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Jayde Holmes
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Hi I'm Jayde. I am a science fiction and fantasy writer of questionable talent and a book connoisseur with a habit of buying more books than I ever get around to reading.

You can read my stories at my website http://jaydeholmes.com
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Miss my Book Bingo reveal? Check out my 2026 #BookBingo card now before I start filling it in.

#reading #books #2026ReadingChallenge #sciencefiction #SFF
A five-by-five bingo card. Colour scheme is orange and grey and there are gears in the background. In the heading is the title ‘2026’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written in the 90s 2. Miliary Science Fiction 3. Translated from Spanish 4. Title Contains the Letter ‘X’ 5. Written in the 80s Row 2: 1. Psycological Horror 2. Recommended by a Friend 3. Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Winner 4. Set on a Spacestation or Space habitat 5. Own Voices Row 3: 1. Has Non-Humanoid Aliens 2. Set in the Ocean/Under the Sea 3. Free Square 4. Has Werewolves 5. Post-Apocalyptic Row 4: 1. Tittle Starts with ‘J’ 2. Alternate History 3. Written in the 1920s 4. Isekai 5. Start or Continue a Series with Six Books or More Row 5: 1. Hugo Award Winner 2. Non-Fiction 3. Hard Science Fiction 4. Animal Protagonist 5. Twenty Flash Fiction Stories.
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Like my short stories? Good news; I'm gonna write and share 12 of them this year. Come check out the first one, "Anomalous"

#writing #shortstory #sciencefiction #universeisasimulation #selfpublished

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Anomalous
2026 Monthly Story Challenge #1 Anomalous By Jayde Holmes It took more than one anomalous experiment for scientists to realise that the laws of physics weren’t consistent. More than one equation th…
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January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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So excited to see my new story "Anything Not Impossible" published online @kaleidotrope.bsky.social amongst a group of other great stories.

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“Anything Not Impossible” by Jayde Holmes
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January 1, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Here it is, my filled out 2026 #BookBingo card. Feel free to save a copy and play along at home.

#reading #books #SFFBookBingo #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #ScienceFictionBookBingo #2026ReadingChallenge
Jayde’s Book Bingo Challenge 2026
The moment you've all been waiting for is here, behold, my 2026 Book Bingo Card. This was generated with my randomized Book Bingo Generator, which every year I fire up so it's always a surprise what I'll have to do. I've already shown off the design, but now here it is with the challenges all filled in: Rules All challenges on the card should be interpreted in whichever way makes the challenge most fun for the person doing it.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Before getting to my 2026 #BookBingo Challenge, here are reviews on all the books I read to fill my 2025 card. Enjoy.

#reading #books #fanasy #ScienceFiction #SFF #ReadingChallenge #SpeculativeFiction
2025 Book Bingo Wrap Up
Welcome to the wrap up of my 2025 Book Bingo Challenge. I will try to keep the preamble short, because I have a lot of books to review here. First, let's see what my card looks like now that the year is done. I did really well this year, with the only two tiles missing being the "Written in your Year of Birth", and "Australian, Canadian or New Zealander Author".
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January 1, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Sneak peek at my 2026 #BookBingo card. Challenges will be revealed next week (next year haha), and will be mostly #Sciencefiction, #Fantasy and #Horror related. Feel free to play along with me this year. Go to jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-c... for more information.

#reading #books
A five-by-five bingo card with empty tiles. Colour scheme is orange and grey and there are gears in the background. In the heading is the title ‘2026’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/
December 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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The frogmouths are back and showing off their camouflage with the branch pose.

#australianwildlife #aussieanimals #tawnyfrogmouth #bird #garden #backyardwildlife
Two tawny frogmouths (owl-like birds with feathers that look like tree bark) sit together on a tree branch. They have their feathers flattened and necks stretched out so they look like branches.
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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New #bookbingo update. Read World Fantasy Award Winner "The Tainted Cup" by Robert Jackson Bennett, and damn, I can see why this was nominated for so many awards. Amazing fantasy murder mystery that was impossible to put down. Loved it.

#reading #books #shadowoftheleviathan #fantasy #mystery
A five-by-five bingo card with the following challenges, In the heading is the title ‘2025’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written by Terry Pratchett (Hogfather) 2. Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner (What Moves the Dead) 3. Breaking a Curse (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) 4. Translated from Russian (Monday Starts on Saturday) 5. Written in Your Year of Birth Row 2: 1. Set on a Spaceship (Murder by Memory) 2. Told from a ‘Villain’ POV (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) 3. World Fantasy Award Winner (The Tainted Cup) 4. Been Adapted into a Movie (Redwall) 5. Been Sitting on the Shelf for More Than a Year (Runaways: Teenage Wasteland) Row 3: 1. Title Starts with O (One Step From Earth) 2. Has Dragons (Onyx Storm) 3. Free Square 4. Afrofuturism (After the Flare) 5. Written Between 1930 – 1950 (The Case of Charlse Dexter Ward) Row 4: 1. Set During the Cold War (Three Miles Down) “ 2. King Arthur (Retelling, Inspired, or Original) (Spear) 3. Has Witches (The Summer War) 4. Has Immortality (A Court of Mist and Fury) 5. Australian, Canadian or New Zealand Author Row 5: 1. Translated from Japanese (The Liminal Zone) 2. Non-Marvel or DC Superheroes (Dreadnought) 3. Has Ghosts (Haunt Sweet Home 4. Title Starts with P (Penric and the Bandit) 5. Short Fiction Magazine (Dirty Magick Magazine Jan 2025)
December 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Time for the last featured creature from my World of Green and Black bestiary. Wanted to do something special since it'll be the last one for a while, so enjoy learning about bears. Very, very big bears.
#writing #sciencefiction #worldbuilding
The World of Green and Black Featured Creature
Welcome back to the World of Green and Black Bestiary. I wanted to do something special for this one, because it might be the last featured creature for a while. Next year I'm thinking of doing a different monthly thingy. hat doesn't mean there won't be anymore feature creatures, but they'll be saved for special occasions. With that in mind, let's get to the last creature of the year, the bear.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The tawny frogmouth in my backyard came back with a friend. Can you see both birds?

#australianwildlife #birds #nature #tawnyfrogmouth #camouflage
Two tawny frogmouths (owl-like birds whose feathers look like tree bark) sit in a tree. One looks at the camera, seemingly confused, whilst the second is stopped over, camouflaged and hard to see.
December 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Been a busy year. Here are all my new stories published in 2025.

#writing #sciencefiction #SFF #Fantasy
The following text on a purple background: "Jayde Holmes 2025 Stories. Novella: The Strongest in the Forest. April, jaydeholmes.com. Short Stories: he Feeding and Breeding Habits of Southern Treasure Mimics. May, Dirty Magick Magazine. Lucky Charm. June, Madam, Don't Forget Your Sword."
December 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The shooting is disturbing enough, and I knew the discourse around it would be rough. But ofc LLMs are coming along and making things worse.

Huge respect for Ahmed al Ahmed.
wiswell.bsky.social John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23d
Not only are LLMs speedrunning a post-truth world where actual heroes who stop violent crimes get erased, but they have already contributed to convincing people to commit violent crimes.

Love yourself too much to let yourself be poisoned.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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An absolute tragedy. I was really hoping that I'd never see something like this happen in my country again, and my heart goes out to all the victims.
vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 24d
UPDATE:

New South Wales (Australia) Police confirm 10 people killed in mass shooting at Bondi, Sydney. Including multiple injuries.
vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 24d
Police advise people to ‘take shelter’ following reports of shooting at Bondi beach with two in custody.
The Guardian.

First mass shooting in Australia since 1996 in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
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December 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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#bookbingo Update time! Got two bingos by filling the 'Title Starts with 'O'' challenge with 'One Step From Earth' by Harry Harrison. Thought-provoking short story collection about teleporters and their impact on humanity. Highly recommended.

#reading #book #sciencefiction
A five-by-five bingo card with the following challenges, In the heading is the title ‘2025’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written by Terry Pratchett (Hogfather) 2. Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner (What Moves the Dead) 3. Breaking a Curse (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) 4. Translated from Russian (Monday Starts on Saturday) 5. Written in Your Year of Birth Row 2: 1. Set on a Spaceship (Murder by Memory) 2. Told from a ‘Villain’ POV (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) 3. World Fantasy Award Winner 4. Been Adapted into a Movie (Redwall) 5. Been Sitting on the Shelf for More Than a Year (Runaways: Teenage Wasteland) Row 3: 1. Title Starts with O (One Step From Earth) 2. Has Dragons (Onyx Storm) 3. Free Square 4. Afrofuturism (After the Flare) 5. Written Between 1930 – 1950 (The Case of Charlse Dexter Ward) Row 4: 1. Set During the Cold War (Three Miles Down) “ 2. King Arthur (Retelling, Inspired, or Original) (Spear) 3. Has Witches (The Summer War) 4. Has Immortality (A Court of Mist and Fury) 5. Australian, Canadian or New Zealand Author Row 5: 1. Translated from Japanese (The Liminal Zone) 2. Non-Marvel or DC Superheroes (Dreadnought) 3. Has Ghosts (Haunt Sweet Home 4. Title Starts with P (Penric and the Bandit) 5. Short Fiction Magazine (Dirty Magick Magazine Jan 2025)
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Thank you everyone who has been reading my work this year. Read here to see what I've achieved in 2025.
My 2025 Wrap-Up
2025 is almost over, and I managed to get a lot done. Not as much as I would have liked, but there's been some downs this year, so that's to be expected. At the start of the year I set myself a few goals, so now it's time to see how I went. These were my 2025 goals: Post monthly artwork related to the World of Green and Black series…
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December 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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#BookBingo Update, completed the 'Set on a Spaceship' challenge with the first installment of Olivia Waite's Dorothy Gentleman detective series, 'Murder by Memory'. Great worldbuilding and characters make an awesome murder mystery. Cannot wait for more!

