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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bay Area: Come by 1246 Folsom tonight 10/6 for a reading & panel with Tina LeCount Myers, Duane Horton, @julieleong.bsky.social & @ebonidunbar.bsky.social - hosted by myself & @fabulistmag.bsky.social 📚 ☕️ 5pm coffee hour at the cafe beforehand, panel and signings after!

Flier for Stir: a seasonal reading series in San Francisco. Thursday October 1

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t know if you all could tell but The Wildcraft Drones is bisexual Also I am bisexual

Plaid-wearing bisexual author T. K. Rex holds up their debut science fiction collection The Wildcraft Drones, which happens to have the same color scheme as the bisexual flag. Unclear if that was intentional but it’s also got a flying tentacle robot on the cover, which is pretty bisexual

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Heading to The Sycamore this evening for @babylonsalon.bsky.social and, like, look at this lineup ?!? So so good. You should come join us if you’re in the Bay Area

September 12, The Sycamore, 2140 Mission Street, doors at 5pm, show at 5:30. Featuring: Vanessa Hua, Shoshana von Blanckensee, T. K. Rex, Beth Winegarner, and June Martin

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I finally encountered the legendary Mt. Diablo tarantulas yesterday and they are just the most hapless darling fuzzy little things, I love them so much

A fuzzy, dusty-gray tarantula, Aphonopelma iodius, pausing on some dry leaves and grass. It has all its eyes in a little cluster at the top of its head so they look like one goofy eye. Its hind paw is resting gently on a pale dry leaf. So delicate. So soft

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had to go empty a storage unit yesterday and it was an ordeal but LOOK. WHAT I FOUND

A stack of vintage issues of Future Life Magazine

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Doing a panel @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social on August 25! Writing About the Strange and Surreal, 6pm with a bunch of awesome people I really like. This is going to be fun 📚

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I didn’t even include this fluuuucking amazing cover because there were too many other things and it was like midnight and I decided to put it in the next one but like look at this cover of the new issue of @fabulistmag.bsky.social

Face with lots of eyes and lips, very trippy, blue skin, dismaying and beautiful at the same time

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My relationship with astrology is complicated ok, but I do sometimes take a peek at my lunar horoscope because years are things and…I don’t have to explain myself actually. Just that I was feeling inexplicable dread the other day so I looked up 2027 & this was the thumbnail & it made me laugh

Rat:
Punishment year ends,
Harmony slowly returns

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m back at Literary Speakeasy on the 30th! Love this series, love this location, come vibe with us 🍸

It’s at Martuni’s, 4 Valencia street, San Francisco, doors 6:30pm, show at 7, July 30th 2026. With Kim Shuck, Karol Olesiak, Dawn Oberg, Tracy Knapp, and T. K. Rex. Music, words, martinis, prizes, no cover. Purple and black graphic with sparkles

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I did another one but with deer this time 🦌 If you’ve read The Wildcraft Drones, do you have a favorite character?

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This was so much fun and the pizza was great

The three readers and host are sitting on chairs on a small stage. TK has the mic and is exchanging a laugh with Mukethe Kawinzi sitting next to them.

TK reading at the mic from The Wildcraft Drones

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Doing a reading tomorrow in San Francisco where there will also be 🍕 and I’m just very excited for that 826 Valencia 7pm July 9 Also Mukethe Kawinzi will be there and she is a MUCH BETTER reader than I (facts not modesty) YOU WILL BE ENTERTAINED and fed 🍕

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Been having fun making these little blurb cards for Instagram & thought I’d share some here. I love nature photography & don’t get to do it enough 🐦‍⬛ #wildlife #solarpunk w/ @annaleen.bsky.social @laurencjohnson.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @khanwong.bsky.social @syr.bsky.social & more

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Show me a picture that captures your essence

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

July 19 in Guerneville! I’ll be reading from The Wildcraft Drones at the most appropriate location yet: Solar Punk Farms! With @khanwong.bsky.social @zoeoyoung.bsky.social @joewadlington.bsky.social @spencerrscott.bsky.social Come check out the farm with me! It’ll be my first time! 🌻 🌿🦋🌾🌞

