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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'Committal' by @samueltongue.bsky.social badlilies.uk/samuel-tongue

Committal
A hill to die on, not once but many times.
Even in this airlock of a burial cairn, I hear the drumming of a big heart, a sizzle of rain, & the newly electrified trains running their static. This lair is a quiet den, a bone-deep home, the wind about its business outside, & the motorway full of toys.
I lost my gloves climbing this wet street, a scuff quartered from a precious hill.
The ancients ourselves knew to keep the dead tightly bound, ligatured for birth through death's tight canal.
Fine pottery, stone-axe heads, food & drink. We have finished the bread you had left in the freezer, the last piece as good as the first. On a clear day, we can see coast-to-coast from here.

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Tiernan Blanchard @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I think a problem with a lot of 'retellings' is that the writer goes in with an attitude like they've 'solved' the original story, or 'corrected' it in some way. That usually results in something bad. But a writer who is in conversation with the work, who is exploring different elements? better.

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Tiernan Blanchard @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

To jump off this point to something else - this is the thought process that leads to people thinking feeling 'uncomfortable' gives them the right to destroy the percieved source. It's what leads to fascist and exterminatory thought process.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 6h

oh.....the Iliad 🥹

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 9h

Read the sweet & funny & perfect @kymdeyn.bsky.social one with the very long title!!! (othersidespec.com/pieces/tikta...) (and then read the rest!)

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frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 15h

hi hello, do you like GOOD WORDS that are placed in INTERESTING and SURPRISING orders that make you LAUGH and GASP and so forth? please acquire FOLKISH and DIONYSIA by @kymdeyn.bsky.social, they have all the BEST WORDS in ASTOUNDING ORDERS. especially valid for mossy forest queerdos. #poetry

two books on a paisley pink scarf, both by Kym Deyn - Folkish, which has an illustration of a white wyrm on an apple-green background, and Dionysia, which has a pink and navy Grecian Urn on a white background

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 19h

watch out that thing's mad

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here are the rest. The owl and crocodile are my favs but the birds just looked best displayed all together

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found these French gift tags from the 1970s awhile ago. Got a frame and made some custom backing out of black cloth so I could display them. These are just four of a larger set. Aren't they beautiful?

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

***cackling*** Are you guys ready for this??? I have a poem in @strangehorizons.bsky.social and it is called - ahem - "Why you fucked Mothman" strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

strangehorizons.com

Why you fucked Mothman

his wildfire eyes saw the world burning and he could do nothing but tell you

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I genuinely have had more egregious moments of utter disrespect from both friends and institutions this year than I ever received before I put out my book, and for the life of me I can't fucking fathom what is going on

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"this is bad (as art) *because* it doesn't match with my sense of morality or propriety." among other things, i think it's more interesting to discuss art and fiction when you let go of this & other "bad because [trait]" arguments.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

there's some fiction where i'm like, "i think this was executed in a pretty tasteless/insensitive way" or "okay so i think this author's irl values were/are kind of reprehensible, and perhaps we can see that reflected in xyz parts of their fiction,' but i try really hard to not let it lapse into

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i don't think fiction has to be moral *both* in the sense that i don't think it has to be didactic or depict admirable behavior, and in the sense that i think it's neutral if it *does* actively celebrate/glamorize immoral behavior, operates according to a very different value system than mine, etc

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Lunch, 2022 by Jeffrey Chong Wang 汪翀 www.instagram.com/jeffrey_chon...

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reminder you’ve until Tuesday (Michaelmas) to pick brambles before the devil pisses all over them.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This Etruscan alabastron (or perfume vase) is made from terracotta in the shape of a (somewhat languid) rabbit. If you’ve ever had a rabbit as a pet, the flattened ears and rear legs stretched out behind (here sadly broken) indicate a rabbit at ease & feeling safe. 🕰️650-500 BC 🏛️📷 The Met, NY

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I never asked for any of this

A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

3.5 on goodreads? ahh, the connoisseur’s A+

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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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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sketching out a weird western cover for a contract

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've just paid for a slightly spenny reprint of some Braag titles, so if anyone wants to buy a braag book now's a good time

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"After he retired to the cave prayer grew in him like a forest, sowed its seeds inside his psyche, rewilded his heart. He didn’t see that centuries had passed without him."

A Saint looks up from his prayers to
discover he’s been dead for some time
For St Robert of Knaresborough
By Jay Hulme - from 'The Vanishing Song'

After he retired to the cave
prayer grew in him like a forest,
sowed its seeds inside his psyche,
rewilded his heart. He didn’t
see that centuries had passed
without him.
One day he
looked up, hearing requests for
intercession, and the woods were
older than expected, the riverbanks
shifted by the years —
and as he
knelt before the altar in his hermit's
church, his knees disappeared below
the edges of his emptied grave.

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Publishers and Editors! I'm taking subs for Vol. 3 of the award-nominated "Best Weird Fiction of the Year" til end of the year. Writers! You'll get a chance to submit your 2026 stories in January. bestspecfic(at)gmail.com

Esteemed Editors and Publishers,

I am now taking submissions of original 2026 short fiction projects — magazines, anthologies, single-author collections — for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 3. (Publishing Sept. 2027). Vol. 1 is a World fantasy Award Finalist.

I am seeking material first published this year, in 2026. To be clear, only weird fiction FIRST published in 2026 is eligible for inclusion in this volume. I will accept translated work as long as the first English-language publication was 2026.

Stories should be between 500 and 17,499 words. Audio only stories are also ineligible, unless they also appeared as text.

Publishers and editors are encouraged to send electronic or digital copies, via the email address below. (I am not accepting hard copy submissions.) ePubs are preferred, but I will also accept text files (Word), Mobi, or PDF. Please do not cherry-pick selections. Send the entire book, journal, or magazine to:

bestspecfic@gmail.com

Thank you for your time and kind consideration.

Warm Wishes,

Michael
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Michael Kelly / Publisher / Editor-in-Chief
undertowbooks@gmail.com

Undertow Publications
https://undertowpublications.com/

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/09/2023

pov: you're a regional cryptid about to have the worst day of your life

X Files publicity still of a backlit Mulder and Scully in trenechcoats looking sternly at the camera

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 22/09/2026

This article is fascinating

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m @mjjii.com · 21/09/2026

digital art. a cow standing in the ocean and staring off into the distance

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hello folks, I'm now in the process of setting this up. It's on discord, if you're interested let me know!

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Blind Alley No. 445

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Did you know that "Abracadabra" has been used as a practical magic spell since antiquity? The earliest known mention comes from the 2nd-century book "Liber Medicinalis," where it appears on a triangular amulet as a method for treating malaria. And it has been used on amulets through history.

Silver talisman in the shape of a cross, with magical words very similar to the famous "Abracadabra". 6th/7th century.

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

just remembered that during my ADHD assessment my assessor said "can you... try to be more focussed and concise in your answers, we're running out of time..."

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