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An autumn mood. Tisha Mark ©2026, For Love of Stormy Days, oil on linen, 14"x11" This one-of-a-kind original stormy seascape oil painting is available: tishamark.com/product/for-... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "For Love of Stormy Days" oil on linen, 14"x11" (2026), shown resting at an angle from left on an easel in the artist's studio. A textured and atmospheric seascape painting where the dark blue sea is on the right meets a coastline on the left that is reddish brown with bits of green. There are textured waves meeting the shore and textured storm clouds in the sky.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl with confused and angry look standing outside the entrance to his burrow.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 5h

#Booksky Lots of great vendors at the Fall Mini-Market at Cream & Amber Books in Hopkins, MN today from 10-2PM, including author @mmerriam.bsky.social, who’ll be there with his books and some of ours! Go say hi! creamandamber.com/event/2026-1...

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Daily birds 79 - Common Loon

A duck shaped bird with red eyes a dark green head and black wings patterned with white dots

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If anyone would like to contribute to the "Husky had to go to the emergency vet" and whatever the "get the furnace to provide heat" will require... Early present for yourself or a dozen people in your life? Linked queer retellings of holiday classics, including a Little Village novella. #BookSky

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Upon the Midnight Queer

Holiday tales, retold queerly...A silk hat turns snow into life and a chance at love for a man with little hope of either. Two men with a connection sparked in passing attempt to withstand everything ...

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Fidi🔥 @fidisart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fellas, is it gay to take an oath of undying love and loyalty to your king, to be allowed in his private quarters and also his private parts-- Swords & Lovers ⚔️🌹 I enjoyed making this and I hope to turn it into a series 👀 [ #fidiocs ; #ocsky ; #romantasyau ] www.patreon.com/cw/fidisart

A courtly love scene between a blonde knight and a dark haired king. They stand in the middle of a rose garden and are framed by a deco floral motif. The knight is wearing a dusty blue damask doublet with gold buttons and a belt on top of a simple white shirt with rolled up sleeve. He's shielding the king with his rapier and holding him firmly by the waist. The king wears a ruffled satin shirt and gold pants and is also holding the knight closer. You can feel the sun on your skin and smell of roses and morning due.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 04/10/2026

The dragon watched the girl climb up to its mountain lair. She stopped to catch her breath, then shouted: "Oi! I've got some questions." "Ask." "Princesses, why?" "They're educated and smell nice." "No noble blood?" "All humans are humans." "Yes! The revolution is go! Cheers!" "Good luck."

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 03/10/2026

A tiny sunrise for you! Tisha Mark ©2026, Tiny Dream by the Sea No. 2606, oil on cradled panel, 3"x3" This one-of-a-kind original tiny seascape oil painting is available: tishamark.com/product/tiny... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Photo of a hand holding an original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Tiny Dream by the Sea No. 2606" oil on cradled panel, 3"x3" (2026). This seascape painting has orange cloud formations in a bright blue sky over a dark sea on the right meeting a shore on the left that is reddish brown with bits of green. There is much texture throughout the painting.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

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Tired Art Goblin @spaceturtleart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The characters in #Daggerbound are so delightful, I was compelled to do some fanart. Dog Violet & Greathoof. #fanart @tkingfisher.com

a badger-like creature in tattered robes leads an enormous brown and black draft horse on a rope

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 02/10/2026

There is an October price drop on Where Oblivion Lives. The Los Nefilim series is near and dear to my heart, so I hope it finds a wider audience this time around. If you enjoy novels with m/m protagonists & gothic mansions set during the 1930s, this might be your October read:

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excellent books, go get some.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/10/2026

When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.

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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections

Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.

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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️ @jpawlik.com · 01/10/2026

Hey are you a comic artist on Tapas? Are you frustrated with the news? Publish your Tapas comic on Itch.io (either partially or in full, even just 1 chapter) and submit it to the Tapas X Itch.io bundle form here by Oct 30th 11:59pmEST forms.gle/QhQaJ4cXvXKT... #Tapas

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A Tapas X Itch.io Bundle

We've heard the news that Tapas is shutting down on March 31st, 2027 and I want to setup an Itch.io bundle to help support the artists affected by this. If you have a comic on Tapas, this bundle is f...

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 02/10/2026

I was up bright & early today, and saw these colors in this morning's sunrise! Tisha Mark ©2026, Coastal Dream, oil on cradled panel, 10"x8" This one-of-a-kind original seascape oil painting is available: tishamark.com/product/coas... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Coastal Dream" 10"x8" oil on cradled panel (2026), shown on an easel in the artist's studio. A textured seascape painting with orange cloud formations in a bright blue sky over a dark sea with waves meeting a rocky coast.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 02/10/2026

My next read, since a bunch of people I know and trust (like @aliettedebodard.com @hawkwinglb.bsky.social and @pematson.bsky.social ) are talking about it, is an arc of @everinamaxwell.bsky.social 's forthcoming CALL ME TRAITOR

Call me traitor. There is a mountain and there is kissing.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

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The Job by Elizabeth Bear

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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StubbleBrilliant @terribleaunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#杀破狼 #ShaPoLang 长庚/顾昀 "男人话太多就没时间做别的了，这道理你懂不懂?" "A man who talks too much has no time left for anything else—or haven't you learned that yet?" 感谢小长庚的头发🙏

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Nycc 3679? @mahoukarp.com · 02/10/2026

Its spooky season 👻🎃🦈 #art #sharks

Illustration of a shark on September 30th and October 1st. Spooky season is in session~

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy pumpkin season! (art from 2014)

a black and white scratchboard drawing. Alternative poster for "It's the great pumpkin, Charlie brown"
It depicts a vast pumpkin patch in which Linus is standing holding a sign. He is looking up at the full moon. In front of the full moon we can see Snoopy in his aviator costume on his doghouse.
All the way in the distance, there is a house and we can see three children in halloween costumes coming out the door.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 01/10/2026

I like the defintion of fascism a character gives us in The Watch That Ends the Night: "the organization of every murderous impulse in a human being"

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Katy Grierson @kovah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Been noodling away at this for a few months now, finally finished it! "Failed persuasion check." No Ai used #dragon #dnd #greendragon #illustration

An adventurer fails his persuasion check against an ancient green dragon.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

These were three individual pieces I did in 2021. Unplanned, they became something of an accidental sequence. They then prompted me to make the piece in the quoted post, of the pumpkin dance, by way of a conclusion. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, each 95 × 64 mm.

Three small silhouette drawings in black ink. The first is of a sitting fox, looking back over its shoulder at a bird on the branch of a little bare shrub. The second has a playful-looking fox, half-crouched, tail in the air, looking at a bird which has just taken off from a branch. The third shows a fox, surprised, its head drawn slightly back, as it seems to have come upon a pumpkin on the ground, surrounded by its vines. It has a face like a carved jack-o'-lantern.

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Study of a Raven Ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

Study of a Raven made with a black ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper.

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 01/10/2026

You guys, I'm all in on these moody autumn days. Tisha Mark ©2026, For Love of Stormy Days, oil on linen, 14"x11" This one-of-a-kind original stormy seascape painting is available: tishamark.com/product/for-... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "For Love of Stormy Days" oil on linen, 14"x11" (2026). A textured and atmospheric seascape painting where the dark blue sea on the right meets a coastline on the left that is reddish brown with bits of green. There are textured waves meeting the shore and textured storm clouds in the sky.

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 01/10/2026

On sale through October! Check out your favorite vendor at awfulagent.com/ebooks/where...

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/10/2026

Pre-sign ups for the kickstarter for the Murderbot graphic novel!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

J.R. is an incredible writer. A literal Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. You would be lucky to work with them.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026

Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book

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The Animals We Became

You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 01/10/2026

A demon appeared in the summoning circle. It was wearing pyjamas. "I summoned thee to give me knowled-" "Really?" the demon said. "You have the internet these days, the world's knowledge a click away. Nobody's summoned me in years." "You have all knowledge. Why did I summon thee?" "... oh shit."

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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Murderbot: ALL SYSTEMS RED graphic novel. Funding on Kickstarter in two weeks. Sign up for notifications here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos... @marthawells.com @ericaschultz42.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social @paulcornell.bsky.social @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk

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The Ghost Egg @theghostegg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join my mail club any time in October for this print 🥹

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The Ghost Egg @theghostegg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Autumn feels like home. I worked so hard on this illustration 🤍

Digital illustration by The Ghost Egg of two ghosts decorating a tree and a log with string lights. There is a small wooden sign labeled “home”.

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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 01/10/2026

Today is October 1 and through October 31, Where Oblivion Lives is on sale! If you're into m/m relationships, found family, haunted mansions and magic worked with music, this might just be for you. Gothic and spooky, it's the perfect read for fall evenings: awfulagent.com/ebooks/where...

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Where Oblivion Lives (#1) – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

buy Burn Up in Victory! it's the novel-length sequel to my Romeo and Juliet short story, about what happens in that same magical city after! Lots of duels, lots of kissing, some magic, nothing explained books2read.com/burnupinvict...

the first hardcover in the world of Burn Up in Victory. It's sitting on a dark wooden table, with dark shelves of multi colored books in the background, and the upper right of the cover is briefly reflecting light

Book cover for Burn Up in Victory: a woman with loose red hair, waring a blousy white shirt and black gloves, holding a fencing sword vertically in front of her, her head bowed. The background is dark, but embers surround her.

(I bought this image from a photoset on Shutterstock and added the words to it in Canva. To my knowledge and the best of my ability, no AI is involved)

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Daily birds 76 - Northern saw-whet owl

A small rounded brown and white owl with speckled patterns and yellow eyes

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

for the entire october!! 👀‼️🌬️🎐🍃

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rejoice UK ebook-ites! For 'A Tide of Black Steel' - book one in the Age of Wrath trilogy - is a Kindle deal at £0.99 for the month of October. #BookSky

Banner advertising the UK ebook £0.99 sale for the novel 'A Tide of Black Steel' by Anthony Ryan.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning! 🪶

Three disappointed burrowing owls looking out of their bunker.

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