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Orcasketcher 🇺🇦 @orcasketcher.bsky.social · 13h

InkTober day 4 ‘Cactus’. The Ice Age version of a cactus; an Udam Bone Tree. Only realized as I was drawing it that I picked two mammoth skull subjects in a row but I really like the results. Done in brushpen with some white gelpen. #InkTober #InkTober2026 #inkdrawing #sciart

An ink drawing of an Udam Bone Tree, a statue from the game Far Cry Primal. Made from wood, bone, spikes and a mammoth skull tied together with ropes.

A close up of an ink drawing of an Udam Bone Tree, a statue from the game Far Cry Primal. Made from wood, bone, spikes and a mammoth skull tied together with ropes.

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 13h

if you see this, recommend a short book Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

just down the street from the intersection the college pagans use as a crossroads for ritual purposes and round the corner from the charity thrift shop

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

been too busy to write for so long, let's dash off a low-pressure flash thing, all vibes just nonsense, blow the dust out ~a few moments later~ ok so realistically how big would an 1890s alligator purse be for a woman of modest means? how long were these things manufactured...

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

every bird the last few days: hey wanna get a fleeting glimpse of our muted autumn plumage? bet you wish you knew what we were sucks to suck byeeeeee

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October issue

The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For context, that's a typical size of a jurassic pterosaur (juvenile) found in the fossil record

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

another of those ominous portal days

Little dog on a walking path. The sun on the mist ahead makes the scenery ahead fade into indistinctly glaring light

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

finally managed to capture this billboard for two lawyers who saw you from across the bar and really dog your vibe

A slightly fuzzy phone capture of a digital billboard for a law firm. A man who looks like one of the heroine's blind dates in my big fat greek wedding and a lady who would be a good villain in the third season of leverage stand shoulder to shoulder doing bedroom eyes at the viewer

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's a little gender but mostly whimsical when students who forget my name call me "miss" like they're in a boarding school novel but I am far more tickled to discover my coteacher is likewise named "mister"

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was talking to my friend Mae today about how I wish more people cared about and read short stories. A great short story will take only twenty minutes to read but stick with you for twenty years. Wildly powerful artform! What's a short story that fits that description for y'all?

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see the chilly mornings have come

Little dog nose poking out of a cocoon she's made of a jacket somebody left out

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

not objecting but observing: why is every other horror novel florid with big, grandma-couch cabbage roses right now? it's like the only way books are allowed to be maximalist lately. I'd take an exploded joann's floral aisle over a silhouette of one (1) plot-relevant item any day. just. why flowers?

Kathleen jennings' honeyeater, with a nice painting of a lady shrouded in flowers from the nose up,.or possibly turning into flowers, or made of flowers? I haven't finished this one yet

Noah medlock's a botanical daughter, another lady covered in flowers. On this case fairly book accurate

Johanna van Veen's blood on her tongue, a dog surrounded by huge, bloody blooms. The dog is not turning into flowers, so that's different. The book barely features plants

V Castro's the haunting of Alejandra, and in this one there's a somewhat artsy remove in that the woman is a paper cutout who has been mostly replaced with flowers. There were some flowers in the book but not a huge thing?

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy spooky season 🍂🦇🎃

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so much of my reading is horror that making october extra spooky is a struggle, so i'm gonna post as i go and share the scares with the power of multiplicity. starting with @horrorsong.blog's The Wingspan of Severed Hands, a story where "it was all a dream" presages not amelioration but certain doom

The Wingspan of Severed Hands, by Joe Koch. The cover is an appropriately surrealist smear of a headless body being devoured by sand or light or lace, a beam of queasy yellow light, a single hand that is the only focused bit, and multiple flailing x-ray echoes of the hand that turn it ghostly even in its definition

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

still bugging me because it's so specifically if ineffectively scuzzy. like this part is generic word salad full of factual inaccuracies despite being mostly reconstituted mush from the author goodreads page I always forget I have.

