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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 10d

at the end of the day can the government just hop off my nuts

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Cirice Gray (Temporary Odin Slayer) @ciricegray.itch.io · 13d

Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.

Ciara RayneCloud @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 13d

Hey so... did you know that the Mormon Church filed an amicus curiae brief on the 19th of September? Me either...

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

In short, "Giving trans people rights hurts us because it ruins our religious freedom to be bigots!"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Sep 10

I don't care how good your How To podcast is, I can read faster than they can talk, stop speaking and link me to the transcript tyvm

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Sep 2

The @seattlein2025.org & Hugo staff have not missed a single opportunity to make r/Fantasy feel like second class finalists. The community, however, has been unfailingly supportive and delightful, and that's what I'm trying to take away from this whole experience.

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Sep 2

My expectations were low, but I didn't think I needed "left out of the apology entirely" on my bingo card.

Seattle Worldcon 2025 @seattlein2025.org · Sep 2

Message From the Chair: The Seattle Worldcon 2025 extends our deepest apologies for multiple failure points which occurred during this year’s Hugo Awards ceremony. We provided insufficient organizational plans at the podium,… seattlein2025.org?p=5956

Message From the Chair

The Seattle Worldcon 2025 extends our deepest apologies for multiple failure points which occurred during this year’s Hugo Awards ceremony. We provided insufficient organizational plans at the podium,...

seattlein2025.org

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The Ghost of Kat Kourbeti: soon @ World Fantasy Con @darthj.uno · Sep 2

I'm sure we could get more than 80 signatures based on just the people whose names y'all didn't read or mispronounced, including the r/Fantasy team whom you snickered at the size of before ignoring entirely at the ceremony, and did not even include in this apology 🙄

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm no Jane, but I will take this chance to rec a queer gutterpunk/BDSM-themed Peter Pan retelling that might appeal to you - it's called Lost Boi by Sassafras Patterdale and it absolutely slaps (and I am not usually into retellings)!

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · Aug 22

Years ago my first novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and when it came time for the nominees to be read out I got to hear the MC, a brilliant fantasist whose work I love, absolutely butcher the title. Just trip over it repeatedly. "The Lies of Lack... Lockey... uh, Lackey Lammer-ah?" 🧵

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Aug 22

Correct, we have no control over the site-level moderation (nor do we get any information about what might have caused a ban).

I did have to reset my password to restore mine, but as a member of some of reddit's mod groups with a regularly active account, I may have some level of priority there.

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Aug 22

One of the r/fantasy mods here - I also got banned for no reason not long after commenting in your AMA. Think the site-level AI moderation might have gotten a little overzealous yesterday.

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Aug 22

I can at least confirm (as a finalist with r/Fantasy Bingo under Best Related Work - and our team names were skipped and giggled at as well) that we were all asked to send in pronunciation guides for our names, so the con 100% did have that information available to them.

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Aug 21

A screenshot of LAcon V's website header showing Western themed site menus

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Aug 7

A delightful poem by my incredibly talented friend @digicara.bsky.social! Check it out!

Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Aug 7

Come meet the "three queens" today, in this wonderful narrative poem by Cara Mast in our 20th issue:

smallwondersmag.com/...

three queens - Small Wonders

The crown sits heavy on my head / but my neck is strong; I’ve been wearing it as long as I can remember.

smallwondersmag.com

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Aug 7

Legit cannot believe they haven't caught a permaban yet. Every time I log in on an alt that hasn't left Trade yet and see them still at it I just facepalm.

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all eves' willow 🎃 @willow.meangirls.online · Jun 19

i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · Jun 18

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

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JENN! ✨ @thekeythief.bsky.social · Jun 9

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS

Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

A family of 3, outlined in green, hide behind a roaring bear, as large foreboding black shadows with nightsticks and helmets lurk behind it. A green star outstretched at their feet as they try to hide from view. Text at the bottom reads in call caps: "SHIELD YOUR NEIGHBORS"

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · May 10

"what's your creative process like?"

bold of you to assume I have a process instead of the sudden obsessions that come to me in the form of a hazy delusion that I have little control over

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · May 10

Yessss, JOIN US!

