A.P. Golub / Andrea Tatjana
@andtatcat.bsky.social
Fantasy writer. Bi. Tamer of feral cats. Lurker. (They/them)
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New from Reckoning 9, "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a wry, mournful, beautiful short story/prose poem in the form of a field guide: reckoning.press/a-taxonomy-o...
A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century | Reckoning
(Selected from the field guide left on your nightstand) Common Raven: Your favorite bird. There was a big one that lived in the hospital courtyard and, on your good days, I’d take you out to see it. W...
reckoning.press
I have a BIRB story out today
Aight I’ve been telling myself for a solid two weeks that I was going to do some kind of nice little my year in writing/awards consideration/pto reading wrap up post but I’m lazy so consider this repost my official year in writing post because if I don’t do this it’s not happening at all
I have a BIRB story out today
New from Reckoning 9, "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a wry, mournful, beautiful short story/prose poem in the form of a field guide: reckoning.press/a-taxonomy-o...
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Aight I’ve been telling myself for a solid two weeks that I was going to do some kind of nice little my year in writing/awards consideration/pto reading wrap up post but I’m lazy so consider this repost my official year in writing post because if I don’t do this it’s not happening at all
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"We have laws not simply to have laws but because the law is the only possible brake on the strong trampling over and exploiting the weak. And if some people become too strong, it becomes impossible for any of us, individually or collectively, to be truly free."
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators
I got a fascinating array of responses to my Tuesday post about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"We have laws not simply to have laws but because the law is the only possible brake on the strong trampling over and exploiting the weak. And if some people become too strong, it becomes impossible for any of us, individually or collectively, to be truly free."
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The Epstein files really are a goldmine if you're a hater
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The Epstein files really are a goldmine if you're a hater
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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and our SECOND
FANTASY FRIDAY offering ✨
"Through your hair, your memories were transmitted, all that you were, all you would become, all that those before you had been."
The Matriarchs by Malena Salazar Maciá
read this fantastic flash story here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
FANTASY FRIDAY offering ✨
"Through your hair, your memories were transmitted, all that you were, all you would become, all that those before you had been."
The Matriarchs by Malena Salazar Maciá
read this fantastic flash story here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
The Matriarchs - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You explained to him that it was impossible. Through your hair, your memories were transmitted, all that you were, all you would become, all that those before you had been
psychopomp.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
and our SECOND
FANTASY FRIDAY offering ✨
"Through your hair, your memories were transmitted, all that you were, all you would become, all that those before you had been."
The Matriarchs by Malena Salazar Maciá
read this fantastic flash story here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
FANTASY FRIDAY offering ✨
"Through your hair, your memories were transmitted, all that you were, all you would become, all that those before you had been."
The Matriarchs by Malena Salazar Maciá
read this fantastic flash story here:
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
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Hey do you want lesbian yearning? I have lesbian yearning
Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers" by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/ZxEmqop
You can read it here!
buff.ly/ZxEmqop
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hey do you want lesbian yearning? I have lesbian yearning
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Sit down children, I'm going to tell you a story about the olden times.
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sit down children, I'm going to tell you a story about the olden times.
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
Once, there was a young lesbian newly out of the closet. It was 1989. She was a third year student at the University of Alberta. And she had no idea how to lesbian.
*pun intended
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I wrote this in a fugue state immediately after handing in my MFA and somehow it actually got published, so please enjoy this piece of flash fiction entitled: Bev Eats His Entire Wife
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
Alexandra Stronach 2025 - TURBINE | KAPOHAU
ALEXANDRA STRONACH Bev Eats His Entire Wife The grimoire had to construct the simulacra from meat, bone, gristle, but Bev knew Nora would’ve had no truck with that; she was a committed vegetarian, eve...
turbinekapohau.org.nz
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I wrote this in a fugue state immediately after handing in my MFA and somehow it actually got published, so please enjoy this piece of flash fiction entitled: Bev Eats His Entire Wife
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...
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Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
December 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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good to see, since society must discourage baldfaced lying (especially by authorities) to keep functioning. some other consequences to go along with this would be even better
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
good to see, since society must discourage baldfaced lying (especially by authorities) to keep functioning. some other consequences to go along with this would be even better
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Dear Slim,
In a previously unreported letter, the Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman asked Israeli president Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) prepared a letter in recent days asking Israel’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Dear Slim,
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Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
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this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan
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💀🌹Dread Persephone
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
💀🌹Dread Persephone
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"taxidermy, mostly" is not a lie
this is the story i pitch as:
"two lesbians on a generation ship, but they're mad at each other. sound cool? wait. the ship also taxidermies their dead, carrying their generations with them."
also @fusionfragment.bsky.social is terrific to work with AND READ!!!
this is the story i pitch as:
"two lesbians on a generation ship, but they're mad at each other. sound cool? wait. the ship also taxidermies their dead, carrying their generations with them."
also @fusionfragment.bsky.social is terrific to work with AND READ!!!
"How the Carrion Crew Stopped Courting Death, and Other Methods of Lost Hope" by @jordankurella.com
Spaceship status: Lost and directionless
Crew status: Sad and full of relationship angst
What are they doing on the ship?: Taxidermy, mostly
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-6/
2/
Spaceship status: Lost and directionless
Crew status: Sad and full of relationship angst
What are they doing on the ship?: Taxidermy, mostly
www.fusionfragment.com/issue-6/
2/
Issue #6
“Babies Come From Earth” by Louis Evans: hopeless pregnancies / troubled doctors / colony worlds”Gravel” by Steven Genise: embracing change / post-apocalyptic / chasing goat…
www.fusionfragment.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
"taxidermy, mostly" is not a lie
this is the story i pitch as:
"two lesbians on a generation ship, but they're mad at each other. sound cool? wait. the ship also taxidermies their dead, carrying their generations with them."
also @fusionfragment.bsky.social is terrific to work with AND READ!!!
this is the story i pitch as:
"two lesbians on a generation ship, but they're mad at each other. sound cool? wait. the ship also taxidermies their dead, carrying their generations with them."
also @fusionfragment.bsky.social is terrific to work with AND READ!!!
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Mel Odom, Spring, 1982
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Mel Odom, Spring, 1982
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because Jurassic Park is trans rep
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 AM
because Jurassic Park is trans rep
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Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.
Tom Perriello For Congress Launch Video
YouTube video by Tom Perriello
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:47 AM