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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Sep 4

serially procrastinating novel progress by considering doing a repeat of my peachtober stamps this year

Stamps drawn for the 2022 peachtober art challenge

kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Sep 2

me: realises i did not buy cake to eat while watching bake off tonight
me, ten minutes later: cake in oven, flour everywhere

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · Aug 24

worm or snake-like fantasy creature with rainbow feathered body, black feathered wings, and black feathered head with large fish-like eyes

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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Jun 15

another writing competition done! excited for a summer break from comps and figuring out what to scribble down next

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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Jun 14

my story is battling it out in the Wonder Final Showdown tomorrow evening! 🌱

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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · May 22

so excited for this to come out!!

Baubles From Bones @bfbzine.bsky.social · May 22

BFB5 coming May 28th!!

Lucas Kurz is back again with another beautiful cover! The story this cover is inspired by is "Idesvied Defied" by Charlie Winter. We absolutely adore Lucas's work and love how this one turned out -- cute and cozy but still with an underlining moodiness. 📚🪐 💀

Cover of Baubles From Bones Issue 5. Wrapped in a velvet cape, a boy king sits criss-cross, holding a kitten while two others lay beside him. The boy king has a soft look of surprise on his face as he looks up and out of frame.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · Apr 26

Happy #Invertefest! Celebrate invertebrate biodiversity 🐛💕

A circular illustration of 19 colorful different species of invertebrates across various phyla (arthropods, cnidarians, echinoderms, sponges, mollusks, annelids, flatworms). Black arching text surrounding them reads “Celebrate Invertebrate Biodiversity”. They are illustrated on a light blue background.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · Apr 24

Valley Carpenter bees and their fun sexual dimorphism for #invertefest

Two valley carpenter bees side by side, the one on the left is colored like a typical male with orange fuzz and green eyes, and the female on the right colored so black that it is hard to distinguish any features. Speech bubble from the left bee reads, "Hi, I'm Sunny B and this is my wife, VOID"

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · Apr 19

ye olde trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️🌿

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · Apr 17

“biological sex” should refer only to having sex in a lab, knocking over microscopes and shit, contaminating every surface while scientists watch you and take notes

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Apr 17

Two other groups that work really hard for trans people and their loved ones (as I can attest from personal experience) are Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence, and they could both use donations:

mermaidsuk.org.uk?form=donate

genderedintelligence.co.uk/donations

Mermaids Website

Helping gender-diverse kids, young people and their families since 1995

mermaidsuk.org.uk

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · Apr 16

Here's my long comic essay about breaking up with Harry Potter and JKR's increasing transphobia. Please boycott the new TV show and all of her future projects ✨ #harrypotter #transphobia #jkrowling

redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...

The Problematic Author

The online portfolio of Maia Kobabe.

redgoldsparkspress.com

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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Apr 12

i've been playing a game where you're a critter running a train line for... most of saturday, and it's incredible 🚂

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Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social · Apr 10

The Apiarist

This month’s riso print subscription print, and excuse for me to draw bees and desert flora. Join my Patreon to get this for half off, and weigh in on what I do for future month’s prints

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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Apr 6

congratulations!! this is so exciting✨

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Valkhyrie @valkhyrie.bsky.social · Apr 6

Unbelievably stoked to share that the r/Fantasy team has been nominated for Best Related Work! We're up against an impressive field but it's an incredible honor just to have our fun not-so-little game included! See y'all in Seattle! ✨🚀

Seattle Worldcon 2025 @seattlein2025.org · Apr 6

✨ 2025 Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards Finalists (🧵 7/10) ✨

🚀 2025 Hugo Awards Finalists for:
- Best Related Work
- Best Graphic Story or Comic

Congratulations to all of the finalists!

#HugoAwards #HugoAwards2025 #Worldcon #Worldcon2025 #SeattleWorldcon2025

BEST RELATED WORK "CHARTING THE CLIFF: AN INVESTIGATION INTO
THE 2023 HUGO NOMINATION STATISTICS"
by Camestros Felapton and
Heather Rose Jones
(File 770, February 22, 2024)
R/FANTASY'S 2024 BINGO READING CHALLENGE
(r/Fantasy on Reddit), presented by the r/Fantasy Bingo team:
Alexandra Forrest (happy_book_bee), Lisa Richardson, Amanda E. (Lyrrael), Arka (RuinEleint), Ashley Rollins (oboist73), Christine Sandquist (eriophora), David H. (FarragutCircle), Diana Hufnagl, Pia Matei (Dianthaa), Dylan H. (RAAAImmaSunGod), Dylan Kilby (an_altar_of_plagues), Elsa (ullsi), Emma Surridge (PlantLady32), Gil- lian Gray (thequeensownfool), Kahlia (cubansombrero), Kevin James, Kopratic, Kristina (Cassandra_sanguine), Lauren Mulcahy (Valkhyrie), Megan, Megan Creemers (Megan_Dawn), Melissa S. (wishforagiraffe), Mike De Palatis (MikeOfThePalace), Para (improperly_paranoid), Sham, The_Real_JS, Abdellah L. (messi1045), AnnTickwittee, (and more)
431 ballots cast for 209 nominees
Finalists range 28 to 95

BEST RELATED WORK "THE SPECTACULAR FAILURE
OF THE STAR WARS HOTEL" by Jenny Nicholson
(YouTube)
SPECULATIVE WHITENESS:
SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ALT-RIGHT
by Jordan S. Carroll
(University of Minnesota Press) TRACK CHANGES by Abigail Nussbaum
(Briardene Books)
"THE 2023 HUGO AWARDS:
A REPORT ON CENSORSHIP AND EXCIUSION"
by Chris M. Barkley and
Jason Sanford
(Genre Grapevine and File770, post on February 14, 2024)
431 ballots cast for 209 nominees
Finalists range 28 to 95

BEST GRAPHIC STORY
OR COMIC THE DEEP DARK by Molly Knox Ostertag
(Graphix)
THE HUNGER AND THE DUSK: VOL. 1 written by G. Willow Wilson,
art by Chris Wildgoose
(IDW Publishing)
MONSTRESS, VOL. 9: THE POSSESSED written by Marjorie Liu art by Sana Takeda
(Image)
265 ballots cast for 259 nominees
Finalists range 13 to 37

BEST GRAPHIC STORY
OR COMIC MY FAVORITE THING IS
MONSTERS. BooK 2 by Emil Ferris
(Fantagraphics)
STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS:
WARP YOUR OwN WAY written by Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio
(IDW Publishing)
WE CALLED THEM GIANTS written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans, lettering by Clayton Cowles
(Image)
265 ballots cast for 259 nominees
Finalists range 13 to 37

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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · Mar 31

TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

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Virgil Casper 🏳️‍⚧️💫💕 @vcyarr.bsky.social · Mar 30

#TransDayOfVisibility is tomorrow! be sure to uplift trans creators!

Let's start with trans authors and writers~ 🏳️‍⚧️✨

#booksky #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #TDOV

go.bsky.app/VamK3SD

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · Mar 31

It's International #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

And for trans authors in particular: We see you, we read you, we wanna give you money 📖👀💰.

Which SFF works by trans authors should we be squeeing excitedly about?

#TDOV 📖💙📖🏳️‍🌈📖

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Mar 31

It's trans day of visibility! Transness has been made very scarily visible over the last few years but through a warped and harmful filter of politics and media. Today, I hope that visibility might be more human and that cis allies might be inspired to do something about it.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · Mar 29

Its a tired day today.

Drawing of a crow in a bed with an elaborate quilt.

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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Mar 19

gorgeous!! congratulations kalie!

kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Mar 9

after a few disappointing battles, today's results cemented the heart battle as the best i've ever done in writing battle! and there are more results coming next week 👀

writing battle results graphic showing prompt cards for the story 'in search of eternity' - romance, assassin, statue. the text below reads 'in search of eternity' 'congratulations!' 'your story finished in the SWEET 16!'

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Mar 8

Here are some nice mushrooms

A swirling pair of blue and orange turkey tail mushrooms grow off the sides of a fallen tree branch on the floor of the forest. All photos by me

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kit ✸ @kitcalvert.bsky.social · Mar 7

just got through to the final showdown in the heart flash fiction writing battle!

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