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Apr 6

Unbelievably stoked to share that the r/Fantasy team has been nominated for Best Related Work! We're up against an impressive field but it's an incredible honor just to have our fun not-so-little game included! See y'all in Seattle! ✨🚀

Seattle Worldcon 2025 @seattlein2025.org · Apr 6

✨ 2025 Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards Finalists (🧵 7/10) ✨

🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Related Work
- Best Graphic Story or Comic

Congratulations to all of the finalists!

#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025

BEST RELATED WORK "CHARTING THE CLIFF: AN INVESTIGATION INTO
THE 2023 HUGO NOMINATION STATISTICS"
by Camestros Felapton and
Heather Rose Jones
(File 770, February 22, 2024)
R/FANTASY'S 2024 BINGO READING CHALLENGE
(r/Fantasy on Reddit), presented by the r/Fantasy Bingo team:
Alexandra Forrest (happy_book_bee), Lisa Richardson, Amanda E. (Lyrrael), Arka (RuinEleint), Ashley Rollins (oboist73), Christine Sandquist (eriophora), David H. (FarragutCircle), Diana Hufnagl, Pia Matei (Dianthaa), Dylan H. (RAAAImmaSunGod), Dylan Kilby (an_altar_of_plagues), Elsa (ullsi), Emma Surridge (PlantLady32), Gil- lian Gray (thequeensownfool), Kahlia (cubansombrero), Kevin James, Kopratic, Kristina (Cassandra_sanguine), Lauren Mulcahy (Valkhyrie), Megan, Megan Creemers (Megan_Dawn), Melissa S. (wishforagiraffe), Mike De Palatis (MikeOfThePalace), Para (improperly_paranoid), Sham, The_Real_JS, Abdellah L. (messi1045), AnnTickwittee, (and more)
431 ballots cast for 209 nominees
Finalists range 28 to 95

BEST RELATED WORK "THE SPECTACULAR FAILURE
OF THE STAR WARS HOTEL" by Jenny Nicholson
(YouTube)
SPECULATIVE WHITENESS:
SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ALT-RIGHT
by Jordan S. Carroll
(University of Minnesota Press) TRACK CHANGES by Abigail Nussbaum
(Briardene Books)
"THE 2023 HUGO AWARDS:
A REPORT ON CENSORSHIP AND EXCIUSION"
by Chris M. Barkley and
Jason Sanford
(Genre Grapevine and File770, post on February 14, 2024)
431 ballots cast for 209 nominees
Finalists range 28 to 95

BEST GRAPHIC STORY
OR COMIC THE DEEP DARK by Molly Knox Ostertag
(Graphix)
THE HUNGER AND THE DUSK: VOL. 1 written by G. Willow Wilson,
art by Chris Wildgoose
(IDW Publishing)
MONSTRESS, VOL. 9: THE POSSESSED written by Marjorie Liu art by Sana Takeda
(Image)
265 ballots cast for 259 nominees
Finalists range 13 to 37

BEST GRAPHIC STORY
OR COMIC MY FAVORITE THING IS
MONSTERS. BooK 2 by Emil Ferris
(Fantagraphics)
STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS:
WARP YOUR OwN WAY written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio
(IDW Publishing)
WE CALLED THEM GIANTS written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles
(Image)
265 ballots cast for 259 nominees
Finalists range 13 to 37

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Mar 17

New "Mesocyclone" dice by @runesael.bsky.social have arrived and I am in LOVE, I cannot stop looking at them! Absolutely gorgeous work, couldn't be happier 🤩💙🌀

(...and the resident Orange Dingus has already tried to steal one!)

A set of seven glittering blue-gray, storm-inspired RPG dice, displayed with a small gray knit bag beautifully adorned with matching charms and ribbon.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · Mar 13

The Cubs won the World Series

Mimie @itsmimie.bsky.social · Mar 12

What do yall think was the nexus event that created this branch in the timeline?
I’m torn between the Cats movie and when people were licking gallons of ice cream in the grocery store and putting it back.

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Mar 8

As a lifelong CA resident - have viewed him as a slimy *muttered epithet* for a loooong time, but that whole interview truly was a new low.

Funny (in a morbid way) too, because he's never getting elected President and that's clearly what this predictable tack to the right is about.

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Mar 1

A friend linked this to me, and I think it's important and validating reading in these times. Small actions count. The fight is always worth fighting.

Fascism always fails.

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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com

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