will be opening for submissions! Check out the full details here: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-general-s...
DP General Submission Window and “Diabolical Rot” Themed Window – Diabolical Plots
If you are thinking about starting a short fiction publication and would like to discuss with someone experienced how to get started, please do contact us!
www.diabolicalplots.com
September 18, 2026 at 1:26 PM
It's September 18, which means that in exactly one month, my special call for @diabolicalplots.com, Diabolical Rot, will be opening for submissions! Check out the full details here: www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-general-s...
I took this last year & it was so awesome. I cannot recommend it enough. I’m still thinking through some of the things.
Friends!
Can I ask you a favour?
My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low.
Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends?
jerthorp.me/learning
Can I ask you a favour?
My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low.
Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends?
jerthorp.me/learning
LEARNING | jerthorp
Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding.
Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...
jerthorp.me
September 18, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I took this last year & it was so awesome. I cannot recommend it enough. I’m still thinking through some of the things.
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DON'T PANIC BUT WE ARE LESS THAN A MONTH OUT FROM CAN*CON (we're panicking a little)
If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, do so!
If you're thinking about signing up for special events but haven't yet, what are you waiting for???
www.can-con.org
If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, do so!
If you're thinking about signing up for special events but haven't yet, what are you waiting for???
www.can-con.org
Can*Con
www.can-con.org
September 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM
DON'T PANIC BUT WE ARE LESS THAN A MONTH OUT FROM CAN*CON (we're panicking a little)
If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, do so!
If you're thinking about signing up for special events but haven't yet, what are you waiting for???
www.can-con.org
If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, do so!
If you're thinking about signing up for special events but haven't yet, what are you waiting for???
www.can-con.org
Obviously
Do you ever wish you could start over?
Only this time you'd live in a mysterious mansion on the moors and trade tea, used books, and stories of faraway lands with curious wanderers and lost spirits?
Only this time you'd live in a mysterious mansion on the moors and trade tea, used books, and stories of faraway lands with curious wanderers and lost spirits?
September 17, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Obviously
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I will trust a co-op of in-fighting lefties who are in a polycule together over a collective of fucking billionaires.
September 16, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I will trust a co-op of in-fighting lefties who are in a polycule together over a collective of fucking billionaires.
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What kind of panels do we have at #RainbowSpaceMagic this year? We have Group Marketing! With @duckprintspress.com @edalelane.bsky.social @authoralexharvey.bsky.social @mcmanlypants.bsky.social & @kitauthor.com
RSM is a free, virtual queer speculative fiction con! Details at rainbowspacemagic.org
RSM is a free, virtual queer speculative fiction con! Details at rainbowspacemagic.org
September 16, 2026 at 3:21 AM
What kind of panels do we have at #RainbowSpaceMagic this year? We have Group Marketing! With @duckprintspress.com @edalelane.bsky.social @authoralexharvey.bsky.social @mcmanlypants.bsky.social & @kitauthor.com
RSM is a free, virtual queer speculative fiction con! Details at rainbowspacemagic.org
RSM is a free, virtual queer speculative fiction con! Details at rainbowspacemagic.org
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September 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
No, “risky” would be trying to maintain a relationship with the US
Three-byline alert: 🚨
“.. Carney has even suggested Canada take on a new title: ‘Associate Member of the European Union.’
.. The EU, not known for its flexible enforcement of membership rules, is open to the idea ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
“.. Carney has even suggested Canada take on a new title: ‘Associate Member of the European Union.’
.. The EU, not known for its flexible enforcement of membership rules, is open to the idea ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
September 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
No, “risky” would be trying to maintain a relationship with the US
This is a really cool opportunity. Deadline to submit is Monday!
Want to get feedback from a professional editor on the opening pages of your #QueerSFF novel?
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session before this year's Rainbow Space Magic con!
Deadline is this Monday, September 14th!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session before this year's Rainbow Space Magic con!
Deadline is this Monday, September 14th!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 13, 2026 at 2:53 AM
This is a really cool opportunity. Deadline to submit is Monday!
It's just *so fucking cool* when you're writing a story & you're trying to figure things out and then (somehow!) your brain just goes, have you thought about this? And it absolutely makes perfect sense.
September 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM
It's just *so fucking cool* when you're writing a story & you're trying to figure things out and then (somehow!) your brain just goes, have you thought about this? And it absolutely makes perfect sense.
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"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does
September 12, 2026 at 3:38 AM
"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does
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1. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia.
September 12, 2026 at 1:54 AM
1. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia.
