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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yesterday I told this cat he was a good boy for "hunting" a sock and bringing it to me in the bedroom and this morning every one of my socks is missing

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

None of my sons has the brain cell tonight (Crouton doesn’t have a brain to store it in, so he doesn’t really count)

Tater Tot is an orange and white tabby cat sitting in a chair, looking very empty headed

Triscuit is a brown and gray tabby cat with white chest, staring with huge eyeballs into the distance

Crouton is a brown and gray tabby cat with white feet and face, staring into nothingness with his ginormous empty eyeballs

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She's literally posting "Courtney Milan, professional bully" in this "private" (anyone can join, and in fact trying to drum up new subscriptions) discord, along with lies about SFF authors, and lists of "abusers" (who are all authors), and saying anonymous Black women support her doing this. 🤷

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I’m gonna tell you how she gets black women to support her, if the anonymous ones are real Bc she attempted to do it to me and for a second it worked, until she mentioned the a name i actually knew and it clicked

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Bruce H. McCosar @bmccosar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Let’s get them on the ballot next year, eh? It’s about time for new contenders to step into the ring. I think there’s enough award-worthy material in here to break through." Read my profile of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social : bmccosar.com?p=174

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Profile: Adventitious – Bruce H. McCosar

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A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Preorder my MacBeth/Othello/Hamlet at the end of the world! They're weird and will make you sad

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh! And speaking of guidelines and policies: WE OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 4 AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN ‼️ Please send us the stories and poems only you could write! We can’t wait to read your work!

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More monies, more time loop stories!!!

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A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

HELL YEAH

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎉🎉🎉

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Jeb 🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @jebdarsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TIME LOOPS ARE A GO If you havent backed this you should

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yass! I was so excited for this, can’t wait to get grabby hands on this and read time loop stories!

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WE FUNDED!! AHH! Thank you, everyone!!! Now, with about 24 hours left, any additional monies means I CAN BUY MORE TIME LOOP STORIES. 👀⏳ (And subs will open in two weeks!) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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OPPORTUNITY WINDOW: An Anthology of Time Loop Stories

Deja vu doesn't begin to cover it... OPPORTUNITY WINDOW will bring you a book of brand new time loop stories (and maybe some you've seen before) from across the SFFH genres!

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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote a book-full of words on dyspraxia in adults, full of ideas, tips and tricks, and rants about transport. Now I'm serialising it on Patreon. You can read and support here: patreon.com/untanglingli...

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Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan — words!

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Mixeduppainter @mixeduppainter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Go go go! It's so close, y'all Please back it. I need the loopsssss

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Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let's get it over the line! Time loop stories! You know you love 'em!

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Christine Hanolsy (she/her) @christinehanolsy.com · 30/09/2026

SO CLOSE!!! Go back this project by the impossibly awesome Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OMG WE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE AHHH THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

28 hours left! We are SO CLOSE!!! Who can help us cross the finish line??? A little over $100 to go! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

screenshot from the campaign for OPPORTUNITY WINDOW

$1879/$2000 with 110 backers and 28 hours to go

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Carlie St. George @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two days left with less than $150 to go!

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are so close to funded!!

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 29/09/2026

this is tonic masculinity + semiotically clever as hell 👍

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The Ghost of Halloween Past @jxilon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Less than $300 needed to fund a time loop anthology!

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A. Katherine Black @akatherineblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Backed! Super excited for all the loops!!

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah yes, busy season at work… no wonder my feet hurt 😭

Screenshot of a step counter; today (Monday) I’ve taken 22,615 steps while at work

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Mixeduppainter @mixeduppainter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

COME ON Y'ALL I need the LOOPS

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why you should use a PHYSICAL scene separator (e.g. asterisks) in your books instead of an empty space: 1) Some ereader / app somewhere may simply not show the empty space. 2) Some people read on devices with the text REALLY BIG. Your chance of the empty space being at the end of the screen is...

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SO CLOSE!!! Back the project, get awesome stories. Your future self will thank you!

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Time to ask for a little help. My partner has been looking for a job in his field for over a year now and the incomes we’ve cobbled together without it aren’t quite adding up. It looks like I will have to start looking for copywriting/content design work again as well gofund.me/6755c4d8b

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Donate to Help Gary and Thea keep our home while looking for work, organized by TK Rex

Like so many others right now, my best friend and life partner Gary B… TK Rex needs your support for Help Gary and Thea keep our home while looking for work

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watched in reverse, this project is losing all its backers... But from THIS rather more conventional perspective, it's ticking along and getting very close to full funding! 3 days to go, 101 backers already behind it, 85% there...

