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Alessandra Kelley - I make art. TTRPGs. She/her. Cis. White as Wonder Bread with mayo. Sophipygian. Postmodern Pre-Raphaelite.
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I spent the morning putting furniture together and I've got a fair number of sore muscles because they don't get used this way much.

I think someone needs to develop a Tai Chi type form based on common DIY actions and postures.
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season
December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Remembering the late, great Tony Todd on his birthday.
An illustration of the actor Tony Todd, as the title character from the 1992 movie 'Candyman.' A bee hovers near his face and Virginia Madsen, who played the character Helen Lyle in the movie, is in the background.
December 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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rgarfinklesff.bsky.social
Three new SFF books I wrote are now up on Amazon:

Polyrhythmic Constellations: A Triptych of novels consisting of The Mills of God
The Teeth of Evolution
Turning The World.

This is my first time writing a series of books. That it is a series came as a surprise to me. /1
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Turning the World, Book Three of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, paperback print-on-demand book cover. On the front, centered, is a painting framed in white, showing the head and shoulders of a woman in close up, against a wall of ivy. Her hair billows up to become two winding rainbow-colored paths framing an oval with a great bear's head rising out of a mountainous landscape, and above that a churning stormy sea under grey skies. Tiny figures can be seen on the paths, which meet again at a gate under a banyan tree, a single owl flying away into the clear blue sky above it. The background image on the cover wraps around. Most of it is an extreme close-up of an illuminated manuscript in the style of the illuminations from Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne (drawn by the cover artist), showing a fennel stalk with a female Common Blue butterfly perched on it, large and prominent on the back cover. Just at the left edge the back cover fades into a star field. On the front cover a grey image of Galileo's sun-centered solar system shows concentric circles emphasizing the art. We also see twice a smaller gold rectangle showing the entire fennel stalk and butterfly, once upright on the right edge of the front cover, and once sideways between blocks of text on the back cover. Back cover text: Turning the World To adapt the world to its own changes, it was necessary to reach into the possibilities of the future. To change a world by its own adaptations, it was necessary to reach into an impossible but useful past. Did I invent you to make it easier to understand what I might make happen? Did you invent me to give more room to solve what there is not enough time to solve? When I spin one way and you spin another... What happens when we meet and remember being each other?
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The Teeth of Evolution, Book Two of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, paperback print-on-demand book cover. On the front, centered, is a painting framed in white of a landscape. Under a blue sky a vast chalk-white pinnacle looms over a beach of pebbles in the foreground, indeterminate thready green bands wrapping around it like moss. In the distant blue haze more pinnacles are visible. The background image on the cover wraps around, fading from a star field overlaid with diagrams of the solar system from Galileo's works to an illuminated manuscript on the back. On the back there is a small full image of the manuscript, a gold rectangle in the style of the illuminations from Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne (drawn by the cover artist) showing a fennel stalk with blooms and seeds with a female Common Blue butterfly perched on it. The butterfly is visible in close up in the bottom left corner, fading into stars. The Teeth of Evolution Humanity has learned enough about itself to be able to live and help each other live. It has terraformed much of the solar system and sent seeder ships that can grow humans from stored data to nearby stars, seeking places to grow and peoples to meet. But humanity's first contact protocols did not consider the possibility of encountering formerly sapient aliens. Ten million years ago this species terraformed its own system where it now dwells and grows but no longer thinks. What can humanity use from past knowledge and evolving ways to give new sapience to these ones, whose biology and thought are wholly unlike the human neurochemistry long thought solved? The Terraformers Enclave looks to construct futures. The Historians Enclave looks to reconstruct pasts. Together they need more than they can make of space, time, and possibility. (there's more but I can't fit it in the ALT text so I'll add it at the end of the thread)
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Mills of God, Book One of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, paperback print-on-demand book cover. On the front, centered, is a painting framed in white of a large bear, close and reaching out, in front of pine-coveed mountains. Its front and arms melt into a black void of stars and galaxies. Within that space colorful people, animals, plants, structures and mythic creagures erupt. The background image on the cover wraps around, fading from an illuminated manuscript on the front to a star field overlaid with diagrams of the solar system from Galileo's works on the back. On the front, just overlapping with the spine, is a smaller gold rectangle in the style of the illuminations from Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne (drawn by the cover artist) showing a fennel stalk with blooms and seeds with a female Common Blue butterfly perched on it. Front cover text: Achronal Press The Mills of God Richard Garfinkle Book One of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Trilogy The Mills of God Before they can have new life, the Dead must remember who they were. For this, they need help. There are some born under the Call who learn to walk through memory and retrieve the dead. For these, the Wake, one life is not enough. They make their ways back to life time and again until they've had enough of life and pass on and their places are taken by newly called. They have been doing this long enough that the memory of how they began is kept among the dead. In their time they have seen the ways of the world change over and over. Each time they have had to find new ways to do what they do. So that people can remember to live. (there's more but I can't fit it in the ALT text so I'll add it at the end of the thread)
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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achronalart.bsky.social
So now that these are published (whee!) I can show you the covers I made for them.
rgarfinklesff.bsky.social Richard Garfinkle @rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · 17h
Three new SFF books I wrote are now up on Amazon:

Polyrhythmic Constellations: A Triptych of novels consisting of The Mills of God
The Teeth of Evolution
Turning The World.

This is my first time writing a series of books. That it is a series came as a surprise to me. /1
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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And these are the Pilgrims. These guys!
A detail from Willaert's painting. There are women in brightly colored short skirts -- some calf length, one just under the knees -- with colored stripes on them showing their bright red and other colorful stockings, brightly colored short jackets and multicolored hats, some with ostrich feathers. The men are also wearing bright colors -- vivid red and blue, yellow and green, with blue and red ostrich feathers in their hats. A child in bright red, yellow, and blue holds a dead bird by the neck. A woman in a knee-length blue skirt and bright red stockings drags a rreluctant dog by a rope. There *is* a guy standing in the middle with a mostly black or grey outfit, but he is noticeably the only one. And even he has a pink-and-white ostrich feather in his hat.
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The "Hot Honey Rag" was written by dance arranger Peter Howard using John Kander's melody for "Funny Honey," played here by Mr. Howard himself.
April 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Timeline cleanse: Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli rehearse the "Hot Honey Rag" during Liza's put-in for Chicago in 1975.
April 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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These remarkably modern looking jewelry pieces are proudly on display in the Castle. Not only can you see them, but we also have replicas of some of them in the gift shop!
theduncanmackay.bsky.social Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10d
A pair of gold armbands from the Colchester Fenwick hoard, buried before Boudica’s attack in AD60. As the Roman last stand took place where Colchester Castle now sits, the owner may have perished where their jewellery is now displayed @ColMuseums.bsky.social
#FindsFriday #BoudicaFriday #Echolands
A pair of gold wire armbands created from repeated figure eights, one seen through the loops of the other.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Shout out especially to this lady. She would fit right in at a modern Renaissance Faire and you would never guess she was a Pilgrim.
A closer detail of one figure, a woman in a buff long-sleeved pointed bodice and a bright-blue skirt only just below her knees with three gold stripes decorating it. Her stockings are bright red and she wears delicate brown shoes that look like modern Mary Janes, with a thin strap holding them on. Her face is mostly hidden by a wide-brimmed yellow hat that has three or four white ostrich feathers on it. Her collar is wide, white and trimmed with lace and sticks out as is the current fashion (not drooping on her shoulders). She's wearing a white apron, I think, but it is being blown to the side so her skirt and legs are fully visible. SHe wears a pack bundle and carries a walking stick, and is yanking a very reluctant dog (not visible in detail) by a rope tied to its collar.
December 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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In poking around 17th century paintings I discovered that the pop culture image of Pilgrims is inaccurate.

Shocking, I know.

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1878 engraving of the Pilgrims leaving Delft on their way to America. On the shore a group of men, women and children on their knees looking humbly down or rolling their eyes up to the skies pray and beseech as a couple of anonymous sailors, their backs to us, push off a group of huddled people looking soberly back to them. It's black and white, so we can't tell if everyone is dressed in black, but they are certainly swathed in cloaks and things.
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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He has written the programming-as-art textbook The Muse of Coding, and with his brother, gravitational physicist David Garfinkle, the science and math books Three Steps to the Universe and X Marks the Spot: The Lost Inheritance of Mathematics. 2/2
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Richard Garfinkle is the Compton Crook Award-winning author of the SFF novels Celestial Matters, All of an Instant, Two by Two Souls Fly, Exaltations, Wayland's Principla, Unknowable Death, and Eros Takes a Bow. 1/2
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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But when stories nestle within stories, time turns on itself, and every story is a part of every other story, which is the tale and which the teller is more complicated than any of them imagine. 2/2
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The Polyrhythmic Constellations Trilogy, by Richard Garfinkle

Immortal reincarnating werewolves dance through history.

Beyond-telepathic humans make first contact and discover a ravaged world.

Each tells tales of the other to solve the problems of their own time.... 1/2
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Turning the World, Book Three of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, Kindle book cover. Centered is a painting framed in white, showing the head and shoulders of a woman in close up, against a wall of ivy. Her hair billows up to become two winding rainbow-colored paths framing an oval with a great bear's head rising out of a mountainous landscape, and above that a churning stormy sea under grey skies. Tiny figures can be seen on the paths, which meet again at a gate under a banyan tree, a single owl flying away into the clear blue sky above it. The cover's background is a close-up of an illuminated manuscript-style image of a fennel stalk overlaid with a Galilean diagrams of the solar system, a small image of the fennel stalk and a blue butterfly to the right. Cover text: Achronal Press Turning the World (in two overlapping fonts, one Renaissance style and one futuristic -- it works, trust me (the designer)) Richard Garfinkle Book Three of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Trilogy The painting is "Landmarks", by Alessandra Kelley, oil on board.
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Teeth of Evolution, Book Two of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, Kindle book cover. Centered is a painting framed in white of a landscape. Under a blue sky a vast chalk-white pinnacle looms over a beach of pebbles in the foreground, indeterminate thready green bands wrapping around it like moss. In the distant blue haze more pinnacles are visible. The cover's background is a star field overlaid with Galilean and earlier diagrams of the solar system in greys. Cover text: Achronal Press The Teeth of Evolution (in a chunky sans-serif somewhat futuristic font) Richard Garfinkle Book Two of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Trilogy The painting is "Tower", by Alessandra Kelley, egg tempera on board.
December 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The Mills of God, Book One of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Triptych, by Richard Garfinkle, Kindle book cover. Centered is a painting framed in white of a large bear, close and reaching out, in front of pine-coveed mountains. Its front and arms melt into a black void of stars and galaxies. Within that space colorful people, animals, plants, structures and mythic creagures erupt. The cover's background is an extreme close-up of a medieval-style illumination of a blooming fennel stalk laid on a gold background, a female Common Blue butterfly perched on it, only partially visible in one corner. Cover text: Achronal Press The Mills of God (in a Renaissance printing style font) Richard Garfinkle Book One of the Polyrhythmic Constellations Trilogy The painting is "Ursa Major", by Alessandra Kelley, alkyd on board.
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
achronalart.bsky.social
So now that these are published (whee!) I can show you the covers I made for them.
rgarfinklesff.bsky.social Richard Garfinkle @rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · 17h
Three new SFF books I wrote are now up on Amazon:

Polyrhythmic Constellations: A Triptych of novels consisting of The Mills of God
The Teeth of Evolution
Turning The World.

This is my first time writing a series of books. That it is a series came as a surprise to me. /1
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5N24JN...
Turning The World (Polyrhythmic Constellations)
Amazon.com: Turning The World (Polyrhythmic Constellations): 9798993712154: Garfinkle, Richard: Books
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December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The Teeth of Evolution (Polyrhythmic Constellations)
The Teeth of Evolution (Polyrhythmic Constellations) [Garfinkle, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Teeth of Evolution (Polyrhythmic Constellations)
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December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The Mills of God (Polyrhythmic Constellations)
The Mills of God (Polyrhythmic Constellations) [Garfinkle, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Mills of God (Polyrhythmic Constellations)
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December 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM