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Jenny Gaitskell

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Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic. she/her https://www.jennygaitskell.com/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jennygaitskell

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 17d

Seagazing, I wonder. These sparkles must be telling secrets.

Nah, Beach Crow says. The sea whispers her lickle myths into shells. All about moons & stars & comets.

But that's how most water began. As comet ice flying through space.

Cor, says Beach Crow. That's why she's full of sky.

#whistpr

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 3d

think of an ash tree
starting to dream of autumn
its head full of light

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 7d

in a sea of blackness
sound of laughing bones—
my inner child
plays quietly

#tanka

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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 3d

my hummingbird heart the flutter of time passing

#monoku

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Invertober day 4!

Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)

Reference photo by nonbinary-naturalist on iNaturalist

#SciArt #art #Invertober2025

Digital painting of an orange and black-patterned weevil with long nose and shiny shell. It is casting a shadow onto an abstract background of light blue stripes with a thin orange highlight against a darker blue background.

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 5d

Tea dreams.

An ink drawing of a tea cup and all the steam turns into shapes, like bonsais trees. Two tiny moons float above the tea steam, perfectly aligned with a white moon spot on the side of the cup. The cup itself has weave patterns around the top and fish scale patterns around the belly.

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Trang ✦ MCM London @trangmn.bsky.social · 4d

voyage 🐟 #art

drawing of a cat sailing on a small leafy boat down a stream, admiring the view of various florals and greenery in the forest

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations - so well deserved

Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 3d

Delicious storytelling
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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 4d

Blimey, some of these are stunning. Worth a look for anyone who enjoys such beautiful intersections between astronomy, history, and art

From the link shared in the quoted post:

Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch.

It's a beautifully colourful piece of early modern art showing a comet or meteor in the sky over a scene of trees, mountains, and a rowing boat on an estuary

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · Jul 20

My novella Terrestrial from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social is open for preorders now! Grateful to @joeyhedger.bsky.social who said some generous and smart things about it.

malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

TERRESTRIAL a novella placeholder at Malarkey Books with quote from Joey Hedger: "Here, Eynon writes with poetic precision about contradictions: her characters are charming and awkward, vast and introspective. Her focus is on the lonely, the mundane and the spectacular. TERRESTRIAL is wildly human while exploring that which makes us alien to ourselves and each other.”

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aka Mood Indigo @negatethechaos.bsky.social · 13d

Write as if you’re the only one who remembers. Write it all down with pen and paper, or type it or speak to text and print it out. Leave a record. Make sure no one forgets this time in history.

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Polloscope @polloscope.bsky.social · 4d

Old Auriga’s shop
lined with new sun chariots
drawing pure wonder
« One must be prepared, » he said,
« underneath ecliptic light! »

#tanka

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 7d

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 3d

Hahaha!🧡❄️

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 4d

That's so well put 🧡📚

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 4d

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, I have. I enjoyed it.

Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 4d

'Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis.'

Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

#BookWormSat 💙📚
🎨 Eva Fialka

Painting of a grey cat with yellow eyes. It gazes out from the page of a book, looking past us, ears erect. Despite a serious demeanor, it wears a red bowtie with white spots. The page is printed in French and washed in shades of gold.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5d

A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

A scientist stands in front of an enormous contraption
"I created this device to test my theory that our entire reality is a simulation, but the readings I'm
getting suggest something much worse"

"What?" Asks a second scientist.
"We're living in a cartoon!" Says the first.
"Does it at least have a good punchline?" says the second.
The fiorst scientist carefully looks over the data, then eventually replies "Nope"

From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 7d

Last night I posted my latest From the Escritoire blog post of things achieved/done between August-September plus my October accountability/to-do list (I probably will only get some done but it's good to have goals):
mythopoetica.com/2025/10/01/f...

From the Escritoire 1/10/2025 – through wildwood, through water

mythopoetica.com

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 5d

Translunar Travelers Lounge is open to speculative fiction stories 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 5d

scribbled
between errands
rain on the page

#haiku

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 4d

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“ I don’t much care where —“ said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

📚Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

#BookWormSat

Grinning cat sitting in a tree (John Tenniel illustration, the Cheshire Cat for Alice in Wonderland)

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 4d

I love this photo! 🧡🪶

Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 4d

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