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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐
@mythopoetica.bsky.social
Author. Poet. Gothic Academic. PhD. she/her

Codex Writers Group, MLA

Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc

Website: www.mythopoetica.com
Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/
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An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️

#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia

mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
It's very satisfying to work on this feminist body horror article right now. SUPER satisfying.
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My version of spite: I'm publishing my first poetry collection next week. I'm not entering it into the library system because I'm not giving that petty little man another chance to insult me. The library system will never see another creative work from me again. Only my journal articles.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
omg the MPO are performing Yoshimatsu next year. I guess I'm going to be returning to the concert hall after all.
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Was excused early from meeting (because I did all my work and everything's been checked) so let's try to submit the article now before I head home.
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted
“This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...
www.unchartedmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Fortified myself with Florence + The Machine on my rainy commute to work. Everybody Scream is still giving me strength.
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times (non-classical edition):

Mogwai
Kaki King
Joanna Newsom
Grizzly Bear
The New Pornographers
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times

Daphnis et Chloe — Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major — Maurice Ravel
La Mer — Claude Debussy
The Rite of Spring — Igor Stravinsky
Brandenburg Concertos — JS Bach
Scheherazade — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times.

Tristan und Isolde
Le nozze di Figaro
Les Troyens
Don Carlo(s)
Mahler Symphony No. 2
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times

Daphnis et Chloe — Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major — Maurice Ravel
La Mer — Claude Debussy
The Rite of Spring — Igor Stravinsky
Brandenburg Concertos — JS Bach
Scheherazade — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times.

Tristan und Isolde
Le nozze di Figaro
Les Troyens
Don Carlo(s)
Mahler Symphony No. 2
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times

Prince
Soul Coughing
Yo La Tengo
R.E.M.
Radiohead
They Might Be Giants

I would have said The Smiths, but I only saw them twice
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Vale, Skye Gingell. 💔
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Leftover ravioli for breakfast because I need to finish it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
What The Woods Mean -- the collection I plan on publishing next week has poems written between 1996-2006 (mostly). Some have been published, some have been on my websites, and a couple of others I've performed at readings. The original Cupid/Psyche poem that led to Watermyth is contained.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Early morning meetings three days in a row. Although I was a bit late yesterday on account of my spine AND asthma acting up.

Was awake by 530am today, though. So, I should be there on time, flood warnings notwithstanding.
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Tarantino, who never saw an old movie he couldn’t rip for content, is the most hilarious spokesman for this message.

Self-awareness is a great virtue. He has never been burdened with it.
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 12h
Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino has said The Hunger Games "ripped off" Battle Royale, and expressed surprise that the Japanese writer of the cult classic original didn’t sue The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins. https://bit.ly/44fDUkf
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I’ve been lighting my self-care candles (peach scented) so often lately that I guess it’s nearly time to stock up. Forever a candles and sparkly lights girlie.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Deleted that promo about my upcoming poetry collection (mostly so I can satisfy myself that I brought out a book this year, even if it is a smol book) because I'm not in the mood for a boasty rah-rah promotion (I never am, tbh, but especially not now when my sense of self has been sorely bruised).
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Anyway, I will continue publishing my blog posts that serve no value to society, whether pedagogical or otherwise.
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I don't want people wondering/worrying too much over what's going on too much given how much I've been talking about tears and such so I'm just going to tell you: I will have only two scopus-indexed articles this year even if most of my other evaluation rings will be 100% full.
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Deleting all of the "Published in ..." from my blog entries with viciousness.
November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Huh. I actually made the formatted/templated version of the What The Woods Mean poetry collection years ago but never got around to publishing it. LOL @ myself.

Maybe over the weekend or next week...
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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We have reached Day 11 of the TTL 2025 re-read party and today we have @amadolaila.bsky.social with For The Love Of Drowning Isles in which the last nightmare warden faces an unusual challenge - and uses their bottle of nightmares in a very different way
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Things I have discovered from over 2 decades of the internets and social
media w/ American friendos: green bean casserole is a thing; oddly enough it works and is delicious.

American friendos, you have a lot to answer for.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Marine Protected Areas have evolved as a tried-and-tested method of preserving marine life and supporting coastal communities.
Unchecked development threatens Cameroon’s Manyange Na Elombo-Campo marine park
If such development continues unchecked, Cameroon is at risk of further damaging its protected marine ecosystems and sabotaging its long-term sustainability and conservation goals.
globalvoices.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Couldn’t submit article earlier. But almost done. Suddenly realised I was alone in the corridor, it was late, and raining. So I skedaddled home. Long drive through rain and traffic jam so all I want right now is my spaceship.

🫠🥱
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM