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Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚
@velf.bsky.social
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Loves myth, literature, kitchen gardens, mist-pooled valleys, stinky cheese & 3,000yo dead guys
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velf.bsky.social
How does it feel to watch someone disappear when they are right there?

THE ARGONAUT’S SON

👨‍👦‍👦Found family
🌈 LGBTQ
❤️F2L
💔HEA free zone

#Q #A #HF #HR #RF
#QuestPit
A grid of images: A male chest in black and white A slab with Greek text. A Cove surrounded by rocks/caves A breath condensing in cold air The sun setting over the sea A bowl of apples Ancient style helmets Two male hands, one holding the other A marble statue of Ajax thinking. On top of one of the images, the text: "Herkos Akhaion they called him: Bulwark of the Greeks. Our last line of defence." Text overlaid a sepia style image to two male hands, one gently holding the other. "I meant what I said. Earlier. I trust you." There was a strange intensity to him, almost unsettling. “Thank you. I won't let you down. Your father wouldn't let me,” I joked, hoping to release the tension. This time it was Ajax who didn't smile. He smashed the shell against a rock, leaving a sharp, jagged edge and pressed it into his hand. The wound took a moment, then welled with blood. “Will you bind with me?” At my shock, his eyes narrowed, as if wary. “You are scared?” “No!” Though I knew it to be stupid. Dutifully, I held out my palm, gasping at the bite of the shell, the pain sharp and precise. Our hands dripped as we grasped each other's, hot blood mingling and running down wrists. It was risky, juvenile. But in that moment, it was as though everything leading to that point had been a conspiracy to have the two of us crouched and clasped in the chill gloom of the cave. We were bound forever. Brothers in blood. Nothing could part us.
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
velf.bsky.social
Our history is littered with men who over-reached...

THE ARGONAUT’S SON

A retelling of Sophocles' Ajax

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#Q #A #HF #HR #RF
#QuestPit
A circular painting in classical style of two naked men. One (Tantalus) has one foot in a pool of water as he stretches for fruit on the overhanging tree, that remains just out of reach. In the background, another (Sisyphus) strains at pushing a boulder up a hill. Around the painting is an elaborate border.
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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agostinaalterini.bsky.social
BOY PARTS x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA
Selene is a curator hollowed by grief for a vanished artist. Her devotion rots into obsession, blurring the line between archivist and art, self and subject until she becomes something stranger: a ghost in the living.

#questpit #LF #H #Q
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
velf.bsky.social
When one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war?

THE SONG OF ACHILLES x QUEENS OF THEMISCYRA x THE WOMEN

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🌈 LGBTQ
❤️F2L
💔HEA free zone

#Q #A #HF #HR #RF
#QuestPit
Warrior in ancient Greek panoply walking in front profile through tall, golden grass. Behind is smokey / cloudy. At the top of the image is: THE ARGONAUT'S SON in grey lettering.
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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saranaidinecox.bsky.social
You can find the full list of our shortlisted and long-listed writers for our 2025 competition here! Congratulations to all of these wonderful writers!

cheshirenovelprize.com/writing-tips...
Names of All Our Listed Writers 2025 — Cheshire Novel Prize
Full names of listed writers 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
velf.bsky.social
“The international community cannot stay silent on the genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people...the absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity.”

But the report has not brought the response she expected, nor hoped for. Inaction, she says, still rules.
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A single shell, fired by the IDF at a fertility clinic: peace prize recipient explains what lies behind her genocide finding
Former UN inquiry chair Navi Pillay says ‘what’s so unusual about this genocide’ is that ‘we are all witnesses to it’
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November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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bluepit.bsky.social
The last #QuestPit of the year starts tomorrow!

See the rules at questpit.carrd.co!

#WriteSky #WriterSky #Writers #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents #WritingCommunity
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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bluepit.bsky.social
#WIPPIT is coming up on November 23rd!

Follow @wippit.bsky.social for more information!

#WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WriteSky
wippit.bsky.social WIPPIT @wippit.bsky.social · 18d
Spread the word!
#WIPPIT STICKY NOTE NOTICE We are moving to November 23! We want to give precedence to the large protest happing at the US Capital that's Happening November 22, so we are moving by a day to allow them the Platforms to make change.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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muslimpit.bsky.social
Hello #WritingCommunity! I'm interested in starting a pitch event with the hashtag #MuslimPit dedicated to uplifting the voices of Muslim writers who are at any stage with their manuscripts. As an #amquerying writer myself, I am passionate about expressing my religious identity through my work!
October 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
velf.bsky.social
Considering it is just an elaborate game of Wink Murder, my 7-11 year old Brownies are doing a far better job than the #celebrity #traitors
a close up of a woman 's face with a disney logo on the bottom right
Alt: White woman with dark hair doing an exaggerated wink, then giving a big grin.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
velf.bsky.social
Well, blow me down with a teeny-tiny feather!
October 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
velf.bsky.social
I beg your pardon, sorry, what now?? This is vile and insidious.
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation | Manchester | The Guardian share.google/hzAkqNtPQFhq...
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society
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October 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
velf.bsky.social
"Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate"

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AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham
Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back
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October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
velf.bsky.social
It's a grim world out there when even charities are facing violence and abuse.

Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Charities | The Guardian share.google/ya3nYZWjz5ex...
Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Letter
Letter: Mark Simms says the Charity Commission will support trustees in efforts to keep themselves, their staff and volunteers safe from harm
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October 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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workingclassicists.bsky.social
Talking monsters in Dundee in a week or so 👹

Why not pop by and say hello 👋
Myths & Monsters with Miri Teixeira and George Connor Saturday 25th October 2025, 2:30pm Lochee Community Library, High Street, Lochee Dundee, DD2 3AU For further information contact: 01382 431835 or lochee.library@leisureandculturedundee.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
velf.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this.

@livunihss.bsky.social @wirralarchaeology.bsky.social interested?
belovedofoizys.bsky.social Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social · Oct 15
After a warm reception at Dorchester, I've been invited to give my Women of the Roman Arena talk again. This time I'm headed to the Grovesnor Museum in Chester. If anyone is nearby on the 15th of January, I'd love to see you there!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-of-t...
Women of the Roman Arena
Join ancient historian Alexandra Sills as she uncovers the forgotten story of female gladiators in Rome's most masculine arena.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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livunihss.bsky.social
From granting Birkenhead Park UNESCO World Heritage Status to discovering New Brighton’s secret World War II munitions factory, this upcoming @heritageinstitute.bsky.social event on local heritage initiatives looks fascinating. Come along on 21 Oct.
The Heritage Institute: Seminar Series - A Local Initiative
Marie Le Devehat and Cathy Roberts provide talks on their local heritage initiatives.
www.eventbrite.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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belovedofoizys.bsky.social
After a warm reception at Dorchester, I've been invited to give my Women of the Roman Arena talk again. This time I'm headed to the Grovesnor Museum in Chester. If anyone is nearby on the 15th of January, I'd love to see you there!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-of-t...
Women of the Roman Arena
Join ancient historian Alexandra Sills as she uncovers the forgotten story of female gladiators in Rome's most masculine arena.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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claireheywood.bsky.social
My new novel, THE WANDERING QUEEN, is one of the chosen titles in the Waterstones 25% off preorder sale. Preorder using code OCTOBER25 between now and Friday, and get a juicy 25% off!
#WPreorder

THE WANDERING QUEEN is a Dido retelling, out in February 2026
Waterstones 25% off 2026 new titles. Preorder now with code: OCTOBER25. 14-17 October, online only. Selected titles only.
October 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
velf.bsky.social
❤️

BBC News - Domestic abuse survivor hopes his story 'helps men' - BBC News
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Domestic abuse survivor hopes his story 'helps men'
How the founder of a football therapy group in Wirral gives men a non-judgemental space to open up about their mental health
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October 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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notsoencrypted.bsky.social
In addition to CBS covering it as linked by another poster, AP News is also covering it.
Dozens rescued as remnants of typhoon hits Alaska while nor'easter brings flooding to East Coast
Authorities say more than 30 people were rescued and three people remain unaccounted for in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong brought hurricane-force winds and flooding strong enough...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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shamjaff.bsky.social
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info 🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
October 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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ryuma21.bsky.social
🛑 UNCONSCIONABLE! This #Gaza #GENOCIDE rages on. STOP THE STARVATION TACTIC! DEMAND immediate, unconditional CEASEFIRE NOW.

Systematically starved despite talks. Tufts' Alex de Waal: "It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them."
Famine Expert: Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Risks Normalizing the Weaponization of Food
Palestinians are still being systematically starved in Gaza even as ceasefire talks are underway this week. “It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them,” says...
www.democracynow.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
velf.bsky.social
25 years with my old man today. 🥰
Not sure where QUARTER OF A CENTURY has gone, but feeling grateful he stuck with me!
October 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM