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

Got around to watching The Invite tonight, really impressed with it in on every level. The pacing, the flow, the direction, the performances, the script, all of it felt raw while being expertly crafted. That's not an easy trick to pull off.

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Huge fan of whoever drew the picture for this Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_M...

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March Malaen - Wikipedia

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The chiptune radio channel I listen to while writing is absolutely crushing it today. rainwave.cc/chiptune/#!/

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Rainwave

Listen, rate, and request your favourite video game music!

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Michael Knight and KITT from Knight Rider

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I got a good bit of pencilling done this morning and the water is pretty much finished. I might actually get the pencils all done today and then I could start inking tomorrow.

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ElectroCeratops @ehrenenglish.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've put a few of my #invertober illustrations up on my Inprnt shop! These four are available. If there are any others in particular you'd like to see up there, feel free to let me know! www.inprnt.com/gallery/ehre... #invertart #SciArt

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🔞🐊🎃Sammi Samstown SAMHAIN🎃🐊🔞 @sammi-samhain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

another one in the niche but bizarrely consistent "1970s fords harassed by flying saucers" category

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

What I ended up acquiring from the used book store with $4 and $2 science fiction hardbacks. I fudged my 1985 cutoff date a little... #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Photo of books on a wood table: Simak's Mastodonia, Knight's The Futurians, Robinson's The Power, Tepper's The Awakeners, Brunner's The SHockwave Rider, Scott's The Kindly Ones, and Tevis' The Steps of the Sun.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

No one should apologize for writing using complex vocabulary or atypical structure or sentences or experimental approaches, especially in this day and age. There is also an argument to be made that sometimes traditional approaches unwittingly support the status quo. (Note I said sometimes.)

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Animated stones, chalk and scrap. This is Machini -- an incredible film by two artists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We've loved Machini for years. It's our honor to premiere it online for the next two weeks, and to tell its story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/congolese-...

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Everything I see from this screams to me in the best way possible. A fantasy film, with environments of the PNW gorgeously made by hand? No wonder I'm falling fast for it

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BornUnderPunches - low art enthusiast @bornunderpunches.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

When the ancient Romans believed that Britain was a strange and terrifying land full of ungodly barbarian magics, this is what they were thinking of

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Crin's Castle

The first page of an article from the May 1988 issue of ST-Log Magazine, describing a fantasy text adventure in which you are a knight set to retrieve the magical Flame Sword from the evil Crin. This ST BASIC program was written by Brad Mott, who is 17 'but has owned a 1200XL for almost four years" and who "plans to learn C very soon."

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kevlarsen @kevlarsen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is a great short story I just read in "The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025" clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

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Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

more Banana. I like to draw Banana

fantastical drawing of a Eurhinosaurus, an aquatic reptile which looks similar to a dolphin but also has hind-flippers. It is colored in shades of yellow and brown with small spots like a ripe banana.

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KP 🌸 @cyankaiyen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The prince

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Need to get back to distracting myself with story ideation instead of Taskmaster

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Oni @onidraws.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Some suggestions for notebooks in pocket format that are NOT Moleskine. It's a thread 🧵 ⬇️

A bunch of pocket notebooks laying on a desk

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no 9520: If you’re struggling with making a character relatable, it helps to give them something (or someone) to care deeply about. The more *they* care, the more your readers are likely to…

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In George Grosz's 1926 painting "The Pillars of Society," which viciously satirizes the elite groups that enabled the rise of fascism in Germany, the figure in the left foreground is a journalist with a chamber pot on his head who grasps a bloody palm branch, a symbol of appeasement

Painting of various figures, satirizing members of the government, businessmen, journalists, and the judiciary in pre-WWII Germany

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 23/04/2026

Hey!! Ok, I’ve started this blog/newsletter on beehiiv (looking for an alt to substack). I am going to be posting regularly and you can join the conversation too through integrated comments. We talked about memory yesterday. Please subscribe (it is FREE!) it’s like social media without the SUCK.

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I’m drawing my character Pig Bat. I still haven’t completely figured out how Pig Bat fits in my story. I think they’re a witch’s familiar.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Excellent book Essential if you're into the Alien series

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 01/04/2026

also like listen, I get that maybe this is just me, but isn't part of the fun of being an author is that you get to wander off into endless research spirals on whatever thing you're currently obsessed with and buy books & write them off and call it work??? WHY ARE PEOPLE SKIPPING THE FUN PARTS???

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

<me, trying to show how average and well-balanced a woods-liver I am> I talk to slugs a normal amount

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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire @asmeesh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Started drawing hands and it turned into monsters. Also Slewfoot is a really great read, you should check it out.

black and white drawings of two hands, one is scaled like an alligator, one is black tipped with sharp claws with fingers spread out. below are two sketches of black, goat headed creatures, gangly, with long limbs. One appears lazily jumping and has a horned goat head, one is shadowed, with a long furry neck, sitting, with skinny limbs.

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Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Roy Virgo. Ghosts of Shulmeirik. From Steven Eisler (Robert Holdstock), The Alien World, 1980. Cover art for Michel Jeury, Le sombre éclat, Fleuve Noir, 1980. #RoyVirgo

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Edward Branley @ebranley.com · 22/03/2026

Moon rover. Japanese retro-futurism via thevaultofatimicspaceage on Teh Tumblrz

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Finally got around to watching this and it was phenomenal. Highly recommend checking it out.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Sometimes I think about all the things I was told by wise teachers, writers, editors and agents could never sell and were cliches no one should write but which now dominate bestseller lists. Basically, write what you want to and what you feel passionate about. No one knows what will sell.

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Finally watched Sinners and was absolutely blown away. Every bit of hype was well deserved. A true 10/10 that fired on all cylinders.

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I’ll give away what they did not. Regressive lesbian separatists, full time LARPing as abusive Victorian teachers in a crumbling period house, secretly develop a series of critical darling 80’s text adventures. Read this immediately. Follow the links.

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Started reading Heavyweight by Solomon J. Brager after it was recommended on a podcast. A really remarkable work, emotionally heavy but powerful, found it at my local library. I can already tell it's something I'll never forget. solomonbrager.com/heavyweight

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Heavyweight — Solomon J Brager

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

this is so offensive

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Art by Peter Elson (1947 – 1998). Another giant of British scifi book cover art

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Fresh level of procrastination unlocked: inventing a new version of chess instead of editing

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 181015: If you're feeling creatively exhausted, then fill your tank with creative things. Read books. Watch films. See plays. Listen to music. Look at art. Remind yourself what creativity means to you.

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I would love a modular suitcase

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Nominating and voting for awards are free ways to show love for the works that helped you get through last year.

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jrstorylab @jrstorylab.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

There's something immensely rewarding about writing the sort of stuff that would make your inner child mark out. Doing it for you buddy.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 16/02/2026

A year ago, I proposed making a web ring for independent presses! And - tada! The Indie Press Webring connects independent publishing houses. We're small, and we need your help spreading the word so we can grow. Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com 🌈📚 📚💙

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

My review series exploring pre-1985 short fiction on Generation Ship stories continues! Mari Wolf’s “The First Day of Spring” (1954) and Francis G. Rayer’s “Continuity Man” (1959) sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/02/16/g...

JUNE 1954 ISSUE of If. Various space people explore a river of fire.

Brian Lewis’ cover for New Worlds Science Fiction, ed. John Carnell (October 1959). Intrepid people set tracks across a volcanic expanse for a small train.

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

i just can’t imagine, even the tiniest bit, wanting to use or see anything AI when there are so many amazing living breathing soulful artists out there making incredible work

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