Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
· Oct 20
Two books for spooky season:
COFFIN MOON, Keith Rosson: Best modern vampire story ever (although it's set in the 70s).
THE TWISTED ONES, by T. Kingfisher: It lures you in with chatty good humor (especially about NPR Pledge Week) and a lovely dog...then slams the door and bites you in the dark.
COFFIN MOON, Keith Rosson: Best modern vampire story ever (although it's set in the 70s).
THE TWISTED ONES, by T. Kingfisher: It lures you in with chatty good humor (especially about NPR Pledge Week) and a lovely dog...then slams the door and bites you in the dark.
Is this my beautiful house? Is this my beautiful life?
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Guillotines
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Guillotines
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
This is possibly my favorite product answer yet:
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is possibly my favorite product answer yet:
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
Q: Will this deodorizing spray get rid of dead animal smell?
A: Yes, but you need to remove the dead animal or you will need to keep applying it.
This one hits hard. I very much hope to be posting something like it in a decade or so.
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This one hits hard. I very much hope to be posting something like it in a decade or so.
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This.
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This.
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
He claims the bricks were inspired by the block chain. Engineers, please look away now.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
He claims the bricks were inspired by the block chain. Engineers, please look away now.
This is incredible home disaster tourism and I recommend it.
Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is incredible home disaster tourism and I recommend it.
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
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WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by @tkingfisher.com
- enby MC
- we've had scary fungus and scary ghosts
- now it's time to investigate an abandoned coal mine that's probably haunted
- do you like claustrophobia, b/c we've got claustrophobia
- 3rd in SWORN SOLDIER series
- enby MC
- we've had scary fungus and scary ghosts
- now it's time to investigate an abandoned coal mine that's probably haunted
- do you like claustrophobia, b/c we've got claustrophobia
- 3rd in SWORN SOLDIER series
What Stalks the Deep
Check out What Stalks the Deep - <p><b>An instant <i>New York Times</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, and Indie bestseller!</b><br><b><br>The next </b><b>installment</b><b> in the <i>New York Times</i> bestselli...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by @tkingfisher.com
- enby MC
- we've had scary fungus and scary ghosts
- now it's time to investigate an abandoned coal mine that's probably haunted
- do you like claustrophobia, b/c we've got claustrophobia
- 3rd in SWORN SOLDIER series
- enby MC
- we've had scary fungus and scary ghosts
- now it's time to investigate an abandoned coal mine that's probably haunted
- do you like claustrophobia, b/c we've got claustrophobia
- 3rd in SWORN SOLDIER series
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Please preorder our book, shit's getting weird again.
#scifi #fantasy #YA #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #preorder
#scifi #fantasy #YA #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #preorder
You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 NOW! - Side Quested Webcomic
Yes, finally! You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 wherever books are sold! Here are convenient links to some of the big stores (but your local indie brick-and-mortar store will also…
sidequested.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Found Hobbs the cat hissing at his own ass and had to stage an intervention. He was not grateful to have the, err, offending encrustation removed, but then, they never are.
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Found Hobbs the cat hissing at his own ass and had to stage an intervention. He was not grateful to have the, err, offending encrustation removed, but then, they never are.
Every time I get on an NPR list, it is suddenly Saturday morning and I am listening to Car Talk.
@tkingfisher.com book Hemlock and Silver is on NPR’s list of Books we love for 2025! Now I wouldn’t call it deeply creepy *thinks about mirror gelds* never mind
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Every time I get on an NPR list, it is suddenly Saturday morning and I am listening to Car Talk.
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'Swan Brothers' by @tkingfisher.com just hit my dash again, so from the year 2014 I bring you the link. ursulav.livejournal.com/1598605.html
Swan Brothers
It happened one summer that a curse fell on my family. The details arent important. We could be here all night with who married whom and who cursed what. There was a curse, thats all you need to know....
ursulav.livejournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
'Swan Brothers' by @tkingfisher.com just hit my dash again, so from the year 2014 I bring you the link. ursulav.livejournal.com/1598605.html
Just watched NOW YOU SEE ME which I found structurally infuriating on pretty much every level. Did not work at all, left me wanting to take an angry red pen to the script and write SEE ME AFTER CLASS.
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Just watched NOW YOU SEE ME which I found structurally infuriating on pretty much every level. Did not work at all, left me wanting to take an angry red pen to the script and write SEE ME AFTER CLASS.
Orange has always been a peculiar little cat…
Video that I just bumped into while digging in my archives. Back in October 2017, Tiny Orange helped @tkingfisher.com sign bookplates for the @sofawolf.com Kickstarter release of Summer in Orcus.
Good job, cat!
Good job, cat!
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Orange has always been a peculiar little cat…
YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
For those unfamiliar, as I was, Attiah is a Muy Thai champion and the dude replying appears to have been knocked clean off the Bluesky.
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
For those unfamiliar, as I was, Attiah is a Muy Thai champion and the dude replying appears to have been knocked clean off the Bluesky.
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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The last week! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday for sure (probably cosplaying on Sunday). I figure, unless a bunch of people speak up, meet up in the con suite at some point. @tkingfisher.com
We're getting closer! The schedule has been posted and looks great and also a bit overwhelming.
@loscon.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com
If you're an Ursula Vernon fan and want to meet up, reply! We'll figure out a time soon.
@loscon.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com
If you're an Ursula Vernon fan and want to meet up, reply! We'll figure out a time soon.
If you're going to Loscon (Los Angeles scifi convention, Thanksgiving weekend), reply and we'll figure out a time and place as it gets closer! At least one day I'll be cosplaying (not a Ursula Vernon/T Kingfisher character sorry) and so will be highly visible.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The last week! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday for sure (probably cosplaying on Sunday). I figure, unless a bunch of people speak up, meet up in the con suite at some point. @tkingfisher.com
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.