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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If this was true I wouldn't have a career. Every step of the way other authors offered guidance and advice, with generosity and kindness. But I would add a caveat. If you spend a lot of time being a dick to other people, the amount of guidance and advice you get will be....less.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I love charity used book sales. Show up, grab tons of anything you might not expect, support a cause. One of my favorite activities.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Let's face it, the inherent sexiness in being made to perform the insane musings of a shadowy figure is undeniable.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Whenever I hear some daft comment about how there shouldn't be disabilities in fantasy because magic can fix it, I stare in the speaker's face, smirk enigmatically, and reply, "You forget the curse. Enjoy."

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 19/02/2026

The funny thing about "you don't know how power works" arguments is essentially: Yes we do, it's called complicity. Threats, inducements, incentives are variously created so that compliance with the wishes of power is the easier option in the immediate term so power is able to accumulate more.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Heck, you're slowly 3d printing skin. You're printing bone to make up for the bone you're eating.

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Ske-Lou-Ton 💀 @louwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

His widow, Cat, has invited friends to leave messages and donations in his memory to Macmillan, Matt's chosen charity. I've helped set up a memorial page so please feel free to share this to anyone who knew and loved him. www.justgiving.com/page/mattmas...

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Fundraiser in Memory of Matt Mason for Macmillan Cancer Support

Help Louise Willingham raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I shared one earlier, but here's a second, from a prelude: #SFFChat

“The sun! The sun has spotted us!”
The expansive ball of fire passed beneath the Queen’s Vessel Briganda, all too slowly for its crew’s comfort. Forewatchman Albannog called to his mates regarding the change in the solar disk’s character. He silently thanked the people of the Briganda’s last port of call for their gift of obsidian-lensed goggles he wore. Without them, the sun would have been a blinding, featureless plain of fiery death, instead of the roiling mass of currents of flame, and shadows in light hinting at the intelligence therein, resolving across the orb as a giant, glowing eye, staring judgingly at the speck of a vessel that dared traverse its surface.
“Albannog, watch for salamanders! Orantia, stick to the ley line! And above all, for Queen and Land, protect her cargo!”
Captain Clurachaun watched the crew jump at his commands. Albannog leaned out over the prow, trusting a web of silken threads to keep him from falling into the conflagration below. Orantia focused on the giant amethyst before her, her eyes glowing lavender as she sang to the crystal monolith that turned with her voice, to keep the Briganda aligned with the ley line leading home.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

As I wrote earlier, "The Land of Old did not have day or night. The sidhe had no use for it. Why would the stuff of dreams need sleep for themselves?" The Land of Old not only has no day or night, it is better thought as timeless. The sidhe leave time to the nockers. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It's vital. Whether you're sailing past the Everdusk, wandering the Cobbles during a lampblacked night, taking in the morning light of the Gossamer Court, or strolling through the Twilight Garden, time is place. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Oh, this gets interesting in the Land of Old. #SFFChat

But The Cobbles were for the nockers, and they worried about concerns like food and sleep. And schedules. The Cobbles’ central clock tower chimed the half hour, and Edditomas scowled. He checked his increasingly soaked list, trying to fulfill every item before the ink ran away in rivulets. It wasn’t supposed to be this late, already! Shops would already be closing and there, the lampblacker was already making his rounds.
The lad strode with the nimbleness of youth along the muddy street. He wore a black floppy cap, a long, oiled coat, and a pressurized tank on his back, with a hose attached to a long rod, twice his height. At the rod’s end, a flame appeared, perfectly black. The lampblacker stepped up to the next streetlamp, reached up, and let his rod’s flame set the lamp adark. The night extended back behind him down the street. The Land of Old did not have day or night. The sidhe had no use for it. Why would the stuff of dreams need sleep for themselves? This left the nockers with the important task of managing dusk for themselves, letting their clock set their schedule, and the lampblackers were the front line of this quest. The sky above might remain a pale grey, the Palace might continue to look on in alabaster glory, but the streets themselves, at least, grew dark in a makeshift night.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I always miss these (You know, day job), which is why I like to take an extra moment for myself in the evening. I'm Miguel Montevista, one-time writer of D&D adventures and SCP works, and most recently published the slipstream short story "@kittypooka". #SFFChat

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Artist @celestialfang.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I am now 1/3 of the way through my lifespan pls share my art? :3

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Hell is a cope. It's the hope that there's a place where only bad people suffer. Such a place can only be better than here, where anyone can suffer.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Whenever you find yourself asking, "Hey, what's that about?" Look it up. Jump down the rabbit hole. You never know when knowing what Tír na nÓg means or Chinese dynasty naming conventions or protein folding or the extent of the Mojave Desert will come up useful again, or in combination.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

How many people do we think is doing it? Or is it just a handful of people who stuff the channels with a hundred submissions each?

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Artist @celestialfang.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Blue and gold, wolf pack, and the crossroads of the world Happy founding day to Türkiye!

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We have all this AI, yet no one recreates Max Headroom.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Am excerpt of messages scrawled by a mannequin, by date: 6/8/2001: DON'T LEAVE ME 4/25/2004: WHATEVER YOU WANT 4/15/2009: 1979-2009 4/16/2009: TOO OLD 4/17/2009: I CAN BE YOUNG FOR YOU 12/3/2011: WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME 3/8/2013: I'M SORRY I'M WORTHLESS 8/31/2015: DADDY I'LL BE GOOD #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

He's a director, but John Carpenter has always managed to maximize dread out of a single moment, even when it's not horror. Lewis Carroll also did the same, because his nonsense reminds people of the helplessness they actually have against the world around them. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"Infovore? Feel bad? Pentagram? Did you just call me the devil? Darling, no! What kind of a son calls their own mother the devil?! Oh, Rashaun, my lovely little boy! Do you know what you're doing to your mother?" "You're not my mother." "…Because I do." #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Horror is integral to SFF, as it becomes filled with things we do not understand. There is horror in exploring the unknown, and it is important to embrace it. Many of my SFF pieces have horror in them, whether it's a mannequin with image issues, or everyday phenomena that hide predators. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hello! I'm Miguel Montevista, writer of fantasy, sci-fi, and slipstream, and my greatest fear is the inevitable loss of self-control that comes with aging. When mind and body can no longer do what is needed, or expected of others. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This is an incredible example of how we tend to see what we want to see, evidence to the contrary. Evren's concern for the literal hole, Gabrielle's desire for romance, and Beckett's clinical opinion, ignoring everything else. I can see you really do have a lot of fun writing them! #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The tension being generated here is amusing. It's playful, almost campy, how the MC, her uterus, and Roxy spar for attention (or respite). I can practically feel her menstrual cramps, despite not being explicitly called out in this particular piece. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's sometimes hard to tell everything that's going on in a single snippet. It mentions the Black Rider, but doesn't say who it is. The Black Rider appeared earlier in the story, in a recurring dream he has had, where the Four Horsemen arise to terrorize everyone via covid. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I shared that scene from "@kittypooka" because it gets into the feelings many of us went through during lockdown, whether self-imposed or enforced. It also shows how Pedro's emotional state is tied into his situation, where frustration and lust and desperation for connection combine. #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Here's a snippet from a published work, "@kittypooka." During the pandemic, Pedro meets a nihilist e-girl online. #SFFChat

It’s been the Fifth Sun, but he was an old sick man who needed regular blood transfusions to keep going.

But like, you don’t do blood sacrifice anymore, so. Sun turns black.

- The sun is still shining, though.

Yeah, but do you care?

Pedro put the phone down and swallowed. He paced back and forth across his apartment. That’s why kittypooka always gives him a headache, he thought. She always took some ridiculous position, but then hammered it home with an equally ridiculous point.

Not only was he in his cramped, artificially lit studio 24/7, but it no longer mattered when he woke up, when he slept, when he ate, when he perched over his phone, when he… that was pretty much it. That constant miasma of mild panic in the air robbed him of the desire to even play his guitar or try to write any new music, leaving him waiting for something, anything, to happen. The panic settled into his mind like tinnitus, a never-ending drum roll, promising a crescendo that never came. He imagined the Black Rider chuckling as he carefully tabulated all the fleeting moments forever denied him.

A week was a month was a day was a night, and the time and order things happened all blended together into a freakish now. These days, time was marked more by kittypooka’s posts than by dawn or dusk. Might as well turn off the sun, solve global warming once and for all.

