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JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.com · 16/10/2026

VIZ Media announces the official English localization of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion, with its first volume releasing in Summer 2027. jojo-news.com/2026/10/16/v...

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VIZ Media Announces JoJolion's Official English Release for Summer 2027

VIZ Media announces the official English localization of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion, with its first volume releasing in Summer 2027.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Me remembering when both of you were independently in my DMs saying you liked each other lmao

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

sorry but the ghost story you wrote is too sad. what if it was about an alive person instead :) and the importance of family :D

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A reminder for those at the back.

A redraw of the i nice panel from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman snaps a rifle in two over his knee.

He says "THIS is the weaponnof the enemy. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."

I've replace the rifle with a plank of wood labelled "AI Slop"

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! The perfect addition to your fall reading list, @rjaurand.bsky.social's “This Is Not a Place of Honor” combines vampires, vikings, and nuclear semiotics. Oh, and desperate sapphic yearning for a woman who died a thousand years ago. 🩸 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/this-...

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This Is Not a Place of Honor by RJ Aurand

Like a thousand tourists before you, you lay your head on her breast, using your scarf to protect your skin from freezing to her silvered armor, communing with the drumming of her immortal heart. Is she aware of the passage of time? Would waking, for her, be like surfacing from a long, deep dream?

You’ve lingered too long.

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 12/10/2026

I promise you that this story would blow your tits clean off, if only they hadn't been turned to stone

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Dezi @dezi.quest · 11/10/2026

this is a 10/10 character sheet holy shit

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Can't stop thinking about the people who want horror to be hopeful and uplifting and why that is so diametrically opposed to what horror is and why we need horror

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 11/10/2026

We are $600 away from halfway there. If you can share, thank you. I got moved to rehab four days ago, and I'm learning to walk again. 🖤

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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 10/10/2026

We have RE-OPENED for short story and poetry submissions from Canadian/Turtle Island writers 🍁🍁🍁 Our extended period will be open until October 18th. We'd love to see: ❣obvious Sci-Fi or Fantasy elements ❣ relationships shown on-the-page heartlinesspec.moksha.io/publication/...

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Moksha

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Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Augur of Emptiness, From the Book of Augurs. Soft cover edition available at the shop(s)

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Daisy Farrow, one day dead, emerged from her coffin in the form of a swan as it was being lowered..." My story in Tales & Feathers Vol 4 is finally free to read! If you're looking to kill 5 minutes, why not catch up on this week's unbituaries from a ttrpg town? augursociety.org/duskhollow-t...

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Duskhollow Township Unbituaries, Week of the Harvest Moon by RJ Aurand

Daisy Farrow, one day dead, emerged from her coffin in the form of a swan as it was being lowered into the ground.

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Duskhollow Township Unbituaries, Week of the Harvest Moon by RJ Aurand

Daisy Farrow, one day dead, emerged from her coffin in the form of a swan as it was being lowered into the ground.

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Las 🐺🪽 @featherfangart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Shadow Prince My piece for one of this year's #drawtober topics. Wanted to follow up on the rider from the last year. 💕 #originalart

portrait like illustration of a living armor/knight with a void/shadows flowing out of his helmet. The knight has his hands resting on the pommel of a giant longsword. He is partly overgrown by ivy leaves. His eyes are like two moons

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Brandon Miracle @brandon.gvg.io · 05/10/2026

Remember when King Neptune AI slopped his hundreds of awful burgers in seconds and SpongeBob painstakingly made one delicious burger by hand

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"To the Android I Saw Get Pushed onto the Tracks at the Archives Metro Station" is FREE TO READ today in Orion's Belt! This story made my critique partners lose their collective shit, and it will make you lose yours too!

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A bog story, it seems, behaves like a bog body, a peat bog, or both." This insightful analysis sets out to define the unifying features of bog fiction and articulates so much about what bog bodies have to offer us in fiction that I would struggle to put to words myself. Truly a must-read!

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Liz Levin @lizlevin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On the same page as your critique partners. Perfectly executed. Flash. ;)

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Avery Delany @softfutures.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I bought a copy of this to read on my kindle and have been slowly making my way through so as to let each fantastic piece take up the space it deserves in my mind Last night I read This Is Not a Place of Honor and damn... I'm gonna need to sit with that one for a while!

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Sam Baxter @baxtersa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This story is quite good— Let me start again. This story is a banger. Go read this and then read everything else @rjaurand.bsky.social has written.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It’s a somber and compelling tale, heavy with foreboding..." "The Deading Veil" in @podcastle.org 950 is a recommended read! You can listen to it (and the other two stories in the episode) here: podcastle.org/2026/06/30/p...

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PodCastle 950: FLASH FICTION EXTRAVAGANZA: Reapings - PodCastle

An Acre a Year By Gregory Marlow An acre a year was all they asked. I agreed. Fifty acres was too much for William to work anyway, even with my help. The first year, William didn’t notice. I stood o...

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For my work to be discussed in criticism that so thoughtfully engages with the themes I wrestled with while writing it is an indescribable feeling. I'll be carrying this with me for the rest of the week!

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The Tollund Man in Springtime," a series of 6 sonnets, is my favorite of these and well worth a read: www.thebilge.kz/e/action/Sho...

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Seamus Heaney. The Tollund Man in Springtime--Білге - Мәдениет пен өнер сайты

Seamus Heaney. The Tollund Man in Springtime

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

his bog poems were hugely influential on the way I write about bogs and bog bodies; North (chapbook) and Opened Ground (collected works) are both excellent, although his entire ouvre engages with land and past and embodiment in a way I feel aligns exactly with your metrics.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was an incredible read, and I'm beyond grateful that "Still Life with Cranberries" was a part of it. I never imagined that anyone would write literary criticism that engaged with my work. It's the most indescribable feeling--thank you! Others have mentioned Seamus Heaney upthread, and

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner they also do a great job cleaning pens!

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I rinse mine until the water runs clear. If the pen dried up soaking the nib and feed in a cup of water with a drop of dish soap overnight helps. Then I set it on a washcloth to dry for a day or so. Some people use bulb syringes to flush theirs but I've never bothered.

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aquila 🍉 most normal frankenstein enjoyer @belllmonts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"dracula is actually about repression" "dracula is actually about bloodsucking landlords" "dracula is actually about assault" "dracula is actually about xenophobia" "dracula is actually about bram stoker being closeted" dracula is about all of those things welcome to the gothic genre

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Loved this one ❤️

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[zed] godless beast @hyenalope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A wonderfully fun read from one of my besties. Go support 'em and give it a read too!

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Fae | 🦇🧛‍♀️⚰️🌙 @faerlymagical.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a cute read, please take the time to give it a look. I am thinking of Lira Moonshadow today... yummy scones 😋

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 02/10/2026

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." 🩸 Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by the 1872 "Carmilla" novella by J. Sheridan Le Fanu depicting Carmilla leaning into Laura whispering passionately to her. Laura looks a little concerned by what she hears.

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Hope Doe @flyapples.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

QRP with your skull art! 🩸🐇

A sumi and watercolor painting of an eaten man and the rabbit of Caerbannog who ate him.

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Check out these mini reviews of some fabulous September fiction, including "This Is Not a Place of Honor" in @othersidespec.bsky.social Issue 3, which is free to read as of yesterday! othersidespec.com/issues/issue...

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Issue 3 - OTHERSIDE

Issue 3 of OTHERSIDE (September 2026) contains 14 pieces of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, as well as original cover art and illustrations.

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Issue 3 - OTHERSIDE

Issue 3 of OTHERSIDE (September 2026) contains 14 pieces of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, as well as original cover art and illustrations.

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