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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 1h

We'd like to give specific advice, but in the end it's about the writer's own execution of a story. A classic theme elegantly written; a new point of view on a well known tale; or something taken straight from recent developments; all of these are things we like.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 1h

An exiled politician claims that Geonic assassins are targeting them. After an explosion outside their compound on Cord V you are sent to take them into protective custody - only to then find yourself targeted by a hit squad.

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Malcolm T. North @malcolm-north.bsky.social · 9h

Check out the map I made! It follows Oona's adventures in the 2026 zine as she's transported from hemisphere to hemisphere, fighting through a vast desert wasteland until she reaches the pirate-infested waters of a mighty river. #FantasyMap

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 3h

Guys I've worked as a data analyst, if you find regression models sexy, you don't want the trenchcoat blocking your view of the goods

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 22h

To maximize your chance, please read and follow the guidelines. Although we'll work with a writer to edit a piece, there's a limit to how much time and attention we have. The closer to a publishable state the better! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile I live in a town where people keep trying to get the "Seagull Meet" "Banned"

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Monster Of The Week 341 is Fogwick, a bit hazy on the details, eventually they'll clear things up, kind of damp, but in a way you only notice when they've gone.

The entire image is blurry grey with the greyness getting thicker into a solid lozenge in the middle

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 22h

Fine, bulldoze the planning system for a factory to make new gretchin models, have the NHS offer tech-servitor surgery, £10 billion contract to build goblin doom diver catapults to defend us from drones

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 20h

Pleased to note that Malcolm has taken up an invitation to use my universe-hopping character Estin the Pale and installed him as cook on board the ship.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 22h

it's fabulous, like the other Northwest Smiths

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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 21h

I had trouble writing choreography in my novel's scenes. So I drew the blueprint. Now I have trouble writing choreography AND I have a cool little blueprint of Diana's lodge.

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 19h

If Luana Saitta were writing today I believe she would be my pal and endorse all my opinions, even the weird one about replacing Belgium with Charlotte Brontë's Labassecour from Villette in all my fiction.

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Malcolm T. North @malcolm-north.bsky.social · 20h

I had a blast including him in this story. It was only time before the peripatetic pale one crossed paths with Oona. He'll appear also in Issues 8 & 9 of the zine, in the November and December issues of Scribe & Sigil.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 20h

Just received my DNA results and apparently my lineage can be traced back to a pumpkin patch nestled in fog on a cool October day with the sound of crows in the distance.

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 20h

In that case which of them are the Canny X-Men?

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In this mailing my zine The Tuq has 'Beowulf: The Monsters and Me', while Latter-Day Wood Pulps has 'The Down and Out in Civilization: Bryn Hammond's Goatskin'.

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 20h

Pleased to note that Malcolm has taken up an invitation to use my universe-hopping character Estin the Pale and installed him as cook on board the ship.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

good time for me to repost one of my favorite lists, Xenophon's 4th Century Guide to Naming Your Dog: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyneget...

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Cynegeticus - Wikipedia

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is but sadly as GW act as a kind of absentee landlord over the industry it’s pretty pointless I simply do not think it should be incumbent upon everyone else somehow in this business to carry GW’s water. They do not consider themselves as part of the wider tabletop industry but a completely…

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 23h

"I love carmilla and its zany melancholy but I haven't read anything else by him, I should fix that" sheridan le fanu: some twink drank so much tea he was suicide baited by a ghost monkey who hates Jesus "this was an excellent choice"

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 23h

Hellarkey vol. 4, including my demonic (??) mommy-daughter nightmare, is Eleanor-approved. grab one from the @malarkeybooks.bsky.social shop for your October reading! malarkeybooks.com/ebooks/hella...

a hand holding a print copy of Hellarkey 5. a gray tortie cat is biting the top corner.

a section of D's story "Mama Had a Baby and Her Head Popped Off," detailing a priest and possible possession.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 22h

Our first readers are working through the backlog of submissions, though we ask you to be patient. Every story gets read by two different people before a decision is made - and the editors then have to make hard decisions to cut down to a shortlist.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 22h

While on patrol you encounter a ship scheduled to be part of a colonisation fleet, but off course. They claim their departure was delayed and this is a new route from the latest navigational updates. All this seems plausible, yet something is off, so you alter course towards the colony.

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A friend of mine was working at the studios in London where they were filming this summer, and although Matt Reeves stepping away is unexpected, I am not surprised at delays and problems.

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Rip Tie Cut Toy Man 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Checks out

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vampire girlfriend 💀🎃 @mourningdoves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

man it must feel awesome to be a skeleton with a sword fighting guys alongside your skeleton friends

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Monster Of The Week 341 is Fogwick, a bit hazy on the details, eventually they'll clear things up, kind of damp, but in a way you only notice when they've gone.

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Eric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I watched Midnight In Saint Petersburg a late and somewhat inferior Harry Palmer spy film. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/10/i-wa...

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I Watch Films: Midnight In St Petersburg

Midnight In Saint Petersburg Following the events of Bullet To Beijing , Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) has started a private investigat...

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/10/2026

the differences in sports across the pond is always interesting. look how the brits do bowling. totally different than how we do it

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

⚔️Dariel "Master of the Snow Leopard" Quiogue aka @draq.bsky.social is doing a 48 hour author AMA on Reddit!⚔️ 👉 www.reddit.com/r/SwordandSo...

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From the SwordandSorcery community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the SwordandSorcery community

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Chloe Mashiter @chloemashiter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3 weeks until TRANSMISSION kicks off! (Thank God all of the face pixel art in it is hideously distorted and abstract. Because trying to actually render my face: a challenge my artistic skills cannot match) ticketpass.org/event/EKXTMR...

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Submissions remain open until October 15. As ever, we ask you to read the guidelines - there's no point in submitting something we'd reject out of hand.

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Space Opera Plots @spaceoperaplots.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After being caught out of position by a raiding squadron your ship has been saved by a plucky band of recruits. When you attempt to thank them they seem oddly reticent; only after they leave do your discover they are not yet space qualified.

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

A lot of y'all haven't realised yet that ghosts wear sheets because it's their funeral shroud.....and it shows

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 05/10/2026

@multiversalplus.bsky.social STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (Philip Kaufman, 1978) An esoteric leap to the Big Screen for the cancelled sci-fi TV series. Mr. Spock battles a Klingon warlord across time and space to find a displaced Captain Kirk. Leonard Nimoy, Toshiro Mifune, and William Shatner.

Ken Adam's Starship Enterprise for the abandoned Philip Kaufman STAR TREK TMP (aka PLANET OF THE TITANS), render by Roddenbery Archive.

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner face off in this publicity photo from STAR TREK TMP.

Moonraker base, designed by Ken Adams, who wanted a similar look for the interior of the USS Enterprise in the abandoned Planet of the Titans project.

Toshiro Mifune, who would've played a Klingon warlord.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've got this one...autographed.

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Path (seasonal)🎉 @demandavoider.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

inside you there are two wolves. each of those wolves contains two wolves. inside all four of those? You guessed it: more wolves. it's not that special.

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The existence of Central Park implies the existence of a difficult to find Peripheral Park

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

10 short stories I read earlier this year. My brief notes at the link; briefer notes and links to the stories in the thread. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/10/octo...

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October Short Story Update

10 stories - short, flash and micro - I read earlier this year **** 1. Game Night by Sumitra Singham in Gooseberry Pie Again I struggle ...

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Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tough on Giuseppe Ricotta, who was trying to find a way to use up the liquid left over after making better cheeses (pro tip from my ancestors - you feed it to pigs)

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