Arachne 🏳️🌈
@cayemarsh.bsky.social
Author of queer SFF living & writing in Aotearoa (she/her). STATION IN THE SKY out now! Enthusiastic about books and bugs. Posting positive to offset the horrors.
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Arachne 🏳️🌈
@cayemarsh.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Station in the Sky
www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com
You might not know that I write books? But I do!
Check out STATION IN THE SKY. It's 2-novellas-in-1.
✅Sci-fi with wastelands & biodomes & space stations
✅head injury/brain fog & hidden motives
✅mother-daughter feels & NB/NB ace deep friendship
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Check out STATION IN THE SKY. It's 2-novellas-in-1.
✅Sci-fi with wastelands & biodomes & space stations
✅head injury/brain fog & hidden motives
✅mother-daughter feels & NB/NB ace deep friendship
💙📚
🇳🇿📚
🌈📚
I don't understand why so many air/sea sickness meds cause dizziness, but still supposedly help? Feeling dizzy is already one of the problems I experience during motion sickness, how is this med not just making it worse??
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don't understand why so many air/sea sickness meds cause dizziness, but still supposedly help? Feeling dizzy is already one of the problems I experience during motion sickness, how is this med not just making it worse??
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Also from this morning’s beach walk: kororā (Little Blue Penguin) tracks headed out to sea.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Also from this morning’s beach walk: kororā (Little Blue Penguin) tracks headed out to sea.
Wow! This is so helpful to see what Bsky is hiding from you. Remember that things can get flagged as "rude" or "threatening" as a form of censorship, or for being liberal or radical. And I often see classical art showing bums labeled as "sexually explicit" which is ridiculous. 🙄
you can also simply click on @moderation.bsky.app. Fewer steps!
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Wow! This is so helpful to see what Bsky is hiding from you. Remember that things can get flagged as "rude" or "threatening" as a form of censorship, or for being liberal or radical. And I often see classical art showing bums labeled as "sexually explicit" which is ridiculous. 🙄
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Omfg yo holy shit look at this shot. Taken 34 minutes ago. I got some decent video I'll edit once I get to a hotel after catching the milky way...so..3 hours? 🪶
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Omfg yo holy shit look at this shot. Taken 34 minutes ago. I got some decent video I'll edit once I get to a hotel after catching the milky way...so..3 hours? 🪶
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I would be dodging the cones of vision of every employee like Solid Snake.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I would be dodging the cones of vision of every employee like Solid Snake.
Long live the Mossa and Pleiti Investigate series!! 🧡
(and p.s. not a trilogy, working on book 4 now :) )
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Long live the Mossa and Pleiti Investigate series!! 🧡
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Read this whole thread to give yourself a little dose of hope, as a treat. 🧡
(if you follow US politics...)
(if you follow US politics...)
Tuesday’s general elections saw Democrats post big wins across the United States. In California, voters passed Proposition 50, approving a new congressional map that could help Democrats pick up five additional congressional seats in the move to counter Texas’s redistricting effort.
In Voter Rebuke to Trump, Democrats Win Races Across the US
Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts, gives an overview of Tuesday’s elections.
truthout.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Read this whole thread to give yourself a little dose of hope, as a treat. 🧡
(if you follow US politics...)
(if you follow US politics...)
I need to put this on my TBR...
ICYMI
O. O. Sangoyomi's debut novel MASQUERADE won the Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel at the British Fantasy Society Awards last weekend as part of #worldfantarycon!
Congratulations to O. O. and to all the finalists!
Buy now: https://geni.us/Kw4KA
O. O. Sangoyomi's debut novel MASQUERADE won the Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel at the British Fantasy Society Awards last weekend as part of #worldfantarycon!
Congratulations to O. O. and to all the finalists!
Buy now: https://geni.us/Kw4KA
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I need to put this on my TBR...
I made a decision when I started writing my own worlds that there would be no monarchies. It's the default in every fantasy setting and I'm kinda over it. It lionizes the "benevolent monarchy" and "good king" world view too much.
How do the politics of your book's world work? Is it a monarchy? A democracy? Theocracy? How does it affect your characters? #WritingPrompt
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I made a decision when I started writing my own worlds that there would be no monarchies. It's the default in every fantasy setting and I'm kinda over it. It lionizes the "benevolent monarchy" and "good king" world view too much.
What an important win! The people of MS deserve so much better than what they've had. I hope this trend continues!
NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What an important win! The people of MS deserve so much better than what they've had. I hope this trend continues!
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"after all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. and if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power."
hooooooooooooooooly shit dude
hooooooooooooooooly shit dude
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"after all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. and if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power."
hooooooooooooooooly shit dude
hooooooooooooooooly shit dude
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
SAY. THAT. SHIT!
Authors are so creative, I swear. Really enjoying the omnivorous, clawed, fierce "horses" that hack up owl pellets in Queen Demon by @marthawells.com A delightful, unexpected take. 😁
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Authors are so creative, I swear. Really enjoying the omnivorous, clawed, fierce "horses" that hack up owl pellets in Queen Demon by @marthawells.com A delightful, unexpected take. 😁
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I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was.
I'm kindof emotional about it.
50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶
I'm kindof emotional about it.
50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was.
I'm kindof emotional about it.
50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶
I'm kindof emotional about it.
50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶
I wasn't feeling too bad about myself until the high protein breakfast 😂
6:45 AM NYC time.
you’re still in bed, zohran has already filmed five videos, helped a grandma carry her groceries across a street, went to a daybreaker rave and a pilates class, and ate a high protein breakfast
you’re still in bed, zohran has already filmed five videos, helped a grandma carry her groceries across a street, went to a daybreaker rave and a pilates class, and ate a high protein breakfast
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I wasn't feeling too bad about myself until the high protein breakfast 😂
One of my favorite @kjcharleswriter.com books is on sale!
Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here!
(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...
(I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
One of my favorite @kjcharleswriter.com books is on sale!
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Yes, @pbs.org, I AM interested in a documentary about pigeons. (Best $5/month I ever invested.)
Nature | Preview of The Pigeon Hustle | Season 44 | Episode 3
Uncover the secret world of New York and London’s resilient pigeon flocks.
www.pbs.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes, @pbs.org, I AM interested in a documentary about pigeons. (Best $5/month I ever invested.)
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3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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These books are so much fun, so clever, and just innocently playful. They have absolutely no agenda beyond compassion and friendship. Buy one for the kids you know! 🧡🧡
This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
These books are so much fun, so clever, and just innocently playful. They have absolutely no agenda beyond compassion and friendship. Buy one for the kids you know! 🧡🧡
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ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
I need a wall calendar for 2026, and I would love to buy one direct from an artist. Anyone know any Kiwi or Aussie artists who do calendars??
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I need a wall calendar for 2026, and I would love to buy one direct from an artist. Anyone know any Kiwi or Aussie artists who do calendars??
This book is so amazing and you all should definitely read it!!
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse! Just finished the other day, very good read!
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This book is so amazing and you all should definitely read it!!
Trying to parboil chicken and f-ing it up 🤦🏽♀️ In my defense, it's the first time I've tried it...
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to parboil chicken and f-ing it up 🤦🏽♀️ In my defense, it's the first time I've tried it...
You can put the tea bag in your mug. You can put water in the kettle. But you can have tea until you BOIL THE JUG!!
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
You can put the tea bag in your mug. You can put water in the kettle. But you can have tea until you BOIL THE JUG!!