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Abhijeet
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Writer and doodler | Work in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Translunar Travelers Lounge, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and more | Associate Editor @escapepod.org | Viable Paradise 2025 |abhijeetmakesthings.com (WIP)
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jbgarnerwrites.bsky.social
BIG NEWS TIME!

@gingerbluepublish.bsky.social has released my queer furry film noir romantasy, SONGS & SORCERY, in hardback editions! Either the hardback at Amazon -or- the SUPER-SWEET dust-jacketed FANCY edition at Barnes & Noble.

Buy the fancy today! www.jbgarnerwrites.com/songsandsorc...
Songs & Sorcery by Emelia Quantrille | J B Garner Writes
Film noir meets romantasy in this post-human world rules by anthropomorphic animals in this novel by Emelia Quantrille
www.jbgarnerwrites.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
Best shot on potato phone from today's Chicago aurora trip with @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social: less bright, cloudier skies, still visibly otherworldly
A thin green aurora over a lake and beach
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
BA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA (WITH @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social)
A banana flower split open, with bananas on the stem behind it. Shot from below
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
After years of half-hearted attempts, Wife and I finally managed to see the aurora live in Chicago thanks to @drhazzard.bsky.social and @puppetkon46.bsky.social.

They have the good photos. I have this potato shot. Unlike 90% of the aurora photos you'll see, this was more impressive in person.
A blurry image of clouds covering a pink and green aurora
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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muteddragon.bsky.social
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talesfeathers.bsky.social Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 5d
It’s freezing out! ❄️ Bundle up with a new story NOW LIVE on our site!

“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨

Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
An image with a teal plain background. There is a graphic of an open book at the bottom of the image. In the middle is a white square. Inside of the square reads: “I don’t know why I expected the afterlife to be different from my beforelife. In fact, I hadn’t expected an afterlife at all. As the youngest person in dìfǔ, with no descendants, I certainly didn’t anticipate gifts. I was a first-generation American who had a vague idea of the Chinese holidays, but stopped paying attention as soon as I left home.” in black text. Beneath it reads: "Tales and Feathers Magazine — Volume 3" then there is a link symbol beside the link: https://augursociety.org/the-purpose-of-a-pyromaniac-descendent/
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
This got me wondering if the Hindi/Sanskrit -pur is the same root (Jaipur, Raipur, Kanpur etc.)

And it is! -pur is fort/stronghold, and thought to be derived from the same PIE root as -buri and -bury.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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johnjosephadams.com
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!

Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy stylized as cover text.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
The best version of sabudana has landed on my plate. Khichdi stans back off
Close up of crispy sabudana vada
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social
Why is this so accurate and painful and also hilarious all at the same time
A text from the novel The Ministry of Time that says The great project of Empire was to categorize: owned and owner, colonizer and colonized, evolue and barbarian, mine and yours. I inherited these taxonomies. This, I think, was the reason I played fuck-about-Fred with my ethnic identity as much as I could. 'They' are still in charge and even when 'they' are saying marginalized instead of mongoloid they are still acknowledging that we are an issue to be dealt with. When would it be my turn to hold the carrot and stick? My sister had grandiose chat about dismantling the carrot-stick complex altogether, but this manifested in being upset all the time, tweeting enthusiastically about debut authors of color who never seemed to publish second novels once the publicity cycle ended, and being underpaid.
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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lucidillusions.in
Have you read it? 😁😁😁

theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-...

I'm quite proud of the ending.

Here's the opening paragraph...

#ReaderSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity
DR SUVAJEET DUTTAGUPTA The Leviathan’s Mercy The Triton plunged even deeper into the Mariana Trench, a silver needle piercing the ocean’s black heart. I pressed a hand against the cold view-port, the fortified glass a fragile barrier between our hubris and a crushing demise. Our team had spent years on this project, meticulously planning, designing, and testing to withstand these unimaginable pressures. Still, I couldn’t shake the memory of those other fools from the SeaCrate incident — the sheer arrogance of men who had disregarded every safety measure and treated the deep as if it were a simple weekend adventure.
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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lizshannonmiller.com
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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victormanibo.com
The Villa, Once Beloved is one of @literaryhub.bsky.social’s best spec fic for the month! Thanks, @zutsuit.bsky.social!

lithub.com/antimemes-an...
Antimemes and Nanobot Beauty Scams: November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
November’s new releases span from epic space opera—starring immortal Pilots and bloodthirsty Sovereigns—to intimate speculative tales posing big questions about changing our facial features or merg…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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BA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Opening banana flower shot from below, revealing small bananas
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
Six of my parent friends have decided to dress up as the 6-7 meme for trick-or-treating with their kids. Is there a secret meme-slayer meeting that us childlesses aren't invited to?
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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mythopoetica.bsky.social
So my only published short fiction of this year is a mash-up of folk horror, technohorror and cyberpunk, with a Sherlock-Moriarty kind of vibe. Just in case you're feeling like reading something like this!
translunartl.bsky.social Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · Aug 24
Vengeance As Sweet As My Love by @mythopoetica.bsky.social in which a water demon, trying to be human, loses everything to a cyborg rival translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/v...
My love is in every body of water taunting me from puberty till the day I embraced my heritage and succumbed to the imperatives of my lack of humanity. I am consumed by my love, and by my hunger for love. The blood of puaka air infests my veins. Puaka air who lurk in pools that sprawl across abandoned tin mines. Puaka air, whose spectral limbs and corporeal hunger taint both folklore and the dreams of fishermen. Puaka air, who create widows out of wives and steal their children for dinner. Those water-demons who whisper songs to bedevil your mind when you are wading in the South China Sea, dragging you into the deeps to feast upon your entrails and the spore of your disappointments. Vengeance as Sweet as My Love, by Anita Harris Satkunananthan
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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zutsuit.bsky.social
Starting to think about next year's most anticipated SFF* list for Lit Hub, and while I have a pretty well maintained spreadsheet I invariably miss stuff -- so please let me know about the books you're psyched about! (yours and others')

*primarily SFF but def into horror and literary crossover too
October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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vajra.me
SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives
gofund.me
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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soumithri.bsky.social
youtu.be/ehY2hRzbe3U

i spoke to the comedian Vir Das about his work. i can't able to watch this video because i'm in it, but perhaps you'd like to?
Vir Das | @ManthanIndia Samvaad 2025
YouTube video by Manthan India
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October 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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bundgaardf.bsky.social
I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London
Sumo wrestlers enjoying Stonehenge Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
Sky demons at O'Hare want to know why my flight is 40m late
Line drawing of a giant looking into an airport terminal drawn over a photo. It's facial features are reflections
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
bingingout.bsky.social
Extramundane is a terrible word. Dishonor on whoever came up with it. A pox on their cows. May their crops turn out to be AI somehow
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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gautambhatia88.bsky.social
Had a few hours to process this, and wanted to say thank you to the jurors and voters of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social for seeing - and honouring - this little anarchist-inflected SF novel, from the list of a fiercely progressive & independent Indian publisher ( @westlandbooks.bsky.social). (1/2)
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
October 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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aashiks.bsky.social
I think people with an Indian identity should read "Meet the savarnas". There's lots to critique and disagree - but it is still really worth reading. The exposition of privilege is so raw, and eye opening in some places.
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM