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Indrapramit Das

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aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she indradas.com

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Oct 17

ICYMI, my mythic realist novella about a boy coming of age in an extended family who may refugees from another reality, in a house in Calcutta that may be a dragons' nest. It won a British Fantasy Award and a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, if that affects one's inclination to read it:

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 3

Out now: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, my uncategorisable novella out about Ru, a 'boy from nowhere' growing up in 90s/00s Calcutta, facing the impossibility that his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown who is pulled close to their secrets. Links below:

Cover of my novella The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, painted by Tran Nguyen, showing a 'dragoner' of uncertain gender in colourful robes and a veil and headscarf, showing their eyes, long black hair flying, as they hold the neck of a dragon swooping down on their shoulder, its colouring white and speckled with varying shades of scarlet and burnt orange like the petals of a flower. Text reads the title of the novella, and my name (Indra Das).

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 7m

Probably not a great Peace Prize pick if their first move is trying to provoke a war.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19m

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 4m

'to conquer freedom', hilarious

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Fidaa Umar🎙🇵🇸 Inside Gaza 🎧 VERIFIED 📌 Voice Over 🔵 @fidaaumar.bsky.social · 19h

Oct 9 Fidaa update:

I’m going to let Fidaa’s messages (& the story progression within them) speak for themselves 💔

Please donate to this heartsick, exhausted single mother & her 4 kids

- Nicola

bit.ly/save-fidaa

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFidaa

Today
Nicola
where are you?
Wake up fo
1:42 AM
It seems that the war is over
I feel like I'm dreaming l've been crying since I watched the news, my mind doesn't want to believe it Is the war really over this time?
We will breathe again
1:42 AM
😭❤️❤️❤️
1:42 AM

Me:
This is amazing my love!! Wonderful news 🥹🥹🥹
has the bombing stopped for
you now? Is the aid coming in?🙏🏻🥹🫂

Fidaa:
We were very happy with the news of the ceasefire
But unfortunately the bombing is still continuing and crossings have not been opened and aid has not entered yet
11:56 AM
Planes still fly very low and make very loud noises that frighten children
11:56 AM
I do not know when the agreement will be actually implemented But things are still dangerous now
11:57 AM

Now they bombed an inhabited building in the north, a new massacre. What a despicable and treacherous occupation 😭😭
12:29 PM

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Nesma☘️✅ @nesm12.bsky.social · 23h

💔 My little girl
In a small tent in southern Gaza, my daughter suffers from scabies and severe malnutrition. She endures cold, hunger, and no access to treatment. Please pray for her and help provide medicine and food 🩷
gofund.me/a9a610a4e

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 14m

Palestinian babies have been sickened & starved for 2 yrs in Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. Please help keep little Hassan, who's dying from malnutrition, alive by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, supplies, healthcare, shelter for his family:

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tuffdreamer.bsky.social @tuffdreamer.bsky.social · 21h

Children shouldn't be without the food. If our shitty governments let them down, we must be the ones who will stand by them and make sure every child gets attention that will provide them a meal.

Share, repost and donate. 🙏

Raphaellakay (can't donate but will share your post 🍉) @raphaellakay.bsky.social · 21h

3 DAYS WITHOUT DONATION

DONATE if you can + SHARE the campaign of Abeer & Samir

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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · Aug 29

--DOWN NORTH, WHERE NO ONE GOES--

I will be uploading the first 5 pages of the story every Friday until the digital release on October.

Stay tuned for more. Might share some lore or sketches if people dig these.

Enjoy!

First page of the comic "Down North Where No One Goes", depicting the society of the Justiciática of Free Cities.

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Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 8h

The war may be "over" on the news,
but the hunger didn’t end. The fear didn’t end.
My suffering didn’t end
I’m not asking for much…
just a chance to live, to stand back up, to feel human again
Please don’t turn away
Please don’t forget me
Your support is the only thing keeping hope alive in my heart

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Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 8h

They say the war is over... but the pain inside me hasn’t ended.
The bombs may have stopped falling, but the struggle is far from over.
I'm Sakher — a young man who lost everything in this war.
My home… gone. My memories, my work, my future all destroyed
More talk in the comments

gofund.me/f116bf44

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 5h

As a birder this breaks my heart. As a citizen of this extraordinary planet, this breaks my soul.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 5h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 37m

Behind the projection booth doors: a 35mm beauty of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) running through the projector this morning. One of our all-time favourite prints pure, gritty horror, film on film the way it should be. Shows again Thu 23rd Oct at 6:30pm.

🎟️ : tinyurl.com/texaschainpcc

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 3h

Machado has embraced the United States's indiscriminate murder of Venezuelan mariners in international and Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean Sea. She thinks it will help her gain power.

This is your white "peace".

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

Palestinian babies like Anas have been sickened & starved for 2 yrs in Israel's genocide. Bluesky deletes them relentlessly. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, Sally's child is severely ill from malnutrition & in urgent need (no donations for 5 days):

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1h

Palestinian babies like Amir have been sickened & starved for 2 yrs in Israel's genocide while their families are violently displaced by the IDF. Please help Abdul keep his son alive by sharing & donating, Amir is severely ill from malnutrition & they're in desperate need (no donations for 2 days):

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 35m

Please help the Nashwan family survive the aftermath of 2 years of Israel's genocidal famine & invasion by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, they're starving & exhausted:

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Raphaellakay (can't donate but will share your post 🍉) @raphaellakay.bsky.social · 44m

1 JOUR SANS DON

lisez le post de Rawan et aidez-la à réaliser son rêve !

si vous pouvez donner, merci
un partage aide réellement à avoir + de dons
#SolidaritéGaza

compte vérifié

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 47m

The Apex Magazine Kickstarter is at $6821 out of a $20,000 base goal! Let's get them there!

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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Nicholas Perez Is Querying (seen pinned skeet) @zephonsacriel.bsky.social · 46m

Today I learned of the genre-defying novel Palenque by Cuban author Maielis González will be published in Spain by Editorial Cuatro lunas on November 6. I desperately want this novel to be translated to English! Here is Maielis' announcement of the book from her Instagram (translation provided)

Screenshot from Maielis González's Instagram isla_viterbo about her upcoming novel Palenque. Translation is from Instagram itself.

"Amix, the long-awaited moment arrives when I can show you the cover of my upcoming novel. Palenque is tricky to tag. If I told you it's a historical novel or a steampunk fantasy work or a Cuban ukrony or a found manuscript or a novel of magical realism or Caribbean afrofuturism or finisecular science fiction... i wouldn't be lying in either case. You will have to read it to come to your own conclusions. And you will be able to do it very soon, because it will be in bookstores on November 6th throughout Spain thanks to the label @cuatrolunaseditorial which trusted it from its very beginning.
Thanks to Sonia Pulido for her beautiful illustration and to the people who read it and contributed invaluablely in her writing.
We'll talk long and long about the topic. In the meantime, may Elegguá open the roads for him to reach his hands."

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 48m

"I chose this form to be more frightening" the angel said. "I really wanted to freak you out."

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 45m

Actually a good illustration of how there is no liberal narrative anymore--it's vestigial, absorbed into the fascist narrative because liberal imperialism tilted the scales toward the nazis. Now there are liberals celebrating a politician who supports Trump & Netanyahu because 'democracy'.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 2d

I simply canNOT get a good picture of my three coins for the ferryman but that's what happens when you try to take a picture of dead things

three enamel coins on a black metal cart. One is a Skull and says "admit one", one is a lit candle inside a lantern that says "admit one", and one is a bee with a skull on its...thorax? between the wings that says "admit one"

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 49m

Also a staunch Trump ally, for the Americans. Unless Trump now rejects her because he didn't get his trinket.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 54m

A new portrait of Monolophosaurus. The crest here is more voluminous than most reconstructions, exploring the idea that the underlying bone might have been anchoring a larger pneumatised casque.
#SciArt

A digital portrait of a large carnivorous dinosaur in a forest setting. The dinosaur has a large boney crest above its snout and eyes, and large folds of skin hanging around its neck and jaws. The dinosaur is mostly earthy brown, but with brighter blues and pinks around the eyes and throat.

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Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · 53m

'Snow Queen' by Jeffrey Catherine Jones (1971)
#fantasyart

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Night of the Living Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 21h

Man, Pippin got hustled into the Gondorian guard like a teen meeting an army recruiter at Gamestop

Pippin, in the garb of a Gondorian guard, following Gandalf as he carries the body of Merry

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