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Kiya Nicoll

@kiyanicoll.bsky.social
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Still trying to write a holy litany despite America's silly mood. Only knows how to do one thing well; would rather be whistling in the dark. Now accepting all major pronouns (and 'thon'). May contain cats and echolalia. kiyanicoll.carrd.co

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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 17h
I can be funny with #WIPSnips today....
	“You’re such a thoughtful girl.” That got a good hour and a half of the drive with me singing along half under my breath and her occasionally asking me what was happening with the plot because she wasn’t quite following, which was fine, just a long string of things like, “What is this disaster?”
	“You’ll find out as you listen.”
	“Wait, there’s a man in the walls? That’s creepy.”
	“Yes.”
	“Oh of course he’s abducting her into his creepy serial killer basement.”
	“Uh-huh.”
	“What’s the deal with his face?”
	“I mean it depends on the version of the story, whether he’s, like, deformed from birth or got splashed with acid or something.  But it’s messed up.”
	“I see.”
	“What just happened?”
	“The disaster you were asking about.”
	“Oh.”
	Like that.
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Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wise visitors refused fairy food: it was tainted with toxic honey made from monkshood, foxglove, and bog rosemary, and made one hallucinate. The introduction of rhododendron gardens in the Victorian era allowed fairies to step up production, with astonishing effects on English literature.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Help", almost certainly.
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Ringo Starr Falling
Alt: A gif with several quick-cut scenelets. It is set in a recording studio, and the opening shot has the Beatles clearly in process of doing music, with Ringo on the drums in the foreground. There is a circle cut around Ringo and the drumset. The floor gives way, with Ringo and the drums vanishing to the floor below. The scene cuts to a closeup of the other Beatles, with Paul and John suddenly crouching down to peer in the hole, and George leaning in to join them. Then a cut to the two studio guys in the booth craning their necks to see wtf is going on here.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You ever have one of those days where you read a story and then you have an emotion and need to go stand in the corner about it?
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have just had a brief conversation with Oldest!Child in which I did the basic explanation of why, mechanically, baseball is the most eldritch of sports.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An iPlayer glitch watching an old episode of Dr Who gave me this oddly encouraging message:
An entirely black frame with the words "Things must stabilise soon" in small white letters.
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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026
Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Avery Brooks is 78 today
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Sam Paints Gays @sampaintsgays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1. Cat-sìth "Stories about the 'white spot' on the cat-sìth's chest were born of a misunderstanding. Turns out he just liked to leave that part un-morphed to show off his handsome top scars." #VividShadows #art #humanart #watercolour #watercolor #fantasy #scifi
Watercolour painting of a trans masculine feline shapeshifter in a dark foggy forest.  He is partially morphed into his beast form, and looming over the viewer with a seductive smirk and tongue out.  His top scars and tdick are both visible.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey @mostlybree.kitrocha.com check out what I just found while unpacking boxes of books!
A book cart with a shelf of books in series, the “Virtue Tales” children’s biography series, each of which is titled with a virtue and is the story of someone portrayed in the semi-fictionalized bio as having that virtue. It is a near complete set, probably. Yes one is upside down. I just noticed. I will fix it after I post this.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honestly I don't think I have a better answer to this than to re-up my thread about monsters and their relationship to subaltern positioning so I will just throw a link to that here for #SFFChat: bsky.app/profile/kiya... Though an addendum:
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#SFFChat I mean. I've always been a werewolf guy. For all sorts of reasons, really. (Though my only published story with any sort of classic monster in it is a vampire.) But my favorite horror movie is, I am not trolling here, this is genuine, The Truman Show.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Presumably this one can still do booleans.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hands I was thinking Of a man's Long-fingered Elegant grace Sliding over the neck And body Of his guitar When I noticed The hint of foliage Growing At the base Of my own pillars The temple Of my grasp Mature enough To vine And I stared Because I Had never thought About that changing.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a beautifully written piece and I am somewhere in the vicinity of [inarticulate flailing] about it (aside from the part where I am at "Jesus fuck _Jack Parsons_?!"). The human touchstones of community matter so much, and he was one of them.
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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
get equipped with current spite
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Okay I've given up on the others I was trying for for #SongsOfSeptember, so I'll just finish up with the Best Bros and "Two Of Us", the Beatles. (Damnit Joe why are you so hard to find a song for? Anyway.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Va...
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The Beatles - Two Of Us (Performance from ‘Let It Be’)
YouTube video by The Beatles
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's do the whole character arc for #SongsOfSeptember here and go with "Skin", Assemblage 23. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Ge...
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Skin
YouTube video by Assemblage 23 - Topic
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#SongsOfSeptember villain riff. "Every Breath You Take", the Police. (My alternative was "Honor to us all" from the Disney Mulan.) (Yes I am throwing out that juxtaposition for the joy of the wtf.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOG...
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The Police - Every Breath You Take (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ThePoliceVEVO
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Without context, hmm? I mean. Okay, let's run with this, and I can giggle about it. #SongsOfSeptember "Cruelty", the Crüxshadows.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=41sU...
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Cruelty
YouTube video by The Crüxshadows - Topic
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just bopping around in #SongsOfSeptember but I feel like both of my romantic leads could roll with this. (One a bit more than the other, maybe, but both.) "Whataya Want From Me", Adam Lambert www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Fq...
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Adam Lambert - Whataya Want from Me (Official Video)
YouTube video by AdamLambertVEVO
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Going through #SongsOfSeptember for some more things to throw in before I run out of September, ha. But also this turns out to be perfect. Linkin Park, "Numb". www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYi...
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Numb (Official Music Video) [4K UPGRADE] – Linkin Park
YouTube video by Linkin Park
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(Gonna kvetch at my place rather than in Bree's mentions, but quoting so she can read if she wanna since this comment is what inspired it.) In 2012 a number of people responded to a sexual harassment incident within SFF convention fandom with "but what if that man is autistic?"
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ahahahahaha ha sure. (Gender aside. People are gay, Steven.) #SongsOfSeptember "Hungry Like the Wolf", Duran Duran www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMXt...
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Duran Duran Hungry like the wolf lyrics YouTube
YouTube video by 1980sBallads
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Payton Tolle is the Zohran Mamdani of Sandy Koufaxes.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#WIPSnips has me thinking about how much I love Joe again. Joe put his head to one side, smiling oddly. “Well, sure. You think I said I’d bite a guy and wouldn’t mean it?” Pete rolled his eyes. “You’ll get your butt suspended if you do that again and you know it.” Joe shrugged.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#WIPSnips has me thinking about how much I love Joe again. Joe put his head to one side, smiling oddly. “Well, sure. You think I said I’d bite a guy and wouldn’t mean it?” Pete rolled his eyes. “You’ll get your butt suspended if you do that again and you know it.” Joe shrugged.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With alt texting.
A three-panel comic from A Softer World (by e horne and j comeau).  The image is a panorama view of a nighttime cityscape split across said panels, with a silhouetted cliff edge on the bottom of the middle one and a larger cliff with several shadowy people silhouetted on the right.  The foreground silhouette is largely black, while the populated area below is awash with orange light from streetlights.

