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Julia L

@calenmir.bsky.social
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SFF/horror #TTRPG + #WritingCommunity (see #AgentGuide). Wants #FriendPromotionFriday to be a thing Writing: jklafondwriter.wordpress.com GM profile: startplaying.games/gm/julia_lafond Calenmir's RPGs: www.calenmirsrpgs.com

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Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 15h
Today's thread highlighting people who have reached out for help via Bluesky. 36 today, no bonus posts 1. Rev Casey: bsky.app/profile/thou...
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good job, California. 15 states to go. No child should marry. A child who marries isn’t emancipated, her (and it’s usually a girl) new spouse becomes her guardian. If he abuses her, she cannot go to a domestic violence shelter. She cannot initiate a divorce. She can’t have her own money.
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California bans child marriage, even with parental permission
Supporters hail ban on child marriage and companion bill to address forced marriages as “most comprehensive framework” in the U.S.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 22h
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fiasco am having hard day It tough to find time to work on hims screenplay Horrible Babby am unsympathetic Maybe if quick nap on Big Friend's leggy??
me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby, lying mostly asleep on top of my owner's leg, not visible under a floral print duvet
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you an editor or publisher with an original short fiction project of weird fiction out this year? Anthology? Magazine? Collection? Get it in for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026
Help Got one of them there Draculas in the house
a fluffy black cat on a bed, facing the viewer, yawning. there are fangs.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.
A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas
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Hilary 💀 BisenEEKs @hbbisenieks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hey ya girl's car literally barfed up its serpentine belt this morning. so if you maybe want to help a brick out, go check out my itch? i Just dropped a new zine i've been working on for a hot minute, and you can also pick up a solo ttrpg i wrote hbbisenieks.itch.io/a-tgirls-gui...
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a tgirl's guide to archery by Hilary B. Bisenieks
a (queer) introduction to archery
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026
Yes but --
the cover of fiasco's next novel, 'the hamsome man,' featuring him (the hamsome man) sitting on a faux-wood table in front of some blue and gold curtains
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
actual hot take: y'all, generally speaking, are not interested in supporting BIPOC and queer authors when they are not writing about Hurt and Trauma because it's not educational to you. even if the books have BIPOC and queer casts and are in new settings.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/10/2026
Yeahhhhhh I used to joke about writing the 'wrong' type of book to be accepted by CanLit with a name like mine (should be about: mangoes, nose piercings, arranged marriages, and/or a hip young brown woman going to university and conflicting with her mother's values) I'm not laughing these days
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 20h
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do worry a TINY bit that this is how we got JK Rowling long before she went fully mask-off TERF, she was the darling of liberal Twitter for her sassy Trump dunks and that is 100% the reason she got so high on her own supply that she began sincerely believing she was a necessary voice in politics
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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✨ Alppy ✨ @mxalppy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve added more cards to my merch store. If anyone is still interested in those and want to help out. I also still have my mystery packs available, too! mxalppy.bigcartel.com
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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To sum up: My publishers failed to register US copyright on many of my titles I am doing all the work in making the claim on those titles they did bother with They take half of any compensation anyway
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18h
Cis guys, this thread is for you to read, not comment on. No, not even sympathetic comments. CW: sexual assault, PTSD When I was 17 and away from home for the first time at college, I met a boy on Facebook, back when it was still mostly campus-based stuff. 🧵
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exactly. THE NIGHTWARD was inspired by Caribbean MYTHOLOGY, yet reviews said they couldn't 'see' the 'Caribbean' in it. I told you it was a secondary world sci fantasy, so excuse me? What even were your expectations? Coconut trees? Beaches? I mean... I'm not a tour guide & this ain't Burger King.
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TrueFeyQueen888 🏳️‍⚧️ (Archfey of Honeysuckle 🍯🐝🌼) @truefeyqueen888.itch.io · 01/10/2026
No reason you couldn't play Beaks & Blunderbusses as the Council of Goth Birds 🖤❤️🐦‍⬛🦉🐦‍⬛❤️🖤 truefeyqueen888.itch.io/beaks-blunde... #TTRPG #RPG #Tabletop #Games #IndieTTRPG #October #Halloween #Goth #Bird #Raven #Owl #Parrot #Vulture #SpookyMonth #SpookyGames 🎲📚🎃
Common RavenGreat Horned OwlPesquet's Parrot, comminly nicknamed the Dracula ParrotBearded Vulture
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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South Carolina bridge from memory
Black and white drawing of a person fishing off the side of a bridge
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I was ~22 I missed the last train at Penn Station at 1:40 a.m. and the next one wasn't for like 2 1/2 hours, so I sat on the ground against a pillar to wait for it. I must have dozed off; I woke to my rib breaking as a cop kicked me to move along. There's one part of this story I've left...
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 30/09/2026
If they just would have sent the money to the actual authors only who you know HOLD THE ACTUAL COPYRIGHT... But here we are again, getting every crumb further crumbled by massive corporations and bad actors
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
Today's reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and Israel and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22h
Years ago, I represented someone who was charged with driving under the influence. Client was indeed under the influence of a substance at the time. I got raked over the coals for it. There's no excuse, people said. But see, here's the thing. Client had a family member with a severe,
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18h
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence. to.pbs.org/4hWQbB8
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Former cop who fatally shot Botham Jean in apartment that she mistook for hers gets parole
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 19h
🧵 1/ The Ebola outbreak in the DRC, with >8,000 confirmed cases and nearly 4,000 deaths, remains uncontrolled. There are treatment units but not enough health care workers to staff them. Those who are there face risk of infection, exhaustion, and trauma, some while not even being paid.
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Congo Is Running Short of Health Workers as Ebola Remains Out of Control, WHO Says
One treatment center requires about 300 health professionals, said WHO representative
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19h
This is going to break people. This SHOULD break people. WTF are we even doing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17h
It is almost incomprehensible. California’s Habeas Corpus Resource Center (a state agency) reported in May of this year that the death penalty costs the state over $200 million a year, meaning California spent at least $6.8 billion on its death penalty system between 1978 and 2025.
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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Step up, and share this around to encourage others to do the same. I'll probably be gone less than a year from now, and I want to be able to leave secure in the knowledge that my work will continue apace.
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 22h
The distinction between surface and depth is a lie told by people who have never owned a really good pair of boots. A #vampire #TTRPG that loves vampires again. The prose runs purple. The mechanics run clean. Vermillion Vespers is out. Come home. The night missed you. www.drivethrurpg.com...
Black and red background. Heavily shadowed woman in foreground, just one eye visible with a band of red paint across it. Styled text in foreground: Vermillion Vespers by Rev Casey. Thought Punks.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17h
"Sheryl, why do you focus on the US and Israel so much? Do you hate Western civilization?" I was born in a country built on stolen land with the forced stolen labor of enslaved people. Therefore, I will talk about how evil it is to steal land and enslave people and how we must make that right.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18h
To every SA victim reliving their trauma, disassociating, battling rage and fear every day: We survived the hardest part. We made it through, changed, but we're here. Those memories are vampires sapping our very existence, but vampires die in the light. You can borrow some of mine awhile. Love.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️ @ Nuit Blanche 12 Hours Comics Event! @jpawlik.com · 22h
Hey are you a comic artist on Tapas? Are you frustrated with the news? Publish your Tapas comic on Itch.io (either partially or in full, even just 1 chapter) and submit it to the Tapas X Itch.io bundle form here by Oct 30th 11:59pmEST forms.gle/QhQaJ4cXvXKT... #Tapas
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A Tapas X Itch.io Bundle
We've heard the news that Tapas is shutting down on March 31st, 2027 and I want to setup an Itch.io bundle to help support the artists affected by this. If you have a comic on Tapas, this bundle is f...
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emma 🌙✨ gothHoblin @gothhoblin.me · 17h
check out the Halloween Hijinks TTRPG bundle from @sprintingowl.bsky.social - 50+ games to enjoy during creepy pumpkin time! 🎃 Pro wrestlers, zombies, scary things in the dark, ghosts, tentacles, turkeys, the moon! The forest, animal crackers, cats, curses, and more 👻 itch.io/b/3936/hallo...
Halloween Hijinks TTRPG bundle logo featuring a ghost in a field
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Shan Wolf @shanwolf.bsky.social · 19h
This is a *FANTASTIC* Idea. I'd Purchase *HAND DRAWN* TOKEN PACKS OF BLACK AND POC CHARACTERS, I BET A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h
Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h
thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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Bailey Thomas @baileythomas92.bsky.social · 19h
OMG THERE ARE SO MANY COOL REWARDS!!!! I’m panicking about what to pick 😭 Please consider backing @apexmag.bsky.social, Apex is the reason I fell in love with short stories and felt inspired to write my own. Really cool mag that publishes many diverse people and stories!
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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 16h
#boktober number 01, featuring one of @rentradewind.noodlebowl.org's hens. Thanks for the ref! :) I hope my next phone can take better macro photos lol.
A quick watercolor sketch of a brown chicken looking at us over her shoulder. Kamakru.com, #Boktober 01
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Alex @alexsgamingcorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, I submitted by entry to the #FolkloreJam today 💛 It's a solo one-page TTRPG about childhood, ghosts, confronting mortality, & finding comfort in friendship. This folklore is personal & local, from childhood memories of playing in my church's graveyard & finding old graves of kids my own age 👻
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The Children of Massey Woods by Alex's Gaming Corner
​A one-page solo game of childhood, of ghosts, of confronting mortality, and of finding comfort in friendship.
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why yes, you can have some spooky art for your wall! Whomst does not enjoy an eerie crow stare or a reminder of your own mortality to brighten up any room??
spooky crow staringreaper with timeglass
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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hello. I am widening my submissions categories to include: - Epic Fantasy - Space Opera - Near Future/High Concept SF - Horror Details here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...
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Submission Guidelines — DongWon Song
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Many Stories Many Games @manystorgapod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In which we begin a new one shot with a new game with a session 0!
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Savage Worlds The Razor and the Gale Stormcrest Session 0 by Many Stories Many Games
In which we begin a new one shot with a new game with a session 0!We are playing Savage Worlds Adventure Edition by Pinnacle Entertainment! The one shot The Razor and the Gale: Stormcrest was made by ...
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