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Jenny Gaitskell

@jennygaitskell.bsky.social
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Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic. she/her www.jennygaitskell.com app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jenny…

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ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social · 13h
#haiku these rain drops escape all the math
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A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 22h
Publishing News: We Suck at Comics, Featuring Mr Stupendous, Live on Kickstarter We Suck at Comics, volume 3 (Wayward Raven) is live on Kickstarter. The anthology features my story Mr Stupendous in the Clutches of Doctor When, a mad cap adventure through time and space, and a love letter to the…
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Publishing News: We Suck at Comics, Featuring Mr Stupendous, Live on Kickstarter
We Suck at Comics, volume 3 (Wayward Raven) is live on Kickstarter. The anthology features my story Mr Stupendous in the Clutches of Doctor When, a mad cap adventure through time and space, and a love letter to the history of the medium. Each page in the story is illustrated in a different style to represent different time periods, from the Golden Age to Manga, and from Kirby Crackle to the Renaissance.
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Barico @njbarico.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
out of poems I dig into the dirt for something that sings #haiku #poem #3lines
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Jane, actually @maidofbeans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just randomly agreeing to do stuff because I don't think I'll live long enough to follow it through.
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𝒕𝒚𝒊 | Mail club on Ko-fi 🦇 @tyiart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
drawing sploinky cats is fun ✨ #art #cats
Drawing of a black kitten with glowing eyes jumping, titled "experiencing symptoms"
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Word Distribution @gaussianwords.bsky.social · 5h
chocolate —state of the world— for breakfast #haiku #micropoem #poetry #senryu
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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 23h
Eyes on the prize. It's October, so the #FlashMonster soft deadline is right around the corner. Send us your monstrous #flashfiction by Oct 18th for a shot at $ prizes and sweet, sweet glory. Top 10 published on Halloween. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...
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Glossy Planet Lit Mag @glossyplanetmag.bsky.social · 11h
Send us prose and poetry inspired by a real news story reported since October 2025. FIT TO PRINT closes 10/15/26! #amwriting #flashfiction #poetry #cnf www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/oc...
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Fit to Print - Glossy Planet
Add the Glossy Planet writing challenge for September to your calendar! The theme will be revealed on September 1, 2026.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For #spacetober_challenge day 2: galaxy - astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci
My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.
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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 22h
The mistle thrush likely got its name from its love of mistletoe - it will defend a berry-laden tree with extreme ferocity! folksy.com/find/item/85... #MistleThrush #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #NatureArt #bsnm
A small drawing of a mistle thrush bird sitting on a branch laden with mistletoe with white berries. The bird is brown with a pale breast with dark spots. The drawing is on brown paper with a light green background.
The mistle thrush likely got its name from its love of mistletoe - it will defend a berry-laden tree with extreme ferocity!
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper
5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).
The drawing will be in a clear envelope so you can view it before framing.
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 5h
white eyebrow hair yes I remember frost in October #DailyHaikuPrompt (frost)
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 7h
cops search me for banned ideas I think of happier times where we don't belong old robot watching me weep in the ruined library habitat shift silvery saplings grow from burnt pages 🤖 #ScifaikuSaturday #inkMine #ThingsToWriteAbout
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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 19h
mining some ink? spill it #prompts October 02, 2026 Weekend #Prompt - BELONG (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku ** please! No AI ** **no AI words photos or art** post with the hashtag: #inkMine
over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekend Prompt: BELONG 

use any form of the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine
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Wynn @oddlywynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hello #KidLitArtPostcard day, and happy October! I'm Wynn, and I'm an illustrator from Canada. I love drawing autumn scenes, and all things cozy and spooky! I'm currently seeking representation and open for freelance work in picture books, chapter books, and book covers. 🐈‍⬛ oddlywynn.carrd.co
A digital illustration of a witch in her kitchen, stirring a steaming cauldron. She has curly orange hair and pointed ears, and wears a maroon dress with matching, pointed toe shoes, and chartreuse tights. She's standing on a stool to reach the cauldron. Behind her is a hutch with doors hanging open, revealing colourful jars and a book. A shelf below holds a sliced pumpkin and a cookbook open to a page titled "Pumpkin Soup". Herbs and a bag of onions hang off the hutch, a string of garlic hangs on the wall, and a broom is propped to the side. A black cat sleeps on the sill of an arched window. Pink stars and moons hang above, and beside the window hangs the witch's hat, matching her dress and decorated with a skull and an orange ribbon. Writing at the bottom reads "Oliver Wynn, oddlywynn.bsky.social, illustrator looking for representation" and contact info including the link posted above.
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crumbum @fuwolfman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m permeable and temporary, what else do you want?
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John Everex @johneverex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My psychological thriller, AT THE END OF THE WOODS is now out on Amazon in ebook & paperback. Seven days. One lie. A countdown that cannot be stopped. #BookSky #PsychologicalThriller #SpeculativeFiction
At the End of the Woods by John Everex cover image showing flames against a dark sky.
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𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖬𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍𝗒 𝖠𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗇𝖺 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙 - 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 #haikufeels | cool #haiku #senryu
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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mining some ink? spill it #prompts Monday Sept 28, 2026 Weekly #Prompt - ACHE SMEAR LINEAR SPRY QUAKE PRETTIER ** please! No AI ** **no AI words photos or art** post with hashtag: #inkMine
over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekly Prompt: ACHE, SMEAR, LINEAR, SPRY, QUAKE, PRETTIER 

use the prompt words, or their evocation in an original write

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine
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ma_doiron @madoiron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
même la vérité peut être difficile à cerner en trois lignes #poésie #haiku
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Wendy Gent @wendyg63.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
perhaps the colours of the river made them turquoise damselflies #dailyhaikuprompt #dragonfly #monoku
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John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Doesn't look much like fall yet here, but the air sure feels like it 🍂
Photo of a boardwalk path leading straight ahead between tall reeds and disappearing into a mound of trees and blue sky.
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Salem Islas-Madlo (ella/she/her) @deepsouldiver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Writers ✍️🏽 I'm easing into writing a memoir...and am discovering that protecting writing time isn't the same as creating a life in which writing can happen...my question is how have you created that kind of life for yourselves?
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Joe F @joe--f.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A wise dragonfly Carefully contemplating Quantum displacement #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt dragonfly
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
damselflies for a held breath I'm that girl we both dreamed about #DailyHaikuPrompt (dragonfly)
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ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to fucking curse.
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Sarah Hina @sarahhina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I followed the crickets' song and found my youth in the middle of an abandoned field off county road 9. It was right where I'd left it— under the old oak tree, next to the old book. I picked it up, dusted it off and skipped back to the car.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
I believe they are not technically #quills, but this is the closest I have to today's theme for #SciArtSeptember 😅
Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a cute hedgehog facing the viewer with a little smile on their face. They are wearing a crown of tiny daisy like flowers in the blue, pink, and white colors of the trans pride flag.
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
nostalgic wallflowers #OrangeSun #ColorADay #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin
Close-up of wallflower blossoms edited with a desaturated technicolor style that mutes the petals into a soft peach hue, contrasted against dark teal-green foliage
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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
afternoon nap a teenaged boyfriend returns in a hotflash #SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry
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Salem Islas-Madlo (ella/she/her) @deepsouldiver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
sunbeams in my hair maybe I'm an angel after all #dailyhaikuprompt
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hare at the wood’s edge pausing for one long moment your breath visible
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lighting up the mountain lanterns— sun has reached the larches #haiku
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
let me be the old cat's slow stretch into a sunbeam #DailyHaikuPrompt (sunbeam)
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
night skies listen ssh silence is survive talk only signs #SciFaikuSaturday #inkMine
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ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve been patiently waiting at the back of your junk drawer to hand you your old batteries do you even care about me at all
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ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Immaculate holy mackerel down in the middle mountains of sound sound, familiar sound, I once saw a girl wind full moon, a bottle, around her waist.The glass grew long and leathery. And, for the faint of heart, twice about, would shush the crowd, clipping light ever, a yard of ale in your name.
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ɐʇǝǝɹʎs @phantomsspleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More from my walk today
View from the top of a fence post, over a hill, there is town below. There are lots of trees and some fields and houses. A dirt path is winding away to the right of the photo. The sky is blue with wispy clouds.View, from below, of a bench on top of a hill. There are yellow and green grasses at the bottom of the photo. The sky is blue, but almost full of light, fluffy cloud. There is a dog View of the side of an old quarry. It has almost fully rewilded. There is a tree growing just inside it. The sky is blue and full of low, fluffy cloud. It is sunny.Another one of the view over a hill, with the town below. There are lots of trees and some fields and houses. A dirt path is winding away to the right of the photo. The sky is blue with wispy clouds.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just noticed I passed the 10K follower mark so let's try one of those #ArtShare! thingies... I'd love to see your #art, particularly anything nature related: landscapes, animals, creatures, fabulous beings No GenAI, please but Alt Text is always greatly appreciated... show me what you got 💜
Symmetrical digital drawing of a squid with its head down and legs waving up in the air and all wrapped around each other. The squid is outlined in white and shaded in with the soft pink and blue of the trans pride flag.
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.' Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit #BookWormSat (🐰) 🎨 Michele Mikesell, Moon Rabbit
Painting of a grey hair with sad gaze away, wearing a black shirt with cream spots. They stand before multicoloured polkadots on mucky cream.
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICYMI!
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A new poem www.patreon.com/posts/170589...
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your attention please | Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
your attention please by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy on Patreon. Join Jayaprakash Satyamurthy's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very excited to be in this anthology!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.
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DrRelling @drrelling.dev · 25/09/2026
Life hack: every few years or so, memorise the winning lottery numbers for a given week, just in case you turn out to be the protagonist of a time travel story at some point.
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KM Praschak @kmpraschak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have intrusive thoughts about paper, maybe I need to make my own clay tablets? kmpraschak.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/h...
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Haunted by Paper
Earlier in the month, I finished reading The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox. It’s about the effort to decode Linear B, a written language used by the inhabitants of Crete thousands o…
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(JMG) @jmgart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
listening to what is heard amidst the silence #art #arttherapy #abstract #sketchbook #aquarelle
An open sketchbook with a series of overlapping rectangles and circles. The background is red and the shapes are shades of blues, green, orange, yellow, pink.
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#sensewrds 273 threaded, scattering, daybreak Needlepoint sunlight— dawn is a prism. Green flash, embroidery sky.
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Orak ⚜️ @opjtx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
first day of Fall a few days past hoping the winter coolness arrives quickly #tanka
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the moon in my mind hidden under this small cloud a golden apple
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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
mining some ink? spill it #prompts Sept 25, 2026 Weekend #Prompt - SURVIVE (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku ** please! No AI ** **no AI words photos or art** post with the hashtag: #inkMine
over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekend Prompt: SURVIVE 

use any form of the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine
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