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Kirsten Thompson

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comic book writer • magic, monsters & hungry plants • I AM HEXED • Rep: Jas Perry @lookingglasslit.bsky.social • 🏳️‍🌈• https://linktr.ee/kirstenthompson

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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · Jul 30

🪅🪩 Book news! 🍹🎊

My second graphic novel, APERTURE 📷 will be out August 2026!

Written by me, illustrated by Huenito, and published by @madcavestudios.com / @nakamapress.bsky.social

It's got: libraries, time travel, & pining while flirting & failing to talk about your feelings with your crush

Kristen Simon at Mad Cave Studios/Nakama Press has acquired world English rights to Aperture, a YA graphic novel by I Am Hexed creator Kirsten Thompson, illustrated by Huenito. Two students living in different time periods travel between the present day and pre-WWI using an old camera found in their university's library, and fall in love over a series of adventures. Publication is slated for August 2026; Jas Perry at Looking Glass Literary & Media represented the author while at KT Literary, and TomatoFarm represented the illustrator.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

If you know anyone in Georgia, please tell them to vote! This election is extremely important 😭

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 10d

hey georgia, early voting is happening now -- please vote out the shitty republicans who keep increasing our electricity bills for no reason and show them we can kick them to the curb if they don't work for the people!!!!!!

find your early voting precincts here:

mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 17h

Me every time I’m in a precarious yoga position…

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Food banks need money if you’ve got it. For everything else, contact them and ask—some can take donated meat by hunters or eggs from backyard flocks, some can’t.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Stephanie Baumgart, PhD 🦖🦆 @stephanopteryx.bsky.social · 21h

Just in time for spooky season: DINOSAUR "MUMMIES!"

Unlike Egyptian mummies, these don't have squishy bits preserved, but the rock around these carcasses had clay capturing texture of scales, a midline crest w/ keratin spikes, &, brand new, feet w/ hooves! 🧪⚒️🦕🦖

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Illustration of Edmontosaurus walking through a muddy substrate, leaving footprints behind. A dead Edmontosaurus is in the background on its side.

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billboard @billboard.com · 23h

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

Chappell Roan has announced her Midwest Princess Project for trans and LGBTQ+ youth, and the fund has already raised $400K.

bit.ly

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 1d

A raccoon tucking into some acorns. He/she was cracking the shells with his/her teeth to get at the nuts.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Cover of Merriam-Webster's All Caps dictionary, a red background with a white circle and text for people who are mad.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

Sailor J is back and she's brought Macbeth with her

youtu.be/oCarJnKuwp0

How to Handle Ghosts- A Macbeth case study

YouTube video by Sailor J

youtu.be

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L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · 4d

The bookshop and library videos are making a return! This week we’re exploring the incredible Bodleian Library at Oxford University. A dark academia wonderland for autumn! 🍂🕯️

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 5d

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 7d

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger

a man is buried in the same up to his neck, being devoured by ants. A family of ants are in the foreground taking a touristy photo of it.

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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 7d

love the intro of vampire hunter d being very much ‘yes, he looks and is badass, but also, distractingly handsome’

a close up of a drawing of a dragon with a blue background

Alt: vampire hunter d riding a cyborg horse and dressed in a long blue cloak billowing in a strong wind

media.tenor.com

Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 8d

most have massive spoilers, but happy to dig up links (what’s still online)

Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 8d

the way i immediately thought 'wait, which vids are absolutely *essential* to your highlander viewing experience'

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The Girl With the Green Ribbon (aka Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 10d

God just! the way everyone involved in Interview with the Vampire understands the assignment. I am crying with joy. ahahhaha this show is so unhinged. I love it so much.

Everything We Learned At 'The Vampire Lestat' NYCC Panel | The Mary Sue

We went to the NYCC press conference for 'The Vampire Lestat' and here is everything we learned about the upcoming season!

www.themarysue.com

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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 11d

expectation: sitting down with a cat and a book to relax
reality: one or both of the other cats get jealous and tackle/swat cat in my lap and then they all run off yowling

a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face .

Alt: a young boy wearing a yellow shirt is staring directly at camera and blinks once

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 12d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Ignacio GHOULup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 12d

BABY NUMBATSNUMBATSNUMBATS:

"Baby numbats spotted at two wildlife sanctuaries in hopeful sign for one of Australia’s rarest marsupials"

"Video shows some of the juveniles exploring outside their den at Mallee Cliffs national park in south-western NSW"

Baby numbats spotted at two wildlife sanctuaries in hopeful sign for one of Australia’s rarest marsupials

Video shows some of the juveniles exploring outside their den at Mallee Cliffs national park in south-western NSW

www.theguardian.com

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13d

The year withers. Dead paths across the ghost soil are revealed. Colder magics rise. Our boots are muddied, we begin to breath like dragons. Our witcheries turn with the season and our ancestors talk a little louder. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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naomi @mimimaruuu.bsky.social · 13d

Huntrix based on Klimt’s Water Serpents

#KpopDemomHunters

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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 14d

wandered into the kitchen, grabbed the oatmeal and now there are muffins. this is why i keep extra oats in the pantry

a close up of a blueberry muffin with a pink and blue background

Alt: a close up of a blueberry muffin with a pink and blue background as it wiggles in mid-air

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Kirsten Thompson @kirstenthompson.bsky.social · 14d

the heater is ON and current wardrobe decisions are 'which long sleeved garment do i wrap myself in each morning?'

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Nov 16

Study | Dream

A digitally painted , detailed study of a resting wild boar, lit in a surreal way as if in deep moonlight.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 15d

So, yeah, a mind-vaporizingly huge explosion in space *may have been from a white dwarf ripped to shreds by a black hole*.

yeGADS

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dw...

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A white dwarf may have been torn to shreds by a black hole

Just writing that sentence made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

badastronomy.beehiiv.com

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