iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Why did a heap of people just decide to follow me? What did I do? I’m currently just a curmudgeon trapped under a manuscript. I sometimes post bad pictures on Instagram so that’s where to find me when I do decide to communicate with the internet of people.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Oof, so...guess what? Due to a very frustrating mistake, I had to temporarily "unpublish" my preorder option for A Waltz of Sinister Import (#3 in the Unexpected Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven)...which lost every one of its 200+ preorders! 😱 I am SO sorry for the inconvenience and frustration. 1/2

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John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today! Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Cover art for The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu.
Has a blurb from Max Gladstone "A work of crystalline vision and meticulous humanity"

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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My demented camel cult story, Dromedary Mary, is out in this month’s The Dark magazine! The end of the world is coming. Quick! Pile your supplies on your body and shut all the doors. Be like Mary. Follow the dromedary. Everything will be alright in the end. www.thedarkmagazine.com/dromedary-ma...

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My dear former student Aphid is fundraising to leave Kansas and move to Colorado. He is a 100% real trans person in Kansas, I personally know him and vouch for him. You can make an immediate big difference in someone's life this way!! Please spread the word & contribute if you can!

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Nibedita Sen @hernibsen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

THE FRUMPKIN IS OUT OF THE BAG! I wrote a @criticalrole.bsky.social book, you guys!! It has fistfights and smooching and disaster gays and dark academia and spooky archeology and political intrigue, and I am terrified and excited for you all to read it!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760755...

The cover of a Critical Role novel titled "Children of Empire", with the author's name, Nibedita Sen, below the title. The cover shows post-campaign 2 Caleb and Beauregard against a purple background.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Consider not counting how many words you wrote today as if that number would decide your worth as a human being.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Started noodling on something that can best be summed up as ”harried customer service in space”. I have to use my years of getting yelled at over the phone for something. (I can do two things: fiction and customer service. I don’t want to go back to customer service ever)

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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I’m so happy to share my SF horror flash, ‘The Worldbuilder,’ published today in @lightspeedmagazine.com! The story is an homage to Joanna Russ’ ‘We Who are About To…’, enfolding the morbid xenophilic curiosity of ‘Alien’ (hi, welcome to my work 😈) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Lightspeed magazine cover: a humanoid holding a scythe streaks across a desert

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I was asked yesterday about copies of Amatka in Swedish. Flashback to when I dragged home 100 remainder copies of the book while the rest was pulped because it didn’t sell. Thought my career was over before it even started. Reader, it wasn’t. I got angry instead and translated it. Cont’d ->

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Jag var i Skellefteå och hängde på Hubben och gafflade med Paloma Halén Roman från Transammans. Det var astrevligt och de lokala queersen var hur gulliga som helst. Ämnen: medelålders queerhet, att skriva världen man vill kämpa för. Att vi lever i en guldålder för queer fantastik. För det gör vi.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

And the first album I’m spending time with in 2026 is the new one from Florence + the Machine. To be frank I would also like to become a giant squid and howl at the stars. I’m sure some of you would join.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The final album I spent time with in 2025 was Massive Scar Era’s Assyad. I discovered it through The Devil You Know podcast’s extra episode ”Arab Spring, Satanic Summer”, an interview w founder Cherine Amr. I keep finding new things in it with each listen.

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ASSYAD, by Massive Scar Era

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Found my old cd player and am digitizing some hard to find stuff. Albums and EPs by Black Tape For a Blue Girl, Curve, The Tea Party, The Creatures, and last but not least the iconic Gothic Rock anthology from 1992. The 90s were great for goth. The 90s were harsh on my eyebrows.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Reading Å hate Gud/Girls against God by Jenny Hval. I only knew Hval as a musician, now I know her as a witch of words. She does not mince them. Hate: a powerful tool in the hands of girls. Girls: ridiculed, minimized, taught they are worth nothing except perhaps what their bodies can deliver.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’ve promised myself to write something here about aliens and faeries through the perspectives of writers like John Keel and Patrick Harpur, and I hopefully will, because it’s incredibly interesting and haunts me. Probably essay material, but who has the energy to write essays?

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Skellefteå! Den 10/2 har jag äran att gaffla med Paloma Halén Roman från Transammans. Vi kommer sitta i Hubben, kom dit och häng. skellefteapride.se

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I blurbed this because it was so good it made me cry. If you’d like a fresh queer take on zombies, this is the one to read. But be warned: it has teeth.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Today’s short read was ”How To Build A Homecoming Queen: A Guide By A Bad Asian Girl” by @tinazhu.bsky.social. I love the feeling of realizing halfway through the story that I got sucked into something deeply weird and didn’t realize, because it’s so elegantly done and multilayered. Great stuff.

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How to Build a Homecoming Queen: A Guide by a Bad Asian Girl - Lightspeed Magazine

We put my body double together in June Lee’s basement. Her mom was one of those chill Asian moms who liked having an artsy-fartsy daughter she could brag about at Bible study. She was already pushing ...

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

cover for an ebook titled BY YOU, HOPE STANDS; it shows two wolves (one golden, one black) howling underneath an arch with the phases of the moon above, and a starry sky in the background; the text is white with the subtitle "stories of hope and resistance"

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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Story day! I’m delighted to share ‘Dispersal,’ a flash piece about the end of a marriage… and the beginning of something stranger. Out now @hexliterary.bsky.social

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Did you start following me while I was away? Not sure what to expect? Hi, I’m a Swedish non-binary author of speculative fiction and I need a nap. I don’t like social media much but I can’t always be a digital hermit. I have opinions. I think about social justice and writing and music. And dogs.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It’s been a year since I left Bluesky, so coming back feels appropriate. I did some stuff, wrote some things, built a birdhouse. I don’t know how frequently I’ll be posting here but I guess we’ll find out.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The traits that can make you successful don’t always come along with being kind.

