Anita 🧜🏽♀️🏴☠️🪐
@mythopoetica.bsky.social
Author. Poet. Gothic Academic. PhD. she/her
Codex Writers Group, MLA
Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc
Website: www.mythopoetica.com
Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/
Codex Writers Group, MLA
Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc
Website: www.mythopoetica.com
Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/
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An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
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#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
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Born #OTD in 1898: C. S. Lewis, creator of Narnia!
This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian.
Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160
This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian.
Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Born #OTD in 1898: C. S. Lewis, creator of Narnia!
This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian.
Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160
This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian.
Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160
Rest in Peace, Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Rest in Peace, Tom Stoppard.
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One of the greatest to ever do it.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One of the greatest to ever do it.
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If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you’re looking for Palestinian speculative fiction for #ReadPalestine week, I got you: soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Have discovered that the little clip-on reading light works better not when it is clipped to the book (pretty annoying and the glare hurts the eyes) but when clipped on to a pillow I prop up against the headboard.
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Have discovered that the little clip-on reading light works better not when it is clipped to the book (pretty annoying and the glare hurts the eyes) but when clipped on to a pillow I prop up against the headboard.
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An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
November 29, 2024 at 1:20 AM
An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
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Least favourite film tropes.
2ndary character: I shall stay and hold them off so you can escape.
Hero: thanks. I shall stay and breathlessly watch your heroic demise so your sacrifice can buy me as little time as possible.
2ndary character: I shall stay and hold them off so you can escape.
Hero: thanks. I shall stay and breathlessly watch your heroic demise so your sacrifice can buy me as little time as possible.
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Least favourite film tropes.
2ndary character: I shall stay and hold them off so you can escape.
Hero: thanks. I shall stay and breathlessly watch your heroic demise so your sacrifice can buy me as little time as possible.
2ndary character: I shall stay and hold them off so you can escape.
Hero: thanks. I shall stay and breathlessly watch your heroic demise so your sacrifice can buy me as little time as possible.
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ICYMI: We are running an online symposium on 11th December in honour of Anita Ghai featuring three brillliant Indian disability studies scholars: Sandeep Singh, Shubhangi Vaidya, and Sruti Mohapatra. Book your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...
Select tickets – Disability Matters Online Symposia 2025: Honouring the Legacy of Professor Anita Ghai – Zoom
Disability Matters Online Symposia 2025: Honouring the Legacy of Professor Anita Ghai – Zoom, Thu 11 Dec 2025 - What is Disability Matters?
Disability Matters is a major six year pan-national programm...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
ICYMI: We are running an online symposium on 11th December in honour of Anita Ghai featuring three brillliant Indian disability studies scholars: Sandeep Singh, Shubhangi Vaidya, and Sruti Mohapatra. Book your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/disab...
Going to my spaceship now. I've done enough.
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Going to my spaceship now. I've done enough.
Okay, submitted the Body Horror article. Now to worry about another article but probably on Monday. I need to rest my brain properly tomorrow and format the poetry collection for publication.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Okay, submitted the Body Horror article. Now to worry about another article but probably on Monday. I need to rest my brain properly tomorrow and format the poetry collection for publication.
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I've sold 470 copies of COME TOMORROW and 137 of SHELTER FROM THE STORM.
These are not bad numbers for self-published short story collections. And COME TOMORROW, as the older book, has a big headstart.
These are not bad numbers for self-published short story collections. And COME TOMORROW, as the older book, has a big headstart.
In addition a lot more authors need to talk about how small their sales are. Many independent press authors in Canada sell fewer than 500 copies of their books.
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I've sold 470 copies of COME TOMORROW and 137 of SHELTER FROM THE STORM.
These are not bad numbers for self-published short story collections. And COME TOMORROW, as the older book, has a big headstart.
These are not bad numbers for self-published short story collections. And COME TOMORROW, as the older book, has a big headstart.
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Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
This New Shape Breaks an ‘Unbreakable’ 3D Geometry Rule
The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture
www.scientificamerican.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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“Long COVID has shattered every aspect of my life,” says Ella, who contracted COVID in 2021 at 19 and had to move home. Once active and social, she now spends days in a dark room with “debilitating fatigue,” exercise intolerance, brain fog, nerve pain, breathlessness and many other symptoms.
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
“Long COVID has shattered every aspect of my life,” says Ella, who contracted COVID in 2021 at 19 and had to move home. Once active and social, she now spends days in a dark room with “debilitating fatigue,” exercise intolerance, brain fog, nerve pain, breathlessness and many other symptoms.
Still working on the feminist body horror article. From the amount of work I do on it, you'd think I was the sole author. 😏
But I'm always conscious my name will be on these things and quality matters.
But I'm always conscious my name will be on these things and quality matters.
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Still working on the feminist body horror article. From the amount of work I do on it, you'd think I was the sole author. 😏
But I'm always conscious my name will be on these things and quality matters.
But I'm always conscious my name will be on these things and quality matters.
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Leave little Saruman alone.
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Leave little Saruman alone.
I've done another huge load of laundry and have cleared like 80% of the laundry backlog that happened during the weeks when I was too worried to do too much laundry because of the (now fixed) leaking/flooding situation in the yard kitchen (where the washing machine is situated). 🎉
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I've done another huge load of laundry and have cleared like 80% of the laundry backlog that happened during the weeks when I was too worried to do too much laundry because of the (now fixed) leaking/flooding situation in the yard kitchen (where the washing machine is situated). 🎉
I don't think any major cooking is going to be happening today; I'm still finishing up stuff I cooked last weekend and during the workweek. Also, managed to spill hot coffee on myself earlier. Did quick first aid but unsure there won't be a beaut of a scald tomorrow. Hope not, coffee wasn't boiling.
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I don't think any major cooking is going to be happening today; I'm still finishing up stuff I cooked last weekend and during the workweek. Also, managed to spill hot coffee on myself earlier. Did quick first aid but unsure there won't be a beaut of a scald tomorrow. Hope not, coffee wasn't boiling.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Noticed on my rewatch of Witcher season 3, the invocation of (Antonin) Artaud in the Conclave episode. Nicely done.
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Noticed on my rewatch of Witcher season 3, the invocation of (Antonin) Artaud in the Conclave episode. Nicely done.
I am ok with Hemsworth’s Witcher but nothing could equal Cavill’s grunts and growls.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I am ok with Hemsworth’s Witcher but nothing could equal Cavill’s grunts and growls.
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Thank you! I would love to let more people know about my beautiful and immersive Hindu-inspired YA contemporary fantasies, STAR DAUGHTER, THE DREAM RUNNERS, and DIVINING THE LEAVES, as well as my adult Audible Original, INTO THE MOON GARDEN.
Find them all here: www.shvetathakrar.com/the-night-ma...
Find them all here: www.shvetathakrar.com/the-night-ma...
Star Daughter — Shveta Thakrar
www.shvetathakrar.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Thank you! I would love to let more people know about my beautiful and immersive Hindu-inspired YA contemporary fantasies, STAR DAUGHTER, THE DREAM RUNNERS, and DIVINING THE LEAVES, as well as my adult Audible Original, INTO THE MOON GARDEN.
Find them all here: www.shvetathakrar.com/the-night-ma...
Find them all here: www.shvetathakrar.com/the-night-ma...
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Just a reminder that I wrote a book and you absolutely should not read it if you hate chonky first books of multi-volume fantasy series with ornate and byzantine world-building with mostly Asian/Global-South coded characters.
An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia
mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just a reminder that I wrote a book and you absolutely should not read it if you hate chonky first books of multi-volume fantasy series with ornate and byzantine world-building with mostly Asian/Global-South coded characters.
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Just to understand the concept of a trillion.
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Just to understand the concept of a trillion.
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023.
A billion minutes ago it was
114 CE.
A trillion minutes ago it was
1,900,114 BCE
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“A Divine Image“ — William Blake
Cruelty has a Human Heart
And Jealousy a Human Face
Terror the Human Form Divine
And Secrecy, the Human Dress
The Human Dress, is forged Iron
The Human Form, a fiery Forge.
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.
Cruelty has a Human Heart
And Jealousy a Human Face
Terror the Human Form Divine
And Secrecy, the Human Dress
The Human Dress, is forged Iron
The Human Form, a fiery Forge.
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“A Divine Image“ — William Blake
Cruelty has a Human Heart
And Jealousy a Human Face
Terror the Human Form Divine
And Secrecy, the Human Dress
The Human Dress, is forged Iron
The Human Form, a fiery Forge.
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.
Cruelty has a Human Heart
And Jealousy a Human Face
Terror the Human Form Divine
And Secrecy, the Human Dress
The Human Dress, is forged Iron
The Human Form, a fiery Forge.
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.
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What The Woods Mean -- the collection I plan on publishing next week has poems written between 1996-2006 (mostly). Some have been published, some have been on my websites, and a couple of others I've performed at readings. The original Cupid/Psyche poem that led to Watermyth is contained.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
What The Woods Mean -- the collection I plan on publishing next week has poems written between 1996-2006 (mostly). Some have been published, some have been on my websites, and a couple of others I've performed at readings. The original Cupid/Psyche poem that led to Watermyth is contained.