Shannon Knight
@shannonknight.bsky.social
I write books.
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
Tree watcher. First wave LC. she/her
Abolish ICE.
https://shannonknight.net
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
Tree watcher. First wave LC. she/her
Abolish ICE.
https://shannonknight.net
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Shannon Knight
@shannonknight.bsky.social
· Feb 17
I write science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels. You can find out more about my work at www.shannonknight.net.
Mysteries like this one make me want to write historical (fantasy) fiction. I'm absolute overkill on the research, though, so it takes soooooo much time. But what a story!
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Mysteries like this one make me want to write historical (fantasy) fiction. I'm absolute overkill on the research, though, so it takes soooooo much time. But what a story!
I tried eye gel drops last night for the first time. So weird! Very distracting to try and fall asleep while your eyes are all gummy.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I tried eye gel drops last night for the first time. So weird! Very distracting to try and fall asleep while your eyes are all gummy.
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(screaming like a teenager during beatlemania) omg ITS DERPY
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Christian Nègre is alleged to have drugged over 200 women at a place they never expected it… a job interview.
He dosed them with a diuretic which made them have to urinate; then took them on walks far from toilets
The desire to shame, subjugate & control is a feature of patriarchy:
He dosed them with a diuretic which made them have to urinate; then took them on walks far from toilets
The desire to shame, subjugate & control is a feature of patriarchy:
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Christian Nègre is alleged to have drugged over 200 women at a place they never expected it… a job interview.
He dosed them with a diuretic which made them have to urinate; then took them on walks far from toilets
The desire to shame, subjugate & control is a feature of patriarchy:
He dosed them with a diuretic which made them have to urinate; then took them on walks far from toilets
The desire to shame, subjugate & control is a feature of patriarchy:
I've been playing Elmer Fudd, trying to get these rodents out of my car, and it has escalated to peppermint oil. The smell is so powerful--it's got to work. Unfortunately, everyone has lost because I, too, feel driven away by the scent, which I hope will wash off my hands eventually.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I've been playing Elmer Fudd, trying to get these rodents out of my car, and it has escalated to peppermint oil. The smell is so powerful--it's got to work. Unfortunately, everyone has lost because I, too, feel driven away by the scent, which I hope will wash off my hands eventually.
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🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
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Today in linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your knowledge of language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today in linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your knowledge of language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before.
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
Are you planning your holiday shopping with readers in mind who prefer digital books? You can buy ebooks as gifts! This article explains how to buy ebooks as gifts from several different retailers. This way you can offer a book personally chosen by you in the format your recipient prefers!
How to Give an Ebook as a Gift
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earlybirdbooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Are you planning your holiday shopping with readers in mind who prefer digital books? You can buy ebooks as gifts! This article explains how to buy ebooks as gifts from several different retailers. This way you can offer a book personally chosen by you in the format your recipient prefers!
So last week I tried to buy two weeks' of liquid food (because liquid food always works but solid maybe not). They didn't have enough. But the special takeout I purchased lasted for FIVE days (which isn't so shocking when you can't eat much), so catastrophe diverted. #longCovid
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
So last week I tried to buy two weeks' of liquid food (because liquid food always works but solid maybe not). They didn't have enough. But the special takeout I purchased lasted for FIVE days (which isn't so shocking when you can't eat much), so catastrophe diverted. #longCovid
I've received terrific feedback on the new horror book, and I'm reading through again, looking to strengthen what I can. I teach no classes today, and I'm skipping groceries because even a healthy person is wary of grocery stores on the heaviest grocery shopping day of the year.
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I've received terrific feedback on the new horror book, and I'm reading through again, looking to strengthen what I can. I teach no classes today, and I'm skipping groceries because even a healthy person is wary of grocery stores on the heaviest grocery shopping day of the year.
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It was only a failure if you assume they ever had good intentions. If you assume they intended to destroy the federal government from within, they succeeded.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It was only a failure if you assume they ever had good intentions. If you assume they intended to destroy the federal government from within, they succeeded.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.
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I’m giving amazing books away from tons of indie and self published authors I think you’ll love! If YOU’VE got people who love sci-fi and fantasy books, I’ll be doing this often. 😁💚
Share it far and wide my friends! Any reposting is greatly appreciated. 🤗
#BookSky 📚💙
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Share it far and wide my friends! Any reposting is greatly appreciated. 🤗
#BookSky 📚💙
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I’m into book 3 of this series with book 4 on deck! Nick Snape writes in a powerfully engaging voice with likable damaged characters that really appeal to me. I think you’ll love this series - I certainly do. 😁
TO PROVE IT! I’ll buy the ebooks of the first 3 entries for 5 lucky participants! ⬇️❗️
TO PROVE IT! I’ll buy the ebooks of the first 3 entries for 5 lucky participants! ⬇️❗️
Bk4 is in the wild. I had 32 preorders and hoping for a few more sales over the next few days. Getting to 50 by Nov 30th would be amazing. Join Rebekah and her crew as they face-off against the Butcher AI that has taken an alien queen’s spawn seeking their secret to FLT. #scifibooks #scifi 💙🪐📚
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I’m giving amazing books away from tons of indie and self published authors I think you’ll love! If YOU’VE got people who love sci-fi and fantasy books, I’ll be doing this often. 😁💚
Share it far and wide my friends! Any reposting is greatly appreciated. 🤗
#BookSky 📚💙
bsky.app/profile/flam...
Share it far and wide my friends! Any reposting is greatly appreciated. 🤗
#BookSky 📚💙
bsky.app/profile/flam...
Always a pleasure to read Dr. Janega's amusing and informative articles on history. This one is ripping apart the hot take that the fall of the Roman Empire was sad and bad.
On contrarian history
Unfortunately, though I have made the world’s best booty shorts and deployed them with great skill and aplomb, there are still those in our society who refuse to heed my message, and also to learn …
going-medieval.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Always a pleasure to read Dr. Janega's amusing and informative articles on history. This one is ripping apart the hot take that the fall of the Roman Empire was sad and bad.
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Kīlauea is erupting! 🌋 Here’s a link to one of the three @USGS live cams - enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Kīlauea is erupting! 🌋 Here’s a link to one of the three @USGS live cams - enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
Looking for the perfect Thanksgiving conversation piece? May I suggest bringing the family together for a little book on eating well. #horror
Buy yours! books2read.com/Domestication
*May not actually be the best dining conversation story. Depends on your family.
Buy yours! books2read.com/Domestication
*May not actually be the best dining conversation story. Depends on your family.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Looking for the perfect Thanksgiving conversation piece? May I suggest bringing the family together for a little book on eating well. #horror
Buy yours! books2read.com/Domestication
*May not actually be the best dining conversation story. Depends on your family.
Buy yours! books2read.com/Domestication
*May not actually be the best dining conversation story. Depends on your family.
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Today is a very special day, a day that included canned food for breakfast. Little Bat is absolutely basking in the joys of a full tummy.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today is a very special day, a day that included canned food for breakfast. Little Bat is absolutely basking in the joys of a full tummy.
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Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
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I see we're being told piracy is good, actually, or we get exposure,or it's a compliment that someone wants our work enough to steal it.
1)No.
2)People die of exposure.
3)No. It's entitlement.
Would you walk into someone's house, take a book and leave? Theft is theft.
1)No.
2)People die of exposure.
3)No. It's entitlement.
Would you walk into someone's house, take a book and leave? Theft is theft.
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I see we're being told piracy is good, actually, or we get exposure,or it's a compliment that someone wants our work enough to steal it.
1)No.
2)People die of exposure.
3)No. It's entitlement.
Would you walk into someone's house, take a book and leave? Theft is theft.
1)No.
2)People die of exposure.
3)No. It's entitlement.
Would you walk into someone's house, take a book and leave? Theft is theft.
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All right. Let's try this.
Piracy is also a consent issue.
There are books on that archive that have been rewritten since. There's juvenilia that people don't want out in the world.
But it's there, and they can't stop it. It's like if people kept sharing your most embarrassing picture.
Piracy is also a consent issue.
There are books on that archive that have been rewritten since. There's juvenilia that people don't want out in the world.
But it's there, and they can't stop it. It's like if people kept sharing your most embarrassing picture.
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
All right. Let's try this.
Piracy is also a consent issue.
There are books on that archive that have been rewritten since. There's juvenilia that people don't want out in the world.
But it's there, and they can't stop it. It's like if people kept sharing your most embarrassing picture.
Piracy is also a consent issue.
There are books on that archive that have been rewritten since. There's juvenilia that people don't want out in the world.
But it's there, and they can't stop it. It's like if people kept sharing your most embarrassing picture.
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Incidentally, theft like this is why there won’t be a second Steelflower trilogy, why the Bannon & Clare series was canceled by the publisher, and why I will never do another collected SquirrelTerror book.
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Incidentally, theft like this is why there won’t be a second Steelflower trilogy, why the Bannon & Clare series was canceled by the publisher, and why I will never do another collected SquirrelTerror book.