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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 21/05/2025

"This is my art and it is dangerous."

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

honestly it was time us highly competent career focused bisexuals got some Representation™️ (it's all lies, Saffy is VERY chaos, she's just in denial. and it's very competent and focused chaos.)

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I wrote almost the entirety of the first draft of this book listening to the TAZ Amnesty soundtrack. I've dusted it off for editing draft 10 and am pleased to find that TAZ could still stand for The AmInTheWriting Zone. (Also Interstellar Blues comes at the 30 min mark—good for timing breaks) #taz

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David Litt @davidlitt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I just think it’s hilarious that people went to college with the Pope. “What’s Ken up to these days? Partner at a law firm outside Pittsburgh, that’s nice. And Bob? Oh, he’s the Pope.”

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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I scream-sneezed while using the sound ID function on the Merlin bird app and the result came back as pterodactyl.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In the meantime, I'm part of an auction raising money for trans rights, and you should check out all of the amazing items on offer www.32auctions.com/genrefortran... ...Including a personalized copy of the gorgeous OwlCrate edition of Wooing the Witch Queen! www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA

Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Gemma Matthews - The Sewing Songbird @thesewingsongbird.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A look back at my embroidery, The Sun Fairy for you today. Completely freehand stitched in August 2023. I’m busy stitching my latest piece so fingers crossed there will be something new to show you very soon…🤞🪡🌿🌺☀️🪽 #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

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melissa capriglione @ HOODIE KICKSTARTER @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

no more rectangle, only rosemary

four panel black and white cartoon comic of a cat and their owner. the owner is laying down playing a switch. in the first panel, the cat pokes its head into the panel. the second panel the cat moves its head under the switch. the third panel, the cat manages to block the switch and says "no more rectangle". in the last panel, the cat says "only rosemary"

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 10/04/2025

People will always say they’re your friend and they support you no matter what but then they’ll say some toxic shit to you like “you have to let go of the cursed amulet, it’s changing who you are” and “don’t let its power corrupt you” all because they want the amulet for themselves

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Calling my Glasgow peeps - this event NEXT SATURDAY will be fabulous but we need you there to make it fabulouserer! Come hang out & chat folklorish shenanigans with us? www.waterstones.com/events/fanta... @elizachanwrites.bsky.social @annabelcwrites.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Promo graphic for a fantasy and folklore event at Waterstones Braehead on 26th April, 2-3pm, with myself, Eliza Chan, Annabel Campbell and RM Brown. We all look very smiley and definitely worth coming to chat to.

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Eliza Chan @elizachanwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Scottish peeps, a reminder I have two events next week! Wed 23rd at Waterstones Edinburgh with @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and @gen-dimova.bsky.social hosted by Cymera's own Ann Landmann. www.waterstones.com/events/outsi...

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

"average ulaid warrior kills five of the connachta every year" factoid actually just statistical error. average ulaid kills no connachta, because of the curse. cú gheoirg, who guards the fords and kills over 10,000 connachta each day, was an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

the most valuable project management skill I've learned from my day job is how motivating a color-coded Google Sheet can be

Novel progress tracked in a color-coded Google Sheet. 5 out of 29 chapters are marked DONE, the remainder are marked "Edited" with a note to compile them.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

in my society goats would not be associated with the devil, but instead considered angels, for providing cheese that tastes like that

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 03/04/2025

POYUMS ANNAW, a masterful new collection of poetry from Sunday Times bestselling poet Len Pennie is coming in September! AND there's going to be an exclusive edition for readers who order with poetry champions @portybooks.bsky.social Pre-order now: buythebook.online/poyums-annaw

Hardback cover of "Poyums Annaw" by Len Pennie. The book is light blue with white text and in the centre is a pencil drawing of dark blue wavers under a faint crescent moon.

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

March's reading! ... Yeah I got sucked right back into The Hunger Games for the first time in 10+ years. I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about the books & southern-ness, so stay tuned 👀 #sotr

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 03/04/2025

OpenAI trained on a massive pirated database trained on six of my books and short stories. Meta's AI trained on a massive pirated database of THIRTY ONE of my works. Just about every author you know has had their life's work scraped and fed into the machine without consent. Please stand with us.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Bunch shows how it is done. The way he points out what the EO *legally* does (directs the VP, acting as just one of many regents) vs what it claims to do (“change the Smithsonian!”—something POTUS can’t do) is fantastic. We need more of this, less ppl taking EOs as law.

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Middle grade recs incoming! We’ve had at least one person ask for these specifically so that they can share reading time with their younger family members, which sounds lovely. 💕 #booksky #trr25 #transrightsreadathon

Slide 1: Trans Rights Readathon Bonus Prompt: Middle Grade. A series of books can be hazily in the background (books named on next slide).

Slide 2: Book Recs 1/2: Wishbone by Justine Pucella Williams. The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon. The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines by Mo Netz. The One Who Loves You the Most by Medina. Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese. The Fabulous Zed Watson by Basil Silvester and Kevin Silvester. Alex Wise vs. The End of the World by Terry J. Benton-Walker. Magical Princess Harriet by Leiah Moser. A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff. Ice Apprentices by Jacob North. Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge. The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith.

Slide 3: Book Recs 2/2: Splinter & Ash by Marieke Nijkamp. Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker. Linus and Etta Could Use a Win by Caroline Huntoon. Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee. The Ribbon Skirt by Cameron Mukwa. Jamie by L.D. Lapinski. Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges & Meaghan Carter. Grace Needs Space by Benjamin A. Wilgus and Rii Abrego. Moonflower by Kacen Callender. Glitch Girl! by Rainie Oet. Dotson by Grayson Lee White. Dear Mothman by Robin Gow.

Slide 4: Text Reads: “The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters. Along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level!” Stylized cascading text at the bottom adds: “March 21st-31st, 2025, Trans Rights Readathon.”

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Please share: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Really excited to be doing another book with @mrsteeleyogirl.bsky.social, especially one that feels so very necessary right now. Send us your on-topic speculative fiction stories and let's raise some money for transgenderlawcenter.org and raicestexas.org!

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 28/03/2025

A little more about THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my Bisclavret retelling coming this November from Gollancz. Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them. Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...

The cover of The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman in the centre of a gold square. Around it, in a pseudogothic font, are notes on its contents and themes. Each is pointing to the cover with a pointing finger (a manicule). The text: werewolf knight; the mortifying ordeal of being known; probably too much Latin; 12th century Brittany (sort of); the king's scribe-with-benefits; romance (medieval) with the yearning of romance (modern); period-typical heresy; manuscript production; feelings about fealty; werewolfism as metaphor for chronic illness/pain. At the top it reads "a queer retelling of Bisclavret"; at the bottom, "coming from Gollancz, 27th November 2025".

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A group of speculative poets is gathering to propose a permanent #speculativepoetryhugo in 2025. If you'd like to help advocate, we are looking for folks to help! Message me and I can add you to our Discord!

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Devin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The Spanish edition of “The Bakery Dragon” comes out April 4! 🥐 ¡La edición en español de “El Dragón Panadero” sale el 4 de abril! 🥖

The Spanish language edition of “the bakery dragon” by Devin Elle Kurtz features a small red dragon looking up with sparkling eyes at a window display of golden bakery goods.

La edición en español de “El dragón panadero” de Devin Elle Kurtz presenta un pequeño dragón rojo que mira hacia arriba con ojos brillantes hacia un escaparate de productos de panadería dorados.

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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Cartoonist-friends! Interested in learning about medieval studies and meeting academics for potential collaborations? Apply to join us in Chicago from 5-6 June 2025 for a crossover workshop at the Newberry Library entitled “Cartooning the Medieval”!! www.newberry.org/calendar/car...

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Cartooning the Medieval

A symposium exploring the potential of comics and narrative art to create new opportunities for engaging with medieval culture.

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

finished sotr. now making my way through the ballad of songbirds & snakes and i am very compelled by the scarlet o’harafication of coriolanus snow

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

sooooo I blew through Sunrise on the Reaping in 24 hours. apologies to all my other responsibilities this weekend, I have not inhaled a book like that in YEARS but hoo am I having a lot of feelings. it was so good.

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

a public art piece I saw recently which, with the trees in bloom, immediately made me think of Mary Oliver

A statue of a cathedral window without glass. The statue frames and is framed by trees in full bloom and gentle evening sunlight.

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Chris Maliga @chrismaliga.com · 22/03/2025

A side note to this thread - the younger generation LOVES physical media. I get this same question from older folks when I talk about my job and managing our darkroom. "People still use film?!" Emphatically, yes. Analog classes fill faster than anything, and if you walk into the darkroom on a Friday

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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Shan Bennion @anonbeadraws.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

today's warm up: Little selkie sibling wants to go play!! (1:25 hr) #anonbeadraws #art #illustration #warmup #selkie #seal #sea #ocean #fantasy #artistsonbsky

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Still working on this fundraiser for my mom's cancer expenses - anything helps! This is for the lifelong artist who made me into a lifelong artist - we're helping her make a life-sustaining piece of art while she goes through chemo. Getting joy for her where we can.❤️ gofund.me/fd2b086d

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Donate to Help Our Mom, Adriane, Create and Heal, organized by Maria Headley

Hello everyone! Our mother, Adriane has spent her life bringing beauty into t… Maria Headley needs your support for Help Our Mom, Adriane, Create and Heal

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Registration is now open for @gifcon.bsky.social, an online conference supported by the University of Glasgow's Fantasy Masters programme: a meeting-place for academics, authors & others interested in the fantasy field. See you there? For free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gifcon-202...

