Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails
@risawolf.bsky.social
Multi-gendered water elemental (all pronouns, use they/them for myself) pretending to be an ink-stained lycanthrope. Writer-type. Codex, SFWA. Black Lives still matter. I'd apologize for cursing but I'm not actually sorry. More at killerpuppytails.com
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i've seen people making the argument that it's a result of everyone being broke now, but like, this round was set off in part by piracy of an indie ebook that was on sale for 99 cents
there is a vast and deep well of genuinely free, no-piracy-needed stuff out there
there is a vast and deep well of genuinely free, no-piracy-needed stuff out there
I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
i've seen people making the argument that it's a result of everyone being broke now, but like, this round was set off in part by piracy of an indie ebook that was on sale for 99 cents
there is a vast and deep well of genuinely free, no-piracy-needed stuff out there
there is a vast and deep well of genuinely free, no-piracy-needed stuff out there
Heavy thread. Powerful reading.
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Heavy thread. Powerful reading.
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We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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OMG people are calling respecting BDS a “purity test.”
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
OMG people are calling respecting BDS a “purity test.”
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
It sure is a test. Of your most basic willingness to materially stand behind Palestinian liberation. Lot of people failing.
A lot.
Is it a “purity test” to ask someone not to cross a picket line?
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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I’m sorry but there is no leftist argument in favour of book piracy (even academic books: because in that case honestly a lot of academics will just send you the PDF if you ask, it might even be open access) while libraries exist. And using libraries is the way to keep them existing.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I’m sorry but there is no leftist argument in favour of book piracy (even academic books: because in that case honestly a lot of academics will just send you the PDF if you ask, it might even be open access) while libraries exist. And using libraries is the way to keep them existing.
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I mean, I would say that life is too short to fight with your family, so if your relatives are all assholes, have festive dinners with friends you actually like, instead, but that is emphatically not what the op-ed here is saying. (I checked.)
Guest essayist, your TV-addled meemaw who will be serving Thanksgiving dinner on a commemorative Riley Gaines plate to a lot of empty chairs
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I mean, I would say that life is too short to fight with your family, so if your relatives are all assholes, have festive dinners with friends you actually like, instead, but that is emphatically not what the op-ed here is saying. (I checked.)
My spouse directly @ed me on this one
risa furry convention
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My spouse directly @ed me on this one
If you're into body horror that has a core of joy in it, I super recommend "(Skin)" by Chelsea Sutton
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
DP FICTION #128A: “(Skin)” by Chelsea Sutton – Diabolical Plots
www.diabolicalplots.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If you're into body horror that has a core of joy in it, I super recommend "(Skin)" by Chelsea Sutton
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
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This week's Wednesday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, which is out now in ebook, paper, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
You can preorder the 2nd in the trilogy of fantasy rom-coms, too: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
You can preorder the 2nd in the trilogy of fantasy rom-coms, too: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This week's Wednesday snippet comes from Wooing the Witch Queen, which is out now in ebook, paper, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
You can preorder the 2nd in the trilogy of fantasy rom-coms, too: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
You can preorder the 2nd in the trilogy of fantasy rom-coms, too: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
#romancelandia
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
While we’re enduring the latest round of torture politics, I figured it was a good time to share this neat-looking bundle of milkweed seeds
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
While we’re enduring the latest round of torture politics, I figured it was a good time to share this neat-looking bundle of milkweed seeds
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I’ve known this pain, over and over. Growing up, most people thought I was Jewish and Israeli bc my dad’s from Jerusalem and my last name is Arabic for Solomon. About half the time, there would be an awful moment when the love they had for me turned to loathing bc my dad is Palestinian.
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’ve known this pain, over and over. Growing up, most people thought I was Jewish and Israeli bc my dad’s from Jerusalem and my last name is Arabic for Solomon. About half the time, there would be an awful moment when the love they had for me turned to loathing bc my dad is Palestinian.
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While you are calling about the Speakership, please also add this to your conversation.
It’s Wednesday phone zap time!
Join us in calling your city council member to demand 0.5% of the budget go to our libraries.
Use this script and then tell us how it went with our survey!
nycplan.org/actions/call...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It only takes a minute to support our demand
Join us in calling your city council member to demand 0.5% of the budget go to our libraries.
Use this script and then tell us how it went with our survey!
nycplan.org/actions/call...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It only takes a minute to support our demand
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
While you are calling about the Speakership, please also add this to your conversation.
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I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
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I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
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Just watched DC's Blue Beetle film. I really liked it. I don't know what anyone was complaining about.
This was a solid flick.
It gave us a good origin where the theme of family was woven throughout the entire story.
All we were missing was a cameo from Ted Kord. His gear was awesome!
This was a solid flick.
It gave us a good origin where the theme of family was woven throughout the entire story.
All we were missing was a cameo from Ted Kord. His gear was awesome!
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Just watched DC's Blue Beetle film. I really liked it. I don't know what anyone was complaining about.
This was a solid flick.
It gave us a good origin where the theme of family was woven throughout the entire story.
All we were missing was a cameo from Ted Kord. His gear was awesome!
This was a solid flick.
It gave us a good origin where the theme of family was woven throughout the entire story.
All we were missing was a cameo from Ted Kord. His gear was awesome!
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Did I write about an invisible horror so I could talk about the need to be seen?
Would I do that?
😘
Would I do that?
😘
A poignant story about a father and a son and a third person who needs so badly to be acknowledged. Just as much as any person in a society that ignores systemic issues and can crush the human spirit so easily. Still, we persist.
by @wiswell.bsky.social in @reactorsff.bsky.social
by @wiswell.bsky.social in @reactorsff.bsky.social
Phantom View - Reactor
A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father tries to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Did I write about an invisible horror so I could talk about the need to be seen?
Would I do that?
😘
Would I do that?
😘
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
Sometimes I wonder if I should get off Reddit b/c some of the stories are so awful and disheartening.... and then I come across a post where *literally* thousands of commenters are celebrating someone's achievement and I can't stop smiling.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Sometimes I wonder if I should get off Reddit b/c some of the stories are so awful and disheartening.... and then I come across a post where *literally* thousands of commenters are celebrating someone's achievement and I can't stop smiling.
Not me screaming silently at Canva’s “snap to grid” function working *incredibly poorly* with my trackball mouse
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Not me screaming silently at Canva’s “snap to grid” function working *incredibly poorly* with my trackball mouse
RIP Jimmy Cliff 😞
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff 😞
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Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Look what I lack in pretty design skills I make up for in writing skills
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Fuck's sake, I'm writing my newsletter & tearing up about it. All because I'm writing some extra notes about my section of the #PuppyExpress event from last month, that got a gorgeous anime fox from Oregon to Maine.
:sob:
(If you're curious, you can sign up here: buttondown.com/risawolf )
:sob:
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From the (Wagged-Clean) Desk of Risa Wolf/Killerpuppytails
The monthly musings of a science fiction and fantasy writer, with bonus dog pic in every mail
buttondown.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Fuck's sake, I'm writing my newsletter & tearing up about it. All because I'm writing some extra notes about my section of the #PuppyExpress event from last month, that got a gorgeous anime fox from Oregon to Maine.
:sob:
(If you're curious, you can sign up here: buttondown.com/risawolf )
:sob:
(If you're curious, you can sign up here: buttondown.com/risawolf )