Shveta Thakrar
@shvetathakrar.com
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Desi mythopoetess. Author of Nebula Award finalist STAR DAUGHTER, THE DREAM RUNNERS, and DIVINING THE LEAVES. Also INTO THE MOON GARDEN (Audible). https://shvetathakrar.com/
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Hi, friends! I'm here! I missed having writer community, so here I am while I cheer you on and write more magical stories. Wishing everyone love and kindness and, for crying out loud, universal basic rights. ❤️🪷✨
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Just took me right back to high school!
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We need art in the world. We need cultural criticism in the world. We need sustainable media. Subscribing to @theflytrapmedia.com is not going to fix the world, but it will make it a better place by ensuring this work can continue, and supporting the comrades who do it.
The Flytrap
Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
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I love these little rainbow T-Rex desk friends! When you need to be super colorful but still say RAWR!

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Two tiny articulated T-Rex desk friends. One is 3d printed in a rainbow gradient, the other in teal and purple. They both have white spots and pink hearts along their backs.
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The formerly titled The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy is finally available as an ebook from Open Road. We had to change the title for legal reasons but here it is.
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Here's to a new life for one of my favorite, mixed-genre anthologies.
cover for The Big Book of SF&F (aka The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.
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Excellent decision. :D
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I'm really enjoying it so far!
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Taking @acwise.bsky.social's awesome BALLAD OF THE BONE ROAD with me to my REAL ID appointment. Best way to escape while at the DMV!
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We're ravenously seeking:

QUEER FICTION, up to 6,000 words, in science fiction, fantasy or speculative horror ($0.08 /word)

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Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

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

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now
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Excited to read it soon! :)
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ITS A BAT DAMN TIME! 🦇⚰️🩸

Dead & Breakfast is out today! Vampires Arthur and Sal just want to live a quiet retirement running a B&B, but when the mayor is found dead in their garden, they must solve the crime to prove their innocence!

Get your copy: www.rosieethor.com/dead-and-bre...
Rosiee (white, nonbinary, short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses) wearing a sun hat and overalls with sunflowers on them and holding a copy of Dead & Breakfast.
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The greatest difference we could make to our future generations is not…any of the shit we hear people saying about tech.

It is learning how to care for each other enough to create and hold a real, lasting peace.
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If you like amazing food descriptions, try Suzan's book--but also try mine. ;)
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Since I see posts talking about the Garlic book again, the stunt is doing its job, a reminder: Countess does not smell like Trinidadian food but it will make you want to eat Trinidadian food.

Which SFFH books make you hungry?
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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
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History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Nuance in history matters. The truth is never somethjng simple and pithy. We don't do ourselves or historical understanding any favors by over simplifying things. That's how you end up slippery sloping toward propaganda and whitewashing. The truth is in the complexities.
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Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.