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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 12h

“What are mountains, if not boobies?” — @craftyrowan.bsky.social

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 10h

I wish. We’ve wanted to go there together basically since we started talking

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much! I haven’t done it since 2009.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 12h

“What are mountains, if not boobies?” — @craftyrowan.bsky.social

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 15h

Hi #queerwriters and #LGBTQWriteAThon! My week was excellent: I finished the first draft of my novel yesterday! Coming in at about 81500 words, it took 21 months to get this far.

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(I haven’t announced it yet but I may have finished it today 👀)

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My very upstate poem, “Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart’s Shop,” is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social! magazine.trollbreath.com/natty-bumppo...

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Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart's Shop - Trollbreath Magazine

Natty Bumppo Bums a Smoke Outside the Stewart's Shop

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hi #queerwriters and #LGBTQWriteAThon! I’m nearing the end of the first draft of an adult sci-fi novel that mingles kids-on-bikes, teenage queer awakening, religious dystopia, adult queer survival, time slips, and dinosaurs. I’m so excited to be nearing the end after nearly two years of work.

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Take a glass Raise it high & remember— Some of us don’t have homes to return to. Houses burn, continents drift. Forests fall under city sprawl & where once there was memory pavement cracks." Check out my latest poem in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🦢

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'The Old Vagabond Club' by Marisca Pichette

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you so much! So close!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

2nd time in kaleidotrope, and my 1st novelette! “the beasts of altain” is about the byproducts of colonization, the people who fall through the cracks, and the inertia of a life that is Good Enough. enjoy!

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s awful! My sympathies.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you so much! It feels really good so far, 30 lbs down.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

cw: intentional weight loss Pretty solid start to October for me. Mental health is improving after the lows of the summer. Relationship with my nesting partner is excellent and nurturing. Got my book doc open, with the end in sight. And this morning I’m below 300 lbs for the first time in 5 years!

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A solid choice! I’ve been big on Mononykus for a while. Scruffy lil guys.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi #queerwriters and #LGBTQWriteAThon! I’m Rick, a genderqueer author of SFFH and poetry! I love dinosaurs, nature, and photography. My goal is to finally finish the first draft of the novel I’ve been poking at since January 2025. I’m only two, maaaaybe three chapters from getting the story down.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fossils found in the Gobi Desert solve a mammalian mystery, introducing us to Cretaceous shrew rabbits that hopped through the same desert where Velociraptor lived. My latest newsletter for my premium subscribers! 🧪

buttondown.com

Ancient Mammal Skull Solves a Fossil Mystery

Imagine a little shrew rabbit, hopping away from Velociraptor.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Summer breathes, surrendering sweetly into fall. 1. Paper wasp on goldenrod. 2. Stereum. 3. Oak. 4. Bumblebee on white snakeroot.

Photograph of a paper wasp navigating the small yellow flowers of goldenrod.

Photograph of a dead standing tree limb overgrown with wavy sheets of stereum fungus.

Photograph of a large oak tree rising in a forest.

Photograph of a bumblebee on the small clustered flowers of white snakeroot.

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Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My short story collection is live! Ten stories, ten story notes, eleven illustrations. Character-driven science fiction inspired by real science. Where are my nerdy readers? Come find me. #Booksky

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am living for these fresh blueberries in my overnight oats right now.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m still a poly nerd, I’m just not young or starry-eyed any longer.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Between playing D&D at a game cafe this morning, watching the 2004 Phantom of the Opera this evening, and seeing pics from an online acquaintance’s polyam handfasting ceremony at a ren faire just now, I’m having major nostalgia for being a starry-eyed young poly nerd in the mid-2000s.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That would be a social nightmare if you weren’t prepared for it!

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That chapter I thought I finished? Had to add four more pages to it; it feels much more complete now. Also began work on the final two chapters, one climax in each timeline. I may or may not need an additional chapter for falling action and resolution, who knows. Wordcount: 76825.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi #queerwriters! I managed to make some progress on my kids-on-bikes novel. Just two more chapters until the first draft is done! I might not complete it this month like I’d hoped, but I’m hopeful I can send it to my readers soon.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TLR progress! Finished a chapter. Have maybe two chapters left, unless the narrative surprises me. Current wordcount: 75630.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The best part of pantsing is finding where the story wants to go. The worst part of pantsing is having to find where the story wants to go.

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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Beautiful, powerful, left me in tears 💜

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, my poem "Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers" comes out at @smallwondersmag.com and I feel a lot of things...It's a piece dedicated to single women who raised children on their own and the young growing without a father. For me, it was my abuela who raised me smallwondersmag.com/piece/single...

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Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey there. Latest story now available to read online! "Jempo." A maquinista out to advance her career encounters someone with a different approach to competition. A (relatively?) light story in terms of tone, for me. Hope you enjoy!

lightspeedmagazine.com

Jempo - Lightspeed Magazine

Jempo took a deep bow on the iron platform. His body flopped forward, limbs like thick braided wire. No obvious weapons in his large and rubbery hands. Little digital eyes and a bright smile that lit ...

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we need to return to sci-fi book covers being little people in the foreground with immense looming wonders in the background

the cover for The Last Legends of Earth, which shows people fishing in a hamlet of thatch-roof catches while vast sci-fi pylons loom in the background

the cover of Shadow of the Torturer which shows Severian walking away from a city of spires

some art by Eddie Jones that shows people getting out of a UFO and walking towards a massive gate, beyond which is a blood red moon

tiny figures in the foreground observe a giant woman sleeping in a lake of blood

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