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Dianthe West

@dianthewest.bsky.social
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🌱 Poet, author, art historian | #AuDHD 🏇♿ ✨💖💛💙✨| P: M. Cassatt

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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It is critically important that we revise #Tolkien + every Tolkienesque descendant (I'm looking at you, #DnD) on #race. The #LordoftheRings = 1937 – 1949. One can oppose eugenics + still be a product of one's time. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... #sff #LOTR #fantasy @andyserkis.bsky.social
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The Hunt for Gollum is being criticised for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer
The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen today
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Check out this cover tho. >.> www.youtube.com/watch?v=THhu...
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Dead On A Sunday ' "Lovesong" (The Cure cover)
YouTube video by Dead On A Sunday
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Best hook I've read in a long time. Or maybe it just hit me at the right moment. 💯 😉 #writing #journalism #psychology www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A better life is possible - but only if you dive deep into your unconscious
We are used to skimming the surface of our emotions, distracting ourselves with endless doing. To discover what we really need, we must move beyond the shallows
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
Fractured Reveries. Blue, red, aqua and gold paint strokes with fingertips emerging from them.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Book release! My new #poem, "Some Shining Earth," is a #solarpunk sequel/retelling of Christina Rossetti's #Goblin Market, mashed up w/ The Green Children of Woolpit. Read it here first! --> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKPPNT7X ed. @carinabissett.bsky.social #SFFH #fantasy #darkfantasy #SFWA #SFPA #poetry
Fractured Reveries. Blue, red, aqua and gold paint strokes with fingertips emerging from them.
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Julie C. Day is communing with tiny dinosaurs @thisjulieday.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
10 days! Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology ships JULY 1st! I'm thrilled with how it turned out. These authors are fire! tanithleestoryteller.com @marthawells.com @csecooney.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social @mythicdelirium.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social @mayadeane.bsky.social and more
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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
it may not be encouraged but I also got a spring Covid vaccine in Ontario. In Toronto to be more specific. East Toronto to be even more specific and Pharmacare pharmacy on Broadview with lovely Lindsay the Pharmacist to be more specific still!
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My 72-year-old half-sister has profound #autism. So, very likely, did my great uncle Carl, born in 1900. The #MMR vaccine was introduced in 1971. (Single Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IME + in science's HO. #eugenicists go home.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My 72-year-old half-sister has profound #autism. So, very likely, did my great uncle Carl, born in 1900. The #MMR vaccine was introduced in 1971. (Single Measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IME + in science's HO. #eugenicists go home.
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Only a week to go before the BFS and Waterstones' Leeds 'A Conversation on Characterisation. Tickets just £5. tinyurl.com/characterleeds 11 March, 7pm, Albion St. @danhanks.bsky.social @katiebruce.bsky.social @mikebrooks668.bsky.social @stephanieburgis.bsky.social @alethearlyons.bsky.social
Shown is a graphic that has a river winding through a plain with mountains in the background. On the right bank of the river is a tall, golden statue of hooded character. They hold a lantern in one hand and a staff in the other. Top right is the Waterstones logo, a black W. On the top right and left of the top text box is the BFS logo, a white dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’.  Photos: Katie Bruce (top left); Dan Hanks (middle left); Stephanie Burgis (top right); Alethea Lyons (bottom left); Mike Brooks (bottom right).Shown is a graphic that has a river winding through a plain with mountains in the background. On the right bank of the river is a tall, golden statue of hooded character. They hold a lantern in one hand and a staff in the other. Top right is the Waterstones logo, a black W. On the top right and left of the top text box is the BFS logo, a white dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’.  Photos: Katie Bruce (top left); Dan Hanks (middle left); Stephanie Burgis (top right); Alethea Lyons (bottom left); Mike Brooks (bottom right).A graphic with the four book covers with the authors names underneath.
Wooing The Witch Queen - Stephanie Burgis, The Hiding - Alethea Lyons, The Way Up Is Death - Dan Hanks, The Black Coast - Mike Brooks
A picture of Katie Bruce in the centre with 'Chair Katie Bruce' underneath
At the top is the text: Waterstones Leeds & The British Fantasy Society Present A Conversation on Characterisation - with the BFS logo of bfs topped with a dragon in the two top corners
Underneath is the text 11.03.2025 www.waterstones.com/events/a-conversation-on-characterisation-fantasy-panel/leeds 19:00
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I would even characterize it as 'pay for access'. In my case, my US college paid. In my co-interns' case, IIRC her wealthy family was paying.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As a US merit scholar, I had one of these #unpaid #internships at a private UK gallery in the 90s. I'll add to this critique that I was de facto cut out of things like galas bc I couldn't afford to buy the clothes. It has always struck me as a bizarre arrangement. The owner was a $$$ celeb.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
‪I'm waiting for #Canada to whip out the actual head of state. The US administration seems oblivious to the fact PM #Trudeau is not the sovereign. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada's foreign minister says she gave Europe a 'wake-up call' on threat Trump poses to Canada | CBC News
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly concluded her recent tour of Europe saying she delivered a “wake-up call” to Canada’s allies across the Atlantic about the economic and political threat the Trump...
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Today, we renamed our house "Castle Fuck It," and I just put a shot of bourbon in my coffee. /how it's going
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Cried. Going to try to sleep now. Hopefully two out of four of us continue to have an income this year? 😬
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Lovely to have you here and thank you as always.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thank you!
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'm here to tell you if you can't focus or get anything done today because you're in a marginalized group that's about to lose rights, then resting and connecting is totally valid. Self care is resistance. Community care is resistance. 🕊️💕
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'm here to tell you if you can't focus or get anything done today because you're in a marginalized group that's about to lose rights, then resting and connecting is totally valid. Self care is resistance. Community care is resistance. 🕊️💕
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Federal Liberal Party comms have been less than top notch, IMHO. For example, I was quite surprised at one point by reading an official party platform PDF with multiple editorial errors.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
"We are living through precedented times." - Historians
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thank you!
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Achievement unlocked! I've moved from Apprentice to Associate in the #SFWA. Thanks to @carinabissett.bsky.social, @angrygablepress.bsky.social, @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social & 3rd Estate Art for believing in my work + to my wonderful SFWA mentor, LJ Cohen. #fantasyfiction #SFFH @sfwa.bsky.social
Your SFWA membership application has been approved!
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Contract signed for Goblin-Market-adjacent poetic #climate flash fiction. Coming soon! Excited for this one. #poetry #poet #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #shortstory #SFFH #ChristinaRossetti #preraphaelites #solarpunk #poem #gothiclit #canadianauthor
Golden Head by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Public Domain
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My 2024 #poem "Gorgoneion" qualifies for the short-form Rhysling Award at @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Find it in Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 or in the #SFPA members' drive. A nomination would be lovely! #vote #rhysling #rhyslingaward #sfpoetry #canadianpoet #awardconsideration @angrygablepress.bsky.social
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Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 Released!
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hi @ghostlyverse.bsky.social!
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My 2024 #poem "Gorgoneion" qualifies for the short-form Rhysling Award at @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Find it in Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 or in the #SFPA members' drive. A nomination would be lovely! #vote #rhysling #rhyslingaward #sfpoetry #canadianpoet #awardconsideration @angrygablepress.bsky.social
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Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 Released!
Buy
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
So sorry to hear this, Steve.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I think if I could give one single piece of advice to everyone with ADHD it would be: figure out how your brain works, not how you wish it would
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
angrygablepress.com/katabatic-circus #poetry #opensubmissions #speculative
Red desiccated flower with black and yellow highlights. Words on image read “Katabatic Circus Volume 2” and “submit.”
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Contract signed for Goblin-Market-adjacent poetic #climate flash fiction. Coming soon! Excited for this one. #poetry #poet #fantasy #fantasyfiction #horror #shortstory #SFFH #ChristinaRossetti #preraphaelites #solarpunk #poem #gothiclit #canadianauthor
Golden Head by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Public Domain
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I've been so separated from "real life" at this point that it's starting to feel like a city I moved out of. It's a singularly #cyberpunk experience, I can tell you. #disability #cancer #covidawareness. Makin' it work, tho. Research for a novel, as usual. :D
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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Why are the Wicked cast always crying? Are they doing a PhD?
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m excited to announce this new CFP for scholarly chapters to be included in “Contemporary Indigenous Horror” edited by myself and Krista Collier-Jarvis! The CFP is open to self-identifying Indigenous scholars and creatives, as well as allies. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
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cfp | call for papers
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 is here with Sapphic Gorgon #poetry of mine! Thanks so much to Angry Gable Press. It's a beautiful book full of beautiful #poets. ✨☕
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Full cover reveal! angrygablepress.com/2024/11/18/k...
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Katabatic Circus Volume 1
Available November 29, 2024 Buy Here
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Oh very nice. Right up my alley and maybe some of yours. "This intro-level workshop examines how Black, Indigenous, and Disability Justice (BIDJ) perspectives intersect to inform harm reduction strategies in new media environments." Free! www.tickettailor.com/events/inter...
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Register – Reducing Harm in New Media: An Intersectional Exploration of Digital Community Protocols – Zoom
Black, Indigenous, and Disability Justice (BIDJ) communities have been at the forefront of creating ethical, community-driven a...
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Augh. :/
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
TOC announcement! Coming soon: Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 with #gorgon poetry of mine. Look at this fantastic line-up of poets! Thanks so much to @angrygablepress.bsky.social for all of their hard work and energy on this. #poetry #poets #horror #classics
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Good point!
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Happy to announce my poem, "Where I'm From (after George Ella Lyon)," is now free to read in Issue #12 of EXIST OTHERWISE Literary Journal. EXIST OTHERWISE is modeled after artist Claude Cahun, whose gender-bending work defied social norms. Editor: Eric Jennings. existotherwise.cc/issue-12-sep...
Exist Otherwise: orange, black, pink, and aqua logo.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
Social media algorithms reflect the internalized patriarchy of the group. I'm here to remind you to actively resist that with conscious everyday actions that support women. Yes, I'm becoming the crush-the-patriarchy bot, and that's fine with me.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
#climatefiction #glasgowc2024 I was interviewed about the climate fiction panel I moderated at WorldCon! news.sky.com/story/climat...
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Climate crisis a hot topic at Worldcon in Glasgow
Worldcon is taking place at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) until 12 August and boasts a packed programme that includes talks, workshops, readings, panel discussions and entertainment.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
As I write this Uncanny, and Apex are conducting their annual crowdfunding drives. Weird Horror magazine has never crowdfunded before. In the past, we'd simply use revenue from our book-publishing activities to help fund the magazine. We now need your help. crowdfundr.com/weirdhorror
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Stay Weird! Fund Weird Horror Magazine for 2025.
Help keep Weird Horror magazine going. Genre magazines are suffering. Revenue and marketshare is shrinking. We need your help. We can't continue publishing the magazine without your support. Please co...
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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Actually democratizing art would mean making it easier for people to acquire the skill they want in art. Which would look like free college. Or free continuing adult education. More time off. Universal healthcare. The foundations that allow the freedom to pursue our various happinesses.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
Contract signed for sapphic gorgon #poetry. Will reveal more at the proper time! (Is there a hashtag for that? >.>)
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Fellow COVID cautious/vulnerable here. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
If you're going to clutch pearls over gayness, Renaissance Florence is probably not your scene.
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Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
Leonardo da Vinci was almost certainly gay. Just sayin’.
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess a.co/d/exSMsip Available for preorder in ebook format now. Releases in print and ebook on July 31st.
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Amazon.com: Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess eBook : Borwein, Naomi Simone, Jiang, Ai, Smith, Angela Yuriko, Sng, Christina, Schein, Lorraine, Grech, Amy, Newton, Kurt, Pichet...
Amazon.com: Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess eBook : Borwein, Naomi Simone, Jiang, Ai, Smith, Angela Yuriko, Sng, Christina, Schein, Lorraine, Grech, Amy, Newton, Kurt, Pichet...
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