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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 2h

When I originally posted this I thought it looked familiar even though I've never been to Hardwick Hall, and I've just realised it's because I saw another painting in the Tate a few years ago (unknown artist) of a lady, thought to be Mary Clerke, wearing a petticoat decorated with sea monsters.

Painting of an Elizabethan lady, with a painted petticoat just visible in the gap in the front.

Close up of the painted petticoat, which is just visible and shows a castle in the background, and in the sea in front are three sea monsters.

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Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 2h

Posted this last night but I'm enjoying it so much I'm posting again. I just feel physically cleaner and lighter when they're done.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 5h

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 2h

It says 38 books. But since reading any Wolfe book is going to be like reading 3 books in 1 at a minimum, this is really like 100+ books. www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...

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Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books

Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

not the main problem with today's book landscape, but do you think we could find a way to bring back long-running fantasy series whose authors have not even begun to think about the possibility of resolving their psychosexual issues so their books end up reshaping queer teens' minds permanently

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

tired: not writing about The Kink wired: writing about The Kink inspired: "Not Writing About The Kink"

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ghosts. One of 240 images from my forthcoming (2027) book on the global, visual history of ghosts. Franz Sedlacek "Ghosts on a Tree" (1933)

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Zvesta @artbyzvesta.bsky.social · 4h

A collection of frogs for you in these trying times.

Five digital drawings of "frogs". One is inspired by an Ouroboros, another seems to have a carved turnip for a head, one is a somewhat scrungly witch, another wears a flowery shirt while drinking from a coconut, and finally one of them is "Bimble". Bimble looks like if a rock tried very hard to be a frog and almost succeeded.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 3h

#SpookySunday 'Woman Startled by the Ghost of a Girl by a Mirror' by William Bell Scott (1811–1890) www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

Pen and ink artwork of a woman entering a dimly lit room to find a ghostly girl looking at herself in a mirror

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Laser @lasersinger.bsky.social · 5h

made myself a motivational poster to make sure I get all the writing i need to get done this weekend.

are you (winning)writing son? Meme altered to hold my feet to the fire

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 5h

As I watched the movie, I couldn’t help but dwell on the gross hypocrisy of the show To Catch a Predator itself which I of course watched with the same enthrallment as everyone else. At a time when children, including myself, were ruthlessly made into sexual objects, the pedophile acted as a kind of tulpa or totem for what was, in reality, a societal sin. I was fourteen when the movie’s central travesty happened, when the district attorney shot himself. Where I went to school, if you didn’t dress revealingly (tight t-shirt, low-rise jeans, push up bra) you were relentlessly bullied for being a dyke. If you did dress that way you -- a thirteen year old girl -- were called a slut instead.

If you were fat, you were a pariah, fair game for ritual humiliation. If you were 80 lbs you were fat. Everyone suspected everyone else of being “a fag.” When you went to the nurses’ office at lunch to take your pills everyone called you retarded because someone found out you had ADHD. Your peers worked overtime to find some way to humiliate you, some way to make a spectacle out of you and of themselves at the same moment. Everyone behaved as though they were on TV, because TV was just as juvenile as real life. Girls went on MTV to have their bodies rated. They went on contrived and embarrassing dating shows. This was a time when peers and adults alike would talk about how your tits were too big for your age and about how they couldn't wait for you to turn 18.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 20h

Now here’s a kind of book I’ve never read before: Palestinian gothic horror, set in Haifa, and explicitly about the ‘48 Nakba and its consequences.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 9h

Pen and watercolor

A pack of witches dance around a fire circle summoning a massive demon in the flames. One of our witches is down though, reader. She lets her sisters know that she won’t be continuing the circle. “Gotta sit this one out, sisters,” she says. “Rolled my ankle.”

I played around with adding a lot of detail to this scene (more shadows, trees in the background, etc.) I think the simpler version works but I’m not sure how I feel about the fire demon drawing. I think I like it. Was having trouble getting the composition of the scene set up with a text bubble in the bottom right. I do like the purple against the black dresses and little boots.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Liz (E.M. Morrissey) @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social · 20h

ok I didn't really get any writing done today but I DID see a dachshund race at an Oktoberfest, and that was something

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 21h

I screech "THAT MONEY WAS JUST RESTING IN MY ACCOUNT" every time I'm even mildly questioned about something

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 23h

I visited a Russian-American historic fort in California and if anyone knows why their dining tables had these notches under both sides (looks like somethng slots into place??) I am super curious! Circa early 1800s.

Photo of an old wooden dining table and bench. They able has a sawt9oth notched out portion under the table, and 4 carved out notches at the base of the table leg.

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

I had the absolute honor of getting to make a piece for the @gallerynucleus.bsky.social Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary Tribute Show I believe this piece is being made into a print with the gallery so keep your eyes peeled, give them a follow! The opening reception will be on Nov 2nd🎃

Fan art for Over the Garden Wall. The illustration shows a cart with pumpkins being ridden by a black cat and a pumpkin man with a pitchfork walking next to the cart. The cart is being pulled by two turkeys, and behind them is a pumpkin woman and a pumpkin headed skeleton holding hands. There is a candy scattered on the ground and a small duck and frog are walking with the procession. The background is of a bucolic scene with rolling fields with early morning mist

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WHAT: Céline (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: big business or, in Sorrento, on vacation, whispering to your cousin, “Do you what you will, Veronica. But remember, I was on that balcony in Gstaad. I know what I know.” IF IT WERE A SCENT: private elevator EMOTIONAL RANGE: suave/apt #MJMfashionGuide

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 03/10/2026

I think people are amazing

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Erin 😔 @erinpraline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The whole point of restorative justice is that the VICTIM is the one who dictates what needs to be done in order to be "restored". It's not up to you or me and our society doesn't even afford victims that privilege to begin with

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have just learned of #Boktober, the marvellous brainchild of @kamakru.bsky.social, and goodness, it might as well be tailor-made for me. I have in actual fact already been thinking of returning to the hens again, so this feels doubly fortuitous. 🤩🐔

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

my worldbuilding these days is mostly ttrpgs. the "everything needs to be a 1:1: metaphor" is i think a blind alley. what i try to do instead is take forces or structures from our world--lately, imperialism--bring them into a strange and different context, and let the players confront them

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Luis Egidio Meléndez, brilliant still-life painter from Madrid. Also quite able in other areas, as displayed in his self-portrait w/ an academic drawing, 1747. Plus Historical Hottie du jour.

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Liz (E.M. Morrissey) @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Newsletter is up! This time, on Gormenghast, the greatest thing I've seen in a hot minute: buttondown.com/vespertinedi...

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How Many Ways Can I Misspell 'Gormenghast'

On Gormenghast and adaptations.

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 02/10/2026

Spotted on Facebook: sicko game worlds colliding

"My bf is a developer and just made me a program to use his racing pedals to sew realistically. It also adjusts the speed the more you press down the pedal 😭 he just upped my game so hard 🥲🤣
Game: Dressmaker"

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

when i was living in a country where skilled trades are seen more of a viable career path, i both knew a lot more ppl who had taken up a trade, AND the “can’t bend their knees after 40” piece was very noticeable once i hit my 30s. many ppl headed to college around 30 to retrain for health reasons!

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the reasons Dracula works and is good is cause it’s about every single middle-class British neurosis and paranoia AT ONCE

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Alfred / Alfie @jookpubstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is one of the projects that I'm most proud of. I sometimes can't believe I pulled that off on my own without losing my mind. Operating the camera and smoke machine, looking good as the model and covering the flashlight behind me, all while holding a skeleton in a dress. :'D

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Liz (E.M. Morrissey) @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Newsletter is up! This time, on Gormenghast, the greatest thing I've seen in a hot minute: buttondown.com/vespertinedi...

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How Many Ways Can I Misspell 'Gormenghast'

On Gormenghast and adaptations.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺 1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga 📸 me

Fragment of a fresco depicting part of a human face, mostly the eyes. Thin lines form a grid pattern, simulating the edges of tesserae.

Fresco fragment showing a naked torso of a woman, her legs and pubic area covered in a red himation (cloak). Her right hand carries a basket laden with fruit, which look like giant globes of grapes. Grapevine leaves appear in the background. A Dionysian scene. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of the body.

Fresco fragment depicting some sort of half-human creature with wild hair and bare torso, gesturing upwards with his right hand and holding a branched stick with his left. The faux tesserae grid lines follow the curves of his garment and body.

Fresco fragment with the torso of perhaps a god with golden skin, a red himation flowing outwards and partially covering his or her legs. Perhaps Dionysos?

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Alariko @alariko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

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The Job by Elizabeth Bear

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 01/10/2026

There is a Goodreads giveaway for The League of Lost Souls! Get an early copy of my occult fantasy here. (This is US only, I'm afraid, there will be international ones running later.)

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Book giveaway for The League of Lost Souls by K.J. Charles Oct 01-Oct 31, 2026

75 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 01-Oct 31, 2026. Enter for a chance to win an ARC! 75 winners will be selected.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The wordes of Elric of Melniboné, "How the weake hate weaknesse," are alwayes yn myne eares these dayes when Ich wacche the speeches of those who clayme to have powere.

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DanHELL M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THIS sale price, $3.99, is currently good on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes&Noble, and Bookshop. Four bucks for 2000+ pages of epic fantasy.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A crucifix mandrake, probably 16th century Extraordinary. (Schloss Ambras Innsbruck)

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

[circle of love] Nora Roberts: heeey everyone guess what? Roberts: joyce carol oates has something to share Sandra Hill: is it her gross foot again Roberts: no no no Roberts: Roberts:it's not your gross foot again is it joyce Oates: why? do you want to see it? Oates: check this shit out Roberts: no-

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026

Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book

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The Animals We Became

You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

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