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Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Coming back from the future to say let's make this time loop anthology happen!

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*clears throat* Apparently even some longtime followers don't know I have a newsletter, so. NEWSLETTER! buttondown.com/ada-hoffmann... Now with a whole bunch of more fiction recommendations that I just sent out today!

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Stories I Read In the Sun

Summer is a weird time, both in publishing and in academia. Structure dissolves. Everyone’s off traveling, either for personal reasons or for urgent work...

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We are REAL CLOSE... come back #OpportunityWindow, get some awesome #timeloop stories!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

screenshot from the backerkit website showing OPPORTUNITY WINDOW is at 1567/2000 with 96 backers and 4 days left to go

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m so tired (day 7 of 13 stretch at work and hella overtime) but I am at work and therefore do not have cats to snuggle with 😭 WHICH SEEMS VERY UNFAIR IF YOU ASK ME

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Nexus Point News @nexuspointnews.com · 25/09/2026

Merged monster rehearsals for Zach Cregger’s ‘RESIDENT EVIL.’ 📷 Jakub Hudlický

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i am exhausted by all the things, but last night's dream was kinda amazing (woke up saying to myself, "that was a GREAT movie" lol) i have zero intent to write this, so if it inspires you, feel free to run with anything in here ^-^ #dreams

Mr. Milton Rails (he/they), a short, fat, Black elder with graying hair and sideburns, dressed in a snappy suit and blue Victorian style overcoat, is a conductor: he carries a sleek black wooden cane that transforms into a huge scythe, and his job is to keep the ghost trains on the appropriate tracks so they don’t careen into the living world and wreck havoc. Superpowers are incredible agility, flight, and immortality.

Mr. Rails one day rescues a nonbinary teenager named Sparks who can also see the ghost trains and is searching for their lost sister, who was kidnapped by a ghostly passenger. A titanic shadow monster, the Time Reaper, is looming over Chicago, and Mr. Rails feels ill equipped to do the job of both shepherding the trains and protecting the world from the Time Reaper. Sparks wants to help, even if it means postponing their search for their sister, so Mr. Rails sends them to infiltrate a private college where rumors of sorcerery among the football team and corruption in the faculty are putting everyone’s grades in jeopardy.

While sneaking through the labyrinthine school/hotel “squirrel style” (I.e. running dashes, huge leaps, and flying acrobatics) Sparks uncovers a conspiracy to deny rental assistance and food to a janitor/tech worker named Mr. Yu, and a wider plot to turn all low income students into “ghost parts” to make a giant battery to power the school for free, which would give all the electric bill funds to the dean (who was in league with the Time Reaper, of course).

Sparks has to infiltrate a fraternity party in disguise to get evidence the football captain (who insists “don’t google me!” because of his crimes and also because he’s a vampire) is in league with the dean, but before they can, an alert comes in from the resistance movement (which Mr. Rails also helps with and Sparks just joined) that automatons automobiles are attacking people downtown and the local superheroes are occupied with bigger threats.

Sparks goes ricocheting (“squirrel style”) through the streets and across buildings and is getting to the battle zone when a ghost appears to tell them their sister is tying to escape the engine room and they need to hurry.

Torn over stopping the killer automobiles and using this opportunity to find their sister, Sparks loses momentum and crashes to the ground, landing inside a huge industrial shopping center where giant lanky shift workers, who are zombies being controlled by the ghost trains, are hunting shoppers. Sparks calls for Mr. Rails to aid them as they grab a bunch of tools from one of the aisles and use a rolling ladder as a shield to escape a zombie attack and rush to defend the shoppers (who are ignoring all the speaker PA announcements to leave the building).

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kari is a fantastic person who contributes a lot to bluesky common sense discourse.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can verify everything in Jason's below posts. The ongoing harassment of Jason, Erik, etc etc is *years* long now. I will point out that amongst Emily's "abusers" is one of her own damn authors, who was only recently released from contract after speaking up in support of Emily's victims.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Important thread re the ongoing harassment Emily Bell (of Athis Arts) has been directing towards multiple people in SFFH.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a wonderful essay and I hope the family gets all the love and support they dersrve, they both sound like wonderful people

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