Archangel Beth
@archangelbeth.bsky.social
AKA EMcCoy_writer, "ꙮ Mantis Space Marine," Archangel Beth, & ArchBeth, depending where you are. She/Her works for me.
(ElizabethMcCoy.com, & the new one isn't there yet, but there's only one other "me" on Amazon😅)
(ElizabethMcCoy.com, & the new one isn't there yet, but there's only one other "me" on Amazon😅)
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Archangel Beth
@archangelbeth.bsky.social
· Jun 20
Elizabeth McCoy
Elizabeth McCoy's fiction has appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress #7, in the "Best In Show" anthology by Sofawolf*, and in the fanzine "Pawprints" (published by Conrad Wong & T. Jo...
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This is where I can set the novel samples to 50%, so you can tell if you want to read my stuff!
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And I want to say with my whole chest that ignorance leads to complicity 34/
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
And I want to say with my whole chest that ignorance leads to complicity 34/
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The main reasons that 'gypsy' is considered by many to be a slur are its historical imposition on the community connected to a false origin story, its associate with negative and often dehumanising treatment and tropes, and its consistent use as a slur (as we will be seeing in relation to WH) 7/
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The main reasons that 'gypsy' is considered by many to be a slur are its historical imposition on the community connected to a false origin story, its associate with negative and often dehumanising treatment and tropes, and its consistent use as a slur (as we will be seeing in relation to WH) 7/
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This is possibly the longest thread I've ever seen but if you have an interest in the subject matter it is worth your time.
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is possibly the longest thread I've ever seen but if you have an interest in the subject matter it is worth your time.
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
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Thank you so much. A huge part of my career has been saying to people who've been through hell, "I see it too. It wasn't you. You're not wrong. This did happen. It WAS that bad." Because if there's one thing toxic systems are spectacularly good at, it's gaslighting.
A true and terrific book that stays with the reader long after. I know you didn't write it as a self-help manual but it did help with healing from toxic people and workplaces, so thank you for that ancillary benefit.
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thank you so much. A huge part of my career has been saying to people who've been through hell, "I see it too. It wasn't you. You're not wrong. This did happen. It WAS that bad." Because if there's one thing toxic systems are spectacularly good at, it's gaslighting.
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<sigh> Whole lotta people out there who still seem to think they can rules-lawyer their way out of creepy.
I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
<sigh> Whole lotta people out there who still seem to think they can rules-lawyer their way out of creepy.
I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
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A big part of what seems to have caused that sudden diversification is what's called the Cambrian Agronomic Revolution.
Before, in the Ediacaran, the seafloor was covered a thick microbial mat that kind of sealed everything off. But then worms (mainly priapulids) figured out how to burrow through
Before, in the Ediacaran, the seafloor was covered a thick microbial mat that kind of sealed everything off. But then worms (mainly priapulids) figured out how to burrow through
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A big part of what seems to have caused that sudden diversification is what's called the Cambrian Agronomic Revolution.
Before, in the Ediacaran, the seafloor was covered a thick microbial mat that kind of sealed everything off. But then worms (mainly priapulids) figured out how to burrow through
Before, in the Ediacaran, the seafloor was covered a thick microbial mat that kind of sealed everything off. But then worms (mainly priapulids) figured out how to burrow through
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There’s a whole bunch more, it’s absolutely worth looking up the reconstructions—things that look like swimming tacos, things that look like worms but aren’t, things that don’t look like worms but are, things that would be nightmare fuel if they weren’t 3mm long, etc.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
There’s a whole bunch more, it’s absolutely worth looking up the reconstructions—things that look like swimming tacos, things that look like worms but aren’t, things that don’t look like worms but are, things that would be nightmare fuel if they weren’t 3mm long, etc.
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Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
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For those that missed the news, I slipped and fractured my back. I was already struggling financially when this happened. I started up a Gofundme to cover my medical expenses and monthly bills. I still need $200 or so to cover my internet/phone this month. gofund.me/73a3f6eec
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November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For those that missed the news, I slipped and fractured my back. I was already struggling financially when this happened. I started up a Gofundme to cover my medical expenses and monthly bills. I still need $200 or so to cover my internet/phone this month. gofund.me/73a3f6eec
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
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medium.com/permanent-ne... It feels like more people need to read this one and appreciate the full implications of plant body snatchers. Also, it has a cat named Seymour! @seananmcguire.bsky.social #seananmcguire #miragrant #horror #Overgrowth #sciencefictionhorror
Overgrowth and Hypothetical Body Snatchers
Don’t Other the plants.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
medium.com/permanent-ne... It feels like more people need to read this one and appreciate the full implications of plant body snatchers. Also, it has a cat named Seymour! @seananmcguire.bsky.social #seananmcguire #miragrant #horror #Overgrowth #sciencefictionhorror
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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Starred review for THROUGH GATES OF GARNET AND GOLD! www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-33...
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire
Bestseller McGuire’s breathtaking 11th novella in her Wayward Children series of interconnected portal fantasies revisits Nancy ...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Starred review for THROUGH GATES OF GARNET AND GOLD! www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-33...
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WHY ARE YOU PUSHING THIS SO HARD?
Pre-orders mean the world. Early pre-orders open new doors for us, and for this book, and will make the whole situation better. If we can debut on the NYT Bestseller list, I will build an Alandra Sky Dreamer token deck and punish myself with math.
Pre-orders mean the world. Early pre-orders open new doors for us, and for this book, and will make the whole situation better. If we can debut on the NYT Bestseller list, I will build an Alandra Sky Dreamer token deck and punish myself with math.
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
WHY ARE YOU PUSHING THIS SO HARD?
Pre-orders mean the world. Early pre-orders open new doors for us, and for this book, and will make the whole situation better. If we can debut on the NYT Bestseller list, I will build an Alandra Sky Dreamer token deck and punish myself with math.
Pre-orders mean the world. Early pre-orders open new doors for us, and for this book, and will make the whole situation better. If we can debut on the NYT Bestseller list, I will build an Alandra Sky Dreamer token deck and punish myself with math.
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It's OMENS OF CHAOS yelling time again! Have you pre-ordered YOUR copy yet?
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It's OMENS OF CHAOS yelling time again! Have you pre-ordered YOUR copy yet?
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We did it! We brought our preorder site back!!! shop.outsidercomics.com/products/str...
To keep things manageable we'll stop doing preorders after November so like order nyao!
To keep things manageable we'll stop doing preorders after November so like order nyao!
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We did it! We brought our preorder site back!!! shop.outsidercomics.com/products/str...
To keep things manageable we'll stop doing preorders after November so like order nyao!
To keep things manageable we'll stop doing preorders after November so like order nyao!
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I had bought everything Richard Morgan had written, and was looking forward to more. He came out as a TERF and every last one went right into the recycle bin because I have some fucking standards.
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I had bought everything Richard Morgan had written, and was looking forward to more. He came out as a TERF and every last one went right into the recycle bin because I have some fucking standards.
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
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Research has proven that people who inflict violence on animals are more likely to go on to other forms of violence. Torturing animals while young is a thing that at least has a correlation relationship with serial killers
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Research has proven that people who inflict violence on animals are more likely to go on to other forms of violence. Torturing animals while young is a thing that at least has a correlation relationship with serial killers
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I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
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If your in UK or Europe and don't want to use the big a bc they suck with preorders, I've been using Blackwells (I order from Germany) for a few years now and they have the book listed.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering)
Strixhaven University welcomes you. Begin your magical studies on a faraway plane, encountering new friends, mysteries, and dangers, in this fantastical dark ac
blackwells.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If your in UK or Europe and don't want to use the big a bc they suck with preorders, I've been using Blackwells (I order from Germany) for a few years now and they have the book listed.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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I'm on the hunt for the best version of Your Idol, cover or remix or otherwise.
This song has a death grip on me.
This song has a death grip on me.
a man with yellow eyes is wearing a cowboy hat
ALT: a man with yellow eyes is wearing a cowboy hat
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November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I'm on the hunt for the best version of Your Idol, cover or remix or otherwise.
This song has a death grip on me.
This song has a death grip on me.
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I think their parents would hunt us down if we let their kids pick the "hundreds of applesauce pouches" option 🫣
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do the kids get to choose which option they want?
(incredible work btw)
(incredible work btw)
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I think their parents would hunt us down if we let their kids pick the "hundreds of applesauce pouches" option 🫣
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