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Solace Sylum

@solacesylum.bsky.social
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Writer. Martial artist. Ethics nerd. Night owl. 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 ☮️

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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Captured by the seditious General she’s sent to kill, reluctant assassin Pymea Stitch discovers her self-worth while choosing what kind of monster to become: destroy the genocidal cult that cursed her, or free herself before her sentient necroblade devours her soul💀🗡️ #A #F #LGBT #MH #DIS #OWN #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Captured by the seditious General she’s sent to kill, reluctant assassin Pymea Stitch discovers her self-worth while choosing what kind of monster to become: destroy the genocidal cult that cursed her, or free herself before her sentient necroblade devours her soul💀🗡️ #A #F #LGBT #MH #DIS #OWN #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🩹 She’s a medic bound to a sentient necroblade💀🗡️ 🖤 He hunts mages, but being a conduit for her mana is addictive ⚔️ He wants to wield her to destroy the ruling cult & stop a war 💔 Become the killer she swore never to be, or let the unfed necroblade devour her soul? #A #F #LGBT #MH #DIS #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Caught fleeing her indenture, medic Pymea Stitch is bound to a sentient necroblade and ordered to kill a seditious General. Succeed and she’ll become a Wield, doomed to feed the blade until it drives her mad; fail, and the necroblade will devour her soul. #A #F #LGBT #MH #DIS #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A reluctant assassin captured by the General she’s sent to kill. He wants to destroy the genocidal cult that cursed her. She needs to escape before her necroblade devours her soul. 💞He’s a conduit for her magic. 🗡️She’s sick of being controlled. 💀Save herself or everyone else? #A #F #LGBT #MH #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Captured by the seditious General she’s sent to kill, reluctant assassin Pymea Stitch discovers her self-worth while choosing what kind of monster to become: destroy the genocidal cult that cursed her, or free herself before her sentient necroblade devours her soul 💀🗡️ #A #F #LGBT #MH #DIS #CI #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#DVparty #WIP When X’s best friend goes musing during their podcast investigation of a haunted landmark and strange events start befalling the crew, she must convince law enforcement it’s not a hoax and avoid becoming the next victim of a troubled past she’s desperate to hide #A #H #CI #MH #LGBT
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wooden chopsticks & a pint of ice cream on the first evening of autumn rain.
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#A #F #DVparty Day 4
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#DVparty Day 2 🏳️‍🌈Pymea Stitch: Medic, liar, sneak. Betrayed & bound to a sentient necroblade. Ordered to assassinate a seditious General. Succeed, and she’ll become the blade’s Wield, doomed to feed the blade until it drives her mad; fail, and its curse will devour her soul. #A #F #MH #LGBTQ+ #PanSxl
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had a lot of fun sourcing public domain images for this one! A reluctant assassin captured by the seditious Boundary Warden she’s sent to kill. He wants to wield her to stop a war. She needs to escape before her necroblade devours her soul. #A #F #DVparty
Image is a grid of seven images: The top panel is a single image depicting the stages of lunar eclipse, entitled Moon, Sun, & Universe by Mark Tegethoff (@tegethoff). Below, the middle panel contains three images: on the left, a white and blue smoke figure by Mulyadi (@mulyadi); in the centre, an ornate silver dagger on a wooden table by Vlad Markov (@vades36); on the right, a woman, eyes closed, face tilted upward, her face streaming in ghostly layers by Tom Frances Palattao (@tomfps). The bottom layer also contains three images: on the left, a grey and white whole with amber eyes, by Chris Ensminger  (@viramedio); in the centre, a mossy path through a dark and foggy evergreen forest, by Marvin Zettl (@nirvamo); on the right, a dark stormy sky overtop of ocean waves, with a veining lightning bolt descending to the water, by Clayton Malquist (@cmalquist).
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"Eigenpulse: Eliminating Demographic Bias in Pulse Oximetry and Remote PPG from First Principles was the name of the project by Gurnoor Kaur, a Grade 11 student...in Kitchener." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Kitchener teen wins innovation award at Canada-Wide Science Fair, fixes 35-year-old problem | CBC News
Gurnoor Kaur, a Grade 11 student at Cameron Height Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, has won the best project award for innovation at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Edmonton.
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
That delicious feeling when you realize you're reading one of your new all-time favourites. "We are magnificent."
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#DVpit is returning in 2026 on Bluesky! A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities to pitch their unagented projects to agents and editors! #DVpit will be on Bluesky on Wednesday, September 30, 2026! go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info and stay tuned for more announcements!
#DVPit 2026 a bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
Wednesday, September 30th 2026 on bluesky
follow us for more: @dvpit.bsky.social
or go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"findings [from this revelatory, first-ever mapping of the clitoris] will help clinicians when performing operations around the vulva area, such as child delivery, gender-affirmation surgery, and reconstruction surgery after genital mutilation." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"When you have a sentence, what you really have is consciousness filtered through syntax." - Ocean Vuong.
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Open letter: "The decision by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to eliminate all librarian positions in federal penitentiaries [& CEGEP] across Canada represents a sweeping and regressive dismantling of rehabilitative infrastructure within our prison system." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter - CSC Elimination of Librarians & CEGEP Education
Book Clubs for Inmates 400-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C2 OPEN LETTER The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 By email: gary...
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Nonviolence
We Have More Power Than We Think Nonviolent action works. Five Concrete Nonviolent Actions You Can Take Today Don’t go it alone! Join a local group to take action in your community: that could...
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"When we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we...compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Captured by the seditious General she’s sent to kill, a reluctant assassin bound to a sentient, bloodthirsty necroblade must choose whether to help him destroy the genocidal cult that cursed her, or escape and free herself before the blade devours her soul. #A #F #DVPit #LGBTQ+
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
She's a part-time medic, full-time sneak, bound to a sentient necroblade. He's supposed to execute mages, but being a conduit for her mana is addictive. He needs her for revenge. She's desperate to be free. Blood or soul, the blade will feed *Enemies to allies *LGBTQ+ *Forced proximity #A #F #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A reluctant assassin captured by the General she’s sent to kill. He wants to use her to destroy the genocidal cult that cursed her. She needs to escape before her necroblade devours her soul. ❤️He’s a conduit for her magic 🗡️She’s sick of being controlled 💀Save herself or save the world? #A #F #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
When a miscast spell binds rebellious sneak Py to a bloodthirsty, sentient dagger, she must outwit a genocidal cult and save a seditious General in order to free herself before the dagger consumes her soul. But the General has need of an assassin, and the blade has a will of its own... #A #F #DVpit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Captured by the seditious General she’s sent to kill, a reluctant assassin bound to a sentient, bloodthirsty necroblade must choose whether to help him destroy the genocidal cult that cursed her, or escape and free herself before the blade devours her soul. #A #F #DVPit
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#DVparty Day 6: WIP Contemporary paranormal suspense set on Vancouver Island, where the wind beckons with secrets the water cannot keep. (Image taken by me in Ross Bay Cemetery, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.)
Image is a close-up of a cracked dark grey paved path, strewn with dry pine needles and curling pale brown leafs of various shapes and sizes. The left side of the image is lighter, and the leafs cast long shadows toward the right.  A thin brown box border the same colour of the leafs surrounds the image, with the photographer tag of SolaceSylum.com in small lettering centred at the bottom.
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#DVparty #A #F 🩹 She's a part-time medic, full-time sneak 🗡️ bound to a sentient necroblade. 🐺 He's supposed to keep magic on the far side of the Boundary, 🖤 but being a conduit for her mana is addictive. ⚔️ He needs her for revenge. 💔 She just wants to be free. 💀 Blood or soul, the blade will feed.
A series of nine images, three rows of three. Upper row: A ghostly shadow in the mist; a hooded young woman glancing over her right shoulder with a determined expression; an astronomical clock brightly-lit by sunlight. Middle row: A masked thief in a dark room stealing a red amulet; a silver dagger with a ruby eye on a black background; a female mage with long hair half-disappearing into blue magic as she sneaks up on a guard in a castle hallway. Bottom row: A glowing blue magical circle containing stars, moons, and runes, set against a black background; a cloaked male warrior on a horse with fire glowing in its cheeks, in a foggy forest; an eerily twisted and leafless tree back-lit by a green-glowing sky.
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A reluctant assassin captured by the General she’s sent to kill. He wants to use her to destroy a cult with a genocidal virus. She needs to escape before her cursed dagger devours her soul. 💞He’s a conduit for her magic. 🗡️She’s sick of being controlled. 💀Save herself or save the world? #A #F #preDV
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Captured by the seditious General she was sent to kill, a reluctant assassin bound to a bloodthirsty, sentient dagger must choose whether to help him destroy the guild that cursed her or escape and free herself before the dagger consumes her soul. #A #F #preDV
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
When a miscast spell binds a rebellious sneak to a bloodthirsty, sentient necroblade, she must outwit a vicious guild and save a seditious General before the necroblade consumes her soul; but the General has need of an assassin, and the blade has a will of its own... #A #F #preDV
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We're 5 hours into #PreDV and we love the practice pitches we're seeing! A reminder that today is about more than feedback its about COMMUNITY!! Make sure you send encouragement to fellow authors and make friends! #DVpit #writingcommunity #writersky #booksky
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a couple of minions standing next to each other with their mouths open .
ALT: a couple of minions standing next to each other with their mouths open .
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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 09/09/2025
The 2025 #PitchDis pitch form is now open! 🎉 Click below to enter and submit your pitch! Remember - you don't have to rush. Pitches will be posted in random order. Take your time. Good luck and happy pitching! forms.gle/nKMDdnHKJ8MY...
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#PitchDis Practice Form
Please enter the following information to participate in #PitchDis 2025! Your pitch will be displayed to editors and agents exactly as it is entered, so make sure you have entered it correctly. No c...
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/09/2025
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"The hostility toward 2SLGBTQ+ materials and programs in libraries in schools is explicit in Take Back Alberta events and rallies. There are similar efforts in other provinces...from groups such as 'Vote Against The Woke' and 'ParentsVoice B.C'." www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
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A shadow war on libraries
Some Canadian politicians and influencers, inspired by an American-born movement, are trying to roll back 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada — one book at a time.
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