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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 2h

The reason people love the Ea-nāṣir story is less the vitriol and more the fact that we couldn’t be more culturally different from a 4000 years dead Sumerian but we can totally relate. It shows us that no matter our superficial differences people are just people.

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lolt64 @lolt64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My satirical woodcut of your station in life has taken the parish by storm

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 19h

DELIRIUM’S MISTRESS (1985) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22” Tanith Lee was such a visual writer of fantasy. She gave the artist an inspiring painting concept on nearly every page, offering an inexhaustible supply of fascinating ideas. #bookssky #art 🪐📚

Over the broken ruins of a fantastical city, a raven haired young woman takes flight on the back of a white lion. With golden eyes and azure mane, it spreads majestic raptor-like wings to soar. As she scans the distance, her eyes signal concern. Wind whips her hair back and billows her cloak. The silky fabric evokes magic in its pattern, black trimmed in red with a regal gold-dotted motif. Wispy tendrils of clouds trace powder blue skies, suggesting an upward drift of air current.

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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 20h

They’re so deeply lost in the culture war sauce that there’s no coming back.

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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 20h

My baby Bee

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Sunshine Moon @sunshinemoon.zone · 05/10/2026

40k: this game originally started as a sci-fi twist on classic fantasy, so we have all the traditional kinds of elves Me: of course 40k: high elves Me: right 40k: dark elves Me: right 40k: clown elves Me: righ- 40k: wood elves Me: wait go back one 40k: and of course the elf cult that worships ghosts

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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Elinor @elinorc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

me in 2021: I have to go out to canal street...Queer as folk me in 2026: if someone sends me to canal street I might pass away like those sheep that die of stress

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Revenge of Princesscore @princessrevenge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

basically all discourse on transition is this one exchange and for some reason we have to keep doing it

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

everything was filled with sperm, except the captain’s pantaloons pockets

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"I suck at Mechwarrior" I think you need to take more estrogen.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

LORE OF THE WITCH WORLD (1979) Watercolor on Watercolor Board Early in my career I had the privilege of being assigned covers for many established authors. That list, of course, included Andre Norton, one of the grand dames of science fiction. #bookssky #art 🪐📚

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 02/10/2026

the new castlevania being dead cells x hollow knight is one of those things that makes total sense but also feels a little like when star trek picard started directly ripping off mass effect lol. that’s the wrong away around bro

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Elinor @elinorc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Those ancient civilisations that said third gender and trans people were oracles were spitting facts

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey folks... maybe... and stay with me here... maybe literally THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is not actually cool now just cos the new Pope doesn't like Trump and has a semi-decent line on AI. Just a fuckin little thoughty-woughty-woo.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 02/10/2026

tfw the grindr chaser won’t stop talking about his AI startup idea but the uber to get here was $57

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Snack snatcher from my collection, 1963. The back says “Fluffel, the well fed cat. In our trailer in Cozy Trailer Park, Edison, NJ (he is 6 mo. old).”

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat standing on a seat with its front paws on a dining table, leaning forward as if about to snatch a bit of sandwich on a plate in front of it on the table.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow.

A drawing of a young Sparrowhawk with his otak in his hood in front of a mural of a dragon.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Matty @zagrebista.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Spooky Season!

The Playstation can produce mind-boggling effects skellingtons

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026

Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.

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What's the matter with trans panic media?

Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."

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m @mjjii.com · 30/09/2026

from the zine

Fierce Pigeon Interview

I caught up with the pigeon who's taking Spunkton by storm for being "fierce" (stylish and confident).

What does a typical day look like for you?
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Is there anything you're really interested in lately?
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[digital art of a pigeon walking]

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

never before has my interest been so quickly captured and then lost again in one single sentence

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 30/09/2026

very belated birthday art for @cavegift.bsky.social

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⭐️eunnie⭐️ @eunnieboo.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

pink in the night (2019)

lyric comic to pink in the night, by mitski. page 1 text: and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right. scene 1: a little boy and girl are sitting in the rain. the boy wipes away tears, having tripped and scratched a knee. the girl leans forward to kiss the small wound. scene 2: the two friends are in elementary school, holding hands. the boy looks at a picture depicting a mom, dad, and child.

page 2 text: can i try again, try again, try again. scene 1: high school. they lie on the floor during a study session, but they only have eyes for each other. scene 2: college. the same couple, only now they are two girls, kissing in bed. scene 3: the girls are getting married, exchanging a sweet kiss in a field of flowers. sunset colors cast warm light onto their wedding dresses.

page 3 text: try again, and again, and again. scene 1: the girls are moving in together. one dozes off against an unpacked moving box as the other kisses her head. scene 2: disneyland. both wear minnie mouse ears as they take a selfie, laughing at the kiss mark one has left on her wife's cheek. scene 3: the childhood friends have grown older. one woman hides a bouquet behind her back as they kiss over breakfast.

page 4 text: and again, and again, and again? scene 1: the women wake up in bed together, hints of grey in their hair. one kisses the other's bare shoulder. scene 2: a winter walk. they kiss as their dog plays in the snow. scene 3: the shore of a beach. the wives have greying hair and fine wrinkles, but they're still just as in love. they hold each other close, laughing, full of affection.

