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R. K. Duncan
@rkduncan.bsky.social
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Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author. He/him. Abolish the police. I am not a Catholic Priest. I do not absolve you. Write your own email. Stories: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/ Monthly newsletter with poem: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/signup
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · Feb 4
Taking lengthy breaks from this website for my mental health for the foreseeable. Here are some stories about politics and anger while you wait.
magazine.trollbreath.com/day-one/

www.baublesfrombones.com/reminiscence...

littlebluemarble.ca/2023/08/25/m...

www.rkduncan-author.com/desert-where...
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 4h
weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 16h
3rd was my edition. Loved how they used community content instead of a single art style in those books
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 17h
No, I can't handle the truth.
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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 21h
so many folks want Apex to continue for another year! i know i do, but what if it continued for another year AND you got to wear this amazing hoodie to show your support?

i love Apex Magazine! as a former slush reader, Apex author, and longtime subscriber? it would be awful if this hoodie went away
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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d
It finally feels like autumn in our neck of the woods, and you know what that means — our Kickstarter exclusive hoodie has arrived! 🧥✨

Bundle up in our 2026 design, featuring an eco-inspired take on our iconic alien head logo 🍄🌿👽 Available only on Kickstarter! ⬇️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
"KS Exclusive Hoodie" A black zip-up hoodie with a small upper righthand design, and a larger back design, both in white. Details of the back design: the Apex alien head logo mid-decay, one side blooming with mushrooms and ferns, the other side melting away. On top of the design reads: "STRANGE - SURREAL - SHOCKING - BEAUTIFUL" A closeup of the right breast-pocket design: A celestial Hercules beetle on top of the text: "APEX MAGAZINE"
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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d
Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*
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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 2d
Celebrating for all the people who recovered their freedom today. To be clear, despite what the media call it, both sides were keeping hostages. It’s unethical to call one side hostages and the other “prisoners without charges”.
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2d
Apex Magazine is at $7178 out of a $20,000 base goal! They have 16 days to go!

Help THEM reach their Apex!

(there are also stretch goals)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Apex Magazine 2026
An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.
www.kickstarter.com
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 2d
Burmese Days, which is technically a novel but highly autobiographical, is much ore powerful as a novel and a satire than 1984
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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 3d
if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?
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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 5d
So long as there is an internet and breath in my body, those stories will be there indeed. ❤️
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 6d
For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com
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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 6d
The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6d
water can identify people raised in Philly/delco from later transplants, but it can't distinguish someone who's lived here for decades from a tourist.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7d
Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks. It's largely about my own journey toward self love via other people loving my body more than I can.
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6d
Snared by dreams of escape from self and failure and loneliness, three dreamers are drawn beyond and caught by the inscrutable Powers: the conquering Horned Moon, the austere Watchman, the consuming pleasure of Foxglove. Only learning to love each other and themselves will save them.
#DVpit #CF #A
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
I found the market and editor who bought my first story sale and the writing community I now help run via twitter in 2016.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
Elin thinks she can use the system to help, to make work in the mills safe, to force the charter-lords to free their slaves overseas, but the nobles ignore the law when she turns it against them, and their prophets, THE WHETHER MEN, have already foreseen her fall and their own triumph.
#DVpit #F #A
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
Find lovers who will flay the lying silver skin off you and make you love yourself, who will stop you playing fingers bloody chasing dream perfection, who will fight the watchman back from burning out your magic with his awful light, who will stop you summoning the hungry moon.
#DVpit #CF #A
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
A progressive (secretly a spy) prime minister and her polycule crusade for justice.
Workers strike for safety and fair pay.
A noble cabal is ready to destroy them all with scandal, bribery, and murder, and to restore a monarchy led by the sinister prophets called THE WHETHER MEN.
#DVpit #F #A
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
A bot I can excuse, but other authors doing the pitch contest should have read the guidelines and not be liking posts.
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
A news bot liked my dvpit pitch, I assume because it had 'prime minister' in it.
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
Kurt tries to escape his fatness and self hate in a magic beyond dreams, find lovers who begin to teach him how to love himself and his body, makes a devil's bargain to save them from murderous magical cops, and is forced to bring a reality destroying dream-god into the real world.
#DVpit #CF #A
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
Young, idealistic Elin becomes the first woman prime minister promising labor reform and equality, but the power of the old nobility is everywhere in the state, and they plan to replace Elin and democracy with a new monarchy foreseen by the sinister prophets called THE WHETHER MEN
#DVpit #A #F
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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7d
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Rosarie Maria🦐 @fatamorgana.bsky.social · 7d
lowkey kind of crazy: someone has made a mod that adds the "screenshot pin" feature from the most recent Prince of Persia game to Silksong www.nexusmods.com/hollowknight...
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grumdholt.bsky.social @grumdholt.bsky.social · 7d
HP Lovecraft might have eaten Cheez-Its
In HP Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", written in 1931, the narrator describes taking with him a supply of cheese crackers for his lunch. A certain brand of cheese crackers was invented in 1921. This means he quite possibly went to Innsmouth to fight the eldritch horrors of Cthulhu armed with Cheez-Its.
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