Polenth Blake
@polenth.bsky.social
Fantasy and science fiction writer/artist with a tendency towards ecology and quietly strange things. Keeper of invertebrates and fish. Enjoys walking simulators and Second Life. Multiply marginalised.
Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
Pinned
Polenth's Nothing
The personal website of Polenth Blake.
www.polenthblake.com
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
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I was right he did need a top hat.
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I was right he did need a top hat.
I saw "Wicked: For Good" today. I was uncertain how they'd go with Nessarose in this, but it's a big improvement on the stage version (within the limits of the source material... it'll be some other film that gives us the lead using a wheelchair).
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I saw "Wicked: For Good" today. I was uncertain how they'd go with Nessarose in this, but it's a big improvement on the stage version (within the limits of the source material... it'll be some other film that gives us the lead using a wheelchair).
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fantastic rally the last few days, fam! this is only $250 away. let's close up the gap and get african stories to a new audience!
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / We're overdue - let's rally this. / please see - please share / After nine months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn't Hu...
ko-fi.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
fantastic rally the last few days, fam! this is only $250 away. let's close up the gap and get african stories to a new audience!
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
Polenth's Nothing
The personal website of Polenth Blake.
www.polenthblake.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
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Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31.
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Here is my 2025 award eligibility list, but it's not going to be entirely complete (for now), because I have a story coming out on... Dec 31.
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
* Book!
* The giant spider wants to help with your intersex healthcare, what could possibly go wrong
* Distributed haunting (you can also get some)
Thread~
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
Polenth's Nothing
The personal website of Polenth Blake.
www.polenthblake.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
It's the last month of the year, so a roundup of the stuff I've done this year. This focuses on writing, videos and walking. More about everything can always be found on my website (now with an old school links section): www.polenthblake.com
My advent calendars are ready! One chocolate and some digital ones.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My advent calendars are ready! One chocolate and some digital ones.
I'm not sure I've seen anything that unusual in the wild (for someone in the UK). I saw a compass jellyfish when I was sea swimming. A wild orange morph of Porcellio scaber woodlice. A kingfisher. Chrysocharis gemma doing ecology stuff (a parasitoid wasp of holly leaf miners). Wood mice (so small).
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I'm not sure I've seen anything that unusual in the wild (for someone in the UK). I saw a compass jellyfish when I was sea swimming. A wild orange morph of Porcellio scaber woodlice. A kingfisher. Chrysocharis gemma doing ecology stuff (a parasitoid wasp of holly leaf miners). Wood mice (so small).
A good thing I wasn't trying to film today as the foxes have decided it's otherworldly screaming night.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A good thing I wasn't trying to film today as the foxes have decided it's otherworldly screaming night.
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Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
My main observation on pirating books is the more aggressive someone is about their right to do so, the more likely it is they can afford books. It's like rich kids shoplifting makeup because they think it's cool. Poor people steal bread and wish they had enough to pay for it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My main observation on pirating books is the more aggressive someone is about their right to do so, the more likely it is they can afford books. It's like rich kids shoplifting makeup because they think it's cool. Poor people steal bread and wish they had enough to pay for it.
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The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The time has come! Today is our Table of Content announcement for COMMON BONDS 2!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
You can get all details directly on our Kickstarter Update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
But I'll also thread them below!
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Marketing? Very well (sigh).
Big thread of all my art and books! (Most of my books are also illustrated!)
Cool t-shirts and other merch with my art available in my threadless shop:
whistberry.threadless.com
Big thread of all my art and books! (Most of my books are also illustrated!)
Cool t-shirts and other merch with my art available in my threadless shop:
whistberry.threadless.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Marketing? Very well (sigh).
Big thread of all my art and books! (Most of my books are also illustrated!)
Cool t-shirts and other merch with my art available in my threadless shop:
whistberry.threadless.com
Big thread of all my art and books! (Most of my books are also illustrated!)
Cool t-shirts and other merch with my art available in my threadless shop:
whistberry.threadless.com
On party food/drink notes, alcohol isn't the only potential issue. Especially in sugar tax countries, make sure you have something that doesn't contain sweeteners. Things that were okay last year might have sweeteners now. Things you don't expect can add them (pickled beetroot).
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
On party food/drink notes, alcohol isn't the only potential issue. Especially in sugar tax countries, make sure you have something that doesn't contain sweeteners. Things that were okay last year might have sweeteners now. Things you don't expect can add them (pickled beetroot).
I've now watched Sonic 3! My aro self doesn't ship many characters, but I'm here for the dysfunctional villain romance in this series.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I've now watched Sonic 3! My aro self doesn't ship many characters, but I'm here for the dysfunctional villain romance in this series.
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With holiday season soon upon us, it is a good time to remind you of our catalog of books with our classic holiday sales pitch gif. We'll ship anywhere! aanpress.com/aanorder.html
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
With holiday season soon upon us, it is a good time to remind you of our catalog of books with our classic holiday sales pitch gif. We'll ship anywhere! aanpress.com/aanorder.html
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day 15 of trying to draw a mushroom for every day of october
im almost done drawing these time to catch up on posting..
#art #sciart #fungi #mushrooms
im almost done drawing these time to catch up on posting..
#art #sciart #fungi #mushrooms
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
day 15 of trying to draw a mushroom for every day of october
im almost done drawing these time to catch up on posting..
#art #sciart #fungi #mushrooms
im almost done drawing these time to catch up on posting..
#art #sciart #fungi #mushrooms
I made my first hot chocolate with marshmallows for the season. Keeping warm as I work on stuff.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I made my first hot chocolate with marshmallows for the season. Keeping warm as I work on stuff.
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Added 7 small bumpy wreaths to the shop and 2 big ones. nora.jewelry/collections/...
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Added 7 small bumpy wreaths to the shop and 2 big ones. nora.jewelry/collections/...
I attempted to film stuff and now I'm wrapped in blankets again. 'Tis the season.
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I attempted to film stuff and now I'm wrapped in blankets again. 'Tis the season.
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Explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with my SciArt Starter Pack.
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with my SciArt Starter Pack.
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
Paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical illustration,
bioart to space imagery.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
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hey what's an aro or ace SFF book you really loved this year? Tell me what you loved most about it! I especially want to hear about your indie favs, or books by non white authors <3
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
hey what's an aro or ace SFF book you really loved this year? Tell me what you loved most about it! I especially want to hear about your indie favs, or books by non white authors <3
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It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
adamant.moksha.io
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
It's dropped to 15C inside for the first time this year (for me at the computer, my animals have their heating as usual).
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
It's dropped to 15C inside for the first time this year (for me at the computer, my animals have their heating as usual).