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Writer, Editor, Poet, Nerd. She/Her. AKA kjc@postdiluvian, kjc@apocalypse, kjc@rutgers, Das Waif, Tragically Hip Waif, Kafka Dreams
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Just putting it out there, if you're the person who suggested frying an egg in pesto, you are a friggin genius and I thank you.
My top 3 reads of 2025:
_My Murder_ SC by Katie Williams, sci-fi about a woman who was murdered. Her body was cloned and memory duplicated and so she was brought back. Weird and clever and heartfelt.
_Hemlock and Silver_ by T. Kingfisher; fantasy and horror and mystery with callbacks to Snow White and _Alice in Wonderland_.
_Uprooted_ by Naomi Novik. Long, interesting fantasy tale of a girl taken by a dragon, but nothing is as it seems.
Yours?
DJM (freelance for hire)I am a grown-up. I buy what I want with my own money...
Listen, if you're going to come into my dreams without introducing yourself & just start complaining about the price of weed gummies & who gets a discount at the dispensary, I'm going to wake up, roll over, & switch to another dream.
Nobody's got time for your bullshit, lady, not in this realm or any other.
Martin SeegerUpdated "greek task list":
orphean task: when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.
daedalean task: when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.
medusan task: when your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.
tantaline task: when success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.
pandoran task: when fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.
odyssean task: when the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.
narcissian task: when the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.
promethean task: when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.
orestian task: when the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.
thesean task: when the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.
achillean task: when your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.
penelopean task: when you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.
midasean task: when everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.
gordian task: not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.
Steve GisselbrechtThis is lovely. I'm grateful I didn't have to almost die to figure out that life is to be lived.
(Bonus #MiscellaneousCuteGuy content.)
Cat HicksThis is just unreal
mRNA vaccines are going to be a turning point in human history if we're ever allowed to fucking do science again in this country
HTTP 1.1/418 TeapotWith self-crashing cars in the news again, I think it’s a good time to post a link to Sarah Gailey’s excellent story “STET”, which unfolds through the editorial notes and footnotes.
https://firesidefiction.com/stet
(Content note: discusses death of a child)
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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