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Eleanna Castroianni

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Writers! The Uncanny Year 13 Kickstarter has MANUSCRIPT CRITIQUES from @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social, @acwise.bsky.social, @rati.bsky.social, @seraph76.bsky.social, @foxesandroses.bsky.social... 1/3 www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
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Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!
Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Never thought I'd live to see the em dash trying to prove its humanity—yet here we are. Below a heavily em-dashed (and semi-colonized) page from Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To The Lighthouse.
Page 189 from To The Lighthouse with at least four em dashes
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
And to quote my friend "You have CHAIN OF DOGS in this book and you name it DEADHOUSE GATES?" Absolutely agree. Obviously it should be named.... ....DOGHOUSE GATES. (I'll see myself out) #Malazan
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Completely forgot about this and I just finished House of Chains, so I'll be doing a thread on it, but before I move on I must say: I finished Deadhouse Gates last November and I've been thinking abt the Chain of Dogs EVERY SINGLE DAY. Did you hear that: EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. #Malazan
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I have news!!! 👇👇😍😍
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This here shall be an incoherent yet spoiler-free ongoing thread on Malazan (currently on Book 3 & I've lost my sleep over it)
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/Vjcbsrz
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first.

'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I have a new Uncanny story! Set in a village that was flooded and is no more, though its inhabitants remember...but what they remember and what's the truth - that's another question. Contested memory & generational trauma of the Greek Civil War (and more family dinners with...issues.)
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social! You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December! buff.ly/CmvWUOr
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first.

'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Halloween has come and gone but the dead return on the eve of the New Year. They remember what the living can never forget, around a dining table full of heavy silences, and broken hearts. But deep inside the ground there's love to be found. @ecastroianni.bsky.social in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social
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They Return - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Finger by finger, my father’s hand sprouts like fungus from the cold hard ground. Loamy, cinereal, it grows into an arm.
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Thicker" by Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social! You can read it in the eBooks now & on the website in December! buff.ly/CmvWUOr
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 67, "Mushroom Mother of Us All" by Paul Lewin. In the center, an elderly Black woman has her eyes serenely closed, a brown-orange nose piercing on her right nostril and an orange line/mark on her chin. Her hair are the green leaves of trees, trunks growing out of the side of her face, and mushrooms growing through the leaves. She wears large earrings of orange, sienna, with aqua and white lines and dots. Her hands hold a bowl lined with Black faces and mushrooms growing out of the bowl. In the center of the bowl and thus the front of her chest is an orange sun surrounded by a dark pink halo like a globe. The quote reads: "Where mother was born, fish sing, algae dance. They say that when the waters lower you can feel the swell between your organs—liver bloated, heart submerged. Mother always goes back in years of drought. This time is Vassia’s first.

'I’m so glad you’ll finally see our home.'"
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Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Bot . . . girl . . . resistance! This story hits all the right notes. Nice job @ecastroianni.bsky.social Pre-order the book: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
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Some Queer Short SFF - September 2025 | Charles Payseur
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Your Halloween read is here, by yours truly ✨ So excited to share this with you!
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Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Pre-order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... Stories by: @ecastroianni.bsky.social @grantcollier.bsky.social @gregegansf.bsky.social Rich Larson @kyliu99.bsky.social James Morrow @trnapper.bsky.social Amal Singh Lavie Tidier Jay Werkheiser @librariangoblin.bsky.social
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This article about the Elfashir siege is so illuminating, and at the same time infuriating & BAFFLING. It is beyond comprehension that *all this* is happening to a population, and no one in power feels any sense of urgency at all. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... A must read! #KeepEyesOnSudan
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‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher
For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe t...
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cat 😊 @cats.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Friends, I'll be doing a smol reading at FoF on hour 14, which is Saturday 6:00 AM UTC so if anyone can make it I will be happy to see you there! ❤️
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
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Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford
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Polis Loizou 🐺🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Publishing since "Song of Achilles": [absolutely milking Greek culture without including actual Greeks or GS Cypriots] Lone voice: "But what's the Greek perspective on this?" Publishing:
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I am reminded how I desperately need to re-read *this* trilogy more than the others and how Robin Hobb managed to produce the best love story ever written, conveniently wrapped in 16 massive tomes of epic fantasy.
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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
And now for our Issue 98 COVER 🎉 🎉 🎉 Wound, by Zi Xu
The cover for Fantasy Issue 98! A brown-haired, light-skinned figure kneels next to a giant white bird, tending to an arrow wound. The cover is awash in autumnal shades of orange, cream, and brown.
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I have a new story coming up! 😍
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Palestinian families like Nehad's are being starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:
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Save with some $ and love the children of Gaza.
Hello i am Ema Dei a social worker in Marseille, Nehad she is my internet friend. Humans please!, your contributions save lives. I am personally expressing my gratitude to you for reading it, donate o...
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L @galatfemme.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Friends, I'm hosting another fundraiser for Palestine on Saturday. This time I've linked to a campaign by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social in aid of the Sameer Project and the wonderful @refaatlibrary.bsky.social is matching the next $11,000 in donations If you're able to donate or attend, please do! 🍉
A poster with a background of a pink, maroon, and yellow embroidered fabric (tatreez). Text reads: An evening of community in solidarity with Palestinians
Funds for Falasteen
Join us on Sat 2nd August, 9pm IST in sharing work by Palestinian writers, poets, singers, and artists.

Make a donation to any Palestinian fundraiser
https://shorturl.at/h2mJZ

Send the receipt to falasteenfund@gmail.com to get a meeting link
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 24/07/2025
The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
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Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
on a summer break, so I'm late to see this but SO excited to be part of this ToC with my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story "The Lark Ascending" 🤩🤩🥰🥰
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 22/07/2025
PRESS RELEASE Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!! curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social "This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next." thread/ psychopomp.com/announcing-t...
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Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
You've been waiting for it, and now it is here, delivered hot and fresh to your browser, a table of contents for Afterlives 2024: The Year's Best Death
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I had a dream in which I saw myself in the mirror but it was actually a zoom call for work and instead of a powerful transformative experience I was panicking because I forgot I was wearing pink pajamas with kittens is this life in your late 30s/after 2020
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!
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6 Greek Mythology Retellings for Fans of 'Circe,' 'Hadestown' and 'Kaos' (Exclusive)
We love a great myth remix — and they come in all shapes and sizes. Here are 8 stellar novels and short stories, many written by actual Greeks.
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We are now mid-way! Help us hit all the goals and the stretch goals. :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
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Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 01/06/2025
My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.
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What to Read – the Monster Edition - Ruadán Books
by Maria Haskins Where there are humans telling stories, there are monsters. From the very beginning, monsters have taken center stage in our myths, fairytales, and fiction. The vampire is one of the ...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
From the Archives w BCS #429: "Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids" @ecastroianni.bsky.social BCS #362 "I’ve seen those eyes on the faces of Surna girls who come to me to do the dampening and I know they’re carrying unwanted Innachor children inside them." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/thei...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids by Eleanna Castroianni
Something in your mother's acceptance of my cruel words makes me see how, for a moment, I am the pathetic one. I’ve seen those eyes before. I’ve seen them on the faces of Surna girls who come to me to...
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Oooo midwife story in BCS with my own midwife story from the archives! 👀
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AAAhHH my story "Zarghána" is shortlisted! And I have so many weird stories to read now, YAY!!
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy book birthday to my dear friend's bautiful & haunting novel Sour Cherry!!!! 🍒😱 So excited it's finally out in the world 🥰
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My No 1 writing craft advice, took me YEARS to figure out, 100% will serve you forever and ever no matter the length, the genre, the level of your experience: Say the same in fewer words. If you think every word is exactly as it should be, it probably isn't.
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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Just donated--please donate if you're able, or spread the word! @rsagarcia.bsky.social is cool and deserves our support! gofund.me/b99aae3f
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Look what came in the mail today 👀👀👀👀💕💕💕💕 *screms into eternity*
Picture of record player with the sleeve of Yoshiko Sai's "Mangekyou" LP, featuring Yoshiko Sai (woman with long hair and 70s clothes) in a field of grass, holding red strings, purple sky beyond
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Me, reading Post Captain Others: must be very intelletchual, reads serious historical fiction in which ppl talk difficult Me: I'm reading this for the fart jokes & the Monty-Python-level-of-absurdism bear cosplay
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Big Echo Critical SF @bigechoscifi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Big Echo Interview Pop-Up! Get your red-hot spec fic noodlings here! @vajra.me @nassos.bsky.social @clubded.bsky.social Sofia Samatar! Brendan Byrne! So many words! So many thoughts! www.bigecho.org
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Big Echo
BIG ECHO is a free, online journal of critical science fiction.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Immigrants - Remedios Varo
Painting of a giant red contraption on wheels - It looks something like a moving castle or a red forest. A bearded man with a giraffe neck is steering from a little balcony. Downstairs a woman is bending over a book.
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This week's guest is Lyndsie Manusos! First up is "She Builds Quick Machines." You can read it in Apex's ROBOTIC AMBITIONS anthology or you can listen at LeVar Burton Reads! @lmanusos.bsky.social
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"She Builds Quick Machines" by Lyndsie Manusos
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try the short story "Zarghána" by Eleanna Castroianni! (@ecastroianni.bsky.social) You can read it here! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zar…
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 59, “Lunacy Act 1” by Broci: A woman with wearing a red dress with tattered ends, and white collar stands on the right side. Her hands are held out, disconnected from her arms as a moon lies beneath them. Around her there is a forest in shades of brown, grey and green; one of the trees has a charm attached to it. Her brown-blond hair is held upwards as if the wind were running through it. Nearby there are several butterflies that glow a light green, and the quote says, "On this island, women wait. It’s what they were made to do. Each morning, the sun warms the white-and-blue houses and, soft-boiled eggs, the doors crack."
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I will SQUEAK retroactively about this one, one of the stories I'm proud of because it came together exactly the way I wanted it 😍 Read for some post-environmental collapse Greek folk x cosmic horror. With FISH🧜‍♀️💀
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Last time I used CD/DVD: 2020, when I bought a laptop that had no disc drive. Had stopped buying them since 2015. I got a discman in 2004 &it was my TREASURE. Last time I bought a print map: 2011, when I moved to London to flat hunt with a spiral-bound book of detailed maps of every neighbourhood.
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
One of the best things about having friends who write/make things is that I have a shelf with stuff they've published and it's GROWING and I'M SO PROUD ✨❤️
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Today is a good day to work on your art. It is a good day to work on your art even if stuff is happening. Art gets us through stuff happening. It is always a good day to work on your art.
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today I made a spreadsheet with all the different kinds of curses and profanity in my secondary world WIP & had the time of my life
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Eleanna Castroianni @ecastroianni.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
100% did not sleep last night to finish this, now heading to school & then work with 3 gallons of coffee in my veins, I'm a physical and emotional wreck pondering the futility of all existence and it was 100% worth it READ THIS BOOK 👇👇👇👇
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