“health services app” = AI chatbot for health questions 🤮
A large LED aerial drone display appeared over Toronto’s skies late Thursday night advertising Loblaw’s health services app, sparking heated discussion online about the use of airspace for promotional material.
Loblaw’s late-night drone show in downtown Toronto sparks debate about ads in our skies
www.thestar.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:53 PM
“health services app” = AI chatbot for health questions 🤮
Someone on Reddit filmed an aerial drone advertisement in the night sky in Toronto and if this is real, it needs to be banned immediately.
#TOpoli
#TOpoli
September 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I'll be moderating this panel on Communites in Worldbuilding at Rainbow Space Magic on Sunday, October 4th! (It's free & it's virtual & the details are at rainbowspacemagic.org)
Communities in Worldbuilding: Worldbuilding encompasses more than just the physical setting. Let’s discuss how community building supports worldbuilding and vice versa. With @moniqueac.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @jdridges.bsky.social @jpohlmanwriting.com & Valerie J. Mikles
September 9, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I'll be moderating this panel on Communites in Worldbuilding at Rainbow Space Magic on Sunday, October 4th! (It's free & it's virtual & the details are at rainbowspacemagic.org)
A thread of all this year's @spacemagiccon.bsky.social panels!
🎉 🌈 🚀 🪄 Here are this year's Rainbow Space Magic panels!
The theme is "building resilient communities" (further details & specific times at www.rainbowspacemagic.org/rsm-2026-sch...)
(Register at rainbowspacemagic.org to make sure you get the links to attend (& join our Discord))
The theme is "building resilient communities" (further details & specific times at www.rainbowspacemagic.org/rsm-2026-sch...)
(Register at rainbowspacemagic.org to make sure you get the links to attend (& join our Discord))
September 9, 2026 at 3:30 AM
A thread of all this year's @spacemagiccon.bsky.social panels!
My kids listened to the Here Come the ABCs album incessantly for awhile & my favourite song is “C is for Conifers” (my kind of trees)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijQ...
September 9, 2026 at 2:22 AM
My kids listened to the Here Come the ABCs album incessantly for awhile & my favourite song is “C is for Conifers” (my kind of trees)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijQ...
I took Sam's Transformations of the Gothic course in the spring & it was *so good*. I read a bunch of things from my TBR list, discussions were excellent, & the resources provided were amazing .
Anyway, I'm taking this one, too (but people need to sign up :-))
Anyway, I'm taking this one, too (but people need to sign up :-))
Hello again!
If you've been considering joining my online Gothic course with the University of Liverpool... there are still places and we need three more sign ups to run the course.
Come join us for a deep dive in the 18th and early 19th century Gothic!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
If you've been considering joining my online Gothic course with the University of Liverpool... there are still places and we need three more sign ups to run the course.
Come join us for a deep dive in the 18th and early 19th century Gothic!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
The Rise of the Gothic: 1764-1820 | Continuing Education | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
September 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I took Sam's Transformations of the Gothic course in the spring & it was *so good*. I read a bunch of things from my TBR list, discussions were excellent, & the resources provided were amazing .
Anyway, I'm taking this one, too (but people need to sign up :-))
Anyway, I'm taking this one, too (but people need to sign up :-))
This is really lovely (and it's $$$, a $20 000 prize)
September 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
This is really lovely (and it's $$$, a $20 000 prize)
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Dear Montreal & Brisbane aka @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social & @brisbanein28.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy - please please please take accessibility seriously, especially for the Hugo Awards. Finalists and winners often use a cane, wheelchair, or motorized chair, among other things. But besides this...
September 7, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Dear Montreal & Brisbane aka @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social & @brisbanein28.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy - please please please take accessibility seriously, especially for the Hugo Awards. Finalists and winners often use a cane, wheelchair, or motorized chair, among other things. But besides this...
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We're accepting applications to join our first readers team! This is a great way to see what makes a magazine like ours work, read LOTS of different styles of flash fiction and poetry, refine your own tastes, and work with some nifty people:
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September 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
We're accepting applications to join our first readers team! This is a great way to see what makes a magazine like ours work, read LOTS of different styles of flash fiction and poetry, refine your own tastes, and work with some nifty people:
airtable.com/applzdlHLTpe...
airtable.com/applzdlHLTpe...
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Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing!
soundandcolormag.com
soundandcolormag.com
Sound & Color
A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction
soundandcolormag.com
September 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing!
soundandcolormag.com
soundandcolormag.com