So Mayer
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. TRUTH & DARE out now with @cipherpress.bsky.social 💘 SPACE CRONE (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 💜 Website & newsletter: somayer.net.
- Serious case of "they took all the trees and put them in a tree museum / and everybody paid a dollar and a half just to see 'em / don't it always seem to go..."
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- Srsly!
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- Starm und drang
- This paper has everything: Lord of the Rings typeface subheader, the word chirographic (handwriting as centaur?!) & a beautiful meditation on how we work with fragments & how they haunt us, whatever archives we're in.
- there’s no greater high than having the exact right number of books for an event and strutting out of there empty handed. nothing else comes close
- Done, done & DONE! No boxes, no bishops, no kings!
- AI, like transphobia, anti-migrant hate & Zionism, is a fascist politic.
- trump fired the director of the U.S. Copyright Office after a report raised concerns about the use of copyrighted material in AI training techcrunch.com/2025/05/11/t...
- I know it's some Wall St code or something but as a non-money person to me it looks like his calling himself Strump -- Strumpet? Strumpelstiltskin? Also Schtroumpf! (Original name for the Smurfs.)
- Yeahyeahyeah now I'm gna have to write a story called Strumpelstiltskin...
- The big book that matters!!! If you haven't read THE EIGHTH LIFE (co-translated by the same dream team), you still have time to get to that EPIC of matrilineal cursed chocolate & artmaking before THE LACK OF LIGHT drops... treat yourself.
- BIG BOOK klaxon: this 725pp epic will be out in September, translated by @cctranslates.bsky.social and me. More info here: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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- 😭😭😭 you've made my day! I'll share to the Burley Fisher team bc we're all huge stans.
- @dances-with-voles.bsky.social will Pushkin be publishing THE LACK OF LIGHT in the UK? Asking so I can sort my Xmas gifts for everyone I know ;)
- I think I'd rather teach arts & manatees
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- Time to re-read Lauren Redniss's wonderful graphic oral history Oak Flat www.laurenredniss.com/oak-flat
- Don't buy books on Amazon reason #45760234 They might be pirated copies of books that were *withdrawn before publication*!
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- Ooooh baby do you know what that's worth? Ooooh Heaven is a place on Earth Finally made it to Paperxclips & yeah it's everything. Books in hand: El Ghourabaa: A Queer & Trans Collection of Oddities @metonymypress.bsky.social & Grand Slam Romance 1 @abramscomicarts.bsky.social
- El Ghourabaa is shortlisted for a Leslie Feinberg Award!! bsky.app/profile/meto...
- An Australian YA novel whose name I can't remember where the call is coming from inside the house but it's OK (supposedly) bc it's not the mean girls, it's the protagonist's stalker/"boyfriend" and it's romantic really. Leaving her notes saying "I am the song you hear before you sleep." Ugh no.
- I mean the Torah had upset me long before that book, but its trashy thrall lingers still -- it set me up to be completely immune to Jane Eyre & every other groomer cishet narrative sold as "romantic."
- Caught by the full moon rising over Slemish (aka St Patrick's Seat) last night. Also dreamed a few hours later that a witch pushed a ghost (a rectangle of shimmering nothingness) into my torso. Woken with a pounding heart by a donkey braying mournfully over the road.
- Extreme bluebell glow in Creagh Woods. Didn't see any pine martens but did hear a very determined cuckoo. Looked into a holy well by a wishing stone on the way back. Excited to see who visits my dreams tonight.
- Add UK-US trade deal + the oh so coincidental defeat of the copyright amendment (+ odious Mosley spawn Palantiring on TV today) = we've been sold. bsky.app/profile/theb...
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- A classic on a classic: iupress.org/978025302135...
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- MUJI seamless hair bands. Even my wire hair that breaks clips & bands cannot repel them.
- Crying w relief at the realisation that I have always been & forever will be Skinner.
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- Even Gillian would struggle...
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- We need the down to fight!
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- Oooooooh! Must have been winning at cons!
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- I used to worry I was Mulder but I think I've been Skinner all along. I think you def still have that Scully glow!
- Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu--
- NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI. The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard. futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
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- "Ravel" 💞
- An amazing thread about the long tradition of authors considering themselves gatherers & compilers as well as originators. Or perhaps that every author through history has named many versions of their work final_final_final_use this one_addition_def final dot doc.
- "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." Paul Valéry (def a canonical "Hey I know we're going to print but I just want to change this comma" guy).
- A reminder that COPPER SCRIPT comes out on 29th May, which is less than three weeks. Get your stroppy graphologist ❤️ uptight policeman 1920s romantic suspense here! (Will be coming in print and audio too, audio a bit later.) books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
- Ok but now I want a T-shirt that says "Stroppy Graphologist"
- With a pic of some grilled halloumi.
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- Very helpful and coherent review.
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- INCREDIBLE. Thank you! A project taking shape here too via Greenham Common, Cecilia Vicuña, tatreez & ofc Ursula K. Le Guin. Enheduana feels like the key!
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- Question coming from conversation I had about textiles & feminist cultural production yesterday: do you have a source for Enheduana and/or any sense around the word she used for "quilter" (apparently some controversy around what quilting is in textiles community!)... Appreciated as ever.
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- Marjane Satrapi says maybe!
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- I don't even know if it was released in the UK! Probably only in video & Blockbuster didn't carry it. I will make an extra large bucket of popcorn & have a nostalgic experience.
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- I'm really flashing back on a four hour session of rewatching the video and analysing the narrative & its relation to the lyrics with my best friend when we were maybe 12. It seemed so dark & mysterious, almost a precursor to Laura Palmer's diary... wow, flooding back!
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- Apparently it's a boy.
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- I will seek it out... (I'm also now so earwormed.)
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- Wow I'd always wondered where the narrative of this video came from!
- It's been about leaving the ECHR since May was home sec. They just fucking HATE it. They hate workers' rights, equality, access, all of it. They hate us.
- And ofc schismatically an Oxford pope.
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- Just reading this post by Cecilia Vicuña today! (On poetry foundation).
