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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On the Lizzie Line to Heathrow and the old cishet white dude next to me is properly manspreading AND loudly pontificating on estate planning strategies...on wait, he's switched to judging women for not wearing heels at the office. 🙄

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J || Vampire Pyramid Scheme 🦇 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✨ Sleepiest Vamp🩸 @vampirepyramid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Still want more BIPOC Vampires? Check out our Itchio bundle for #BIPOCVampDay – 12 vampire projects for only $11! A collection of short stories, comics, artbooks, and games featuring BIPOC vampires. Bundle runs through 11/6. Get it here: itch.io/b/3910/bipoc-vampday-2026-bundle #vampires

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finished this last weekend and loved it, @trip.bsky.social! If love heist stories, MCs who keep just one step ahead & succeed in schemes, then highly recommend this! If you enjoy M/M stories of True Love, this is for you. If you love stories of bargaining and careful wording and magic, read this!

Cover of A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey.

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am expecting edits back on the sorta-sequel-sorta-not to A MARKET OF DREAMS AND DESTINY. My editor said today was the *earliest* I might get them. So naturally my brain is a directionless ferret, constantly running to my inbox to “check” “just in case” I should know better. Doesn’t help tho 😅

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. Success is mine because I am gay and insane. It is through the embrace of chaos that the walk acquires speed, the cunt becomes a serve, the serve becomes a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I may have stayed up way too late reading Reddit threads about ILR applucations of all kinds...

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, look what showed up on my Kobo! @joshwinning.bsky.social's latest, BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART, a gay vampire murder mystery romance that I was so honoured to beta read for Josh waaaay back when it was still a first draft. I loved it then and I'm so excited to see how it's grown and changed!

Be Still My Unbeating Heart by Josh Winning

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am reviewing guidance for my upcoming ILR application and assembling the necessary docs, etc…and in so doing am reviewing all the stuff I gathered for my LAST visa application (5 years ago)…there’s so much stuff, and the cover letter to write…and things have CHANGED… Much nervous! Very excite!

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watched BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE (1958) for the first time last night, and while a lot of it hasn't aged well, if this moment wasn't one of the absolute cuntiest things I've ever seen... Serving on levels that have rarely been achieved before or since.

Kim Novak staring directly into the camera with wide eyes and the most dramatic eyebrows you've ever seen, with a Siamese cat immediately in front of her, blocking her mouth, giving a similarly cunty expression. There's a bluish tint to the photo.

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As an elder millennial, one of the Great Crimes of AI (in addition to all the real ones) is that AI has poisoned the greatest of all internet creations: the funny cat video. Like, one can no longer simply enjoy a video of a cat being a weird little guy. You have to stop and interrogate reality. FFS

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As a child, listening to Dolly Parton sing about the House of the Rising Sun, I had no Latin and less French, so the only thing I could figure she was singing in place of (correct) Vieux Carre was (incorrect) Bucharest and even now, knowing the actual lyrics…my brain still defaults to Bucharest…

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So back in 1992, Wes Craven wrote/directed a show called “Nightmare Cafe”. Dear Reader…talk about a TRIP! (We bought it last year and watched it this year) The first episode was incredible—ahead of its time, non-linear time-travel shenanigans, creepy, cosmic, horrific…and 90s AF

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The thing I currently hate most about Meta is the way that when I go out of my way to tell the algorithm to block/dislike/hide alt-right content...the more of it is shoved in my face. HOW SHIT CAN YOU BE AT YOUR JOB, ALGY!?

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I watched Teenage Sex and Death in Camp Miasma again tonight, and I followed even more than last time. I really do think it's one of the most Lynchian things I've seen that isn't Lynch, and not just on a surface level.

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've reached 68% of my goal* to help pay my ridiculously high fees to get indefinite leave to remain in the UK! If you can help out by a donation of any size or just by sharing, I'd be extremely grateful! x gofund.me/58206040b *the percent on the below image is slightly off for some reason

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Donate to Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here), organized by Robert Berg

Who I Am My name is Robert Berg and I’m raising funds to hel… Robert Berg needs your support for Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here)

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Wayne 🏀 Tennessee 🏈 Vols.🍊 VFL @volswayne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pride of the Southland band.🎶🎵🎸🏈 Halftime in memory of Dolly Parton.🧡🙏🏼🎶🎵🧡

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Ady Colclough @adyc76.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Still relevant.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Covid is a mass disabling event. Just because you had it and were “fine” doesn’t mean there isn’t silent damage in your body. Multiple infections increase the risk of long covid … you never know which one could leave you disabled. This is why we mask. Why we clean the air.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

AI stans keep comparing AI to cars and I think the comparison is revealing in ways they very much don't intend A technology with broadly negative impacts on society we were forced to restructure our lives around due to enormous corporate lobbying? One we are struggling to eliminate today?

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Just Joshua @noshayminthat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1 A few of you asked for an update when I mentioned I was ditching my Kindles for the Kobo (Clara Colour). It’s been a few weeks now, and honestly? I’m never going back. Here’s why making the switch was 100% worth it 🧵👇

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rewatching Hazbin Hotel 10/10 No Notes

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What is the filk scene like these days? Im over 20 years out of date. 😅 This message brought to you by research reminding me of all the Valdemar music

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 01/09/2026

A reminder to our American friends that Montreal Worldcon 2027 is a great opportunity to support Canadian SFFH authors, publishers and readers, see a truly beautiful city and learn more about your Northern neighbours, and meet many Canadians (and others) who cannot as easily come to visit you.

