Robb // R.M. Sayan
@rmsayan.bsky.social
Bog raccoon with nice eyelashes who writes spec fic. Pulp and camp enjoyer. I guess I'm a horror writer now?
https://rmsayanauthor.wordpress.com
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https://rmsayanauthor.wordpress.com
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he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧🇵🇪
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Robb // R.M. Sayan
@rmsayan.bsky.social
· Apr 30
In this story, Sayan asks us to wonder what we'd give up to keep someone else safe and healthy...Read the next installment in our speculative mystery series, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙢 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 by @rmsayan.bsky.social, now: www.frivolouscomma.com/the-arm-coll...
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It's out!!!! Check out my new short story on @frivolouscomma.bsky.social !!
#WritingCommunity #SpecFic #QueerWriters
#WritingCommunity #SpecFic #QueerWriters
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I would really like people to take this into account. Yes, arguably some of the worst people are not conventionally attractive in some way or another, but focusing on that and not their behavior, lack of empathy and compassion, only tears down everyone around you who shares that physical trait.
I'm just going to say a thing.
What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
February 13, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I would really like people to take this into account. Yes, arguably some of the worst people are not conventionally attractive in some way or another, but focusing on that and not their behavior, lack of empathy and compassion, only tears down everyone around you who shares that physical trait.
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
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⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
Okay, I'm at loss now. What do I do with a 9300-word "short" story? Horror/historical, already gone through several crit rounds, genuinely think there's no shortening or even expanding it anymore. Would like a market for it but at this pace I might just post it publicly on my blog.
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Okay, I'm at loss now. What do I do with a 9300-word "short" story? Horror/historical, already gone through several crit rounds, genuinely think there's no shortening or even expanding it anymore. Would like a market for it but at this pace I might just post it publicly on my blog.
Went to the MCR concert
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Went to the MCR concert
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Paperback preorders for THE DEVOURING are now available at:
Barnes & Noble
Bookshop
Books-a-Million
+ a few other retailers
Join Jason and Ayana on their hunt for the truth behind his brother's murder and an impossible illness. Preorder today: books2read.com/u/mvDRWX
#WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚
Barnes & Noble
Bookshop
Books-a-Million
+ a few other retailers
Join Jason and Ayana on their hunt for the truth behind his brother's murder and an impossible illness. Preorder today: books2read.com/u/mvDRWX
#WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚
January 23, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Paperback preorders for THE DEVOURING are now available at:
Barnes & Noble
Bookshop
Books-a-Million
+ a few other retailers
Join Jason and Ayana on their hunt for the truth behind his brother's murder and an impossible illness. Preorder today: books2read.com/u/mvDRWX
#WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚
Barnes & Noble
Bookshop
Books-a-Million
+ a few other retailers
Join Jason and Ayana on their hunt for the truth behind his brother's murder and an impossible illness. Preorder today: books2read.com/u/mvDRWX
#WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
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Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
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There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
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December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
January 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
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This is the local link to the Venezuelan Red Cross: cruzroja.ve
Cruz Roja Venezolana
cruzroja.ve
January 3, 2026 at 8:31 AM
This is the local link to the Venezuelan Red Cross: cruzroja.ve
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guy who pronounces ".png" as "dot pinge"
January 2, 2026 at 12:23 AM
guy who pronounces ".png" as "dot pinge"
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18 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Big breakthrough for sexually-active/high-risk trans ppl: study of longest-acting injectable PrEP (lenacapavir) finds NO interaction with GAMT. Trans adults have long avoided PrEP for fear it impacts their hormone therapy with just 20% using it.
Groundbreaking HIV-prevention med won't harm trans people's hormone therapy - LGBTQ Nation
Lenacapavir, approved in June, is a twice-yearly injectable.
www.lgbtqnation.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
18 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Big breakthrough for sexually-active/high-risk trans ppl: study of longest-acting injectable PrEP (lenacapavir) finds NO interaction with GAMT. Trans adults have long avoided PrEP for fear it impacts their hormone therapy with just 20% using it.
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Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste
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in the real world not nearly enough buckaroos goin around looking at clues with a magnifying glass
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
in the real world not nearly enough buckaroos goin around looking at clues with a magnifying glass
Convincing you to read my *short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Convincing you to read my *short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
I'm gonna have to issue a blanket apology to the 5-7 academics that will be able to tell that this fictional, fantasy story is not historically accurate
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm gonna have to issue a blanket apology to the 5-7 academics that will be able to tell that this fictional, fantasy story is not historically accurate
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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Me reading all these reviews of Del Toro's Frankenstein that paint it as "What if Crimson Peak was even more Gothic, florid, and horny?"
October 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Me reading all these reviews of Del Toro's Frankenstein that paint it as "What if Crimson Peak was even more Gothic, florid, and horny?"
Jesus. The Summer That Hikaru Died. I reall yliked it.
October 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Jesus. The Summer That Hikaru Died. I reall yliked it.
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Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger
October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger