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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 12h

Treat yourself to a fabulous book. Highly recommended if you like fantasy, space opera, and fighting the patriarchy. www.amazon.com/How-Rory-Tho...

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said

A slide deck for a one-shot on the Brothers Grimm titled "My Mother, She Killed Me; My Father, He Ate Me; The Librarian Was Helpful, Though."

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always a good time to recommend this fabulous steampunk book, heavy on the punk and with an actual critique of Victorian social norms.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me: Okay, guess what type of Star Destroyer this schematic is-- Joel: Victory class.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last year I played Stardew Valley, discovered I really like cozy games, and found a type of gaming that works with my hand issues. This year I bought a Switch 2. We'll see if it makes me a lifelong gamer.

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It me! If you enjoyed some of my disability panels at FoF, may I also recommend my latest essay: "Here and Happy" where I talk about the need for disabled characters (and people) to take up joyous space in our stories and lives.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Really enjoyed being on the infrastructure panel with @soniafocke.bsky.social @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social and @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social It was a great conversation! I had so many thoughts we didn't even make it to.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My last panel is in a little under an hour, come hear me talk about roads and sewers and water lines and probably space elevators.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I survived my second ever panel. Speaking on a panel is definitely a skill. (Also it feels kind of like being on a job interview, you can prep a bunch and then forget half the things you meant to say.)

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Okay, @emlinden.bsky.social now I need to know about your love / hate relationship with the word "resonance" when talking about fairy tales.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In an hour (9 pm Pacific Time) I'm going to be talking about Fairy Tale retellings! I'm practically vibrating with excitement! Come see how many times I mention Robin McKinley and Ever After.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In about an hour (4:00 pm Pacific Time) I'll be hosting a meetup for fountain pen fans! Please come hang out, I need more ink recommendations.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just watched Kiki's Delivery Service and I'm too old for this movie. I spent the whole movie horrified that the parents of a 13 year old would send her off into the world by herself.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My updated Flights of Foundry schedule! Come join online! It's free! 🖋️ Fri 9/18, 4:00 pm PT: come show off your fountain pens ✨ Fri 9/18, 9:00 pm PT: panel on Fairy Tale retellings (Robin McKinley btw) 🛣️ Sat 9/19, 10:00 am PT: panel on infrastructure (infrastructure is there, intentional or not)

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'll be at Flights of Foundry! Come hang out and talk about fountain pens on Friday, or watch my panel on Saturday in Infrastructure as Worldbuilding! It's free, and online!

A handwritten note surrounded by four fountain pens of varying colors and types. The note reads:

Flights of Foundry Schedule
Friday 9/18, 4:00 pm PT: Fountain Pen Meetup

Saturday 9/19, 10:00 am PT: Infrastructure as Worldbuilding

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'll be at Flights of Foundry! Come hang out and talk about fountain pens on Friday, or watch my panel on Saturday in Infrastructure as Worldbuilding! It's free, and online!

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was trying to describe Howl's Moving Castle (the movie) to someone who's never seen it and the best I can do is--it's about finding yourself, bacon and eggs, and war is bad.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Come hang out at Flights of Foundry with Rose and me and lots of other cool people! I will be talking about Infrastructure as Worldbuilding and ohhhhh do I have Opinions!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WorldCon was magical. So many lovely conversations and small kindnesses. Seanan McGuire gave out friendship bracelets at her book signing--mine reads "Fate drew her there." A kind woman took a Polaroid of Ursula Vernon signing my copy of Nettle and Bone.

A tiny Polaroid in a tiny frame of a Ursula Vernon signing a book. On top of the frame is a green friendship bracelet with the words "Fate Drew Her There" spelled out in beads. The photo and bracelet sit on top of a paperback copy of Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The thing about reading a lot for the Hugos is that I have Opinions and am disappointed that some of my favorites didn't win.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm at WorldCon and I still have zines to give away!

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In LA, we measure how far away something is not by miles, but by how long it takes to go somewhere. Rush hour is worse, but traffic is never good.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have zines to give out at WorldCon!

A stack of short story zines of The Giant's Unquiet Bones, with watercolor mountains. A toppling pile of the rules for Raccoons with Lockpicks and character sheets.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have zines to give out at WorldCon!

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

*emerges bleary and blinking from the programming mines* 188 sessions. 213 hours. Still haven't done readings and a few other critical things. As of right now (before the chaos that is Other People hits my beautiful schedule) every single hour has at least 2 sessions, so everyone has choices.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My cats have all the reflexes to deal with a striking snake and they use it to freak out over a piece of paper gently drifting to the floor.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm furious because, once again, someone thought that this was a good place to dump a house wyvern! Why can't people be responsible and surrender them to a shelter? Just because it says "sky" does not make turbines safe. The blades can cut dragon scale! House wyverns can't even fly that high!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 04/08/2026

The hovershark pup wails whenever I put it down, or try to put it in my toolbag, like it *knows* it's been found by a soft touch. I swaddle it in my scarf and wedge the soft bundle under my arm, wincing as the pup inefficiently nurses on my palm on the climb down.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I just started Dead Country and it was a struggle to put it down and come to work today.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't know how I'm supposed to rank the Hugo finalists for novelette because they are all so, so good.

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I have a story, Universal Justice in the anthology Witches Save The World: Covens, Cauldrons, And Curses Gone Right. Now available to order at the link eternalhauntedsummer.com/gorgons-gaze...

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Gorgon’s Gaze Press

Welcome to Gorgon’s Gaze Press, the home of collaborative storytelling. Beginning in Autumn 2025, Gorgon’s Gaze Press will release one new themed anthology every year: vampires, witches…

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

sciencefictionweekly.com

Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Happy Disability Pride Month! My body decided to be on theme this year, and I have been in a massive flare all month long, so this post is only *checks notes* 24 days later than I intended. Welcome to the disabled life. 1/🧵

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Why is the goal for fake plants to make them look realistic instead of like they were stolen from a fantasy realm?

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you want to play a heist as everyone's favorite cryptid raccoon named Jimothy you can pick up Raccoons with Lockpicks (for free!). Jimothy is clearly a Floof with bonuses to charming humans. kate-ravenna.itch.io/raccoons

A raccoon who looks more like an adorable cryptid, with a shortened neck and tiny tail.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I read this yesterday and I'm still in awe of what R.S.A. Garcia has managed to do with structure. Absolutely brilliant. clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

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This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hi @diabolicalplots.com I tried to send a submission question through the contact us form but I keep getting an error message. I have a very weirdly formatted piece that I would like to submit but it is very dependent on the formatting (italics, bolding, etc) which are stripped out when submitting.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "It pleases the King of Faerie to operate a mortal company, a synergistic tension of contradictory worlds."

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Someone sent me a spam message "Cya soon, ya stunning wildflower you..." and I guess I'm glad that some people are still hand crafting spam instead of using AI.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I received a puzzling rejection saying that they felt the addiction narrative was unclear. I was so confused. I did not think I'd written about addiction. I asked a beta reader and they also did not think I'd written about addiction.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just used the word "synergetic" in a story and I hate it so much. The sacrifices we make for art.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Remembering the time I derailed an entire session I was GMing by describing the silver sparkles of the sun on the water. The players were convinced it was a clue and something was Deeply Wrong about the water. I was just trying to be poetic! They felt that normal sun sparkles on water were gold.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Me: writes glacially slowly, is happy to finish a short story in a month. Also me: why are novellas so short? I can read them in a single sitting.

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm currently doing research for a short story by reading a bunch of job advertisements. Why do I do this to myself. Why are job ads so painful to read.

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