Adventitious.
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Adventitious.
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Do you know which way to go?

www.adventitious.net
Sidenote: my advertising art budget is Public Domain
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I don't know or care if I'm good at Instagram, but I'm having a blast making these title cards for stories.

(This is for this story: www.adventitious.net/stories/magi...)
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Advertise your account with a gif
February 18, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Why can't I just buy all the stories?
February 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Poetry.
February 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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look when AI starts selling off its own code to support a debilitating phonics addition I'll perhaps reconsider if it can produce art.
February 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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This story by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social, about Alan Turing seduced by a faerie lord, is beautiful and elegiac and made me tear up on the way home from a wedding

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February 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Not sure how to feel about this.
The ‘bel’ in ‘decibel’ is for Alexander Graham Bell.

Since the ‘B’ in 'dB' is a name-derived unit, it is capitalized when abbreviated.
February 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Roses are Red apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...
A cosmic bloom of bright young stars sitting atop a stem of glowing hot gas. The rose’s blue-white speckles are among the most luminous stars in the galaxy, with some burning millions of times brighter than the Sun.
February 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Weird.
February 15, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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NGC 147 and NGC 185 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...
Dwarf galaxies NGC 147 (left) and NGC 185 stand side by side in this deep telescopic portrait. The two are not-often-imaged satellite galaxies of M31, the great spiral Andromeda Galaxy, some 2.5 million light-years away.
February 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Illustration by Morris Meredith Williams from The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth W. Grierson, Philadelphia, 1910. #booksky #artsky
February 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Grab your heart medication. "What a Name Does Is Let You Leave" by @spocksbrain.bsky.social has got:

🤖robot + human romance
🌋the sulfur-spitting volcanoes of Io
❤️Jovian appreciation
🛰️Unauthorized spacewalks
🧠an AI prison warden
🌑a planetary prisonbreak

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What A Name Does Is Let You Leave — Meagan Kane
A speculative fiction story set in the shadow of Jupiter, exploring identity, synthetic consciousness, and survival.
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February 15, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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"What follows is a brief history of the Muppets’ literary entanglements. How did our favorite furry arm candy come to find themselves, over and over, in the stacks?"
A brief literary history of The Muppet Show.
Last week on a Disney+ account near you, Seth Rogen—the hardest working man in show biz—announced the return of the Kerm. A one-off Muppet Show special starring Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Rudolph, and…
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February 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
In this haunting Nebula nominee, a battle-scarred interplanetary exorcist hunts ghosts across hostile world until one possession exposes a secret powerful enough to erase the rules that keep the dead contained.

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What Any Dead Thing Wants
A Nebula-nominated work of literary speculative fiction by Aimee Ogden exploring death, exploitation, and what we owe to those that are gone.
www.adventitious.net
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Now that SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is out in the world, I thought I'd share some of the things readers have been saying. Get your copy: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
@starsandsabers.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Charmer!
behold, my first ever short story acceptance email. jealous???

read more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/embarr...
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Wrote about why I love Stephen King's Holly Gibney and how her "do no harm but take no shit" ethos can be a model for the times we live in for @reactorsff.bsky.social
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How a Stephen King Character Becomes an Unlikely Source of Hope - Reactor
Holly Gibney embodies the ethos of “do no harm but take no shit.”
reactormag.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
PSA: this is about great writing, not about the 🎉EVENTS🎉of 2025. :)
The Year in Review 2025 by Arley Sorg locusmag.com/feature...
February 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror you MUST already subscribe to Locus Magazine... Right?

linktr.ee/locusmagazine
link in bio!
February 10, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Damn. Just won the Time War even after reading that instruction manual.
February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM