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Arden Powell
@ardenpowell.bsky.social
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Queer SFF author + artist, they/them 🇨🇦 Flos Magicae, The Carnelian King, Faerie Hounds, The Bayou. March 2025: Flesh & Bone Patreon: https://patreon.com/ArdenPowell Itchio: https://ardenpowell.itch.io Book Links: https://ardenpowell.mailerpage.io
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello! I'm a queer indie author of fantasy, romance, and gothic horror. I write the Flos Magicae series, my new release is a short story collection #TheCarnelianKing and I publish a sword & sorcery serial on Patreon #TheBlackKnightSaga
✨Books: shorturl.at/KHuF3
✨Patreon: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Cover art for The Carnelian King and Other Stories by Arden Powell: fantasy illustration of a red and gold dragon with a snakelike head, catfish whiskers and koi scales, looking at a knight in golden armour. The knight is riding a dappled grey horse, who is rearing to meet the dragon. They are against a dreamy, romantic background of painted trees and sky. The Bachelor’s Valet illustrated cover art: watercolour silhouettes of two men, one fixing the other’s tie, on a teal background in a field of tall yellow hollyhock flowers. The Faerie Hounds of York illustrated cover art: a woodcut-style wolf rearing up against a dark green background. The Bayou illustrated cover art: a minimalist black church surrounded by bare trees in front of a full moon or a pale sun, with a staring alligator underneath.
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HLK™ @hlkfotos.com · 3h
Forever flicker-posting.

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A photo of a male northern flicker (Colaptes auratus), a sleek taupe-colored woodpecker with a gray face and a long beak, red cheek patches, a red spot on the back of its head, a large black bar across its chest, black and red tail feathers, and black polka dots all over its belly. It is perched on a thin bare tree branch with its head turned over its shoulder to the left of frame, its belly toward the camera, and pale blue sky behind it.
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🍷🕯️Caemi🕯️🩸 @caemiel.bsky.social · 20m
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[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]
Tower tarot card featuring Mars in the middle of a field under a stormy sky. He's turning back, a hand holding his old zweihander, a look of surprise and disbelief on his face. Out of the frame, Will's hand reaches for him. In the background, a dark tower shows part of the party stopping Mars from leaving.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 54m
Octoposting 🐙
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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 9

For #WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
2 19th century glass models from the Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of Blaschka Glass Invertebrates, on display at Harvard Museum of Natural History:
1 Atlantic White-spotted
Octopus (Callistoctopus Macropus)
MCZ SC381
2 Curled Octopus (Eledone cirrhosa)
MCZ SC364
Photo of glass octopus model on display at museum with label “Atlantic White-spotted Octopus Callistoctopus Macropus Mollusca-Cephalopoda-Octopoda MCZ SC#381 Octopus Macropus” Photo of glass octopus model on display at museum with label “Curled Octopus Eledone cirrhosa Mollusca-Cephalopoda-Octopoda MCZ SC#364 Eledone aldrovandi”
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World History Encyclopedia @worldhistory.org · 11h
🐙 Today is World Octopus Day! 

🐙 A Minoan octopus, detail from a New-Palace period (1500-1450 BCE) Cretan Clay askos with 'Marine Style' decoration, (Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete). Photo by Mark Cartwright. 

#WorldOctopusDay #Octopus #History #AncientHistory #Art #ArtHistory
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 4h
Happy #WorldOctopusDay! To celebrate: a stunning Day Octopus (Octopus cyanea) doing its thing.

📷 maractwin on iNaturalist
📍 Fiji
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A beige, textured octopus rests among coral. The octopus has changed its skin texture to be smoother and deeper brown. The octopus, with speckled beige and textured skin, rests among coral.
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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · 23d
MOLD 🍓🍞🧀💥
A sketchy, digital illustration of a snarling eastern dragon x mustelid inspired form for this character, Mold. A black-furred creature with horns and various growths of molds on them that overtake half of their face and distorts one of their eyes. Its paw pads are also mold. Colorful stars help balance and give structure to the dynamic pose.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 58m
Thank you!! I hope you enjoy 💜
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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 8h
Happy #WorldOctopusDay! 🐙
Fresco from Rome with an octopus clutching a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles. Dated to the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century AD. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome. An octopus on the early 4th-century mosaic floor in the Basilica of Aquileia, Italy. Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar with octopus 1200-1100 BC. An octopus battling with a lobster on a mosaic from Pompeii.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10h
It's #WorldOctopusDay! Pictured here a “Polypus levis Hoyle” from a 1910 publication on the German Deep-Sea Expedition of 1898, led by Leipzig University Professor of Zoology, Carl Chun. Buy it as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/octopus/
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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 4h
#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
A #cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an #octopus, color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798-1861), c. 1847.
36.4 cm (14.3 in) x 25.3 cm (9.9 in) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
#CatsInArt #CephalopodAwarenessDays #JapaneseArt
anthropomorphic cat dressed in a flowery kimono, with one paw on the head of an adjacent orange octopus, with Japanese text and seals (Japanese color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi) closeup of the octopus, orange with blue eyes
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 1h
I got halfway through the survey before realizing I kept trying to answer all the questions like how I used to preorder books when I had spending money? Which is....not a helpful representation of current times. So! Yeah. Libraries!
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 1h
Pretty much my whole publishing career, tbh! I met writer friends here, found every venue I've submitted stories to, got involved with sale events, publications, and fundraisers, found new art clients. Pretty sure I got my audiobook deal because my book's been circulating on tiktok without me, too.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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maezanilla @ MCM London @maezanilla.bsky.social · 1h
“This two-handed soldier’s sword was huge and aberrant and frankly malicious, and utterly your responsibility.”
A drawing of Harrowhark Nonagesimus from The Locked Tomb series, dressed in hospital clothes while hugging a glowing two handed sword and crying, her gaze a little lost.
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michiums @ nycc thursday! @michiums.bsky.social · 1h
new prints arrived but they’re not up in the shop yet! soon!
Two prints with gold foil, both fall-horror themed with the first print being pokemon and the second being both versions of the medicine seller from Mononoke
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 3h
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 2h
It's another bookish dragon, to match the one for Narratess.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 2h
My most recent dragon got the seal of approval and will be making its debut soon ✨
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 3d
I love big snakey dragons with lots of coils. Anywhere on the scale between elegant serpentine dragons and cute chunky boa-faces, they're all great.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 2h
It got so dark after a night and a day of rustling winds. It's been summertime hot the past three days again. Are we finally getting rain?
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 5h
Free shipping today only on my paperbacks at bookshop.org, including my cozy fantasy romance novella THE POTION GARDENER. It's got trans joy, it's got gender euphoria, it's got a butch farmer's market lesbian. Collect trans SFF in print while it's still around 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜
The Potion Gardener
Check out The Potion Gardener - Desperate to escape a messy romance, Florian Mulberry flees London: tipsy, panicked, and without a plan. It's while hiding in a rural garden shed that he meets Kells, a...
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 10h
Today only, now! It's not too early to start shopping for holiday gifts.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 1d
bookshop.org has free shipping Oct 7-8 for their anti-prime sale! They have 10 of my paperbacks in stock so you can support indie authors and bookstores while collecting pretty books for your shelves at the same time ✨
A grid of 10 paperbacks by Arden Powell priced from 10.99 to 17.99 available on bookshop.org, including 6 Flos Magicae books.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 2h
The worst part is resisting the urge to shave my entire head, because the feel of my hair against my skin is making me want to commit crimes.
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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 3h
We've had a lot of responses to our upcoming indie SFF event in November, but we'll always take more! If you're an indie SFF author or reader and would like to get involved, our sign up sheet is closing October 15th!
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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 7d
We've got a big announcement to make! For the entire month of November, we're going to be hosting an event celebrating indie and self-published SFF authors that we're calling... A Month of Rain and Reads!

But we'd like YOU to get involved! Find out more:
www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...
A banner image showing a planner with autumnal decorations and stickers along with calligraphy spelling out A Month of Rain and Reads. There is a stack of indie books in the background and a cup of coffee.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 3h
Cat dragons are extremely charming, imo.
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Cornelia Aspen👖 @corneliaaspen.bsky.social · 10h
Ooh I did not know about this sale (and the paperbacks are indeed pretty)
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 1d
bookshop.org has free shipping Oct 7-8 for their anti-prime sale! They have 10 of my paperbacks in stock so you can support indie authors and bookstores while collecting pretty books for your shelves at the same time ✨
A grid of 10 paperbacks by Arden Powell priced from 10.99 to 17.99 available on bookshop.org, including 6 Flos Magicae books.
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