Bryn Hammond
@brynhammond.bsky.social
| Writer. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novellas Waste Flowers, What Rough Beast? Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
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| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
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AHHHH SWORD AND SORCERY - I LOVE THIS GENRE. THIS IS GREAT.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
AHHHH SWORD AND SORCERY - I LOVE THIS GENRE. THIS IS GREAT.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
I want to see more in the S&S genre. Shorts, novellas, novelettes, novels. ALL OF THEM.
And more diverse backgrounds and cool ass different ideas.
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Backing both @swordsagainst.bsky.social and @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social is actually a very cool and sexy thing to do.
February 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Backing both @swordsagainst.bsky.social and @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social is actually a very cool and sexy thing to do.
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what a wonderful day to be wearing a castle rat shirt and going out to my favorite cafe to write pulp fantasy bullshit while TWO sword and sorcery magazines launch their crowdfunding campaigns. my soul is fed
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
what a wonderful day to be wearing a castle rat shirt and going out to my favorite cafe to write pulp fantasy bullshit while TWO sword and sorcery magazines launch their crowdfunding campaigns. my soul is fed
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One of my favorite sword & sorcery characters. bsky.app/profile/bryn...
👇 that's my Goatskin 👇
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
One of my favorite sword & sorcery characters. bsky.app/profile/bryn...
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Hi you have to fund this or else my giant squid will be very vexed (it's extremely giant) (and Earth is extremely scrungly and doomed) 🦑
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Hi you have to fund this or else my giant squid will be very vexed (it's extremely giant) (and Earth is extremely scrungly and doomed) 🦑
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Hook it to my veins, love this magazine
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Hook it to my veins, love this magazine
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IT'S CROWDFUND DAY!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
IT'S CROWDFUND DAY!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
Check it out!
I beg. I plead. I mutter eldritch words of power into my beard for your protection from/ravishment by, strange gods (DELETE AS APPLICABLE)
Come support artists & writers (including me) who summon dreams of never-was, and the yet-might-be -- queer and phantastic!
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New Goatskin story by the inimitable historian of Mongolia and spinner of steppe stories @brynhammond.bsky.social. This among many other goodies.
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
New Goatskin story by the inimitable historian of Mongolia and spinner of steppe stories @brynhammond.bsky.social. This among many other goodies.
👇 that's my Goatskin 👇
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
👇 that's my Goatskin 👇
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⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Proud to be the 6th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026
Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, clas...
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February 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Proud to be the 6th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day?
#lgbtqhistory
#lgbtqhistory
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
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UK readers, reviewers, bloggers! Mercutio is now available on Netgalley UK and I am very excited and nervous to have this one out in the world. It is the book of my heart, my brain, my toes. Please request and read if you can. It'll help me hugely to get some word of mouth before UK release in May.
Mercutio
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February 12, 2026 at 1:52 AM
UK readers, reviewers, bloggers! Mercutio is now available on Netgalley UK and I am very excited and nervous to have this one out in the world. It is the book of my heart, my brain, my toes. Please request and read if you can. It'll help me hugely to get some word of mouth before UK release in May.
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Just over two hours from now...
⚔️24 HOURS UNTIL THE CROWDFUND LAUNCHES
at 8am EST, Feb 12th🧙♂️
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈
This is the other side of the double-sided poster every backer will receive! Thanks again to @emmastonephoto.bsky.social, and to @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social for bringing his friend to the party!
at 8am EST, Feb 12th🧙♂️
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈
This is the other side of the double-sided poster every backer will receive! Thanks again to @emmastonephoto.bsky.social, and to @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social for bringing his friend to the party!
February 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Just over two hours from now...
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My article 'Ghost nets and rusting machines: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem' is now published in Interventions, as part of a special issue on World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Ghost nets and rusting machines”: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem
Water has long been fundamental to settler efforts to expand resource frontiers in Canada. European fur traders used the region’s waterways to access animal populations in its interior, forming the...
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February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
My article 'Ghost nets and rusting machines: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem' is now published in Interventions, as part of a special issue on World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
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Middle English Compendium
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February 12, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
Has Caterina Gerbasi's trans man barbarian / Frazetta-done-better cover, and my story 'Sister Chaos'. Was pretty chuffed to be named on the cover alongside the mighty Margaret Killjoy oh and the other guy.
👉 Word to the wise: If you want a copy of NESS #1 in softcover, pounce on the crowdfund because going by last year...we will almost certainly sell out.😮
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February 12, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Has Caterina Gerbasi's trans man barbarian / Frazetta-done-better cover, and my story 'Sister Chaos'. Was pretty chuffed to be named on the cover alongside the mighty Margaret Killjoy oh and the other guy.
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300+pages of one of my favorite cartoonist working today @decassette.bsky.social
Their comics are gorgeous, idiosyncratic works of art that benefits from multiple reads.
Or maybe I just like the artwork that much?
Highest possible recommendation.
Their comics are gorgeous, idiosyncratic works of art that benefits from multiple reads.
Or maybe I just like the artwork that much?
Highest possible recommendation.
February 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
300+pages of one of my favorite cartoonist working today @decassette.bsky.social
Their comics are gorgeous, idiosyncratic works of art that benefits from multiple reads.
Or maybe I just like the artwork that much?
Highest possible recommendation.
Their comics are gorgeous, idiosyncratic works of art that benefits from multiple reads.
Or maybe I just like the artwork that much?
Highest possible recommendation.
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⚔️24 HOURS UNTIL THE CROWDFUND LAUNCHES
at 8am EST, Feb 12th🧙♂️
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈
This is the other side of the double-sided poster every backer will receive! Thanks again to @emmastonephoto.bsky.social, and to @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social for bringing his friend to the party!
at 8am EST, Feb 12th🧙♂️
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈
This is the other side of the double-sided poster every backer will receive! Thanks again to @emmastonephoto.bsky.social, and to @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social for bringing his friend to the party!
February 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
⚔️24 HOURS UNTIL THE CROWDFUND LAUNCHES
at 8am EST, Feb 12th🧙♂️
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈
This is the other side of the double-sided poster every backer will receive! Thanks again to @emmastonephoto.bsky.social, and to @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social for bringing his friend to the party!
at 8am EST, Feb 12th🧙♂️
👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 👈
This is the other side of the double-sided poster every backer will receive! Thanks again to @emmastonephoto.bsky.social, and to @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social for bringing his friend to the party!
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Hey Toronto folks: do you have a favourite restaurant that needs some love or a little spruce up?
I'm assisting on a project that helps struggling eateries (sorry, super vague at the moment) and I need recommendations for businesses to reach out to.
I'm assisting on a project that helps struggling eateries (sorry, super vague at the moment) and I need recommendations for businesses to reach out to.
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Hey Toronto folks: do you have a favourite restaurant that needs some love or a little spruce up?
I'm assisting on a project that helps struggling eateries (sorry, super vague at the moment) and I need recommendations for businesses to reach out to.
I'm assisting on a project that helps struggling eateries (sorry, super vague at the moment) and I need recommendations for businesses to reach out to.
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⚔️Doing our best!📚
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
⚔️Doing our best!📚
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
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⚔️ CROWDFUND EXCLUSIVE GIVEAWAY: TWO-SIDED POSTER🖼️
📸We did a photoshoot!📸
Here's *one* side of the 11x17 inch poster backers will get with their new issues of the magazine.
Make sure you get yours 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
📸We did a photoshoot!📸
Here's *one* side of the 11x17 inch poster backers will get with their new issues of the magazine.
Make sure you get yours 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
⚔️ CROWDFUND EXCLUSIVE GIVEAWAY: TWO-SIDED POSTER🖼️
📸We did a photoshoot!📸
Here's *one* side of the 11x17 inch poster backers will get with their new issues of the magazine.
Make sure you get yours 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
📸We did a photoshoot!📸
Here's *one* side of the 11x17 inch poster backers will get with their new issues of the magazine.
Make sure you get yours 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.
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The patchwork worldwide legal framework resulting from the ungrounded moral panic over people under 18 using the internet has a lot of us making extremely unpleasant choices. The blame lies on the governments mandating them.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
The patchwork worldwide legal framework resulting from the ungrounded moral panic over people under 18 using the internet has a lot of us making extremely unpleasant choices. The blame lies on the governments mandating them.