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Sidenote: my advertising art budget is Public Domain
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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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...)
Bronze sculpture of a sleeping faun or satyr’s head, eyes closed and tilted gently to one side, with pointed ears, small horns, and a textured beard, set against a neutral gray background.
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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Advertise your account with a gif
February 18, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Why can't I just buy all the stories?
February 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Poetry.
February 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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cypayseur.bsky.social
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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sharangbiswas.bsky.social
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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“Imagine a Changeling, I said, once upon a different day, long before that. Sweep her out of her cradle and carry her to Elfhame and put her in a little room where she can read every book that has ever been written (and several that never will be), but let her never once hear the nightingale sing or the little breezes whistle. But now you must set her a task, and you will write the instructions on your little paper tapes and feed them through the letter-slot in the door of her room, and you may not sing to her when you do so. She will take up your instructions and, following them by rote, she will be able to convert a page of music from A-flat major to the key of the West Wind—if your rules are clearly written and if you have chosen a clever enough changeling. But. But! She will never be moved to tears by the symphony she has altered, because she does not know what music is, let alone that she can hold it in her hand. I can teach a caveworm to dance if he hears the word blue, but that does not mean he has ever seen the sky. And Alan asked, neither laughing nor serious: And I am the caveworm in this scenario? And I laughed, and said, all over teasing, that he was the sky.”
February 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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838carlisle.bsky.social
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.
a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
adventitiouswords.bsky.social
Not sure how to feel about this.
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d
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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gailsimone.bsky.social
Weird.
Superman with a mustache and sombrero.
February 15, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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thestarshipentity.bsky.social
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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antiquebookart.bsky.social
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
adventitiouswords.bsky.social
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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danaterrace.bsky.social
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.
The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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estherschindler.bsky.social
"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
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Music for the day:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l65...
Weather Report Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival on July 8th, 1976
YouTube video by Pure Vintage Media
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February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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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.

www.adventitious.net/stories/what...
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.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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cornellwriter.bsky.social
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...
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Image shows a retro-style background of rockets launching next to the cover of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL. Under the words "What readers are saying..." there's a quote that reads: "A fun futuristic read with impeccable vintage vibes. Captivating from beginning to end. Absolute 10/10. no notes."
February 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Charmer!
interrobangbus.bsky.social max booth is listening & learning @interrobangbus.bsky.social · 6d
behold, my first ever short story acceptance email. jealous???

read more about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/embarr...
From: XXXXXXXXXXXX To: Max Booth III Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:55 AM Subject: Re: Zombie Story Submission hi max Ok, here's the deal. as far as your writing style, I was fine with it. the only thing is that, to me,your story is more like a document by a scientist than a story but it isnt that bad that i would reject it outright. i like it, but not enough to want to give you a book for it. (in other words i dont want to pay for it as i dont LOVE it) but, many writers could care less about the book and just want to be accepted and published. if thats you, then let me know and i will still use your story and put it in the antho and send you the contract. if you say "Hell no, i want compensation" thats fine but then i have to reject this particular story and how you want to send more standard stuff with people talking and fighting ect or anything in between. i'm fine with whatever you wnt to do. and thanks again for sending it so quickly. if the answer is yes you want in, i attached the cover art for the antho your story would be in. cheers --- And there it is. My first ever story acceptance.
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
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.”
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February 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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PSA: this is about great writing, not about the 🎉EVENTS🎉of 2025. :)
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 7d
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?

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link in bio!
locus magazine cover, person touching their face on blue background
February 10, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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Damn. Just won the Time War even after reading that instruction manual.
February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM