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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️

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Queer SFF author. Grad school dropout. Now independent scholar of eugenics and religion in pop culture. Writing a book on William Blake and Thomas Merton. MILLIONS OF SUNS LEFT shorturl.at/PBLyN https://ko-fi.com/ebmoon

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Thomas Merton, religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death. .. more

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Aug 22

MANIFEST DESTINY is about love and resistance in an authoritarian post-apocalyptic United States.

It will be the last fiction I publish under my old pen name, and it's coming out SEPTEMBER 12. Mark your calendars (or hit me up for an ARC if you're so inclined).

A book cover: A man and woman, seen from behind, hold hands while facing a squad of armed soldiers wearing gas masks. All is in greytones, except for wispy flames that swirl up from the road in front of them. Title: MANIFEST DESTINY

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 28d

With the face/neck ratios reversed.

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 28d

(Just kidding, they're Americans, they haven't learned shit.)

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 28d

The McDonald's wage slave/class traitor who helped frame up Luigi didn't get shit. Maybe someone out there has learned.

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 28d

Every government employee with a gun is trained to shoot first and ask questions later, so exactly what difference does it make?

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 28d

he got loaded being a mondo cunt and now hes in a box. too bad, too bad

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28d

reminder that the girl that found luigi mangione didn't get the reward and lost her job and reputation

The FBI is offering a $100k reward for information that could lead to the arrest of Charlie Kirk's assassin.

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 28d

Never forget that DC Comics continued employing this shitbag well after he basically created Comicsgate and was burning Kelly Marie Tran in effigy on his Youtube channel.

Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 29d

Fuck Ethan Van Sciver

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 28d

I think this post is informative because it premises the Kirk situation being bad on being in a decent and stable society, something we have not been in for basically my entire 32 years of life. All these people dream of like home and garden magazine worlds. Little shop of horrors ass epistemology

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LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 28d

Lol

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Stella Cheeks @stellacheeks.bsky.social · 28d

Ridiculous! @dc.com just sent out an email to retailers asking them to stop selling Red Hood # 1. They are acting like Gretchen pulled the trigger! It’s so fucking insane.

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Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 29d

Fuck Ethan Van Sciver

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 29d

Solidarity with the Chilean community as they remember, grieve, and struggle for justice.

The debt to truth and accountability always fall due.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 29d

Today we remember 11 September 1973, where Chile’s democratically elected Allende govt. was overthrown in a military coup backed by Washington and facilitated by Australia’s intelligence services.

The result was Pinochet’s dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands.

🧵👇

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 29d

Fuck Charlie Kirk
Fuck the Republican crybabies
Fuck the fascists urging us to find common ground.
Fuck anyone claiming we just need to be nicer to the fascists now calling for genocide and war.

they got what they wanted And we will be forced to live with the consequences of their bloodlust.

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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · 29d

Without comment:

Oct 12, 2022 - Screen grab of a tweet from Jason Campbell:

Still from the Charlie Kirk show Charlie speaking. Underneath the quote from Charlie reads a quote from Charlie’s broadcast that day:

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.”

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 29d

This is one of those things btw where calling/mailing VISA et al and being as willfully dense as possible is an amazingly good idea.

Bring up everything you own that falls under the category 'fantasy.'

Bring up everything you own with cat ears.

Be a pedantic little fuck about ALL of it.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · Sep 9

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

An image taken from an e-mail from Payment Cloud to me. They list prohibited adult work, one of which just includes "Fantasy" which is as wide as cat ears and fairies. We are so cooked.

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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 29d

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · Sep 9

BREAKING: A grand jury has REJECTED charges against D.C. attorney Paul Bryant, a West Point grad accused of assaulting and threatening to kill National Guardsmen.

Easily the most serious charges to get no true billed so far during the federal surge.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Grand jury rejects charges against DC lawyer accused of assaulting, threatening National Guard

Prosecutors accused Paul Anthony Bryant of assaulting and yelling threatening statements at members of the National Guard in D.C. as part of President Trump's surge.

www.wusa9.com

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

There's no good or ethical reason to wonder that unless you're collecting testimony.

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

A few miles freeze and melt every year with the coming of polar day/night, flooding the surrounding plains, and it serves as a symbol of the cold and famine from which the Emperor guards his citizens.

#Septopolis #Writingcommunity #Writesky

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

(Getting caught up on these.) #Septopolis 6

Probably the most notable local landmark to the city of Rama is The Glacier (provisionally the Ramán Glacier, but I'd like to come up with a more creative name for it).

#Writesky #Writingcommunity

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · Sep 6

#Septopolis 6

The world is beautiful, and that probably goes for yours too. There's surely places even in the most grimdark of settings that could be considered wonders.

Tell us about the natural wonders that exist nearby. ✨

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 6: Are there any significant natural landmarks nearby? What are they referred to as, and how did they get these names?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

This occurs ~3,000 years before my first stories, and led eventually to the imperial cult prevailing in the Empire at the time of the first novels. With fire comes industry, though, and we'll see how changing modes of production complicate things politically.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Septopolis

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

#Septopolis 8

Rama was founded by some of the first humans to harness the magic of fire. While a few communities had existed south of the glacier, they made the permanent settlement of Rama possible--and started the chain of events leading to the birth of the Empire.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · Sep 8

#Septopolis 8

Since this might have been inadvertently covered yesterday... Who specifically were the founders? Maybe some history on them or the legend surrounding a hero.

Take yesterday's specific why to a specific who. 😅
(I'm not updating the card, I'm lazy.)

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 8: Who were the founders? Where did they come from?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · Sep 8

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 8

What Trump's Secret Police did today.

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 6

Kel stops by the karlek Baltigai's farm after disposing of the sacred bug he accidentally killed.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

I had nearly made my way past the mushroom fields and food clutches that ring the settlement’s southern void by the time I realized she had not followed—and that I had left my canteen behind. Near the edge of a potato field I found a squat trough of water leaned against a row of stunted grapevines, one of Baltigai’s failed experiments. I paused to drink and stripped to wipe the dust and guilt from my body under the glow of a flickering lifelamp. At the time I could not recognize it for what it was: a simulacrum of the twilit glow that late autumn rainclouds give to Raylian pastures.

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Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · Sep 6

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 5

on what little they're able to horde, the rich feast on the best of Springrise's bounty. Those caught curing meat or drying fruit during winterset are subject to harsh penalties, seen as denying the Emperor's bounteous generosity. 3/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 5

that brought the eternal flame, Thrift is a capital sin. The sun god, embodied in the Emperor, is said to imprison the spirit of austerity and conservation, and the winter months are full of profligate consumption, at least for the higher classes. While the poor subsist, 2/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 5

Winter (really Winterset, the two-month-long polar night that encompasses much of the empire) is a sacred season in Rama. In other cultures the emphasis is on conserving food and minimizing waste through the long months of frost. But in Rama, thanks to the ancient alchemy 1/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · Sep 5

#SeptemberWorldbuilders
DAY 5: Winter in your wip/book/story

People in the Pentagonal Dominion celebrate St. Raeco's Night on one of the coldest, snowiest days of the year. There's a feast in the evening, then they go on a midnight hike to light fires at her shrines and put blankets on her statues

Since today was a liturgical feast day, Parsnips had prepared plenty of food for the larger-than-usual crowd. Guests of all types, merchants and townsfolk alike, congregated in the common room, bumping elbows, sharing laughs, enjoying their ale together, and praising the glorious St. Raeco, sister of Lucognidus, who died in the snow to save her brother from slavery and thus ensured he would live to become a God.

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