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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 27/09/2026

A relevant question! Unstoppered liquids could easily spill and interrupt the summoning circle. Wait, my bad. I thought you said "demon summoning."

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 24/09/2026

Taking notes on what form the magpies will accept tribute in. Can't believe I didn't think of the branches!

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 23/09/2026

@thegirlwhodreams.bsky.social Late public transport introducing you to social media platforms? Rude of it.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 23/09/2026

Me, every time I put "with" in a working title: [typing into search engine]: - with in title capitalised - oxford style with in title capitalised - oxford style with in title fiction novel - oxford style prepositions in title fiction novel (The answer is no.)

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David K. Mitchell @davidkmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a few jokes about Mass Effect, but Samara better than others.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 21/09/2026

I have a joke about Dragon Age: Inquisition, but when I bring up the war table it tends to drag on

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 21/09/2026

The ENDING of this book, man. And the lead-up to it! A demon and an angel, over three hundred years of rebuilding a city he and his kin destroyed. The way having someone's heart inside yours changes you irrevocably...

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 21/09/2026

This is my main takeaway when it comes to chatbots running LLMs. The proliferation of the tech, the belief that it can accomplish miracles? All due to deliberate design choices that hack the way we're psychologically attuned to things that seem to talk to us. #antiAI

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 20/09/2026

I do enjoy ongoing negotiations with a spirit providing one's dream come true... 👀

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 20/09/2026

There's nothing like autumn in the foothills. I found bear tracks as I headed down to the river, too.

On a cloudless day, a river with a rocky shore, cliffs rising from the banks pine, trees growing on the steep slopes

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 17/09/2026

Every time I read a new Leigh Bardugo book, I want to eat it. Incidentally, the local bookstore dropped Dead Beat on my doorstep and I am having emotions.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 15/09/2026

Currently leaning heavily toward Joplin as a recommendation. The free version is the best of the bunch (using a free Dropbox account).

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 25/08/2026

Medical Professional: We got the list of medications you sent us. They were spelled REALLY well. Me: Thank you? I had the labels in front of me when I wrote them down?

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 18/08/2026

Horror book appreciation: When life spins out of control and a character frantically acts to construct a narrative where they ARE in control, Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts is a beautiful example of how the icy core of that pain will spread. 1/6 🩸📚 #booksky

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Clarabelle (normal type) 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · 27/12/2024

Welcome to the Horror Books feed! 🩸📚 1️⃣ save/heart the feed if you're enjoying it 2️⃣ repost to help us find more nerds 3️⃣ use 🩸📚 or 📚🩸 to post to feed 4️⃣ add a 💙 to post to the main BookSky feed too 5️⃣ more BookSky genre feeds on my profile FAQ 👉🏻 bit.ly/bookskyFAQ

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Sally Sultzman @sallysultzman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm so glad it wasn't cloudy so I could witness the magesty of nature!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A lot creative work is already being called porn. Book banners are calling books with queer people simply existing "porn" to get them pulled out of schools and libraries. We are in this together whether you like it or not. Solidarity is the only way to fight.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 12/08/2026

The mist in the evening light over the pond make a gorgeous backdrop for writing.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 11/08/2026

It seems like every time I meet an artist, the only way to keep up with their work is via Instagram.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 08/08/2026

Fan wish list if a video game publisher were to buy a certain Canadian RPG studio on the cheap: - Let the devs make the game - Mandate sticking to a timeline - Which means stop making them start over - No multiplayer - Hire a crisis PR team for the launch; I am serious

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 06/08/2026

"Do you want to let your Blu-ray disc access the internet?" ...no. I'm gonna have to go with "no" on that one.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 05/08/2026

If you're catching up on the AI article in the HWA newsletter, I also strongly recommend checking out the toolkit linked here.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 02/08/2026

Darth Revan left a lasting impression on my writing.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 02/08/2026

Impersonation scams targeting writers are an epidemic. To defend yourself: check any out-of-the-blue email that purports to be from a real person in publishing or Hollywood against Writer Beware's Impersonation List writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...

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The Impersonation List - Writer Beware

The most pernicious scams focused on English-speaking writers these days come from overseas: publishing/marketing/fake literary agency scams from the Philippines, and ghostwriting/publishing/marketing...

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 02/08/2026

Loblaws grocery make a functional app challenge (impossible)

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 01/08/2026

Dawn, with the wildfire smoke, is just so viscerally unsettling...

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 01/08/2026

For writing drafts, I look for an app that syncs between my phone and laptop, has desktop/mobile apps, allows automated backups, and provides encryption (the platform literally cannot see or harvest my work). My current favourites are Standard Notes, Notesnook, Obsidian, and Joplin. #writersky

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 28/07/2026

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀👻 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 28/07/2026

"How much'd you pay for them boots?"

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 27/07/2026

I love joyful moments like that, and the care people put into finding things for the people they love.

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Tom @darthinternous.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Any of the moments where someone comes to the booth "on a mission" for their friend or family member. They don't always know exactly what they are getting or why but to see how earnest they are and then happy when they get the thing. It's lovely seeing people care for the joy of others so much.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 25/07/2026

If someone wants to kill me, potentially the best way is for them to say, "Would you like to try cave diving?" because I would love to try cave diving.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 24/07/2026

Contrast with contemporary Gothic fiction: the haunting of a recent and bloody (colonial) past hidden away under rotting floorboards. It seems that whether we're trying to recreate the past or trying to escape it, it inevitably shapes us.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 24/07/2026

Inspired as I am by the niggling idea of the Gothic involving a search for a lost medieval past, I tracked down a copy of the gorgeous book The Gothic Revival by Chris Brooks.

An art book open on a table, featuring the rich interior of St Giles' Church un Cheadle, Staffordshire (1841-6). The sanctuary appears on the left and a decorated doorway appears on the right (items 139-140). Chris Brooks writes that Pugin's Decorated style "combined cultural expressiveness, strong architectural forms and a bold handling of space with ornamental elaboration – naturalistic carving, rich mouldings, inventive tracery design, gorgeously patterned textures."

Another spread from the art book, this one looking at William Butterfield's 1849-59 project of the All Saints' church on Margaret Street in London. This is an example of High Victorian Gothic, veering away from Ruskin's natural forms and hues and into an industrialised ideal. Chris Brooks writes, "Butterfield's patterns are hard-edged, geometrically precise... and his material textures assertively artificial: mass-produced bricks and tiles, marbles mechanically polished to a mirror-like sheen. All Saints' connotes the industrial regime: in its finishes; in the compositional discipline that yokes constituents into a corporate scheme even as it emphasises their separateness; in the logic of Butterfield's industrially processed materials; in the way perfect surfaces and symmetrical shapes evoke the machine."

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 23/07/2026

Post your last two brain cells

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 21/07/2026

Another side project right now = assessing different word processing/note-taking apps for writing. I use Obsidian for most of my drafting, and I'm taking a look at some similar apps like Standard Notes, Notesnook, and Joplin (which all offer encryption).

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 21/07/2026

Our Kickstarter to fund WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS: QUEER FANWORKS INSPIRED BY FOLKLORE AND FAIRY TALES is proceeding a pace, and so are our contributor teasers. Check out art by Amalia Zeichnerin and Sam Inverts and stories by Isabelle Delisle and ilgaksu! duckprintspress.com/2026/07/21/w...

A graphic entitled Wild and Full of Marvels Art Teasers. It shows two art crops from larger works, with the name of the artwork and artist beside the art. Artwork 1: A merperson tail, watercolor, in shades of blue, titled "Two Mermaids" by Amalia Zeichnerin. Artwork 2: a young person in a red cape being spoken to by a person wearing only a loin cloth, with long white hair and wolf ears emerging from among their hair. Entitled "Hoodwinks and Wolfsbane" by Sam Inverts.

A graphic entitled Wild and Full of Marvels Story Teasers. It shows two excerpts from stories. The first is from a story entitled "An Unlikely Perfect Evening" by Isabelle Delisle. Text: For two days and two nights snow had fallen without respite or mercy. It sat on the ground, hip-high where the trees—naked of all but the last stubborn leaves on the rare oaks—had provided the most shelter. Elsewhere, it was well as tall as a man, shaped into hard and cruel blades by the wind.

Pierre knew winter, knew its storms and endless nights, but only, before, from the comfort of the house that had warmed his father and his father’s father, circling with others into a huddled village. Winter was different, here.

Excerpt 2 is from "obstreperous and unreasonable" by ilgaksu and is accompanied by a small "author" image of a small blue winged creature drinking from a sealed boba cup. Text reads: If he was asked—which he never is—Etienne would admit he isn’t sure he remembers life outside of the castle anymore. This makes sense, philosophically. The nature of a civilised soul is its amenability to adaptation; an educated man works with, not against, reality. Accepting that Etienne’s one constant is the castle—that he, undying, can never leave, and must remain within the grounds forever, in his current form—

That is simply an exercise to gentlemanly logic.

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you’re not familiar with it, here’s an overview! It really is a drafting tool, not a word processor, and I think it’s good at what it does. (Also, very pretty.)

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 21/07/2026

What's up with Ellipsus, the writing tool that's become a popular alternative to Google Docs (especially in fan spaces)? I dive into the tool's usability, privacy policy, and anti-AI commitments in a blog post for @duckprintspress.com: duckprintspress.com/2026/07/21/p...

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Pros and Cons of Ellipsus Software for Writers – Duck Prints Press

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 29/06/2026

So the GTA contract is that she can play as much as she likes, right?

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Sally Sultzman @sallysultzman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You know what I need to see today? I need to see your tattoos. Your pretty ones, the complex ones, the ones your most proud of. Big, tiny, don't care--if you like 'em, I wanna see 'em.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 25/06/2026

> cold crossed by an old wood stove > holding pattern, fabric smoked I'm excited to announce that my poem, "retail her," has been published in today's episode of the 4Lph4num3r1c podcast by @zoeticpress.bsky.social!

The text "retail her" appears with an author photo of Kaiden Alderling, along with the official name of the Alphanumeric podcast, 4Lph4num3r1c2.0

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 22/06/2026

Congratulations! You deserve it.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 20/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 20/06/2026

✅ Be told that we love a moray

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 17/06/2026

I'm just using Word for creating a final file when submitting. Which is good! Otherwise, I might die of laughter while in the middle of a writing session. Look at my bear arms, friends. 🌈

In Microsoft Word, "over my bare arms" (B-A-R-E) has been underlined with the grammar suggestion to use B-E-A-R instead.

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Kaiden Alderling @alderling.com · 17/06/2026

The art is gorgeous! Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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