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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓

@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social

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Writer of mostly queer SFFH stories & poems | eco garden hag | she/her/any | can be found: Outside foraging, inside with a story 🖋️📚 🧞🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧🇪🇺 | No genAI thieverubbish 🚯 →→→ 📔2025 👀🤞 ←←← https://linktr.ee/jeannie_marschall

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · Jun 1

Hello to all new follows!🖖

Re-introduction time—
I'm Jeannie, I write nearly-always-queer stories of fantasy, SciFi, and horror, & my darlings are often the most tender, open-hearted saps that ever fought eldrich beings and bled forbidden magics.

Accordingly: poly horromantasy coming late 2025 🌈🚀💫

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1h

Found that gorgeous mindspace where the writing feels like poetry even as you tell a tale of fiery revolution ✨

Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I started ...last night"

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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"withdrawal from regional consortium"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1d

"If you send us anything that has utilized generative AI we will hunt you down for sport."

👏😂 gosh, these people are lovely

Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 1d

Ghoulish Tales @ghoulish.bsky.social wants fun horror stories, pays $.10/word, no reprints, due 10/17/25. 🧵1/4

#AmWriting #Horror #AmWritingHorror #WritingCommunity #SubmissionCall

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Ghoulish Tales Reopens for Submissions (9/17-10/17 2025) – GHOULISH

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James Bennett @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 5d

Coming in November from @lethepress.bsky.social

"Capturing much of the menace and enchantment of the original, this will be a treat for Phantom fans."
Publishers Weekly

Featuring a brand new story from moi "The Road of Mirrors"

Pre-order link: www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...

📚💙🏳️‍🌈☠️

A red skull between theatrical curtains comprises the cover of "Final Curtain", an anthology inspired by Phantom of the Opera from Lethe Press.

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · Nov 24

In case you feel like pagan midwinter poetry & dark tales, might I suggest this magical tome—
www.speculationpub.com/books

#poetry #sff #magic #indie

Cover of "Evergreen: Tales of Winter Shadows" from Speculation Publications: painting of a snow-covered forest and a pine dryad. Edited by River Eno and LCW Allingham. Stories and poems by Maddox Emory Arnold - Jean Baur - Jordan Bianchi - Jan Cronos - Anne Karppinen - Jordan King-Lacroix - Jeannie Marschall (oh! It me!) - Enid Paige - C.L. Roldan - Sue Westwind

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 7d

Enter the woods with our October wilderness horror opener, “To Breach a Citadel” by Jeannie Marschall. You are small compared to the entities that thrive here 💀
#writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction #foundfootage #wilderness
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
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To Breach a Citadel

The camera was in remarkably good shape. When they nudged the power button, the display sprang to life and the first clip ran without waiting for permission. Amidst the carnage of splintered branch…

www.flashfictiononline.com

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 8d

For #NationalPoetryDay, a timeless classic:

The Tiger, by Nael, age 6
From, 'They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket'
The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Feb 11

✨ (✿◠‿◠) | NEW AUTHOR INTERVIEW ✨

Author Interview with Jeannie Marschall | @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social

[ #authorsofsky ] | [ #booksky ] | [ #authorinterviews ]

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Author Interview with Jeannie Marschall

Introduce yourself! Hello there! I’m Jeannie (any pronouns are fine, including General Kenobi). I’m an eco garden hag from Germany with a soft spot for stories, because honestly, all of everything …

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

"The eyes of future generations are on [us], silently urging us to act bravely and quickly [...] to save them from a collapsed biosphere.

Will we rise to the moment and earn the right to be regarded as 'good ancestors'?"

Crucial question, crucial book.

*Read it.*

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1d

For those in a childcare/teaching setting, replying, "I have two hundred and fifty kids" works quite well and has NEVER gotten any response but nods so far

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friedliche Teeevolution, Prädikat niedlich @trullateee.bsky.social · 1d

Ich übersetze kurz:

"Warken will Armutsbetroffene pauschal von noch mehr medizinischer Versorgung ausschließen" 🙃

ntv Nachrichtensender @ntvde.bsky.social · 1d

Milliardenlücke bei Kassen: Warken will Zuzahlungen pauschal um 50 Prozent erhöhen

Seit Monaten verlangen die Krankenkassen politische Reformen, um die Defizite im Gesundheitssystem und weitere Beitragssteigerungen zu vermeiden. Gesundheitsministerin Warken erwägt, die Zuzahlungen für Medikamente pauschal um 50 Prozent zu erhöhen.

www.n-tv.de

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for this amazing meet'y'all! 🫶

Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1d

Every now and then, you read a combination of words that's just ...awful.
Like "child prison population"

Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed!
It boggles the mind: everyone complains about either illness, absences from work, loss for the economy, or "the hardships we all went through" - and yet if you suggest installing even just better ventilation in all public buildings (for starters)?
"Oh no, too expensive"
Like ...what??!

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 1d

🦋BUTTERFLIES🐛

Sonyō-in (尊陽院), a sub-temple of Honpō-ji (本法寺), has a rather stunning ceiling.

not yet a butterfly
even as autumn passes
the caterpillar
秋を経て蝶もなめるや菊の露
-Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉)
Trans. Reichhold.

#Japan #butterflies #蝶々 #Kyoto

Sonyo-in's sumptuous coffered ceiling features paintings of flowers and butterflies on a gilded background.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 2d

I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 2d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 2d

I love the economic precision of "hmm who oh who could pay more taxes in this world, mmmmm CHILDLESS PEOPLE! Duh!"

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Nathalie De Los Santos @natadecocoa.bsky.social · 2d

In Diyosa Mata, Mayari awakens the power to shapeshift into the male Filipino god of the sun & war, Apolaki, and as she leads an uprising against colonial oppressors, she must confront whether her true battle is with her enemies or with her own divided identity. #YA #asian #F #dvpit #lgbt #poc #sff

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Jo V. Lande @jovlande.bsky.social · 2d

Sleeping Beauty meets South African folklore when a nomad with a hunter’s spirit must face a castle covered in enchanted thorns and the villainess who made it her domain to reclaim her ancestral home or forever wander until death in a desolate land.

#DVpit #A #F #H #R #LGBT #Native #ND #POC #WOC

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Kristy Gardner - Queer Sci-Fi & Horror Author @kristygardner.bsky.social · 2d

Audrey Tully wins a golden ticket on the first all-inclusive trip to an alien world. When nothing goes affording to plan, she must navigate perilous terrain, rely on the kindness of strangers, and trust herself if she's to get her new found family's butts back to Earth.

#dvpit #A #SF #LGBT

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Charlie Amen @charlieamen.bsky.social · 2d

NOBLE CHARMS: for readers seeking cozy CS Pacat.

Former enemies Noble & Aria team up to enter high society as eligible bachelors. And the plan works! Aria's courted by a viscount, but Noble's devastated to lose him. Even worse? His desires conflict with his future as an earl.

#DVPit #A #F #LGBT

An illustration of a dark-haired noble human and a blond-haired elf standing together and gazing lovingly at each other

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Miss Scarlet Tanager @missscarlettanager.bsky.social · 2d

BLOODBORNE X ANNIHILATION
🩸Blood Magic
🐙Eldritch gods
🧑‍🧒‍🧒Family Trauma
Anya abandoned her sister Sarah in Stjarn after a fight. Then the gods' gaze fell on the city. Now Anya must brave a Stjarn full of fiends and madmen to save her, and not even the gods will stand in her way.
#F #H #A #LGBT #DVpit

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J.C. Wood 📃is querying @j-c-wood.bsky.social · 2d

Earth was getting further away and I had no food. Would I starve to death? I was so weak.
I was alone out here, the only person within thousands of miles of emptiness.
At least I had enough air.
Maybe if I closed my eyes it would all be over when I woke up.
/If/ I woke up. #DVpit #NA #A #R #SF #LGBT

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