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Laya 🌿🍄 ➡ auckgeddon! @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 5h

full wrap illustration I did for the cover of Call The Storm by @roannasylver.com! #art

A very purple-and-orange painting of a city seen from the ground upwards, looking through a hole in the energy barrier with rain pouring through. A mischievous ghost in ripped jeans and cutoff shirt, and an uptight Victorian dandy looking man are front and center, the colorful CHAMELEON MOON cast behind them.

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Jerry L. Wheeler @jwden.bsky.social · 8h

I don't do many Kickstarters, but Queer the Shelves is a wonderful queer alternative to K.U. and Vic and Nicci are terrific managers. I can see this being a game changer!! Calling all queer authors, readers, and publishers... www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...

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Queer the Shelves

The LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 9h

Can anyone help out Marissa on her apple quest???

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 9h

@canconsffh.bsky.social’s coming up fast. Here’s where to find me. Don’t miss my signing on Saturday in the vendor’s room. @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have both my books on site and I’ll also have SWAG with me to give away. 🙂

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 16h

Ahhh what a lovely review for A Waltz of Sinister Import! "It’s really well written and a wonderful read...This is one of the best married couples that I’ve read." ♥️🦇♥️ lynns-books.com/2026/10/12/r... And there's only 1 more day until Waltz is published everywhere! #romancelandia

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Review: A Waltz of Sinister Import Lady and Lord Riven #3 by Stephanie Burgis

My Five Word TL:DR Review: A Perfectly Fitting Final Instalment Well, the door isn’t totally closed, there may be more books in the future, or at least one can but hope. I was so pleased to h…

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Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social · 12h

We're packing up for @canconsffh.bsky.social! Attending and have books you'd like to buy from us? Order by Thursday for pick-up and in the instructions field put "CanCon" and we'll bring them with us! (Or let us know here, and we'll bring them with us). www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com

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Bakka-Phoenix Books

Science Fiction and Fantasy specialty bookstore since 1972

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 12h

Daily birds 88 - Pygmy Nuthatch

A small bird with a brown head, orange/white body and blue/grey back and wings

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've just seen the first print proof of Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 4, so there's no better time to announce the full TABLE OF CONTENTS!!! Join us for our launch at Can*Con on Oct 17 and our Bakka-Phoenix launch on Nov 14 or pre-order your copy now! #booksky

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Reupping this since it's happening this weekend!! Come see me! Especially come to the Nerezia event where I will nerd the absolute heck out of all the craft and writerly thoughts I had while building it

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some autumn leaves for your feed.

A small branch with a cluster of bright orange and yelow leaves, glowing in the sunlight. Blurs of red, orange, and blue with bokeh dots of light.

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 12/10/2026

HAPPY 10TH BOOK BIRTHDAY TO CHAMELEON MOON! 🎂🎊💐🌙💚🔥🌈 Ten years ago I published this book and became an author! It's been an incredible run, even when times are Unprecedented and rough. I'm so glad to be here and that you all are. AND, MAY I NOW PRESENT...

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've added some more open slots for the weekend if you want your own gryphon (or similar creatures) ko-fi.com/c/145c0c5969

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Custom digital illustration of a miniature griffins or similar creatures

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wanted to try my firefox in this style 🔥🦊

A little spotted orange fox with long ears and a long bushy tail with its tip on fire

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Daily birds 86 - Nicobar pigeon

A bird with the grey head of a pigeon that transforms into long spiky feathers and a body with green and orange shiny feathers

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A reminder that oil and gas represents less than 5% of Canada's GDP. Education actually represents a more significant chunk of our GDP. "O&G is the most significant part of the Canadian economy" is just PR spin from lobbyists that people have swallowed whole.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The glorious seagull raccoon commission I've just completed

A raccoon with the yellow beak and eyes of a seagull and stubby white wings tipped with black

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 09/10/2026

Canadian authors, we are looking for a horror novella for 2027. If you have a complete ms in the ~18-40k range that is deliciously creepy, with carefully crafted prose and a strong eco focus, we'd love to read it. See our sub guidelines and submit to submissionsStelliform Press Please share!

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Daily birds 84 - Keel-billed toucan

A black bird with a yellow chest and a huge curved green beak with blue, orange and red markings and blue feet

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Katie Fuller @katiefullerart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

By special request (@lowcarbonkev.bsky.social 😉), here are my BirdtoberClub drawings for days 4-8. All produced from the comfort of my sofa using Procreate and just a couple of brushes.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Only 5 more days until The Supernatural Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven are complete! If you haven't caught up yet on the first two cozy-spooky novellas in the trio, grab them now: books2read.com/undeadInconvenience books2read.com/honeymoonGrave #romancelandia

The cover of A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience shows an ominously closed entrance-gate at the top of the cover and a bat with its wings outspread at the bottom, all framed by climbing roses. Above and beside it is this snippet from the story:
“I am not suffering from dementia, Miss Dunhaven.” Red swept in a sudden, sheening wave across the vampire’s brown eyes, making Margaret suck in a breath, as he sliced out his words with a lethal edge. “You gravely misunderstand me if you think me de-fanged.”

“And you mis-name me, my lord.” Her hand tightened around the handle of her teacup. “As I believe you are fully aware, my name is ‘Lady Riven’ now.”

Lord Riven’s red-sheened eyes narrowed.

She bared a ferocious smile in response.

The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image. Above and beside the cover is this snippet of text:
A scorching kiss against the sensitive nape of her bare neck made her gasp and instinctively arch her back against him, and his voice deepened into a low rumble against her skin. “My dear, you may never care for small talk, but when you talk about your passions, you glow.”
“Now you’re being absurd.” Her words were breathless. The scene in the mirror before her—her mouth opening in a soundless moan, her body arching tautly against what appeared to be nothing but air behind her, even as physical sensation overwhelmed her—was so fantastical that it felt dreamlike, as if she really were being ravished by an invisible spirit...or merely imagining this whole vivid experience.
But her husband’s hands were solid and real as they slid down her back to curve around her waist, and his breath caressed her skin as he worked his way around the base of her neck. “Just look at yourself now,” he murmured. “See the woman I see.”

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

FRAGMENTED (The Chronicles of Nerezia #9) is out now! A climactic conclusion to this found family's long travel across a haunted fantasy world. 💜 Aromantic, asexual, nonbinary MCs ✨High stakes, cozy moments 🔥 Friendship Book 9: buy.bookfunnel.com/1qrmihljix Series bundle: itch.io/s/200863/fra...

Your story is my story.

Once, in a time long forgotten, a power ritual ripped stories out of people all across Nerezia, coalescing their power into the body of prophesized Hero—Aliyah—only for it to shatter, casting Fragments out into the world. Now, centuries later, Archivist Neomi intends to conduct the ritual again, and the Wagon Crew must traverse an underground complex fraught with ancient traps and broken machines to stop them. Their story has become Nerezia’s… and it will irremediably change them both.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

Here's a fancy rooster for today's #Whistober... also fits into #boktober and doubles as a coloring page should you so desire! #BirdArt

Digital black and white line illustration of a rooster with very full curved tail feathers walking through a field of stylized daisy-like flowers.

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One Hashtag Birds @one-hashtag-birds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Male Anna's Hummingbird #birds

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Draw More! 🇨🇦🏔🎨😎 @doryr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Watercolour sketch. Happy Friday all😃! #birdart

Watercolour sketch of a hawk head, looking to the left, monochrome.

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Andy Lowe @lowekeyone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A great egret fishes as before sunrise. #BirdOfTheDay #Waders #birds #photography

A great egret leans over with its beak open after trying to catch a fish in a pond with bushes in the background and the reflection of an orange sky.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"It's the reverse of the process the TRC advocated for" is obviously exactly what you want to hear. FFS.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW NEREZIA TOMORROW! I'm on my way home from the vacation and will be celebrating by being very cozy in my own bed 😂

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

people keep reposting my stuff from a couple days ago like "but I buy all the banned books!" "my classroom reads all the--" man you have no idea how many books are being banned. it's THOUSANDS. looking it up gives you top 100 at MOST. banning hurts authors. hands down. stop trying to make it okay

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.

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Bonedust Press @bonedustpress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In celebration of our debut title's 1st Bookversary 🥳 we'll be having our very first SALE!! From Saturday, Oct. 10-Sunday Oct. 11, get 10% off the entire Bonedust Press shop (including pre-orders!) To get the discount code, keep your eyes on this space during our bookversary celebration!

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Tempered StoryTrail @storytrail.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lookie how beautiful my baby is! You should totally get your Gryphons drawn by Aled Thompson.🫶🏽

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is no shame in flipping burgers. Because there's no shame in being poor in a rigged, shit system. There is, however, a lot of shame in being a wealthy fuckface with a job and hoarding your wealth while others struggle to eat. Change your vernacular about the burger thing, please.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Daily birds 83 - European bee-eater

A bird with a blue belly and a brown cap and wings, a black band over red eyes, yellow cheeks and back and green shoulders and tail

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Daily birds 81 - Superb fairy wren having a little soak

A scruffy small brown bird with a blue tail stood in a puddle and shaking drops of water from it feathers

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Lizzi 🐦🌸 @spiritcrowart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ooOH my gosh I got my mini gryphon commission back from @aledthompson.bsky.social !! He's so cute thank you so much!! 💜 #artforme #OC_Modesty #gryphon

Tiny illustration of my gryphon Modesty, a mostly white gryphon with black stripes. Art by Aled Thompson

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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Hark! A Vagrant classic

Watson: Oooh, what’s that you’ve got?
Franklin: My final report
Watson: Little Rosie Franklin’s research! I bet it’s something!
Franklin: ROSALIND.
Crick: Oh, that’s a big name
W: You’re getting fancy on us! Tell me—
F: Ah. I love this game.
W: Is it a scientific breakthrough in feelings?
F: Well, I suppose I have to go into hysterics or have a baby somewhere, good day gentlemen
W: GO, GO
[W and C slip a look at F’s notes]
C: Nice
W: Quit hogging

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Koboldscrossing @koboldscrossing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

another lil halloween postcard painting! swamp monster!

Acrylic gouache, crayon and colored pencil mini painting of a swamp monster in the water, with a rubber duck on its head

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pointy Harris Hawk

An angular brown hawk with a hooked yellow beak and long legs perched on a stump

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last re-skeet: there is no one solution for accessibility, and we really, really need to do better at accepting that as an immutable fact across all areas of disability. What provides access for one person can even close the door for another. Having *multiple* choices/options is the way ahead.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Daily birds 80 - Wilson's warbler

A small yellow bird with hues of grey and green

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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