PERFECT PHOTOS. Love love love this, please give him a treat from me for being such a good hat model!

Tag yourself, I’m v… no, no, I’m pathetic lesbians 😔

Wait now it’s THIS WEEK okay listen I can’t repost for a third time, just pretend I got it right

If this post looks familiar: I posted this briefly a couple of days ago, then realized I’d messed up the timezones horrifically, and immediately deleted it in shame, as one does 🙂‍↕️

Congratulations!

Took a couple of Polaroids to mark the occasion and he was NOT having it.

Nico! This looks so awesome! Super excited about this.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant was the book that brought me back to SFF after many years of not reading much fiction (grad school burnout!) and I remember vividly this sense of awe over how messy/ashamed/ambitious/raw she was as a character. Hugely influential on what I want to write + want to read.

Yes! I think desperation might be the #1 thing that interests me as a writer (and a reader). I have a particularly soft spot for stories about shame, or really any big and ugly emotion. There's maybe a larger issue where readers fear discomfort but I think it's especially true with queer stories.

We have a special guest-edited issue of bleak, angry, messy trans horror coming out in October and I am really excited about it. There are so many incredible stories like this, stories that I desperately want more of as a reader, and so few homes for them. I wish there were more. It sucks!

Thanks, Andrew! All credit to the authors, I just feel lucky to get to yell about their wonderful work!

Alternative caption: I hope you're ready for Issue 3 of OTHERSIDE because it rules.

(It’s very fun to offer students a thousand-year-old poem about being drunk on a boat.)

www.tupeloquarterly.com/translation/...

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None of my favorites are online! You’ll have to buy the book!

Wendy Chen’s own work is incredible, too. There’s just something about the work of poet-translators.

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Okay, I just did the math and I think it might actually work out to, like, $2/hour. But that is not SO different from 2c 😆 and also I might be bad at math.