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Obscura Fantastica

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Publishing strange, speculative, transgressive fiction, essays, art & criticism. Curated issues + FREQ. Human creators; responsible, disclosed AI use welcome. No purity tests. The work must earn its place. Slop is slop, however it was made.

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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 29/09/2026
A little lamplight, dark water, a note that asks you to come closer. “The Ligature” holds tenderness and unease in the same breath. Read the full poem free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #SynthLit #Poem #Poetry #GothicPoetry #DarkPoetry #LiteraryHorror #NewPoetry #PoetryCommunity
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The Ligature
Witch of the unbroken note—   warm brass against the teeth,   a sweetness with enough weight in it    to lean on—   let me come closer.   Yo...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 29/09/2026
Violet wings swallow the sky. Then one small, untroubled eye finds you, and the vastness becomes terrifyingly personal. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #BrainRotArt #Promptalism #SiSloopArt #CosmicHorror #SurrealArt #DigitalArt #LovecraftianArt #FantasyArt Something Vast Remembers You
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 29/09/2026
In a room lit low, tenderness has its own uneasy pulse. A poem of care, closeness, and the ache of keeping watch. Read the full poem free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Poem #Poetry #SynthLit #NewPoetry #PoetryCommunity
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08 / FACE MATCHED / RECORD KEPT
YOU [ Do not drain the dark beneath my tongue. When I turn my face, turn down the lamp. ] I [ I turn the lamp down. In its glass the wire kn...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 29/09/2026
One ankle held the god in its old skin. A familiar face held everyone else. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #BrainRotArt #Promptalism #SiSloopArt #ArtSky #DarkArt #SurrealArt #WeirdArt #CreatureDesign #DarkFantasy #Symbolism #AtmosphericArt The God They Kept
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 29/09/2026
What do you keep when you clear out your father’s desk? A few papers. A question you can’t leave alone. Read “The Custodian’s Copy” free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Poem #Poetry #Promptalism #SynthLit #HorrorPoetry #DarkPoetry #WeirdFiction #GothicHorror #PoetryCommunity #ReadPoetry
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The Custodian’s Copy
Come, remainder caught beneath the nail;   come through the sheet that will not lift from my hand.   Take the paper; leave the wrist.   If t...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 29/09/2026
An impossible creature bends close, caught on a very human mystery: why a coat coming apart is still worth holding together. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #BrainRotArt #Promptalism #SiSloopArt #SciFiArt #SurrealArt #CreatureDesign #RetroFuturism #SpeculativeArt The Gravity of a Stitch
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 28/09/2026
The giant catches the whole beam on tender skin. A refusal you could bruise. The visitor starts to lower the lamp, still welcome, still close. #NuWeird #BrainRotArt #Promptalism #SiSloopArt #Surrealism #CreatureDesign #SpeculativeArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtSky The Dark in Its Keeping
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What happens when “all logic has evaporated into server clouds, the institutions of education are dying, and the ‘news’ doesn’t mean much?” For Mahika Dhar, the answer is brain rot. www.publicbooks.org/if-we-rot-yo...
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 28/09/2026
#WeirdQuote “Our neighbors plant bombs and machine guns, instead of flowers, in their garden soil.” - Forugh Farrokhzad Src: “I Pity the Garden,” 1974 #PromptArt
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 26/09/2026
The mirrors know the cat by its habits; its face blurs, its white toes flare, and for a breath it seems delighted to outrun every version of itself. #Caturday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #SiSlopArt #SurrealArt What the Mirrors Couldn’t Keep
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 26/09/2026
A flash of coral, a hard left, and the house discovers that its walls are only suggestions. #Caturday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #SiSlopArt #SurrealArt #CatArt The House Gives Way
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 26/09/2026
The stranger touches the sun-warmed stone like a memory made solid, while mineral pinks and bowed flowers answer back, making Earth feel less discovered than remembered. #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #AiSlopArt #AlienArt #SciFiArt #SurrealArt #Otherworldly Where Earth Knew the Stranger
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 24/09/2026
#WeirdQuote “If I sift those words through myself, sentences will shiver out, like the strange, sad shriek the bow draws from a metal string.” - Han Kang Src: The White Book (Korean original, 2016) #PromptArt
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 23/09/2026
#WeirdQuote “We touch here the hermetically sealed vases that furnish our conception of the universe.” - Maurice Maeterlinck Src: The Life of the Bee (1901) #PromptArt
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
The void is less a border than a held breath. Between clockwork spires and liquid galaxies, two ancient beings reach toward the one thing neither cosmos can contain: recognition. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #CosmicHorror #Lovecraftian #SciFi #AlienArt The Distance Between Gods
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
What if someone hears you perfectly and still gets your story wrong? “The Narrow Register” asks you to listen a little closer. Read the full poem free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Poem #Poetry #SynthLit #PoetryCommunity #DarkPoetry #GothicPoetry #LiteraryHorror #IndieLit #Promptalism
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The Narrow Register
For you who will examine the lower vault: before the lime, which thickens on the staple and flowers where the linen enters stone, can bury t...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
The three-eyed jailers preside with priestly calm, but the cyan spark beneath the perfect gold seal makes their triumph feel provisional: the thing below is imprisoned, not subdued. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #CosmicHorror #Lovecraftian #AlienArt The Seal Above the Abyss
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
How much room does a small life need? “The Unentered Weight” brings tenderness to the edge of the uncanny, where even the quiet feels alive. Full poem free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Poem #Poetry #SynthLit #PoetryCommunity #GothicPoetry #WeirdPoetry #CosmicHorror #Sonnets #Promptalism
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The Unentered Weight
I To you who take the watch, I leave this slate: The feral cats lie tier on tier at night; The mushroom gills are ribbed with threads of lig...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
The key is less an escape than a test of belief: with one hand holding him to the wall, he reaches toward a doorway the masonry has not fully agreed to become. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #NeoNoir #BookCoverArt #SurrealArt #AiSlopArt The Door That Isn’t There
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
Some distances live beneath the skin. “The Marrow Relay” invites you into a world of cold metal, borrowed breath, and uneasy closeness. Read the full poem free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Poem #Poetry #SynthLit #SciFi #SpeculativePoetry #BodyHorror #DarkPoetry #WeirdFiction #PoetryCommunity
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The Marrow Relay
The marrow relay matches bone to bone. A pressure at my wrist selects a throat below the deck; the shock that should be mine arrives there, ...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
The chair waits untouched while its shadow slumps like a body on the floor, making the room feel less empty than haunted by the exhaustion it was built to hold. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #SciFiArt #SurrealArt #DreamLike #VisualStorytelling Where the Sleeper Isn’t
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 22/09/2026
One hand braces for departure, yet his gaze stays with the nameless lives crowding his shadow, the only disorder in an atrium built to label and watch everything. #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #Cubism #SurrealArt #PsychologicalArt #VisualStorytelling #AiSlopArt What the Light Won’t Hold
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 21/09/2026
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I poslije linije - linija, by Involucija & Zarkoff
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 21/09/2026
Their bent little fingers nearly meet, but both faces refuse the kinship their notched hazel eyes reveal: humanity has grown powerful enough to imprison its past, not brave enough to recognize itself. #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #SciFiArt #Posthumanism #AiSlopArt The Far Side of Recognition
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 21/09/2026
#WeirdQuote “Their civilizations became so successful that they forgot they were in prison. They began to think they were free.” - Ben Okri Src: The Freedom Artist (2019) #PromptArt
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 20/09/2026
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Minami Deutsch, by Minami Deutsch / 南ドイツ
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 20/09/2026
The map matches the veins beneath their feet, and the red suns climb toward a sleeping eye. Their expedition has found its terrible boundary: a world that ends the moment its dreamer wakes. #SurrealSunday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #AiSlopCommunity #SciFiArt Cartography of the Last Dream
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 20/09/2026
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It's Closeness, It's Easy, by Planning For Burial
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 19/09/2026
Reality has sprung a leak. The cat is helping itself. #Caturday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #AiSlopCommunity #SurrealArt #CatArt #Dreamscape #MixedMediaArt #FineArt #ArtSky #CatsOfBluesky The Sky Is for Drinking
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FANTASTIC FEST REVIEW: Microbudget mainstays the Adams Family return with snowy shocker The Glorious Dead.
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FANTASTIC FEST REVIEW: Indonesian horror comedy puts Sam Raimi to shame.
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Fantastic Fest Review: Ghost in the Cell
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 18/09/2026
#WeirdQuotes "Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." - Italo Calvino Scr: Invisible Cities (1972; trans. William Weaver 1974) #PromptArt
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 18/09/2026
The mirror is lying. The flower leans in anyway. #FridayFlowers #FloralFriday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #AiSlopCommunity #ArtSky #BlueskyArt #ContemporaryArt #SurrealArt #Expressionism #Symbolism A Lie in Full Bloom
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 18/09/2026
Every petal says keep out. The leaf sheltering three tiny shoots says stay close. #FridayFlowers #FloralFriday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #AiSlopCommunity #AbstractArt #SurrealArt #BotanicalArt #AlienFlora #GeometricArt The Tenderness of a Closed Fist
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 17/09/2026
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Where did the Spheres Come From?
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 17/09/2026
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Procession, by Wolvennest
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 17/09/2026
#WeirdQuote “This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.” - Thomas Ligotti Src: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010). #PromptArt
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AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The psychedelic pop artist Peter Max has died at 88, his son says
The artist Peter Max has died at age 88. Max was known for colorful, psychedelic pop art that expressed the optimism of the “flower power” movement of the 1960s and graced everything from postage stamps to a cruise ship.
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The Austin Chronicle @austinchronicle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Colson Whitehead, Patrick Radden Keefe, Kate DiCamillo, and Elizabeth Acevedo headline the 2026 Texas Book Festival.
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Colson Whitehead, Patrick Radden Keefe, Kate DiCamillo, Elizabeth Acevedo Headline 2026 Texas Book Festival • The Austin Chronicle
Colson Whitehead, Patrick Radden Keefe, Kate DiCamillo, Elizabeth Acevedo Headline 2026 Texas Book Festival
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Vikram Chandra revisits his book, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty, and considers human coding in the age of AI in conversation with Tobias Carroll. buff.ly/ZCLnDQc
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Revisiting Vikram Chandra’s Ode to the Art of Human Coding in the Age of AI
Twelve years ago, Vikram Chandra’s Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty was published. In terms of actual history, that isn’t long at all; in terms of technology, it’s an eternity. …
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 16/09/2026
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Aus den Falten, by Schwefelgelb
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 16/09/2026
Everyone loves a proud update. This one has teeth. How close do you look before you click “like”? Read “For Everyone Asking,” free on FREQ. #WeirdWrites #NuWeird #Poem #Poetry #PoetrySky #HorrorPoetry #DarkPoetry #SpeculativePoetry #LiteraryHorror #PoetryCommunity
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For Everyone Asking
Yes, those are teeth. Last week they were pale bumps under the lip. I kept putting up the picture where your mouth held nothing but the pink...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 16/09/2026
Four monstrous fingers crowd the board. Wednesday hovers over one black marble, and the whole impossible universe goes still. The smallest player has everyone in check. #ItsWednesday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #FanArt #DarkArt #SurrealArt #Wednesday #AiSlopCommunity
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 16/09/2026
This week's writing prompt: Barometric venom; silver grammar tightening around rooftops; thunder in the egg stage; rain with vertebrae Share the weirdness by tagging your work with #WeirdWrites. #Wednesday #NuWeird #WritingPrompt #Writing #Poetry #Shortstory #Microfiction #Flashfiction #SynthLit
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 16/09/2026
#WeirdQuote “We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.” - Stanisław Lem Source: Solaris (1961, Polish novel) #PromptArt
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 15/09/2026
Some doors are meant to stay closed. In “The Sky-Inside Tablets,” a night clerk finds the borders between body, space, and certainty beginning to blur. A quiet descent into cosmic dread. Full poem free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Poem #Poetry #SynthLit #WritingCommunity #Writing #AmWriting
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The Sky-Inside Tablets
The packets came to County Receiving in carbon sleeves of toe tags, blue-black flakes sweating backward through names no kin had claimed. Be...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 15/09/2026
The horror isn’t the giant. It’s the tiny pupil behind the breastplate, staring through a body whose sealed eyes, armor, claws and wings all seem built for one purpose: keeping its true watcher hidden. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Promptalism #AiSlopCommunity #SciFi #CreatureDesign The Watcher Within
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For the Monday morning crowd, here’s something you can bring to your anxious colleagues
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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did
At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 15/09/2026
How much space does it take to feel safe, and how much to feel close? “Clearance” traces the strange architecture of distance, touch, and choice. Read the full poem free on FREQ. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #Promptalism #SynthLit #Poem #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
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Clearance
I By then she kept the other pillow upright between them. Cheap flock, a zip that scraped her wrist. Beyond it he breathed through the gap i...
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Obscura Fantastica @obscurafantastica.com · 15/09/2026
Beyond the aperture, a dead city and its hollow-faced colossus have waited outside causality, while ten thousand faceless witnesses stare back into the frail enclosure called reality. #CthulhuTuesday #NuWeird #PromptArt #Promptalism #AiSlopCommunity #CosmicHorror #SciFi The City Outside Causality
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