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Ares J Benoit
@aresjb.bsky.social
Poet and writer of weird stories
Queer nb chronically ill neurodivergent. The glow-in-the-dark rodent is me.
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If you're looking for small gifts/stocking stuffers that do some good, what about some bookmarks from my shop? They're $5 for doodle bookmarks, no shipping cost, and the full $5 gets donated to the Transgender Law Center. www.sarahgracetuttle.com/shop
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Beautiful piece 💓
on this trans day of remembrance my poem "live" at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social feels very fitting

"you have to live to hold your own failures in cupped palms, drink them up like gin and fire. to spit blood on burnt earth. to bind your chest wrong the first time."
“live” by Ash Vale
you have to live to hold your own failures in cupped palms, drink them up like gin and fire. to spit blood on burnt earth. to bind your chest wrong the first time. to feel the blunt pain of it and …
moistpoetryjournal.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Transparency ftw!
Transparency is a core value for us at OTHERSIDE... and with that in mind, we now have sample contracts available on our website! We believe in supporting and protecting authors: no AI, no rights grabs, quick payment. Let us know if you have questions!

othersidespec.com/sample-contr...
Sample Contracts - OTHERSIDE
Sample contracts for OTHERSIDE, including the language for nonfiction, reprints, original fiction and poetry.
othersidespec.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Woah
This is what I want to see! It’s a start, but these conversations and laws and ethics around AI need to happen. And more.
I’m not anti-AI, but it is massively problematic.
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Read this piece by @valeriesirenko.bsky.social if you like magic, and being okay with not being okay. #grief
www.orions-belt.net/archives/jus...
Just Listed: Hardwood Floors and a Generous Curse — Orion's Belt
The other noises are less trivial.
www.orions-belt.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Get 'em in there!!
Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches.

📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Disabled & chronically ill folks: I NEED YOUR HELP. YES YOU!

The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...

It needs a title! ✨️

Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I offer short story editing & feedback for $10AUD per 1000 words
📌For DISABLED, CHRONICALLY ILL, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and otherwise MARGINALISED writers ONLY.
I want to do what I can to try and uplift those of us who are most often excluded, erased, and left behind! 💖
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Open call for submissions!

Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters

Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻

Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th

paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
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September 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
100%
fact: transphobia is for losers
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Local author R.B. Lemberg has won a World Fantasy Award —one of the most prestigious awards for science fiction, fantasy and speculative titles — for a novella in their ongoing speculative fiction series. lawrenceks.news/47Ctig1
Lawrence author wins World Fantasy Award for best novella
Local author R.B. Lemberg has won a World Fantasy Award —one of the most prestigious awards for science fiction, fantasy and speculative titles — for a novella in their ongoing speculative fiction ser...
lawrenceks.news
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
What a cool tool!
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.

#medievalsky

www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
!! Feelings!
October 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉

@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!

Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
October 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Reminder we have 5 of our titles at just $2 each for the eBook for October. Get some ghostly weirdness.

undertowpublications.com/ebooks
October 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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A thousand times this.
Horror doesn't have to be about violence and gore, and there's nothing wrong with preferring ghost stories or weird, eerie stuff. I have very good reasons for avoiding violent stories when I feel like I can't handle them. I still love horror.
October 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My 5yo: why do we have toothbrushes in the city?

Also my 5yo: if we don't have teeth we can't have candy, it'll have to be soup candy
September 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the Literary Magazine Incubator Project!
About 3 months ago, we launched a lit mag incubator to give $1000 to 5 mags willing to try something new, serve underrepresented communities, and prove ethical publishing can actually work.

Today we picked our 5 (okay, and 10 finalists) and it’s time to CELEBRATE THEM✨
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I think I've met a robot I love almost as much as Murderbot ... Almost! Amazing story from Augur 8.1 @augursociety.bsky.social by @graceseybold.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
100% here for this!
I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM