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E.M. Faulds / Beth

@bethkesh.bsky.social

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SFF writer, living in Scotland. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, Parsec magazines, Nova Scotia vol 2. Co-edited "Gallus" antho. Under the Moon - BFA winner 2023. #scruffyGarden. Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social emfaulds.com No DMs, sorry

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E.M. Faulds / Beth @bethkesh.bsky.social · Aug 4

I poured a lot of guts and angst into this. I wanted to write different SF, about being alive, afraid, and looking for something to fill the hole that lives in all of us.

And look, you get another novella with it! Find out where to buy:
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

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Graphic, text reads: "The unwise decisions two sisters make will affect the entire world. Bring Me Home, a science fiction novella by E.M. Faulds. Find it in Wiz Duos book 2. Go to wizardstowerpress.com" background graphic shows a silhoutte of a female figure with a circular hole cut out showing another smaller female figure beneath. Bottom right hand corner is a thumbnail of the Wiz Duos book 2 cover.

Graphic. Excerpt over graphics, text reads: '“Dave, I need you to tell Jayce that I didn’t kick him, I only touched him and then the sun hit my hand and mod sent out some kind of… I don’t know what, but it wasn’t me, I didn’t do it.”
“Yeah, right, so your body tunnel gave you superpowers? Congrats, I’m sure you’ll do well.”
“Don’t be stupid, come on, I’m trying to explain.”
“If I’m so stupid, why do you need me? Can’t you all just hang out and compare mods and leave me out of it?”
“You never got one,” I said out loud, stupidly.
“Oh, you noticed, well done.”
“I mean, why not?”
He rounded on me, nearly spitting in my face. “Because I’m not stupid! You got that elagite stuff. It’s like metal DNA and nobody knows what it does to you.”' Beneath that, the titling info reads: "Bring Me Home, by E.M. Faulds. Available now as part of Wiz Duos 2, from Wizard's Tower Press". Behind is a darkened image showing a two female figures, one larger with a circular hole in its centre, one smaller standing with head visible through hole. Bottom right is a thumbnail of the Wiz Duos book 2 cover.

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social · 1d

Me, every day of my life.

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Stewart Horn @thenakedpoet.bsky.social · 2d

Having to throw this out because we forgot we had it. 🤷‍♀️

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Chris Limb @catmachine.com · 2d

The kind of infographic I could stare at for ages - combined maps with space and information.

Infographic comparing the size of London and Manhattan with

MARATHON DISTANCE
WILD 2 (Comet)
4179 TOUTATIS (Potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid)
PROVEN GLOBAL COAL RESERVES
NEUTRON STAR (1.4 Solar Masses)
PROVEN GLOBAL OIL RESERVES
ALL LIVING PLANT BIOMASS
HALLEY'S COMET
BLACK HOLE OF 1 SOLAR MASS
ALL LIVING BACTERIA
CHIXCULUB IMPACTOR (Caused the extinction of the dinosaurs)
3200 PHAETHON (Asteroid that approaches closer to the Sun than any known object
PHOBOS (Moon of Mars)
EROS (Potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid)
DEIMOS (Moon of Mars)
VREDEFORT IMPACTOR (Created the largest known crater on Earth)
EJECTA FROM THE 1883 KRAKATOA ERUPTION
EJECTA FROM THE 1815 TAMBORA ERUPTION
EJECTA FROM THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTION 2.1 MILLION YEARS AGO

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Luke SPELLcourt 🧙🏼‍♀️🦇✨ @lukebelcourt.com · 3d

VAMPIRES releases soon!

To celebrate, I'm making the official playlist public! For multiple years, this playlist made my Spotify Wrapped pointless 😂

open.spotify.com/playlist/2cN...

For more info on VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS, visit lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday

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E.M. Faulds / Beth @bethkesh.bsky.social · 2d

See you in Brighton!

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 2d

Current Status: phys.org/news/2025-10...

Escalating Amazement Meme:

Cool: Dinosaur Tracks: Dinosaur footprints: how do they form and what can they tell us? by Emily Osterloff for the Natural History Museum

Very Cool: Fossilized Weaning in Neanderthal Teeth: Austin et al. 2013. Barium distributions in teeth reveal early-life dietary transitions in primates. Nature, 498(7453), 216-219.

So Cool: Giant Sloth Hunt Tracks: Fossilized Human Footprint Found Nestled in a Giant Sloth Footprint by Ed Yong for the Atlantic

AMAZING: Fossilized Mutual Destruction Nimravid Battle: The Dakota Badlands Used to Host Sabertoothed Pseudo-Cat Battles by Riley Black for the Smithsonian

OH HOLY SHIT AMAZING: Fossilized Rock Hyrax Booty Skootch Tracks: Charles W. Helm et al, The unusual, unique ichnology of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) and possible Pleistocene tracks and traces from South Africa, Ichnos (2025). DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2025.2546373

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Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 4d

More evidence of what i had to report to the @bsfa.bsky.social and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social this year - that publishers made a lot of noise about inclusion but have largely, in my experience, stopped working on this.

As you might imagine i have opinions.

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 4d

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently it only takes me the length of a relatively quick shower to get completely lost in ramble about self-expression.

akornboi.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/s...

Shower thoughts about the terror of making art

The title on this one is literal. I buzzed my hair and hopped in the shower to get rid of all those little cut-off hairs, which seem to turn into steel needles if you get them in your collar. And b…

akornboi.wordpress.com

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 3d

If you have any other options, stop giving Amazon your money.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 3d

"The report called Amazon “the ultimate keeper of the data that enables detentions and deportations,” while MIT Technology Review called Amazon the “invisible backbone” of ICE’s crackdown on immigrants."

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 11d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 4d

It's the end of the week so it must be #PublisherFriday!

If you are an #IndependentPublisher why not let us know a bit about your press, some links, current projects, crowdfunders, submission windows, some of your authors

#publisher #SmallPress #publishing #IndiePress

alt text in pictures please

old engraving of a Tunis Press, which is a large wooden structure, with one man pulling the lever to make a print and another man who is smoking a pipe checking some copy, with sheets of paper strewn on the ground

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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zoë @zo-e.xyz · 6d

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... source on this if you're interested - discord's zendesk data breach likely includes images of people's government IDs which were processed for age verification in places like the UK

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · May 16

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.

sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · May 15

I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;

most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!

well, we do. so fuck off.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth @bethkesh.bsky.social · 6d

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 6d

I was trying to photograph Groove-billed Anis this morning, but I was photobombed by his scofflaw.

At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#tapirs #birds #nature

A tapir resting in green grass with two small black birds nearby—one perched on its back and the other on the ground in front.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 6d

🐦SWEETS TO MAKE THE WAGTAILS SING🎶

As the famous saying goes, "hana yori dango" (花より団子), "dumplings more than flowers" (substance over style)...but why not combine them?

Flower-inspired sweets dazzle in early autumn, shortly before the swallows depart.
#wagashi #和菓子

'Suimen-no-tsuki', a pale yellow sweet inspired by moonlight reflected on water.

Sonyo-in's spectacularly colourful ceiling, filled with images of butterflies.

A red and blue jellied sweet inspired by artist Kitawaki Noboru's (北脇昇 1901-1951) painting the 'greater henbit' (ホトケノザ).

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 8d

Very happy to have been awarded Creative Scotland funding to expand a dark SF project (similar vibes to Limelight)! A multi-POV tale of lives intersecting in a dystopian city run by a nefarious corporation (think Gotham meets Panem) with dark health tech, a heist, and an assassination plot...✨👁️

Collage of photos depicting a futuristic society

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Jenni Coutts (she/her) @jennicoutts.bsky.social · 8d

I admit I had *way* more fun drawing this wee guy than I thought I would for drawtober prompt number 2: Toad Astrologer
What’s the verdict, should I sell prints at World fantasy Convention this year?
#art

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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 11d

My new story is out in The Pink Hydra today! www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/02022...

The Pink Hydra | Four Flowers in Formaldehyde - Heather Valentine

Four Flowers in Formaldehyde by Heather Valentine

www.thepinkhydra.com

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E.M. Faulds / Beth @bethkesh.bsky.social · 8d

If I'm able, I'm there!

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Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 8d

Project Hanuman has its launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social two weeks before it's in shops. There will be cake, wine and merch. 2pm on the Friday of the convention (31st October).

I'm petrified of launching this thing alone so please come along and eat my cakes

There may also be special guest

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E.M. Faulds / Beth @bethkesh.bsky.social · 8d

I saw one doing wheelies like this. I wonder if it is a feeding strategy or a disease that makes them do it. Or, like, the dancing plague.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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