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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · 23d

Hello bookworms of Toronto! If you love literary trivia, supporting publishing professionals of colour, and correcting someone when they’re wrong, come check out Um, Actually trivia night, hosted by BIPOC of Publishing in Canada (and co-emceeed by me)! www.eventbrite.ca/e/um-actuall...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · Aug 28

Matter Over Mind: @feidong.bsky.social reviews R.F. Kuang's KATABASIS, out this week from @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social!

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Matter Over Mind: Review of R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis

Fei Dong Under Review:Katabasis. R. F. Kuang. Harper Voyager, August 2025. In her best-selling novel Babel, R. F. Kuang wrote of how the ivory towers of the academy are entwined with the work of wo…

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Jul 7

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨

We want your books.

So we can acquire them.

And print them.

For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨

Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words.

Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread.

Pass it on 👀

Augur press novella and novelette submissions now open! Be a part of augur press’ debut line up. We’re looking for works from 12,500-40,000 words to launch as print books in 2027-2029. Canadian & international authors welcomed. Open July 6-August 30. Guidelines at augursociety.org/press-submissions.

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Aug 9

New book review on my Substack! In The Dragonfly Gambit, A.D. Sui hones grand, dramatic prose to their sharpest potential, deftly manages a paradoxical, cat-and-mouse power struggle.

Two Truths At Once: Review of The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui

A thousand-year intergalactic empire, a twenty-year war, and a revenge plot ten years in the making—how does A.D. Sui pack it all in a 142-page novella?

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reg @redgi.bsky.social · Jun 5

A little something in between commission work and projects: enjoying #heygirliegame (even though I'm unfamiliar with #d20)

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issy ❄️ (play hey girlie game!) @thelongestwalk.bsky.social · May 26

I had the honor of being Lucy Frostblade’s sprite artist in #heygirliegame and fell head over heels 💘 please check out the game if you haven’t already, link is below!

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · May 26

a new substack essay about writing for the fan-made lesbian dating sim #heygirliegame (set in the world of dimension 20’s fantasy high), the parasocial tendencies of readers, and why i’ll never use chatgpt.

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · May 16

ONE MORE DAY!

Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 22

hello dimension 20 fans of bsky, there’s less than a month until #heygirliegame, the fan-made kristen applebees dating sim visual novel, drops on itch.io on may 17. check us out!

raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie

Hey, Girlie! by ray 蕭, pysics, ffffrogs, dearheartling, diane, Kelpipop

A Fan-Made Kristen Applebees Dating Sim

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · May 14

who did this

A screenshot from Genius.com breaking down the lyrics of Lisa Gilroy's freestyle Sam diss track 'Fuck You Sam'.

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · May 5

It really says something about me that I got really excited about finding a Substack dedicated to Microsoft word macros

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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · Apr 29

happy Pierre Poilievre Is Unemployed Day to all observing 🥳

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 22

from all the girlies (gender neutral) at work on team gertie, see y’all at basrar’s 😉

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 22

hello dimension 20 fans of bsky, there’s less than a month until #heygirliegame, the fan-made kristen applebees dating sim visual novel, drops on itch.io on may 17. check us out!

raddishradish.itch.io/hey-girlie

Hey, Girlie! by ray 蕭, pysics, ffffrogs, dearheartling, diane, Kelpipop

A Fan-Made Kristen Applebees Dating Sim

raddishradish.itch.io

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · Apr 19

love BETWEEN TWO FIRES! very Dark Souls energy with some neat deep cut medieval Christian nonsense

Brockton Writers Series @brocktonwriters.bsky.social · Apr 19

Here are some #bookrecs from our March BWS readers Stephanie Cesca, @marionagnew.bsky.social, @meakoopa.bsky.social, and @inkstainedwreck.bsky.social

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 18

when reading this queer SFF dystopian, me and a friend both thought, “yeah, yeah, the mecha fights are cool, but can we get back to people sitting around a room talking about politics? thanks!” and the Heavenly Tyrant replied, “YES!” #BookReview

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Raising the Stakes: Review of Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

From Iron Widow to Heavenly Tyrant, Wu Zetian goes from "fucks around" to "finds out."

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 5

36 pages into SOTR and I’m already crying.

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Apr 5

Finished Heavenly Tyrant. Time for Sunrise on the Reaping.

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Mar 31

listening to this on repeat while I think about Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots

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The Water Is Fine

Chloe Ament · Daisies · Song · 2021

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Editorial Freelancers Association @efafreelancers.bsky.social · Mar 31

"Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the disproportionate levels of poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces compared to cisgender people."
text: glaad.org/tdov/
image: blackrj.org

Image is from Black Women Reproductive Justice. Pink background with International #TransDayOfVisibility hashtag at the top and a pink, light blue, and white flag in the middle

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Mar 21

these 2 bad bitched have been neck and neck for a week. as soon as I finish both, it’s sunrise on the reaping time.

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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · Mar 20

If you’ve published a book — enter your name… www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Mar 19

Mickey 17 is a really fun and great movie! It is also a movie that was really sure Trump was gonna lose the election, which, as I was watching it, made me think “Oh I’m not watching a dystopian movie. I’m living in the dystopia — the movie’s the escape.”

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Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Mar 18

What does “gender equality” look like in such a militaristic, colonial world?

It’s not just “well I think women can be soldiers too,” is it.

Fei Dong @feidong.bsky.social · Mar 18

not even in a “I’m not like other girls” kind of way, but it truly questions the systematic forces that socializes/oppresses women, then the messy imperfect work of undoing that system

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