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Fatima Taqvi @fatimataqvi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can't write, draw, paint or engage in deep conversations right now because every iota of sanity has been replaced by a tinnitus adjacent feeling of Tired. "Right now" as a period of time keeps stretching until eventually it will take its mask off and reveal itself to be "Forever." Meanwhile 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/07/2026
It seems abundantly, ludicrously clear that the number one way we could reduce the violent crime rate is by making sure every child is wanted, protected, and loved. We should be spending billions on education and child welfare, instead of making them run on shoestring budgets.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 17/02/2026
yes
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
Tweet from Homeland Security with ICE agents wearing Christmas gear. The caption says "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME."
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M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Here it is! The gorgeous cover of Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES Out 7th April 2026 (UK) June 9th 2026 (US/Can) Artwork by Richard Anderson. Cover design by Ben Prior. Preorders open now!
The UK cover of A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES. A woman stands with her first raised. Behind her stands a man in a cloak and a hazy blue figure wielding an axe and a mace. The North American cover of A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES. A woman stands with her first raised. Behind her stands a man in a cloak and a hazy blue figure wielding an axe and a mace.
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Fatima Taqvi @fatimataqvi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The migrant-hating crowd's values seem to be they want people to stop learning English and to stop celebrating Christmas
Screenshot shows headlines from the Times reading "Mothers trying to learn English face demonstration outside school" and from the Guardian reading "Scottish school cancels Christmas play after 'racist and abusive' messages"
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Fatima Taqvi @fatimataqvi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Got a cassette player and audio books of Les Miserables and Three Men in a Boat on - yes, you guessed it - audio cassette. December 2025 sorted.
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Fatima Taqvi @fatimataqvi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I really really really really need to not adopt new guinea pigs right now...I don't have room, I don't have time. God give me strength 😭
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 22/11/2025
bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu PATRONS support us and get access to our ePub/print issues YOU CAN DO THAT, really. also support tiers increasing in new year 😿 but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE, really.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.
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natou @tichatnwa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
we should feed everybody actually all the time there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless
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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Responsible parents leave their children behind in war zones. Apparently.
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Fatima Taqvi @fatimataqvi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Nobody "needs" gifts but people need people and the holidays in healthy societies are a time to express that. Society not being healthy is a sad, not a big smiling happy. If we can't afford something we don't beat ourselves up about it. But it's something we need to fix, not make peace with.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc. *And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...
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The Million Dollar Homepage - Wikipedia
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Love the SH archives! In addition to all the stories Maria called out, I'll piggyback on this to drop two of my SH faves: "Collateral Memory" by @followthelede.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/fiction/coll... "Secrets of the Kath" by @fatimataqvi.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/fiction/secr...
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 09/08/2025
Read 'It Might Be He Returns' by Fatima Taqvi on io9, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine.
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A Mirror World Brings Wonders—and Dread—in This Fantasy Short Story
Read 'It Might Be He Returns' by Fatima Taqvi on io9, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine.
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
My favorite Doctor and Companion
David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly on the set of LABYRINTH (1986)
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Fatima Taqvi @fatimataqvi.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@lightspeedmagazine.com has published my short fantasy story "It Might Be He Returns." It's also up in audio narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! Link here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/it-m...
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It Might Be He Returns - Lightspeed Magazine
What you need to know about the boy in this story is he is always hungry and the sun is always too hot for him, and he would save the world if he could. This is what he tells himself as he sits opposi...
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 22/10/2024
this is such a wonderfully gruesome tale from @fatimataqvi.bsky.social -- don't miss out on becoming "Our Very Best Selves!" @nightmare-magazine.com
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Our Very Best Selves! - Nightmare Magazine
I like car journeys in the passenger’s seat. They give me time to think and rethink things beyond the shape of my life. I’m not allowed to play music, but I can in my head. Places blur. Memories tangl...
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Not one but two great short fiction recs lists out today, with a ton of great stories for you to check out, including recent work by FFers @fatimataqvi.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social @vivianhchou.bsky.social and @kurellian.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/book... bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12/04/2024
My latest short fiction roundup features work from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @escapepod.org @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @khoreo.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com & @psychopomp.bsky.social!
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My Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup - #3/2024
The art for this roundup includes a detail of the cover for Hexagon #16 by Yorgos Cotronis. More about the artist:  https://cotronis.com/ ☀...
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Fatima Taqvi @fatimataqvi.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Thanks K.C! Love your newsletter 💚
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
We had @avramargariti.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @vivianhchou.bsky.social @chalicotherex.bsky.social, and @fatimataqvi.bsky.social appearing in @radonjournal.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @upbeattales.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social and The Dark! 2/
"01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101" by Avra Margariti in Radon Journal
"A Contract of Ink and Skin" by Angela Liu in Uncanny
"A Rabbit Hole" by Vivian Chou in Upbeat Tales
"All the Dead Girls, Singing" by Avra Margariti in Small Wonders
"Diary of the Wolf" by Adam McPhee in Old Moon Quarterly
"FAQ List for Planetary Purification" by Vivian Chou in Radon Journal
"Garlands for Your Bridal Chamber" by Fatima Taqvi in The Dark
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Contains work by FFers @aijiang.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social @fatimataqvi.bsky.social @samhchung.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social @aardwyrm.bsky.social and Uchechukwu Nwaka! Check it out!
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Writers of the world, I know a lot of you were interested in the idea of a charity anthology for Palestine in memory of Refaat Alareer. I'm in touch w/ a publisher, and preparing a query. If you are interested, pls get in touch with me asap. Thanks.
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
My Write for Palestine fundraiser is live. All donations will go directly to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund Urgent Gaza Relief drive. pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/WriteforPale...
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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
In this issue's From the Archives column, @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social reviews the first two issues of Tasavvur, recommending stories by Mehak Khan, @fatimataqvi.bsky.social, Mariam Taufeeq, and Saad Hossain. tasavvurnama.com 10/
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Issue 006 - Spring 2023 - Tasavvur
The rest of the world is (rightfully) worried about AI. But AI still has a long way to go before it can reach the standard of this issue's stories
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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 31/10/2023
This month on the newsletter: some thoughts about the origins of work-life balance and a terrible jack o'lantern I drew for you all.
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Wallowing in the Balance
Hi there, fellow wallowers, For those of you who don't know, I'm not a full time writer. I have a day job and I carve out time to write around it. When I'm...
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 27/10/2023
absolutely gonna work this into my everyday idiom in every conceivable context. like … yes, change in political consciousness, whether individual or collective, is very difficult and takes much patience and effort, but a bucket of rats cannot be filled in one night
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 25/10/2023
If you are a citizen of a powerful state like the US, UK, EU, please take this pain, this grief and rage, and share it with others. Most of all, use it to put political pressure on your government. Demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to this atrocity of a settler colonial occupation.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/10/2023
The time for compartmentalizing your life, your work, and your politics is long over. Allow yourself to be unpartitioned and whole.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/10/2023
Cover reveal and announcement of my second novel RAKESFALL, out June 2024! Since the book is after all about the connectedness of all struggle against oppression, let me use this small platform for clarity: Palestine must be and will be free.
The cover of my second novel RAKESFALL. It has a design of yellow hibiscus flowers, green leaves, a hare's skull, and worms set against a pink background.
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Abdalhadi Alijla @abdalhadi.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Sad news to art and artist communities . Palestinian artist, Heba Zakout, was murdered last night along her family. These are some of her beautiful work. We are heartbroken..
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Well, time for my first thread here on BlueSky, and I'm pissed off. I've been catching up on the situation with F&SF and Sheree Thomas. I'm slow because I'm not on FB anymore, where apparently the bulk of the convo is happening, and I'm barely on Twitter. Anyway.
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C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Sheree Renée Thomas has been a transformative editor at F&SF, publishing essential writers and stories. She doesn't deserve the problem she currently has to deal with there. But it doesn't surprise me that she has been forced to deal with it without publisher support. A thread. 1/x
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