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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
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Putting the hater in creator. Stories in Strange Horizons, BCS, khōreo, more. Host of @podside-picnic.bsky.social. He/Him
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Have you read my latest? Doodle unrelated
Silhouette of a person with their back to us, standing before several pale "flower buds" turning towards him. He's raising a hand to one of the larger buds. Overhead, lambent eyes are overlaid
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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With "Blanquitos" being a late bloomer (pun intended), I can now make my Eligibility Post:

If you're reading for awards, please consider these two stories.

FYI even if you're not voting for awards, I'd be honored if you read these (links to follow)
Karlo Yeager Rodríguez Eligibility 2025 Short Fiction: A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like a Shadow - Cold Signal Magazine #3 Blanquitos - Typebar Magazine #8
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, to everyone, but ESPECIALLY to this lil guy, who I managed to get into a rescue on a cold Turkey Day
Very small and fluffy black kitten, huddled against 40º F weather on my porch and looking hopefully at my door
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Cartoon of two people on a bus, a happy passenger labeled "Brazil" looks out at a beautiful sunrise. A sad passenger labeled "US" looks at the dark and rocky side of a mountain
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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At war with. . . The Sun?

Soon, we'll be beholden to the Heirodules and their Pelagic Argosies, establish the Council of 17. . .
Headline: Hegseth says terror designation provides Pentagon with 'new options' to go after Venezuela's Cartel de los Soles
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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With the shutdown, I had forgotten that it's Puerto Rican Heritage Month. Great month to sell a story about Puerto Rico in @typebarmagazine.bsky.social
A psychedelically colored picture of ghost pipe flowers, labeled "Coming Soon: the TropiWeirdest of my TropiWeird stories in Typebar Magazine"
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Making me remember Fishtopher: "to be loved is to be changed" 🥹
Fishtopher, an older tabby cat, in before and after pictures. In the first he's huddled sadly in the far corner of his enclosure at the shelter. In the next, he is bright eyed and happy a month after being adopted and cared for
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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One of my favorite episodes of Legion
An enormous tuning fork on the desert horizon
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Saw that writers were sharing their first lines to convince people to buy their novels, and you know what? I just want to share the first line of my last short story simply because I think it rocks
Excerpt: The first I heard of the abandoned neighborhood was from Arturo on one of those endless summer evenings between 6th and 7th grade when the streetlights are just ting-ting-tinging to life overhead.
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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We replaced our old sofa that had started sagging in the middle a while ago, which had deprived me of important sofa time with this old girl
Biz - a black lab mix with lots of white on her about and paws - sleeping soundly alongside me on the sofa
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Surely the GOP will let Good Ol' Chuck kick the football THIS time!!
Lucy Van Pelt, from Peanuts, smiling and holding a football to be kicked
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Families getting ready to carve up their Trumpgiving dinner this year
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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nw (for @podside-picnic.bsky.social)
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The pumpkining begins
A large pumpkin, top cut off already, on some newspapers lining. A bowl next to it contains pulp and seeds that have been scooped out
October 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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@casella.bsky.social thanks for pointing me towards yet another Weird Voyage book
The cover of the novel North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Didn't realize the menswear guy was tuckerized in Cahokia Jazz
Excerpt from Cahokia Jazz, by Francis Spufford: "What would he have been wearing?" [the train station's booking clerk] asked, with a quelling glance. [Detective] Barrow covered Sammy's body with his hand, so only the grinning rat-like face showed. "Cheap suit, probably a hat with some kind of loud band around it," he said. "Oh yes," said a middle-age male clerk with a fastidious air. "I remember *him*. Positively garish. Orange stripes around the hat, and a tie to match. I noticed him because the outfit was *not* refined, or first-class in any way, and yet he bought a Pullman ticket. Which is not the usual combination. He was very pleased with himself. What do you want him for, crimes against fashion?"
October 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The White House was a *checks notes* Democrat program
The demolished East Wing of the White House, ordered by Trump. A backhoe is in the foreground, working through the wreckage
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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As proof that we live in a Weird reality: finished the delightfully askew "The Shamshine Blind" (pictured below) which I found and checked out from the library because I recognized @pazsays.bsky.social as one of my friends from Online
October 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I'm sorry but this came to me as I woke up this morning and I had to get it out
A bullfrog, submerged but for its head in the water, captioned with "they're turning the frogs antifa"
October 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The fact that TPUSA doesn't let you opt-out of their fundraising and promotional texts (freedom of choice, baybee!!!) makes me wonder if this isn't all just a grift and they'll end up being apologetic about not doing it for some made-up reason
TPUSA's survey question regarding an alternate Superbowl halftime show: "What music genres would you like to see featured? Anything in English (circled and with 'lol' commentary by me) Americana Classic Rock Country Hip Hop Pop Worship Disclaimer on TPUSA's "All-American Halftime Show" survey: By clicking yes, you agree to receive recurring automated promotional & fundraising texts from Turning Point at the cell number above. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Reply HELP for help & STOP to cancel. Text frequency varies-Text & data rates apply This is followed by the 'yes' checkbox and a button labeled 'Submit' - with no opt-out options"
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Didn't know this, but it makes perfect sense (and is a great "rule" to live by, writing in fantastical modes): sometimes a typo or mistranslation can create an even more compelling story - if you let it
Excerpt from The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari, Chapter 9, The Creative Mistake: ". . . A magnificent example of the creative mistake can be found, according to American folklorist Stith Thompson (The Folktale), in Charles Perrault's 'Cinderella': the slipper, which in the original. . ." Excerpt from The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari, Chapter 9, The Creative Mistake (continued): ". . . oral tradition was supposed to be made out of fur ('vaire' in French), was changed only by fortunate accident into glass ('verre'). And a glass slipper is certainly more fantastic than any fur slipper, and far more suggestive, even if it stemmed from a case of mistaken identity or an error in transcription. . ."
October 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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@wendyxu.bsky.social you inspired a doodle
Hornet from Silksong holding her Needle
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Trump and the rest of the conservative warrior class, after the scary UN escalator
The group crying scene from Midsomar, with Dani in the center of a group of other women, all crying sympathetically with her
September 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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What a delightfully relevant passage for today

(From Gianni Rodari's "The Grammar of Fantasy")
A passage from Rodari's Background chapter, ending with the selected phrase: I hope that this small volume will prove useful to all those who believe it is necessary for the imagination to have a place in education, who have faith in the creativity of children, and who know the liberating value of the word. 'All possible uses of words for all people' - this seems to me a good motto, with a nice democratic sound. Not because everyone is an artist, but because no one is a slave."
September 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I, who have pined after Alex Winters' amazing jacket in The Lost Boys, can fully understand this story
Alex Winters,.wearing a colorful and high collared jacket that seems to be more sewn-on patches than jacket
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM