c. m. fields 🍉

queer and anti-capitalist writer • SFWA • editor @IfTheresAnyone • she/they • words in Clarkesworld, Diabolical Plots, Neon Hemlock • rep’d by @pande_literary

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my January @clarkesworld story is available as a podcast now! check out “You Dream of the Hive,” my personal introspection of gender, technology, and space capitalism https://t.co/veS3OapWrW

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for someone whose gender is Sentient Machine i sure do fucking hate AI

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@story_magician thank you!!

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the book i spent 2.5 years writing and recently completed has to undergo a second round of peer review bc a reviewer complained that i said a fantasy language has a certain number of words* and now because that was “critical” it has triggered a months-long second round

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@alexis_writes1 yoooo

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@see_starling that’s literally so fucking sick i remember reading my signed copy all at once and being like this is gonna be a classic one day

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@twinsunsfour 🥰🥰!

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turned in the complete and final manuscript of my first book today 🥳🥳🥳 it’s my non-fic about life in the universe and i’m just. 🥲 i’m really proud of it and i think it’s gonna be a hit! i can’t wait to hold it in my hands!! ❤️📚

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this is what i’m doing when i say i’m writing

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competitive daydreamers gathered in Tokyo today for the “2024 Space-out Competition”

Heart rates were checked and anyone who laughs, talks or dozes off was eliminated during the 90 min competition.

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bouncing on it in a way that reviewers will say diminishes the storyline in favor of gratuitous and tasteless sex scenes

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hello writers—i’ve finally cracked the greatest mystery of our time: how long does it take for you to forget about your mug of coffee/tea because you can’t see what’s in it anymore?

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unironically many of y’all need to start reading fanfiction

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you will not be surprised to learn the outlet was n*ture

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me in the nonfic writers discord: y’all know what [OUTLET] is paying these days?

editor at [OUTLET]: we only pay real writers not academics

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@premeesaurus @banffcentre @AiJiang_ @tithenai omg?! crossover episode of all my faves?? i’ve never wanted to do a residency more

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personally i need to be writing in EB Garamond or i feel like i’m going to throw up

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are you a “writes in a beautiful font bc they need to feel good about their writing” writer or a “writes in comic sans because they just need words on page writer”

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womb tat??

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on this sacred 57th anniversary of Amok Time, be the Theodore Sturgeon you wish to see in the world 🖖