I came across "Death Loves Frogs" in Love Letters to Poe, Volume 1 on Goodreads and was struck by how you refuse to let Poe inspired fiction stay either imitative or predictable. In your story, you do not just echo gothic conventions; you build an atmospheric fable focused on mortality and folklore motifs, and you let surreal nature imagery carry the weight of classic psychological paranoia. Placing that alongside contemporary authors toasting Poe's legacy around grief, madness, ancestral curses, and psychological decay is exactly the kind of reframing that makes gothic horror matter, and the anthology holding a 4.14 average across 35 ratings shows readers are responding. Writing across science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slipstream while teaching science just outside Chicago, being an out of practice black belt, a mediocre birdwatcher, a terrible knitter, and an avid reader bullied by disreputable house pets tells me the wit and the range in your voice are not a persona. Writing as a trans woman using ey/em/eir and she/her pronouns, and building worlds that weave atmospheric eerie elements with highly descriptive worldbuilding, tells me the perspective you bring to speculative fiction is lived rather than assembled.

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

new (to me) mutation of ai author spam today. targeted an old anthologized story, blathered for paragraphs about past publications in a way I haven't seen yet? it's an incoherent mess and pretty funny but as with all things slop there's a sinister undercurrent. and honing in on short fiction is new?

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a bush at the side of my house used to sort of faintly pulse with light at random. the bookshelves in my room would rattle sporadically and when I told them to knock it off they would. weird drumming sounds emanated from the far back of the yard

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

either having a wild allergy attack or have my third cold in six weeks. either option is displeasing because some wicked person with malice aforethought scheduled so much junk my looming october is booked as solid as september. if I ever catch that heedless bitch

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was speculated in the 17th century that this newly discovered Middle Jurassic fossil, likely from a Megalosaurus, might belong to a Roman war elephant or a biblical giant. In 1763, naturalist Richard Brookes noted the obvious & named the fossil 'Scrotum humanum' #WyrdWednesday

Illustration from the 1677 'Natural History of Oxford-shire' by Robert Plot, first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, who systemically studied paleontology and natural history. Physician Richard Brookes had his 'A System of Natural History', 6 vols. published in 1763 and was a prolific writer and translator. In the 1990s Brookes' description was officially rejected 🎨 The 17th century b&w illustration is thought to be of a Megalosaurus femur but, for now, info remains inconclusive until new discoveries and interpretations are made.

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

get to work early and time vanishes in the twinkling of an eye no matter how diligent I am. try to stay busy at the end of the day and every minute takes a thousand years. the dilation is worse than shower time and almost as bad as bedtime

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

windycon is... shockingly close, wow. my schedule: friday, 9pm: bending, blending, and neverending saturday, 8pm: history of marginalized non-humans in sci fi 9: worldbuilding-creating a universe from a blank page and a reading at 3 on saturday

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

current audiobook is read by someone who happens to have the exact same mannerisms as a niche youtuber I sometimes doze to. he's doing a perfectly good job but I keep waiting for a mildly amusing observation about a peculiar thing that happened in anime once

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

til this core memory has a sequel (released almost 30 years after the original). baby's first thriller, featuring eugenicist villains who are both colossal, ineffective dipshits and catastrophically evil. haddix mastered the kiddie dystopia thing long before the wave hit. underappreciated talent

Running out of time, Margaret peterson haddix. The very 90s illustration features a girl in front of a long cabin in a prairie dress stepping through a portal in the air to a modern age where she's wearing jeans an there are cars. It is super cool if it's 1996 and you're in 3rd grade.

