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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰
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Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Does not fit into a neat box or category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?”

Grogsquad, MUP Professor, a Good Friend of J.E. and More
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3/ One just came in from Boulder Colorado.
Virginia Auroras, USA
Taken by Jonathan Harmon on January 19, 2026 @ Shenandoah National Park, Front Royal, Virginia
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January 20, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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WILD.
January 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Our blog posts get auto-posted to social media. I don't use FB myself, but went in there to post this. I don't expect to see similar attacks from any Bsky users, but figured I should elaborate on my personal opinion here.
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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The most recent essay in the Ballantine Adult fantasy reading series is on the first official volume in the series, Fletcher Pratt's THE BLUE STAR, a fascinating novel of court intrigue, gendered magic, and poor people who keep getting screwed over by everyone else:
Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Blue Star” by Fletcher Pratt
The twelfth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Fletcher Pratt’s The Blue Star (1952), an impressive, short novel of “rational” fantasy about power…
seanguynes.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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This essay was also the soft launch of my new direction with the Genre Fantasies blog and a big part of me "figuring out" what the hell I'm doing (at least -- I'm figuring out). I gave some background to what I'm trying to accomplish with my blog in this (obligatory) year end summary:
Genre Fantasies: 2025 in Review
A brief recap of 2025 on the Genre Fantasies blog.
seanguynes.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Résumé ✨
January 19, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Ici à Wavre en Belgique.
Vu la position des étoiles, je regardais en effet plein nord 🤩
January 19, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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01/19/2026- Auroras INCOMING 🔭🧪

📍Virginia, USA; east of Shenandoah National Park
January 19, 2026 at 11:46 PM