ergot. work of the day: 'Perverts' by Ethel Cain daughtersofcainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/perverts

Pearlescent Tickwad by Samir Sirk Morato "She doesn’t realize that she’s made of ticks until she gets her nipples pierced. This is a long time to live without revelation, but Yun-suk also lived without respect, agency, or pleasure until recently, so it isn’t that outlandish."

official post from Strange Horizons: x.com/strangehorizon…

goodbye david lynch

David Lynch—that’s a hard one

Never. Oh, never.Nothing will die. The stream flows, the wind blows, the cloud fleets, the heart beats.

2025 continues to provide awful surprises

i’ve never seen the beautiful freaks on this website so united in anything, even if it is in mourning. and i think that’s beautiful

In Heaven Everything is fine

Tomorrow on ergot.: a new marriage by the sea by J.F. Gleeson.

"The house stood upon the dunes. The house stood through some will contrary to wind and weather and wash off the nearby sea." Today on ergot.: 'Pearl' by J.F. Gleeson. ergot.press/authors/J_F_Gl…

"The mass went up the cliff, it messed down the ridge to the sea, it lubbed upon the ground. A bulk of it, birch-wide, lay across the ground and wended far up into the trees and out of sight." Today on ergot.: 'Pearl' by J.F. Gleeson ergot.press/authors/J_F_Gl…

Now reality is just off-brand Lynch

everything was already so stupid and mean but I don’t think we’re at all prepared for how stupid and mean things are about to become

gulfs & crags & roads & figs & snakes & peaks & lava & lizards & dirt & graves & goats & hills & snails & cacti & sheep

Chaotic flurry of executive orders coming out of the White House, not even sure who signed them, litmags are banned, microchip subsidies for BookTok but tax breaks for those who delete their unpublished novels, a literary Wild West is upon us

Submission tips: don't be like Cotton Harris. Don't send abusive cover letters.

I've hated Musk for a while but was able to ignore that he owned Twitter out of willful ignorance or privilege. So I kept the twitter account going for a while out of...I donno nostalgia or inertia or something. But this Nazi salute shit is unreal. So we're out of here.