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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Over a million people now seeing and hearing what Nigel Farages constituents really think of him. Keep spreading the word! 👇🏼

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Please, please, do not give into the "post [X] or horrible things will happen" posts and spread them about. Random people on Bluesky do not have the power to give you bad luck, it's a stupid gimmick for attention. Next time I see someone I follow spreading these, even a friend, I'll unfollow.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 01/09/2025

Duck Prints Press, indie publisher founded by fancreators to help fancreators publish their original LGBTQIA+ work, needs YOU! 🫵 Seeking: new backers for our Patreon! People who boost our post about it a chance to win a book! Learn all the many details on our webpage: tinyurl.com/mus57v48 🌈📚 📚💙

Graphic with a pale blue background. It features a white duck looking with a smirk toward the viewer, his winges spread behind him; the wings have a rainbow gradient. Text on the gaphic reads "Support Duck Prints Press on Patreon, Receive a Backer Exclusive Freebie or any merch item up to $5."

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

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Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Today marks the 50th anniversary of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. More than just a midnight movie, RHPS became a crucial gathering place for queers, punks, theater kids, and so many others looking for their place...and each other. Irreverent? Yes. Wild? Always. Nonetheless: Don't dream it, be it.

Red, disembodied lips set against a back background, known to be the poster symbol of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Reading the zine about mad scientists and monsters that I bought a few weeks ago at Pride, and there's a poem called "I'm just a Modern Prometheus, of course I've had it in the ear before" and I had to put the zine down for a moment to just be in awe of the mind that came up with that combination.

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Ijinks H. Iwerx @ijinks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Do you need help developing your original characters and lore? Have I got a list for you! Please 🔁 this post for your creator friends! #originalcharacter | #OC | #OCsky

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 12/08/2025

"We Funded" confetti, my beloved!!!

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

WE DID IT! THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE WHO BACKED!

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I GOT MY BAT STICKERS!!! 🙏🙌🏻❤️ go get this awesome, very popular anthology of cozy academia. You have…13 minutes! 😂

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 12/08/2025

We just hit the stretch goal with a mere 17 minutes to go!!!! A huge thank you to the folks on here, and everywhere else, who helped. :D Now is probably not the moment for me to announce another stretch goal, right? 🤣

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Last hour to back Scholarly Pursuits and we're $298 away from that second stretch goal that would triple author pay! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... Meeting the stretch goal would also mean backers (who aren't ebook-only) get bat stickers!

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Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology

A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I am not going to rank them, but, in no particular order, Ann Leckie, Terry Pratchett, Ursula Le Guin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, T.Kingfisher.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 12/08/2025

$402 from the stretch goal as of when I'm typing this! Authors get a raise, backers with physical Stuff get a sticker! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology

A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

There's a real chance of hitting the second stretch goal (triple pay for authors! bat stickers for backers!) but it's by no means guaranteed... I think we can do it. And this isn't just me wanting more money, there's A LOT of amazing authors in here who deserve it.

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Seeing us stuck on 299 backers is driving me crazy, who's going to be the 300th?

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sara | chamel @chamel-writes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Last day to get your pledges in!! To celebrate, here’s a “meet the characters” I put together for my story (and some fan casts! 🤭)

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 11/08/2025

We're in the home stretch on our crowdfunding campaign! Learn more about the crowdfunding campaign for "Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories" now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... Alternative: signal boost this and be my hero. <3 🌈📚 📚💙

A banner with artwork of a red and gold dragon wearing glasses and talking with a lil white mouse, also wearing glasses. They aresurrounded by bookshelves. A lit candle beside them illuminates the scene. In the background, a black bat carrying a scroll flies by. Text reads, "Duck Prints Press Presents Scholarly Pursuits A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories." In the upper corner is a green badge with a heart that reads "Projects We Love - Kickstarter."

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 10/08/2025

Zel ( @deathbycoldopen.bsky.social ) also did the gorgeous wrap-around artwork that will be featured in the journal we're offering as a campaign reward!

Artwork in deep shades of brown and brighter golds, showing a person coming down a stair case in a library, bearing a candelbra. A table to one side is stacked with books, a cat rubbing against it.

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 05/08/2025

We’re currently open for general submissions: send us your horrors, up to 6000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don't agonise over your cover letter (really, don’t). You MUST submit via our Moksha portal (link in reply). We don’t accept email submissions.

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Just under 3 days left on www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... ! If you were thinking about backing, now's the time - we're about $600 away from doubling author pay as a stretch goal.

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Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology

A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 08/08/2025

Today we share excerpts from 2 more of the 22 stores in SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES. You can read the excerpts, learn about the authors, and check out the Kickstarter for the whole anthology here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

A simple graphic with a background of a shelf of jars and a crystal ball. Text reads "Meet the Scholarly Pursuits Authors Mare Griffen, Mina Kramek"

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 07/08/2025

We’re about halfway to our first stretch goal for Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories! At that goal, backers receive the cover art as a digital file – and we’ll double pay to our authors! Meet two of those authors in today's update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

A simple graphic with a background of a shelf of jars and a crystal ball. Text reads "Meet the Scholarly Pursuits Authors Robin S. Blackwood, Shannon Lippert"

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 05/08/2025

Our Kickstarter for "Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories" has 7 days left. We're $2300 from our first stretch goal. You can help by checking out the campaign and by signal boosting our posts! Meet today's authors and read excerpts: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

A simple graphic with a background of a shelf of jars and a crystal ball. Text reads "Meet the Scholarly Pursuits Authors Nicola Kapron, Indigo J. H., Eliza J. Fitzwilliam"

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Shea Sullivan @sheasullivan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Stretch goal time, bb!!

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 04/08/2025

🎉 🎉 WE'VE HIT OUR FUNDING GOAL!!! 🎉 🎉 Now we aim for stretch goals, which let us get our backers more Stuff and raise author pay! Learn more about the campaign for SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES and meet 2 our authors today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 02/08/2025

Now we're under $500 from our goal!

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 02/08/2025

Our KS campaign to fund publishing SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES has 10 days left, and we're less than $700 from our goal!!! Sounds like a perfect time to share excerpts from two more of our contributors… bios and excerpts here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

A simple graphic with a background of a shelf of jars and a crystal ball. Text reads "Meet the Scholarly Pursuits Authors Bettina Juszak, Rhosyn Goodfellow"

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 02/08/2025

Less than $800 to our goal!

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Dei Walker @dei2dei.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We are so close ($1.2k) from funding! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... A whole book full of cozy queer academia stories, and to get it to print we just need you! (and if you really want to make our day, help us toward that milestone of 2x author pay). Also, add-on stickers. So many stickers!

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Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Cozy Academia Anthology

A collection of 22 delightfully queer, charmingly cozy stories that put a fluffy LGBTQIA+ spin on the dark academia genre.

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

My first published original story, The Case of the Lost Grimoire, is coming out in the anthology Scholarly Pursuits, published by @duckprintspress.com ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

In case anyone is trying to DM me, I can't see it as Bluesky has decided that I, an adult with a master's degree and a job, look underage.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 25/07/2025

Crowdfunding now! SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES is our latest general imprint anthology, featuring 22 cozy takes on the "dark academia" genre. The world is dark enough, bring on the fluff! On KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... boosts appreciated! 🌈📚 📚💙

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Didn't get a #writerbingo in April but got a lot of writing done, both fanfic and original, and got accepted into another anthology!! Which means I'll be doing a LOT of writing in May

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I'm terrible at remembering to post my #writerbingo : here's the one for March, I promise I didn't circle anything I did in April on here!

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is really making me realise how little trans rep I've encountered in published books instead of fanfic or short online stories. (I have read stories with bi MCs, sapphic stories, etc that WEREN'T trans, but I didn't want to count them here.) I need to read more trans books!

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Realised I forgot to share my #writerbingo for January, so here's the January and February ones! February was a bit of a low motivation month...but I think March is going to be good.

February writer bingo card with some squares completed but no bingo

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Ok, Bsky - a MISSION for you. We want as many subs to Wrath Month as possible, from as diverse an array of voices as possible. POC voices, disabled voices, neurodiverse voices, trans voices, ace and aro voices - everyone. Scream it from the rooftops, folks!

SUBMISSIONS OPEN

We’re seeking fantasy, science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage.

There’s a glass ceiling in SFF representation, and we want you to throw a brick through it. Bring us the coven that burned Salem and your roaring bear-serkers. We want gangs of acid-wash werewolves, furious bipyromancers, flesh-eating femmes, and vengeant celestial bois—a cast of the downtrodden who make ruins of their oppressors.

Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberation—it can be a spur to action and the only righteous response to a world that would prefer we didn’t exist. So crash mainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity.

Pride month is over. It’s time for—

WRATH MONTH

Instructions for Subs:

Kneel.

Good author.

Stories can be fantasy, science-fiction or horror

Stories must be queer (broadly defined), and fit the theme of punk / queer wrath

Length up to 6,000 words

Payment is $0.08 per word

No multiple submissions, no reprints

No AI-assisted writing ever ever ever

Subs via our website (see below), no cover letter needed

Submissions open until the close of May 31st 2025

Full details:
www.bona-books.com/submissions

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Robin S. Blackwood @robin-s-writes.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just bought the queer pulp anthology "I Want That Twink OBLITERATED!" ( @bonabooks.bsky.social ) and the first words of the first story are "The great stone phallus", so that's promising.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 22/01/2025

Reviving the ways of The Old Web will be critical for small businesses from now on. Thus, I'm looking for folks interested in joining an indie press web ring! Run a press and want in? Link below! Don't run a press but want this to happen? Spread the word! duckprintspress.com/resources/du...

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Indie Press Web Ring Interest Check – Duck Prints Press

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