Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️

Release Day!! 🥳 My first-ever novelette, "Have Hands, Will Hench," is out with foofaraw! It's a tale from the POV of an indebted henchman. A fable of a mad supervillain boss. A tragedy of unaffordable healthcare... 🥲 Buy it here or wherever you get your books! 😌 foofaraw.press/have-hands-w...

Hear me out, I have an idea ⚡️

Even among people who use AI, nobody wants somebody else's slop. They like using AI to get out of doing work for other people. Use it for them instead of doing work, and they're not so happy.

Bluesky has six kinds of users:

Just recieved a copy of my second translated reprint (“Godmaker”) also with Science Fiction World in China! This one has an absolutely incredible illustration of a scene from the story, which the artist has captured really well.

*nods sagely* Indeed, just like in the Animorphs.

perfect, no notes

Knew a girl back in Toronto who did that daily in her yard.

Have Hands, Will Hench by @lilylachance.com special hardcover edition has arrived! Published by @foofarawpress.bsky.social Can't wait to read it!

Scab.

Unpopular opinion: people who flush their medicine (expired or otherwise) down the drain/toilet should permanently lose access to indoor plumbing. Have fun jogging to the outhouse forever, you barbarian. (Also: men sending unsolicited dick pics should permanently lose cellphone access. Rotary ♾️)

Superpower of attorney. Nation's superpower grid. Superpower-up sequence. Superpower outage.

1. Shaming works. 2. The folks behind that "AI" coup aren't merely sellouts, they're spineless sellouts at that. 3. This isn't over until every last person who had signed off on that charter permanently steps down. They've shown their true colours.

I put the "hi" in hybrid, the "rose" in monster, the "agent" in stranger.

A glimpse into the life of a simsubmancer. 🙃 The past 24 hours brought me 1 story sale (woot!!), 10 rejections (granted, 5 of those were from 2 batches of poems), and 2 emails asking to proofread the galley copies of my soon-to-be-released stories. 🤓

A super-niche conspiracy theory. 🙃 Whenever there's a news article about yet another person who was left for dead in some morgue, that's actually a Highlander-style immortal coming back to life. :P I say we keep an eye on them. 👀

hot take i think mobile, alabama should actually move around a bit

better plot and you can actually see what's going on

“mom what do you love about me?” [pulling out her phone] “lol idk let’s find out”

If they ever tried cloning people en masse (a la "Phantom Menace"), I imagine this is what the end result would look like. 🫠

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Tattoo idea: "Certified Compostable"

This is a terrifying thread about how much evil a single collaborator can do. He's not a mustache-twirling cackling villain, he's somebody who looks and acts perfectly ordinary otherwise. This is a real-life example of what Hannah Arendt wrote about in her "Banality of Evil."

Hear hear!! That was one of the most useful tips in the already useful guide by Chuck Palahniuk, "Consider This." Not merely backups, but also printing them out and keeping them in a safe place, just to make sure. (Something that'd be a real chore when I return to Montreal from my travels. 😅)

I once zip-lined for a mile over the verdant Costa Rican jungle, and nothing has felt the same ever since...

A really cool editor at Worldcon told me an open secret: 70% of story submitters do not follow the posted guidelines. That puts them at severe disadvantage or simply eliminates them outright. Be part of the top 30%, eh. :) (The irony, of course, is that the worst of them will skip reading this too)