#probably other genres

[rjalker]

okay let's do it this way. Each link goes to the story if it's still up on the original site, or to the surviving version on the wayback machine. These are all free to read, it looks like the site just isn't being maintained properly anymore :/

If you click the link and it leads to an error page after I make this post, copy and paste the url into the wayback machine on archive.org. You can also download the official wayback machine extension, which will automatically let you see the archived versions of a page.

Lonestar Stories.

oops they're in backwards order. sorry I'm not fixing that now.

I've only read one of them so the only warnings I have are for casual racism, misogyny, and ableism in Wolf Night by Martha Wells.

Nevermind another warning there's a giant swastika in the art for Die Rache by Steven Utley on a Nazi flag.

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Contributing Authors in alphabetical order. I would link to their wikipedia pages but tumblr said I can't have any more links in this post. I will Not be doing any research to see if any of these are pseudonyms.

Angela Boord

Barth Anderson

Beth Bernobich

Bruce Boston

Catherynne M. Valente

Cherie Priest

Chris Roberson

Danny Adams

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Deborah P. Kolodji

Greg van Eekhout

J. C. Runolfson

Jaime Lee Moyer

Jason Erik Lundberg

Jay Lake

Jeff VanderMeer

Jenn Reese

Jo Walton

Jon Hansen

Josh Roundtree

Josh Rountree

Karen A. Romanko

Karen L. Newman

Ken Scholes

Kevin Anderson

Lisa M. Bradley (poem not found)

Lynn Tentchoff

M. Thomas

Marge Simon

Marina Lee Sable

Martha Wells

Melissa Mar

Michael Kelly

Mikal Trimm

Mike Allen

Pam McNew

Samantha Henderson

Sanda McDonald

Sandra J. Lindow

Sandra McDonald

Sarah Monette

Sarah Prineas

Sherwood Smith

Stephanie Burgis

Steven Utley

Terrie Leigh Relf

William Goyen (story not found)

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Issue No. 16, August 1, 2006

Wolf Night by Martha Wells Angst in D Minor by Jenn Reese The Great Conviction of Tia Inez by M. Thomas Poetry: Keeping an eye out by Jo Walton Lost Waiters by Greg van Eekhout

Helen in the Underworld by Catherynne M. Valente

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Issue No. 15, June 1, 2006

A Night in Electric Squidland by Sarah Monette The Mountains of Key West by Sandra McDonald Wild Copper by Samantha Henderson Poetry: Circus by Jaime Lee Moyer Rasputin by Karen A. Romanko

Triptych: Three Views of the Capture of the City of Bisanthe by Samantha Henderson

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Issue No. 14, April 1, 2006

Hekaba's Demon by Sarah Prineas The Secret Life of Dave Driscoll by Jeff VanderMeer Thread: A Triptych by Catherynne M. Valente Poetry: Practical Zombies by Mike Allen and David C. Kopaska-Merkel Before I Was Born by Steven Utley

The Frog-Wife by Catherynne M. Valente

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Issue No. 13, February 1, 2006

10 Archetypes in 2000 Words by Cherie Priest Evergreen by Angela Boord Can't Buy Me Faded Love by Josh Rountree Poetry: I Build Engines by Bruce Boston Rosebed by J. C. Runolfson A Candlemass Poem by Jo Walton

Strange Pageantry by Jenn Reese

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Issue No. 12, December 1, 2005

A Lock of Ra by Sandra McDonald Maggie's Christmas List by Pam McNew Scales by Samantha Henderson Poetry: Is this the face? by Jo Walton Two Scifaiku by Deborah P. Kolodji Convolutions and Labyrinths by Marina Lee Sable

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Issue No. 11, October 1, 2005

The Hero and the Princess by Sherwood Smith Accident of Birth by Stephanie Burgis Four Clowns of the Apocalypse by Jay Lake Poetry: A Word before the Ice Wars by Bruce Boston Window on the world by Jaime Lee Moyer Every Thirty Years on Cygnus 5 by Samantha Henderson

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Issue No. 10, August 1, 2005

A Treatise on Fewmets  by Sarah Prineas

The Tailor and the Fairy by Samantha Henderson

Book of the Flagellants by Mikal Trimm

Poetry:

Now, While the Stars are Invisible by Danny Adams

Reincarnation in Andromeda by Deborah P. Kolodji

In Late December by Beth Bernobich

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The Hangman Isn't Hanging  by Jay Lake

No Mosquito is a God by Jon Hansen

A Good Hair Day in Anarchy by Ken Scholes

Poetry:

My Brother, He Has a Wonderful Thing by Pam McNew

Do Over by Karen L. Newman

Reptile Brain by Samantha Henderson

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The Heirs of Cenpa  by Sandra McDonald

Cicada by M. Thomas

Manuscript Found Written in the Paw Prints of a Stoat  by Samantha Henderson

Poetry:

In Retirement by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

The Art of Becoming  by Melissa Marr

it is the sky that calls to us by Terrie Leigh Relf

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Winged Victory  by Sarah Prineas

Maenad  by Angela Boord

Time, As Seen in a Merry-Go-Round Blur  by Michael Kelly

Poetry:

And We Shall Go A'Questing by Mikal Trimm

Little Dark Stupa Girl  by Pam McNew

The Ivory Lady by Samantha Henderson

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Giant  by Stephanie Burgis

The Artists Pentaptych  by Jason Erik Lundberg

Upstart  by Steven Utley

Poetry:

On Meeting the Surgeon by Melissa Marr

The Children's Crusade  by Karen A. Romanko

Stepping into the Role by Steven Utley

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The Ninth Arrest by Barth Anderson

Friday Night Gods  by Josh Rountree

Die Rache  by Steven Utley (this one has a swastika and a Nazi flag as the story art right at the top of the page.)

Poetry:

The Sipper's Wife by Sandra J. Lindow

The Castaway Bar:  1967  by Marge Simon

More Trouble by Steven Utley

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Crimson Mud, Drying Blood  by Jay Lake

With Stealth and Grace, The Hunter Roams  by Mikal Trimm

Mysterious Ways  by Steven Utley

Poetry:

Abduction by Samantha Henderson

The Weather Knows No Change  by Mikal Trimm

Cosmic Ignorance by Steven Utley

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Thorns by Martha Wells

Conjuring  by M. Thomas

Cool Rejection  by Josh Rountree

Poetry:

Frost on the Saddle by Mikal Trimm

Immobility  by Lisa M. Bradley (No link provided. I can't find it elsewhere.)

Medusa's End by Mikal Trimm

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Bad Medicine  by Martha Wells

The Angle of My Dreams  by Jay Lake

A Garden of Fists by Barth Anderson

Poetry:

Under the Farm by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Sun's Stroke  by Lisa M. Bradley (No link provided. I have spent 2 hours trying to find it online and cannot. Here's this at least. I have no money to buy the collection it was added to later.)

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Pax Agricola by Jay Lake

Ink Spot by Kevin Anderson

Wishes by Chris Roberson

Fiction from the Dead:

Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt by William Goyen (PDF on the Internet Archive from another collection. Only version I've found so far.)

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[ryllen]

no, but pinecones is really beautiful isn't it ?

[starbylers]

Finn Wolfhard being #1 M*leven anti for the 9483716 time he’s so me

Listen to this man’s voice he sounds so bored when he mentions the letter and as soon as the girl’s like oh you mean the fake letter? where she’s pretending? he’s instantly going “yeah yeah yeah exactly yes yes yeah” verbatim and starts making fun of Mike’s disconnect with El 😭 I just know he was thinking thank god there are people who get the letters weren’t a cute romantic thing and he doesn’t have to go along with any fawning

[starryeyed-seer]

me: I'm not a bat

Mr pages: (stuffing novels under its robe): I must abscond

[sgtprophet]

design of Magnus O'Puss bc idc he's iconic

[metanarrates]

hmm. there's something fascinating to me actually about how returnees are typically portrayed as arrogant in orv. I won't even say that's an inaccurate view of isekai protagonist characters, given my (limited) experience reading isekais, but orv does quite a lot of work in showing how tragically disposable certain types of stories are, and how upsetting that can be. it also does a lot to show power fantasies as being sympathetic things for people to experience. making returnees almost exclusively low-tier assholes means that orv misses out on what I think could be an interesting opportunity to portray a certain emotional experience. what if you think your story is the most important in the world, and the things you suffered were all justified in the end, only to discover that you have only ever been considered cheap entertainment and are ultimately disposable?

but there's an angle in orv's portrayal of Successful Returnees that makes it click well for me. the reason that jang hayoung is a failed returnee, and that this gang of low-tier assholes are successful, is because the successful ones have bought into the idea that everyone else's story is disposable, and can therefore be mere props in their paths to power, while jhy has not. her wall of impossible communication can block her from success in the system (initially) because it is what enables her to connect to others. once she learns how to leverage those connections she does of course start to transcend the system and become powerful, but initially, of course she can't Be an ideal returnee. because she does actually view other people as people and not as props. she doesn't even view herself as A Protagonist.

so, then. the ideal Protagonists who view their stories as uniquely special... it does make a good amount of sense for them to be immediately subjected to how little the system cares for them or their stories lol. become a prop in someone else's story posthaste! become an obstacle!

[waitineedaname]

i know it's just the trope of like. one true love/soulmates/"never loved someone before this person" but I find it very funny that in writing that trope, mxtx accidentally made all her protagonists read as very arospec

shen qingqiu? whole essays have been written about how he is absolutely on the ace spectrum, and i'd argue he's on the aro spectrum too for similar reasons. he's like "damn it would be difficult to get a girlfriend as the scum villain" and then proceeds to not really give a shit about that problem whatsoever. he's completely clueless about the fact that people are falling love with him left and right, does not even consider romance an option until luo binghe straight up kisses him on the mouth. i think in general attraction for him is kinda muddy and it would be hard to neatly label the affection he feels for binghe as one thing or the other. i do firmly believe that if you plucked romance out of the equation, he and lbh would still be attached at the hip because their dynamic is a mess that isn't exclusively romantic

wei wuxian? the most demiromantic motherfucker i've ever seen. he knew lan wangji for HOW LONG before he realized he was in love with him??? he was very clearly obsessed with lwj from the start, but it likely started as "this guy is fun to provoke and I want his attention" rather than romantic attraction (as opposed to lan wangji who was attracted to him from the start and Very Mad About It) and I think it took wwx so long to figure out his feelings because it genuinely just took a long time for those feelings to develop from something platonic (and a little physical) to something romantic, and I think that development came about because he realized just how much he could trust and rely on lwj

as for xie lian, im only on book five, but so far my assessment of him seems to be that for 800 years he was like "this chastity shit is easy" and now he's suddenly experiencing attraction for the first time and he's like "whoa. okay. well I'll deal with that later once i'm done dealing with the horrors"

[bizarrobrain]

R.I.P. Steve Albini (July 22nd 1962 - May 7th 2024)

[funzige-gedachten]

One thing i particularly enjoy about souvenir pop is 80s sound which i also talked about concerning Stephanie. I hear it in lips and mesto duhov aswell, these have an almost post-punk like sound (and Stephanie sounds more new wave to me). And i THOROUGHLY enjoy this. I think it was Nace who mentioned that he really enjoyed the synth-y 80s sounds and that they were playing around with that and i am SO very thankful for that i am LIVING.

[cavejebus]

searching industrial metal on google be like

(click on it for better quality lmao)

[thebroccolination]

As someone who has never been interested in vampires, I am extremely excited for BounPrem's vampire series.

It's partially because I love BounPrem, sure, but it's mostly because I respect the amount of very professional research and preparation Boun has committed to the role over the past several years.

I just think his artistry should be honored by my diligent attention.

Boun is a professional vampire fetishist, and that man will neck like no man has ever necked before.

[cyrantelnovapaleorayeeso]

"i dont see what ppl see in the lore its so boring"

shuffles my feet around, most ppl talking about the lore are exclusively talking about love nikki and shining nikki, the two games most ppl started the series with and have been around longer so theyve had time to explore their stories

now granted im assuming this person has only played infinity nikki, if not then hey not everyone is gonna like/care for the lore thats just how it is with video games

i havent spent too much time with infinity nikki bc i move at a snails pace and only play a little bit at a time so i cant say much on its lore

but these games tend to slowly move towards the more out there lore ok you gotta wait like a year before someone dies off

its also a gacha game so ur not getting all the lore at once ok they gotta have reason to keep ppl coming back and playing

[paskuda-lynx]

Now this is the weird cartoon I'd watch.

There would be some very questionable humor, screaming (and i kinda really miss Hunter's screeches from the second season. He was GREAT while raising his voice, no matter what anybody can say about it being annoying), grotesque episode scenarios, cool uniforms and much else!

[leojurand]

i'm 60% into busman's honeymoon (enjoying it immensely) and it's so refreshing to read about a couple who adore each other and have endless chemistry, who follow each other's thoughts because they're both witty and intelligent... a couple who you read about and think, yeah, i get why they're together and why they're in love!

i'm allergic to m/f usually both because i prefer gay shit and because so many authors put zero effort into writing the romance in their novels (this is especially true in speculative fiction, from my experience). but when i read a romance like this it's really like wow. maybe i'm not as heterophobic as i thought maybe i just want a good fucking romance!! an amazing discovery

also, for the love of god, we need more married couples in fiction. i love slow burns and will-they-won't-theys as much as anyone else but. give me more husbands and wives. AND also exes

[broken-clover]

Thinking about it, Bedman sorta fits into a similar archetype as the Digimon Emperor. Too-smart-for-his-own good bratty nerd who still somehow manages to be tricked by a bigger antagonist into thinking the world is a game that they can play god, and you don't really have any friends but your boss says you're just so smart and special so do you really need any anyway?

Except whoopsie you were actually just a pawn all along. Have fun reflecting on all the fucked up stuff you did (possibly right before you die) and try not to worry about the copious amounts of hangups you have toward your missing sibling that led you into doing this in the first place its fiiiine

[thatthirstyweirdo]

JULIE JOYFUL RWAAAAAA

Finally I drew Julie, my baby!! I enjoy her quite a lot and these are the outfits I think she’ll be performing in my au. I mentioned it before in a post that she’s in a band “Joyous!” with her siblings. Might as well say a bit about the lore, basically everyone from the “Welcome Home” cast left Home and ventured into the Real World. Kinda similar to how Barbie leaves her toy world in the movie. So yeah pretty much everyone started their own music career, but Eddie and Frank started a talk show together.