A new year, a new re- #introduction for the newer people joining masto!

Hello! I am a published SFF author, poet, musician/music student and sometime-composer with major impostor syndrome. I am also a #biblioholic, and a literary #Gothic academic (PhD in Literature). My interests outside of these spheres include cooking, #languagelearning & binge-watching my favourite (mostly #SFF/Gothic) shows.

On Mastodon in 2025 I will mostly be posting #music recommendations (mostly #womencomposers #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #classicalmusic with some #indie) and some thoughts on the writing/indie-publishing process.

My bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography

My BSFA longlisted debut fantasy novel:

https://mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook/

#13books that changed how I see the world:

Stuart Little - White
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Ender's Game - Card
The Sparrow - Russell
Making Color Sing - Dobie
Holy The Firm - Dillard
Red Mars - Robinson
Homeland - Doctorow
Wool - Howey
Lagoon - Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki

What are your #13books?

Hey everyone, I am Max, an amateur sci-fi writer. I write webnovels in the hard sci-fi genre, set in my own constructed world.

There are 3 novels, but the first one is my first published work so it is very rough, so feel free to start with the second (it's an anthology, so connections are loose). They're all free, so check them out! I will soon release the short story I didn't publish yet and start a fourth novel.

https://www.royalroad.com/profile/388086/fictions

https://pestojaguar.itch.io/perhapsyoumighttrythesoup-01

My Zine "Perhaps You Might Try The Soup" is a #ScienceFiction adjacent zine with experimental text, comic pages and interesting images and jokes.

Best of all it's Free,

I would be thrilled if anyone gets the time to check it out. I think you will enjoy it.

Boosts also greatly appreciated.

I've been working on a little something, #WritingCommunity. If you're looking for a tale that's #SFF with #cyberpunk themes and #romance, I've got you covered. This is a #LGBT+ / #LGBTQIA+ story as well.

Welcome to #TheCityOfOpulence.

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This is the story of one man, more machine than human, and how he has survived the centuries. Something is coming, someone from his past, and it's time to prepare.

Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49792465/chapters/125689999

Oh my God! Oh f*ck! I wake up to this big news and all I can say is f*ck! I went to bed having read something about Philip K Dick Awards (I can't even remember what I read about it!) and I wake up to learn that my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, has been nominated for this and its a big deal to me and all I can day is f*ck! What a way to start the year!

https://www.norwescon.org/2024/01/09/2024-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced/

@bookstodon #books #sff #book #writing #writingcommunity

Here's a guide to my books! There are kind of a lot of them now. All fantasy or sci-fi romance, all starring bisexual main characters. https://www.feliciadavin.com/

@lgbtqbookstodon @romancelandia #romance #sff

Watching the #HugoAwards ceremony online. I'll update with the winners here in case no one else is doing so. #bookstodon #sff Looks like the Astounding is about to be announced!

Loki: meow?

Me: Migrating a Mastodon account from the server I started out on back in 2022.

Hazel: meow

Me: Nope, don't worry. It should be pretty transparent. One of the main reasons I moved is the character limit in posts is larger here. You fuzzballs get to have longer conversations with me.

Loki: meow

Me: Oh, right.

- Things I am: #ActuallyAutistic, #LGBTQ+, in a #Polyfidelitous family of 3 older adults and 4 equally awesome (now mostly grown!) children.

- How I pay the bills: #DataEngineering now, #WebDevelopment and #DevOps before that, #Chemistry even longer ago.

- Other things I like: #Cats, obviously. Also #Astronomy (#AmateurAstronomy in particular), #History, #Science, #Books, #HistoricalFiction, #ScienceFiction, #SFF, #Programming, #Hiking, #Nature.

- Some weirder, more specific ones? Fine. #StudioGhibli. Indoor #Rowing. #Languages, currently learning #Spanish and #Latin.

I geek out a lot about astronomical data and I maintain a widely-used database of stars (the HYG catalog, and its new extension, the AT-HYG catalog with Gaia data) at https://github.com/astronexus.

Yes, I'm a geek. But you still put up with me, right?

Loki: meow
Hazel: meow

Me: Love you both too.

#13books that changed how I see the world:

Stuart Little - White
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Ender's Game - Card
The Sparrow - Russell
Making Color Sing - Dobie
Holy The Firm - Dillard
Red Mars - Robinson
Homeland - Doctorow
Wool - Howey
Lagoon - Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki

What are your #13books?

Suppose it's time for me to stop being nervous, and just go ahead and tell you lovely Mastodon people:

I have been sharing my science fiction story, "Radiant Inverse", on Royal Road (a serial fiction website) for the past couple of weeks.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72693/radiant-inverse-a-science-fantasy-adventure

There are already 13 chapters up.

I would love it if you'd check it out. No need for an account -- but accounts can comment and leave reviews!

I'm going to teach a workshop with @writingtheother on neopronouns!

Check it out, it's going to be super detailed & exciting! Everything from the murky history of neopronouns in fiction to craft tips to how to handle an editor who wants to change the pronouns.

There are scholarships too, there the deadline is a bit tighter, so make sure to apply soon -

https://writingtheother.com/using-neopronouns-in-your-writing/?utm_source=bogi&utm_medium=socials&utm_campaign=neopronouns2023

If you are on Bluesky, I am on there at yilinwriter@bsky.social. I am using it as my main alternative for the bird site at the moment and I would love to find more friends on there.

New instance, new #introduction post.

I'm murid, I like looking at art on the internet and reading about nerdy topics. I gravitate towards #SFF, but I also like reading blog posts and other mundane stuff.

I tend to boost a lot of #art and read a lot of #manga.

I'm a fan of #gunpla, but I'm on a bit of a hiatus, too many hobbies.

I draw a lot with #ink, but rarely post it here. I like being a #webmaster of a janky poorly coded website. Recently I've gotten into #watercolor and #fountainpen.

A list of my speculative fiction and poetry to pin to my profile.

(1) "Path Correction" SF story on Chaos: Nature Futures (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02765-3
https://sylviawenmackers.be/blog/PathCorrection

(2) "Lunar Almanac" Poem in Sylvia Magazine (2023)
https://www.sylviamagazine.com/lunar-almanac/

(3) "The Youngest" Dark fantasy story on Fate: Danse Macabre 152 (2023) https://dansemacabreonline.wixsite.com/neudm/sylvia-wenmackers-152

(4) "Something Fishy" SF story on Randomness: AcademFic Vol. 4 (2023)
https://press.palni.org/ojs/index.php/academfic/article/view/810

! Lengthy analytical essay by @gautambhatia on current Sri Lankan SFF (inc. @vajra among others) -

https://www.himalmag.com/contemporary-speculative-fiction-fantasy-sri-lanka/

#SFF #Bookstodon @bookstodon #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SriLanka #ShortStories @sffshorts

#introduction to

I'm Pseudandry (Pseuds), I'm a #disabled #butch #enby #Canadian #writer and #cartoonist interested in #videogames , especially #pokemon & #indievideogames , #speedrunning , #horror & #sff

I have a long #antifa history & will be boosting a lot of activist, #anarchist & #union material, as well as #queer #trans #lgbtqia material. I also like #tlt #spop #barucormorant & other stuff that is full of lesbians.

I have #adhd so, uh...sorry?