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Marina Lostetter

@marinalostetter.bsky.social

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Sci-fi and Fantasy author. THE FIVE PENALTIES series is complete and OUT NOW! She/her. Repped by DongWon Song. https://linktr.ee/lostetter

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello new followers! I'm Marina Lostetter, full time Sci-Fi and Fantasy author, part time clay beguiler. You can find my novels here:

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Books by Marina Lostetter

Check out this list on Bookshop

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 7h

She was the smartest cat I ever knew. We often said she was a witch who accidentally trapped herself in a cat's body, and I'm sure if she'd had opposable thumbs the world would have been at her mercy.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 8h

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Thank you. She was 💜

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 10h

Our hope for months turned into mere days. Our castle is now without a queen. Flags at half mast.

Starbuck, Murder Cat, Monster, Babadook. 2012-2025.

She went from witch to queen, and is now a goddess.

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 7d

Well, prognosis for Starbuck, aka Murder Cat, isn't great. Looks like we're counting our time left with her in months now. 💜💔💜

Close up of said cat, a black domestic short hair.

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Retail!

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Cat Winters / C. E. Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight Portland, OR, members of @authorsabb.bsky.social gathered together to write postcards to librarians and school board members as part of Banned Books Week . . . but every week is a good week to take action to protect the freedom to read.

Photo by Makiia Lucier.

A postcard that says "Authors Against Book Bans, authorsagainstbookbans.com" is held in front of the camera. In the background, an author who's against book bans is filling out postcards at a table full of postcards and writing supplies. The author is wearing a blue shirt with blurry white writing.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone hug your kitties for me.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 1d

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday!

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

It truly is.

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

I'm having a crap day in a crap week in a crap year, but this stuff? Autumn in a can. Pure comfort.

Very pretty can of black Apple's pumpkin chai cider. Beautiful pumpkin patch, leaves, and flowers on can.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe, hear me out--

*Apollo dodgeball meme*

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The U.S. Treasury shared a proposal to mint $1 Trump coins to mark America’s 250th anniversary.

But U.S. code says only deceased individuals may appear on U.S. currency, a tradition dating back to efforts to break from monarchical rule. https://wapo.st/4pWsyL3

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of sects have their own version of end times interpretations. For example, growing up, I repeatedly heard that the Dome of the Rock has to be destroyed "one more time" and then, woo-hoo, apocalypse baby.

Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 2d

This is maddening because that *is* what certain Evangelical sects believe. It might be stated flippantly, but it's true--mod ignorance is no excuse.

I mean, it's not even hard to find information about it. Like so:

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

Mods gonna ban The Guardian too?

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 3d

Hitler-ass President shouldn't say and do Hitler-ass shit if he doesn't want to be compared to Hitler.*

*I am not at all convinced he doesn't want to be compared to Hitler.