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J. Y. Zhang

@jyzh.bsky.social

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sentient entity + occasional writer of words trying and failing and trying again https://linktr.ee/jyzhang

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 11h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 7d

nice

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 7d

if not i had my fun raging at cursor lol

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 7d

it is still sep 30th in some part of the world...right? 🌚
#AugurMicros2025 @augursociety.bsky.social

Words in code IDE esque colors:

ThinkBetter-5.0 MCP Beta Release Notes

Copyright © 2027 BetterLife Systems, LLC

With ThinkBetter-5.0, we are excited to introduce integrated AI-context into the BetterLife BodyWatch™ app suite. This script unlocks core 5.0 functionalities, enabling agentic connectivity to RealRecollections™, BetterBiometrics™, and EasyEMG™.

Let me update your packages! Run command?
TBCli —trust-experimental-features —use-admin get_latest
↳ [REJECT] [ACCEPT]

Reading 09_2027_memo_event.hist...
Reading user.ics...

I noticed your anniversary is coming up. Let me dive deeper into the context of your relationship...
Verifying FamilyHub credentials...
Reading Fiona.bl...

Great! I found a gift for Fiona. Purchase?

“Our Adventures” Personalized Photo Album Christmas Wedding Valentines Gift
↳ [REJECT] [ACCEPT]

J. Y. Zhang

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 14d

ok, i need to stop posting on bluesky only when i am crashing out i promise i am a normal entity

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 14d

the q is at which point do we call it and strip the carpet for hardwood

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 14d

juggling writing The Novel and writing short fiction is like juggling a carton of eggs...all the eggs are falling...its time to invest in commercial grade carpet cleaner i fear

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 14d

remember that there is still agency in this. every day you wake up in the washwater light of dawn does not the happen of its own accord. this is you choosing again to live. so boil water for tea. so fix your tie while you wait. you have chosen; so live, understanding your choice.

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 14d

you either write the words or succumb to the Grind, you either write the words or, more than the hours on the clock, you've given up your heart and that's not ok that's gonna ruin the world tour bro

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 14d

gotta write the book gotta write the book gotta get my head outta the cookie jar and start writing the book ahhhhhh

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 15d

shit i tell myself debugging at 4am

Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 15d

I can still fix it.

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 20d

TORONTO PEEPS!

Heartlines Spec is going to be at Word on the Street! We'll be selling ALL THE SWAG: magazines, art prints, stickers, pins, and patches ❤️

Visit us! Say hi! Maybe buy something cute?

WOTS is 100% free to attend. Learn more at toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca

#TorontoWOTS #WOTS2025

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 19d

i need to lock in like u fr

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 20d

highlights include: my imaginary friends from gr 7 that i have somehow not given up on 💀, a mafia au of my current wip, murderbot diaries meets zankyou no terror meets queens gambit (wtf does this mean, i have no idea either)

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 20d

it's almost spooky season and that means all my incomplete wips haunt me

google docs is becoming a mausoleum at this point

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 20d

literally made negative process since 2023 lesgoooo

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 20d

my short fiction writing process: so yeah anyway i sat down for 24 hrs straight and wrote le thing
my novel writing process: ok so like first we write the 15k character study, restart, write 30k, overhaul the premise, restart, write 30k, overhaul the premise...

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 20d

omg its me >:)
ty for sharing my witch story 🪄

Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 21d

FFer Read of the Day: "White Smoke from the West" by @jyzh.bsky.social in @heartlines-spec.com

www.heartlines-spec.com/white-smoke-...

White Smoke from the West

White Smoke from the West by J. Y. Zhang

www.heartlines-spec.com

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 24d

how tf do ppl write and hold day jobs at the same time bro this is killing me

J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · Sep 7

i loved this story and now i miss my dog T_T

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Augur Microfiction Contest is BACK for 2025 🏆 until Sep 30!

THE THEME: We want microfiction that bursts open the futures we need to see 🌌 show us the who/what/where of your tomorrows!

More info below ⬇️ and in our bio!

A purple background with a galaxy and birds flying in front of it. A four pointed star is on the top of the image with text below. The text reads: "augur society, Microfiction Contest, stories for the futures we need." A purple bar beneath the text has a symbol of an arrow inside a circle with the text "swipe for guidelines" to the right of it. A darker purple bar at the bottom of the image reads "Enter by September 30, 2025"

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

are you ready for some big news?

WE ARE OPEN

for BIPOC subs for issue 100!

and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body

💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖

find out more here:

psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

updated September 2, 2025

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 25

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

Space Unicorn!

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · Aug 15

stumbling into work on Friday like 🦑🌀

There's just TWO WEEKS (+ two days, don't worry fellow procrastinators I got you) to submit your flash fiction! The theme is DEEP SEA. You have until the end of the month to submit!

www.patreon.com/posts/august...

a computer screen shows a jellyfish with a depth of 3056.4 m

Alt: research camera footage of a very flat gangly deep sea squid getting tossed around by the ocean currents (giving "do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind" vibes but a squid)

media.tenor.com

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 9

PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb

Space Unicorn!