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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 7h

BRB writing the dark romantasy version of South Park.

Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 9h

5 out of 5 stars to Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrad. A vista I will constantly return to is Ballingrud's wild imagination. This horror series remains one of the best I've read. Terrifying, nasty, poignant, and breathtaking all at once. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Cover to Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud.
On a yellow-green background, a man with short, dark hair stares at the view with golden eyes. A centipede crawls over his head.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 14h

If you haven't read any of The Lunar Gothic series by Nathan Ballingrud, you are doing yourself a disservice.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Nathan Ballingrud:

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 22h

Shoot! I forgot about Filth Eaters!

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Planned horror reads for October after Cathedral of the Drowned: -Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun -The Troop -On Sunday She Picked Flowers I read slowly so I probably won't read much else before the month's over. Maybe Innamorata or Saint Delilah but doubtful.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Problem with me trying to book I haven't read out of my mind is that the only to put it out is to read so that I can form my official thoughts around it, whether they are positive or negative.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since someone liked this, I have to say that this is no longer the plot of the book and I restarted it.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mestra by Madeline Miller just came out. It's short so I'm tempted, but I felt very "meh" about Circe.

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Alice the Author @alicetheauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, I'm reviewing The Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee. This is a young adult fantasy novel about a magical young lady that can repair and build anything. 📚 #BookThreads #BookReview #ReadingCommunity youtu.be/FOcxpZCz37c

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Daily Book Covers @dailybookcovers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Book: Heart-Beast (1992) -standalone- Author: Tanith Lee Cover Artist: Mark Salwowski Publisher: Headline #BookSky #Books 💙📚👀 🪐📚 #fantasyfiction #fantasy #TanithLee #MarkSalwowski

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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"From 9,000 miles away, she still placed the family’s Amazon orders. Still required the kids to check in with her when they came home. Still tracked their location on a GPS app. She yearned for more than these fragments of motherhood." www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

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A Maryland mother’s deportation to Vietnam forces an agonizing choice

Forced 9,000 miles from her family, Melissa Tran confronts what comes next for her U.S.-born children.

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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Season 3 Episode 16 - Frame 967 out of 2747

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015) Episode 8 - The Form of Closeness 13:29.100

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Samantha Breaux is looking for ARC readers @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spencer finds that he can't help everyone. From book 2 of my romantic fantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer

“Find peace beyond the Veil or not, that choice is yours alone to make. But you have no right to the body you still wear or the stolen lifeblood that fuels it.”

Spencer’s soothing tones from before hardened and chilled until each word boomed forth from his lips like hammer strikes against steel. He released his grip on the general’s arm and slapped his palm against the cold skin of the man’s brow.

Pain and weariness fled, replaced by cold certainty. Energy swelled, sweeping up through the soles of Spencer’s feet, then swirling wildly through the well of power at his core before rushing out of his arms and into Steppan’s body. The general convulsed, thrashing frantically as lavender light coalesced beneath his skin, crackling and cold. His body began to shrivel and shrink, falling in on itself like a piece of plump fruit drained of all its juice. Frost curled up from his dwindling form, hissing and sputtering in the warm rain until all that was left of his physical body was a pile of dust.

Raindrops pitted the small mound, carving rivulets into it and carrying it away in small clumps. Spencer could feel the angry smear of a spirit that hovered there, enraged but impotent. He had learned long ago that some souls simply could not embrace the peace that they had earned. He didn’t like it, but he accepted it.

There was no saving someone who didn’t want to be saved.

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Coureur de Fembois [Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐔 @droctorock.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I'm sharing Ziad and Mirna's plea for help in surviving the genocide in Palestine. Three years of devestation, with no end in sight, has left them desperate. Please help any way you can

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krystal!💥♥️ @krystalmelodie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Essential worker type shit 🥀 #residentevil

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do not think it is much of an exaggeration to say that British media is one of the least trustworthy institutions on the planet.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Choosing what jobs to apply for is so conflicting for me. There sounds like positions I would be fine being in for the rest of my life, but they're in industries I might not be able to move up in for better pay. I just need something to come along soon.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Need to write more poetry again. "Mother of Gods and Men" was a fun piece to do.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

4 out of 5 stars to The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart. I genuinely think this is a fun series with fun characters. I really enjoyed the individual character arcs and plot developments that happened in this book and I can't wait for the final one. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Cover to The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart.
Two swords made of ivory bone crisscross each other with dragons wrapping around them. To the left and and right are ivory bone waves. The background is a teal blue.

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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 26/09/2026

Not everything about writing sword and sorcery is blood, thunder, and bad decisions. Sometimes it’s research. 🤷‍♀️

Two thick trade paperbacks on the blue denim-covered arm of a couch, Neil Price’s CHILDREN OF ASH AND ELM: A HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS and the10th anniversary edition of Peter Frankopan’s THE SILK ROADS: A NEW HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

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Ripley🪽 @skullingway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got this to the finish line in time to have prints for magical girls fest this weekend ⚔️ #utena #art #rgu

Drawing of utena as a knight. She is wielding a sword and looking towards a coffin wit red eyes inside. Above the coffin sits a pink rose and disembodied crying eyes. Her sword shines underneath the coffin. Surrounding her is a border of black vines, the floating castle above her head

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Actually I'm going to say, while it might upset some writing in the genre (specifically men who write women for insta-vulnerable, as if that isn't mega sexist): More horror protagonists should be men who spend a lot of the story screaming and crying and terrified. Let them be vulnerable characters.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My weird girl lit novel got a STARRED REVIEW in Publishers Weekly! 🤩 "Using aliens to explore alienation, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself.“ out October 27 from Saga! 🛸 www.publishersweekly.com/9781668077122

She Isn’t Herself Tonight
Hailey Piper. Saga, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-6680-7712-2
The latest foray into supernatural horror from Bram Stoker award winner Piper (A Game in Yellow) offers an enthralling twist on the classic alien abduction plot. At age 30, Rabbit (a reclaimed childhood nickname) is eagerly awaiting the return of the aliens, or “Guests,” as she refers to them, that first came for her at age 10 and then again at age 20. She has never felt truly understood, not by her mother, who paraded her around local churches as a child to tell the story of her first abduction—substituting the aliens for angels—nor her recent ex-boyfriend, Leo, who accused her of being “too much work.” As she reels from the breakup, she takes comfort in knowing that the “Guests,” the only ones who have ever made her feel safe and cared for, will be returning soon. Piper mines a lot of tension from Rabbit’s yearning for her abductors, making readers just as anxious for their arrival as Rabbit herself, even as, in the meantime, Rabbit’s body undergoes a mysterious, possibly extraterrestrial transformation. Using aliens to explore alienation, this brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself. Agent: Lane Heymont, Tobias Literary. (Oct.)

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can't tell what's worse. Applying for jobs or querying a literary agent.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wasn't one of the BuzzFeed Try Guys supposed to be publishing a YA fantasy?

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, my poem "Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers" comes out at @smallwondersmag.com and I feel a lot of things...It's a piece dedicated to single women who raised children on their own and the young growing without a father. For me, it was my abuela who raised me smallwondersmag.com/piece/single...

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Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 24/09/2026

Discord ban in the Philippines lasted for just one day because they forgot everyone including government agencies rely on it.

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The X-Files 720p Cinema @xfiles720pcinema.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Never Again" (1997.02.02) S04|E13|4X13 Director: Rob Bowman Writer: Glen Morgan | James Wong Director of Photography: Jon Joffin Art Director: Gary P. Allen Production Designer: Graeme Murray #XFiles #TheXFiles

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whenever I see I biphobic comment from someone on social media, I go to their profile and I always unsurprisingly see transphobic comments too. Fork found in kitchen.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me wakes up at 6: Oh that's the usual time I get up. I'm still a bit drowsy, so I'll rest till 6:30 when my alarm goes off. Me wakes at 7: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

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Lili Chin she/her @lilichin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Book Birthday! My two new board books for little dog lovers (ages 0 to 3) are now available! www.penguinrandomhouseretail.com/author/?auth...

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Lili Chin she/her @lilichin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Garvey Ranch Observatory, mid-Autumn Festival, free mooncake, and we saw the moon close-up. With @nathanrlong.bsky.social

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can help the Jamil family survive Israel's genocidal siege by sharing & donating. They urgently need a new tent after having narrowly escaped a bombing that destroyed their shelter. They're homeless & starving with 5 children to feed, & need urgent, costly healthcare:

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lovely seeing THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT in The Lineup with books by Josh Malerman, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, and more! My cursed film novel is out now from Titan Books 📽️ the-line-up.com/newest-books...

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screenshot from The Lineup showing the cover of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd.
Text shown: A new Hailey Piper novel means guaranteed entertainment, and this one tackles the “cursed film” subgenre with elan. The story centers around Val, a woman haunted by the disappearance of her beloved sister and best friend some thirty years ago, who discovers a fascinating urban legend behind the last film they’d watched together.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hate this fucking job so fucking much.

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Critter Crafter Ally [Comms Open] @crittercrafterally.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Original Artwork Sales Thread! [🧵1/4] I have a couple of original ballpoint pen and watercolor works that are still looking for new homes! Please check out this thread for individual details and pricing! Shop: allyartandweb.com/shop/ #TraditionalArt #OriginalArt #ArtForSale

Traditional ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of a feminine angelic being with an intricate halo placing her hands on a humanoid head, surrounded by one-eyed beings with feathered wings

Ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of an upside-down view of an androgynous figure in red and white frilled clothing and a halo around their head lying on the floor, surrounded by flowers, spheres, and two feathered creatures with a single red eye for a head

Ballpoint pen and watercolor artwork of an armored androgynous figure holding two twisting polearms while perched on a cliff with red lilies

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Vera Kober Art @vera-kober-art.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My flower art

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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The goddess-mother of Autumn gazes down upon her children... #September

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J.E. Barnard @jebarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two families, both alike in wealth & privilege, strutting their hour upon the stage. A dinner party where undercurrents thicken. A sudden death: is it accident or murder? Who else is in peril from the clash of the oil barons? books2read.com/RockFalls #OilAndGas #Alberta #crimefiction

Book cover set against gray sky and mountains, titled "Why the Rock Falls" in large reddish letters. Below in smaller white letters is "The Falls Mysteries" and below that the author's name is J.E. Barnard. Across the gray sky to the left of the book is the following text, reddish like the book title: "Orrin Caine's a foul-mouthed old bastard, tinpot god of his own oil and gas conglomerate. If Jake wasn't my boss as well as my neighbour, you wouldn't catch me sitting in the same room with either of them."

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Huh. Discovered Diodorus Siculus' version of Medea's story, in which she is the daughter of Hecate--here portrayed as a mortal woman and priestess of Artemis--and sister of Circe. She learned magic, but used her spells and abilities for good.

4 And since she possessed great experience in such matters she first of all poisoned her father and so succeeded to the throne, and then, founding a temple of Artemis and commanding that strangers who landed there should be sacrificed to the goddess, she became known far and wide for her cruelty. 5 After this she married Aeëtes and bore two daughters, Circê and Medea, and a son Aegialeus.

6 Although Circê also, it is said, devoted herself to the devising of all kinds of drugs and discovered roots of all manner of natures and potencies such as are difficult to credit, yet, notwithstanding that she was taught by her mother Hecatê about not a few drugs, she discovered by her own study a far greater number, so that she left to the other woman no superiority whatever in the matter of devising uses of drugs. 7 She was given in marriage to the king of the Sarmatians, whom some call Scythians, and first she poisoned her husband and after that, succeeding to the throne, she committed many cruel and violent acts against her subjects. 8 For this reason she was deposed from her throne and, according to some writers of myths, fled to the ocean, where she seized a desert island, and there established herself with p487 the women who had fled with her, though according to some historians she left the Pontus and settled in Italy on a promontory which to this day bears after her the name Circaeum.8

46 1 Concerning Medea this story is related:— From her mother and sister she learned all the powers which drugs possess, but her purpose in using them was exactly the opposite. For she made a practice of rescuing from their perils the strangers who came to their shores, sometimes demanding from her father by entreaty and coaxing that the lives be spared of those who were to die, and sometimes herself releasing from prison and then devising plans for the safety of the unfortunate men.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sorry for my absence here! I was out of the country and returned earlier this week and am still looking for a new job as well. Will post pictures of my trip hopefully soon. I just know I will have a pile of stuff to get through when I get back to work.

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Nicholas Perez @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nick Offerman playing Big the Cat in the new Sonic movie. Immaculate casting choice.

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