A colorful promotional poster for the event, titled “Apocalypse? No. Stories for a future” at Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville, California, July 19, 1pm, 15015 Armstrong Woods Road. $30 suggested donation, pay what you can. Includes readings, farm tour and local bites.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Some things that are queer about my book: - sapphic romance - bisexual love triangle - nonbinary pirate (preferred pronoun: arrr) - badass trans shaman - enby teen with moms - I, a nonbinary bisexual, wrote it - low-key goblincore. Lots of bugs. Literally a collection - nice to touch - the cover

The cover of The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex featuring a flying tentacle robot in a Miyazaki-inspired deep dark forest. The whole color scheme is pink purple and blue, matching the bisexual flag. The author had no say in this but is pleased

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

You know what’s really giving alien invasion though is this psychotic sesquicentennial spotlight display at City Hall, which has cast the entire neighborhood under glowing green fog all night long (it’s 1am!) (And we’re funding this while cutting public transit!)

City apartment buildings in the middle of the night under an eerie glowing green fog

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That’s so cool! I just saw this one at the Field Museum and was explaining to my friends about the head and … uh … I think they were eager to move on 😂

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is the book. You might have heard of it because it got a lot of press when it came out but that doesn’t translate into sales so he is still living in poverty despite having internet renown, and is struggling daily with a number of health conditions.

Cover of Wet Goddess: Recollections of a Dolphin Lover by Malcolm J. Brenner. There is a photo of a dolphin with a camera lens filter over her face like a hoop and the title is written on a strip of 35mm film.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Banded Iron. In case you were wondering

A rock specimen on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. Irregular metallic black and red stripes of iron and chert, polished with an informational plaque. The rock formed between 3.5 and 2 billion years ago when oxygen released by photosynthetic bacteria caused iron in the oceans to oxidize. That’s what it says anyway. I found the current research to be much more complicated

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

meanwhile we fight our own battles

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I can’t recommend this year’s World Fantasy Con highly enough — it’s in a walkable part of one of my favorite cities, central to public transit, tons of culture, Lake Merritt, amazing food. Love Oakland so much. Also it’s always a great con and Ted Chiang will be there! Go register now. wfc2026.org

Promo flier for World Fantasy 2026 in Oakland California with tentacles coming out of Lake Merritt

T. K. Rex and Rina Weisman at the Nebulas table promoting World Fantasy Con. Rina is waving and T.K. is going up a postcard with a goofy smile

Promo poster for World Fantasy Con featuring Ted Chiang, Stephanie Law, Linda Addison, Bill Campbell, John Jennings, Greg Ketter, and Jewel Gomez

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My second panel at #Nebulas2026 is 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Panel 3-9 (O’Hare I) – Worldbuilding in General Short Fiction and Middle Grade Fiction: How Is It Different? With: @michelleknudsen.bsky.social @rcwordsmith.bsky.social @gkbyrne.bsky.social @jayeviner.bsky.social @cornellwriter.bsky.social

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Panel 3-9 (O’Hare I) – Worldbuilding in General Short Fiction and Middle Grade Fiction: How Is It Different?

With Michelle Knudsen, T.K. Rex, Rosemary Claire Smith, Gabrielle K. Byrne, Jaye Viner, and P.A. Cornell.
Writing SFF in abbreviated forms – short fiction and middle grade fiction – requires a different approach from writing a novel. Nebula Finalists Michelle Knudsen (Into the Wild Magic) and P.A. Cornell (Through the Machine”) are part of an all-star panel discussing writing short form spec fic – how to wring the most worldbuilding out of limited words.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My first panel at the #Nebulas2026 is tomorrow June 4th, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Panel 1-5 (O’Hare II) – Building Emotional Resonance with Hard Science and Facts, with: William Ledbetter @williamledbetter.bsky.social Alexis Westmore @alexiswestmore.bsky.social & Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Panel 1-5 (O’Hare II) – Building Emotional Resonance with Hard Science and Facts

With William Ledbetter, T.K. Rex, Alexis Westmore, and Alex Kingsley.
For many spec fic writers, connecting with readers on an emotional level is a challenge. We’re caught up in the whiz-bang story lines of our fiction, and often don’t give enough thought to the emotional resonance our work could have with our readers. But what if you could use hard science and facts to create that connection with your readers? Our panel of experienced SFF authors explores how.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month everybody 🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

It’s a card I drew on that says Happy Pride! From The Wildcraft Drones & T. K. Rex and there’s a bunch of the little tentacle drones on it colored in different pride colors. One of them is bisexual and holding up a sign that says Protect Trans Kids and another one has a banner that says Love is Love. Two trans drones are getting their tentacles tangled and the lesbian ones are chasing each other flirtatiously. There’s also a pansexual one holding a pride flag and a non-binary one carrying a nest of birds. An ally (possibly closeted) is recharging on a branch. There are also some mushrooms and ferns and a little jumping spider. Nature is queer

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Today at 4 I’ll be doing a panel with @chucktingle.bsky.social @queenopirates.bsky.social & Susanna Kwan, at The Marsh Theater in Berkeley with Bay Area Book Festival. Pretty excited about this conversation, and there will be book signing after. See you there! www.baybookfest.org/session/post...

Promo graphic for the event. It’s called Post-Disaster Futures: Sci-Fi Visions of survival and Renewal. The address is 2121 Allston Way, in downtown Berkeley. And it’s today, May 31st, at 4pm. Notably, Chuck Tingle is wearing a pink bag over his head with words “Love is Real” written on it. Everybody has their little books next to them, mine being The Wildcraft Drones, Susanna’s is Awake in the Floating City, Chuck’s is Lucky Day (although his new book coming out is Beach Bodies) and Lara’s is Ruiner.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tomorrow is the last day of my little gallery display at Cafe Suspiro in San Francisco! These are the only framed, professionally printed copies of the original art I made for The Wildcraft Drones, and the sales are helping me pay bills while I take time off work to do readings & cons this summer.

Five framed prints of black and white line art on an eclectic cafe wall over a bookshelf, plus one green and yellow risograph poster

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Tonight in San Francisco! I’m reading at The Sycamore with: Vincent Chu Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social Kimberly Gomes Leigh Lucas Preeti Vangani @preetivangani.bsky.social Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social It’s gonna be amazing. You will like it

Promo graphic for the info in the post. May 26, 7pm, theme is “The New Era”

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you enjoyed the comics in The Wildcraft Drones, please consider purchasing a fine art print! I made these with the help of a fantastic neighborhood printer (Electric Works in San Francisco) to help fund my summer book tour travel. They’re super limited edition, only 3 of each. tkrex.wtf/shop

Black and white line drawing of two tentacled robots touching up a sign that says “Danger - abandoned uranium mine” in both English and Navajo. One drone says, “I wish we could go back in time. Remediate this stuff before they ever had a chance to use it.” The other says, “me too”

Black and white line drawing a two tentacled robot peeking over a rock at a millipede and saying “hi friend.” The rocks are in a desert and have petroglyphs on them

A city sidewalk along a wall with a piss stain, weeds (all California native plants btw) growing in the cracks, graffiti that says “burn the Grungle” and a torn propaganda poster that once said “rangers keep the Grungle safe so the drones can feed the citystate.” A raccoon scurries along the top of the wall and behind it is a lush dense canopy of California bay laurel leaves.

Black and white line drawing of a space rock barely missing Earth. The part of the Earth that is most visible is the Yucatán Peninsula. Iykyk

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A few pictures from the launch party! Thank you so much everyone who came. - The venue is Cafe Suspiro in San Francisco ☕️ - The musician is my partner Gary Boodhoo, who composed a set specially for the event 💕 - I forgot who took which pictures I’m so sorry - the weather was surprisingly cold 🌫️

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If you’re in the Bay my launch party is later today at Cafe Suspiro ☕️ There will be live music, coffee, cupcakes, a reading, and book signing 1246 Folsom near Civic Center BART 4-7pm

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

SF in SF at the San Francisco Public Library, can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon :) @stelliform.press @tachyonpub.bsky.social

Promo graphic for the long running reading series SF in SF (Science Fiction in San Francisco), featuring T. K. Rex, Madeleine E. Robins and Pam Troy. May 17, 2026 from 3 to 5 pm at San Francisco Public Library main branch, 100 Larkin Street, Chinese Center Exhibit Space 3rd floor

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Thanks for listing The Wildcraft Drones @reactorsff.bsky.social ! I can’t believe it’s this week! reactormag.com/new-science-...

Screenshot. “May 21

The Wildcraft Drones — T.K. Rex (Stelliform Press)
An AI breakthrough connects a team of scientists with a wild dolphin, but progress is neck-and-neck with climate breakdown. Class differences are only the first challenge when romance blooms between college girls at a soil remediation site. A forlorn drone seeks reassignment after his human companion dies—but a reckless band of rebels has other plans. T.K. Rex’s debut collection explores a turbulent timeline where the role of intelligent machines changes alongside nature and humanity, in fourteen tales from the climtae crisis and beyond. This is the world of The Wildcraft Drones.”

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone

It’s David Lynch with the caption “What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd”

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Updated. Pros and cons to making this by hand on the back of a recycled Stir flyer, but I’m nothing if not committed to making things stupidly difficult for myself for the sake of largely meaningless ideals

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I have five events in May??? I will be at all of them. Full calendar here: tkrex.wtf/events

It’s a hand drawn event calendar for The Wildcraft Drones for May. I drew one of the tentacle drones on it. Go to the link for the events

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

They arrived at the bookstore today! They will be in the shelf on the 21st! 😭 The Wildcraft Drones is my first book — a collection of solarpunk stories connected by the centuries-long evolution of a drone-managed food forest and the people and animals it impacts. From @stelliform.press 🌿 🌻 🐬

Stacks of The Wildcraft Drones, a book by T. K. Rex, on the back table at Dog Eared Books in San Francisco

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I just want to be friends with every early sauropodomorph I see

Screenshot of a sci.news headline “early sauropodomorph dinosaur unearthed in China” and accompanying illustration of a gentle looking bipedal (facultatively quadrupedal?) dinosaur with short front legs and a long tail and a goofy face. It looks like you could ride it and also it might nuzzle you like a horse, or possibly bite off your fingers because it thought they were leaves, unclear which

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My father is so delightfully strange.

He wrote “ Happy hatching day” on the envelope he put my birthday card in

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Two versions of “Dronesaurus” - an illustration from my book The Wildcraft Drones, both available on my website, tkrex.wtf/shop I’m selling prints of a few of the illustrations I made for my book to help cover travel expenses for cons this summer. All purchases extremely appreciated ❤️🦖

A tyrannosaurus looking dinosaur made of hundreds of small flying tentacle robots, white line drawing on black. Fancy print with torn edges

Risograph print of the same thing but on cheaper paper in teal and orange

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'll be at SF in SF May 17! *Free and open to the public* Sunday May 17, 2026 3PM – 5PM The San Francisco Public Library Main Branch 3rd Floor, Hormel LGBTQIA Center 100 Larkin Street between Grove & Fulton SF IN SF WELCOMES Madeleine Robins, Pamela Troy, and T. K. Rex www.sfinsf.org?p=3071

the above text with headshots of the authors. All three are fair-skinned and female presenting, although Rex is actually nonbinary. Robins has a big smile, curly brown hair and glasses. Troy has silver hair pinned back, and red lipstick with a curious expression. Rex has dark hair with a sly smile, and a city park behind them.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is my new favorite fact

Photo of my laptop screen showing the Wikipedia article on the Chicxulub Crater, with the following text highlighted: “Penfield also recalled that part of the motivation for the name was ‘to give the academics and NASA naysayers a challenging time pronouncing it’ after years of dismissing its existence.”

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