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Bevan Thomas
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Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
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bookwormsat.bsky.social
‘I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.’ ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

This #BookWormSat is all about coming of age for Louisa May Alcott’s birthday. Grow up with us!
🖼️ Storm, Zdzisław Jasiński, 1925.
Landscape painting of storm.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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godysseypodcast.com
Tsurara-onna are by their nature tragic. They are Icicle Women of Japan, formed from the minds of lonely hearts, and appear for a season of fleeting, passionate love. Then, when the snow melts, so too does the Icicle Woman, leaving only a memory. #FolkyFriday

🖼: M. Meyer
A Japanese woman dressed in traditional winter clothes holding a old Japanese parasol covered in icicles, surrounded by a wintry landscape, by Matthew Meyer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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annapeppard.bsky.social
We've started a new @sequentialscholars.bsky.social unit on trans representation in manga! #ComicsStudies #Manga
sequentialscholars.bsky.social Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 4d
Where trans representation in North American comics has struggled to find firm footing at times, trans representation in manga has been there since very nearly the beginning and encompasses a variety of iconic characters, creators, and titles. #manga #transgender 1/7
Covers of manga with trans representation
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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defunctland.bsky.social
A sincere thank you to everyone who has already watched our new video. I am so grateful to be able to do anything creatively, especially weird, niche, long things like this. This project in total took a year and a half to complete, and I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed it.
defunctland.bsky.social Defunctland @defunctland.bsky.social · 5d
So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, an effort to populate Disney theme parks with free-roaming, interactive beings. It was touted as the future. How's it going? Watch here: bit.ly/49C6vng
Mickey hand and animatronic hand reaching toward one another
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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crystalponti.bsky.social
Andersen’s Snow Queen does not rage. She reasons. She steals a boy’s heart with logic and frost, teaching the oldest truth about cold power. It does not need to shout. #FolkyFriday

Art: Elena Ringo
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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fleurishfolk.bsky.social
In some variations of the Banshee, she is said to be the #spirit of a murdered woman. 🪦 The Scottish version, aka the Bean Nighe, is more specifically the #ghost of a woman who died during childbirth. #PhantomsFriday

🎨 The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862)
The Banshee Appears, by R. Prowse (1862) Public domain
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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lostcity.bsky.social
Fascist technocrats love to crow about how immigration/migration into and within the Roman Empire during its decline looks like a compounding factor, but they never talk about how vital migration was to Rome’s rise. When Rome was successful, it was also constantly expanding Roman citizenship.
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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kerria.bsky.social
Anne Boleyn's spectral carriage is said to race past Blickling Hall every May 19th. At Hever Castle, her ghost is seen gliding over the River Eden bridge on Christmas Eve and under the oak tree where she and Henry VIll once courted.

art by Barrie Morris #PhantomsFriday
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents inhabited the Pale of Settlement (western Russia where Jews were allowed to live) and escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. All the same racist, xenophobic, ignorant things he is saying were said about his own family.
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
bevanthomas.bsky.social
In Norse myths, the mountain giantess Skaði married the sea god Njörðr, as he had the nicest legs. But Skaði found she hated the sea because she couldn't ski there and gulls squawked all day, while Njörðr hated the snowy mountains because they were so cold and wolves howled all night.
#FolkyFriday
Njörðr and Skaði on their way to Nóatún (Njörðr's hall by the sea). An illustration by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine.
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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sarahnour.bsky.social
In Japanese folklore, Yuki-Onna (meaning "snow woman") are the inhumanly beautiful spirits of women who froze to death in winter. They create blizzards and lead winter travelers astray to their deaths. Sometimes they seduce men and kill them with kisses that freeze them solid. #FolkyFriday
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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telekitnetic.bsky.social
🦦🌊 #telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

Another otter formline commission for loial otter via TG!! :>
An above view illustration of a formline river otter swimming in a river, with leaves drifting around it. An above view illustration of a formline river otter swimming in a river, with leaves drifting around it. The image is a zoomed in crop of the river otter's upper half.
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy
The Devil is not always subtle. Sometimes, he resorts to blatant murder.

#germany #folktale #folklore #devil
https://www.patreon.com/posts/infernal-visits-78826620
The Devil Hangs a Woman: (See Archiv Vol. I p. 350) In December of the year 1736, the Devil fetched a farmer woman from Offensen near Celle. Since she had been melancholic, she had intended to travel to a doctor in Peine. But when she was on her journey and at Edemissen, the Devil took her with great spectacle. People initially did not know where she had gone, but later they found her shoes in the yard. And in the same night, a forester had witnessed in a nearby forest how the Devil had hung her from an oak tree. Her bones still hung from that tree for a long time afterwards. Source: Grässe, J. G. T. Sagenbuch des preussischen Staats. Zweiter Band. 1869, p. 876.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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cloudscapecomics.com
It's Black Friday at Gumroad, and our entire eBook catalogue is on sale! Save 25% on all ebooks! Just use coupon BLACKFRIDAY2025 at checkout

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Black Friday Sale, coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2025 Fantastic Frights Cover The Witching Hours Cover The Last Tide Cover
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
bevanthomas.bsky.social
According to Gaelic folklore, if February 1st is unusually sunny, it may be because the Cailleach (a fairy hag) has decided to extend the winter. She makes February 1st sunny so that she can stockpile firewood before pummeling the land with pitiless blizzards.
🎨Mairin-Taj Caya
#FolkyFriday
The fairy hag Cailleach leans on her stone hammer. An illustration by Mairin-Taj Caya.
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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notokayfabe.bsky.social
A justifier yelling into a megaphone “increase production” to a warehouse full of workers under a banner that reads “to die on the job is to die for darkseid”
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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austingorton.bsky.social
Card #127: Brian Stelfreeze (B)

While I don't share Stelfreeze's admiration for Boba Fett, this is a great piece. I quite like the helmet image in the background.

#TradingCardADay #SWG1 #StarWars #NewVisions #EmpireStrikesBack #BobaFett
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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thebeaverton.com
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
Photo of an Oct. 1 Time Magazine article that attributed a quote to US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, when it was actually made up for a Beaverton article.
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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juan2tree.bsky.social
Definitely have to share one of the most iconic Thanksgiving Day reenactments today. Grab those cardigans and highballs and enjoy! 🦃 🍁 🪶🔥🍽️
Addams Family Values: Thanksgiving play (HD CLIP)
YouTube video by Binge Society
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November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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lesserkey.bsky.social
Revelation

#art #oc #ocsky #keeperoftartarus
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Anything to please the corporate donors.
Screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta on X.com. It reads: “This is absolute cartoon villain level stuff.” Below is an image from The Simpsons showing characters holding signs that say “WE WANT WHAT’S WORST FOR EVERYONE” and “WE’RE JUST PLAIN EVIL.” Underneath is a preview of a NewsWire post stating: “Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat — WSJ.”
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
*Rolls up sleeves*

All available in the @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social store!

store.ironcircus.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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gregstolze.bsky.social
2013 LINEHAM: I might go terf.

NORMAL FOLX: Or you could mind your business and let people be.

LINEHAM: What's the worst that could happen?

2023 LINEHAM: Well, my wife left and I'm broke.

EARLY 2025 LINEHAM: Well, I've been arrested.

LATE 2025 LINEHAM:
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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kelmcdonald.bsky.social
Gonna watch this tomorrow
a man dressed as a turkey is standing in front of a group of people dressed as turkeys .
Alt: Addams family values puggys saying Eat Me while dressed as a turkey
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November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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kathmachine.bsky.social
Ok, I'm gonna start a little thread here for something I've been doing for fun lately: making designs for things that don't exist.

First up: ah, yes, that classic computer game of the early 90s:
1990s style cover for a computer game called "Waynely Farfield's Geomaquarium", with geometric shapes and tropical fish
July 3, 2023 at 2:02 AM