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felicia martínez

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💀💀Artist and writer of unusual things. Author of The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez. California transplant, still a New Mexican at heart. She/her. feliciamartinez.com social media skeleton @thedeadlands.com @psychopomp.com @fantasymagazine.bsky.social‬

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 15d

Big news!!

I am SO excited to share that my sci-fi novella, Bright Phaedra, has landed with Thinking Ink Press @thinkinginkpress.bsky.social

It's a near future story about asexual connection, the temptations of AI, and the unboundedness of love.

I can't wait for you all to read this one!!

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 2h

If you see this, post a pet

Batman the black cat with his big yellow eyes looks up expectantly.

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 3h

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 23h

California's need to know our legislative calendar. Very few do. It's kinda wonky but when you call offices actually does matter for the viability of a bill. Folks can remember to Google "california legislative calendar" and both Senate and Assembly are same info www.senate.ca.gov/legislative-...

Legislative Deadlines | California State Senate

www.senate.ca.gov

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 6h

need to get to the studio

still sitting on the couch

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 6h

spider down! 😭

I was adding wadding to the bottom and knocked most the legs off. SAD

A spider sculpture in the bisque stage that is clearly broken and upside down.

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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 7h

Our next interviewee & featured poet from the October 2025 issue is J. L. Yokum. He shares his poem ‘Where the kittens hide,’ as well as thoughts on where he finds inspiration outside of poetry, how a poem begins & how he makes space for poetry in his daily life.

pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...

I always have a book of poetry or a poetry journal issue nearby to read when time opens up for reading. I keep the tools of my writing (digital as well as pen/paper) at hand 24/7. When the poem comes asking for me, I stop what I'm doing and I answer the call. I'm not routine-oriented when it comes to poetry. When a chink in the chain link of the day opens up, that's a space in which I can engage with poetry.

J. L. YOCUM
Where the kittens hide
I keep finding the corpses of kittens in the last place you'd expect. The hamper, my briefcase, the bulk nuts bin, in the library tucked behind reference volumes of medieval folklore, or the poetics of astronomy.
They won't say how they died, but they tell me their names: Clover, Honeydew, Thorn.
Each becomes a tender task:
how to dispose of them without shattering.
The trick is to soften. Like their soft shut eyes, their soft tufted ears, their soft swells of belly and their incomprehensibly small soft paws.

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 7h

oh hey!! @querenciapress.bsky.social is having a pretty incredible overstock sale over on their site!! 8 bucks for a whole slew of titles.

Plus, I know they are struggling right now, like all indies. I wish it were easier out there for the small, experimental presses 💖

payhip.com/b/UvBI6

Overstock Titles

Sometimes we end up with too much inventory, so we are discounting our overstock to make room for additional titles!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

The @guardian publishes the names of Gaza children killed by Israel. 18,457 and growing.

(“Does not include thousands still buried under the rubble”) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve only got two and I’m filled with regret!!

Do the thing! Get the coin!

Pay the ferryman 💀

Three coins on a wooden table. Two are Deadlands coins featuring a skull and death’s head moth, and the third is an Electronic Frontier Foundation coin.

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 19h

The Bat making sure he’s seen 🖤

Batman the black cat sits on a coffee table squeezed in between books and other messy things.

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 19h

1000 apologies for misspelling your name! I followed the spelling on this tweet and didn’t double check 😩

A screenshot of HAD Twitter showing a poetry sub announcement.

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Betsy Miller @betsymiller.bsky.social · 1d

The goats are here!
Every year they come through to eat the dry grasses in the open space areas and reduce the risk of wildfires.
It’s fun to watch them 🥰🐐🐐🐐

Three white goats are grazing on dried grass near oak trees.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like every community I'm a part of is in deep leadership crisis mode, and I can't help but feel that the broader political environment is putting earth core-degree pressure on every organizational fault line right now

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 1d

🥹💞💜🌸💖 you are the best!

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s still Latine / Hispanic Heritage Month.

I’m very sorry that there are things happening in this country that attack your history, culture, identity and language.

Especially young Latines, I really want you to know how amazing you are.

Always be proud of who you are and where you come from.

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 1d

there are lot of heartbreaking and enraging things lately, but this one is of the worst for me. the deportation situation is already awful but sending folks to countries they have no connection to is so fucked up.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Trump administration continues to send individuals to countries where they have no ties amid mass deportation push.

US sends another ‘third-country’ deportation flight to Eswatini

Trump administration continues to send individuals to countries where they have no ties amid mass deportation push.

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 1d

Selfie in the sun ☀️

A Latinx woman taking a selfie outdoors. She is smiling and her red shirt says “Hecho en Nuevo Mexico” in yellow.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday Brent who, as L.D. says, gives so much and is an absolute joy. Often it's Brent quietly in the background who has the most encouraging words for me. Go buy his novella its more than worth your time.

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.

A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock

This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...

www.neonhemlock.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

We have the Insurrection Act for a reason—

But it's not so a President with 34 felonies can ignore court orders and punish cities he doesn't like with military intimidation.

Especially not when the courts are telling him his claims of insurrection are "untethered to the facts."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd to that ... if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Every pheasant runs like it's frantically saying "shit shit shit" to itself.

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 2d

I’m on lunch break, sitting in my car, eating alone and this is what I needed 💜💜💜

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