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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit

@spookyxpickle.bsky.social

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Author. Artist. Weirdo. They/Them but often use She/her. Trans Rights or I bites. Currently working on my next book, "Fairy Seasons" Books: https://ko-fi.com/spookyssplendors Where all to find me: https://linktr.ee/spookypickle

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

There fairies are coming. And you can't stop them.

In a month, @the-book-bazaar.com campaign for Fairy Seasons will finally launch.

If you want to stay informed on updates and on launch, be sure to follow via my teaser page.

#BookBazaar25 #IndieAuthor #Writing

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Ready Your Wings for Fairy Seasons

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 16h

Emerg trip occurred, cat has pooped and consumed water but the poor little dude still hasn't eaten 😭 checking on him every 15-20 minutes and praying he'll eat soon so we don't have to take him back in

In the meantime, we're already out $360 so it'd be cool if you tossed a coin to your writer

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

My cats quite enjoy parkour. And by parkour I mean fartkour.

Just now, Serosh jumped from the back of my chair while he farted at the same time. Right by the back of my head. There's just a unfortunate cloud of stink hovering about my head.

Thanks, buddy. So nice of you.

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

It really does! But, I'm down for the challenage.

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

I just might have to!

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

I love all of those things!

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

Yes! I love seeing the rhymes! I've seen a couple. Very awesome! Thomas is one heck of an artist just as you are in your own beautiful way.

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

Omg! I know! So many cool things! Aaaaah!!!

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

Yeeeees! Drawing butts! And all the other things!

Let's goooooo!

Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 20h

NEW PIN? NEW PIN! Nov 12th, join me during @the-book-bazaar.com as I raise funds for physical copies of my cozy sci-fi friendship novella The Lucky Machine. Come join us as we make questionable fashion choices, build a robot, draw a butt, and more! 🤖

#TLM #Scifi 💙📚 #Robots #IndieAuthor

Here comes The Lucky Machine, launching Nov 2025

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 13h

Ready Your Wings for Fairy Seasons

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 1d

New #BookBazaar25 article just dropped! Check it out to learn about some really cool projects. @the-book-bazaar.com

#IndieAuthor #Writing #AmWriting #BookSky #WriterSky #WritingCommunity

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Magic, Coves, and Primal Rifts

Vol. 3 of my coverage on The Book Bazaar projects

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 21h

It uh...it doesn't feel good.

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W. James Chan, Author @wjameschan.bsky.social · 23h

Saw some suspiciously familiar artwork and character design at a local handicrafts market and thought, well, at least it's not Slop -- and then I realised fuck me that's where we are now. That's how low the bar has dropped. Human-made but low on originality is still human fucking made. Chrrrrist.

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 21h

Oh I really love this one! I think I say this about each one. And it's so very true.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 22h

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12th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

A witch with only one eye showing under hat, between scarf and coat. There are buttons. Many, many buttons.

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Zeta @zetakpierce.bsky.social · 23h

And while I’m at it, there’s one more day to get this bundle featuring hidden gems by indie authors!

60+ books for just $38 is a huge steal 📖

Get it here:

tinyurl.com/UNDER-2025

#blackbooksky
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#writesky

Under rated bundle on itch featuring 60+ hidden gems by indie authors

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 1d

McGriddle me this, Batman

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 22h

Me, too

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 22h

Twelve months without work or social obligations would fix me

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 22h

I have allergies. A beautiful day means lots of sneezing and headaches.

Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 22h

their is a face on the clouds in the sky

a beautiful day watching me stay inside for 12 hrs

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I'm reading your book..."

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 22h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I follow your socials..."

Madame Decadent Sneezy-Bottom @darklyadapted.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“I met a journalist . . .”

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 1d

We were also at a point where lots of new tech was being created to make things easier for artists, and suddenly that's all being wiped away in favor of an anti-artist AI fad.

"Oh, artists don't need tech that works, because ChatGPT will lie to you and say that it can do things it can't! Eat sh*t!"

Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 1d

I passed this leaf on the sidewalk and had to go back and pick it up and bring it home. It’s a confused jumble of fall colors and lingering moments of green with a dark, decomposing center. This leaf is me.

Multicolored fall leaf on sidewalk. Leaf and walk are wet from rain.

The same leave in my hand held up by its stem in front of a green drop box covered in graffiti.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Taps the sign at Piers Morgan in particular.
We have to be the media, now.

Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Per the US National Institute for Health, over 40 *known* intersex variations exist. More are still being discovered. Genitalia, hormones, chromosomes –– even a person's cells can be female in one part of their body and male in another, and they may not even know it.

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 1d

Every. damn. day.

Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 1d

Oh very much indeed. I see a lot of what they do with it... And yikes on bikes.

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Author Machelle Berglund -Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 1d

Yeeeees! So true