Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic 46778194
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23hTime for this classic again. 141151445078
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026when you're singing along to All Creatures of Our God and King and the trumpet kicks in with the organstatic.klipy.comAntonio Banderas' Satisfied ReactionAlt: Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction 010
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i 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. 1761022311
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026If you're not from Western Mass, you will completely miss the dynamic that the Greater Boston area has been exploiting the western part of the state since literally the founding of the country. The Globe writes these stories about WM and the Pioneer Valley on a regular basis. 1229464
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadVOID 🔞ART CATCH UP. @v0idm0nster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Burnout's no joke kids 1746521898
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026sometimes I think about that tumblr post that was like "what if the entire reaper invasion was a test staged by Nihlus to make sure Shepard would be an okay spectre" and no matter where I am or what I'm doing, I start laughing 160
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryad🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121695155
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds 81488672
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026my only real conspiracy theory is totally homegrown and I am the only person who holds it, but it is that anything PETA puts out about the cruelties of using wool and supporting the use of acrylic yarn is ACTUALLY paid for by oil companies 230
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026one step closer to The Works of Vermin becoming a reality!!!! 020
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadKatherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 30/09/2025#severance 71027262
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ugh it has been BLEAK here on the writing front...nothing of substance since May, and while I have plenty of things I want to write, I just can't seem to get the words on paper. I'm not even doing morning pages anymore and it just feels so cruddy. lots of pressure in the system, no way to let it out 140
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadSpikulec @spikulec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Here's a new bugelf I painted. His name is the Necromancer and he's based on a death's-head hawkmoth. All bug elves are painted for my upcoming D&D 5e book called the Feylights of Gaol, and they are playable species #art #dnd #characterdesign 11878278
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm crashingly predictable in what gets me hooked as far as stories go but "I have been injured/captured/somehow imperiled and now the person who loves me (without me knowing about it is now cutting their way through enemies to get to me and will soon tenderly carry me to safety" is just !!!! for me 020
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadElias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Elric of Melniboné: 2375
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir. 5736253
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 181287594
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026budgetmaxxing by listening to financial videos while updating my budget 010
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadWindlass @windlass.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bro it was slightly cthonic at best. 113742
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't know what it is about 80s/90s fantasy that HITS like nothing else; it's probably because that's what I started reading but there's nothing like it! sure some of it hasn't aged well (Melanie Rawn I am looking at you) but I'm reading the first book in the Deverry Cycle now and it's so GOOD 030
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026spinning update: I finished the singles for my Rhinebeck sweater! twelve bobbins, each with about four ounces of fiber I'm halfway through the plying, so now I just need to find a pattern! #handspinning 2110
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread) 91561611
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I think I finally have given in to the impulse that has been chasing me for almost fifteen years and...I am going to apply for my master's in education 2110
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 11/09/2026this week's post dissects why naive optimism and fatalistic pessimism are not fundamentally less embarrassing responses to climate change than outright denial and then offers examples of actions we can take margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/beyond-cli... 720058
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Those who read or hear a poem should remember that a good poem has two audiences; it is addressed to the living and the dead at the same time. If a poet dismisses the living he becomes morbid. If he dismisses the dead he ceases to be a prophet. – Vernon Watkins 0208
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026this morning the bus driver pulled up so the door was right in front of where I was standing, and when I got on, he grinned at me and said in a rich NYC accent, "good morning! you got special powers!" it is safe to say I would die for Bus Driver Kevin 051
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryaddon't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 14/08/2025first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek? 343410668
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm sorry but this reads like worldbuilding for a 100k Teen Wolf a/b/o fic 3202
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadGod @thegodshow.com · 08/09/2026If you can look at this photo without your heart breaking, then you don’t have a soul. 14349841318
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026one last downtown summer spin before the semester starts tomorrow 021
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026thinking a lot about that 1998 Merlin TV show with Miranda Richardson as Queen Mab and how she just faded out of existence when people stopped believing in her or acknowledging her and honestly I think we could do that with JK Rowling too 032
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026okay I like Markey and all and I'm GLAD he won because Moulton is a pestilence, but good lord my dude: take that solid legacy, pick a successor, and retire and do it like...six years ago 000
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadShreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What's happening in Nepal is terrifying and infuriatingly unfair; here's how to help: kathmandupost.com/national/202... 03430
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I had a Between Two Fires-inspired dream last night (medieval setting; I was a young wandering priest/watching a young wandering priest being tempted by various devils, then I and a bunch of other people took refuse from a demon who was vomiting a lake of acid) and if that isn't a rec for that book! 021
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made 1769642997
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026my take on authors not writing explicit scenes in their romance novels is that these authors usually add nothing to their stories that take the place of sex in terms of characterization, plot advancement, world-building, breather moments, etc sex in fiction can be SO load-bearing 130
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026this is so darn niche but how am I just discovering now that there is a Takarazuka Revue musical version of Crash Landing on You??? talk about special interests colliding 010
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Destiny 2. I would be dead within five minutes. not necessarily because I got caught in a universe-spanning battle against someone who thinks they can end entropy (and who is right); I'd die because someone would crash their rocket motorcycle into me, it would explode, and they'd dance on my corpse 030
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadAnnet 🍑 @anysunart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Little spoiler 😌🙏 726470
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadlisajenkinsart.bsky.social @lisajenkinsart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Thornhouse -- another piece inspired by all the haunted house novels I have been reading over the past year. I just can't get enough of them. 111538
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I think a LOT of the issues with The 13th Warrior could have been fixed if they hadn't been so dang serious about the whole thing; if the approach had been "The Mummy (1999) meets Beowulf" in terms of energy, it would have been INCREDIBLE and also the Jerry Goldsmith score could have stayed, as-is! 110
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryad𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 24/10/2023I don't know how well threads work on bsky but I'm gonna try and post all my fauxnimated Elric pieces in relatively high resolution in three connected posts. Here we have Elric, Elric's throne room, Prince Yyrkoon, and Princess Cymoril 371290396
mutually unrequited dryad @theherocomplex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026just saw an INCREDIBLE apartment listing that almost doubles my current living space while not being HUGELY more expensive than what I'm paying (still a big hike, but doable) cons: no laundry in the building street parking pros: heat/hot water included SO MUCH SPACE quiet neighborhood 110
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026 162921708
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 11/08/2026Got a dream piece today: I profiled Deb Perelman aka @smittenkitchen.bsky.social about 20 YEARS of food blogging www.weareravenous.com/smitten-kitc...weareravenous.comThe Blogosphere Came and Went. Smitten Kitchen Is Still Here.Deb Perelman has kept Smitten Kitchen going through the rise and fall of blogging, the pivot to newsletters, and the looming specter of AI. She has no intention of stopping. 6957163
Reposted by mutually unrequited dryadFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026I finally got around to reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell a few weeks ago, and that was a wonderful, bizarre novel that should be viewed as the ultimate modern literary expression of Very British Magic, instead of the comparatively bleak mediocrity of Harry Potter 3644146