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mado christie
@madopiano.bsky.social
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collaborative pianist | writer | st. john's, nl | they/iel | 🏳️‍🌈
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 9d
WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

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OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · 9d
I am 9 years cancer free today!! Next year I will have a party 😤
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · 16d
And by “new” I mean five years old because my aunt is getting a new one lol 👀
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · 16d
Might be getting a new laptop for the first time since 2016 (it was already 4 years old then lol) 👀
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · 22d
Who wouldn’t be thrilled to go sparkle-picking in the coruscorchards?
My daughter could barely sleep last night for the thought of it.

Am I excited to chaperone her class of proto-witchlings, keeping them away from the nether swamp, shoving sandwiches at them and tending to scorched fingers?

Yes!
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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 22d
Some quests are grand, involving a lot of swords and wyrms and magical grandmothers and attracting all sorts of media attention. Other quests are quiet and relatively unnoticed; rewilding a field or mastering the art of sourdough. What quest do you face today?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · 29d
I am so sick of frozen shoulder 🫠
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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · Sep 6
Hey microfic writers 👀👀 Here’s a chance to win one of THREE $75 awards & publication on the front page of an Augur issue!!

Share widely ✨ Anyone can enter, and there’s NO fee to participate!
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Sep 5
The Augur Microfiction Contest is BACK for 2025 🏆 until Sep 30!

THE THEME: We want microfiction that bursts open the futures we need to see 🌌 show us the who/what/where of your tomorrows!

More info below ⬇️ and in our bio!
A purple background with a galaxy and birds flying in front of it. A four pointed star is on the top of the image with text below. The text reads: "augur society, Microfiction Contest, stories for the futures we need." A purple bar beneath the text has a symbol of an arrow inside a circle with the text "swipe for guidelines" to the right of it. A darker purple bar at the bottom of the image reads "Enter by September 30, 2025"
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Sep 4
Hmmm I already have YouTube premium so maybe this comes with my plan as well…
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Sep 4
I am finally migrating from Spotify and would love alternative app recommendations if you have them!
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Sep 3
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Sep 3
Fiascooooooo!!!! I’m so happy to see this!!!
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Aug 23
Sky Team is a very fun game!!
A board game set up on a table with a silvery tabby cat being a menace nearby
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Aug 22
Listened again to LeVar Burton read Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate and it’s just so so good. I come back to it often. I feel it has much to teach the reader.
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Aug 19
The reference library is a large, opalescent dome, like half a soap bubble. The shelves inside float in semi-gravity, so I swim through the air to the dream-recipe section. If I’m able to sleep tonight after all this excitement, I’ll get to choose what I see, for once.
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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · Aug 19
You've visited the city before, of course; shopping with your parents, visiting family with your parents. But it's a whole new world now, stepping out from the dragonship gondola onto the aerial platform. An adult, free to choose as you will. What do you do first?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Aug 8
I finished Mistborn. I see I’m having a similar experience as when I read Name of the Wind. It’s unclear to me why people love this so much but hey, to each their own!
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Aug 3
I really wish I was enjoying this more than I am lol
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 29
I’m starting Mistborn tonight 👁️👁️
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Aug 1
📣 Calling all SFF writers...

We're now OPEN for submissions of
🌟 Short fiction
🌟 Flash fiction
🌟 Poetry

for Augur Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3, AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5!

Got a sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, slipstream, or a slice of life story that feels like a warm hug? We want it! 🐉🧚
The background is an illustration of three fire glowing celestial characters in robes with an overlay of purple. One of them in the middle holding their hand and behind it are flowers. At the corners of the illustration are the two characters with a book in one hand and a pencil in the other. At the top of the image is the augur logo and below it reads: "Magic. Futures. Dreams" in white text. In the middle, it reads: "Submissions Open Now" in white text. Underneath reads: "$100 CAD per poem. $0.14 CAD per word (fiction, 800+ words). $112 CAD per flash fic (<800 words)" in white text. There is a purple banner that reads submit now and next to it is a graphic of an email. At the bottom of the image is the submissions link: augursociety.org/submissions
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 31
I really need to disrupt my Achilles and the Tortoise approach to story lol 🫥
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 31
Novel is now 110k words 🙃

This draft WILL be under 150k!!
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 31
I swear this thunderstorm is directly above my house
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 29
I’m starting Mistborn tonight 👁️👁️
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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · Jul 24
Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
A group of handdrawn fish.
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 24
This applies to today as well! Yay.
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 23
I wrote words of novel today, and I may throw them all away eventually, but I wrote words! And I will write more tomorrow 😤
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mado christie @madopiano.bsky.social · Jul 24
No cheating post the most recent pic of your pets
A fluffy black and white kitten cuddles in a cat bed with a sleek grey kitten
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