David Anaxagoras (he/him)
@davidanaxagoras.com
SFFH & TV writer. Author of The Tower (Recorded Books). Shows on Amazon, Netflix. Fiction in Lightspeed, Worlds of Possibility, Factor Four, et al. UCLA MFA. Codex.
https://davidanaxagoras.com
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Introducing The 2025 Story Yearbook—a small collection of my published fiction from this year that I put together, along with an introduction and brief notes about what sparked each piece. If you’d like to read it , you can download the EPUB for free, no email req'd: davidanaxagoras.com/yearbook/
I demand justice for Polyphemus! Between Percy Jackson and the Odyssey movie, Polyphemus is once again being flattened into a stereotypical monster!
Read about modern day Polyphemus and his struggles to be whole again in "The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus" available in my 2025 Story Yearbook.
Read about modern day Polyphemus and his struggles to be whole again in "The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus" available in my 2025 Story Yearbook.
Introducing The 2025 Story Yearbook—a small collection of my published fiction from this year that I put together, along with an introduction and brief notes about what sparked each piece. If you’d like to read it , you can download the EPUB for free, no email req'd: davidanaxagoras.com/yearbook/
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I demand justice for Polyphemus! Between Percy Jackson and the Odyssey movie, Polyphemus is once again being flattened into a stereotypical monster!
Read about modern day Polyphemus and his struggles to be whole again in "The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus" available in my 2025 Story Yearbook.
Read about modern day Polyphemus and his struggles to be whole again in "The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus" available in my 2025 Story Yearbook.
I did it. I found the most 90s kids movie ever.
Adventures in Dinosaur City (trailer)
YouTube video by VlsraWratS
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I did it. I found the most 90s kids movie ever.
skinner am I out of touch no it's the children who are wrong gif etc etc
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
skinner am I out of touch no it's the children who are wrong gif etc etc
Allegedly proof of delivery from UPS. I've seen Sasquatch photos that were more clear.
January 13, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Allegedly proof of delivery from UPS. I've seen Sasquatch photos that were more clear.
Didn't know Warf was a writer.
January 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Didn't know Warf was a writer.
T hates being upstaged. It really says something that they put Vance out in front. During the pandemic, T-bag couldn't stay away from the TV. We had an hour-plus news conference every day.
Reporters should be asking every day where T is and if he's too enfeebled to handle questions.
Reporters should be asking every day where T is and if he's too enfeebled to handle questions.
January 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
T hates being upstaged. It really says something that they put Vance out in front. During the pandemic, T-bag couldn't stay away from the TV. We had an hour-plus news conference every day.
Reporters should be asking every day where T is and if he's too enfeebled to handle questions.
Reporters should be asking every day where T is and if he's too enfeebled to handle questions.
Criteria: "Only be given to a show, that among other criteria, aired a minimum of 60 episodes across five seasons"
Gortimer (2 seasons) loses out again. This is like when the Academy ignored us but nominated Dog With a Blog for best kid TV show--truly a high watermark of children's TV.
Gortimer (2 seasons) loses out again. This is like when the Academy ignored us but nominated Dog With a Blog for best kid TV show--truly a high watermark of children's TV.
The Television Academy, responsible for the Emmys, will now bestow the new Legacy Award upon TV shows that had a 'profound and lasting impact.'
Television Academy Establishes New Legacy Award for Shows with a ‘Profound and Lasting Impact’
The Television Academy, responsible for the Emmys, will now bestow the new Legacy Award upon TV shows that had a 'profound and lasting impact.'
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January 8, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Criteria: "Only be given to a show, that among other criteria, aired a minimum of 60 episodes across five seasons"
Gortimer (2 seasons) loses out again. This is like when the Academy ignored us but nominated Dog With a Blog for best kid TV show--truly a high watermark of children's TV.
Gortimer (2 seasons) loses out again. This is like when the Academy ignored us but nominated Dog With a Blog for best kid TV show--truly a high watermark of children's TV.
