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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈

@cayemarsh.bsky.social

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Author of queer SFF living & writing in Aotearoa (she/her). STATION IN THE SKY out now! Enthusiastic about books and bugs. Posting positive to offset the horrors. Cayemarsh.com #ToitūTeTiriti 🚫AI, crypto, billionaires, guns🚫

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 25d

You might not know that I write books? But I do!

Check out STATION IN THE SKY. It's 2-novellas-in-1.

✅Sci-fi with wastelands & biodomes & space stations
✅head injury/brain fog & hidden motives
✅mother-daughter feels & NB/NB ace deep friendship

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Station in the Sky

www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 6h

This is such a lovely account to follow. 🧡 Seeing one of these pictures on my timeline makes a real difference in my mood.

Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 7h

Liquidambar leaf palette just now👇🏼. Pause for a moment if you’re feeling anxious-your brain’s likely to release dopamine due to a positive response to colour gradation, certain bright colours & looking at images our brains find appealing. A pause here will make your day slightly easier to tackle 🍁

Liquidambar leaves laid out in order of colour, green through to deep red, on a buff coloured linen background

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8h

“The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth.”
— Joseph Browning

Church of Jeff
@jeffowski@mastodon.world
#ai #generativeAl
Edit: went back and found my friend that originated the quote from Facebook.
facebook.com/share/p/sQGLoN9wu...

Joseph Browning
Jul 10
The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 18h

Truly this is the “hold my beer” level of S-tier P&P retellings — took about three pages to get me from the classic “ugh, that horrible little Collins man” to “I would lay down my life for him”

Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 1d

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

www.amazon.com/Mr-Collins-L...

Audiobook cover of Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch, read by Joel Leslie and published by RB Media. Cover is green, with ferns, white potato flowers and red raspberries, also a blackbird in flight and a horse and gig.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 10h

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the job ads online index - adjusted for working-age population. Good news is that we've stopped falling. Bad news: we're back to 2012 - a low point in the economic cycle. We are facing years of stagnation / slow recovery without some kind of large, strategic intervention. [2/3]

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 18h

Felicidades!! 🎉🎉

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 20h

Anyway, I made a fancy payhip store where you can buy direct from me, or you can buy my books on Kobo, Apple, Nook, and Amazon.

Fancy direct store that I worked really hard on: payhip.com/kristadball

Krista D. Ball

Krista D. Ball is an award-winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.

payhip.com

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 2d

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 2d

Alert! Waterstones are offering 25% off preorders for How to Fake it in Society until midnight on Friday 17th!

Enter “OCTOBER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer. Exclusively available on the Waterstones website and the Waterstones app

How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles | Waterstones

Buy How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 1d

Y'ALL - Broken Tribe Press chose my #poetry collection the Discipline of Drowning as their award winner, & it's coming out next summer!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!
#poetry 💙📚 #booksky 📖 @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #poems 📝 #writing 📚☁️

book award announcement, photo of white woman with shoulder length brunette hair and glasses, text reads Meet our Tribe Poetry Award Winner Colleen S. Harris, the Discipline of Drowning forthcoming summer 2026

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Nikky Lee - Author @nikkythewriter.com · 4d

A reminder to my NZ spec fic author friends – don't forget to enter your works into Te Pae Tawhiti Awards, Aotearoa's first judged speculative fiction awards! We're looking for novels, novellas, YA, MG, short stories, graphic novels and more!

tepaetawhitiawards.nz/how-to-enter/

#nzbooks #nzauthor

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Emily Wood @emilyredwood.bsky.social · 2d

"It was always nice to hear one's work had caused significant anguish" might be the most KJ Charles line to ever exist. 🤣🤣🤣 @kjcharleswriter.com

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · 1d

look at my girl and her sheep

digital ink drawing of a shepherd and her sheep in a field

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

MRK can articulate writing concepts so clearly and simply without collapsing nuance.

Her Patreon is an AMAZING resource for writers. Highly recommend.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 2d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

Holy SHIT what a line up!

I will never attend one of these, but I will always be wistful about it.

Writing Excuses @writingexcuses.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting news! Tickets are on sale NOW for our Writing Retreat on a Cruise Ship! Join @maryrobinettekowal.com @howardtayler.bsky.social @dongwon.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social & @sandratayler.bsky.social in 2026 in a voyage to Alaska
www.tickettailor.com/events/writi...

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

It was a goddamn DELIGHT! 😂

(Also DAMN I appreciated the history in that one. I really love how you don't shrink from the pressing moral issues of the time periods you write in. It's so necessary.)

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

Nghi Vo wrote a brilliantly unhinged take on it that veers off wildly and I LOVED it. (The Chosen And The Beautiful, if you're interested...)

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

I have read All Of Us Murderers by @kjcharleswriter.com and OMG the Goodreads ratings at the end TOOK ME OUT! 😂 That's in there purely for other writers and book industry people and it was a MASTERSTROKE. It was petty in exactly the right sort of satisfying way.

5 STARS!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂I would definitely read these!

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 2d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

Oh gawd my sympathies!

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Wow

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 3d

I read The Assassins of Thasalon (Penric and Desdemona, #10)
by Lois McMaster Bujold, along with the 10 accompanying novellas, in 36 hours.

K.J. Charles's review of The Assassins of Thasalon (Penric and Desdemona, #10)

This review is going to have to stand for the entire Penric and Desdemona series, all 11 books of which I have just glommed over a 36 hour period. All the rest are novellas and I've been sick okay, le...

www.goodreads.com

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 5d

EXACTLY

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

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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Sexy Monsters @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 5d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 5d

They killed it early on and are now desecrating its corpse.

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 5d

Mixed grade eggs means a generous mix of size 6 and even smaller, apparently.

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 7d

One of two fair comics that made me cry, @mariabrennmb.bsky.social's 'In The Heart of the Island' is a 90-page folk-fantasy tale about unquestioningly following decades-long held traditions and the dangers such a path can lead towards.

Available now at the fair!

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