Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author. He/him. Abolish the police. I am not a Catholic Priest. I do not absolve you. Write your own email. Stories: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/ Monthly newsletter with poem: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/signuphttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlzevdbtr22aI watched Bamboozled as a teen and spent over a decade wondering if I had hallucinated it. No one talks about that movie. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 May 2026 03:05 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzevdbtr22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlz2ghwn7c2yThis is How You Lose the Time War Kingfisher Lord of Light [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 May 2026 23:57 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlz2ghwn7c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlwqrgxnac2yI wrote an essay about that. https://www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2026/5/14/in-the-consulship-of-incitatus [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 May 2026 01:59 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwqrgxnac2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlw7tjtkrs2yElves, Dwarves, Men, Hobbits, Ents, Wizards [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlw7tjtkrs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlvqd6gdkc2yI wrote this more for myself than anyone. Something to look at for a reminder that it's all still happening and there's a reason everything feels so hard right now. It's nothing wrong with any of us. All of this is real, and somehow we go on. https://www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2026/5/14/in-the-consulship-of-incitatus15 May 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvqd6gdkc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlvt7ucbb225Last day to get your applications in. Worth it. Made me the writer I am. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvt7ucbb225https://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlvqd6gdkc2yI wrote this more for myself than anyone. Something to look at for a reminder that it's all still happening and there's a reason everything feels so hard right now. It's nothing wrong with any of us. All of this is real, and somehow we go on. https://www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2026/5/14/in-the-consulship-of-incitatus15 May 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvqd6gdkc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3ledm6jjdb227This is dog in a trenchcoat level work. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Dec 2024 03:54 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ledm6jjdb227https://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlvjupch622mThis story continues to deserve eyes. The post-FTL utopian commune deals with an archaic generation ship arriving. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvjupch622mhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mltaehnxyc2xOkay, I committed a blog again, mostly just a tortured metaphor and a catalog of atrocities, but if you need to be reminded that yes, all this is still happening, even though it's dropped out of the news, here it is. https://www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2026/5/14/in-the-consulship-of-incitatus14 May 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltaehnxyc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mltaehnxyc2xOkay, I committed a blog again, mostly just a tortured metaphor and a catalog of atrocities, but if you need to be reminded that yes, all this is still happening, even though it's dropped out of the news, here it is. https://www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2026/5/14/in-the-consulship-of-incitatus14 May 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltaehnxyc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlqqqvuuek25I went to a progressive private school in center city Philadelphia and learned nothing about the MOVE bombing there. I got it from osmosis, 2010s Twitter, and all the news stories when the bones became a thing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqqqvuuek25https://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlqg47bbxc2vI walked away from a contract with Asimov's over, among other things, a refusal to guarantee they wouldn't use GenAI for promotional images. It's not just solidarity, it's the reputational harm everyone associated with the project suffers when slop is used to promote it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqg47bbxc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlovawfi5223Hey all, real talk, I block people who at me with starving children pictures, and I unfollow people who regularly post them, because I already have trauma from repeatedly viewing images of violence and conflict for a job and I don't want more.12 May 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlovawfi5223https://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlov2xrnsc23Remember to feel nostalgia for things that were dumb and awkward or extremely banal. That's ultimately most of what happendled to you.12 May 2026 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlov2xrnsc23https://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlohixylxc23It is just so goddamn exhausting to exist as a fat person in this profoundly hateful society, and nothing really hurts more than being reminded that people who expect my solidarity against fascism are happy to paint me as a hideous and contemptible monster for my size. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlohixylxc23https://bsky.app/profile/rkduncan.bsky.social/post/3mlohixylxc23It is just so goddamn exhausting to exist as a fat person in this profoundly hateful society, and nothing really hurts more than being reminded that people who expect my solidarity against fascism are happy to paint me as a hideous and contemptible monster for my size. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:rrbewithd3ye5rej4i72imb4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlohixylxc23