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Three screenshots from the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice adaptation. First panel: Miss Caroline Bingley, a smirking white woman with dark hair, says "Mr Darcy, has this escapade affected your admiration for her fine eyes?" Second panel: Mr Darcy, a serious white man with dark hair, replies "Not at all! They were brightened by the exercise." Third panel: Miss Caroline Bingley looks at the floor, clearly stumped, and her inner thoughts read "dammit"

And thus begins THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY, wherein said lady decides to reinvent herself to become just as Kind & Sweet & Irritatingly Beloved as Miss Elizabeth Bennet.

But she's going to need help, and who better to reform her than her former crush's sister, Georgiana Darcy? Only...

Thank you so much for this review, @kjcharleswriter.com!

Full moon above cottage on hill with smoke coming from a chimney, trees in silhouette either side. Lights are on in the windows of the cottage. The painting is a very deep teal blue.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Moonlight, Thomas Lamb.

How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Unprompted by anything specific… worth noting that WIRED’s ASME award nominated package, “How To Win a Fight,” includes a piece on how to advocate for your trans and nonbinary neighbors:

www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Every single fucking mental health professional needs to get loud about it this. I am calling on them ALL to join me in that. If someone has a place to point me for providing support to folks there please let me know. Fuck this

Have a great time, Bmore is my home town!

Illustration of a trippy wizard with a raven on his shoulder. He has a star-like beard and is casting "hex"s across the top of the page. Text: hex offsite Friday 3/6 6:30pm Ruth Joffre Meghan Phillips Richard Mirabella Exodus Oktavia Brownlow Ryan Habermeyer Julian Martinez Wendy Oleson Skyler Melnick Current Space * 421 N. Howard Incredible flyer by Joe Aguilar and Kate McIntyre

Our third official hex offsite happens ONE WEEK from today! We are getting so stoked to hang out! If you are out and about in Charm City, come spend an unforgettable reading of just a small sample of the writers we are lucky to publish!

I think my friends, white ones included, may not know any Kendrick songs 😱

This meme shows a three headed, green hydra; two heads look dangerous and serious while the third looks cartoonish and derpy with its tongue poking out of its mouth. The text reads: "Caroline Bingley's SELF ESTEEM, DESIRE TO CRUSH HER ENEMIES, LIBIDO."

Caroline Bingley is, as ever, her own worst enemy.

Find out how in THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY, a sapphic historical romance that will have you giggling and swooning over our mostly-intentioned, obnoxious heroine!
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Cinema Worms reviews SIRĀT and HOPPERS!

Join the Cinema Worms as we discuss (spoiler-free) two recent movies which we enjoyed in hugely different ways—Moroccan rave film SIRAT 🕺🚐🏜️ and Pixar nature-Avatar HOPPERS 🦫🐛🛣️!

The cover of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY by Lindz McLeod. Two women in regency dress sit on a pink picnic blacket. The blonde woman in the light yellow dress offers a bright red apple to the dark-haired woman in the purple dress. Behind them we can see a lake and in the far distance, two horses stand in front of a grand house.

"There's an enjoyable slow burn romance that heats up in a very satisfactory way... A bouncy, energetic feel-good take that's infinitely less mean-spirited than the source text and offers happiness to far more people."

- KJ Charles (!) on my forthcoming book, The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley ❤️

Cinema Worms reviews SIRĀT and HOPPERS! YouTube video by Z. K. A.

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Cinema Worms reviews SIRĀT and HOPPERS!

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Poster for Sirāt with dancing white person wearing big scarf in desert, and Hoppers poster with animated bug-eyed beaver, me and Lindz in green-tinted photo, wearing winter coats with hoods up, me a black woman, Lindz a white person with curly blond hair

Our review of SIRĀT and HOPPERS!

cover of A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers, by Ellen Wohl, a book showing a blue river switchbacking through green forest, held in a pink hand.

today we initiate: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS ANNUAL BOOK SALE HAUL THREAD

first. A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World’s Great Rivers, by Ellen Wohl.

Forever Magazine Issue 134 Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil...

Very sad to learn that “You Will Be You Again” is no longer available to read online at Interzone Digital since the magazine has shuttered, but you can still check it out in this month’s Forever Magazine:

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Strike on Iranian primary school kills 148, authorities say Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation

The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets?
And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there.
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A metal plaque with raised lettering spelling out the phrase, "In a dream you saw a way to survive and your were full of joy."

Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85

The film poster for SIRAT (2025), features a vast desert in the background. In the foreground, a small group of ravers cluster in front of two vans and a set of large speakers.

We saw SIRAT today at the (finally re-opened) Filmhouse in Edinburgh, and wow, what a *film*. It's not often a movie draws a physical reaction from me, but this one did.

I already know this is going to be one of my top movies of the year—so excited to talk about it on the Cinema Worms podcast!

The Cookout: A Speculative Fiction Anthology Sci-fi, fantasy, & horror stories by Black authors, centering traditions of “the cookout” — the joy, the drama, and the delicious food.

omg. We're soooooooo close! Only $752 to go! Onlyhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/androidpress/the-cookout-a-speculative-fiction-anthology

Heal Minds Gaza: empowering Palestinian children who were in detention Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face severe psychological violence that deeply impacts their sense of safety, identity, and community after their detention. The Heal Minds Gaza…

The sooner we get this funded, the sooner this project can help Palestinian kids who were in prison!!! We have a MONTH to fund this multi-day mental health intervention for these kids. Let's do it.

Support goes towards materials and facilitation!! chuffed.org/project/hmg

If you could throw a few bucks to Zion Community Commons, Venmo @ Chef-Collective-1123, it would be a big help. This is solidarity, not charity. Let’s do the thing.

Wrinkled fingers tremble on the trumpet's valves. Endless summers with his boys, cheap gin and cigars. A hundred women, though he never forgot a name. Dresses twirling in the moonlight, bright as stars.

Once, he'd known the sweetness of five mambos. Perhaps before the end, he might manage a sixth.

New Writers Showcase 2026 YouTube video by Scottish Book Trust

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Me in white shirt and brown flare pants, black girl with straightened hair, in front of an obscene image of a slices orange, in front of other awardees on a stage

Me performing at the New Writers Award Showcase 2026! What a beautiful night 🧡

My other awardees were amazing. You can watch me perform in the link below for 3 minutes, along with other awardees. The slam poet after me is stunning Scots brilliance!

The alt texts are giving me life! And the sheep's lovable perplexed faces.

Sighing, she retrieves the milkshakes from her yard. Another day, another disappointing haul.

A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks.

She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come on in."

LeAnn Rimes skids across the rooftop. Clutches her bleeding arm. The pale crescent flinches, a gash visible across its lowest sea. After parroting the party line all these years, her suspicions are finally confirmed. She can, in fact, fight the moonlight.

And she's winning.

I often see posts saying name an author who you've read 5 books by.

I'm interested in short stories. So how about, name an author you've read 3 short stories by?

Also, the stories have to be published in the last 10 years.

Also, don't say me. 😂