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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

The work of Anne Damer (1748- 1828), English sculptor. Described as a "female genius", one of the 1st recognised women sculptors, who lived with her lover, Irish actress Elizabeth Farren #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a sculpture of the upper half of a woman in a greek style

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

'Orlando' creator @julesscheele.bsky.social was on the Once Upon a VHS podcast talking about Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Paul Reubens has a tiny cameo in Jules's adaptation of Orlando! open.spotify.com/episode/1UY7...

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This, aged eleven. If I recall properly, I died a gruesome death in a trap room filled with blood. Good times

Cover of the D&D module for 'Queen of the Demonweb Pits', showing adventurers battling giant insects and a demon spider

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Mel Cordan (she/her) @melcordan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello AD’s and Editors! My name is Mel & for #kidlitartpostcard day, I’ve been adding some mock cover work to my #middlegrade portfolio. Please consider me for your book cover projects! Rep’d by @annmrose.bsky.social #kidlitartpostcardday #thegoldencompass #melArt🔥#fantasy #mgcover #bookcover

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Sue Safianoff @suesaf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello #kidlitartpostcard day! My name is Sue and I have lots of stories to share. This is just one of them! Please contact my agent @christaheschke.bsky.social for dummy books! #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit

An illustration that says ‘Sue Safianoff. Author - illustrator’. The image depicts a ghost and a cat painting and fixing up a haunted house lit by a full moon in the background.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh hello

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Mitchell Anderson @mandersonmn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The secret to happiness is setting up your life to resemble Richard Scarry's Busytown as much as possible.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

✨ Deep in the heart of our galaxy, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a brilliant star field surrounding Sagittarius A*. Webb’s powerful mid-infrared eyes are giving us unprecedented views of the extreme environment at the center of the Milky Way!

$A bright, densely populated star cluster lies near the center of the image, surrounded by intricate clouds of glowing gas and dust in shades of red, pink, orange, and blue. Dark lanes of dust weave through the nebula, contrasting with the luminous central region. Countless stars are scattered across the field, with a few brighter foreground stars showing Webb's characteristic diffraction spikes. Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan$

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands permanently on the threshold of it, welcoming everyone who arrives with a wave and a smile.

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two inosculated Sycamore trees on Kinder Scout in the Peak District.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I may as well sneak in with a Friday Shop Plug. Spooky lino prints! Old favourites 'Queen of the Field' and 'Dost Thou See a Book Before Thee?' are now back in stock! And on the gilded book front I have a goat and a Mari... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Spooky lino prints! Old favourites 'Queen of the Field' and 'Dost Thou See a Book Before Thee?' are now back in stock.

Pen drawing of a goat with gilded flames.

Pen drawing of a Mari Lwyd with gilded flames.

Two lino prints and a Tales Accursed a Folk Horror Anthology.

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Taggart Rehnn 🇨🇦🍁 @taggartrehnnauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago, a trailblazing sci-fi series that wouldn't have existed if Lucille Ball hadn't intervened, and Gene Roddenberry imagined a better society, capable of dealing with whatever existed where no one had gone before, took flight. Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek!👽🚀

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Fred Connelly @brendonconnelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tremendous news about an exceptional TV show. The BBC have officially announced the second, six episode series of Small Prophets, this time set for BBC One. Mackenzie Crook renewed his promise to herein end the show with 'the second half of this strange story'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...

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Small Prophets | Official Trailer - BBC

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

More Laputa-inspired sketchbook malarkey

Ink drawing inspired by the animated film ‘Laputa’ by Hayao Miyazaki

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Furry Found Footage ➡️ FURPOC @furryfootage.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the piece which introduced me to Carrington's work. Her paintings and stories are full of animal/human hybrids and she was instrumental in the Mexican surrealist art movement of the mid 20th century. And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur, Leonora Carrington, 1953

Leonora Carrington's painting features a brown room with columns overlooking a grey sky. A white minotaur sits robed in red at a yellow table with a crystal ball, while two small, robed children look on. Clouds drape the ceiling and a figure like a humanoid fungus stands beside the minotaur. White greyhounds stand in the corner and one stares at a spectral figure dancing in the light of a hallway.

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Beast of Bourbon 🥃 @jenleepa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is mesmerizing

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 03/09/2026

final final FINAL dot doc

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the 90s we didn't have social media. We rode our bikes outside. We listened to cassette tapes. We hung out at the bus stop. We ate cassette tapes at the bus stop. We rode to the bus stop on a cassette tape and listened to bicycles. Dont like it? Neither did I

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fantastic piece, this: “Confessions of an AI Editor” — www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Confessions of an AI Editor

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinking. Hamid Dabashi's Persian Parables: Form as Philosophy is now available. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Literature

Persian Parables: Form as Philosophy by Hamid Dabashi

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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

wishing you wings of mind and heart

[from A midsummer night’s dream by Pinckney Marcius-Simons]

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And good afternoon to all book lovers and clockwork copper toads.

Pencil drawing of an epic ornate library with strange lamps. This space is occupied by, well, books naturally but also a raven, a cat, the shadow of a dog and a clockwork toad.

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Popped into Forbidden Planet and realised I hadn't been back since they changed locations. It's now in a cramped basement. Am I being nostalgic or was the old shop better? On the bright side, there's a huge collection of manga (to offspring's delight). So much One Piece that it could create a portal

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yup. Suck it up, shrug it off, take it on the chin: that was our whole MO as 80s kids. I wouldn't wish the loneliness on anyone. This type of 'journalism' is just the adult version of that girl who peaked in middle school and spent her time whispering about other people to her friends

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The stuff this Yew tree has seen. Already an elder statestree by the time of the Norman Conquest. Born before King Alfred burned the cakes, before Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History Of The English People. Oh, to listen to its gnarly anecdotes and its withering opinions on today's world

A 1500-year-old (at least) Yew tree on the Dartington Estate in Devon, a few hundred yards from the cottage where I lived from the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2017. Is it just me who sees the hook-nosed hunchback figure climbing its thick trunk? Will she have finally reached the summit by the year 21500?

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I do wish my life were more like a fairytale. Just me and 23 of my closest friends, baked in a pie, waiting to do a jump scare on some king.

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hear hear. Always mention your books, chickadees. It's hard enough to make a living.

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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hey friends, I'm open to work! If you're after a writer, I'm your gal :) My books have been translated into multiple languages and optioned for TV. I'm versatile, meet my deadlines, and have a cute dog who is happy to join in on Zoom calls. www.stephaniecampisi.com

The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors, Four Weddings and a Funeral Director, 10 Things I hate About Zombies, Sparkle PIgs, The Unfinished Business, Warrior Fairies, Luis and Tabitha, Two's a Charm, Cruel Summerween

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How can we survive as 'carriers of light', as Alberto Manguel calls it, when all around us screams darkness and brutality? If it's possible in Evin prison, it's possible anywhere. Musings on Mahvash Sabet's powerful memoir of incarceration in Iran: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

The cover of 'Open Wide The Doors', a prison memoir by Mahvash Sabet, showing a set of nested archways, largest to smallest on a green background. The smallest archway is red.

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In which I chatter about Jane Yolen's 'Touch Magic', why we tell the tales we tell, and family stories... www.instagram.com/p/DcExtVBjjVZ/

The cover of the book 'Touch Magic' by Jane Yolen, showing a painting of a child's hand and arm reaching up to touch an adult's hand, on a blue background. The subtitle is: 'Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood' and the description at the bottom reads: 'A righly expanded edition of the classic call-to-arms advocating the protection and preservation of traditional folk and fairy tales'

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s Diana Wynne-Jones’ birthday, so here’s me talking to @scriblit.bsky.social about Studio Ghibli’s magnificent adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle (and some unexpected links between Japan and Wales…) pod.link/1614879928/e...

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Howl's Moving Castle - with Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch

Listen to Howl's Moving Castle - with Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch from Comfort Blanket wherever you get your podcasts!

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hey Bluesky! Could you help me spread the word about my Patreon? Signing up will allow me create more fabric art monsters and creatures. As a patron, you'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun, bizarre posts. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.

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Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

'My teenage goddaughter tells me that almost every single member of her class is using ChatGPT to do their homework. More, the work they produce in AI’s greasy little fluent voice is often mistaken by young people themselves for their own mastery...' www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've decided that this issue and the thoughts I have about it incense me so deeply that I couldn't wait. My long essay about AI as a reminder of a deeper issue with publishing's biases is now free a few days earlier than planned.

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An Essay: 'beyond the margin-frame' | Brandon O'Brien

As I've been working on the other essay about LLMs in fiction, I've found myself considering the last few months of AI-related literary scan

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yes I will hurl myself shoulder deep into a mountain river midway through a 14 mile walk just to get the best photo possible of an interdimensional portal.

What looks like the underside of a small river bridge in the Black Mountains in Wales but is actually the route to a far better parallel world without landfill indie bands sponsored by their millionaire parents, Primark or people advertising products by bloodthirsty ecologically ruinous global corporations in "reassuringly authentic" working class accents from the northern part of the UK.

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Tove Jansson. Born on this day in 1914.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every time I’ve been allowed inside, and trusted to be privy to the process, the books have been much bigger successes. It should be collaborative. The omertàs are counterproductive.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Vertical forest

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Paddy tells me it’s #InternationalCatDay! As you can see, he also loves books so he has asked me to repost this thread of excellent children’s books featuring cats. #KidLit #Cats #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #CatBooks

Paddy, our black cat, sitting on a desk ‘helping’ me to read a factual kid’s book.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“I thought you were the Weather Man,” said Milo, very confused. “Oh no,” said the little man, “I’m the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it’s more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.”

A short, smiling, bald, bearded man wearing a robe, releasing a balloon into the sky

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irs_uk @irsuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

RIP William Orbit. So many career highs but one of my favourites is pretty much unknown, the excellent Dice with Finley Quaye and Beth Orton. This is just a gorgeous song. Enjoy. youtu.be/Zsgz5do3QFg?...

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Finley Quaye feat. William Orbit - Dice

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 06/08/2026

Speaking of human creativity, do check out the #KidLitArtPostcard tag today...especially if you're a #KidLit agent, art director, or editor looking for an illustrator. Thanks to @ginaperry.bsky.social for creating this initiative! 🎨🩷 bsky.app/profile/gina...

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