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Bryn Hammond

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| Writer. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novellas Waste Flowers, What Rough Beast? Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols | She/her 🌈Queer. Australia | https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · Sep 9

On the blog: What Rough Beast?
amgalant.com/what-rough-b...
About my new Goatskin novella. With an excerpt, a reading of the first chapter, an interview at Black Gate

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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · 2d

My recent illustrations are all available as prints. $5 Worldwide shipping + 25% off.
www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya...

The artwork shows a ceremony on a patio. There's a round pool in the center of the image and a round arch in the background. Sisters of the convent are placed in different locations performing different parts of the ritual. Half of them wear a peacock mask and half of them wear sun-like headpieces. There's a woman in the center on the horse. She wears a blue dress decorated with mosaic-like patterns. The horse is covered with blue patterns and stands still above the water. Two twins are sitting on the floor surrounded by large lilies. Behind them one sister plays a harp and another one is holding two bowls with mysterious light. There's a big mosaic tree in the background with other sisters dancing around it. There are two other sisters on top of the wall waving scarves. The artwork is mostly blue and light green

The artwork shows a wedding party. The room is decorated with tiles and patterns and has a long table in the center where the attendees of the party are seated. There are dancers in the foreground, some broken plates, bowls, bottles, apples and eggs on the floor. There is a donkey standing in the center of the room. The donkey was gifted to the wedded. There are musicians behind the dancers. One is playing a domra and another one is playing an accordion. There are dishes and bottles on the table. A child is holding a flower while eating an apple on the left side of the image. A man is giving a toast. A woman next to him is looking at the man while holding a rooster. The bride is wearing a white dress with her face covered with veil. She is holding flowers. The broom is standing next to her with a sword in one hand. Another woman is looking at a man who seems to be a little tipsy. Half of the characters are skeletons and half are humans. The artwork is mostly red, green and blue.

The image shows a scene inside an old house with two repeating characters and their story. The house is decorated with wooden patterns and has three floors with stairs leading to each floor. In the foreground the couple is hugging each other; in the middle ground the man is sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper and the woman is walking up the stairs looking at the room below. On the second room the woman is facing the direction of her partner's study. She looks frozen and is standing next to a dresser with a clock on it. On the left side the man is sitting at his desk looking behind his shoulder. On the third floor the same woman is looking in the mirror and sees her reflection as a skeleton. The artwork is decorated with patterns and tiles and is mostly mustard, brown and green.

The artwork shows a boat with travelers passing through a town. There are three people on the boat. They wear large brown hats and long robes. There are some pagodas and buildings in the background behind green mountains. There are some hills with plants and large orchids. There's a green and white heron on the left side of the image and some ducks in the water on the right side of the image. The artwork is mostly green and brown with some pops of pink color.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 10h

You do amazing work

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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · 11h

Hello again #PortfolioDay !
I'm Anya. I am a freelance illustrator with a love for patterns and historical themes. I am always open for work and would love to find some new illustration projects!
✉️ [email protected]
anyachalina.myportfolio.com

The image shows a room with tall windows and stairs leading to a bathroom below. There's a woman with red hair reaching towards a dollhouse. The woman is an original character of the commissioner. On the right side from the window there's a wall with decorated arch around it and some paintings hanging on the wall. On the first level there's a bathtub with a man laying in it. The bathtub is partially covered by a divider. The artwork is mostly pink and mint with lots of patterns.

The artwork shows musicians sitting in shallow water in a purple room. First musician plays wooden drums, second one plays erhu, third one plays a flute, fourth one plays a gong. All background musicians wear either pots or plates on their heads. The woman in the center has black hair and plays an instrument inspired by Korean instrument called gayageum. There are three purple goldfish floating above the ground. The wall in the background is decorated with arches with stained glass and there's a big flower pot with purple cornflowers. The room also has some arches with silk fabric hanging on them. The artwork is purple with some green details.

the artwork shows a room with a circle-shaped window and two people standing in the center. The window is decorated with flowers and has a curtain hanging over it. The room has two floors and stairs between them. The bottom part has a pool with the reflection of the room and two separated stairs facing each other. The room is decorated with patterns and tiles. The artwork is mostly lilac and turquoise.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 17h

Ah, the title and subtitle. A short book devoted to a single Icelandic saga, and titled to invoke Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. I love that claim to complexity, psychological and other, for the medieval work. I'd like to write on Grettir in this fashion (but can't).

Book cover. In the upper third, a firey, steamy volcano; below, lower slopes in darkness, against which is seen the title: Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices by William Ian Miller. Oxford.

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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · 11d

Clare Sears shines a light on how femslash writers view their labor and contributions to their communities in their #TWC46 Article, "Come as you are: Sex, race, and writing in f/f slash fan fiction communities"! Read it here:

buff.ly

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 18h

most intriguing book title found today
(actually I'm reading the author's other, The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature)

Book cover. A thicket of leafy green vines hangs over a white space with the title: Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath by Dilek Bulut Sarikaya.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 1d

Had a few hours to process this, and wanted to say thank you to the jurors and voters of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social for seeing - and honouring - this little anarchist-inflected SF novel, from the list of a fiercely progressive & independent Indian publisher ( @westlandbooks.bsky.social). (1/2)

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that I'm currently recruiting for Romancing the Gothic talks for next year!

Here is an updated cfp which shows which months are already completely full.

romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...

Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers

In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…

romancingthegothic.com

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Lyrakute, Ashtray Dyke [COMMS OPEN <3] @tarakute.bsky.social · 1d

Giving women the title of King is so hot to me like idk taking any traditional male title or role and giving it to a woman just rules so hard I fuck with it heavy. Sir, King, Lord, Prince, Page, Butler etc

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 1d

reading another translation this time but damn, I liked the Penguin -- see my review made up of quotes.

Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 1d

First thousand of a novelette. No title yet but this one has Gok Turks, balbal stones and old heroic lays. Re-reading Dede Korkut for it: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Bryn Hammond's review of The Book of Dede Korkut

5/5: 'Dirse Khan came home. He called to his wife, "Come here, luck of my head, throne of my house, my sugar-melon, my honey-melon."' 'great sorrow came over his wife; her black almond eyes filled wi...

www.goodreads.com

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 2d

Just finished Orbital --mesmerising -- and picked up Skein Island.

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Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle oddities🔜Pdx oddities 🔜kumoricon @hemask.bsky.social · 13d

a piece I created for a zine about metal music and wine called Blood of Gods

A deer horned person with braids carries a basket and wheat while an armored person behind them holds a axe. In the background are vessels of wine, and a fountain of wine

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 2d

Bookish Checkpoint 📝

✧ Last Book: A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith Spark

✧ Current Read(s): Orbital by Samantha Harvey

✧ Newest Adds to the TBR: I'm too random for that? Hang on, last bought: Attila by Aliocha Coll, tr. Katie Whittemore

✧ Eagerly Waiting For: The Sovereign by C.L. Clark

Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.bsky.social · 2d

Bookish Checkpoint 📝

✧ Last Book: Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle

✧ Current Read(s): Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe

✧ Newest Adds to the TBR: Just learned that a new T. Kingfisher book, Snake-Eater, comes out in December!

✧ Eagerly Waiting For: Slow Gods, by Claire North

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 2d

so many authors in discussion of this say they have low employability (like me)
I made the bargain of low income in exchange for time to write: am experienced in how to live low-income. Even so, options get cut off as you accumulate injuries; poverty traps catch you; you don't grow more employable.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 3d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · 2d

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2d

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 3d

Loved this profile of the women who run Hagfish Books, another amazing company devoted to reissuing forgotten and overlooked titles.

They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

www.nytimes.com

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 3d

To celebrate 200 total patrons, we're giving away a 6-month Patreon subscription, including Discord access & Issue 1 of OTHERSIDE in 2026!

Winner will be drawn on Monday! (We'll choose a bonus winner from free patrons, so be sure to sign up.) To enter, repost & reply with a favorite queer read.

Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon

a magazine of the queer fantastic.

patreon.com

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 3d

Latest fave: Metal from Heaven by August Clarke

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 4d

*Except* for The Secret History of the Mongols
(not its original title)

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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social · 5d

Red Sonya
29" x 21" Oil on Panel 2007
Collection of Cathy and Arnie Fenner

Began the drawing for this on a flight to San Diego Comic-Con back in 2006. The image was so powerful, the Fenners commissioned to turn it into a painting.
Thank you for giving me the chance to shine you two!

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D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social · 6d

mother Goethel, 2025

-{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-

An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 7d

omg
Piano Trio 2 meets 'like a jaded mandarin'

Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 7d

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones