Polenth Blake
@polenth.bsky.social
Fantasy and science fiction writer/artist with a tendency towards ecology and quietly strange things. Keeper of invertebrates and fish. Enjoys walking simulators and Second Life. Multiply marginalised.
Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
Pinned
Polenth's Nothing
The personal website of Polenth Blake.
www.polenthblake.com
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
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capybaras being abducted
December 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
capybaras being abducted
On the caffeine thing, I used to think people were joking about the whole getting the shakes stuff. Then I found out some religions banned it, which seemed odd. Finally, I realised that processing caffeine too fast to feel it was just another way I'm weird.
December 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
On the caffeine thing, I used to think people were joking about the whole getting the shakes stuff. Then I found out some religions banned it, which seemed odd. Finally, I realised that processing caffeine too fast to feel it was just another way I'm weird.
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So now that these are published (whee!) I can show you the covers I made for them.
Three new SFF books I wrote are now up on Amazon:
Polyrhythmic Constellations: A Triptych of novels consisting of The Mills of God
The Teeth of Evolution
Turning The World.
This is my first time writing a series of books. That it is a series came as a surprise to me. /1
Polyrhythmic Constellations: A Triptych of novels consisting of The Mills of God
The Teeth of Evolution
Turning The World.
This is my first time writing a series of books. That it is a series came as a surprise to me. /1
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So now that these are published (whee!) I can show you the covers I made for them.
I cooked suppers for a few days and froze them. I did some painting samples that'll be needed for my winter present. Getting there with things.
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I cooked suppers for a few days and froze them. I did some painting samples that'll be needed for my winter present. Getting there with things.
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The Smashwords End of Year Sale is on, and the dauntingly long list can be hard to wade through (especially with all the gen AI these days). I’ve curated a list of books I recommend or am interested in, all AI free to the best of my ability, and all under $3! 🌈📚
kilagreene.dreamwidth.org/7990.html
kilagreene.dreamwidth.org/7990.html
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Smashwords End of Year Sale is on, and the dauntingly long list can be hard to wade through (especially with all the gen AI these days). I’ve curated a list of books I recommend or am interested in, all AI free to the best of my ability, and all under $3! 🌈📚
kilagreene.dreamwidth.org/7990.html
kilagreene.dreamwidth.org/7990.html
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I have a lot of books in the Smashwords End of Year Sale! It's likely this is one of the rare last time I drop books below $2.99 there (they will be lowering royalties next year) so if it's your store of choice, now's the time!
Aroace fantasy ~
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#EOYsale25
Aroace fantasy ~
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#EOYsale25
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I have a lot of books in the Smashwords End of Year Sale! It's likely this is one of the rare last time I drop books below $2.99 there (they will be lowering royalties next year) so if it's your store of choice, now's the time!
Aroace fantasy ~
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#EOYsale25
Aroace fantasy ~
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
#EOYsale25
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My Amazon account got reinstated, with no details about why it was removed in the first place. I'm glad it's back, but I lost out on several days of sales, including Black Friday weekend.
If you'd like to support a trans indie author, please buy my books: www.amazon.com/Devin-Harnoi...
If you'd like to support a trans indie author, please buy my books: www.amazon.com/Devin-Harnoi...
Devin Harnois: books, biography, latest update
Follow Devin Harnois and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Devin Harnois Author Page.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My Amazon account got reinstated, with no details about why it was removed in the first place. I'm glad it's back, but I lost out on several days of sales, including Black Friday weekend.
If you'd like to support a trans indie author, please buy my books: www.amazon.com/Devin-Harnoi...
If you'd like to support a trans indie author, please buy my books: www.amazon.com/Devin-Harnoi...
The sale is on at Smashwords and I have two books going free.
SUNSTRUCK is an urban fantasy murder mystery set in Spokane. This was my first novel and might still become a series someday (but this book stands alone and the mystery is solved).
www.smashwords.com/books/view/4...
SUNSTRUCK is an urban fantasy murder mystery set in Spokane. This was my first novel and might still become a series someday (but this book stands alone and the mystery is solved).
www.smashwords.com/books/view/4...
Sunstruck
The Spokane Ecology Board covers up supernatural incidents, until the team is murdered. Ari, the new team's Bigfoot liaison, is armed with everything she's learned from detective shows. Ben Cabot is m...
www.smashwords.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The sale is on at Smashwords and I have two books going free.
SUNSTRUCK is an urban fantasy murder mystery set in Spokane. This was my first novel and might still become a series someday (but this book stands alone and the mystery is solved).
www.smashwords.com/books/view/4...
SUNSTRUCK is an urban fantasy murder mystery set in Spokane. This was my first novel and might still become a series someday (but this book stands alone and the mystery is solved).
www.smashwords.com/books/view/4...
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1) I published a new book in 2025! "Everyday Aliens" is a flash fiction and poetry collection about very alien aliens. It's often experimental and inspired by science. There are citations! www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens...
Polenth's Nothing: Words: Books: Everyday Aliens
Everyday Aliens - A flash fiction collection by Polenth Blake.
www.polenthblake.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
1) I published a new book in 2025! "Everyday Aliens" is a flash fiction and poetry collection about very alien aliens. It's often experimental and inspired by science. There are citations! www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens...
Doing a little more writing today. I've also been filming a short every day for a solstice countdown, which has been interesting. I have to find a new thing to make sounds each day. Anything could happen!
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Doing a little more writing today. I've also been filming a short every day for a solstice countdown, which has been interesting. I have to find a new thing to make sounds each day. Anything could happen!
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WERECOCKROACH has an aroace agender lead, aliens and gentle vibes. Friendship focused.
www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro...
EVERYDAY ALIENS is a flash fiction collection about weird aliens. Often experimental.
www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens...
#PrideBookFair #QueerBookSky #BookSky #Pride
www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro...
EVERYDAY ALIENS is a flash fiction collection about weird aliens. Often experimental.
www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens...
#PrideBookFair #QueerBookSky #BookSky #Pride
June 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
WERECOCKROACH has an aroace agender lead, aliens and gentle vibes. Friendship focused.
www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro...
EVERYDAY ALIENS is a flash fiction collection about weird aliens. Often experimental.
www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens...
#PrideBookFair #QueerBookSky #BookSky #Pride
www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro...
EVERYDAY ALIENS is a flash fiction collection about weird aliens. Often experimental.
www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens...
#PrideBookFair #QueerBookSky #BookSky #Pride
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How it started, how it’s going 😬
Insects are excellent at hiding in plain sight. I often take pix of twigs only to realize they are just that. But sometimes the hunch pays off and I get to see a lovely little larva. Extra points for the alliteration 🌱
#insect #macro #nature
Insects are excellent at hiding in plain sight. I often take pix of twigs only to realize they are just that. But sometimes the hunch pays off and I get to see a lovely little larva. Extra points for the alliteration 🌱
#insect #macro #nature
December 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I was right he did need a top hat.
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I was right he did need a top hat.
I saw "Wicked: For Good" today. I was uncertain how they'd go with Nessarose in this, but it's a big improvement on the stage version (within the limits of the source material... it'll be some other film that gives us the lead using a wheelchair).
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I saw "Wicked: For Good" today. I was uncertain how they'd go with Nessarose in this, but it's a big improvement on the stage version (within the limits of the source material... it'll be some other film that gives us the lead using a wheelchair).
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fantastic rally the last few days, fam! this is only $250 away. let's close up the gap and get african stories to a new audience!
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
ko-fi.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
fantastic rally the last few days, fam! this is only $250 away. let's close up the gap and get african stories to a new audience!
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
Polenth's Nothing
The personal website of Polenth Blake.
www.polenthblake.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
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Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31.
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31.
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
Polenth's Nothing
The personal website of Polenth Blake.
www.polenthblake.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
My advent calendars are ready! One chocolate and some digital ones.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My advent calendars are ready! One chocolate and some digital ones.
I'm not sure I've seen anything that unusual in the wild (for someone in the UK). I saw a compass jellyfish when I was sea swimming. A wild orange morph of Porcellio scaber woodlice. A kingfisher. Chrysocharis gemma doing ecology stuff (a parasitoid wasp of holly leaf miners). Wood mice (so small).
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I'm not sure I've seen anything that unusual in the wild (for someone in the UK). I saw a compass jellyfish when I was sea swimming. A wild orange morph of Porcellio scaber woodlice. A kingfisher. Chrysocharis gemma doing ecology stuff (a parasitoid wasp of holly leaf miners). Wood mice (so small).
A good thing I wasn't trying to film today as the foxes have decided it's otherworldly screaming night.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A good thing I wasn't trying to film today as the foxes have decided it's otherworldly screaming night.
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Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
My main observation on pirating books is the more aggressive someone is about their right to do so, the more likely it is they can afford books. It's like rich kids shoplifting makeup because they think it's cool. Poor people steal bread and wish they had enough to pay for it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My main observation on pirating books is the more aggressive someone is about their right to do so, the more likely it is they can afford books. It's like rich kids shoplifting makeup because they think it's cool. Poor people steal bread and wish they had enough to pay for it.
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The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!