Anita 🧜🏽♀️🏴☠️🪐
@mythopoetica.bsky.social
Author. Poet. Gothic Academic. PhD. she/her
Codex Writers Group, MLA
Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc
Website: www.mythopoetica.com
Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/
Codex Writers Group, MLA
Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc
Website: www.mythopoetica.com
Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/
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An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
Done with my presentation. I've made it simple and not so theoretically complex (that's for the article).
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Done with my presentation. I've made it simple and not so theoretically complex (that's for the article).
I think if you're going to spend all your time vagueposting a person you're following, you might as well unfollow and block instead of being a loser hate-follower. You know what I mean.
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I think if you're going to spend all your time vagueposting a person you're following, you might as well unfollow and block instead of being a loser hate-follower. You know what I mean.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
It's been a Fiona Apple kind of week as I rush through a mountain of tasks to be done. Webinar is this afternoon; as is usual for conveners I am only working on my paper now after having to worry about everything else re said webinar. 🫠🙃
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It's been a Fiona Apple kind of week as I rush through a mountain of tasks to be done. Webinar is this afternoon; as is usual for conveners I am only working on my paper now after having to worry about everything else re said webinar. 🫠🙃
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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anyway one of the many reasons to support smaller publishers with a niche they do really well is they're generally publishing books they really care about rather than throwing a thousand titles at the market to see what sticks
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
anyway one of the many reasons to support smaller publishers with a niche they do really well is they're generally publishing books they really care about rather than throwing a thousand titles at the market to see what sticks
Another year of trimming my own hair so I don’t have to spend extra money nor endure unnecessary interaction nor undergo the travails of having too much hair snipped off.
Quite pleased with this year’s trim.
Quite pleased with this year’s trim.
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Another year of trimming my own hair so I don’t have to spend extra money nor endure unnecessary interaction nor undergo the travails of having too much hair snipped off.
Quite pleased with this year’s trim.
Quite pleased with this year’s trim.
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Here’s an open letter signed so far by over 1200 educators (including many in the humanities) which articulates key rationales of those of us who refuse the unsupported-by-facts pressure to adopt GenAI anywhere in the educational process. I signed a while ago. w/ thanks to @olivia.science
The link above is not direct to the open letter, although you can find it there. Direct link here:
An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education
openletter.earth
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here’s an open letter signed so far by over 1200 educators (including many in the humanities) which articulates key rationales of those of us who refuse the unsupported-by-facts pressure to adopt GenAI anywhere in the educational process. I signed a while ago. w/ thanks to @olivia.science
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Just a reminder --
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Just a reminder --
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Contentment in December is:
my tracks among the rabbits'
birdseed between my fingers
leaning against an oak (I breathe, you breathe, I breathe...)
sun on my neck/my shadow on the snow/hidden grass sleeping through both as it dreams with certainty of an #end that is also a beginning.
#whistpr
my tracks among the rabbits'
birdseed between my fingers
leaning against an oak (I breathe, you breathe, I breathe...)
sun on my neck/my shadow on the snow/hidden grass sleeping through both as it dreams with certainty of an #end that is also a beginning.
#whistpr
December 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Firing a professor for protesting is unacceptable. Colleges and universities should embrace free speech, not trample on it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests?CMP=share_btn_url
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests?CMP=share_btn_url
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Firing a professor for protesting is unacceptable. Colleges and universities should embrace free speech, not trample on it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests?CMP=share_btn_url
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests?CMP=share_btn_url
I've been working on event-organising stuff for tomorrow's webinar since 630am, btw. After these two weeks are over I'm going to crash so hard. I can feel it. Have already also agreed to help out colleagues at another university and have an outstanding peer review task on top of everything else.
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I've been working on event-organising stuff for tomorrow's webinar since 630am, btw. After these two weeks are over I'm going to crash so hard. I can feel it. Have already also agreed to help out colleagues at another university and have an outstanding peer review task on top of everything else.
The good thing about doing the work on What The Woods Mean is that it's giving me a handle on the dimensions and work needed for covers (both ebook and paperback) for D2D. This will help with the production of Rosemirror as well as Tower of the Rosewater Goblet next year.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The good thing about doing the work on What The Woods Mean is that it's giving me a handle on the dimensions and work needed for covers (both ebook and paperback) for D2D. This will help with the production of Rosemirror as well as Tower of the Rosewater Goblet next year.
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What if Psyche was a Gen-X Malaysian transplanted from her home because of an otherworldly visitation? What if there were a race of Cupids? Read on to find out more in this mythic fantasy with cozy vibes, found family and dark academia overtones.
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... 🧜♀️ 💙 📚
#BookSky
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... 🧜♀️ 💙 📚
#BookSky
May 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What if Psyche was a Gen-X Malaysian transplanted from her home because of an otherworldly visitation? What if there were a race of Cupids? Read on to find out more in this mythic fantasy with cozy vibes, found family and dark academia overtones.
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... 🧜♀️ 💙 📚
#BookSky
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p... 🧜♀️ 💙 📚
#BookSky
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Sneak peek at the very minimalistic cover. I may add some more details before publication. I also decided against a preface for the collection because everything sounded pretentious and I wanted the poems to speak for themselves. Instead, there is a dedication to all feral souls.
December 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Sneak peek at the very minimalistic cover. I may add some more details before publication. I also decided against a preface for the collection because everything sounded pretentious and I wanted the poems to speak for themselves. Instead, there is a dedication to all feral souls.
I am mostly done with cleaning up and formatting What The Woods Mean. The cover is also mostly done. I am very proud of what I have done and more importantly it helped me reconnect with past versions of my self with the joy of realising I am not that different now.
Publication after the webinar!
Publication after the webinar!
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I am mostly done with cleaning up and formatting What The Woods Mean. The cover is also mostly done. I am very proud of what I have done and more importantly it helped me reconnect with past versions of my self with the joy of realising I am not that different now.
Publication after the webinar!
Publication after the webinar!
Social media is a 2026 problem.
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Social media is a 2026 problem.
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Day 21 and we've still got more stories for you, in the shape of The Last Wills And Testaments Of Captain Kohle by @bingingout.bsky.social in which the eponymous Captain Kohle is summoned back to life for advice - again and again until we learn the truth of his death
December 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Day 21 and we've still got more stories for you, in the shape of The Last Wills And Testaments Of Captain Kohle by @bingingout.bsky.social in which the eponymous Captain Kohle is summoned back to life for advice - again and again until we learn the truth of his death
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as always, le guin said this much better than me: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/342990...
December 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
as always, le guin said this much better than me: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/342990...
I'll try to set as low a price for the paperback as possible. It's a slim volume of poetry, so it might be feasible. This isn't something I'm expecting to make many sales but it would be nice to have them all in a book. The internetwebs are transient.
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I'll try to set as low a price for the paperback as possible. It's a slim volume of poetry, so it might be feasible. This isn't something I'm expecting to make many sales but it would be nice to have them all in a book. The internetwebs are transient.
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It won an Ignyte Award @theignyteawards.bsky.social! Also there's a recent sequel: “A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons.”
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... @oluwasigma.bsky.social
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... @oluwasigma.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It won an Ignyte Award @theignyteawards.bsky.social! Also there's a recent sequel: “A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons.”
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... @oluwasigma.bsky.social
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li... @oluwasigma.bsky.social
Back in 1997 when I spontaneously created the hypertext after learning html, I based it off the 17 (I think) page poem I wrote in a courthouse during a short attachment as a 2nd-year law student. It was a retelling of Cupid & Psyche which was based on a dream I had. That poem is in the collection.
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Back in 1997 when I spontaneously created the hypertext after learning html, I based it off the 17 (I think) page poem I wrote in a courthouse during a short attachment as a 2nd-year law student. It was a retelling of Cupid & Psyche which was based on a dream I had. That poem is in the collection.
Editing decades-old poetry feels almost sacrilegious but younger me made diction and punctuation choices that hurts the eyes of current me. I'm keeping it as un-intrusive to my younger self as possible, lol.
December 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Editing decades-old poetry feels almost sacrilegious but younger me made diction and punctuation choices that hurts the eyes of current me. I'm keeping it as un-intrusive to my younger self as possible, lol.
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Want to read a novel that takes you swimming with the fishies, ascending the sky with sirens, through inferno-esque environment of a world that's too painful to comprehend, an alternate Venice and a hybridized mythical isle out of the Legend of Cupid and Psyche? 💙📚
An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Want to read a novel that takes you swimming with the fishies, ascending the sky with sirens, through inferno-esque environment of a world that's too painful to comprehend, an alternate Venice and a hybridized mythical isle out of the Legend of Cupid and Psyche? 💙📚
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My short story “Moult” which is written in both English and Malay is now reprinted in @innerworlds.bsky.social in very good company!
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
Moult by Anita Harris Satkunananthan
I shed my skin every seven years. I never realise it till long after the act of shedding has taken place.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My short story “Moult” which is written in both English and Malay is now reprinted in @innerworlds.bsky.social in very good company!
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-moul...