Panel one: Sometimes I wish I was born a girl.

Panel two: I'd like makeup and pretty clothes

Panel three: instead of just having this vagina.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When done with genders, go for gods, too! [rummages in prayerbot] For example: bsky.app/profile/egyp...
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[spends the day every so often reloading the pharmacy webpage to see if it will work so I can put in for a refill] [gives up and decides to brave the AI phone tree to see if I can solve this that way] [discovers that the website will load ... on my phone] ... okay at least that's solved but ugh.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh hey @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social guess what just arrived in my mail?
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Patriarchy has one gender it recognizes and everyone is failing at it" theory from a different angle:
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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David Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9 2 5!
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Apparently my brain has tapped into the same current as @tkingfisher.com writing speeches today because a mild edit tweak I needed to do turned into "my POV character has certain knowledge, in this case about quirks of particular reptile dicks".
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026
ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
With alt text. Also the Ramones underestimated for how many hours to go I would want to be sedated.
A screenshot of a conversation involving four people.

shortymcsnorty said: Wilson Phillips did not prepare me for how many times I'd have to hold on for one more day.

calm replies: 4 Non Blondes underestimated how many times I'd step outside, take a deep breath, and scream WHAT'S GOING ON

chicklet9802 replies: Tears for Fears never prepared me for how often I'd have to Shout, Shout, let it all out...

thisone0verhere replies: The Beatles really cooked with "I read the news today, oh boy"
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wanna talk about Lovecraft because I got into some semicoherent ranting about comps and the Lovecraft was an influence I was doing sufficiently on purpose that I sat down and read "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" while I was prepping the horror romance. Spoilers for a 90-year-old novella I guess.
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burnlittlelight (she/her) @burnlittlelight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The long term comes one short term at a time. The future is always happening. Worlds end and begin every day. Ends are made of means and endings are just arbitrarily-selected points between here and forever. What we have is to do the work in front of us to make hope real for a while and then again.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I swear the thing I appreciate most about the Dropkick Murphys is how they sound *exactly* like my entire span of maternal relatives. (My mother does not disagree; I played her "Chesterfields and Aftershave" when she was visiting at one point and she agreed that that was her brother to a T.)
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sometimes I think I understand computers and then I get an error message that a headless Adobe app has seized control of a clown horn somewhere on the machine
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#WIPSnips Oh hey it's a bit from the "love interest can't communicate" section of the story as was being discussed on @celialake.bsky.social 's server recently. I should get back to writing his POV on this section for the funsies.
“Okay look.”  He was suddenly awkward, and raked a hand back through his hair.  “He knows, okay?  It’s not a problem. But he’s working through some shit right now.  Not about you, not really, honestly it’s more about Tess from freshman year, but he can’t— he’ll figure it out.”  He was letting the words tumble out over each other almost too fast to be comprehensible.  “Can things be normal at lunch?  So he can see that he hasn’t fucked everything up?”
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026
Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...
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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#SongsOfSeptember Okay, seeing this hit my timeline I cannot resist noting that a critical emotional hinge of the horror romance turns on... the Fugue for Tinhorns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIl...
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Fugue for Tinhorns - Guys and Dolls (1955)
YouTube video by JDFensty
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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
once again: the reason we have libraries is to keep librarians off the streets where they cause trouble
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.
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Kiya Nicoll @kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey @meej.dragonsworn.net you want this thread.
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