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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma

@asakiyume.bsky.social

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Nobody special, but I dream. Author of LAGOONFIRE, THE INCONVENIENT GOD (both from Annorlunda Books), PEN PAL, various short stories. New short story "THE BEE WIFE" available now on most ebook platforms, or directly from me.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 7d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 4h

😌😌😌

old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 4h

francesca apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1939

Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 6h

Hahahahaha!

Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 6h

ALWAYS
LOVE
THE
MOUSE DEER

Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 7h

I love them, and by another name, they are key elements in the novel I'm writing.
Now read this thread from c0nc0rdance! Any thread by them is great.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Feb 20

There's so much to love about the Java Mouse-Deer (Tragulus Javanicus) in such a small package.

No bigger than a rabbit, they're the smallest living ungulates & probably resemble the ancestors of all ruminants more than any other species.

But let's look at their tiny blood cells!

(📷: Levg)

Tragulus Javanicus (Lesser Malay Mouse-deer) in the Jerusalem Zoo
CREDIT: Levg

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 7h

LOOK AT HIS GLORIOUS TEETH!!

Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 8h

🇧🇷Araçari-de-bico-de-marfim
🌎Pteroglossus azara
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O araçari-de-bico-de-marfim, ou araçari-de-bico-marfim (Pteroglossus azara) é uma espécie de ave piciforme da família Ramphastidae.

📷 Ronaldo Koloszuk

Um pássaro vibrante, com cabeça e peito pretos, uma faixa vermelha intensa sob o pescoço e abdômen amarelo brilhante, está empoleirado em um galho de árvore rústico, envolto por folhagens verdes. Seu bico grande, predominantemente cor de osso com detalhes em preto, chama atenção. O céu azul claro serve como um pano de fundo sereno.

Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 7h

Good thread

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 8h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 7h

Marie Brennan is a great writer and well established, so READ THIS POST AND TAKE HEART, EVERYONE.

And be bloody-minded.

Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 7h

I'm definitely able to pound pavement in part because this is my full-time job.

But also, I am bloody-minded AF. Which is useful in this particular situation. (Even with my track record, I still sometimes get 20+ rejections on a story before it sells.)

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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 1d

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.

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🌿ÔRA @ora-draws.bsky.social · 1d

#Linktober Day 9 - #Blupee💎

#Linktober2025 #zelda #botw

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 17h

You figured it out! Or is this different from the ones on the basil plant?

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 17h

Beautiful beautiful nothing

JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 18h

#10minutesfromhome #HumansOfBluesky #ClassicMono
Looking at Nothing

A man dressed all in black sits on the edge of a small stone wall overlooking Elton Reservoir Bury.
There is nothing to see as everything is covered in a thick layer of fog

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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞💀骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 19h

Crunched some interesting data from a 1938 Buddhist book catalogue, 佛學圖書目錄. Of approximately 3467 books listed, nearly 3/4 were woodblock printed works. This old technology remained in widespread use through the modern era. crta.info/wiki/%E4%BD%...

A pie chart showing the numbers of items for each means of printing. Woodblock works at 2436, movable type at 990, lithography at 40, and electrotype at 1.

Title page from the catalogue. Full text and data available on the CRTA via the link in the post text

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

just heard a great phrase:

the morbidly rich

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Well didn’t take long after opening up for our first visit of the day.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm, probably different, then…

Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

But okay, I see you're right and both the region and the flower are named after, you guessed it, Traveling White Guy.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

They do!

Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

(congrats on doing the purchase... sorry the replacements are Not As Good)

Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

Bougainvillea is south american?! I thought it was Asian... だって、there's a whole region called that in Papua New Guinea:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonom...

Autonomous Region of Bougainville - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

On first blush it looks something like a tent caterpillar, but (a) there are several species of those and (b) I'm not sure if any are native to East Asia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_ca...

Tent caterpillar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhh, glorious!

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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 1d

🇧🇷Andorinha-do-barranco
🌎Riparia riparia
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

A andorinha-do-barranco é uma ave passeriforme da família Hirundinidae.

📷 Paulo Guerra

Um pequeno pássaro de plumagem marrom clara na cabeça e dorso, com uma faixa mais escura nas asas, pousado no topo de finas hastes de grama. O peito e a barriga são brancos, contrastando com a parte superior do corpo. O pássaro está levemente virado para a esquerda, com um olhar atento. O fundo é um verde suave e desfocado.
Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 2d

A little nurse shark to celebrate Ava's first #SundayFishSketch.

A sketch of a young nurse shark in shades of green.

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 2d

😂💯 truth