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Bevan Thomas

@bevanthomas.bsky.social
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Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 12h
"On the bank of a broad part of the brook, where the water ran deep and black, was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod Crane, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin.... [His body] was not to be discovered." - Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" #FairyTaleTuesday
A shattered pumpkin on the ground. An image from Disney's adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yabba-Dabba-Doo, you Wyrdlings! Since the Flintstones premiered on 30 September 1960, it’s: “Modern Stone-Ages: Dinotopias, Lost Worlds & supermodern Saurians!” for this week’s #WyrdWednesday! Come, tell tales of odd places harbouring giant lizards, thawed up icemen & why brontos suddenly appear!
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 20h
In Washington Irving's original short story and the Disney movie, the legendary Headless Horseman is said to carry his own severed head. That Ichabod Crane gets hit by a pumpkin instead is a big clue that he's being attacked by a disguised Brom Bones instead of the real Horseman. #FairyTaleTuesday
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Disney Headless Horseman
Alt: The Headless Horseman throws his flaming jack-o'-lantern in Disney's "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad."
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HAPPY 39TH BIRTHDAY, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION!!!
Promotional photo of season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation which premiered September 28, 1987
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Revolutionary_Jack 🕷🕸! @elvingjack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A literal "I don't read the script, the script reads me" kind of performance.
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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Star Alan Cumming Says ‘I Don’t Fully Understand the Plot’ and Only Acted With Florence Pugh’s Stunt Double
Alan Cumming says he has no idea what the "Avengers: Doomsday" plot is and he only acted with Florence Pugh's stunt double.
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vamp 🫀 @vampart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
core refresh venus <3 #monsterhigh #fanart
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nina matsumoto 🌸 @spacecoyote.com · 13/09/2026
I know many of you are skilled at layout design. Would you like to do it full-time?
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sylvia Hotel
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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To build the World of Archie Comics archive, resource managers at Alexander Street sourced comics from physical holdings at research libraries and ebay. The World of Archie Comics Archive [2 of 4] #comicsstudies #archiecomics
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I reviewed @profdarryljones.bsky.social's new biography of M. R. James. Long-awaited by fans, and surely the most important book about MRJ yet to appear this century: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/09/28/r... 📚👻📜
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Review: ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ by Darryl Jones
Darryl Jones, For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James (Oxford University Press, 2026), 437pp. M. R. James did not make it easy for anyone to write his biography. He introduced this difficult…
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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hallowe'en Season approaching, so now's the time to buy your copy of NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...
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Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation
With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...
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MasterSauce @mastersauce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
WHICH ONE WILL IT BE, 30-YEAR-OLD FURRY ARTIST??? #shitpost
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ebisu is a Japanese god of fishermen, tradesmen, wealth, and luck. He was born without limbs, so his mother cast him into the sea. Though Ebisu eventually grew limbs, he remains slightly crippled and deaf. However, he tries to be always jolly and upbeat, and is the "Laughing God." #MythologyMonday
Statue of the laughing god Ebisu at Ebisu-Jinja in Kyoto, Japan.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026
in the age of AI, making art is a radical act
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Kate Shaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A klingon with the caption "everyone was harmed during the making of this video"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.
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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ben and I have been watching a LOT of DS9 the past couple days and I’ve come to the conclusion that my favorite character is Gowron’s Eyes.
Gowron from Deep Space 9 and his extremely big bug eyes
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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AI bubble is bursting. Put all your money into comics.
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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
TP2 - Psylocke & Cyclops My Christmas gift wax box only netted me three of this insert set; this is one of them channeling a bit of that early 90s Psylocke/Cyclops flirtation subplot. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #XMenTeamPortrait
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
According to medieval bestiaries, the fox is a cunning and deceitful animal. This beast will lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. Then, when unsuspecting birds land on the fox, they are devoured. This represents how the Devil appears harmless to lure sinners to their doom. #FolkloreSunday
A fox lays a trap for birds. Illustrations from the Rochester Bestiary (a 13th-century European bestiary).
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him." - William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing" (Act 2, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday
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Baroness Emma Thompson Takes a Bite
Alt: Baroness Emma Thompson takes a bite.
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reynard the Fox was a prominent figure in medieval European folktales, a trickster and everyman. He would bedevil other anthropomorphic animals, frequently mocking the nobility, clergy, and other authority figures. However, Reynard's main enemy was his uncle, the wolf Isengrim. #FolkloreSunday
Reynard the Fox proudly brandishes his banner in front of a group of admiring animals. Illustration by Ernest Henri Griset.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 26/09/2026
Cader Idris: let the mountain speak is a capacious bag of a book. It will be essential reading for mountain lovers for years to come ✍️Andrew Green wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tVm
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner.... Be full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed." - Richard Adams, "Watership Down" #BookWormSat
Photograph of a cottontail rabbit crouching in a field
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Uncle Remus might well have heard of [El-Ahrairah]. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies." - Richard Adams, "Watership Down" #BookWormSat
Photograph of an alert rabbit sitting on its haunches.
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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.’ ~ Richard Adams, Watership Down. This #BookWormSat is also #InternationalRabbitDay so we will get lost down our own rabbit hole of the rabbits, hares and all small furry creatures of literature. Do join us. 🐇
🖼️ Rabbits, William Jacob Hays Sr, 1859.
Painting of one rabbit sat upright on a cut tree stump surrounded by six rabbits sitting and lying beneath him / her on the grass, there are leaves on the grass and trees and sky in the distance.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Please guys, help me, a decade-plus of ever-increasing rabidly-deranged bigotry has made my life difficult for some reason"
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No One Cares Animated Text
ALT: No One Cares Animated Text
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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FA5- Magneto Defeated! AKA Onslaught's conception. All else aside, this is definitely one of the iconic images to come out of this story. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #FatalAttractions
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Dave Littler @dave-littler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The r/Sinfest subreddit has become such an interesting place. It is 100% dedicated to condemnation of "Tatsuda Ishida and his nazi propaganda," so much so that literally any repost of his comics is always prefaced by this image. We've been delighting in his financial downfall since this happened.
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
someone is trying to correct my tatsuya ishida egg theory with "hmm actually i'd say he's just weird" OH I'M SORRY DID YOU READ THE COMPLETE 20 YEAR RUN OF SINFEST? ARE YOU RECOGNIZED AS THE PREMIERE TATSUYA ISHIDA SCHOLAR OF THE 21ST CENTURY? NO???? then shut up
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Your friendly neighbourhood whimsygoth cat girl @wh1msyg0thcatgirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just putting it out there that Sinfest is an out and proud TERF/Neo-Nazi who has voiced support for anti-trans bathroom bans and has called Hitler, the most evil figure to ever exist in history, a "cool guy". Screw him with a flaming hot cactus to Hell.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
going from paragraph 1 to paragraph 2 is a real whirlwind
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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
ALL NIGHT LONG (Howard Storm, 1988) Happy-go-lucky mortuary workers are recruited by a secret government agency during an outbreak of vampirism… until one of them unexpectedly falls in love with the Undead Queen of L.A. Starring George Newbern, Christopher McDonald, and Kimberly Foster.
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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
LESS THAN TWILIGHT (Marek Kanievska, 1987) A decadent college student (Andrew McCarthy) returns home for Christmas and finds himself caught in a love triangle between a dissipated gigolo werewolf (Robert Downey Jr.) and his sociopathic coke-dealing vampire pimp (James Spader).
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Reetta Linjama @kelipipo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm tabling at New West Comic Fest on SATURDAY! Entry $5. Find me at (half)table 31
Poster for NWCF. Not drawn by my
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Susan Ferguson @susanferguson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/theo...
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Clord TC, illustration creaturo @clordtc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Absolute Zatanna freehand doodlin. (we don't sketch nothin' underneath) half hour or thereabouts.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off #AIslop #graphicnovels #graphicnovel
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Novvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI Assistance
The Singapore-based startup says its AI-powered platform can halve graphic novel production time and cost. “This is not a self-driving car,” notes CEO Anumeha Bisaria. “It’s more like handing ...
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Migrating geese have long been seasonal timekeepers. Their great autumn formations told people something calendars now do more precisely...that the year was turning. Folklore and weather lore paid attention because sometimes the sky itself announced the season. #FolkloreThursday Art: Robert Bateman
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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Irish folklore, there was a man in the wind - fear nagaoithe (the wind-man). In late autumn he destroyed stacks of corn and hay which the farmers hadn't put into the barn. He could also use his bellows to bring the storms... #FolkloreThursday 🎨Arthur Rackham
Autumn leaves are orange, a crowd of faces with hair flying is blowing the trees and the leaves.
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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🌿🌊🌿'Undine' - written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - illustrated by Arthur Rackham. "Forget not that I am here with thee as a guide." #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The divine embodiment of the autumn season 🎨Iren Horrors #FolkloreThursday
A horned red-haired maiden who embodies the autumn season, and is accompanied by a flock of sprites with fiery wings. Illustration by Iren Horrors.
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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A commission from a few years ago.
Colour drawing of Asterix and Obelix. Asterix looks on from the sidelines as Obelix punches someone into the stratosphere - only their sandals remain. The Gaulish village is in the background.
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Opora was a minor Greek goddess of fruit, the harvest, and the autumn season. Sirius (the dog star) fell in love with her, and his passion became so intense that it burned the Earth until Opora agreed to marry him. Sirius still glows every summer as a symbol of his love. #FolkloreThursday
A 4th-century Roman mosaic that depicts the goddess of the autumn, laden down with the fruits of the harvest.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
there is a certain mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale’s which the Right Whale’s sadly lacks
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