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Bryn Hammond

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| Writer. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novellas Waste Flowers, What Rough Beast? Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols | She/her 🌈Queer. Australia | https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · Sep 9

On the blog: What Rough Beast?
amgalant.com/what-rough-b...
About my new Goatskin novella. With an excerpt, a reading of the first chapter, an interview at Black Gate

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 6h

*Except* for The Secret History of the Mongols
(not its original title)

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Donato @donatoarts.bsky.social · 1d

Red Sonya
29" x 21" Oil on Panel 2007
Collection of Cathy and Arnie Fenner

Began the drawing for this on a flight to San Diego Comic-Con back in 2006. The image was so powerful, the Fenners commissioned to turn it into a painting.
Thank you for giving me the chance to shine you two!

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D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social · 1d

mother Goethel, 2025

-{ #art | #illustration | #fantasy }-

An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 2d

omg
Piano Trio 2 meets 'like a jaded mandarin'

Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.social · 2d

Dmitri Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar! He also liked it so much he considered writing a rock music themed suite (like his earlier Jazz suites) but died soon after.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Katrin Dirim @katrindirim.bsky.social · 2d

Show me how you draw armor!

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, ta) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 3d

It was lovely to be consultant on this play, which is written and performed by a group of budding #queer Chinese writers, based on a true story, set in Inner Mongolia, it's premiering in London on the 8th. Go and check it out. #theatre
lambethfringe.com/events/be-ga...

Be Gay, For God's Sake | Lambeth Fringe | Performing Arts Festival | Sept - Oct

Much-loved Off West End Performing Arts Festival curated by The Bread and Roses Theatre. Some of the best and most crowd-pleasing theatre, comedy, works in progress, drag, spoken word, experimental p...

lambethfringe.com

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 7d

doing Ovid’s Metamorphoses for #inktober
1. Creation

Abstract ink illustration with shapes suggesting rocks, water, flagella, moons, stars

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 3d

Struggling to do anything else than gobble the second half of this book today. I only began because it has pears on the cover (my Sister Chaos, with her ripe pear tattoos, looks on with understanding).

Cover of The Safekeep: A Novel by Yael Van Der Wouden. The illustration is of two plump pears sitting close together, touching at the belly; a drop of water runs down one, which is slightly riper than the other. It's a sensual image for what is a sizzling, let me tell you scorching, portrayal of lesbian desire.

Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 4d

read half of this tonight; unprepossessing start, shortly spectacular

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 5d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Fiction: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 4d

mentions ... the profile I have in NESS #6 of an unjustly-forgotten S&S author. I am keenest to have this out!

Oliver Brackenbury @obrackenbury.bsky.social · 8d

For those who missed it, yesterday's AMA with yours truly. Lotta publishing and S&S stuff, as you can imagine.

www.youtube.com/live/8jZigg3...

Overtime AMA w/ Oliver Brackenbury

YouTube video by New Edge Sword and Sorcery

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Kieran (But Spookier) @toadally.bsky.social · 4d

I want to see more fantasy words for being queer, especially in stories that take place in settings before modern gender studies and terminology.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 5d

Safely in Australia where it's almost been and gone; was too hot to leave the house.

Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 5d

loving the cover

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 5d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Poetry: Song of My Softening by Omotara James! 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 5d

oh yay

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 5d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 5d

A lot in this spoke to me, and of me.

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · Jul 27

I wrote a new article about being a lesbian, about gender, and what those can and have meant. It’s free and it would mean a lot of if you read it and gave your thoughts :)

The Lesbian Gender | Ela Bambust

Get more from Ela Bambust on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 5d

Okay this would be very very funny and sharp and I wish I could either write it somehow, or star in it as the lightly-alcoholic mad scientist hero with a chip on his shoulder against Starfleet HQ (coming to the bar/lounge directly after lab disasters every time)

Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 5d

(rolls up to the bar to order one)

...considering it: an entire series based in a Starship's bar/lounge. (And not in the gentled-down TNG mode, either.) FRIENDS with more edge and more phasers... :)

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 5d

Star Trek: GNT (Gin and Tonic)

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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · 22d

A fun commission for Jerez about an architect building a maze.

a commission piece about an architect building a maze made of buildings and sculptures inspired by different cultures. The artwork is vertical but can be viewed from any angle. The character is standing in the archway with a scepter. She has bright red hair and wears a white dress. The arch in the foreground is decorated with patterns and tiles. The maze shows a big range of buildings overlapping with each other and some sculptures. There are spiders made of jewels in the corners of the illustration.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 5d

whether this story idea turns out to be the next novella or not, I reckon I can use the title I've wanted to, An Ingratitude of Goats

Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 5d

Did I hit on the idea for novella #3 today? Maybe, maybe. Goatskin seems to have seized with enthusiasm upon it: she's making my fingers fumble quickly.

Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 5d

'And the underdoggedness of it ...' I have just typed in hasty story notes; I like it

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 6d

I painted this warrior woman with my non-dominant hand when I had to turn down a fun art job shortly after arm surgery; I needed to prove that I could still paint, albeit way, way slower at that time, and I'm still so proud of her!

A woman in late middle age, sitting in anglosaxon / medieval clothing and partial armor, with a golden helmet at her feet, at the base of a big tree. She is a heavier built white woman with dark greying hair in a long braid with red ribbon.

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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · 6d

I've recommended, have you?

Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · Sep 3

Please recommend works of #SpeculativeFiction published in 2025 that explore or expand our understanding of gender! Nominate for the Otherwise Award:

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

#sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #genre #awards

2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award

We need your recommendations of works for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider. If you’ve read a recently published work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of…

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 7d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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