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Rose Ciesla

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sff writer - sometimes a librarian - reader for Diabolical Plots - very specific - partly titanium - rep: Ashley Reisinger @ Triada US - http://roseciesla.com

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · Mar 15

Oh hello there. If you've ever wanted to:
Set your own work hours 🕰️
Own your own boss babe business 💪
Raise the dead 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️
✨THRIVE✨
Then boy do I have a story for you, and it's out TODAY!:

Archive of the Odd @archiveoftheodd.bsky.social · Mar 6

That's right! Archive of the Odd Issue #5: Cogito Error, featuring Necromancy is an MLM: A Thread by ✨@roseciesla.bsky.social✨is coming March 15th!

archiveoftheodd.bigcartel.com/product/preo...
Keep an eye on our page, babes! 💋

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Ashley Reisinger @awritesinger.bsky.social · 3d

There were so many wonderful pitches for #DVpit yesterday, and I know I missed plenty. If you didn't receive a like but think your project could be a good fit for me, please feel free to send your query and first 10 pages to [email protected]!

www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/as...

Ashley Reisinger – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

www.manuscriptwishlist.com

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 3d

Can mine be a second son who is doomed for the ministry but dreams of being a composer and is desperate for a wealthy patroness and/or wife but probably a patroness

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 3d

Do you need a play tester tho because...

Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 6d

I have never seen The Matrix. Yes, really. I did try to watch it recently but it was too painful--every bone fragment of that film has been referenced and parodied to death. I'd already seen it in pastiched pieces.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 12d

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 14d

Happening in an hour and 24m ahhhhh flights-of-foundry.org to register and hear me sneak a preview of my novel-in-progress and a story about pawn shops and space soldiers and all the things hidden just beneath the surface

Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 16d

I am doing a reading on Saturday at 7pm ET at Flights of Foundry. Here is a graphic to entice you to attend.

A retro 80's style graphic advertising a reading by Rose Ciesla at the Flights of Foundry online con this Saturday at 7pm

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21d

Did you KNOW Flights of Foundry has a direct sign-up sheet for the workshops and chill-n-chats that didn't get filled up by the lottery? And in fact, there are a LOT of seats open in a lot of cool sessions. Register and then mosy on over to the program and sign up!

flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

a rainbow colored shooting star with the words " do you know " in the background

Alt: a rainbow colored shooting star with the words " the more you know " above the rainbow

media.tenor.com

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 22d

I'm teaching a class on basic story structure at the fabulous Write Space in Orange, NJ on October 21st from 7-9pm--more info and signup: bit.ly/4296vX0

Flyer advertising a writing class called NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE: BUILDING ON A SOLID FOUNDATION, illustrated by an angry cat writing on a clipboard.

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Ash Huang @ashsmash.bsky.social · 25d

"To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek…" www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/safe... Out today for everyone in @nightmare-magazine.com

Safe Face - Nightmare Magazine

To save face, turn away from the sun. Turn away from the spatter of cold rain against the cheek, away from the hard light of the moon at its roundest, away from the snow-flecked wind, away from the ba...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 25d

Calling all Flights of Foundry Flock!

We're looking for volunteers! It takes a lot run a convention. Want to see behind the curtain, meet cool people, and be a part of what makes FoF great? We have several different roles and we'll teach you what to do.

flights-of-foundry.o...

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 25d

If you're attending Flights of Foundry and want to swing by our tech check, our schedule is up!

flights-of-foundry.o...

Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · 29d

Los Espookys. For the love of all that is good, will someone else please watch this show, I swear it is not a fever dream (although it kind of is)

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 29d

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?

Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · Sep 11

Are you planning on branding chokers as a pre-order gift when your novel gets published

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

You know what's even BETTER than attending or speaking at Flights of Foundry? Helping out behind the scenes. We have lots of niches for lots of folks, and I promise it's fun!

flights-of-foundry.org/volunteer/

Toast, the adorable cockatoo gryphon, standing on his hind paws and showing off his fuzzy belly. "flights of foundry" is in black text just beneath his back paws.