Book sculpture by Justin Rowe. To see more of this artist's beautiful work: www.daysfalllikeleaves.com

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“That is why I like novels: instead of heroes they have people in them.” Happily revisiting The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin: stillmoving.org/resources/th...

Black text on white background, by Ursula K. Le Guin:

“So the Hero has decreed through his mouthpieces the Lawgivers, first, that the proper shape of the narrative is that of the arrow or spear, starting here and going straight there and THOK! hitting its mark (which drops dead); second, that the central concern of narrative, including the novel, is conflict; and third, that the story isn't any good if he isn't in it.

I differ with all of this. I would go so far as to say that the natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.”

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“create content that makes it seem like you’re a friend to your followers” being friends with me is having me walk into your living room and infodump about 1930s folk music for thirty minutes

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Anyway I forgot to post it here because I’m really good at social media, but I revamped my newsletter wHOOPS. If you, like me, are obsessed with musical theatre & 20th c folksingers, read this essay on Hadestown & Woody Guthrie: buttondown.com/siobhanmull/... #hadestown #folkmusic #woodyguthrie

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Hadestown, Woody Guthrie, and the hoping machine

How a Broadway musical continues the legacy of one of America's most beloved folksingers.

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Feels like I’m doing something right when a friend messages me to go “I just saw the Bob Dylan biopic and when I saw what they did to Pete Seeger’s teaspoon brigade story I went ‘I can’t believe they did this to my good friend siobhan’”

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sgrd @selveste.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

I knit a Greenland shark a while ago, complete with detachable eye parasites

A dark brown knitted Greenland shark stuffie, ca. 55 cm long, on a kitchen table

The shark's eyes are snap buttons, and a hand is shown holding one button half that has a "parasitic copepod" made out of white string fastened to it

The knitted shark is suffering an attack by a parasitic string copepod attached to her eye, the poor thing

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Have also discovered the incredible motivation of "make a Google Sheet and watch the numbers go up & change color when you make progress." Follow me for more never-before-seen productivity hacks

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Have now watched enough Taskmaster that when I went to tidy up, I automatically thought "Unstack the dishwasher. Fastest wins. Your time starts now" in the voice of Alex Horne. Yes I'm going to start applying this to everything, no I'm not immune to the motivational tactics used on seven year olds

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a man in a suit and white shirt is standing in a field and says `` all the information 's on the task '' .

ALT: a man in a suit and white shirt is standing in a field and says `` all the information 's on the task '' .

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

[busts down door] once again, one of my favorite things about Tamora Pierce is that the books don't devalue embroidery. Obviously we can talk about Sandry and her thread magic, but this also appears in Tortall, where sewing is Lalasa's way to financial independence— [I am forcibly dragged off stage]

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The petite Band-tailed Barbthroat at @tapirvalley.bsky.social has apparently been enjoying some nectar. #birds #hummingbirds

A petite bird rests delicately on a slender green branch, its intricate plumage glowing with warm shades of copper, bronze, and brown. Its long, slender beak is dusted with tiny specks of nectar, a testament to its recent visit to the forest's blooms. The bird's bright, alert eye reflects the soft light, while the blurred background of rich green foliage creates a serene, natural ambiance. This moment captures the delicate charm and quiet resilience of life in the jungle.

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Dr Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Calling all UK book reviewers! I have a sapphic historical romance called THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET coming out next year—if you're interested, please fill in the form! (or send to friends who you think would be a good fit) RTs very, very much appreciated here.

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ARC request form for THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET (UK only)

"After procuring several fervent assurances that his wife would apologize sincerely and deeply for his absence from Rosings that evening, Mr Collins reluctantly died." Thus begins THE UNLIKELY PURSUI...

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"maybe taking improv classes again would help my writing" says the person who should be writing

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Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Watching the Adventuring Academy episode with Zac Oyama, and I've never thought of the GM as editor before—finding the right emotional beat to cut a scene—but it makes SO much sense

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/11/2024

Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels through endless versions o reality? —James Robertson, “Doctor Wha” in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed. @russjoneswrites.bsky.social Happy #DoctorWhoDay !

Doctor Wha
by James Robertson

Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality?
Bit dis he ken himsel? Weel, mibbe sae,
yet wha’s tae ken gin aw that’s kent by Wha
maks mair or less or better sense ava
nor whit we ithers ken, or think we dae?
The universe is fou o parallels:
wha’s like us? Hunners? Thoosans? We oorsels
micht be mere glisks o life-forms yet tae be.
Whit’s real? Whaur’s here? When’s noo? Wha’s quick or deid?
Wha’s jist a thochtie in anither’s heid?
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he?

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