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Toby Fox @tobyfoxart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🌟It's my birthday!🎈 I turn 30 today, and I'd love to share some of the art from a personal project l've been working on (slowly) through all of my twenties Bronze Age, high fantasy, diverse, colourful and researched are the guiding principles for this work (hopefully you can tell!) 🏺🏛️🔮 1/15

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you see The Green Man's Debt will be published on 10th September and realise you planned on catching up with The Green Man's Holiday? Good news! The ebook is a UK Kindle 99p deal throughout September. So you could buy both titles for £5.98... just saying... 😁 www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-H...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those.

Cover copy reads: When your mother’s a dryad and you’re an only child, you don’t have much experience of big family events. But Daniel Mackmain’s girlfriend, Finele, has a whole load of relatives. They’re all coming to her sister Iris’s wedding. Frankly, Dan’s dreading it. At least plenty of other guests will have connections to the supernatural. The bride and groom can turn into swans, for a start.
Since Dan’s still a loner at heart, he and Fin have planned a few days away together afterwards. Just the two of them in a quiet country cottage should be nice and relaxing. Dan should have remembered what folk wisdom says about making plans.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Aussie, Kiwi & Asia-Pacific Authors Who Sell Direct, (Itch/ Kofi/Payhip/your site) I'm organising a Books Direct From Asia-Pacific Authors blog post Open to: All Genres (we're SFF so far) That're: Queer Normative (don't assume everyone's cis-het) With: some LGBTQIA+ rep Bonus: BIPOC/Disability rep

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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"

Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"maybe Scrooge was right" Scrooge wasn't real! He was invented specifically for the purpose of being wrong!

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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support

help.timhortons.ca

Tim Hortons Help Centre

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Two of my first research purchases as a novelist working pre-Internet were from a medical bookshop. 1 - a big book of anatomical diagrams so any time a weapon went into a character, I knew what it would hit. 2 - an illustrated handbook of critical trauma care. Photos not for the squeamish.

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've reached 65% of my fundraising goal to stay in the UK, and really can't thank everyone enough for their kindness and generosity. If you're able to donate, I'd so appreciate anything you could spare, and/or if you could share it around, that would also be a massive help. Thank you so much!

gofund.me

Donate to Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here), organized by Robert Berg

Who I Am My name is Robert Berg and I’m raising funds to hel… Robert Berg needs your support for Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here)

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"When LGBTQIA+ rights were once again at risk, PinkNews was given a choice: continue to serve the LGBTQIA+ community...or submit to the allure of mass-producing popular, uncontroversial content...its decision to cave to the whims of the algorithm has left it in reputational and financial tatters."

wearequeeraf.com

Metric anxiety is fueling a dangerous decline in quality queer journalism

Why so many articles about queer people focus on celebs, rely on pics of hypermasculine guys and use rage-bait misinformation

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today’s tidbit: The Icelandic word for stupid is “heimskur”, it’s root is in the word “heima” which means “home”. So being stupid is basically someone who has never left home and never looks beyond it.

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

With still trying to put together September's rent, going to thread ways to hire me, and what people can currently buy from me. As ever, my freelancing website is at: mathesonfreelancing.com. I edit fiction, non-fiction, academic work, and TTRPGs primarily. Rates, etc. are at the link. 1/?

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Matheson Freelancing

Post by @sekisetsu.

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Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In 2028 #Worldcon is going to Brisbane! Aussiecon5 will be from the 27th - 31st July 2028 and it looks awesome! @brisbane28.org

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not me trying to decide if I can (or dare) try to write a fantasy novel that is BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS but with a gay male cast, cowboys that ride dragons, and my absolute best translation of THAT musical number. The gays in the room know which one I mean. (🎶Until we get to Heaven 🎶)

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Being the screaming homosexual that I am, I have been known to throw parties celebrating Dolly on her birthday. This is the cake I made the first time I did this, back in 2010...

A cartoonish and insane drag version of Dolly in icing on top of a cake

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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 30/08/2026

Well, @laworldcon.bsky.social has done a brilliant job with their virtual programme. Over this weekend I've watched so many fascinating and funny panels about a range of topics: conrunning, researching history, sapphic knights, and the English cottage garden. Many thanks to everyone responsible!!

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We watched BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS tonight for obvious reasons. In dozens of viewings, I have never cried during this film before. Well, this time Dolly started singing I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU at the end and I lost it. Tears, tears running down my face. Yes. I will always love you. 💔 🦋

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The most surprising thing about getting your book published when you’re not a big name is how little marketing actually happens.

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's just kind of a shame that a functional internet and media literacy are both dead.

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I miss when blogging was a thing because often I think, "Hey, I'd like to write a longer-form essay on this film/tv show/book/play/album/whatever, like I used to" but there's no actually good place to do it anymore and even if there were, would I want to be perceived online today? Absolutely not.

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