Jeffrey Ricker, Queer Writer of YA and SciFi

(sometimes both at the same time)

[jeffreyricker]

Joy Machine

There’s a moment in the documentary Kylie where Nick Cave says, “The great beauty of pop music is that it is a joy machine.” Of all the insi

The release of the Kylie documentary and Nick Cave’s comment that pop music is a “joy machine” got me thinking about how much Kylie’s music has meant to me over the past twenty-five years and how inspiring she and her music have been to me. So, I wrote a little about it.

[depsidase]

[jeffreyricker]

Sorry not sorry. (Go here to make your own: https://trek.epicrandomness.com/)

Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

[jeffreyricker]

Happy birthday to Kathryn Janeway, born on this day in 2336!

[jeffreyricker]

“Sarek,” Amanda said, “may I ask you a question?”

“Always, my wife.” He didn’t add I would not be able to stop you anyway, although he may have thought it.

“Do you think Spock will ever tell Jim how he really feels?"

Sarek sighed. “As I have said before, Vulcans do not—"

“Oh, don’t give me that. You know what I mean."

“There is too much salt in this plomeek soup."

“There’s no salt in that damn soup, and you know it. Answer the question."

“You mean will our son ever tell Captain Kirk that his esteem for him goes beyond friendship?"

“I mean will those two idiots ever realize they’re in love with each other?"

Sarek set his spoon down. “Honesty between the two of them would be the most logical course of action."

It was Amanda’s turn to sigh. “That would be no, then."

“Unfortunately, I think not.”

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[jeffreyricker]

Finished reading SUMMER OFFICIAL by @rebekahweatherspoon this week, and it was a damn delight. I remain in awe of her ability to shift gears between 🌶️ adult romance and breezy YA. This book and its grumpy/sunshine pairing was like a cookie from Ms. Lara’s bakery in the novel: the perfect combination of sweet and salty.

[charliejaneanders]

Here's an important #Transcrowdfund:

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Hailey's mom has cancer and she's had to quit working to take care of her:

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[jeffreyricker]

Holding On with One Hand

I may have mentioned that I participate in a roleplaying game, Star Trek Adventures, with a bunch of friends over Zoom. Our gamemaster is fe

I hadn’t heard of the concept of “blue-booking” until I started playing a Star Trek RPG with some friends and fellow writers, but I kind of love it. It’s no secret that Star Trek is my favorite fictional universe, and getting to create and play a character, and then write some short fiction about them, is like candy. So, here’s a story about a kind of tough, definitely dramatic Betazoid security chief with issues galore, and the Kriosian leader of a mining community who are both low-key attracted to each other but maybe don’t entirely trust each other, either. (What? Of course I made it gay. Why do you ask?)

[jeffreyricker]

This song’s on heavy rotation this week. My spirit needs an infusion of hope, and there’s nothing better for that than music and Star Trek. 

[jeffreyricker]

*deep breath* I’m getting ready to revise a queer holiday romcom I wrote last year, which means I’m also rereading part two of Matt Bell’s really helpful book, REFUSE TO BE DONE, which covers the revision stage. Wish me luck!

[drchucktingle]

Guy Lebuttski, also known as The Guy, isn’t one for conflict. He’s happy to meander through life and take each day as it comes, but all of this changes when his favorite rug is stolen. Between bowling alley arguments and chats with nihilist dinosaurs, The Guy eventually discovers that the case of his missing rug is much stranger than he initially thought.

It turns out The Guy’s rug is sentient, and by utter chance it’s also named Lebuttski. This isn’t the only connection these two Lebuttskis have, however, and one of those connections might just be erotic.

This erotic tale is 4,000 words of sizzling human on gay rug action, including anal, blowjobs, rough sex, and decoration-that-really-tied-the-room-together love.

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please enjoy new tingler THE BIG LEBUTTSKI out now. you can get it here or on true buckaroo tier patreon

[jeffreyricker]

Chuck Tingle is a national treasure. ❤️

[jeffreyricker]

So, @thelaurenshippen has inspired me and recently I started writing a dialogue between a beaten-down office worker with undirected rage and a messenger from hell who sounds like “a bargain bin cross between Joan Collins and Katharine Hepburn.” I have no idea if this will go anywhere, but it’s really fcking fun.

[jeffreyricker]

I had the weirdest dream about Maya Rudolph, London, and hotel construction last night….

[jeffreyricker]

Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - LGBTQ Nation

"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are "passing" on LG

As if I needed another reason to feel depressed. I’m currently querying a queer YA novel and racking up one rejection after another. That’s the joy of being a writer. Rejection comes with the territory, and that’s okay! I totally get it. Now here’s the joy of being a queer writer. It’s entirely possible and likely that agents are passing on my work because it’s a bad fit for them, not their thing, not up to snuff in their opinion, or a host of other totally valid reasons. They may not think it’s that great! It may not be that great! And yet as a queer writer, there’s always that thought in the back of my head: Is it because I’m queer and so is the work? Chances are I’ll never know. But I’ll always wonder.

[thelaurenshippen]

🔥🔥🔥 this is a blazed post but it's for something cool i promise! 🔥🔥🔥

you: angry at the world, support women's wrongs, have monsterfucking tendencies, hate AI, love indie art and labor unions, are queer and/or all your friends are queer, sick of every story being about a sad white man

me: has an original fiction podcast about a woman in her thirties who has her shit rocked when a fuck-up demon possesses her and looks around at humanity like, "you live like this?" before proceeding to start a union

anyway, please listen to two thousand and late it was really fun to make and I think you'll like it 🥺

[jeffreyricker]

I’m listening to this show now and it fucking rocks.

[magicmooshka]

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.