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Marina Lostetter

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Sci-fi and Fantasy author. THE FIVE PENALTIES series is complete and OUT NOW! She/her. Repped by DongWon Song. https://linktr.ee/lostetter

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello new followers! I'm Marina Lostetter, full time Sci-Fi and Fantasy author, part time clay beguiler. You can find my novels here:

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 10h

They tortured someone who's internationally famous. What do you think they've done to average people?

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

Aftonbladet's report is harrowing and should make anyone who doubted it feel ashamed.

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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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 13h

Admittedly, having a hard day without her. 💔

Starbuck the black cat rolling around on her back with her feet in the air looking cute as all heck.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 13h

*No King's on the other...

I swear, phone, work with me.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 13h

If the right wants to mischaracterize No King's as full of people who hate America, the more "I love the USA" signs the better.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 13h

I have to be at the gallery on the 18th, but seriously considering showing up for all of the first 15min to No King's raon the other side of town with a "I love the USA: Born to be King Free" sign.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Dear Grim Reaper, I have some notes

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 1d

Oh man, I've seriously written and re-written this post countless times. Words fail to convey the importance this many had in movie, art, and me personally.

An undeniable legend and the greatest to ever do it. RIP Drew Struzan.

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Reiko Murakami @reikomurakami.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay !

I do book covers and comic covers, working on both full color digital and traditional media using graphite and ink.

Cover art for Black Sun be Rebecca Roanhorse, The Broken Binding

Minor Arcana #2 variant cover,
Boom! Studios

Cover art for The Black Phone by Joe Hill,
Suntup Editions

Personal work from my exhibition last year.
“Identity” 11x15 inches, Graphite mixed media
Available at Keep Contrmporary

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

Some days you just straight up eat spoonfuls of cream cheese and that's okay.

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Kristen Wixx @kristenwixx.bsky.social · 3d

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you? We got some work to do now.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in full "could a depressed person make this???" mode.

Several clay blue octopi pendants on a paper plate. They are all very silly.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 3d

We liked to say she was Starbuck's taste-tester and court jester, which are normally not titles that belong to the heir of a fallen queen's throne. However, if Wyrd Sisters taught me anything, it's that court jesters can be royalty too.

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 3d

Bite Snatcher still going strong.

A black short haired cat with a blue mouse you looks up into the camera.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 3d

I love when we humans get awed by big rocks.

"Look at this big rock--imma climb it!"

"Look at this big rock--in space!"

"Look at all these big rocks--some people put them in a circle. Standing up, no less! Rocks don't usually do that."

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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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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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 3d

Bite Snatcher still going strong.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 3d

Bite Snatcher still going strong.

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 3d

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Do You Want Ghosts? Great Galactic Dragons Get Ghosts! | Marina Lostetter

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 4d

(Luckily for me I had many other teachers that were fully supportive--and continue to be supportive to this day!)

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 4d

Right??? Even as as high schooler I was like "there are tools."

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 4d

Well that's...that's just not how this works. (I did have an English teacher tell me I would never be a writer because I was bad at spelling. Guess what? Professional writer, still bad at spelling.)

Freezer @freezer.bsky.social · 5d

It's been over a dozen years but every now and then I think about how my 11th grade English teacher told me I couldn't submit my short story for an assignment cause the story took place over like 6 months. She said short stories can only take place in a short period of time, like a few hours.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 5d

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you