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Anita Harris Satkunananthan

@mythopoetica.bsky.social

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Author. Poet. Gothic Academic. PhD. she/her Codex Writers Group, MLA Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc Website: www.mythopoetica.com Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Nov 29

An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️

#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia

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The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 31m

Foundation showrunner David S. Goyer: "I’m not going to run Season 4. I hadn’t contemplated stepping back before Season 4, but between the strikes and COVID we extended. I started working on the show six years ago, and without those two events, I would be four and a half years in. Then the other..."

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 7h

Palestinian children like Dr. Farhat's are being displaced & starved to death with their families in Israel's genocidal famine & invasion. They're deleted & harassed on Bluesky. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, shelter, & evacuation (1 donation in 2 days):

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Benjamin Hunting @huntingbenjamin.bsky.social · 37m

Having an editor vigorously challenge you as a writer is an inestimable gift. If you are very, very lucky, one day you will encounter an editor who takes a genuine interest in improving your skills. If you're very lucky.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4h

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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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 32m

Hope it is just allergies!! 🤞🏼

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 35m

It’s been an hour since he marked himself on the system as “on site”.

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John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · 2h

Here's a little cartoon for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙

Ink and watercolor cartoon showing an octopus peeking out of a coconut shell underwater. The octopus says: "I've been working on a novel, but I'm afraid to show anyone. Maybe I'll put one page out there." A fish swims up to look at the page and says, "That stinks!" The octopus disappears inside the shell and says, "Everyone's a critic."

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 37m

Broadband guy still AWOL

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 12h

Oh hey, it's #WorldOctopusDay? 😉 🐙

This is what I call my nearly-hard desi SF meets cephalopod-love short story. It got an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois's last Year's Best anthology.

CW for somewhat spicy and norty scenes; bigotry and prejudice.

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Reversion by Nin Harris

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 43m

Blocked sink and drain fixed but maintenance bro says to monitor the damp tiles for now as unsure of source of the leak?

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 44m

Maintenance bro has come and gone but the broadband guy is not here yet. And the appointment period ends in 15 mins.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 54m

Called the broadband company to express my puzzlement. They said they will try to locate broadband guy.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

Oh well, at least my plumbing is getting fixed right now and he says it won’t cost too much.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

In the past they’d just call me, now there’s an app tracking status and no one appears?

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

Broadband guy is stated on the provider app as being “on site” but is not here yet. Maintenance bro is doing the work now though.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

!! he’s actually coming now. Wonders never cease.

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

Also told maintenance bro he could come over. Let’s see if he can. 😏

(he’s actually a very nice young man but not the best at communicating)

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction begins Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

Waiting for broadband support to arrive. 🤞🏼

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 1h

I fear my days of writing norty scenes are now over. I would rather build romantic tension in different ways and show love/devotion in smaller ways.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Sep 3

ICYMI I have a weirdo Malaysian folk horror meets cyberpunk mashup with characters in a Sherlock-Moriarty kind of toxic dynamic in a Dangerous Liaisons kind of setup but with body horror. My idea of fun, clearly!

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Aug 24

Vengeance As Sweet As My Love by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in which a water demon, trying to be human, loses everything to a cyborg rival translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/v...

My love is in every body of water taunting me from puberty till the day I embraced my heritage and succumbed to the imperatives of my lack of humanity. I am consumed by my love, and by my hunger for love. The blood of puaka air infests my veins. Puaka air who lurk in pools that sprawl across abandoned tin mines. Puaka air, whose spectral limbs and corporeal hunger taint both folklore and the dreams of fishermen. Puaka air, who create widows out of wives and steal their children for dinner. Those water-demons who whisper songs to bedevil your mind when you are wading in the South China Sea, dragging you into the deeps to feast upon your entrails and the spore of your disappointments.
Vengeance as Sweet as My Love, by Anita Harris Satkunananthan

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Sep 11

An epic house-share: A Javanese Engineer, a mermaid storyteller and their scribe-turned-watermaiden landlady. A princess who drowns an alternate clockpunk Venice. Sonar-laced songcraft weaves together their entangled destinies.

Check out WATERMYTH 💙 📚 #BookSky

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Gail Carriger @gailcarriger.bsky.social · 1h

Happy World Octopus Day! Here's one of my favorite sets of octopus jewelry.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7d

it is WEREWOLF WEDNESDAY

and the LEARN TO HOWL trilogy is COMPLETE!

Now you can get Learn to Howl, Baying the Moon, and The Company of Wolves!

paperback and ebook, including HOOPLA

books2read.com/learntohowl/
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the cover for Baying the Moon: a open-mouthed wolf facing you so that you're staring down its labyrinthine throat) an at all those teeth, on a red background

painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art

cover blurb: Six months ago, Allie believed she was a normal human girl from a normal human family. Then one terrible night lead to a breathless road trip to rescue her real family. Her werewolf family.

After a begrudging information exchange with the Ward family, Allie's Aunt Rachel has decided it's safest to wait and see what the secret medical organization Allie rescued her from does next.

But Allie and her cousin Morgan aren't risking any more of their family. Along with some other young werewolves, they hit the road again to delve into Silvernail's goals and how they found the wolves in the first place.

The Company of Wolves cover: a black wolf, head turned to the left and mouth open as though its crying out, and part of it is shattering apart like broken glass or a mirror, with a bullet hole in it, revealing a haggard-looking human face beneath, just a blue eye and some black hair

painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art

cover blurb: Allie can’t believe that Rachel means it. They have to be able to go home after everything, right? That isn’t something Morgan is willing to discuss; she’s out for blood, and the Wards are going to help her get it. They’re ‘running ops,’ as the Wards apparently call it, hitting Silvernail locations both for information and destruction. But isn’t enough for Morgan, and she gets an even better idea about how they’re going to get to Silvernail himself and end this once and for all.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 2h

…but thank you for bearing with me while I posted my way out of a ptsd tunnel. 🫶🏼

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 2h

2.5k posts. Woe. You know what this means.

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