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Memento Morlys 🍉

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sentient curio cabinet. writes sffh, spams dog nonsense. slush reader for giganotosaurus. the bird's name is rambo. hwa, codexian, ey/em https://maldamarlys.com/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/aardwyrm

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 3h

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

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Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

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FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 27m

math especially. even on fully digital standardized tests they provide scratch paper, because that's how most people do math. I try to only put work on the computer if there's a reason (online lab, research project etc) because even the teenagers I teach do way worse on computers

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 4h

the big old dutch oven has a lot to do in the kitchen. a little revenge once in a while is understandable

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 13h

oops we've revised the numbers back to reasonable. never mind about 2 million years

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 14h

were people mad that the ending was cheapened and robbed of its well earned catharsis? I feel like I would have been

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 14h

and then he's back and it's fine. like yeah we understand this now, that is how godzilla's are, but the first time?

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 14h

it is the nature of godzilla to iterate endlessly. even I, with extremely minimal familiarity with kaiju media, understand this. but what was the response to the first sequel? the original is grim and weighty and there's great narrative heft to godzilla's death and serizawa's sacrifice

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 14h

ok time for godzilla raids again

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 15h

meatballs are fabulous, broth needs a bit more seasoning imho

Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Meatballs

This classic recipe for Chinese Winter Melon Soup with Meatballs comes together quickly, making it an easy soup for late summer, fall, and early winter.

thewoksoflife.com

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 16h

guess who did the thing where you realize extremely late in the recipe that your pot is too small

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 23h

I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop

A pen and ink drawing.
Panel One:
A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 22h

/long description of the most sumptuous reality-bending, dubiously magical sweets

me: oh that sounds awesome i wish i liked gingerbread more

narrator: even people who don't like gingerbread think this shit is amazing

me:

a close up of a cartoon pikachu with his mouth open .

Alt: surprised pikachu

media.tenor.com

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 22h

mary crawford was in love with fanny price, not edward bertram

ann was the weirdest brontë and i say this as a sworn jane eyre hater

aphra behn is criminally underrated and should be given samuel richardson's spot in all history of the novel surveys

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 22h

is helen oyeyemi's gingerbread cheating?

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 2d

The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025

"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

in honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

let's unpack the standard

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

fuck i love migrating grackles. a cloud of fuckboys. a mobile riot. a plague of locusts on local birdfeeders. even the blue jays shut up for a second and let this pass

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

this feels like a page of scary stories to tell in the dark that i would only peek at with another page at the ready to cover it

🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful duck heading in for a swim

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

couple'a over-easiest fried eggs on buttery rye toast

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 3d

What are your food "simple pleasures"?

For me, it's opening a fresh, brand new jar of peanut butter. What about you?

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

...wow autocorrect is determined to turn every instance of "in" into "on" whether i will or no, huh?

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

ok I finished the original novella. the sequel is also on this volume but I don't think I have it on me tonight

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

"a monster from 2 million years ago" and it's a giant beaver

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Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

the 2 million years thing is really persistent. they keep repeating it. I know there was no wikipedia on the 50s but surely you could go to the library just to check if your timeline was off by an order of magnitude

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

on the other hand the narration has an endearing habit of addressing the readers. "you know, the thing I mean!" that's kinda cute

Memento Morlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1d

I can see the man in the costume and his limited range of motion in every action godzilla takes