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Juliet Kemp @julietk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

New novella! Contains: - space dragons - resistance fighters - sneaking around - found family - the ex you regret showing up again - parenthood - did I mention the space dragons? SCALES OF RESISTANCE, available from various retailers: books2read.com/ScalesOfResi... (ebook only).

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Scales of Resistance

Scales of Resistance - Kindle edition by Kemp, Juliet. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Scales of Resistance.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Tell me about an album you think must be listened to in its entirety, and what memories accompany it. Had flashback to Fields of the Nephilim’s Elizium. I interviewed Carl McCoy for a fanzine when I was 17 and asked whether it was true that they put flour on their shoulders onstage. Answer: no.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

So far in 2025, I have met a very sweet dog, broken my personal record in bench press, and thought (yet again) about how the divide between ”genre” and ”literary” is bullshit. I’ve also decided to try to care more about social media. We’ll see how long that lasts.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 23/12/2024

hello all! i am really sorry to do this *right now* but Stella got attacked by a dog yesterday and the vet bills cleaned me out completely. could really use help. gofund.me/a8ed9376

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Donate to Help Stella's Recovery from Attack, organized by Jordan Kurella

My name is Jordan Kurella. For a very long time, I had a service dog named Stella Ku… Jordan Kurella needs your support for Help Stella's Recovery from Attack

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 21/12/2024

I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income. If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Navigational Entanglements

A "Best of" Pick by Lit Hub | Amazon | New Scientist!Award-winning author of The Red Scholar’s Wake Aliette de Bodard comes for your heart with a compellin...

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING. This is the best short story I read in 2024, and soon it shall be yours. Tamara Masri's "Inside the House of Wisdom" is brutal and devastating, as befits the subject matter, but the horrors are framed with so much hope and joy. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/insi...

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Inside the House of Wisdom - Lightspeed Magazine

This is the eighth floor of the Al-Ahli Memorial Library, my favorite place in the building. When the elevator door opens, it’s like walking into a quiet circle of glass. So, as we walk, I’m going to ...

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 25/11/2024

I said this in a reply to someone else, but someone else needs to hear this: You are a real person doing real work to make real art. Don’t forget.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hey, random reminder that it’s never too late to come out to yourself, loved ones or the world. I’m late GenX and grew up without language for being non-binary. No role models either. Came out at 43. It can take a little time. You’re not too old.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I barely know what day it is but someone mentioned “wizards” in Rings of Power and I immediately rattled off the names of the istari. Do i know what I did last week? No, but I know that the okapi can lick itself in the ear.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The What Magic Is This? podcast released an episode on Robert Anton Wilson. I had a flashback to when I worked in a bookshop in the late 90s and assisted him during a visit. I had read all his work and was a nervous wreck. He was very patient and kind, like an occult Santa.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A thing I have in common with Aleister Crowley: climbing. A thing I don’t: never got into a magical fight with William Butler Yeats.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Anyone who understands Swedish might want to check out Historiepodden podcast today - there’s a rundown of Swedes in the 17th century who were accused of having sexual congress with the fae. The loose translation is “illegal mingling”. It was punishable by death.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Btw turns out that this is a great place to catch Mesopotamian memes apparently. Send me everything. I’ve been interested since I wrote a high school essay about similarities between Inanna, Ishtar, Cybele, Isis and the Virgin Mary and the religion teacher temp told me I’d go to hell for blasphemy.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers. Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be. go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

On the topic of writing in English as a second language, I harbor a special dislike for the word “the”. It’s cluttery. Sometimes I’m confused by all the “the”, like they’re ants scurrying around on the page. Would love to just tack definitethe articles onto endthe of words instead.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Once a great first line of a story appeared in my head. I wrote the story down from beginning to end. It was good, it was the story “Beatrice”. All other days, I sift through barely legible notes and wonder what I meant by “there’s an egg in a handbag!” or “humanity extras”.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Because you’ve been wondering whether arctic explorer Peter Freuchen (as he wrote in his memoir) actually fashioned a knife from his own frozen poop to hack his way out of a lavine: scientists have tested this, thoroughly, and could not duplicate the feat.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I have a book in the Trans Lifeline auction, and it's THE UNBALANCING! Ships worldwide. If you get this book, I'll sign and draw a bird on it. You need your queer Atlantis if you haven't gotten it yet - makes a good gift too, especially now. www.32auctions.com/organization...

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The Unbalancing: Signed and Birded

Auction item 'The Unbalancing: Signed and Birded' hosted online at 32auctions.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

So I created this account a month ago and for some reason 500+ people are now following me. Look, I’m not great at bite-sized political commentary (I’m writing an angry book instead) or memes, and social media is a lot. But I think a lot about the outer reaches of reality. And mushrooms.

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K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

I live under a social media rock but will give this a try. Hi, I write stuff that is mostly labeled as weird fiction. Most of my works are available in English. I used to fence with longswords but then I took an arrow to the knee. I’m a middle-aged trans nuncle. Follow me for possible ramblings.

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