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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 35m

mothman!

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2h

Name your Fav Cryptid.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 37m

i’m reading my stuff for a thing, and damn y’all, sometimes i can really write!can’t wait until i can sustain that through a book-length project; don’t know about y’all, but for me, keeping the prose elegant is the hardest part of writing.

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18h

oh, oh i’m definitely trying that.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23h

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 20h

i'm still mad that we waited all these years for MS word to give us a new font and they gave us aptos.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Bear. He got stuck in the gate for the third time this week. Can't believe this keeps happening. Still 12/10 (IG: howdytherebear)

a golden retriever stands between two bars in a baby gate, with his fluffy blond fur puffing out on either side. they say you can’t be two places at once, but this guy might have accidentally cracked the code.

a more overhead view of the golden puppy in the middle of the baby gate. he found the slightly wider slot between the first bar and the wall. his fluff obscures part of the bar, and his tail tilts downward in resignation.

another shot of Bear in his gate predicament. he’s closing his eyes as he tries to accept that he’s found himself here once more, and he seems to be avoiding asking for help.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 1d

It's starting to get real. T-minus 4 months until my third book, BALLOT, enters the world. You can pre-order Ballot anywhere books or sold. Support independent bookstores by pre-ordering through Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/ball...

White title page with the words Ballot, Anjali Enjeti, Bloomsbury Academic.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 1d

Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

Book cover for Susan Dackerman, Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East.

Book cover for Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.

Book cover for Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

Book cover for James Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 1d

been having a whole lot of “why i study what i do” convos lately. academics are such nerds, and we *remain* nerds despite all the things! we find real life-giving joy in being nerdy.

and i’ll always love that about us. 💜

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Willow, but not Vamp Willow @salixwrosette.bsky.social · 1d

Link? Link.

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Blue Villa @bluevilla.org · 1d

Keep going. The plot twist hasn’t ruined everything yet.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 4d

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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🩷🕊 Sara Flacci @saraflacci.bsky.social · 6d

The bell tower of Saint Orso seen from the old cemetery
#UrbanGaze #Graves
#Cemeteries

The bell tower of a Romanesque church in Aosta, framed from within the nearby cemetery. Two autumn-colored trees frame the shot and, in the center, crosses and graves. In the background are mountains and a cloudy sky.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 4d

i love it!!

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 5d

Transitive property. If Virginia is for lovers, and love is a battlefield, it stands to reason that Virginia would be battlefields.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 5d

sometimes i forget how much of VA is just battlefields.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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MFSR @koalaadorable.bsky.social · 7d

This is what happens when one is a philologist AND a #BlackSabbath fan. This is a chapter of my upcoming book on #ancientdemagogues. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d

honestly so glad it’s finally, finally out. what a process!

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Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social · 6d

These days I almost exclusively write about older characters. I want stories about people who hurt and fight anyway, who are tired and fight anyway, who have closed more doors than are left to open and fight anyway. I want to show they, too, have a future worth surviving to see.

#HorrorWritersChat

Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 6d

Gather close, #HorrorWritersChat bods, whether you creak, or not. And believe me, many of us creaked in our teens, it's all good.
Age is just one factor.
But it's an interesting one that we do overlook. How many of us actually have older characters in our books, that aren't the wise mentor type?

Horror is chock full of young characters. What about your older ones? How do they shape the story differently?

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d

ooooof, i remember too! glad the project expanded; we have too many pieces on magic in acts anyway.

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d

💜

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d

my friend, it has been a long journey and i am happy to have made it to the end! 😂

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d

yes! i truly think these modes of discursive differentiation are co-constitutive. the bid to make difference invites comparison in the first place, after all.

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d

let’s hope it’s worth the effort of merging all the chapters! IIRC, OUP doesn’t let you download a whole book, right? or maybe that was just our library interface…

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