🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽
Author Romie Stott, who is the same person as filmmaker and musician Romie Faienza. Poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Texan in Massachusetts. Capisco italiano un po. ⚥ Sign up for my mailing list at romiesays.kit.com.
- my standard sip is pretty exactly one fluid ounce
- of course the imaginary thing that doesn't exist is going to be better than any real thing, but fake better. sacarine unchallenging better of course you love the book or movie that was never released and can stay perfect with the cat alive and dead
- Foxes have been my favorite animal since I was a kid, but I don't know why. I don't know any cool fox facts. Does anybody want to educate me about cool fox facts?
- Re: orbital data center cooling: Elon Musk's mom never gave him a thermos full of hot soup, and it shows.
- hey yo, speculative poets and speculative poetry enjoyers, interstellar are actively looking for pitches about specpo, and if they like your pitch they'll pay you $30 to write the essay
- Favorite Dad movie: What moves it into peak Dad territory is that every time - EVERY TIME - we talk about the sound design used for Danny Glover's character's Henry rifle.
- This is exactly how it is.
- Picard's defiant shout of “There are four lights!” is now a meme, but it's his quieter confession to Troi that makes "Chain of Command" into a metaphor for domestic abuse, offering crucial insight into the experiences of survivors: #StarTrek
- (also I remain a huge David Warner fan. Devil in Time Bandits. Sark in Tron. Jack the Ripper in Time After Time. All foundational texts for me.)
- fusion cuisine recommendation: butter chicken in corn tortillas
- My book Nothing in the Basement is on the Locus recommended reading list for cool stuff from 2025! As is ... a lot of cool stuff from 2025! I'm tremendously excited. Get reading! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
- We got them out, AND his hat AND his backpack. That means a lot to me. I'm going to keep playing for "get it ALL back." None of this "what's gone is gone forever" pre-mourning I see from some pundits. We will get the hat. And the backpack.
