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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 2h

For the night crowd: there's a new Hulderotica story out! Rise in Glorious Raiment is the first aroace piece in the series, involves the most we've seen of the Maidens to date, and there's 8,000 words of it for just $1 USD. Links in the QP:

Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 16h

*appears in a cloud of black witch moths*

Rise in Glorious Raiment, the final historical tale of Hulderotica Year One, is here. Come meet Mercy, and see how Marrowmont began from a Maiden's POV.

$1 USD for a new novelette:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/rise-...
huldrahouse.itch.io/rise-in-glor...

Cover image of a book/short story called "Rise in Glorious Raiment", written by Kaya Skovdatter. At the bottom of the background is a woman with long flowing hair and a loose dress, both glowing a luminous white. Behind her are several staggered layers of ascending, angled mountain slopes, purple closer and shifting into a purple-grey as they vanish into the distance. In the sky is a flock of glowing white birds of indeterminate species, spread all across the image. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 3h

can we make this happen for NYCC because yikes

Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 3h

“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you! It's probably my favourite of the series so far. :D

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Spooky Scary SkeleFalco @falco.works · 6h

Day 7 -- Feline

Every well educated apprentice witch knows that treats are vital to a familiar's magic focusing abilities ow ow shoot ow dang it ouch

A little witch girl carrying a jug of milk is swarmed by black kittens, who scream and climb her overalls because she's not dispensing the milk fast enough

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Sable, Public Universal Momfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 9h

Ubisoft rejecting a game about a formerly enslaved Black man returning to the South to fight for justice during Reconstruction for being "too political" tells you everything you need to know about about the rot at the core of everything.

✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 9h

i'm upset that ubisoft cancelled reconstruction-era assassin’s creed because i am an avid collector of games where you get to kill the klan and i want a third one

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 6h

You are very welcome, it was a pleasure. And I am so sincerely hoping somebody grabs this. :D

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 6h

Have read some of this. You WANT this book in the world. Someone pick this up, it's the good shit.

jay kang romanus @jelliclejay.bsky.social · 7h

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS

BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world.

#DVpit #A #H #LGBT

A collage with images of sweaty boys almost kissing, a human/bird monster, and a cowboy pulling a horse under an intensely cloudy sky. There are also the words “A love like that made me someone new. Not even because I chose to change, I had no choice in the matter; the feeling swept me up and molded me into someone I didn’t recognize before I could look down and understand just what I had gotten myself into.”

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 6h

Lotería: Stories was released a month ago and I've heard wonderful things from so many of you.

It includes 54+ short stories, poems, and experimental fictions about Latin American folklore, legend, and myth.

It's available wherever you buy your books.

Thank you! ❤️💀🌼

bookshop.org/p/books/lote...

Lotería: Stories

Stories

bookshop.org

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 16h

Tragic how many of today's young people will never know the agony and ecstasy of starting a 20 page paper at 10:00 PM the night before it is due.

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ms. wendy @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social · 7h

art's so fucking sick bro you're telling me that came from your MIND and through you and onto the page.

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 6h

Fantastic little thread that shows all the itchio collections I put together that are about trans folks! Despite the itchio bans, these lists still have a lot of great stuff worth checking out. (I should make a blog post about my favorites sometime.)

Alexis Royce @alexisroyce.ink · 8h

What a wonderful morning ing to remind you all that @darkchibishadow.bsky.social ‘s Trans Dudes in Gay Situations collection exists. Looking for rep? It’s right here. There is so much of it. And it’s right here!

itch.io/c/4614757/tr...

Trans Dudes in Gay Situations - Collection by DarkChibiShadow

A collection by DarkChibiShadow

itch.io

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 6h

Until an AI understands '80s slow jams enough to shiver when El DeBarge hits that crescendo in 'Love Me in A Special Way' miss me with your marketing revolution.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 6h

I love what I do with words. You'll never find me asking a machine for a turn of phrase or character insight, because there's an innate difference between "I did that" & "I prompted that" when it comes to twanging The Great Connective Strand. Do the thing, y'all, before there's nothing left to do.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 11h

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

kotowych.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 8h

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 9h

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 16h

*appears in a cloud of black witch moths*

Rise in Glorious Raiment, the final historical tale of Hulderotica Year One, is here. Come meet Mercy, and see how Marrowmont began from a Maiden's POV.

$1 USD for a new novelette:
www.huldrahouse.com/shop/p/rise-...
huldrahouse.itch.io/rise-in-glor...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 7h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you!

Very much looking forward to getting to talk more about this story once it's out. It's a fun one. Fucked up. But fun. :D

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 7h

Toronto.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 7h

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 7h

Also, remember I was talking about having written a story to try for The Deer is Messed Up antho during that crowdfund (RIP much-desired book), and so certain no one else would buy it?

Yeah, joke's on me. "This Vernal Ardor, Green and Good" is that story.

The deer in this one is SO messed up. :D

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 7h

Contract's signed, so I can now announce that "This Vernal Ardor, Green and Good" will be in a future issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly! :D

A story about how obsessive, whirlwind, toxic love transforms us all. Just not always in the ways we expect...

Emotional damage coming your way sometime soon. :)

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RJAIN // seinobyte 🔞 @rjain.bsky.social · 8h

If you are a Canadian NSFW artist, please keep an eye on your account after Oct 15 and contact me if any of your media/account is censored with the new ToS.

I may have a follow-up meeting with the federal government in the coming months to address this.

Save my info: linktr.ee/rjainxiv

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 16h

get a COIN

get some PRINT MAGS

JOIN THE DEAD

okay not that last but you get a COIN 😇

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 16h

things you can do to help a skeleton crew out:

support our fundraiser: psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

join our patreon: www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

spread the word 🖤💀🙏🙏🙏

Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

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