“I’m sorry that happened to you” is such a powerful phrase, especially if you don’t know what else to say. I know we’ve really normalized goofy awkward “idk what to say when people are emotional” stuff but this simple empathy does a lot of work and is so much better at making people feel heard.
Welcome! I enjoy your posts in That Other Place, glad you made it across. For community, there’s probably some lists (er, somewhere 😅) that your peeps follow, or that will reskeet if you add certain emojis and things.
It's reminder time again. We have no idea who our Kindle subscribers are, but there are a lot of them. Losing those subscribers is going to be brutal, so we'll keep bringing this up. We have no choice.
one of the most corrosive habits of online dunk culture is making it imperative that everyone be correct at all times and making it harder to be like "oh shit i didn't know that" and then change your mind, which is something that is normal, healthy, and good, imo.
So I'm in contact with Sheree over at F&SF. We're talking about options/optics and I really feel like I need to impress upon y'all how unhelpful this need for instant self-satisfying and public ramifications is to the ultimate resolution of issues in a way that in this case keeps a Black woman safe.
All the mess is Your Mess and it’s always your turn to clean it up.
“recommended tools” always includes a power drill because we do not turn back to the previous step. Construction of furniture has only one direction.
hey we need more people to follow here, BLUE. if you're a writer/editor/zine/etc. in the SFFH genre pls reply with an emoji and we'll follow you. BONUS POINTS for using super obscure emojis. (pls repost if you want to help us spread the word OR if you have a skeleton inside you thx)
🪐🤖🧬 sci-fi writer, hullo!