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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Banned Books Week AND Anti-Prime Day! We've spent this week fighting with Amazon, who blocked Issue 3... because a stylized illustration of a statue = porn, at least if you're a queer publication. The best way to support us is directly. Code ANTIPRIME gets you 15% off subscriptions this week.

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OTHERSIDE — a magazine of the queer fantastic.

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The core problem with this proposed approach is that nobody I like or respect is a conservative.

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At a late night showing of The Witch and literally every person here is gay

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🇺🇾 Gissel Escudero 📚 ✍️🎨 @gisselescudero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also, there's no fucking need to produce art faster. It's not food. If an animated movie, or a book, or a music album takes five years to make, then so be it. "We need to make it faster" is a capitalistic mindset, and it's there to benefit the owners of corporations, not the workers/customers.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apples sweeten in the dark... From the late Eavan Boland, for anyone who's ever walked a suburban street on an autumn evening.

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For @shapelessink.bsky.social, a block print version of his most viral piece 💜

A print of a transfem sheep woman, Amelia, pointing a gun at the viewer. In a speech bubble she says “GET WRITING, BITCH. INFINITE WORLDS CRY OUT TO BE BORN, AND YOU ARE TO BE A GOD.”

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puddinglovelyy.bsky.social @puddinglovelyy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

May i entertain you with coquette gengar #pokemon

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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haremenot @hareme.net · 17/09/2026

No fear meme, three panels. Teen comix. one big meme '15.

panel one: guy in tshirt that says no fear with a second person coming into frame

panel two: close up of second person's shirt that says mediocre ai simpsons porn

panel three: guy in tshirt now says one fear

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK is coming to the Criterion Channel next month. It is one of the most essential films directed by trans people. Make sure to check it out.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

GEFILTE PHISHING

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Steve Bannon is a white supremacist war criminal and anyone who aligns with him is antiblack. Would you pair up with David Duke if he announced he was anti-AI?

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is a great day. Really, really excited for everyone to read this issue. It has VAMPIRES (well, one vampire) and HEARTBREAK and MIRACLES and WOLVES and SPACECRAFT TEST DUMMIES (well, one spacecraft test dummy) and EXTINCT LOBE-FINNED FISH. What more could you possibly want from a magazine??

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Everyone who talks about how lesbian spaces have always been so welcoming to trans men and it's a beautiful magical part of our history should be made to memorize Pat Califa's updated introduction to Macho Sluts.

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He called his work "strange tales" rather than horror, and that feels accurate. They refuse to let you get your feet under you. The world is just to the left of reality. Absolutely brilliant ("Pages From a Young Girl's Journal" is one of the best shorts I've read in some time).

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Starting my project where I read all the unread books on my horror shelf in alphabetical order with Robert Aickman's Cold Hand in Mine and man. We just don't make 'em like that anymore, huh?

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Listen, he's corny, but he's been standing on business his entire career because he appears to actually believe the things he says he believes. If you have less moral conviction than the "Thrift Shop" guy, you should consider being less of a waste of space and fix your heart.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/09/2026

My stitch-the-news diary takes up most of my crafting energy these days, but this weekend's road trip from Madison to Detroit and back for my kid's soccer games left me enough down time to finally finish embroidering the hedgehog I started back in May.

Embroidered hedgehog on linen canvas, with thread painting techniques for realism

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Obviously this country has been a charnel house for centuries but I cannot emphasize enough how much worse our response to 9/11 made every single fucking thing here and abroad. Every single thing. They well and truly got our asses.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"In the Blue Hour" is free to read TODAY in Apex! Gothic flash fiction has arrived just in time for fall 🍁💀 Most detested cousin....most unwanted inheritance.

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In case you don't get it, the opening credits end with the Nazi Party symbol turning into the US Government logo. It rules.

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Lisa Naffziger @lisanaffziger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

LOGGING ON 🖥️

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

learning to effectively withhold information is a skill, and a valuable one. plus, you can't figure out your style & preferences (not some reader's preferences. *yours*) if you're too afraid to explore, assess, & learn. get your hands dirty!

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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hello! We're finally comfortably resettling in the Twin Cities and we are excited to announce we have a new website! So let's celebrate with a webstore sale. Use discount code NEWFLESH2026 for 10% off upon checkout. LONG LIVE GHOULISH BOOKS. ghoulish.rip

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Weirdo Transgressive Horror | Ghoulish Books

Ghoulish Books is an award-winning small press based in Minneapolis, MN specializing in weirdo transgressive horror fiction for perverts.

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Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama, one of the defining artists of her generation, has died aged 97. Choosing to create within an asylum because it gave her more peace and freedom than the world, she unlocked and explored universes. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97

From the 1950s to the 2020s, Kusama produced vivid paintings, sculptures and vast installations that often drew on her experience of hallucinations

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Kevin J. Maroney, he/him @womzilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"And why are the saints saints?" ... "Because ... we remember the stories of their lives." "How do we remember the stories of their lives?" "Because-- because they told them in a way that couldn't be forgotten." "In what way?" "They spoke truthfully," --John Crowley, ENGINE SUMMER

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 26/08/2026

Dan, call me

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

ALT: 'With my heart full of gratitude for everything good in the world, I'll put down my pen. Now excuse me, I have to go. (Satoshi Kon's last words)'

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think about this at least a dozen times a day.

people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 16/08/2026

Incase you missed it, I have a poem out! its about the body and also the land, about violence that shapes both.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Inside its box the veil was luminous, as if infused with moonlight. It was easy to believe that its maker was inhuman — no deft matriarch could have woven something so fine. It slipped, watery, between Iris’s fingers as she lifted it from its case. A faint whispering emanated from its folds."

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

hmmmm should I cut out two of the most meaningful achievements in human history or the website that gave us mr beast

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

FRESH FICTION: “Eyeballs of My Eyes” by Abigail Guerrero hooked us with its body horror, then surprised us with its turn toward tenderness… 🥹 @gailguerrero.bsky.social #writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction flashfictiononline.com/issues/augus...

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August 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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G.M. Mitchell 🌈 @gmmitchell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We studied Beloved in my senior year of high school and it blew my mind wide open (I was lucky that my teacher was both smart and passionate). I've been addicted to challenging books ever since. It makes me so sad that so many people don't see the joy wrestling a tough read can bring.

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