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · Sep 9

My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)

The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or The Grandchild’s First Dragon

Thirty years after the War of Broken Crowns and the fall of the White-Gold King: Sun-Li had a new adversary to face.“So what do you like to do?” he asked his granddaughter, Antha.Antha had been rid…

www.flashfictiononline.com

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Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · Sep 4

Do you like NASA? And elves? I'm going to be GMing the official NASA one-shot, The Lost Universe at Flights of Foundry!

It's virtual and free to attend. So if you want to come hang out on Saturday, 9/27 and roll some dice, sign up for it with via the lottery.

flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 6

Psssst...

The Flights of Foundry schedule is now live!

flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

Program – Flights of Foundry

flights-of-foundry.org

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am doing a reading! Of a story that is in the form of a Twitter thread! How will I orchestrate this? Better attend and find out!

Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's finally September! Do you know what that means???

Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH.

Register: flights-of-foundry.o...

Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

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K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm in this! With a little fabulist story about bird mom problems aka what happens when you have an immigrant parent and the choice to assimilate is made for you.

Luna Station Quarterly @lunastation.bsky.social · Sep 2

The new issue is out! We are storytelling animals, always have been, always will be. This issue is proof that stories still mean something in our world.

www.lunastationquart...

#ShortStories #WomenWriters #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazines

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michele abounader @ nycc @cerealpancake.bsky.social · Aug 28

As of a few weeks ago, I am no longer with Bad Egg. Grateful for the amazing creators I worked with during my time there.

I'm freelance editing/writing, excited for my work with life(and death)line comics. I am open for the right fulltime editorial role for me and who I am as a person/creative.

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · Aug 28

Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨

This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜

🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆

To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter - Lightspeed Magazine

Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they were sure their credentials were correct.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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michele abounader @ nycc @cerealpancake.bsky.social · Aug 26

FUNeral Home is now LIVE on Kickstarter! 💜🔫🩸🏳️‍🌈

A one-shot comic about sapphic assassins who bury people for a living...twice! It's not burying your gays if your gays are burying everyone.

From me & @fellhound.bsky.social @longtalljodie.com Kiela Sibal @heatherantos.bsky.social

FUNeral Home - created by Fell Hound and Michele Abounader.

A 30 Page comic one-shot about chosen family, processing grief, and sapphic assassins.

It's not burying your gays if your gays are burying everyone.

live now on kickstarter.

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Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · Aug 20

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you attended:
- Hurray for the Riff Raff
- Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings
- Beth Gibbons
- Robyn Hitchcock (twice)
- The Big Star Quintet

Neko Case is next, maybe Blush

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · Aug 20

introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you attended:
- Hozier
- Kiddo's band concert
- Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals
- Khruangbin x3
- Hermanos Gutierrez

Upcoming: Polyrhythmics, maybe TMBG

Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · Aug 20

introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you attended:
- Symphony: Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony
- Symphony: Stravinsky Firebird Suite
- Bauhaus
- Symphony: Beethoven's Pastoral
- Amon Amarth / Sabaton

Rose Ciesla @roseciesla.bsky.social · Aug 14

The perfect ttrpg doesn't exi--

Kate Ravenna @fantasticalkate.bsky.social · Aug 14

Raccoons with Lockpicks is finally here! It's a tiny little TTRPG where you can pull a heist! As a raccoon! 4 out of 5 of my playtest games ended with something on fire, all of them ended with chaos.

It's free, and you only need 2d6 to start playing.

#1pRPGjam

kate-ravenna.itch.io/raccoons

Raccoons with Lockpicks by Kate Ravenna

Play as mischievous raccoons with lockpicks in a little heist RPG with narrative dice.

kate-ravenna.itch.io

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