Pedro reached out and grasped at air, pulled it in close, and bit at the space between his fists, imagining the taste of her snarky, taunting lips with that permanent rakish upturn. Silently chastising himself for unseen weakness, he snatched his phone and replied.

- You’re right. I don’t care about the sun.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Hello! I'm Miguel Montevista, writer of slipstream, sci-fi, fantasy, pretty much anything with a fantastical element. I've been told that I'm skilled with descriptions and metaphor, building edifices of allegory and sensation that let the reader experience everything in a scene! #SFFChat

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

No time for half-measures. He took a vial off his bandolier. “I can offer this in exchange.” The vial’s contents sparkled rosily in the light, with a slight syrupy sheen. Mallincorder was instantly fixated. He imagined its sweaty, fruity smell. “Is that Love? That’s Love, isn’t it?” #WIPSnips

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Here's a little something I worked up for the AGI lover in one's life:

The classic depiction of the basilisk from "Serpentum, et draconum historiae libri duo," 1640, surrounded by the words, "The Basilisk thanks you for your service" in the Old English Script font.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"I'm here about the Covenant. You know the Covenant?" Of course he knew the Covenant. All nockers knew the Covenant. Every waking moment reminded him of the Covenant. But if anything, he knew even more keenly that you never interrupt the sidhe. #fiction #sff #fantasy #writesky #shortstories

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

"The Land of Old did not have day or night. The sidhe had no use for it. Why would the stuff of dreams need sleep for themselves?" #fiction #sff #writesky #fantasy #shortstories

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I started playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri again. The game was released in 1999. youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE?...

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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"The claim that it never rains in The Land of Old is a sure sign that a traveler has never visited The Cobbles." An opening line that appeared as I lay awake last night, on a horrific beatific visitation during a tense business call between faeries. #fiction #sff #writesky #fantasy #shortstories

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The new phrase is "As 2023 as prompt engineering."

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

For a while, I thought the tagline was, "Fun with a Porpoise." I wondered where the porpoise was.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We consistently sleep on just how innovative and willing to experiment Farscape was. Through the Looking Glass (S1 E17) is one early example, where the sounds and visuals can be seriously off-putting. It also builds on events from earlier in the series.

The starship Moya from Farscape, splitting into three ships, one red, one yellow, one blue, from Through the Looking Glass, S1 E17.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I want to see a resurgence in folk art, in naive art, art from the commoner.

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Artist @celestialfang.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Holy mother [Commission]

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Gods are stories, and stories matter. Know your resonance. The stories you hear, not just experience, not just listen to, but truly hear, are the stories you'll end up telling. And by telling your folklore, you are part of that folklore. And people will feel it. And some will resonate with you.

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Celestial Fang 🩸 Artist @celestialfang.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Hey everyone! This is a grimdark RPG that I worked on with my friends from college :) I did some of the art and miniatures for it, so please check it out and support the project if you are interested! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ron...

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I wrote SCP-847 (actually a rewrite of an earlier version) years ago. Any author will understand when I say this character gutted me, living in my head, begging. So whenever I see someone compelled to make art of her, I understand. And I'm glad she's impactful today. And I'm so sorry.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible. Human ambassador to the elves falls in with the dregs of elf society and hunts drug lords.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I've seen this so often. Spend a bit of energy to lower the local temperature a few degrees? Blasphemy. Literally burn things to increase the temperature by tens? Perfectly natural. No, you're just used to living in a cold place.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#SFFChat -It’s been the Fifth Sun, but he was an old sick man who needed regular blood transfusions to keep going. But like, you don’t do blood sacrifice anymore, so. Sun turns black. -The sun is still shining, though. -Yeah, but do you care? Pedro put the phone down and swallowed.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#SFFChat I recently spoke with Henry Neff, writer of the Tapestry series and The Witchstone. He and I discussed my ideas for a novel, and his encouragement helped so much to convince me that I've got a story to tell! (Colonizer elves, clockwork vampires, traversing the sun...)

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#SFFChat Writer's block usually means I don't yet have the angle to a story or scene that speaks to me. Typically, the best thing to do is to write on a different project, or recharge my creative juices by reading new material. Also, just getting out, experiencing the world, pondering my troubles.

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Miguel Montevista @miguelmontevista.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#SFFChat I'm happiest when I write something I get to share with others, so it might be more for the other, but for personal reasons.

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