Nic Anstett
@nicanstett.bsky.social
she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
My dinosaur documentary comfort show has a new season out about the Ice Age so now I’m watching a bunch of hyper realistic cgi giant ground sloths slide down snow banks on their backs and I could not be happier
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My dinosaur documentary comfort show has a new season out about the Ice Age so now I’m watching a bunch of hyper realistic cgi giant ground sloths slide down snow banks on their backs and I could not be happier
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
Is Samanta Schweblin still following TERF accounts on Twitter/X or is it safe to read her work again?
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Is Samanta Schweblin still following TERF accounts on Twitter/X or is it safe to read her work again?
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(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
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clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
How many "fuck"s are in your WIP? Because I just broke 150.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
How many "fuck"s are in your WIP? Because I just broke 150.
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What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?
I'm sorry but I can't handle this attempt to rehabilitate Jim Carrey's " How the Grinch Stole Christmas " into a holiday classic. Like it was such ass that it introduced my entire kindergarten class to the idea that sometimes movies can suck.
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm sorry but I can't handle this attempt to rehabilitate Jim Carrey's " How the Grinch Stole Christmas " into a holiday classic. Like it was such ass that it introduced my entire kindergarten class to the idea that sometimes movies can suck.
The cover for “The Pelican Child” keeps triggering my AI art senses and I can’t tell why
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The cover for “The Pelican Child” keeps triggering my AI art senses and I can’t tell why
I love that so much trans literature is included on here, but man does it suck to see that happening alongside praise for Ezra Klein and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I love that so much trans literature is included on here, but man does it suck to see that happening alongside praise for Ezra Klein and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Just got out of the VAMPA museum in Doylsetown, PA and I’m pretty sure the owner genuinely believes vampires are real and dangerous.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just got out of the VAMPA museum in Doylsetown, PA and I’m pretty sure the owner genuinely believes vampires are real and dangerous.
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MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
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the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
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this man really decorated before his crush came over lmfao
This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
this man really decorated before his crush came over lmfao
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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And now we cut to a live shot of Stephen Miller.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
And now we cut to a live shot of Stephen Miller.
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Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
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once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny
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Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.
The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
In retrospect, “zombie caveman” was the obvious direction for Primal season three and it’s embarrassing that we ever thought otherwise.
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In retrospect, “zombie caveman” was the obvious direction for Primal season three and it’s embarrassing that we ever thought otherwise.
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
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November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
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Arkasha Stevenson hive rise up
Hunter Schafer, Emma Corrin, Havana Rose Liu and Sophie Wilde will join Josh Hutcherson and Caleb Landry Jones in A24's mysterious upcoming bachelor party horror from THE FIRST OMEN's Arkasha Stevenson.
Hunter Schafer And Emma Corrin Join Arkasha Stevenson’s A24 Bachelor Party Horror
Hunter Schafer, Emma Corrin, Havana Rose Liu and Sophie Wilde will join Josh Hutcherson and Caleb Landry Jones in A24's mysterious upcoming bachelor party horror from THE FIRST OMEN's Arkasha Stevenson.
dlvr.it
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Arkasha Stevenson hive rise up
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An old fav I've been thinking about lately, my story "The Daddy Thing" at @electricliterature.com
Some things I still feel extra pleased about even years later: the story's odd shape, the bats (obvs), the mother's tattoo, the vampire, the rhythm, & the inverted question marks
#ThrowbackThursday
Some things I still feel extra pleased about even years later: the story's odd shape, the bats (obvs), the mother's tattoo, the vampire, the rhythm, & the inverted question marks
#ThrowbackThursday
The Girl is Always Eaten At the End - Electric Literature
"The Daddy Thing" by K.C. Mead Brewer, original fiction about a young girl who befriends a vampire bat, recommended by Electric Literature
electricliterature.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
An old fav I've been thinking about lately, my story "The Daddy Thing" at @electricliterature.com
Some things I still feel extra pleased about even years later: the story's odd shape, the bats (obvs), the mother's tattoo, the vampire, the rhythm, & the inverted question marks
#ThrowbackThursday
Some things I still feel extra pleased about even years later: the story's odd shape, the bats (obvs), the mother's tattoo, the vampire, the rhythm, & the inverted question marks
#ThrowbackThursday