my kingdom for a systems oriented perspective i don't care what arbitrary gender marker was given to u at birth, it genuinely doesn't confer useful information and it would be vastly easier to just tell me what parts & hormones are happening

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i wasn't a sailor moon kid growing up but in retrospect i'm like damn i should've been

girls when they know that translation is an art form that literalizes/solidifies interpretation and therefore synergistically with the source text creates something new and beautiful

look at what arrived in the mail! kind of surreal to be holding this novella in my hands. thank you everyone who beta-read this, supported the kickstarter, and pre-ordered! and of course, huge thanks to Neon Hemlock Press for taking the chance on it in the first place!

sooooooo excited for this!!!

can i use the hov lane if im driving my cat to the vet

AHHH!! I am over the moon, and probably several other planetoids, to announce that the Last Binding trilogy is on the Hugo ballot for Best Series!

This is my first ever Hugo nomination & to have it be a v personal piece w/ my name in the title & shared w/ the MC. What a time it is to be named Ai 🥹🫶🏼🫂

I’m also astonishingly on the Astounding Award for Best New Writer final ballot 😭🙏🏼

Thank you for everyone’s support!🥺

2024 Hugo, Astounding, and Lodestar Awards Finalists locusmag.com/2024/03/2024-h…

Congrats to this year's Hugo Award finalists. Some excellent works and amazing authors on the final ballot. I'm also thrilled to see translated stories by Chinese authors and works by new authors on the ballot. I look forward to reading those I've missed. glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/20…

The finalists for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer are:

Moniquill Blackgoose (1st year of eligibility)

Sunyi Dean (2nd year of eligibility)

江艾 / Ai Jiang (2nd year of eligibility)

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Hannah Kaner (1st year of eligibility)

Em X. Liu (1st year of eligibility)

赵熙冉 / Xiran Jay Zhao (eligibility extended at request of Dell Magazines)

There were 349 ballots for 167 nominees. The finalists got between 35 and 50 votes.

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#Glasgow2024 #HugoFinalists #Hugos

😎😎 what an amazing team

my secret is that i actually am a dark haired hamlet stan

march is at it's end, i hope april is kinder to me