Akotowaa
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Overall best in purple. 🇬🇭🕷️✝️
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
Did I start watching The Diplomat because half the leading cast had Ghanaian heritage? Yes.
Do I have a crush on David Gyasi now? Also yes.
Do I have a crush on David Gyasi now? Also yes.
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Did I start watching The Diplomat because half the leading cast had Ghanaian heritage? Yes.
Do I have a crush on David Gyasi now? Also yes.
Do I have a crush on David Gyasi now? Also yes.
I love how Jesus just started a zombie wave and then moved on with the rest of his agenda.
Like what do you mean a bunch of dead people just started walking out of tombs and re-entering the city LOLOL
Like what do you mean a bunch of dead people just started walking out of tombs and re-entering the city LOLOL
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I love how Jesus just started a zombie wave and then moved on with the rest of his agenda.
Like what do you mean a bunch of dead people just started walking out of tombs and re-entering the city LOLOL
Like what do you mean a bunch of dead people just started walking out of tombs and re-entering the city LOLOL
I could get so much freer.
What an exciting prospect.
What an exciting prospect.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I could get so much freer.
What an exciting prospect.
What an exciting prospect.
My brain, every 2 seconds: “I would like a ringggg I would like a ring I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger I would like a big and shiny diamond…”
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My brain, every 2 seconds: “I would like a ringggg I would like a ring I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger I would like a big and shiny diamond…”
Good rap music is such brilliant literature.
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Good rap music is such brilliant literature.
I thought Zohran Mamdani was part Ghanaian. I did not expect him to be Ugandan.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I thought Zohran Mamdani was part Ghanaian. I did not expect him to be Ugandan.
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Footage of the worst affected area, St. Elizabeth, in Jamaica, which took the eye of Hurricane Melissa. It's a credit to the preparedness efforts, with such devastation, that the loss of life isn't far worse.
If you wish to help, see the link below:
supportjamaica.gov.jm
youtu.be/5ZZ0n5oV3eA?...
If you wish to help, see the link below:
supportjamaica.gov.jm
youtu.be/5ZZ0n5oV3eA?...
Aerial Shots of St. Elizabeth | Prime Minister Andrew Holness & Other officials tours
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October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Footage of the worst affected area, St. Elizabeth, in Jamaica, which took the eye of Hurricane Melissa. It's a credit to the preparedness efforts, with such devastation, that the loss of life isn't far worse.
If you wish to help, see the link below:
supportjamaica.gov.jm
youtu.be/5ZZ0n5oV3eA?...
If you wish to help, see the link below:
supportjamaica.gov.jm
youtu.be/5ZZ0n5oV3eA?...
God, I need a writing residency like yesterday.
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
God, I need a writing residency like yesterday.
I am enthralled by Andrea Hairston’s Redwood and Wildfire.
What a novel.
What a novel.
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I am enthralled by Andrea Hairston’s Redwood and Wildfire.
What a novel.
What a novel.
I enjoy my WIP chapter titles so much.
October 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I enjoy my WIP chapter titles so much.
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This week's Optimizer is about the very special wearable hell I've been living in recently... and how it's all coming for you too if Big Tech gets its way.
www.theverge.com/column/79793...
www.theverge.com/column/79793...
We’re all about to be in wearable hell
I’m rapidly running out of body parts to do my job.
www.theverge.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This week's Optimizer is about the very special wearable hell I've been living in recently... and how it's all coming for you too if Big Tech gets its way.
www.theverge.com/column/79793...
www.theverge.com/column/79793...
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I need a vacation for like a month. And by vacation I mean my bed and zero obligations. Maybe a claw-foot tub.
October 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I need a vacation for like a month. And by vacation I mean my bed and zero obligations. Maybe a claw-foot tub.
If you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, you can catch me at 2 events!
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, you can catch me at 2 events!
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).
So, in all the online chatter about Netflix's Wednesday when it first came out, somehow it never crossed my timeline that Wednesday's dance uses choreography from the Tag Team music video made for the 1993 Addams Family Values film.
September 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So, in all the online chatter about Netflix's Wednesday when it first came out, somehow it never crossed my timeline that Wednesday's dance uses choreography from the Tag Team music video made for the 1993 Addams Family Values film.
So how is it possible that Saara El-Arifi published 5 books in 4 years and has another on the way?? I didn’t think anyone could frighten me more than R.F. Kuang! What are they drinking?
September 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So how is it possible that Saara El-Arifi published 5 books in 4 years and has another on the way?? I didn’t think anyone could frighten me more than R.F. Kuang! What are they drinking?
Why would the word be vicegerent instead of viceregent? 😞
September 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Why would the word be vicegerent instead of viceregent? 😞
Okay so apparently I have not written any short stories since Clarion West 2023.
Jezos.
Jezos.
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Okay so apparently I have not written any short stories since Clarion West 2023.
Jezos.
Jezos.
You’ve got to ask yourself sometimes, “Is it contradiction or is it nuance?”
September 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
You’ve got to ask yourself sometimes, “Is it contradiction or is it nuance?”
I am a bit epic fantasy trilogy-weary right now, I think.
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I am a bit epic fantasy trilogy-weary right now, I think.
When the book tells you about the typeface it’s set in >>>>>
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
When the book tells you about the typeface it’s set in >>>>>
I just learned the word “melismatic” & I love it!
September 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I just learned the word “melismatic” & I love it!
You would think somebody rearranged my insides last night but no. Leg day at the gym did this to me.
September 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
You would think somebody rearranged my insides last night but no. Leg day at the gym did this to me.
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The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors!
Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.
Jan 2026.
Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.
Jan 2026.
September 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors!
Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.
Jan 2026.
Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.
Jan 2026.