There are days I’m proud I went down swinging and days I’m ready to hang all of this up. Gonna go touch grass and enjoy some unnaturally warm winter sunshine. Happy Black History Month y'all.

In the meantime, FIYAH fam, please know I’m reaching out to these busters on your behalf. I encourage ALL authors to search their work. I’m really curious if your summary aligns with your piece. (Mine didn’t.) @jenny8lee.bsky.social idk if you’re still around, but shame on you for this mess.

Other SFF publications include @asimovssfmag.bsky.social @tordotcom.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com. The OG Dark Matter anthology is here. Some records link to what I presume are pirating sites for download?? Here's an example from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction:

SFF markets are not lucrative. We’re on the wrong side of an impossible margin. This shit does not get us exposure nor help us pay authors. Shitty summaries do a disservice to authors’ work (of course there’s a subscription tier.)

(IDK if I can't download just bc I don't have a site account.) The Writing Atlas is (or has a framework in place for) stealing authors’ work. There’s a fucking FIYAH collection on the site. Shame on whoever is contributing w/o author consent, and on the site for allowing it in the first place.

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Awwww thanks for reading! I'm proud of how it came out