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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s TODAY! Happy pub day to Cynthia and coven! 🎉📖

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you like these two things and wanna know what kind of literary baby they’d make if you smushed them together, you’re gonna LOVE what I’m writing this week.

Cover of Grady Hendrix novel “Horrorstör”

Cover of video game “The Curse of Monkey Island”

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 25/09/2026

Ways to celebrate #LatinxHeritageMonth with your fave Mexican-American owned tea house: 🪅 Tour Latin America with our Heritage Sampler! 🪅 Ask our tearistas for whistle kit materials! 🪅 Submit receipts from Friday Tea to Intentionalist's website through 10/15 to help us top the leaderboards!

Cafe sidewalk chalkboard with text "Celebrate Latin & Hispanic Heritage Month w/this chicana-owned tea shop by trying teas from Latin America & protecting our neighbors!"

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you like these two things and wanna know what kind of literary baby they’d make if you smushed them together, you’re gonna LOVE what I’m writing this week.

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just crossed the 80k word threshold in this manuscript! ✍️🎉🙌

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

She’s out today :)

A photo of Deena holding a copy of the US edition of Our Cut of Salt. Behind her is a bookshelf with copies of the novel, both UK and US editions.

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unhinged challenge: 13 stories in 5 words (or less) each. That was HARD! 😂 #booksky #latinsky #horrorsky

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unhinged challenge: 13 stories in 5 words (or less) each. That was HARD! 😂 #booksky #latinsky #horrorsky

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And now I get to say that Muñeca won the Octavia E. Butler award! And I got to be there in person:) This is the first time I've won anything for my writing, and I'm so happy.

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tonight's "search history of an author mid-project" brought to you by: - Marine rope in 1970's made of? - Italicize ships' names? - Live sardine photos - Those fish with human teeth - Sailfish anatomy - Risk of untreated shoulder dislocation - Greenpeace founding date

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🐋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💅

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hello, I'm Friday (she/her/ella)! About me: ☕ Head Tea Witch at @fridaytea.com ✍️ Author of Chicanx horror, magical realism and melancholia 🧠 Polysynesthete (which informs both of the above) 💗 Literally a Care Bear

A smiling tea witch pours golden brew from a glass pitcher into a black teacup on a chinese gongfu tea board with a skull tea pet.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 15/09/2026

Happy #LatineHeritageMonth from your friendly neighborhood Chicana-owned tea shop! 🇲🇽☕️❤️ #latinxheritagemonth #hispanicheritagemonth #latinsky #teasky

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 15/09/2026

Happy Latin Heritage Month! 🪅🎉 From our Mexican-American-owned tea house to your tea-loving hands, enjoy these brews. Some are from Latin American farms, some are our own house blends inspired by the wide culinary world of Latin America. Buen Bebiendo! www.fridaytea.com/co...

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

every time I open any social media app

Black and white still with the caption: What you're about to watch is a nightmare.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trans people are not the cause of any of your problems, and only assheads want you to believe they are.

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Stryk Redkite @strykredkite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You should be following Friday for a number of reasons, but these are some good ones!

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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every book that I have purchased that wasn't because of my own review has been a rec from either an author or another reader on Bluesky since joining. Literally all of them. And I'd say posts from authors themselves have been 75% of those purchases. So keep posting about your books readers are

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

Hey, folks! I'm extending the Cursed Morsels: A Food Systems Horror Anthology call, so you now have until September 28th to submit a story. I was worried I wouldn't have enough stories to fill the book, so it seemed like the right move. Details here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If these things sound interesting to you, introduce yourself and make sure you’re following along! 📑 Currently revising: The Golden State (collection of 13 Californian horror stories) ✍️ Currently writing: Sleepless (gold rush era supernatural horror novel-in-vignettes) #booksky #latinsky

Photo of Friday, a pink haired tea witch, in cutout on black background with text surrounding: “Hi, I’m Friday! Some things about me: Lexical-Gustatory Synesthete, lifelong fan of feeling uncomfortable, professional tea witch, chicana in Seattle, originally from Calaveras County California, author of Mex-American horror and melancholia, true extravert: I already love you!”

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finally sat my partner down to make him watch Tremors. He’d never seen it! I will never be sick of that movie.

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Kevin Bacon Screaming in Tremors

Alt: Kevin Bacon Screaming in Tremors

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just got all the confirmation deets for my first ever WRITERS’ CONFERENCE! So excited! 💃📓✍️ (Aside from Worldcon last year, where I was vending and had to sneak away from the dealer hall to hit a couple of meetups and panels, that didn’t count)

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Coworking with and cheerleading my fellow authors is my happy place. ✍️❤️ #writesky #booksky

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/09/2026

*surveying everything*

Dana Scully looking severe subtitled

THIS IS UNCOOL.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 10/09/2026

Remember when Amazon raised over $50 million for independent bookstores? Oh, no wait, that was us. 😎 Thank you for choosing bookstores over billionaires. 💜

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Current WIP ✍️ The Golden State: a creepifying collection of Californian nightmares 13 scary stories featuring maniacal missionaries, sentient gold dust, quinceañera-crashing zombies, small town chupacabras and more!

Graphic showing a field of california poppies at night, one of which has a skull at its center. Gold dust rains down across the flowers.

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you like creepy bummers, flash fiction, screams of consciousness and/or want to keep up with my book news, head over to fridayelliott.com and put your email in the thingy to be notified when I have things to share!

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Friday is writing creepy bummers.

Weird blog posts right in your inbox? Hell yeah!

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th birthday, Star Trek! As a trekkie since birth (literally, that's true), I gotta celebrate with a big fun sale and restock on all of our Star Trek-inspired teas online today! Live long and prosper, teahearts! www.fridaytea.com/co...

Happy Star Trek Day! It's Star Trek's 60th birthday and we're doin it up BIG. Star Trek inspired teas are restocked at fridaytea.com today (9/8) only and automatically 20%! Fun fact: Friday's parents met in Star Trek club in high school. You wouldn't have all this delicious tea if not for Star Trek.

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What’s an example of perfect casting?

Burgess Meredith in the Twilight Zone episode “The Obsolete Man”

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How many of these quintessential Californian things can you identify?

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 07/09/2026

🌑 What’s hiding in the dark? Book Worms Horror Zine wants occult horror, secret societies, forbidden rituals, conspiracies & sinister secrets. 💰 8¢/word or $25/poem 📖 ≤1,500 words 📅 Oct. 1 📬 Mail-in submissions horrortree.com/event/taking...

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026

hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can someone make this happen?

how about a website where authors have profiles we follow for announcements, tour schedules, cover reveals, merch, and links to buy books with zero notifications or socializing to manage

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wrapping up this Jaws-esque piece for my current WIP. Eco-horror creature feature set in 1973 off the coast of San Diego. Super gross and vibey. Third to last story in the collection! ✍️🐟👀

A pot of white tea being poured into a China teacup beside a notebook full of messy scrawled notes. It’s too blurry to read.

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Two new neighbors moved into my apartment building this month, and they both brought STRONG welcome mat game.

Welcome mat reading “check yo energy before you come in my shit”

Welcome mat with picture of a raccoon in cowboy hat and boots beside text reading “howdy”

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good job, Seattle Times Editorial Board. Excluding trans girls from sports (or telling them they have to play with boys, which is the same thing) is ritual humiliation. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

IL 26-638 would send Washington back to the days of “femininity certificates,” when amateur women athletes, including Olympic athletes, had to carry proof that they had passed visual exams and chromosome testing that proved they were women. Under this proposed initiative, parents of girls as young as 12 could be subject to this violation of privacy.

The ballot initiative states that athletes “must provide, as part of the required routine sports physical examination, a health examination and consent form or other statement signed by the student’s personal healthcare provider that verifies the student’s biological sex, relying only on one or more of the following: The student’s reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”

Aside from the humiliation and violation of privacy, testing for genes and hormones isn’t cheap, which would keep girls without means out of competitive sports.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨

Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Haunted Scholar reporting in, how about y’all?

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 02/09/2026

What's your first pick from the fandom tea orchard this fall, teaheart? 🐦‍⬛ Odin's blessing with Allfather? 📖 Regency romance with Darcy's Delight? 👻 Los espookis con La Llorona? Literary, horror & folklore-inspired blends are BACK! www.fridaytea.com/pa...

Welcome home, Autumn fandom teas! Bookish & Horror teas enter rotation on 9/1!

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Tea Witch Friday @teawitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m just vaguely alt and live in Seattle. 😂🎃💅

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 01/09/2026

The (pumpkin) spice must flow! Your favorite time of the year is here: Fall seasonal house blends and fandom teas are finally back in stock, Summer teas are still around a few more days, and all Summer/Fall house blends are 15% off with code "FabFall" in-store and at fridaytea.com through 9/3!

The fall sale is back! For three days only every year, summer & fall blends overlap for your shopping pleasure! September 1-3, use code "FabFall" to take 15% off all Seasonal Selections at www.fridaytea.com

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 30/08/2026

Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 🫀

Digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a stylized portrait of Mary Shelley

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

BIG BIG INDIE BOOK SALE!! ⤵️👀 💥 indiebook.sale 💥

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

indiebook.sale

Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

29 - 31 August

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You can find amazing books from FREE to 2.99! It’s such a great opportunity to grab a bunch of amazing books to support independent authors. Go, go, go! 🍃 indiebook.sale 🍃

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A federal judge in California, in a damning 90-page decision, rules the government cannot revoke the F-1 visas of international student journalists because it doesn't like their reporting and such retaliation violates their First and Fifth Amendment rights. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Memorandum & Opinion – #108 in Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation v. Rubio (N.D. Cal., 5:25-cv-06618) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(1) signed by Judge Noël Wise on 8/28/2026. (akw, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/28/2026)

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