#books #sciencefiction #murdermystery
A five-by-five bingo card with the following challenges, In the heading is the title ‘2025’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written by Terry Pratchett (Hogfather) 2. Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner (What Moves the Dead) 3. Breaking a Curse (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) 4. Translated from Russian (Monday Starts on Saturday) 5. Written in Your Year of Birth Row 2: 1. Set on a Spaceship (Murder by Memory) 2. Told from a ‘Villain’ POV (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) 3. World Fantasy Award Winner 4. Been Adapted into a Movie (Redwall) 5. Been Sitting on the Shelf for More Than a Year (Runaways: Teenage Wasteland) Row 3: 1. Title Starts with O 2. Has Dragons (Onyx Storm) 3. Free Square 4. Afrofuturism (After the Flare) 5. Written Between 1930 – 1950 (The Case of Charlse Dexter Ward) Row 4: 1. Set During the Cold War (Three Miles Down) “ 2. King Arthur (Retelling, Inspired, or Original) (Spear) 3. Has Witches (The Summer War) 4. Has Immortality (A Court of Mist and Fury) 5. Australian, Canadian or New Zealand Author Row 5: 1. Translated from Japanese (The Liminal Zone) 2. Non-Marvel or DC Superheroes (Dreadnought) 3. Has Ghosts (Haunt Sweet Home 4. Title Starts with P (Penric and the Bandit) 5. Short Fiction Magazine (Dirty Magick Magazine Jan 2025)
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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At the start of this year, I posted the Reedsy Writing Prompt story "Ground Beneath my Feet, Ground up in the Sky" to my site. Almost a year later, let's feature it again.
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#writer #shortstory #sciencefiction #selfpublished
Ground Beneath My Feet, Ground up in the Sky
This story was originally published at Reedsy.com, with the title “Ground Beneath My Feet vs. Ground up in the Sky” as part of the Contest #52 on July 30th 2020. The prompt that in…
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December 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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More nature in my backyard. Saw a tawny frogmouth sitting in the tree, acting like a branch. So beautiful... even if it may have eaten the tadpoles in my frogpond.

#garden #australianwildlife #birds #tawnyfrogmouth #owl #notanowl #backyardwildlife
A tawny frogmouth (owl-like bird with grey and brown feathers that look like tree bard) perched on a tree branch looking down at the camera.
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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#BookBingo Update, completed the 'Has Witches' challenge with Naomi Novik's original fairy tale 'The Summer War'. Such a cool take on the fae, with curses and oaths stacking up.

#books #reading #fantasy
A five-by-five bingo card with the following challenges, In the heading is the title ‘2025’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written by Terry Pratchett (Hogfather) 2. Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner (What Moves the Dead) 3. Breaking a Curse (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) 4. Translated from Russian (Monday Starts on Saturday) 5. Written in Your Year of Birth Row 2: 1. Set on a Spaceship 2. Told from a ‘Villain’ POV (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) 3. World Fantasy Award Winner 4. Been Adapted into a Movie (Redwall) 5. Been Sitting on the Shelf for More Than a Year (Runaways: Teenage Wasteland) Row 3: 1. Title Starts with O 2. Has Dragons (Onyx Storm) 3. Free Square 4. Afrofuturism (After the Flare) 5. Written Between 1930 – 1950 (The Case of Charlse Dexter Ward) Row 4: 1. Set During the Cold War (Three Miles Down) “ 2. King Arthur (Retelling, Inspired, or Original) (Spear) 3. Has Witches (The Summer War) 4. Has Immortality (A Court of Mist and Fury) 5. Australian, Canadian or New Zealand Author Row 5: 1. Translated from Japanese (The Liminal Zone) 2. Non-Marvel or DC Superheroes (Dreadnought) 3. Has Ghosts (Haunt Sweet Home 4. Title Starts with P (Penric and the Bandit) 5. Short Fiction Magazine (Dirty Magick Magazine Jan 2025)
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Got another set of #BookBingo reviews. Come see me bag out Onyx Storm, and also review some good stories.

#reading"/hashtag/readingchallenge" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#readingchallenge #books #reading #bookreviews
2025 Book Bingo Reviews #4
Got another book bingo. So time for another set of reviews. We've got a bunch of really good stories here... plus one I hated. But talking about books I didn't like is sort of fun. Anyway, can't waste too much time on an intro; I still have six squares to fill and I'm running out of 2025. __________________________________________ Challenge: Locas Award for Best Horror Winner…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Time for another World of Green and Black featured creature. This time, we're looking at something really alien. Meet the canopy crawlers. #writing #sciencefiction #worldbuilding
World of Green and Black Featured Creature – Canopy Crawler
Name: Canopy CrawlerWorld: BlackMaterial: Mold/Flesh HybridThought Type: UntetheredSpecies Type: FareiHabitat: Tropical Drid Rainforests All creatures made of the mold/flesh hybrid material fascinate Human naturalists, since there is nothing like them in the Green World. Their body composition is as alien to Humankind as milk and live, fully formed births are to Dridkind. Of this massive order of creatures, the Farei* are of utmost interest to all naturalists, due to their resemblance to Dridkind.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Science is so awesome
laminda.bsky.social Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · Nov 21
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

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A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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It's #BINGO time on my #BookBingo card. Read the Amazing Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner (2023) "What Moves the Dead" by T. Kingfisher. A wonderful, disturbing novella that I couldn't put down. Based on a Poe story that I should probably read too.

#books #reading #horror #readingchallenge
A five-by-five bingo card with the following challenges, In the heading is the title ‘2025’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written by Terry Pratchett (Hogfather) 2. Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner (What Moves the Dead) 3. Breaking a Curse (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) 4. Translated from Russian (Monday Starts on Saturday) 5. Written in Your Year of Birth Row 2: 1. Set on a Spaceship 2. Told from a ‘Villain’ POV (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) 3. World Fantasy Award Winner 4. Been Adapted into a Movie (Redwall) 5. Been Sitting on the Shelf for More Than a Year (Runaways: Teenage Wasteland) Row 3: 1. Title Starts with O 2. Has Dragons (Onyx Storm) 3. Free Square 4. Afrofuturism (After the Flare) 5. Written Between 1930 – 1950 (The Case of Charlse Dexter Ward) Row 4: 1. Set During the Cold War (Three Miles Down) “ 2. King Arthur (Retelling, Inspired, or Original) (Spear) 3. Has Witches 4. Has Immortality (A Court of Mist and Fury) 5. Australian, Canadian or New Zealand Author Row 5: 1. Translated from Japanese (The Liminal Zone) 2. Non-Marvel or DC Superheroes (Dreadnought) 3. Has Ghosts (Haunt Sweet Home 4. Title Starts with P (Penric and the Bandit) 5. Short Fiction Magazine (Dirty Magick Magazine Jan 2025)
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#bookbingo update! Filled the "Written between 1930-1950" square with 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' by #Lovecraft. Found out after starting it was actually written in 1927 but first published in the 40s. I'll call it close enough this late in the year. Top Tier Lovecraft.

#reading #books
A five-by-five bingo card with the following challenges, In the heading is the title ‘2025’, and the website address jaydeholmes.com/book-bingo-cards/ It has the following challenges, listed row-by-row and left-to-right: Row One: 1. Written by Terry Pratchett (Hogfather) 2. Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner 3. Breaking a Curse (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) 4. Translated from Russian (Monday Starts on Saturday) 5. Written in Your Year of Birth Row 2: 1. Set on a Spaceship 2. Told from a ‘Villain’ POV (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) 3. World Fantasy Award Winner 4. Been Adapted into a Movie (Redwall) 5. Been Sitting on the Shelf for More Than a Year (Runaways: Teenage Wasteland) Row 3: 1. Title Starts with O 2. Has Dragons (Onyx Storm) 3. Free Square 4. Afrofuturism (After the Flare) 5. Written Between 1930 – 1950 (The Case of Charlse Dexter Ward) Row 4: 1. Set During the Cold War (Three Miles Down) “ 2. King Arthur (Retelling, Inspired, or Original) (Spear) 3. Has Witches 4. Has Immortality (A Court of Mist and Fury) 5. Australian, Canadian or New Zealand Author Row 5: 1. Translated from Japanese (The Liminal Zone) 2. Non-Marvel or DC Superheroes (Dreadnought) 3. Has Ghosts (Haunt Sweet Home 4. Title Starts with P (Penric and the Bandit) 5. Short Fiction Magazine (Dirty Magick Magazine Jan 2025)
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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As an Aussie, I love this.
joannabagniewska.com Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · Nov 14
For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there.

💩🧊🧪

By @chazhutton.com
Wombat architecture critics. Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM