@asarirl

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✨thread of my stories✨ β€œa name is a plea and a prophecy” (in @strangehorizons) is (something close to) a folk-tale about a woman seeking death, her sacrifices to a god she hates, and the dangers of forgetting your name 🌴☠️🌊✨ strangehorizons.com/fiction/…

A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy

Kuyom stood at Death’s door, shuffling from one foot to the other.

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i immediately thought of three different people
pursuing happiness@its_august_ineOct 17
one of my favourite authors posts thirst traps on Instagram i love the internet
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@nkereuwxm #1
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do you guys ever get so tired of a story you’re writing (especially a long-form project) that reading it or trying to edit makes you literally want to throw up?
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nigerian spec fic writers need to do this as well πŸ™πŸΎ
Otosirieze@OtosiriezeOct 13
I have been saying this for some time now: Nigerian realist writers from minoritized ethnicities need to write more fiction about their peoples, cultures, histories, homelands, their present. Lived-in fiction. And set it in your homeland, not Lagos. opencountrymag.com/afabwaje-…

Afabwaje Kurian Tells a Gbagyi Story : Open Country Mag

How Afabwaje Kurian, with Before the Mango Ripens, opened an untold chapter in the story of the Gbagyi, an ethnic minority in Nigeria.

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there was a really cute and relatively cheap suede lime green bag i didn’t buy in june because of β€œfinancial responsibility” and it haunts me. it really haunts me.
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realistically, i should write a screenplay. but will i?
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yapaholic πŸ’₯
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gunn.@Jesutomisin_Oct 1
pls, if you do usually read substack essays, might i trouble you to visit my newest one: jesutomisin.substack.com/p/v…
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the funniest part of the lagos life simulation game is how it asks us to suspend disbelief and imagine that lagos is a walkable city
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god forbid mbok
πŸ“–πŸŽ§ΰΎ€ΰ½²@inkandseerahSep 29
I want to experience being written about
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going to stop telling people i love them when i have no interest in dating them because i can now see how that might be confusing
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thx to all my friends for their advice regarding this matter
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redamancy@heyifeoluwaSep 28
i have spent the last five months working on this project as an Archive Producer. glad to announce that we’ll be presenting a short first-look at our FESTAC 77 doc on Friday at the LCA film fest, Lagos. Inviting you all 🫡🏿 Register for free: bloomartlagos97986.artsvp.co…?
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tinubu has to be the one funding this gele discourse
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me when i'm a sweetheart
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happy world cyanotype day from me and some of my queer symbols πŸ’™πŸŒ€
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gunn.@Jesutomisin_Sep 23
you can read my story in @KhoreoMag here ! khoreomag.com/fiction/banque…

Banquet for All!

The Kuyes have been fighting. The Kuyes have also been hungry. These two problems go hand in hand. To tell their story is to travel backwards on several beaten paths at once, in search of where their...

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made ogbono and despite all my efforts it didn’t draw. absolutely heartbroken 😞
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i want to read more queer spec fic writers. especially queer women. where are you guys abeg?
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max siollun has a podcast and nobody told me??????
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