jay kang romanus

@jelliclejay.bsky.social

he/him 🏳️‍🌈 sffh writer, big fan of the separation between fiction and reality. editor of DUDES ROCK (the circus '25), stories in podcastle, baffling, kaleidotrope, and more 🔞

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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in case you missed it, i had a novelette published in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social yesterday, go check it out!

“The Beasts of Altain” is dear to my heart. as the product of multiple cultures, there’s a sense of displacement, but also divided loyalty. this story is about that and also a cool beastie 🐅

a watercolor painting of a futuristic astronaut android, accompanied by little cat astronauts. overlaid on top is a screenshot of some text: “The Beasts of Altain” by Jay Kang Romanus. The news comes to Asahar on the wings of bees first. They’ve always been the quickest to bring him information from across Altain, transmitting it to each other through their dances in exponentially growing spirals.
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in case you missed it, i had a novelette published in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social yesterday, go check it out!

“The Beasts of Altain” is dear to my heart. as the product of multiple cultures, there’s a sense of displacement, but also divided loyalty. this story is about that and also a cool beastie 🐅

a watercolor painting of a futuristic astronaut android, accompanied by little cat astronauts. overlaid on top is a screenshot of some text: “The Beasts of Altain” by Jay Kang Romanus. The news comes to Asahar on the wings of bees first. They’ve always been the quickest to bring him information from across Altain, transmitting it to each other through their dances in exponentially growing spirals.
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2nd time in kaleidotrope, and my 1st novelette! “the beasts of altain” is about the byproducts of colonization, the people who fall through the cracks, and the inertia of a life that is Good Enough. enjoy!

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And it's October! Still trying to figure out where the last $600 of October's rent is coming from. Couple possible jobs didn't pan out, so still working away at this.

If anyone has work to pass along, or has something of their own I can take on, my rates, etc. are at: mathesonfreelancing.com

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it’s a very specific experience that happens to make the cishets quite happy when it happens irl, and i have a sneaking suspicion that its prevalence is so these publishers can get the praise for publishing queer stories without risking the comfort of the great heterosexual (2/2)

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there’s a recent trend in modern sff that i’m not a big fan of where books will be promoted as lgbtq, and then the rep is a bisexual woman who alludes to past female dalliances and then her primary romantic storyline is with a man. i’m not saying this isn’t lgbt rep, bc it obviously is, but (1/2)

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every JCO take is the kind of thing your meanest, least-sober great aunt might announce at thanksgiving dinner. sometimes you're like yeah, let em have it!! and then very shortly you're like uh oh aunt joyce time for bed

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2nd time in kaleidotrope, and my 1st novelette! “the beasts of altain” is about the byproducts of colonization, the people who fall through the cracks, and the inertia of a life that is Good Enough. enjoy!

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