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Liz (E.M. Morrissey)
@lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social
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Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers.
Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in The Daily Tomorrow, Old Moon Quarterly. She/her. No AI.
www.elizabethmorrissey.com
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hydeangelus.bsky.social
calling
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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gorangligovic.bsky.social
well this post is still up so raw sexual content was definitely not the reason for my short banishment
gorangligovic.bsky.social 𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 3d
Reposting my take on Beorn n' Bilbo
Beorn (tall, wild-looking, carrying an axe) and Bilbo (tiny, adorable), from The Hobbit.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
LEAP OF FAITH (2002)
Acrylic on Panel - 11” x 10”

The smallest of the Faded Star series. 1/2
A low angle, slightly tilted perspective looking up an immense chamber. The walls of segmented concrete are dilapidated and filthy. As light shines down into the cavernous space, a solitary figure leaps off his makeshift perch into open air with arms spread wide. Below, a flock of doves stirs with the commotion, fluttering up through the chamber.
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
I don’t know what all of these paintings together have to say about anything, whatever it is it barely scratches the surface, but they are a record of what I was doing any my relationship to the world and to art over that period, which is all you can ask from art I think, anything else is a bonus
georgeouthwaite.bsky.social George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 23h
Hello, you can now buy this pdf of all my old landscapes and a few new ones ones too that you’ve never seen before
ko-fi.com/s/889e6eec9f
Book cover called In a Dust Cloud with a painting of an overgrown barn
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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ionomycin.bsky.social
nursery
a young woman sweeping the floor with a mop in a room full of fish tanks. the room appears to be underwater, as there are fish visible behidn the windows
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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magencubed.bsky.social
As someone who has historically written "silly women topics" like romance and erotica, I think it kinda sucks that a lot of people still insist that any serious discussion about these works and the broader cultures around them is automatically misogynyistic dismissal, not a good-faith interrogation
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
rainer maria rilke
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
Archaic Torso of Apollo By Rainer Maria Rilke Translated By Stephen Mitchell We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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teradiamart.bsky.social
It's my birthday today 💫
A retweet or a like would make me very happy (:
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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finnlongman.com
One thing I don't see discussed much about author finances is how the long timelines for payment mean it gets massively devalued by inflation. I got a 3-book deal in 2023 with payments in four parts. The last payment will be 2028 at earliest. But it won't be worth as much in 2028 as it was in 2023!
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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captainmushface.bsky.social
The only way to save humanity and unite the people is more Sword & Sorcery paintings on the side of vans.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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deathbybadger.bsky.social
i came across the saying "to follow like a Tantony pig" so I get curious and look it up, but Tantony isnt a place, it's a contraction of St Anthony who is the saint of swineherds, so the proverb means to follow someone like a pig following the hog messiah. alas this information will not pay my bills
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines." Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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reforest-kelley.bsky.social
Just realized I hadn't posted pictures of the actual sticker
A vinyl sticker with an illustration of three people in inflatable frog suits carrying a red banner with yellow text that reads, "'If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... the frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials.' Exodus 8:2,4"
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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blipstress.bsky.social
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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malcolm-north.bsky.social
I'm hoping to turn this into an irregular series, if possible. Here is a sample entry: "No. MCCLXVII being The Temple Cylinder of King Hadansius" 3/3
No. MCCLXVII being “The Temple Cylinder of King Hadansius” - Clay cylinder, inscribed on all sides, Chaldean, from the land of Shinar. Discovered, they saith, alow the foundations of the Temple to Bel in the City of Palaces. ‘Tis claimed to be written by King Hadansius, the city’s legendary founder, declaring the grounds sacred and proclaiming the temple most holy above all others. Eftsoon its discovery, ‘twas read aloud by the high priest, who was wont to repeat: “Hadansius decreed this a thousand years ago.” The public listened to the archaic words of the cylinder outside the temple’s newly built portico. Though not too archaic, for the faithful understood them. Finis
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
and the issue 99 COVER ✨

Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
Cover of issue 99 of Fantasy Magazine featuring a dark skinned woman with glowing eyes and a glorious tufted moth on her forehead. A full moon rises above. the entire image is in shades of black, white and gray.
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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wallacepolsom.bsky.social
Original art by Jeffrey Catherine Jones for an instalment of her “I’m Age” comic-strip, published in Heavy Metal, vol. 7, no. 1 (April 1983). Difficult to force oneself to slash the ink onto the surface in this manner. Easy to lose control, but miraculously, Jones never does.
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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stephengm.bsky.social
In addition to being a fascinating (if horrific) insight into a mostly-unknown period of European prehistory, this includes a BANGER of a quote: "I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment."

www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
We have very few eel-related metaphors English now. But there used to be many more.

One of my favorites is from William Lisle’s 1631 play "The Faire Ætheopian" where he describes a procession of haughty maids as being “smug as Eeles."

Have you ever been that smug? Has anyone?
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Meme. Photograph of an eel underwater, in front of some grasses. You can only see the eel's head and fins, and a bit of its body. The eel is coming into view from the right side of the screen, and is headed left like a college student reading Marx for the first time. Unlike that student, though, the eel is not insufferable. You suffer it happily. The eel is grey-brown on top, and white underneath. It seems to be smiling at you. Not a joyful smile, or even the smile you save for old half-friends who you run into while shopping. It's the inward-facing smile of a fish that's seem more of the world than you, and is content with its own capacity for cannibalism. The eel's eye is looking past you, or possibly through you. It will almost certainly forget you as soon as you're gone. The eel's perspective on the world, and time, and history make you feel unimportant. And that is its gift to you. Meme text reads: "Putting the 'smug' back in 'World's most smuggled animal"
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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white2tea.bsky.social
years ago we pressed a sun-dried Yunnan black tea for aging so that we could drink it on this very morning

Code 2025bf gets your free international shipping on orders over $39 for our big Black Friday sale
Aged Natural Redhead black tea from Yunnan in a Yes porcelain gaiwan
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
if an argument isn’t going your way, you can always just claim you were initiated into various mystical societies
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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riseupcomus.bsky.social
I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.

This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
Young man in a red tunic bearing a sword surrounded by armed glassy-eyed monsters A red robed horseman with a skull face and stag's antlers rides through the forest, the horse rearing back, a shaft of light falling onto the scene A red haired woman in a red dress and a boy in a blue doublet stand in front of a huge black cauldron. In the foreground, three cackling hags. A boy in a blue tunic with a dagger tries to get a sword away from a giant orange cat
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM