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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower

@jasminegower.bsky.social
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Fantasy author (jasminegower.com) and freelance book editor (publishing.jasminegower.com). I am also Normal about video games.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h
It is bizarre to watch people use the words "restorative justice" to center the need of someone who assaulted someone else. You simply cannot talk about restorative justice in this context without centering his victim.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My somewhat belated blog post about accessibility issues at the Los Angeles Worldcon is up: marikness.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/w...
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Worldcon 2026: Yes. Again.
Worldcon San Antonio 2013: I am on the floor, on a panel about poetry and fiction, unable to join my fellow panelists up on stage, because I am using a wheelchair, and the stage does not have a ram…
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let's ring in the height of Halloween season with some recognition for the sexiest character in all of spooky video games, Bloodborne's Oedon Chapel Dweller. Love ya, babe.
A screenshot from Bloodborne of the Oedon Chapel Dweller. They are an emaciated person with gray skin, glowing yellow eyes, tattered red robes, and a sparkling personality kneeling on a stone floor.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I got my flu & COVID vaccines yesterday and I'm really feeling it today. AND I have to chase down an editing payment :( :(((((((
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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wrote this essay quite a while ago but ICYMI I think it is still worth reading
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the dark fantasy audiobook I've had on hold from the library for forever is here :O
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I would like to start new writing discourse: everybody uses too many goddamn prepositions. Improve your writing by deleting 80% of the prepositions.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
dps queue can't hurt me when I'm romantically gazing into the honey glow middle distance
A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV of a Lalafellin woman sitting at a desk looking at a tea set and rustic floral arrangement bathed in dramatic sun beams from a nearby window.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
omg new Bolivian tiger discovered in my house :0
A photo of a brown and orange tabby sitting on a dresser by a window in a sunbeam, casting her in dramatic shadows and saturated light. There is a rosemary plant and various bottles and containers behind her.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Golden Curry directions: 5 oz of potatoes me, grabbing three tatoes that weigh 1 lb each: nothing bad will happen
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William C. Tracy @wctracy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Lesbians in Space audiobook campaign is funded, and on its way to stretch goals! Also made some progress on the new developmental edit. And, the new announcement is that we have enamel pins for both Lesbians in Space anthologies! They're available in the campaign... #amediting #amwriting
Mockups of the two Lesbians in Space enamel pins. They have the figures from the covers of both anthologies, with the ones from the first on a star background and the second on a planet background.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I can't tell yall why yet but this is immediately relevant to my professional interests.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Almost two years later to the day and I've finally cracked the code. It IS sampling a FFIX song. I was listening to the DT soundtrack on random in the car today, which has the original Battle 1 from IX on it too, and I finally heard them close enough together to connect the dots. Mystery solved!
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J.S. Fields @galactoglucoman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s almost time! Come find me at Rose City Comic Con, booth 1912, along with Geek Girl Stuff. Get sapphic books AND science books AND sapphic science books (you didn’t know that was a thing, did you?!)
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William C. Tracy @wctracy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Want another great audiobook narrated by @maryrobinettekowal.com ? Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back is now live on BackerKit. Help us bring it to life! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Lesbians in Space Comes to Audiobook Pt 2!
Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back was one of our bestselling book campaigns. Now you can listen to these amazing Sapphic stories as we bring the audiobooks to life!
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't think my supervisor will notice if I slack off today.
A photo of a small brown tabby lounging on top of a dresser with her front legs propped up on a window sill. The sun is shining on her and her eyes are closed in contentment. In the foreground of the shot are the branches of a rosemary plant.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
literally how long is our society supposed to continue shambling on without Joann Fabrics, this is not sustainable
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tragically, I am STILL working on these revisions, but I am making progress and I do want to finish them (or at least the current draft) before I hit a year on this post, so I'm going to try turning this into an accountability altar. I have about 80 days to get this done. ~27K left in the draft.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Planning for cons for next year and while applying to be a panelist for one, I went through my paneling CV and realized just how much my migraines took from me since 2023. I only did one SFF con (virtual or otherwise) per year '23-'25, and I didn't plan any for this year.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
sorry I've been abandoning all my earthly responsibilities lately, I've been busy feeding sweets and treats to sparkling anime twinks in Fields of Mistria
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In spite of my best efforts to be chipper, life events are really conspiring to ruin my day. You know what would cheer me up? More #editing work! Authors or publishers in the market for a pro editor, I have openings! Send me your fantasy and horror books! reedsy.com/jasmine-gower
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Jasmine Gower - Editor | Reedsy
Beaverton, OR, USA Editor: As a fantasy author with a Master of Arts in Book Publishing, Jasmine knows the editorial process from every angle.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is why I don't feel the creeping nihilism today. I feel grief, but by God, I also feel inspired. We are the beneficiaries of every legend who ever lived. Are we willing to pick up the yoke?
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two fabulous icons gone in as many days. No choice but for the rest of up to be even more fabulous in their memory ✨
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don't get me wrong, I love having space to garden and would literally die without AC, but I sometimes get nostalgic for my inner city years because the suburbs are a vile perversion of human existence. (I also get nostalgic for my farm years for this reason, even though, yeech)
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When I was an undergrad there was a place in the Park Blocks called Pudding on the Rice and it was like Baskin Robbins but rice pudding with punny names and also they did Japanese-style crepes and it was so perfect 😭
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
ok, I guess Donald and Goofy escaping Hell together without Sora is a sick enough concept to tip me over into hype now
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
First month of Halloween, baby 🎃👻🦇🍂🦉⚰️💀
A photo of an assortment of miniature pieces from a book nook miniature set spread out on a table. Including among the pieces are a pair of assembled "Spooky Bites" carnival stalls, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, and carnival banners. The miniature set box is visible in the shot with an image of the fully completed miniature set printed on it: a Halloween carnival scene inside of the mouth of a giant black cat.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Very excited to see Coco in KH4. I'm legit surprised by the 2027 launch estimate though. SE's had a pretty dry past couple of years, and '27 they're rolling out Evercold, Revelation, AND a mainline KH? youtu.be/54eFEhlnIjg?...
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KINGDOM HEARTS IV | D23 2026 Showcase Trailer
YouTube video by Pixar
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is one of my new favorite videos on the entire internet, with the caveat that Power Pak's MyHouse.WAD is required prerequisite viewing for it: youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0?...
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MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod
YouTube video by Power Pak
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I NEED to stay cracking on this so I get send it back to my agent and she can sell it and we can all have a Hot New Fantasy Series to Be Unhinged About instead of still talking about harold
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
dodging and weaving around sensory overload this evening to work on these revisions, yee haw
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So I am diving back into Stranger of Paradise and remembering what an absolute dril Tweet of a game it is. Kind of a legit banger, just a viper strike of Stuff Randomly Happening, but very much a deliberate shitpost.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This isn't an "ah, Oregon" moment. Portland and Eugene don't represent the political whole of Oregon. Salem is the land of the True Centrist. A median voter brandished a guillotine against an AI corp. That's where the conversation is at on data centers.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
omg I posted this completely forgetting that I haven't even finished Stranger of Paradise, which just reminded me that I don't even know what a play order of this magnitude would look like I own like 30 distinct Final Fantasy games, how do I play that "in order"?
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
someone tell me if replaying all the Final Fantasies plus some of the precious few I haven't played yet is a good idea
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/07/2026
For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I've been having trouble securing editing work this past month, and yesterday I had confirmed the reason I suspected. Someone has been undercutting me. I also found out by how much. Well over half.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Uh, yeah, you could say I play the prediction markets. #FFXIV
A plain black and Bingo graphic labeled "EU FanFest Keynote Bingo". The squares, left to right, top to bottom read: "Insinuations about a new playable race for 9.0", "New Normal Raid", "Main hub area preview", "Blue Mage update for 8.x (very apologetic)", "Dwarf cats 
confirmed Allied Society", "New outfits for Thancred, Urianger, Y’shtola",  "Lifestyle content: Garlemald 
Restoration", "Evolved preview for Warrior", "Switch 2 
release delayed", "FFVII Remake crossover event", "Odin finally gets his moment", "Area inspired by Nibelheim revealed", "New Job 
Announced (Free Space)", "Return of Hamlet Defense", "Evolved preview for Black Mage", "Tank Class = “Marshal”", "New Deep 
Dungeon for 8.x", "Offhanded reveal no more Variant Dungeons", "New housing region for 8.x", "Date for cross-DC partying", 
"Questing update gets booed by audience", "Squad system overhaul", "New currency system, "Evolved preview for Monk", Area/arena inspired by Bifrost revealed"
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
May I pontificate about digital eggs for a second? (This is a Final Fantasy post.)
A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV of a white egg over a gray background. The number 3 is in the bottom right corner.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I feel like this one didn't get enough visibility #FFXIV
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We're really in it now, G'raha! (not actually graphic, just Endwalker spoilers)
A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV of a Lalafellin woman in red leather armor, black chainmail, and a black cloak looking up and to the side at a Mi'qote man with red hair and cat ears wearing a gray shirt, red tunic, black scarf, and black pants and boots. Behind them is a South Asian-inspired cityscape and a glowing red sky raining fire.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
the severe bummer of waiting for weeks for an audio book from the library only to DNF it half an hour in because if you hear one more tortured metaphor you're going to throw yourself into a bog
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Semi-regular discourse contribution: any time I've ever had editing clients who come into the arrangement with a bunch of bravado about how ready they are for the edits to kick their ass and tear them to shreds (not my job, I am not a dominatrix), they are ALWAYS the least receptive to feedback.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
While cleaning today, found this old birthday card my mom made me when my beagle Valentine was still alive. Also found a picture frame just the size for it, so up it goes on my wall. Still miss you, sweet puppy 💚
A framed homemade card featuring a picture of an elderly and barrel-chested beagle looking at the camera and panting slightly. A caption under the picture of the beagle reads "...aaaaarrrrff...... ...aaaaarrrfff..........."
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
LOOK AT WHAT I BOUGHT
A boxed Make Market Book Nook kit. The cover of the box depicts a book nook in the shape of a cartoon black cat's face opening its mouth to reveal a Halloween-themed miniature carnival scene inside. Technical product details are printed along the edge of the box's front.
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - me when I realize I almost bought Taylor Farms salad kits on my last grocery trip and ended up getting Fresh Express instead
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Genevieve Clovis @cloviseditorial.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Hi friends! In an attempt to be better at showing up in this space, I've got a starter pack for you! Everyone in this identifies as an editor of colour. If you want to join, just let me know! #editorsky #amediting #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/FYSGqRn
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Editors of Colour
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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I've got another starter pack for you, friends! ✨This one's for disabled editors ✨ Everyone who is in this identifies as disabled and asked to be part of it. If you want in too, just let me know! #Disability #DisabilityPride #EditorSky #AmEditing #WritingCommunity 🌈📚 go.bsky.app/JBMJNE3
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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
DISCOURSE CONTRIBUTION: As someone on both sides of the author/editor divide, the key to sussing out AI use is not notes, drafts, or outlines. The #1 indicator that a text is AI generated (or otherwise plagiarized) is if its supposed author is unwilling or incapable of talking shop about it.
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