Just killed a fly I've been hunting all day and I feel like a god now.
January 6, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Just killed a fly I've been hunting all day and I feel like a god now.
Post a famous bathroom scene
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Post a famous bathroom scene
You know what? Between Stranger Things and Wicked/For Good, I'm already tired of women with power being forced to choose exile.
These are comforting bedtime stories for the existing power structure.
These are comforting bedtime stories for the existing power structure.
January 4, 2026 at 10:38 PM
You know what? Between Stranger Things and Wicked/For Good, I'm already tired of women with power being forced to choose exile.
These are comforting bedtime stories for the existing power structure.
These are comforting bedtime stories for the existing power structure.
I hereby convene this FIFA Peace Prize Court of Impeachment.
January 3, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I hereby convene this FIFA Peace Prize Court of Impeachment.
It's a good thing prices went down or all these crimes in office would just be intolerable.
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
It's a good thing prices went down or all these crimes in office would just be intolerable.
Since the US has legitimized this, I'm just going to say: any countries that want to arrest and remove our current president—have at it.
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Since the US has legitimized this, I'm just going to say: any countries that want to arrest and remove our current president—have at it.
Villains really should avoid spiky architecture in their evil lairs.
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Villains really should avoid spiky architecture in their evil lairs.
ICYMI:
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
Who needs a six minute hug from Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel?
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up (ft. Kate Bush)
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:43 AM
ICYMI:
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
A gift from @omgjulia.bsky.social—free cozy, hopeful fiction to carry with you into the New Year. Includes my story The Last Time I Went on a Prowl with Farrell Jenkins about holding on to wonder and a boy who may have been raised by cats. Proud to share the TOC with so many amazing writers.
It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
A gift to end 2025 — Worlds of Possibility Volume 2!
This second volume collects short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles from the August 2023 to June 2025 issue run of Worlds of Possibility.
www.juliarios.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A gift from @omgjulia.bsky.social—free cozy, hopeful fiction to carry with you into the New Year. Includes my story The Last Time I Went on a Prowl with Farrell Jenkins about holding on to wonder and a boy who may have been raised by cats. Proud to share the TOC with so many amazing writers.
Who needs a six minute hug from Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel?
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up (ft. Kate Bush)
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Who needs a six minute hug from Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel?
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
If that dude has shown up at my University preschool not only would I not open the door for him, he'd be face down on the ground surrounded by campus police before he could say pizzagate.
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If that dude has shown up at my University preschool not only would I not open the door for him, he'd be face down on the ground surrounded by campus police before he could say pizzagate.
Actual result of Google Maps search for "daycare". Searches for "childcare" and "preschool" gives slightly different location results but similar numbers.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
December 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Actual result of Google Maps search for "daycare". Searches for "childcare" and "preschool" gives slightly different location results but similar numbers.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
what are you doing What Are You Doing WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!? STOP TOUCHING THE GROOVES!!!!!! YOU DESERVE TO BE EATING BY A DEMOGORGON!!!!
#vinylsky
#vinylsky
December 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
what are you doing What Are You Doing WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!? STOP TOUCHING THE GROOVES!!!!!! YOU DESERVE TO BE EATING BY A DEMOGORGON!!!!
#vinylsky
#vinylsky
I never hate myself more than when I end up watching something on tv with ads when I own the Blu-ray.
December 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I never hate myself more than when I end up watching something on tv with ads when I own the Blu-ray.
If you're the dad of two boys who go off to use the restroom and you don't yell after them "Don't cross the streams!" you have failed as a father.
December 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you're the dad of two boys who go off to use the restroom and you don't yell after them "Don't cross the streams!" you have failed as a father.
No state funeral when it happens.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
December 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
No state funeral when it happens.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
Reposted by David Anaxagoras (he/him)
If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.
Sometimes I think about hosting a co-writing video session or something but I'm afraid I'll forget I'm on camera and start picking my nose.
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Sometimes I think about hosting a co-writing video session or something but I'm afraid I'll forget I'm on camera and start picking my nose.