Christopher Caldwell
@seraph76.bsky.social
Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press in October 2025. Pre-order here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press in October 2025. Pre-order here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
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Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock
A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....
www.neonhemlock.com
Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
Fascinating that white people have invented an entirely different Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr other than the one they reviled and murdered. This one comes to absolve them of their sins and scold the oppressed
Matt Taibbi criticizes the ICE protests in Minneapolis, and says Martin Luther King Jr. would not have approved of them.
Taibbi claims MLK would not support "guilt because of racial identity" or "bringing religion into it".
Taibbi claims MLK would not support "guilt because of racial identity" or "bringing religion into it".
January 22, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Fascinating that white people have invented an entirely different Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr other than the one they reviled and murdered. This one comes to absolve them of their sins and scold the oppressed
Nah bruh, I’m Black. Been prepared.
I don't think the Americans, and yes, I mean all of you, are prepared for how hated you now are by everyone.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
Its not going away folks. Youve lost all rights to speak to us without being told to go fuck yourselves.
Lutnick heckled in Davos. FT: “The gathering on Tuesday night descended into uproar after combative remarks from Lutnick, the people said, with widespread jeering, some guests walking out and appeals for calm from Fink.”
January 21, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Nah bruh, I’m Black. Been prepared.
Being a soulless, amoral monster is not “fearlessness.”
Newsom is the antidote to Trump. We need Newsom's fearsomeness to attack Trump. California is doing just fine with Newsom away for a few days.
January 21, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Being a soulless, amoral monster is not “fearlessness.”
Yass queen, spill that tea!
January 20, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yass queen, spill that tea!
It is so intensely embarrassing being an American right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
It is so intensely embarrassing being an American right now.
I wouldn’t vote for Newsom if he ran against the undead corpse of Henry Kissinger
You need to pledge allegiance to whomever wins the '28 dem nominee (including Gavin if that's him).
January 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
I wouldn’t vote for Newsom if he ran against the undead corpse of Henry Kissinger
I would like to become as beautiful and terrible as the dawn, as treacherous as the sea. For all to love me and despair!
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I would like to become as beautiful and terrible as the dawn, as treacherous as the sea. For all to love me and despair!
Wrapping my head around Boys for Pele being 30.
January 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Wrapping my head around Boys for Pele being 30.
Fighting with people who say Tidus is the protagonist of FFX.
January 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Fighting with people who say Tidus is the protagonist of FFX.
Who would win in a fight, Catherine Earnshaw or Rebecca de Winter?
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Who would win in a fight, Catherine Earnshaw or Rebecca de Winter?
Not that he’s a bad actor, but nothing he’s done convinces me Jacob Elordi would make a good Heathcliff
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Not that he’s a bad actor, but nothing he’s done convinces me Jacob Elordi would make a good Heathcliff
Next week, y’all!
People in and near Glasgow, I’m thrilled to participate in this panel on Scottish Speculative Fiction next month at Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street!
Tickets available via link:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Tickets available via link:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
January 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Next week, y’all!
I thought the most debased the Nobel peace prize could get was awarding it to Kissinger. But offering up one that was already awarded to a murderous bloviating demagogue in a transparent attempt to curry favor is impressively loathsome
January 16, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I thought the most debased the Nobel peace prize could get was awarding it to Kissinger. But offering up one that was already awarded to a murderous bloviating demagogue in a transparent attempt to curry favor is impressively loathsome
The secret police force loyal to the president just tear-gassed a baby.
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 16, 2026 at 12:23 AM
The secret police force loyal to the president just tear-gassed a baby.
Yuck.
Dave Filoni and Lywen Brennan are officially the new leaders of Lucasfilm
• Dave Filoni will oversee all creative development
• Lywen Brennan will oversee executive duties
• Dave Filoni will oversee all creative development
• Lywen Brennan will oversee executive duties
January 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Yuck.
Reposted by Christopher Caldwell
TODAY’S THE DAY!!! I poured my heart and soul into this game and today, exactly 364 days after I first dreamt it up, you can buy it!! And!! You can buy it!! PHYSICALLY!! A REAL ZINE. IN YOUR HANDS.
Plus a Ton of digital downloads including an audiobook, journaling page downloads, & streaming kits!
Plus a Ton of digital downloads including an audiobook, journaling page downloads, & streaming kits!
January 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
TODAY’S THE DAY!!! I poured my heart and soul into this game and today, exactly 364 days after I first dreamt it up, you can buy it!! And!! You can buy it!! PHYSICALLY!! A REAL ZINE. IN YOUR HANDS.
Plus a Ton of digital downloads including an audiobook, journaling page downloads, & streaming kits!
Plus a Ton of digital downloads including an audiobook, journaling page downloads, & streaming kits!
I have a name!
Is there anything better than an awful little creature who speaks in a ridiculously formal register? I submit that there is not.
January 15, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I have a name!
Reposted by Christopher Caldwell
I was watching a stupid show on Netflix about romance scammers last night and they got to this one chick and I was like "what a bad woman" until I found out she was from Tacoma and then I was like, "YES QUEEN WOMEN IN MEN'S FIELDS. SCAM THAT SEATTLITE SCUM. OH SO WOMEN CAN'T HAVE HOBBIES NOW????"
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I was watching a stupid show on Netflix about romance scammers last night and they got to this one chick and I was like "what a bad woman" until I found out she was from Tacoma and then I was like, "YES QUEEN WOMEN IN MEN'S FIELDS. SCAM THAT SEATTLITE SCUM. OH SO WOMEN CAN'T HAVE HOBBIES NOW????"
Grief is not linear.
January 15, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Grief is not linear.
People on reels are yelling at strawmen misinterpreting classics by offering shallow, reductive takes of their own.
My dude, just because the depraved ruling class is turned on by a Gatsby aesthetic doesn’t mean people who actually read the book think it’s a valorization of the American Dream.
My dude, just because the depraved ruling class is turned on by a Gatsby aesthetic doesn’t mean people who actually read the book think it’s a valorization of the American Dream.
January 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
People on reels are yelling at strawmen misinterpreting classics by offering shallow, reductive takes of their own.
My dude, just because the depraved ruling class is turned on by a Gatsby aesthetic doesn’t mean people who actually read the book think it’s a valorization of the American Dream.
My dude, just because the depraved ruling class is turned on by a Gatsby aesthetic doesn’t mean people who actually read the book think it’s a valorization of the American Dream.
If I were a planetary duke and my family was named after a particularly curséd mythological Greek house, I’d rename us.
January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
If I were a planetary duke and my family was named after a particularly curséd mythological Greek house, I’d rename us.
January 14, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Who in Final Fantasy VI thought it was a fun idea to have a fighting pit where your characters become uncontrollable and use any random skill they have then give the guy whose whole schtick is punching things hard an ability where he kills himself?
January 14, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Who in Final Fantasy VI thought it was a fun idea to have a fighting pit where your characters become uncontrollable and use any random skill they have then give the guy whose whole schtick is punching things hard an ability where he kills himself?
Is it healthy to be relieved a vile racist who used his outsized platform to help gin up animosity against Black people suffering from state violence in an era of state violence can no longer do so? I think it can be.
Does it help? It does not harm me.
Does it help? It does not harm me.
Before publicly celebrating terrible things happening to bad people, maybe don't just ask yourself if such statements are "fair" or if those people "deserve" what's happening to them...
Maybe ask yourself:
"Will this help?" and "Is this healthy?"
And take a moment if the answer to both is "No."
Maybe ask yourself:
"Will this help?" and "Is this healthy?"
And take a moment if the answer to both is "No."
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Is it healthy to be relieved a vile racist who used his outsized platform to help gin up animosity against Black people suffering from state violence in an era of state violence can no longer do so? I think it can be.
Does it help? It does not harm me.
Does it help? It does not harm me.
Everything in the past 7 years seems to have moved so quickly. Did Edea complete time compression?
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Everything in the past 7 years seems to have moved so quickly. Did Edea complete time compression?