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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 9m

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 31m

Nothing in the Basement is now available on Kindle (and Kindle Unlimited)! But somehow it has been misfiled as for ages 12-18. (Working on fixing this.) I don't think it would be traumatizing for someone that age, but I don't think it would make much sense to them.

www.amazon.com/Nothing-Base...

Nothing in the Basement

Nothing in the Basement [Stott, Romie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nothing in the Basement

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 2d

Poets! I'm re-running for @sfpoetry.bsky.social Treasurer, and I'd love your vote!

Once again, I'm running unopposed (other than the Write-in option... or Wrong-in, amirite??), but I'd love your vote entrusting me with SFPA'S finances. We have exciting things on the horizon!

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 2d

Poets! I'm re-running for @sfpoetry.bsky.social Treasurer, and I'd love your vote!

Once again, I'm running unopposed (other than the Write-in option... or Wrong-in, amirite??), but I'd love your vote entrusting me with SFPA'S finances. We have exciting things on the horizon!

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 2d

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

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Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social · 6d

NEW FICTION:
"Earth to Echo" by @kcselbywrites.bsky.social
#SFF #flashfiction
flashpointsf.com/2025/10/03/e...

Earth to Echo

Echo might be the only robot who didn’t welcome the apocalypse.

flashpointsf.com

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 8d

It's here!

The second annual Celebrate Discovery Fanzine is available for free: ko-fi.com/s/d366512954

It contains 40 pages of fanfic, art, poetry, essays, games, and quotes from our favorite #StarTrek airing sonce 2017.

Check it out!

Celebrate Disco Zine 2025 - Jordan La Fordan's Ko-fi Shop

A 40-page PDF you can read digitally or print yourself! Full of fanfic, essays, photos, games, poems, and quotes from Star Trek series airing from 201...

ko-fi.com

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Winners

The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨

Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 8d

Some of it is on ao3!

archiveofourown.org/works/460914...

A Torchbearer Can Also Be a Lighthouse - Chapter 1 - JordanLaFordan - Star Trek: Discovery [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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🌕🐺 Wolfmanda Wentz 🐺🌕 @ajwentz.com · 8d

Star Trek friends! Do you cry when you watch Those Old Scientists? Do Una, Rutherford, La’an, and Uhura reflect something you see within yourself? Then you might enjoy my poems in Celebrate Discovery!

This fan zine curated by @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social contains fic, poetry, puzzles, & love of Trek.

Celebrate Disco Zine 2025 - Jordan La Fordan's Ko-fi Shop

A 40-page PDF you can read digitally or print yourself! Full of fanfic, essays, photos, games, poems, and quotes from Star Trek series airing from 201...

ko-fi.com

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 8d

It's here!

The second annual Celebrate Discovery Fanzine is available for free: ko-fi.com/s/d366512954

It contains 40 pages of fanfic, art, poetry, essays, games, and quotes from our favorite #StarTrek airing sonce 2017.

Check it out!

Celebrate Disco Zine 2025 - Jordan La Fordan's Ko-fi Shop

A 40-page PDF you can read digitally or print yourself! Full of fanfic, essays, photos, games, poems, and quotes from Star Trek series airing from 201...

ko-fi.com

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 9d

Can't sleep - #StarTrek Zine drops tomorrow!

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you! And yes - strong FEELINGS. Nearly all my fanfic is Ash-centered 😅

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

There's so much more I could say (I haven't even me toned Ash Tyler), but I'll end with this before I go to sleep:

I love #StarTrekDiscovery. I wish I could thank everyone involved for all they've given me.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

And in many ways, I'm still processing what all season 5 means to me - from attending the premiere in NYC, to Airiam's emotional return, to my Captain becoming my Admiral. I've only watched it through twice - it still hurts that it ended.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

If you've seen my cosplay, you know my love for President Rillak and her leadership through my favorite first contact story of all time. They went big, and they nailed it. There's no way to describe the hope that finale makes me feel.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

I'll never forget the moment Michael scanned for life in the opening of season 3. I'll never forget when we found out the Federation had been gone for over a century. I'll never forget Michael's long journey to the Captain's chair finally coming to fruition.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

After losing my mom at a young age, feeling so much guilt about not being there with her when she died, seeing Michael get her mom back in a very real, very unpolished exchange moved me in a way nothing else could. I decided in that moment that I'd be a fan for the rest of my days.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

Disco was the Trek I didn't know I needed. During a time when so much of my own understanding of the world was being up-ended, shaking my identity to the core, watching Michael Burnham go through that was healing.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

Fast forward to January 2020, I was gifted a CBS All-Access annual subscription for my birthday so I could watch Star Trek: Picard. After season 1 ended, I decided to give Star Trek: Discovery a chance.

And I never looked back.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

Eight years ago, I had no idea my favorite show was premiering on CBS All-Access. I'd seen news of a new Trek show but was working two jobs and applying to grad schools - plus, I refused to pay to watch it on principle.

#StarTrekDiscovery

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 14d

Needed this today.

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 15d

Big congrats!!

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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 16d

Makes me sick - not surprised, but sick.

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