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R. K. Duncan

@rkduncan.bsky.social

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Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author. He/him. Abolish the police. I am not a Catholic Priest. I do not absolve you. Write your own email. Stories: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/ Monthly newsletter with poem: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/signup

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · Feb 4

Taking lengthy breaks from this website for my mental health for the foreseeable. Here are some stories about politics and anger while you wait.
magazine.trollbreath.com/day-one/

www.baublesfrombones.com/reminiscence...

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks. It's largely about my own journey toward self love via other people loving my body more than I can.

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 1h

Snared by dreams of escape from self and failure and loneliness, three dreamers are drawn beyond and caught by the inscrutable Powers: the conquering Horned Moon, the austere Watchman, the consuming pleasure of Foxglove. Only learning to love each other and themselves will save them.
#DVpit #CF #A

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 2h

I found the market and editor who bought my first story sale and the writing community I now help run via twitter in 2016.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 3h

Elin thinks she can use the system to help, to make work in the mills safe, to force the charter-lords to free their slaves overseas, but the nobles ignore the law when she turns it against them, and their prophets, THE WHETHER MEN, have already foreseen her fall and their own triumph.
#DVpit #F #A

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 3h

Find lovers who will flay the lying silver skin off you and make you love yourself, who will stop you playing fingers bloody chasing dream perfection, who will fight the watchman back from burning out your magic with his awful light, who will stop you summoning the hungry moon.
#DVpit #CF #A

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 5h

A progressive (secretly a spy) prime minister and her polycule crusade for justice.
Workers strike for safety and fair pay.
A noble cabal is ready to destroy them all with scandal, bribery, and murder, and to restore a monarchy led by the sinister prophets called THE WHETHER MEN.
#DVpit #F #A

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6h

A bot I can excuse, but other authors doing the pitch contest should have read the guidelines and not be liking posts.

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6h

A news bot liked my dvpit pitch, I assume because it had 'prime minister' in it.

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6h

Kurt tries to escape his fatness and self hate in a magic beyond dreams, find lovers who begin to teach him how to love himself and his body, makes a devil's bargain to save them from murderous magical cops, and is forced to bring a reality destroying dream-god into the real world.
#DVpit #CF #A

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6h

Young, idealistic Elin becomes the first woman prime minister promising labor reform and equality, but the power of the old nobility is everywhere in the state, and they plan to replace Elin and democracy with a new monarchy foreseen by the sinister prophets called THE WHETHER MEN
#DVpit #A #F

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 7h

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Rosarie Maria🦐 @fatamorgana.bsky.social · 21h

lowkey kind of crazy: someone has made a mod that adds the "screenshot pin" feature from the most recent Prince of Persia game to Silksong www.nexusmods.com/hollowknight...

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grumdholt.bsky.social @grumdholt.bsky.social · 19h

HP Lovecraft might have eaten Cheez-Its

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 2d

HIGHER MAGIC is out ✨tomorrow✨

In this snippet, Bartleby reflects about magic and how it shaped her relationship with her parents.

www.harpercollins.com/products/hig...

A quote graphic with a decorative moon and skull featuring text that reads: HIGHER MAGIC
I'd been born on a new moon, an emergency C-section that shattered my parents' world. My life was always going to be different than theirs, though the one time they'd acknowledged that and taken me to the local diviner, they'd been so shaken by the results it was worse than if they'd never acknowledged my difference at all.
OUT IN DAY.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, you've been a dream agent for a while. I assume not just for me.

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 5d

Have they tried Goosebumps books, I guess?

R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 5d

AOL dialup memorial edition

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 5d

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
magazine.trollbreath.com/gracie-and-l...

Free Fiction Friday with
“Gracie and Leelanau Save the Worst Boy at Camp One-Pine”
by Sarah Pauling
Trollbreath Magazine
Image of a bright green snake

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 5d

We have sinned against you by quote dunking
And we have sinned against you by rage tweeting
We have sinned against you by omitting alt-text
And we have sinned against you by falling for clickbait
We have sinned against you with AI slop
And we have sinned against you by not just blocking that asshole

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 6d

Nonsense, I'm sure encouraging private industry to profit from the captive market of soldiers and their families will generate absolutely no resentment or chance of any negative reaction at all.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 8d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said

THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING

Makes you think

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 15d

May we say nothing of him and his beliefs but the one true, weighty, meaningful thing: this man is trying to kill children. May we not pretend it matters what he lies. This man is trying to kill children. What else is worth saying after that?

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 15d

I abominate this man. May his lies turn to ashes in his mouth. May the hate he turns on all who are not like him rebound a hundredfold upon him. May his bones be crushed. May his name be forgotten.

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