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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 42m

Musical numbers on Mars seem like the kind of joy I need in my books right now.

Here's a book by some guy named Chris Lewis about a middle-aged Mars-based private detective accepting a job from his ex. There are musical numbers.

Kindle www.amazon.com/Trouble-Wore...

Kobo www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

I dunno why Krista Ball is selling this book though 🤔 payhip.com/b/6f5XT

Trouble Wore Red

Trouble Wore Red - Kindle edition by Lewis, Chris. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Trouble Wore Red.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you!! And I’m so sorry! I have been menaced by geese many times, but never outright attacked.

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 21h

We're celebrating Ace Pride Week with 15 indie books featuring major asexual characters or written by ace SFF authors!

www.readindiefantasy.com/books-for-ac...

(Don't forget to check out our LGBTQIA+ book collection for more or to submit your own ace book!)

A promo banner with the text Books for Ace Pride Week featuring a gray hand holding the asexual pride flag, which is a flag with four stripes in black, gray, white, and purple colours.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 15h

Many Drops Make a Stream is a queer fantasy adventure in which a shapeshifter vigilante must team up with a seemingly normal human on a rescue mission. Features memory-stealing blood mages, friendly rats, and at least one goose attack.

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The cover of Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley. Illustrated in classic fantasy paperback style, the cover shows a giant roc carrying a young woman above a Venice-like city.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 16h

All of the toy-shaped mac and cheeses from my childhood (e.g., Pokemon shapes). The texture never came out right, and compared to how cool small me thought it could be, no pasta has disappointed me more.

actioncookBOOk @actioncookbook.com · 1d

a second day of the same discourse? no. no thank you.

instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 16h

Why not?

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Alex Stone @alexstoneart.bsky.social · 3d

Standoff
Acrylic on Board
2025

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 1d

I get fundraising texts addressed to every single member of my immediate family. They never stop.

Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 1d

I am way too online and still don’t know anyone who went through a nazi phase! This is weird!!

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 2d

Before I could physically write myself, I dictated dinosaur stories to my mom and illustrated them with stamps.

Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking about early writing recently and I'm curious—short fiction writers: what is the earliest short story you remember finishing that wasn't for a school project or anything?

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Same problem in publishing and film.

Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky.

People can't create like this.

We shouldn't have to create like this.

There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 3d

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 3d

It’s such a relief when there’s an objectively hilarious news event like this

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 8d

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 8d

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 8d

(Yes, I’m about two years behind on this, it’s amazing)

Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 8d

I love, love, love when a fantasy story’s biggest “wham” lines are totally normal sentences out of context.

This post prompted by The Wizard, The Witch, and the Wild One’s “I cannot say the same for my wife.”

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 9d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 9d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 9d

I read Gailey’s “STET” during a snack break at work and was not ok for probably days.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 9d

Short stories as a medium are inherently scary because you never know whether you’re going to come out of the next ten minutes permanently traumatized.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 11d

I think every fantasy fan knows the agony of going to a used bookstore and finding they have only one book in a series you want, but it’s not the book you need.

At Daedalus, for the first time, the single book available in a certain series WAS the one I needed. So it gets extra bonus points.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 11d

See also this environmental storytelling of one bookstore’s humble quest to place all its Star Trek novels.

In the lower left half of a packed bookcase, three successive shelves are labeled “Star Trek,” “More Star Trek,” and “How can there possibly be this many Star Trek books?”
At the top right of the same bookcase, a half-shelf is labeled, “I don’t know where else to put all these Star Trek books.”

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 11d

I treated myself to a visit to Daedalus Used Bookshop in Charlottesvile, VA. Reviews described it as “mazelike” and ”from an era when bookshops tried to pack as many books per square foot as possible,” so of course I had to go. Some of my favorite shelf labels:
#booksky

A sign over a doorway: “The uncles room. Everything that uncles love. Law, cars, motorcycles, trains, business, economics, firefighting, aviation, sports & dogs.”

A corner where two packed bookshelves meet. A label on the lower level of the right-hand shelf says “Spies.” A label on the lower level of the left-hand shelf says “More spies over here. Maybe there are more that we aren’t telling you about.”

Yet more packed shelves. The third-to-lowest shelf says “Weird stuff, man.” The shelf below that says “I dunno.” The lowest shelf says “Could you just pass the turkey and talk about something else?” The books, from their spines, appear to all be conspiracy theory books.

Two shelves within the uncle room. The top shelf is labeled “Fire fighting” and prominently displays a book with a firefighter on the cover.” The shelf below that, displaying the books “Smoking Food” and “Krakatoa,” is labeled “Fire encouragement.”

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 19d

I hope Leslye Penelope keeps writing historical fantasy for decades

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