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MORGUES @mxmorgan.com · 23/07/2026

Like we Used To Ink and pen on hot press paper, 7"x10" Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...

one living wolf and one a skeleton silhouetted by the shape of another wolf chase two rabbits in a forest, birds scattering away from the action.

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 7h

Filling my colour battery as much as I can before winter.

An upward view of yellow leaves turning red in a spotted fashion.

An upward view of ginko leaves, still green.

An upward view of red leaves bordering on brown.

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 13h

This month’s sticker design for Patreon!

Medieval style rendering of Godzilla in front of a cloud of smoke and fire, with text written in red gothic letters that says “Go ahead and destroy the data centers, Godzilla. Make the people happy.”

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⚔️ 📙 THE HUNT OF A THOUSAND LEAGUES...is out today!🗓️ 🐎 Orhan Timur the Snow Leopard's latest novella-length adventure is now available in mass-market paperback and digital formats. 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-tag/...

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Magical Kaleidoscope (Silvi) @magicalscope.bsky.social · 15h

Brewtober 2022 - Liquid Courage Sword in a bottle

A bottle with a potion which, when shattered, creates a water-blade

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 14h

Not trying to be cute (or twist all lit discussions into metaphysics), but honestly: the question of what "realism" even might be, and whether or to what extent literature is doing that (presenting? representing? simulating?) vs something else is endlessly fascinating.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 15h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15h

Adding: this snark is never for audience benefit. If someone thinks the sci-fi is too weird or the horror is too discomforting, they can make their own jokes. Art doing that itself is to prevent others' jokes. The artist says "I'LL laugh so YOU can't make fun of me." And it's so spineless.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 15h

Lightspeed is an amazing SFF magazine paying pro rates with great editors! They've published me twice with my new story coming out next week, and I really want them to keep going forever. They need less than $10k now 🚀✨

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One week left and we're at 52% of our goal! We've got ghosts, knights, vampires, werewolves, serial killers, gods, and monsters 🖤 Including my horror-romance novella FLESH AND BONE, a gothic western set in the Canadian Wild West where a monster hunts two (gay) cowboys across the Plains.

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LGBTQ+ Gothic, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle: 32 items for $10.00

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 16h

Truly can't complain about the price OR the shelf space.

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terror @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My enemies are amassing on the outskirts of town. Probably to apologise for their grievous misconduct

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ROWAN @rowanclair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ginkgo biloba, a living fossil, the last surviving species of its genus.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow arranged into a repeating pattern.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Does Ingram not do mass market size? I thought I saw people doing that recently.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nooo, what do you mean, it's only 32 books. Some of them are short!

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Ksenia Kholomeva✨ @milirine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Commission for @cloverxstar.bsky.social 💙 ✶✧✶ December 2025 #Illustration #commission

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Kova𓍊☽𓋼 @twoshortswords.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I made a bookmark with sleeping babies✨️🫶 #art

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How amazing is autumn?! Not many leaves this colour yet, but when you see them it's a real treat 🍂 #autumncolours #autumn #Berkhamsted

Autumn oak leaves, backlit, with some ferns and tall pines blurred in the background. The leaves are green at the base and get more red at the tips.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Personal hobbyhorse, but thinking about AI in publishing is really making me want criticism to go harder on discussing the actual style & substance of books. If we just talk about plot & vibes, we're leaving the door totally open, & missing out on the good stuff besides. "It's just words on a page."

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Five days left on the Lightspeed & Nightmare kickstarter, and they still need $10k to meet their funding goal! Love short fiction? Go pick up a subscription and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 ✦ KICKSTARTER!!! @sarenstone.com · 10/10/2026

We heard you guys liked washi tape? :> 🪷 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fol...

A mockup of our Follow Me DEEPER themed stamp-shaped washi tape, a lush, gothic stamp washi featuring beating hearts, grasping tentacles, moonlit flowers, and most dangerous and romantic of all: hand-holding.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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LGBTQ+ Gothic, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle by V. S. Holmes and 32 others

LGBTQ+ Gothic, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle: 32 items for $10.00

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hellboy is one of the most important comics ever created and we live in the world where we can casually pick it up off of the shelves with no problem. It’s not rare or obscure in any way. What a beautiful world

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

𝔄𝔩𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔞𝔠 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔪𝔰 Progress on the book jacket.

A crop of a larger image in progress:

The head of a wyrm looking up to the sky, behind it soar tiny bird-like fairies.

A crop of a larger image in progress:

A prairie covered hillside. A white deer with uneven broken antlers and a long curled tail watches from a distance.

A crop of a larger image in progress:

Goblins peer from the tall grasses of a Wisconsin Prairie.

A crop of a larger image in progress:

The Meshipeshu, great water panther spirit, antlered and covered in scale and spine, watches from beyond a high forested ridge side.

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William Goodby (Comms Open) @williamgoodby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hitting that sad spiderman walk. He must have the autumn blues.

Skeleton Crew, my original superhero character, walking with his head down with a crowbar in hand. Autumn leaves are flying through the air.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

People's "nothing good or just can ever happen" schtick is really getting on my damn nerves.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Recently, Must Read Magazines (MRM) bought three of the most legendary SFF magazines: Analog, Asimov’s, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. MRM immediately started changing the contracts to try to take more rights from authors without paying for them.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some of my favorite hands I've drawn for the Halloween season over the years. I wish I had the time to do some for this year!

Illustration of a orange toned hand holding up an apple cut in half with parts of apples and apple tree leaves behind it

Illustration of a pink toned hand holding a burning match as moths crawl around the hand trying to get to the light of the match

Illustration of a light pink toned hand holding up a stylized garter snake with plants laying behind and within the hand

Illustration of a light peach toned hand holding up a burning pumpkin reminiscent of the pumpkin head from the legend of Sleepy Hallow, a curled branch weaves around the hand

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Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hey everyone! So, I've had my commissions closed for a long time, and life has been bumpy, but I think I may have some time to open 1-2 cover slots, depending on volume and deadline, starting soon. Wouldn't mind some fantasy/ttrpg work. Some samples:

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Jellyfish whims change human lives. Moon witches communicate with bees, lizards, and fungi. A house keeps getting smaller. Sting of the Shore collects stories and poems of the sun, moon, sea, and beyond!

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Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Tarot - THE FOOL edited the fool card to match the Strength card. This card should technically always be in reverse... Poor little fox. #art #illustration #tarot #oc #ocsky #solivaga

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Chace Verity @chaceverity.com · 09/10/2026

Radio Silence is available now ⭐ - 1940s historical m/m romance - two radio stars who have been secretly in love with each other for years revive their program after five years apart - but a seedy Hollywood gossip is determined to dig up their dirt chaceverity.itch.io/radio-silence

cover for Chace Verity's Radio Silence done in black and white typography with blood splatter along the title. At top, it reads: How far will they go to protect each other?

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An old favourite from a trip to the Westfjords of #Iceland back in Sept 2019.

A few layers of landscape with some sun illuminating autumnal grasses in the middle. The back shows scree slopes which are almost blue.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nothing beats seeing a bundle number go up!

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My short story for Oct is here! WORKING DOGS is a queer spec fic western with ghosts. A stranger arrives at Case's ranch with a bullet wound and three vengeance-driven hunters on his tail as winter settles in 🍂❄️ Part 1/2 www.patreon.com/ArdenPowell/... Part 2/2 www.patreon.com/ArdenPowell/...

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Bears dozed in their dens; a wolf pack streaked across the plains, their cries cutting through the frozen air like silver wires; bison and aurochs ploughed through the snow to paw up the vegetation underneath, their breath steaming from huge nostrils like a bellows, icicles clinging to their beards; painted mustangs thundered through the hills on their way to thinner snows; mammoths came down from the far north tundra; they looked like moving mountains against the horizon, their shaggy domed heads and sloping backs crusted in snow. The days passed in a blink and the nights stretched out in spans of cold galaxies as the wind howled in the chimney. Jack cut firewood as Case hauled feed and hay to the stable to keep the horses fit despite the pastures’ scarcity. When blizzards stormed in, they passed the time in bed by the firelight, breathing against each other like animals in their burrow as the snow stuck to the windows and barricaded the door.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My horror-romance novella FLESH AND BONE is in this! A gothic gay western set in the Canadian Wild West about how internalized homophobia will literally rip you open from the inside and eat you alive 🖤

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy Friday!! This bundle of cool queer fantasy, gothic, and horror is going on for another week 🖤

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Caught a falling leaf in my hair on this morning's walk. Feels like good luck 🍂🍁

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Eva Funderburgh @evafunderburgh.com · 09/10/2026

QRP with your moon art! It was so hard to choose just one - turns out it’s a reoccurring theme. I went with “Three Beasts and the Moon” from 2019.

A view of three creatures stacked on top of each other to steal and eat the moon. They’re porcelain, against a grey gradient background.

Same piece, back view. The top, roundish beast is slipping slightly off the middle beast, with the moon firmly clasped in its mouth.

From this angle you can see that the moon is clearly a flat, delicious disk. All three creatures have little nubby tails

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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A dahlia from this year’s Dahlia Show at Sky Nursery, Shoreline, Washington #Flowers #Dahlias #Bloomscrolling #Anthophile #Photography #Macro #Scape

A close-up of a round white dahlia with pink petals in the middle of the flower, and a yellow center. The edge of another white dahlia is visible in the upper right hand corner

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Mindy Lee @mindyleedoodles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Happy International Lesbian Day

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's not a sheet and it doesn't have that specific store-bought frosting but I have baked a cake and made orange-vanilla buttercream icing. It must suffice.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is one sale away from breaking the 50% mark! 9 days left to get all these queer horror books for an obscenely low price.

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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Disabled queer still looking for work, please contact me via email or my website if you think I'd be a good fit for your project! danielle.taphanel@gmail.com www.danielletaphanel.com

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