Yi Izzy Yu
@YizzyYu
Poet, Translator, Horror Writer, Sometimes a Fox
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The Shadow Book of Ji Yun (紀昀/紀曉嵐): The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge bit.ly/shadowbookjiyun and Zhiguai (志怪) are both out now. Check them out if you're into horror, the paranormal, translated literature, or flash nonfiction.
Filmmaker David Lynch's Diagram for Transcendental Consciousness is one of the greatest, easiest to understand explanations for how our reality is made of MIND first, MATTER second. I promise this is genuinely worth your time. It's fantastic.
New research reveals that astrocytes—once dismissed as mere "brain glue"—are actually the supervisors. By tuning neuronal activity via calcium waves, they regulate critical states like alertness, sleep, and anxiety. This paradigm shift suggests neuron-only models are insufficient
GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻 uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-magazi…
Happy Year of the Horse! My flash story “Firecrackers on 28 Mott Street,” about a couple of kids gathering in a Chinatown alchemy shop on Lunar New Year, is out today in @CastOfWonders! castofwonders.org/2026/02/cast-o…
Revolutionize your view of the mind! 🧠🌱 Darwin’s "radical idea" suggests that cognition isn't just for brains—it’s an evolved biological process found in everything from bacteria to daffodils. It's time for a life-centered psychology. 🧬✨ The study of the mind needs a
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." — Anaïs Nin
Divination. I see my visual history of divination is now up on the Yale website. Forthcoming this year, Oct 2026. Enjoyed the challenge, once again, of exploring global traditions. Complex and rich. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030028…
Reality is stranger than we think. | bit.ly/4qBcFZw Philosophers try to tame its paradoxes, but as Eric Schwitzgebel argues, the deeper we dig, the weirder it gets. Even materialism hides monsters.
Hyeronimus Bosch - The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, 1480
In later Han-influenced legends, Confucius was no ordinary sage: he entered the world beneath omens of the divine. In the Ming painting Kongzi Shengji Tu (孔子聖跡圖), immortals drift down on swirling clouds, playing celestial music to honor his birth. Once a man of ink and
Time to de-anthropomorphize the mind. New research proposes a unified framework viewing cognition as a biological spectrum—from single cells to complex mammals. Intelligence isn't just neural; it's embodied life-regulation and information processing found across all living
In ancient China, fireflies were thought to be born from decayed grass and bamboo roots ("腐草为萤"). Their glow lit warm summer nights for just over 20 evenings before vanishing into autumn’s hush. More than light, their flicker was seen as a fleeting soul: rising from rot,
Buy it now! I'm in it and so are the tiny plastic gnomes of Accrington. Check out my review of POSSESSION - it's a humdinger!
New issue now on sale! John Cowper Powys; ghosts of the Colorado gold rush; the Ditchingham Chicken Roundabout; 3I/Atlas aliens; puzzling pongs; morgue mix-ups; raccoon rampage; Bigfoot's big butt; talking plants; phantom boobs; folklore of fibbing; toad-licking myths and more!
Check out @paulaguran’s review of THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR: VOLUME SEVENTEEN edited by @datlow.bsky.social: “You can never miss with a Datlow anthology. She always delivers.” locusmag.com/review/the-bes…
Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
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