iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICYMI, Issue 3 is here and free to read! Check it out, spread the word, and let us know what you're loving from this issue!

043

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HI YES IT'S HEERE!! PLEASE GO READ GAY MAGAZINE: FALL EDITION. issue 3 has got sapphic vampires, final girls, heartbreak, haunted vibes, amazing cover art, and MORE!! GO READ it's all on the website nowww! I continue to love all the queer skill and creativity on display every issue, every time 😭

01911

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Ladislavica @ladislavic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First lesson

0172

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 16h

3/10/26 - nocturn

small hours
big time

on back roads
two lights ahead

turning off / trees against stars
until the shining water

06910

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6

THE CALL OF THE WEIRD
All October, Tenebrous Press is accepting submissions for the Fifth Volume of our Weird Fiction Award anthology, BRAVE NEW WEIRD.
This is a reprint anthology. Only works published between 10/31/25-10/31/26 will be considered.
Full details at www.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Matt Blairstone.
Beneath a swirling tile mosaic sea filled with fish and squid, two mountain giants surround a rural village who are burning a wicker man in their honor.
One of the giants eats the worshippers, while the other digs what they're throwin' down.

15746

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

teeyeth. gouache painting on paper

130077

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IT’S HERE! And YOU’RE GONNA LOVE IT. (If you love sapphic vampires and eldritch whales and ravenous wolves and strange miracles and heartbreak and hunger and desire and duty and devotion—) In all seriousness: thank you to our authors and our readers for being one of the best parts of my life 🧡

1209

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've got a little poem with a long title in here! 🦎 It's called "Tiktaalik Rosae, or, If We Were the Earliest Example of a Link Between Fish and Tetrapods Would You Climb onto the Mudflats with Me?" 💚

0114

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Zé Burnay @zeburnay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Malignant Crown

11146364

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

[commercial for stones] are you tired of killing 2 birds with your bare fuckin hands

161141302334

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh! And speaking of guidelines and policies: WE OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 4 AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN ‼️ Please send us the stories and poems only you could write! We can’t wait to read your work!

othersidespec.com

Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

02520

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

IntroSpectres 🌊 @introspectres.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

self-portrait + art cut-out trend || #darkart

digital illustration of a blue skeleton veiled in blue water and patterned robes. A skeletal hand reaches out as if pulling the water veil aside. Golden fish swim around the skull in imitation of a halo.

3942299

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

ande ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ @andewitt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Godspeed! The Coyote’s Plight

2451771405

Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

so thrilled to be in this beautiful & devastating issue. go read all of it! ❤️‍🩹 and if you're interested in multi-POV stories, the plight of the American Chestnut, and generational Appalachian grief & rot, i have a reprint for you:

othersidespec.com

BLIGHT - OTHERSIDE

There is illness in the wind and unease in the soil. It has been here since 1904 when the first splotch of chestnut blight showed in our hills; it will be here until the last American Chestnut is dead...

0106

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Read the sweet & funny & perfect @kymdeyn.bsky.social one with the very long title!!! (othersidespec.com/pieces/tikta...) (and then read the rest!)

075

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They’re capturing my soul into this vessel tomorrow

69915

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Filip Mirazovic - "Daughter" (2026)

0676135

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

1763742429

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

10381382830

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Lovers Return, 2025

a heart shaped painting against and off-white background. painting depicts two blue tailed stars with small pink halos floating in front of a bed of pink tulips, behind a tree casts a dark shadow against an orange wall

31017383

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/05/2024

In my ongoing quest to save my favorite moments from twitter, I am sharing one of my favorite viral tweets: the time my grandmother was trying to explain to me that something was in her garden eating her tomatoes but accidentally created a god-tier meme

a picture of a yellow tomato perfectly centered on a green placement that is just spirals of tiny braiding going out in concentric circles. The tomato has a bite taken out of it, and my grandmother put white text over the bite that says "something came in the night"

8730149

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From animal conscription that satirizes the surveillance state, to soft power parlayed through food, to body-hopping as survival and rebellion, our Revolution-themed issue is live! Head to our website to buy a copy and read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com/product/volu...

12211

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

D. Matthew Urban is one of my favorite Weird fiction writers, and this will be his second time publishing a collection through Cursed Morsels. Absolutely can't wait to share this book with y'all!

A multi-round job interview becomes a dizzying spiral into ominous realms. A child’s obsession with a neighbor’s death prompts an act of theatrical self-destruction. A spider-infested house draws an exterminator into webs stranger than any arachnid’s. A downwardly-mobile couple’s visit to an abandoned subdivision turns nightmarish when they encounter the empty homes’ new owners.

The stories in Nowhere’s Door Is Always Open unfold on thresholds, shifting sites of transition and change as mundane as a birthday, as momentous as first love, as terrifying as a swan dive into another world. Ranging from creeping unease to body-horror freakout, from small-town gothic to online Grand Guignol, this collection poses the question of any beckoning portal: are you ready for what’s on the other side?

2198

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Sven Sachs @dinosven.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚨 Big plesiosaur news 🚨 Our paper is out. We describe pigment cells and scales in a Jurassic plesiosaur. Small scales are found at the limbs which enforced them. Body and tail are scale-less. Many thanks to lead-author Miguel Marx & the team. www.cell.com/current-biol... #Science #News #Nature 1/3

Plesiosaur skeleton from Holzmaden (Germany) with stretched limbs. Collection of the the Urwelt-Museum Hauff in Holzmaden, Germany. Image by Klaus NilkensUrwelt-Museum Hauff.

12590189

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We're running a couple ebook giveaways between now and October 18th! It's the perfect time of year (at least here in Minnesota) to read some creepy, strange short stories. Gore Poetics: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/56... Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/f7...

app.thestorygraph.com

cursedmorsels's giveaway for Gore Poetics on The StoryGraph

Gore Poetics is a horror and Weird fiction collection for readers who seek out both the grote...

0119

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Lunch, 2022 by Jeffrey Chong Wang 汪翀 www.instagram.com/jeffrey_chon...

114632

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Adikavita @adikavita.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

A great float of Attenborosaurus swiftly navigate their pelagic environment in their hunt for fish. Attenborosaurus (named after Sir David Attenborough) is an extinct marine reptile that existed during the early Jurassic, it was a primitive pliosaurid, closer related to short-necked plesiosaurs.

A painting that depicts a pair of Attenborosaurus- long-necked marine reptile with flippers and tail flukes that they use to navigate the ocean and hunt fish. The pair is surrounded by ammonites, fish and other marine reptiles.

29737

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TERRA HYPNAGOGICA 2023

015640

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gore Poetics is so gooood!

042

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did you know you can request a free ebook copy of my upcoming collection in exchange for an honest review? Lonesome and Festering is great for fans of grotesque, strange, sincere, sad, campy, and occasionally romantic horror. booksirens.com/book/GP0W4LL...

booksirens.com

Lonesome and Festering by Eric Raglin - Review Copy | BookSirens

Join the review team for Lonesome and Festering. Read it for free before the rest of the world does. Share your honest review. Discover hundreds of other books in your favorite genres.

032

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mike Mignola, “The Repentant Cannibal” (2026), watercolour on illustration board, 36.2 x 47.6 cm.

1495158

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

wrən @dirtsecret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

andddd some organic and abstraction doodles. i love shape relationships

861794

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tbh this extra is worth the price of admission…and it’s a stretch goal. The novellas are all gonna rock your socks, so why not just 💰 up and enjoy yourself reading the best s&s around?!

1186

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

working on a new handmade print book for upcoming events

1799

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

tine @tine5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

T. rex has been found to have had a body temperature of likely around 36.3 degrees Celsius (97.3 degrees Fahrenheit). #pixelart #ドット絵 #1bit #SciArt #paleoart

1 bit pixel art of a Cretaceous landscape near a body of water, with tall trees, cycads, ferns and other plants on the land around. Several small, juvenile theropods look from the left hand side across the water at a massive T. rex which has approached from the tree line. The air is filled with mist from the water.

1217440

Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

there are queer people on and behind the pages of S&S stories, and whether close-minded shitheads like it or not, we - and the places that welcome us - are finding success

0103

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Storse @storse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

some bullshit i cooked up in the last 4-5 hours before submission deadline for #chromacorps2026 it's a person who got turned into a harp

digital painting of a person woven and mutated into a harp made of flesh and a concretel.

210822

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

not only are there 19 stories in Gore Poetics, but there are 19 original collages that go with each one, which IMO look just as cool in ebook form as they do on paper 🥩✨️✒️ if you want a chance to see them all for free, enter the giveaway!

This is a monochrome collage depicting flames, a graveyard, and torn book pages. Two light-wreathed dogs float over this apocalypse. The title centered on this collage reads "PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE (refrain)" in gothic church lettering.

This is a monochrome collage depicting a faceless entity made of needles and blades. They stand over a broken teacup, crying. The phrase "sharp house" is transposed over the middle of the image in wiggly, grainy text.

This is a blurred image of a collage with one clear image spotlight floating in it. In the spotlight, a leaf burnt with the grainy words "the halved world" is visible.

This is a blurred image of a collage with one clear image spotlight floating in it. In the spotlight, a heart-shaped padlock is visible.

0149

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Storygraph giveaway! Now's your chance to meet everyone's favorites: the obliteration consultant, the clawed and fanged saint, the grandmother with a stinger and the one without, the children who play fire's music...all the stars are here!

076

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

NEW Fairies Sticker Pack✨ parkerparrella.etsy.com/listing/4536...

A photo of two die-cut vinyl stickers against a purple background. Stickers both feature landscapes with five stars in a line and woven beige border around each scene.

112430

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to grapple with the heinous presence—historically and currently!—of racism in weird fiction WITHOUT defaulting to arguing about whether HP Lovecraft was or was not a special snowflake of bigotry

6668

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you haven’t read this collection, it’s one of my favorites in recent years.

053

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Webberly Rattenkraft @factrat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Both GORE POETICS and SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES are collections I'm working my way through gradually, because they're A WHOLE DANG’D LOT to absorb all at once, fun fact! Gonna rate ’em right here right now as each Very Highly Ratty-Recommended Indeed, yup.

052

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These are two of the best new authors I'm aware of. Cursed Morsels has super good taste, man.

183

Reposted by Samir Sirk Morató

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And another Storygraph giveaway! Enter for a chance to win one of 250 free ebook copies of Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, a collection of stories in which characters face off against forces beyond their comprehension. app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/f7...

app.thestorygraph.com

cursedmorsels's giveaway for Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces on The StoryGraph

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces is a collection of Weird horror stories in which character e...

1118

Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

0149