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language artist, software dev, spec fic enjoyer, painter, marylander 👾🦀 she/her

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ur local cyborg @urlocalcyb.org · Feb 16
cover illustration for mary shelley's second sci-fi novel "the last man." there is an unfortunate dearth of cover art for this novel, since it is so seldom published, but i wanted to capture the beauty and grandiosity of her environmental prose! #maryshelley #classicliterature #booksky #watercolor
watercolor illustration of "the last man" by mary shelley, featuring a lone figure flying in a steampunk winged hot air balloon, over a forest, hagia sophia in Istanbul, and the roman ruins, with astronomical formulas and diagrams written in the stars. excerpt from "the last man" by mary shelley: "Early in the morning Adrian brought me the welcome intelligence that the wind had changed: it had been south-west; it was now north-east. The sky was stripped bare of clouds by the increasing gale, while the tide at its ebb seceded entirely from the town. The change of wind rather increased the fury of the sea, but it altered its late dusky hue to a bright green; and in spite of its unmitigated clamour, its more cheerful appearance instilled hope and pleasure. All day we watched the ranging of the mountainous waves, and towards sunset a desire to decypher the promise for the morrow at its setting, made us all gather with one accord on the edge of the cliff. When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder! three other suns, alike burning and brilliant, rushed from various quarters of the heavens towards the great orb; they whirled round it. The glare of light was intense to our dazzled eyes; the sun itself seemed to join in the dance, while the sea burned like a furnace, like all Vesuvius a-light, with flowing lava beneath. The horses broke loose from their stalls in terror—a herd of cattle, panic struck, raced down to the brink of the cliff, and blinded by light, plunged down with frightful yells in the waves below. The time occupied by the apparition of these meteors was comparatively short; suddenly the three mock suns united in one, and plunged into the sea."
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📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.

📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

#contest #filmmaking #publicdomain
Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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abegoldfarb.bsky.social
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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maureenlangloss.bsky.social
This December let’s give ourselves permission to sit & read a good book for a half hour when the mood strikes. Even though we have so much to do. Even though work is a lot. Just set down the phone, put aside the to do list, & give yourself this gift. 2025 has been hard. We deserve a treat. ☕️ 📚
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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ostrichson.bsky.social
These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth whose back is turned to us, and Macbeth posed towards us with his hand on the back of his wife's neck. The long cut in the back of her dress reveals skin in the shape of a sword/dagger that Macbeth seems to be holding. Poster for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth showing Lady Macbeth facing us with her cleavage cut into three pointy triangles. Macbeth is kneeling in front of her, away from us, his face in his wife's chest. The exposed skin of Lady Macbeth looks like a crown that aligns with the top of Macbeth's head.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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plach.bsky.social
A busy fall semester put me behind w my sleep/insomnia data physicalization. Just caught up, adding 45 nights of sleep & featuring the first decent sleep I ever got in a hotel, courtesy of a travel-sized white noise machine. Just 1 month left to go til I complete this year’s sleep! #DHmakes
An embroidery hoop of Zs in various shades of blue and teal in a spiral pattern on starry night fabric. A mix of orange, pink, copper, and clear beads are stitched into many of the Zs
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's post-apocalyptic cloning novel, "Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang." Watercolor & colored pencil on paper, 12"x18". #Watercolor #SciFi #SciFiArt

This piece (+2 more) will be on display at @rhizomedc.bsky.social in December as part of the "STEAM Engine" exhibit!
Fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's 'Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang' in watercolor. In the horizon is the silhouette of a windmill over a red starry sky. A tunnel beneath the windmill opens into secret rooms illustrated as an underground map, depicting men working at large computers, students in a classroom, a line of pregnant women, men building canoes, and clone fetuses in tanks. Overlaid in each room are the words "WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG" with the author's name, "KATE WILHELM" at the bottom. Same as the previous image but without the typography: fan-made book cover of Kate Wilhelm's 'Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang' in watercolor. In the horizon is the silhouette of a windmill over a red starry sky. A tunnel beneath the windmill opens into secret rooms illustrated as an underground map, depicting men working at large computers, students in a classroom, a line of pregnant women, men building canoes, and clone fetuses in tanks.
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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speculativeinsight.bsky.social
If someone is in the history discipline and looking at how history is portrayed in computer games - and they're not at all in the SFF world - what journals do you think they should think about, that they might not otherwise come across?
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Free digital version of The Art of KPop Demon Hunters!! theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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dishsoapquart.bsky.social
Lovely piece that scopes absolutely wonderfully across time + space up for y'all this week. Enjoy "fossils" from @kmhanslik.bsky.social

Read it on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/11-25-25
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Baffling Magazine’s Dec 1–15 window is coming up 🌀

Queer “timefuckery” + other speculative flash
✨ SF/F/H with a queer bent
✨ Under 1,200 words (they love <500)
✨ 8¢/word, simsubs encouraged

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #flashfiction #queerfiction
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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“Still Life with Three Puppies” by Paul Gaugin, 1888, MOMA
August 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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me on the job 🤝 me on the weekends
"oh my god why is metro not running"
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables

Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

by Jennifer Ouellette

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Original article
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#books #old_manuscripts #astronomy
Pages of the Dresden codex on eclipses . The image shows several adjoining pages of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Maya manuscript. The pages are filled with dense Maya hieroglyphs, numbers, and symbols arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns. Much of the imagery uses black and red ink on a cream-colored, weathered surface. Across the pages are repeating patterns of dot-and-bar numerals, used in Maya calendrical calculations. Interspersed among the glyph blocks are stylized drawings of deities and serpent-like figures, characteristic of Maya cosmology. These particular pages are known for containing astronomical tables related to eclipses, and the highly structured numerical sequences suggest predictive calculations.
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Blue Grotto (Capri Island, Italy), by Detroit Publishing Co., ca. 1890.⁠
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One of 900+ prints available as a print from our online shop, all profits back into the project — https://publicdomainreview.org/product/blue-grotto-capri-island-italy
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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angelasasserart.bsky.social
NGL folks. Moving even just one of these originals would really make a difference for my husband & I with our continually piling up medical bills.🥲 Plz help spread the word, if you can. Even just re-sharing is powerful for small artists like me.🙏
angelicshades.bsky.social Angela R. Sasser | Fine Artist, Goddess Art, and Watercolors @angelicshades.bsky.social · 20d
If you've ever wanted to collect one of my originals, here's a great opportunity! I'm offering these pieces currently via the @changelingart.bsky.social's Deck the Halls auction with extremely fair starting bids.

Place your bids here by commenting on the images:
www.facebook.com/share/19tZA4...
Framed art featuring ornate frames with handmade traditional art rendered in watercolor, ink, gold paint, etc.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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crowwkui.bsky.social
friends and the importance of head pats

#frankenstein
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
urlocalcyb.org
(Loki voice) I've been INSTALLING... for THIRTEEN MINITES
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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markchilcott.bsky.social
Frankenstein
#frankenstein #art @realgdt.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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puddingviz.bsky.social
The Pudding Cup is back for 2025! We want to see your best non-commercial visual and data-driven projects!

🗓️ Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025 (free entry)
📢 Winners announced: the week of December 9, 2025
💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500

pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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rowanashe.bsky.social
Bifrost
Artist: Rowan Ashe
Musical Pairing: Ecdysis by Deftones
Medium: Watercolor and Uni Pin Fine Liners on Stonehenge hotpress
10x10

#art #Watercolor #abstract #abstractart #handmade
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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matiasbergara.bsky.social
Coda.
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!
Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications
undertowpublications.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Get a piece of SFF art history! 🎨 - The Fran Skene Memorial Art Auction, available through this year's Keep the Presses Rolling Galabid auction!
mailchi.mp/3f7ecc2962d0...
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn died #onthisday in 1847 aged just 38. Pictured here, more than 50 years later, his music as a "thought form" emanating from a church: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia #otd
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM