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Steen Comer

@mediapathic.bsky.social

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Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist. "Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear #sf

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cabl | comms open @cabl.rodeo · 4d

this discord coulda been an rss feed

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1h

An additional complication is the gamer communities who have just kept using pepe the entire time, ignoring the fascists trying to take them over till the bigots just gave up, so in some places now it’s just a politically neutral “gamer” signifier.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 6h

Literally nearly body checked a Berkeley kid 10 minutes ago

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 8h

A tiny tragedy of the age: young guy so busy watching anime sword fights on his phone he didn’t even notice the guy who sat next to him was carrying an actual sword.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 9h

Demons are best banished with laughter.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · 12h

"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by Negativland + SUE-C

Friday, Oct 31, 2025 | 7:30–9:30 PM 
Yale University
CCAM Sound Art Series 
149 York St. New Haven, CT 
Free + open to the public 
(limited capacity, first come first serve)

ccam.yale.edu/event/ccam-s...

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 22h

“THE TIME OF THE purchases OF THEIR MEAT”, got it.

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 1d

If you switch from Audible to @libro.fm you can designate a local bookstore to receive a portion of your sales. Mine are going to @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

Just sayin

That’s a thing you could do. You don’t have to. THEY won’t like emerge from beneath the floorboards if you don’t.

Probably

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Ok but also… using an AI interface for that seems harder than just writing down sone words.

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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 9d

David Lynch andIsabella Rossellini 1988 🖤🎬
📷Helmut Newton .

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

(fyi yes, gift link worked)

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

aaaaaa why the fuck is it counterclockwise on top of all that bullshit as well wtf

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Thank you. I have a peripheral “I know they are important to things I love” relationship with Can but don’t really know their history well, this will help.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to learn more about this please

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Woah, that… makes perfect sense, actually.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

This pleases me immensely

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Following for the Republic of Letters mention.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

It was in fact the walk in music! Good call.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

“We got caught”

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 3d

📣 NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS!

In a new ep of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social SFF criticism podcast, I talk with @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil about books that might be longer, and others that could be shorter.

How to read a text that offers too little, or too much, stuff? Some ideas.

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth

Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too sure or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, o…

strangehorizons.com

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Well maybe it should be (this is a terrible mistake)

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

(Is this a real thing? I hope this is a real thing)

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Ok fine NOW I’ll subscribe to your podcast

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

I personally am currently writing a novella that is a short story that is far too long.

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