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thin turnout. apparently the core demographic of library book discussions, nice ladies my mom's age, were not fans of the only good indians. (all the teeth, maybe?) but the 3 of us including the librarian facilitator had a nice time. worth slamming the last 40 pages while dinner was in the oven

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

finishing the last chapter 20 minutes before book club is a rush i haven't felt since writing a 3-5 page paper about the stylistic choices underpinning caroline bingley's dialogue before breakfast

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

every time I pick up a bottle of msg a barbershop quartet inside my head sings "~monosodium~glutamate~" like a little commercial jingle for old-timey radio and I am not sure where I got this extremely specific haunting. it's a cheerful one though

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

til there is one of those illustrated abridged kid versions of rebecca. if anyone read this as an actual child i must know what that experience was like

illustrated classics: rebecca, daphne du maurier
an awkward illustration of a nonspecifically old-timey woman in a white dress, a man in a tailcoat, and a portrait of a woman who looks like someone's maiden aunt that is probably supposed to be rebecca? it looks like the illustrator was bored

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're running a couple ebook giveaways between now and October 18th! It's the perfect time of year (at least here in Minnesota) to read some creepy, strange short stories. Gore Poetics: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/56... Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/f7...

app.thestorygraph.com

cursedmorsels's giveaway for Gore Poetics on The StoryGraph

Gore Poetics is a horror and Weird fiction collection for readers who seek out both the grote...

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

breaking: greatest dog in the world more comfortable than anyone has ever been

Little brown dog in a weird sprawl on a big rainbow pillow, smug about her hedonism

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

was a time A Sword Is A Guy And REALLY Annoying was a distinct subgenre of fantasy. persistent enough that you'll see it hanging on in some of those "please don't send us these" lists editors put out. can see how people got burned out but i think it's time for an annoying sword renaissance.

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Sibbi @sibbi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎃 AMALTHEA

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we're fucking it up so bad for future geologists. the earth science departments of the great squibbon universities 210 million years from now will have such arguments about naming the "shitty bullshit where everything's in the wrong place" layer

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

do you think you could do a trilobite boil like for crayfish?

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug

harvest festival jug featuring a rather spooky sunshine design

the reverse of the jug, featuring a poem. it reads: "Harvest is come all
busy now in making
of the Barley mow if
you the Barley mow
neglect of Good ale you
can not then expect"

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my little local sf convention is comping badges for panelists this year, which is nice, but I fear we might be such a small and insular collection of pedantic nerds at this point that it's gonna cut significantly into memberships. like who's NOT giving a couple talks over the course of the weekend?

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Hazard @datgreenmonstah.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

I learned about the oldest taxidermy is a church crocodile in Nossa's Santuario Madonna delle Lacrime Immacolate. (This is the guy that started my deep dive and soon to be obsession with ceiling crocodiles)

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🔥💪BONUS 'ZINE UNLOCKED!💪🔥 Only backers of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Novellas 2026 will get free copies of this risograph 'zine with like half a novella's worth of bonus stories by @minillajovovich.bsky.social, and a cover by @gorangligovic.bsky.social! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Black & White illustration of two women sword & sorcery characters, a battle-ready bodyguard and princess, drawn by @gorangligovic.bsky.social. Overlay is a caption which reads "BONUS 'ZINE UNLOCKED".

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

hard to know when listening to the song you have stuck in your head will complete the loop and free you or reinforce the pattern and plunge you deeper into madness

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

another day of every teacher in the district losing our minds with frustration only to determine the very important test that's gonna validate every inscrutable decision by admin was written by some ai

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hate breaking up with a series that's gone on too long. we had good years together. that first entry was something special. the big character arc that landed a few books in was a delight. we had some fun adventures after that. rich apocrypha. but there's no story left to tell. the spark's gone.

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

reviewing a great book: yay! sparkly. like how it did words reviewing a bad book: [not found, stopped reading on page 12] reviewing a book that could have been great: ...and furthermore, pacing problems in the denouement (see appendix 3) were the farthest thing from inevitable, if you'll examine the

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

kid during the standard pond water microscope lab: so do we look like galactus to the worms?

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

there is a reason this note in my own handwriting just surfaced while I dredged out my grading backlog but I prefer to treat it as a message from the universe

A post it note reading in all caps "I am wide awake" among a scatter of desk stuff

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if you want to write a regular 1st person pov you just can. we've all agreed to just accept that without in-universe justification. if you write an ordinary enough 1st person novel but wrap it up in epistolary form, then people will *notice.* they will think and ponder.

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