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Renay⁷

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Arkansan. As seen on Fangirl Happy Hour, Lady Business, Intergalactic Mixtape & the Hugo Rec Sheet project. Books, BTS, memes, & 🐈. Hugo Award Winner². Mouthy, but soft. 18+ She/her. https://heyheyrenay.carrd.co/

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 5d

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week: my favorite headcanons from other fans about The Murderbot Diaries and a call for your favorite SFF book from September 2025, so we can lovingly build a rec list together. 🥹📚

Intergalactic Mixtape #22

Hey! This week, I learned how to turn on the newsletter archives and make them searchable, after 22 weeks. :D Technology: 1, Renay: 0. Welcome to October!...

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 10h

daily 08.10.25

A hard brush colour and light study of a young black woman, done in blocky shapes and colours of brown, yellow and black. the lighting is muted and grey toned

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 3h

Bring back quaint corn field mazes is my final opinion on these events lol

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, I thought it was just like, spooky music and cool lighting (which I could get behind), but they jump out and get really close to your windows in their costumes. 😭

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 3h

The employees jump out and scare you

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 4d

What was your favorite SFF title in September? I'm compiling a rec list for next week with all your favorites (and one of mine). Doesn't have to be a 2025 book! :D #booksky

Intergalactic Mixtape: Book Rec Form

Welcome to the Intergalactic Mixtape Rec Form! Here you can submit SFF books for any open calls for themed recs. You can also submit one-off recs for use in future lists. Only science fiction, fantasy...

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 12h

This was a great read, cannot wait to see how the story wraps up!

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12h

The ebook of THE WITCH ROADS is still on sale on all US and Canadian platforms. You can read it this month and roll over right into the second half of the duology, THE NAMELESS LAND, which releases November 4. No waiting! Plus you'll understand the title of book two once you read book one.

Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 2d

THE WITCH ROADS ebook is currently on sale (US) for $2.99, so if you're curious & want to read a grimsweet tale of a humble deputy courier & her annoyed nephew, a possessed prince, & a ravenous fungal ghost plague, now's the time.
Bk 2 of the duology arrives Nov 4!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 22h

Exactly 📚📚📚📚

Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 23h

FOL sales don’t count. 😜

Sincerely,
An Authority
(An FOL Board member)

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 23h

I’m about to make one and see! They look pretty doable for my level with a recipe AND no time limit. 😂

Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 23h

I thought a flapjack was sone type of pancake but over there it’s an oat bar type thing.

Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

They definitely looked delicious. I would not eat most granola bars, but I WOULD sample all those bakes. 😂

Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

They sure looked delicious regardless of what they’re called!

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

They made what I would call an expensive oat granola bar

a woman wearing a headband and earrings says what do you mean

Alt: Jennifer Lawrence, a white woman, crying to someone off camera while asking, “what do you mean?”

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend I learned I do not know what a flapjack is. Huh.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 1d

the “beefy handshake” meme with one arm captioned “monk in 825 AD,” the other captioned “me in 2025 AD” and where they clasp “One more scroll will fix me”

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 1d

My painting, "Capybara in Spring"! This is one of my series of four paintings celebrating the four seasons! I just love cherry blossoms 🌸

#art #spring #capybara #sciart #painting

Painting of a capybara resting in a pool of water with a colorful cherry blossom tree above it. The artist's signature and watermark @joyousjoyfuljoyness are at the bottom right.

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

No, the AI stuff is newer but all the incredibly bad decisions these companies made have led us here. 😭 I want to try and understand why we’re in this pickle.

Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

This is the time where @readingtheend.bsky.social can SHINE with her DEPTHS of knowledge

Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

I may give it a try via the library! I read an essay from him recently about the AI bubble bursting and it made me curious.

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

I want to read this but I’m afraid I’ll get depressed. Or, MORE depressed. 😅

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Yuumei Art @yuumeiart.bsky.social · 8d

Mycella Nightcap

It's getting close to my favorite spooky season and my head is full of art ideas sprouting like mushrooms ahahaha

#Witch #Mushroom #art #painting #illustration

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

Second devil: but maybe you can keep the new books with you in a special tote. They’re new, after all. They might get lonely!

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

If you had a favorite SFF book in September, I’d love to hear about it! Drop your rec in the form. :) forms.gle/EdDytqbUtjz8...

Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 4d

What was your favorite SFF title in September? I'm compiling a rec list for next week with all your favorites (and one of mine). Doesn't have to be a 2025 book! :D #booksky

Intergalactic Mixtape: Book Rec Form

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 1d

Making sure all your stuff is linked on your website and that you can easily update it to add new places is the best bet! Websites we own are still the best place we can retreat to as these platforms burn down, because at least it’s a nice landing place you control.