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Erica Ruppert

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · Dec 13

Today is the day! Seven Stars: Collected Stories is out now!
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Seven Stars: Collected Stories - JournalStone

SEVEN STARS Collected Stories “Magic—dark and light—abounds in this second collection by Erica Ruppert, a rising star in the weird and wonderful firmament with stories rooted in folklore and fairyta...

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 12h

Had a red-breasted nuthatch at one of the feeders today, and the first junco of the season popped in, too.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 14h

The boys, sleeping hard.

a grey cat and a black cat sleeping on a bed

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 18h

Mood.

Blonde woman holding a sword aloft while riding a giant bird over a burning city. HEAVY METAL movie poster.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of those weeks where I feel like I'm being nibbled to death by ducks.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m very aware that I’m lucky,” he says. “I’m astonished actually at how ambitious I’ve been. I didn’t think of myself as ambitious at all.”
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‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 1d

“But with a trackway like this, we've got hundreds of metres of the animal doing its own thing. And it's so important to look at the way animals move freely and naturally, and tracks are the only way we can do that for dinosaurs.”

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 1d

The tracks are an incredible resource for researchers, and they provide very different information from fossils.
“We might have a skeleton, where we say the leg is this long, so its stride must be this long,” says Peter Falkingham from Liverpool John Moores University.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Huge dinosaur trackway uncovered in the UK - BBC News

One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry

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~Polly Schattel~ @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 2d

Timothy’s very sweet.

Timothy Roderick @timothyroderick.bsky.social · 2d

Have you read Polly Schattel’s work? Brilliant. I’ve learned from her the importance of unflinching courage to take horror to its wildest ends. Even when a narrative flies off the rails (in the best possible ways) she's shown to follow those beats to their unstoppable conclusions. #booksky #horror

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 2d

Picky, picky, picky.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 2d

With luck, seeing those patterns will help us make better decisions about our own lives, our communities, and our nation in the present.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 2d

but that give us ideas about how people in the past have dealt with circumstances that look similar to circumstances today. If we are going to get an accurate picture of how a society works, historians must examine it honestly, seeing the bad as well as the good.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 2d

Historians are not denigrating historical actors or the nation when they uncover sordid parts of our past. Historians study how and why societies change. As we dig into the past, we see patterns that never entirely foreshadow the present...
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October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Thanksgiving to my friends in Canada!

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 3d

These leaves will be on the ground once the storm hits.

maple tree with yellow and orange leaves against a grey sky

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 3d

People get ready.
#Resist
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 4d

I just put a big dent in a fantastic veggie biryani from a local place that doesn't even have a FB page, never mind a website. My belly is very happy right now.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 4d

Someone decided to be magnificent today.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 4d

I have had a copy for years and I still haven't read it, either. Which is entirely a failing on my part.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 4d

I hope you're right.

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 5d

Off to do some serious reading--my library book is due in two days and I'm only a third of the way through it.
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How Progress Ends

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardHow 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even...

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 5d

The 'sword dragon' is one of numerous ichthyosaur fossils that have been found along Dorset's Jurassic Coast since the first discoveries of pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning in the early 1800s.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fossil found on UK coast is unique 'sword dragon' species

Scientists say the newly discovered species of marine reptile probably met a grisly end.

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ElfQuest - Fantasy with Teeth! @elfquest.bsky.social · 6d

Ayooooah! Thornbrake here. Wendy, Richard and I are all set up at NYCC. We've got the latest ElfQuest books from Dark horse Comics available as well as some gorgeous art prints. Wendy is doing character remarques (small sketches) too. Hope to see lots of you here!

ElfQuest creators Wendy Pini and Richard Pini at New York Comic Con.

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 6d

The proceeds will benefit public television stations across the country that have been grappling with the Trump administration’s cancellation of $1.1 billion in funding for public media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Bob Ross’s ‘Happy Little’ Paintings Will Be Auctioned

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Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 6d

Smokey and I Am The Night napping, and Smudgie hunkered down on my PJs like I'm never getting them back.

three cats sleeping in a triangle formation on a bed

Erica Ruppert @renfestklingon.bsky.social · 6d

As Holly Baxter of The Independent pointed out, “it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis.”