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Simone @sendestradiol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Will be reposting this tomorrow during the day but reminder!!! If you are in Northwich this Sunday from 10.30am we have the queerly beloved book club (its also a general LGBT+ meetup you dont have to have read the book)

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

okay now it's Grunkle Stan's turn. These took 2 weeks to finish, I couldn't decide which drawings to include and which not to, so this is the final cut, I've been staring at it so long that I'm not even sure what's good anymore! so here you go #gravityfalls #artpost

fanart illustrations from Gravity Falls of character Grunkle Stan: an older man with grey hair, massive glasses and an unkempt appearance. He was a boxer once- he's pictured in boxing uniform as well as using brass knuckles on a zombie, which is very normal. There's a kindof offensive looking paper bag puppet mocking him

fanart illustrations from Gravity Falls of character Grunkle Stan: an older man with grey hair, massive glasses and an unkempt appearance. as usual he is demanding a replacement beer from his sofa, counting money, hypocritically telling kids not to smoke as he does, and sadly calling his long-lost brother back in the 1980s

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JewelKnightJess "R" Us 🎲🖌️🎮 @jewelknightjess.com · 29/09/2026

I love the Rogue Trader jet cycle because it always reminds me of a garden railway locomotive

A space marine in blue rides a black jet engine

A man in blue rides a black garden railway loco

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Swords Against! Magazine @swordsagainst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey ya'll, @duotrope.com has us listed in their submissions tracking resource! You can find us here: duotrope.com/magazine/swo... As a reminder, we're taking General submissions through September 30 and flash fiction until we get 300 submissions.

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Swords Against!

Swords Against! magazine is looking for kickass sword & sorcery fiction.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A somewhat maximalist, very collage-heavy experiment piece this month, using a lot of my photography and some old Slovenian art

Digital collage and painting on vertical canvas
Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy / Experimental
Character: My OC Lubi (he/him, transmasc) and a skeleton
#Artsky #QueerArt #TransArt #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery

This piece is almost entirely composed of photographs I took. It features a central long corridor that disappears into the darkness, every side of it a different texture. The left and right walls are photos of old walls, the ceiling is wood, and the floor is an enlarged photo of a gingerbread cookie I bought in a Polish shop in Ljubljana once, overlaid with an assortment of Turkish delight from Lidl. I've had these two photos for like 3 years and I'm so happy to finally put them to use lmao

In the front, slightly left stands a knight, who was traced with a lasso tool over a relief sculpture from Celje. He's wearing a dark armour with very colourful accents on skirt and flag, and his head is a fire. On his knee guards, one can spot a unicorn and a stag beetle in trans flag colours.

In the upper right corner, a dragon's head is sticking out of a wall, the fire it breathes joining in with the knight's fire hair. For this head I used a photo from an ornament on one of the 'healing springs' near my hometown. It's coloured in somewhat garish colours that reoccur across the picture, magenta, aqua, green and blue, and notably three of its fangs depict the white, pink and blue or the trans flag.

Lastly, underneath the head stands a skeleton, cut from the famous Danse Macabre fresco from the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje. The skeleton is orange with green shadows, and splashes of magenta on some parts of its body.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026

true (?) story comix #3 | patreon.com/lubchansky

TRUE(?) STORY COMIX #3
PANEL 1: MATTIE, relaxing with a book, topless. She's reading a big book. A speech bubble floats in from offscreen.
MATTIE: A BEAUTIFUL DAY, TITS OUT AT THE GAY BEACH.
VO: HEY…

PANEL 2: MATTIE turns to look behind her. There is a seemingly cishet couple there, holding hands. They are both incredibly pale and wearing big hats and sunglasses. A Text box points to them.
TEXT BOX: THE BEST I CAN FIGURE, A CIS? HET? COUPLE?
CIS(?)GUY: DO YOU KNOW…WHAT HAPPENS HERE. AT NIGHT.

PANEL 3: Back on MATTIE. A text box points to her. The COUPLE is in the near foreground.
TEXT: KNOWS THE ANSWER IS "FUCKING AND SUCKING"
MATTIE: I AM NORMALLY ONLY HERE DURING THE DAY.
MAN(?): OH. OKAY.

PANEL 4 : MATTIE looks away. The COUPLE in the background are beamed up back to their spaceship.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

KING OF THE DEAD (1977) Gouache on illustration board - 24” x 14” I had the good fortune of working on Elric early in my career. The books by Michael Moorcock have proven to be enduring classics in fantasy. #art #booksky 🪐📚

Elric holds the slender black blade of Stormbringer as he turns in surprise toward a menacing skeletal figure. His gold cloak billows as he pivots, and the gold chain gripped in his other hand slackens as the ruby amulet bobs weightless with sudden motion. Arms flexed wide, the threatening figure grips a black trident. Beneath a horned helm, its skull is set in a deathly howl that exposes its fangs. With eyes flashing, a mass of figures skulk among smooth pillars in the background. Several of the ape-like humanoids flank Elric in the lower foreground.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ashitaka's story emphasizes the importance of having two girlfriends, one who is nice but evil and one who is mean but good, and you have to spend all of your time doing stuff for them

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like that they made him emperor primarily because he could do the thing with his eyes, that is to Klingons what being handsome was for JFK

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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think Burnham utterly failing to stand up to fascists in England and Northern Ireland the same day Labour conference had chibi meme standees of him and the slogan "hope again" is good at illustrating thee core conflict of Burnham wanting to be Mr Popular verses the reality of governing

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