Wil Wheaton ❌👑

I did my live reading of The Body Snatcher at Geeky Teas yesterday, and I felt great about it. Friends, can I tell you how wonderfully surprising it was to feel the entire house connected to me and the story for the entire time?

...I noticed that I felt genuinely and safely proud of myself, excited to do more work like this, confident and secure in myself as an artist.

I made a mixtape (playlist). This week's It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton is The Loneliness of Former Constellations, by P.H. Low, originally published in Strange Horizons. I have two live shows happening in Los Angeles, both with limited tickets.

This week's It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton is a sweet, queer story about that awkward, tentative, uncertain time when, maybe, something is different, something is changing, something is awakening, and it all feels like a smear of toothpaste.

There are more actual humans subscribed to my blog posts than the stupid algorithm shows my posts to on Threads. If I have something to important to share, however brief, I'll say it here.

Today, I just wanted to share a couple things that I'm excited about. I hope you'll get excited about them, too.

"Hey, check this out," seems to have migrated over to social media, so it feels a little ... vestigial? ... to do one of those posts, but I want to post something, and the story I'm working on isn't ready, so here are some links.

I have an essay in this month's Uncanny Magazine, called Being A Brief History of It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton! I requested payment in a paper check, so I can frame it, since it's the first time I've been paid the professional rate for an essay.

It's been a brutal couple of days for me and my fellow Gen X theater kids. We've lost two load-bearing icons, and I feel like we could all use a big hug in the Denny's parking lot after the show.

Felicia Day and I are getting the band back together for a new show about the games (and some other things) we love, and you can help make it happen.

A funny and fun thing happens when I put the robe on. Without meaning to, I stand up as straight as I can, and I feel legitimately cool. As Lester Bangs says in Almost Famous, "Oh, dude, they made you feel cool, and you are not cool."

It feels like it was about 18 months ago, but could be as long as three years ago, that my friend told me about a TV show he was developing. It was a brilliant idea, I thought. A science fiction action comedy? YES PLEASE.

In the early 2000s, I worked on a couple of movies that were direct-to-DVD, low budget versions of successful, big budget movies of the moment. They weren't high art, but they were so much fun. This is a story about one of them.

I went to the mall and I wrote about it.

I was grateful for it, because choosing to experience grief instead of avoiding it with anger was a big time goal, something I worked really hard to accomplish.

Today's episode of It's Storytime with @wilwheaton.net features my short story, "With Her Serpent Locks" and a conversation between us. Go listen! wilwheaton.net/podcast/

Listening to @wilwheaton.net’s Storytime podcast read of Andrea Chapela’s “As One Listens to the Rain” was especially cool after visiting Mexico City in March. I think it conjured last night’s lighting storm that shook the sleeping house.

None of this would be happening if Kamala Harris were president. None of it. And we fucking told you so.

I am coming to your computer (or your tablet or your phone or even your TV, I think) on June 7 for a virtual convention that needs a much better name than Couch Con, because at this moment in time, that's ... uh ... not what this is.

want to read a novel that you're absolutely sure was not created with A.I.? read any book published before 2020 trust me, there's quite a few good ones

Maybe it will happen today.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Indy and Chicago! We're coming to see you next month

I loved narrating this story. It's just wonderful, and offered a ton of opportunities for me to make big creative choices. I am so grateful that @thisisguan.bsky.social trusted me with their words.

Check it out: THE PORTAL KEEPER by @lavietidhar.bsky.social read by @wilwheaton.net on It’s Storytime! open.spotify.com/episode/6ll0...

My next book, *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI*, will be out in about a month. 1/

wil wheaton: isnt this a megans law violation

Maybe it will happen today.

Obama: I'd love a Republican Party that wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses, and there has been a Republican Party like that in the past and I want to see that return @wilwheaton.net: wtf are you talking about

I want to take a moment and say thank you for all the messages of comfort and support that so many of y'all have shared with me since Marlowe passed. I haven't ever felt this kind of grief, for this long, in my life before now.

Maybe it will happen today.

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

Todd Blanche is lying. I don't know what he's saying, but I know that he's lying.

Trust in national media: 28%. 75% of local newsrooms: gone. Billionaires buying what's left. My own Dem congressman wouldn't take a stand against Trump's Fed Chair pick—a man in the Epstein files 500+ times. Not one Illinois paper has touched the story. This is why independent media exists.

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

Trying again. It is WILD that this isn't the top story in the country right now. The president is weak, feeble, sundowning, and unable to faithfully discharge the responsibilities of his office. It's right here, live on camera, and the national press just shrugs.

The final episode of 120 Minutes, broadcast December 27, 1993. I can't believe this was 33 years ago. Thirty. Three. Years. Ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNSg...

The fact that Trump had appointed a totally unqualified donor to be Secretary of the Navy leading into what turned into the biggest crisis for the US Navy since World War 2 could be covered like the media covered Michael "Brownie" Brown during Hurricane Katrina. They choose not to do this!

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Seeing my name beside these authors and I'm trying to be sooo normal about it 😳 Really appreciate this shout out to my story that came out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. while not my usual dark horror bag, this was more me exploring cultural grief and the inevitably of your loved ones passing.

I really needed to see this thing I just saw on Tumblr: Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written

In a nutshell. 😊

We need a matriarchy run by lesbians with clipboards and earpieces who do not take any shit.