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Valkhyrie

@valkhyrie.bsky.social
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they/them. 💚 speculative fiction, writing, RPGs, baseball, cats, cooking, paper & fibercrafts 💚 hugo-nominated goose wrangler at reddit.com/r/fantasy. recipient of the golden pliers (2025).

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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.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My 5 year plan is to get more weird
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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...
stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Blew through my ARC of @tkingfisher.com's Daggerbound last night and wow wow wow y'all it's immediately on my Kingfisher faves list. Very upset I can't yell about it in detail yet without spoiling things but you DON'T wanna miss this one.
Meme of a dark-haired woman holding a puppy. The text reads "I've only had Large Francis for a day and a half but if anything happens to her I will kill everyone in this room and then myself."
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I find it morally unacceptable for straight people to pass judgment on my relationship and gender
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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The only thing I've actually learned in five years of Queer Writing is that there's tremendous pressure on queer writers to produce healthful, positive content and pretend we've got it together, but if you write out all the messy, shitty, un-together stuff, queer readers connect with it 100x more.
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Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
far away -- art by kirsten deirup what writing is like ...
in the foreground, a boring ordinary computer keyboard -- beyond it, where you might expect to see a screen, a vista of an ethereal mont-sant-michel-esque palace, framed by pine trees, everything bestrewn with bejewelments
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Any combination of: queer (SFF-focused) bookstore, cafe, community maker space w/classes. Just a nice little spot for me and all my fellow freaks to hang out and craft and do cool things together 💚
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Short Fiction Book Club @shortficbookclub.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
SFBC is finishing our season on our favorite post: the Short Fiction Book Club Awards! We read many gems this year, but we've voted on our favorites. I'm happy to present our slate of awards (with very normal award names and presenter speeches). www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
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Short Fiction Book Club: Season 4 Awards
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
For my fellow professional procrastinators, here are a few things I think are worth your attention as you scramble to get your #HugoAwards noms in for @laworldcon.bsky.social! (Deadline is March 28!)
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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
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ririarts (comms closed) @ririsfilthyart.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This. Fuck, this so often
Tumblr post: [guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
You ever meet someone & think like “Jesus Christ where have you BEEN, why haven’t we been friends this whole TIME” but are faced with the harsh reality of having to BE COOL and not be all “hey uhhh I know we’re both 30-40,with deep friend benches, but can you please make room for me immediately??”
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shaydh @shaydh.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
get weirder and weirder forever until you have alienated all but your staunchest allies.
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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Eligibility post: I’m Hugo-eligible for Best Fan Writer for my blogging at Tar Vol On and work facilitating discussion for the Hugo Readalong and Short Fiction Book Club 🧵
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Pach In Eorzea || Brute Bomber's Fan Club @pachineorzea.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
MMORPG players in Westworld: people torture the NPCs because they're not real and nothing matters

Real MMORPG players in real games: for a while there was a rock with textures that didn't load in correctly so people made a pilgrimage to Smooth Rock
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Have been grumbled at repeatedly over the holidays because I'm bad at Posting Art where people can see it so uh...guess I'm doing that now! Will start with this piece that started as a Pride Month 2023 project & morphed into a gift for my grandmother. Handpainted paper roses on a grapevine wreath.
Seven handpainted paper roses in a sunset-themed gradient from yellow to purple, attached in a cluster to a wreath of dried grapevines with paper leaves and Spanish moss accents. The wreath is hanging against a pale green wall. A closeup of seven handpainted paper roses in a sunset-themed gradient ranging from yellow to purple, attached in a cluster to a wreath of dried grapevines.
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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025
wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag. how much of our beloved
land are vou willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which vou would kill a child
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.
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Trazellie Ellie @trazwieb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
real and true
An edited tweet from Coffee Spoonie that reads:

I want to be extremely close about: I never *don't* want to be asked about my OC

it is never a bad or inappropriate time for OC questions

I will never be displeased by questions about my OC

at no point in my life will I ever be like "no thank u, i don't want to talk about my character right now"
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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
this AI shit is not gonna break me. I am still a writer and I'm still gonna write shit and it's gonna mostly be "just OK" workaday prose elevated by my little poetic flourishes but it's gonna be something only I could write. and maybe I won't even do anything with it, but it will exist
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Jason Singingpigs of Pipeline @singingpigs.online · 21/11/2025
it's important for everyone to know that if I ever fall off talking to you or interacting with you I almost certainly still like you exactly the same amount that I always have, my brain is just made of potato
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/11/2025
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The announcers keep saying that both teams are almost out of pitchers, but they’re forgetting that pitchers and catchers report soon.
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The AI book promotion scammers would like to help the r/Fantasy mod team sell our book that totally exists! Isn't that nice of them?
A screenshot of a message from Reddit Modmail wherein an AI marketing scammer offers to help the r/Fantasy mod team market a non-existent book.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 01/10/2025
at the end of the day can the government just hop off my nuts
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I don't care how good your How To podcast is, I can read faster than they can talk, stop speaking and link me to the transcript tyvm
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My expectations were low, but I didn't think I needed "left out of the apology entirely" on my bingo card.
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Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno · 02/09/2025
I'm sure we could get more than 80 signatures based on just the people whose names y'all didn't read or mispronounced, including the r/Fantasy team whom you snickered at the size of before ignoring entirely at the ceremony, and did not even include in this apology 🙄
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Years ago my first novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and when it came time for the nominees to be read out I got to hear the MC, a brilliant fantasist whose work I love, absolutely butcher the title. Just trip over it repeatedly. "The Lies of Lack... Lockey... uh, Lackey Lammer-ah?" 🧵
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A delightful poem by my incredibly talented friend @digicara.bsky.social! Check it out!
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willow with a reese's peanut butter pumpkin 🐈🎃 @willow.kissesgirls.online · 19/06/2025
i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity
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JENN! ✨ @thekeythief.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.
A family of 3, outlined in green, hide behind a roaring bear, as large foreboding black shadows with nightsticks and helmets lurk behind it. A green star outstretched at their feet as they try to hide from view. Text at the bottom reads in call caps: "SHIELD YOUR NEIGHBORS"
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Unbelievably stoked to share that the r/Fantasy team has been nominated for Best Related Work! We're up against an impressive field but it's an incredible honor just to have our fun not-so-little game included! See y'all in Seattle! ✨🚀
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New "Mesocyclone" dice by @runesael.bsky.social have arrived and I am in LOVE, I cannot stop looking at them! Absolutely gorgeous work, couldn't be happier 🤩💙🌀 (...and the resident Orange Dingus has already tried to steal one!)
A set of seven glittering blue-gray, storm-inspired RPG dice, displayed with a small gray knit bag beautifully adorned with matching charms and ribbon.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Cubs won the World Series
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A friend linked this to me, and I think it's important and validating reading in these times. Small actions count. The fight is always worth fighting. Fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
My custom Watchers notebook from @speechlessbard.com arrived! Absolutely gorgeous work, everything I hoped for and I can't wait to start using it. Noor was a delight to work with on this - can't recommend them highly enough for all your TTRPG leather needs! 🖤💜
A metallic purple leatherbound notebook with stylized black eyes engraved on the cover, leaning against a worn wood fence.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.
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MikeOfThePalace @mikeofthepalace.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
r/Fantasy's Book Bingo has been going on for a decade now. Consider if it deserves a Hugo nomination for "Best Related Work"! (in my wholly unbiased opinion it definitely does) redd.it/1ic5f25
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From the Fantasy community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community
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Charlie Winter @awinterplace.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
In a liminal place where extinct species walk beside the souls of lost humans, Osian, ferrier of the dead, must rediscover how to be human after being tasked with caring for his murdered siblings’ living children. Piranesi x The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands #2025Pit #A #SPF #LGBT
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Nyn was a bright light in the WoW community. I didn't know her well, but the few conversations we had were so positive and her care for everyone came through so clearly - she was truly one of the helpers, and she'll be dearly missed. 💚
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18/01/2025
Have we done the research yet to figure out if the same people vehemently against non-binary pronouns are the same ones who had issues using the correct "their" and "they're" during the pre-autocorrect era of the internet?
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In Secret Places 🦇🏰FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW⚰️🖤 @insecretplaces.com · 11/12/2024
Fledgling Manor is available now with a special launch discount! Please enjoy our funny, sexy, weird game about vampires, reality TV, and a metalhead from upstate New York store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/...
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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
My favorite World of Darkness artist @shaydh.bsky.social - and friends! - are making a delightful vampire game and you should go check it out and wishlist it and all that good stuff so they will keep making delightful vampire things ok thanks byyyeeee 🖤🩸🧛
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