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Polenth Blake

@polenth.bsky.social

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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

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · Jun 1

WERECOCKROACH has an aroace agender lead, aliens and gentle vibes. Friendship focused.

www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro...

EVERYDAY ALIENS is a flash fiction collection about weird aliens. Often experimental.

www.polenthblake.com/words/aliens...

#PrideBookFair #QueerBookSky #BookSky #Pride

The cover of WERECOCKROACH by Polenth Blake is at an angle on a green background. The cover has hand drawn letters and a hissing cockroach drawn in brown and black wax crayon. Captions surround the cover in a childish messy font with arrows pointing at things.

Captions pointing at the cockroach: wiggly antennae, cute face, little feets, tough outside, squishy soft inside, danger attack spikes, more little feets.

Captions pointing at the title: i love wax crayons, beautiful hand drawn letters.

Captions for the book: friendship, this book is ace, aliens wearing hats, gentle, full of yay, sarcastic, buy this book (trust me i'm a professional).

The cover of EVERYDAY ALIENS by Polenth Blake is on a black background. The cover has a complex doodle of alien life in rainbow colours on black, drawn by the author. The title and author are in a black box in the centre, with an alien worm separating the two. Captions surround the cover in the same rainbow font.

Captions pointing at the book cover read: Xenofiction, Weird, Flash Fiction, Citations, Speculative Biology, Slice-of-(Alien)Life, Poetry, Starfish Aliens and Very Alien Aliens.

A caption points across the cover to the worm which reads: Fred.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 14h

If everything was going well, I think I could do one book a year. But that hasn't happened since the very start because of life and health stuff.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 3d

I got new hand covers/fingerless gloves today for filming. They're the cotton sort people use for hand protection. I have vein damage now, so it means I won't need to worry about that when I film and they come in fun colours.

Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, that'd be good. People are pushing for ways to turn all this AI stuff off, so it might happen in the end.

Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 6d

My novella about an aroace agender person and werecockroaches: www.polenthblake.com/words/cockro...

@bogiperson.bsky.social has a list of intersex ownvoices books: www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-own...

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 6d

It's currently rolling out (and is opt out for channels, so some don't know it's happened to their videos).

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 7d

This has been so long in the making. A story queer love, video games, a creepy village, toxic friends and a lot of hope.

Go grab a copy.

Trick or Treat Coveney🎃 @nmjcoveney.bsky.social · 7d

About last night… absolutely pinching myself after my incredible launch party @gaystheword.bsky.social which has always been a special place from when I first moved to London 16 years ago.

Signed copies available in store or through Gay’s The Word www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page... website!

Nick holding a copy of his debut novel ‘Everything Not Saved’ inside Gay’s The Word

Copies of Nick’s debut novel ‘Everything Not Saved’

Nick holding a copy of ‘Everything Not Saved’ with his husband Patrick Ness

Nick’s friends, family and loved one celebrating his launch 🚀

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 7d

YouTube just jump scared me by autodubbing soft spoken Spanish into loud American English. I so hate that feature.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 7d

I got my first chocolate apples of the season!

Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 11d

I'm doing a rainbow Hallowe'en at my Second Life house. First life will be a more regular colour scheme, though I did get a fluffy purple spider toy.

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M H Ayinde 🍉 A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST out NOW! @mhayinde.bsky.social · 13d

The spammers aren’t even putting in the minimum effort any more!

Snippet of an email addressed to “Name” offering to help promote a book entitled “Book”

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 14d

Alien Resurrection.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 16d

Testing some new headphones as my old ones were falling apart.

Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 17d

Modern fanfiction is as much a community as a story type. So telling me that I'm in that community because I wrote a retelling doesn't sit well. I'm aroace. That community has never been for me. I'm not welcome there.

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rcloenenruiz @rcloenenruiz.bsky.social · 18d

A shoutout for my lovely friend, Weegbree. It’s her first publication outside of The Netherlands. If you have time, drop by and check out her cool weird story at www.weirdlitmag.com/fiction/broo...

“Brood/Pain/Pan: A Breadtale in Three Movements” by weegbree | Weird Lit

www.weirdlitmag.com

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 18d

I've been busy with family stuff and some other projects, but things are going okay. Trying a new medicated shampoo that seems to be helping the scalp pain. I've cooked enough stuff to freeze for three more days of supper. Saw many mushrooms on my walks.

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · 19d

i like when spindly mushrooms grow on dead leaves

#art

illustration of a small fairy creature lying with its limbs stretched out and eyes closed. it has wings that look like dead leaves, twig-like limbs, and two tall thin fungi growing out of its chest. everything is brown.

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 22d

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!

"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"

Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting - Lightspeed Magazine

Dear Dr. Erzsébet Krajcsik-Nagy, I am contacting you as a member of the general public, and not as a fellow scholar, though I must say my chosen field of art history does have certain similarities to...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 22d

I've finished reuploading the old videos I took down for edits. The last is this one of me trapped in a giant cardboard box. I'll do a text post tomorrow, but the basic plan is I'd like to make some seasonal stuff this year. After that, who knows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di43...

Great ASMR Box Escape

YouTube video by Polenth Blake

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 23d

There was another cricket in the house. It's like a really slow cricket invasion. I don't think they've got the hang of this.

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Garrett Jones @supersamuri0987.bsky.social · 24d

Our bird feeder ran empty while we were away for the weekend and I came back to it’s camera roll full of disappointed looking birds

Small bird perched on the edge of a feeder staring into the camera with a slight head tilt

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 24d

You can turn comments off if you want.

Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 24d

I expected my queer books might get banned in the US at some point, but I wasn't expecting my ASMR videos to get banned first. Not on my bingo card for the year, that's for sure.

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Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · 28d

There was a cricket in my bedroom. Not the usual sort of friend who turns up in the house. I wasn't that awake so had a "that's a very long and green spider" moment before it registered.

Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · Sep 10

I went for a walk in the rain. Very autumny!

Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Top on TikTok is the rainbow ribbons video, which does feature my real hand! Apparently they're less into lawn shrimp over there.

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