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
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#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
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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...
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It's Day 17 of our 2025 retrospective and we're highlighting Vengeance As Sweet As My Love by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in which a water demon, trying to be human, loses everything to a cyborg rival
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's Day 17 of our 2025 retrospective and we're highlighting Vengeance As Sweet As My Love by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in which a water demon, trying to be human, loses everything to a cyborg rival
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ICYMI: My poem 'Whittled and Burned' is out in Issue 6 of @trollbreathmag.bsky.social!
🦴 Skulls & memorials
🔥 Burning time
🕰️ Bitter reflections
Subscribers can read now, but it'll be free for everyone on Dec 26!
🦴 Skulls & memorials
🔥 Burning time
🕰️ Bitter reflections
Subscribers can read now, but it'll be free for everyone on Dec 26!
It's alive!!! New Issue now at magazine.trollbreath.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
ICYMI: My poem 'Whittled and Burned' is out in Issue 6 of @trollbreathmag.bsky.social!
🦴 Skulls & memorials
🔥 Burning time
🕰️ Bitter reflections
Subscribers can read now, but it'll be free for everyone on Dec 26!
🦴 Skulls & memorials
🔥 Burning time
🕰️ Bitter reflections
Subscribers can read now, but it'll be free for everyone on Dec 26!
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It's time to add another book to your Yoon Ha Lee stack of space opera and giant mecha-dragons!
Out now: the latest novel from @deuceofgears.bsky.social - STARSTRIKE - sequel to Locus award-winning and multi award-nominated MOONSTORM!
geni.us/starstrike
geni.us/moonstorm
Out now: the latest novel from @deuceofgears.bsky.social - STARSTRIKE - sequel to Locus award-winning and multi award-nominated MOONSTORM!
geni.us/starstrike
geni.us/moonstorm
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's time to add another book to your Yoon Ha Lee stack of space opera and giant mecha-dragons!
Out now: the latest novel from @deuceofgears.bsky.social - STARSTRIKE - sequel to Locus award-winning and multi award-nominated MOONSTORM!
geni.us/starstrike
geni.us/moonstorm
Out now: the latest novel from @deuceofgears.bsky.social - STARSTRIKE - sequel to Locus award-winning and multi award-nominated MOONSTORM!
geni.us/starstrike
geni.us/moonstorm
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In stock, shipping now and stocking ready: the blue canary nightlight at www.TMBGshop.com.
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In stock, shipping now and stocking ready: the blue canary nightlight at www.TMBGshop.com.
Alright, the most helpful thing I got from this is that cakes should probably be cooked at 160° C in the airfryer. Earlier, when I was roasting the chicken, I made the mistake of starting at 200°C. Next time I'll start at 180°C for the chicken.
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airfryfoods.com/how-to-bake-...
Deliciously Simple: How to Bake a Cake in an Air Fryer - AirfryFoods
Baking a cake often seems like a daunting task reserved for special occasions, but it doesn't have to be! With the rise of air fryer technology, creating a
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December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Alright, the most helpful thing I got from this is that cakes should probably be cooked at 160° C in the airfryer. Earlier, when I was roasting the chicken, I made the mistake of starting at 200°C. Next time I'll start at 180°C for the chicken.
airfryfoods.com/how-to-bake-...
airfryfoods.com/how-to-bake-...
Apart from the hypothetical cake, there were other things I wanted to bake in the now-dead oven. We'll see what I can rustle up tomorrow. I do still need to publish the poetry collection but not very optimistic it will happen since I need to be careful with the formatting.
December 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Apart from the hypothetical cake, there were other things I wanted to bake in the now-dead oven. We'll see what I can rustle up tomorrow. I do still need to publish the poetry collection but not very optimistic it will happen since I need to be careful with the formatting.
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I’m 44 years old and until this very day I sincerely believed “Ringo Starr” was what it said on his birth certificate
like it never occurred to me to doubt that a pair of British parents would name a child Ringo
like it never occurred to me to doubt that a pair of British parents would name a child Ringo
We just accept it because it’s always been this way but ‘Ringo Starr’ is a bonkers thing to call yourself when the other guys are John, Paul, and George. It’s like having a band where everyone else uses their real name and then the drummer goes yes please call me Crackers Creamsworth
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I’m 44 years old and until this very day I sincerely believed “Ringo Starr” was what it said on his birth certificate
like it never occurred to me to doubt that a pair of British parents would name a child Ringo
like it never occurred to me to doubt that a pair of British parents would name a child Ringo
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Have you checked out Krista Collier-Jarvis's "Lichenthropy: Possibility Space and the Chthulucene in The Last of Us" yet in American Gothic Studies? Access it by way of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic's website at www.americangothicsociety.com. Not a SSAG member? Join there, too!
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Have you checked out Krista Collier-Jarvis's "Lichenthropy: Possibility Space and the Chthulucene in The Last of Us" yet in American Gothic Studies? Access it by way of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic's website at www.americangothicsociety.com. Not a SSAG member? Join there, too!
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