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Solomon Foster
@colomon.bsky.social
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Father to a teenage geek, librarian's husband. C++ and Raku programmer by trade. Interested in RPGing (Amber, 5e, Ironsworn (Starforged & SI)), Irish and Newfoundland trad music (Peter Horan, Rufus Guinchard), reading SFF, and Michigan football.
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colomon.bsky.social
I read the ARC of this, great stuff! Highly recommend the entire series.
jbensonink.bsky.social Jacquelyn Benson @jbensonink.bsky.social · 2d
Happy release day to the third book in my Raiders of the Arcana series, Arrow of Fortune!! Find it everywhere in ebook, audiobook, paperback and hardcover of hit up jacquelynbenson.com/arrow-of-fortune to buy direct.

I hope you all have such a good time with this one. Happy reading.
arrow of fortune paperback on purple textured background with text 'out now'. Book is surrounded by tropes - epic indian history, a possibly lucky dog, experiments in kissing, magic flaming sword, everyone's in trousers, even more revolutionaries, and bolly wood vibes.
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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storybundle.bsky.social
The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle:
You know how it goes. There's one female character in the book, and she's a love interest. She's given little to do and less to wear. She has no good lines, and nothing to contribute save her helplessness.
These are not those stories. storybundle.com/fantasy
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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steveconley.bsky.social
The Kickstarter for my latest 5E zines (plural!) launches today at noon ET. If you’re so inclined, you can check it out here… stabracadabra.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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matociquala.bsky.social
An alert reader let me know the whole Lotus Kingdoms series is available for $2.99 each in ebook! Also on Kobo and other platforms!

www.kobo.com/us/en/series...
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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aliettedebodard.com
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
A picture of a red moon with a tower and the steps leading to it, in black and white The caption says "The keep and keeper"
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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sugaryin.bsky.social
ce mois-ci, Vanyda et d’autres artistes consacrent leur Inktober à Patricia Lyfoung (La Rose écarlate) qui nous a quitté cette année.
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
it's not FOR us
edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
colomon.bsky.social
Hell, I'm still playing D&D (via Discord) with someone I met on UMich's CONFER system in the late 80s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFER_...
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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sadhbhgirl.bsky.social
The Wolf Bane is now available for pre-order on Itch!

Official release October 13th!

Trans for werewolf lesbian romance!

Weird horror!

Modern fantasy!

Mad science?

FUNGUS?!!

sadhbhstories.itch.io/the-wolf-bane
The Wolf Bane (Societas Aenigmatum, Book 1) by Sadhbh Frost
Trans for werewolf romance with modern fantasy and weird horror
sadhbhstories.itch.io
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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princejvstin.com
Decided, after having fun with it last year, going to do the Night in the Lonesome October day by day re-read but using the Zelazny narrated audiobook
October 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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arref-mak.bsky.social
the Unknowables

One of the biggest attractions I have to Zelazny's work is that he was a real artist at keeping my attention, even when his authorial decisions don't seem to make sense. Or rather, maybe I'm just sometimes kicked out of the story by his authorial choices. On the other hand, I've…
the Unknowables
One of the biggest attractions I have to Zelazny's work is that he was a real artist at keeping my attention, even when his authorial decisions don't seem to make sense. Or rather, maybe I'm just sometimes kicked out of the story by his authorial choices. On the other hand, I've never read anyone as exciting as when Zelazny is in the groove.
intheshadowofgreatness.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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emilyhare.co.uk
It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk
huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it. a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside. a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
Woot! TODAY ONLY, you can get all these cozy fantasy box sets on sale for only $2.99 - including my complete Harwood Spellbook!

Check out all the cozy fantasy romance available in this curated set, and get ready to burrow into fall! 🍵💖 books.bookfunnel.com/cozy-fantasy...

#romancelandia
A promo image for the cozy fantasy romance box sets sale shows fourteen box sets: Steph's The Harwood Spellbook, AJ Lancaster's Stariel, Charlotte English's Tales of Aylfenhame, Zoe Chant's Hideaway Cove and A Mate for Christmas, Casey Blair's A Coup of Tea, Karen Healey's Movie Magic, S.L. Prater's Fae Tricksters, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Teacup Magic, Isa Medina's Good Bad Magic, Gabrielle Landi's The Galamere Chronicles, Kass O'Shire's Shades of Sanctuary, and Laura Greenwood's Cauldron Coffee. September 2, $2.99 apiece.
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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sophianyx.bsky.social Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · Aug 30
Without saying Bohemian Rhapsody, fav Queen Song?
Freddy Mercury in a black leather jacket with lots of red zippers short black hair and mustache sitting in a blue chair in a dimly lit room. hot. "I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love."
August 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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splashzone.bsky.social
Taaaaalllll boots :3
Drawing of a woman in a fancy fencing outfit, decorated with many ruffles along the edges. Her heeled boots go all the way up her thigh, and her face is half-shaded by her wide brimmed hat.
August 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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shawntomkin.bsky.social
Ironsworn is at the Bundle of Holding! It's the best deal ever for the complete family of Ironsworn games.

bundleofholding.com/presents/Iro...
Ironsworn-Starforged Bundle
Adventurer! This new Ironsworn-Starforged Bundle presents Ironsworn, Starforged, and Sundered Isles, tabletop roleplaying games of perilous fantasy, space opera, and seafaring adventure by Tomkin Pres...
bundleofholding.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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csecooney.bsky.social
Hey, friends! Carlos Hernandez and I are going to be teaching a virtual workshop on "Playful Storytelling: next week with Reach Your Apex! We'd love to see you there!

reachyourapex.com/product/play...
August 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
"Gone will be stoves, ovens and flat tops. Restaurant kitchens will only be a small closet with a microwave."

"I’ve moved all my employees to exclusively using microwaves. After I threatened to fire any employee that complained everyone told me the microwaves were great."

via @totter87.bsky.social
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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thinkingautism.com
“A support group for autistic people has revealed itself to be nothing more than a front for a sickening underground Dungeons and Dragons ring, it has been reported.”

Satire from @thedailytism.com:

thedailytism.com/autism-suppo...
Autism support group revealed to be front for underground D&D ring
A support group for autistic people has revealed itself to be nothing more than a front for a sickening underground Dungeons and Dragons ring, it has been reported. A local chapter of the ‘Little Budd...
thedailytism.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Elizabeth Bear's return to the White Space series is part mystery, part thriller, all incredible leap into big space opera stories about competent people in tough circumstances. Read @hawkwinglb.bsky.social's review of The Folded Sky:

reactormag.com/book-review-...
Elizabeth Bear's The Folded Sky Was Well Worth the Wait - Reactor
Elizabeth Bear's triumphant and highly anticipated return to the White Space universe.
reactormag.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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pelgranepress.bsky.social
X-Mas in July on DriveThruRPG: Swords of the Serpentine slashed to $7.49 (75 % off). Grab this sword-and-sorcery GUMSHOE gem, then check out other deals like Candela Obscura and Cyberpunk RED. Link below. #SotS #TTRPG #Sale
bit.ly/46LYY3B
July 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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uofglasgow.bsky.social
Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.

More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q

#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
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July 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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tansyrr.bsky.social
It's live! My new Special Edition Kickstarter is up today. Featuring beautiful books, fun book merch and original @tanaudel.bsky.social artwork!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...
Teacup Magic 2: Special Edition
Cozy Regency romantic fantasy, beautifully bound in a deluxe foiled collector's hardback
www.kickstarter.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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wendyo.bsky.social
Fantasy House 10 by illustrator Charley Harper and architect Rudy Hermes for Ford Times, November 1959
A spherical space age dwelling suspended within a cliff crevice
July 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
A wolverine has been documented in southern Finland for the first time in 80 years. Once persecuted and considered extinct in the south, the species’ reappearance follows years of legal protection and recovery in the north. buff.ly/UJrV1oo
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Wolverine returns to southern Finland
Wolverine has returned to southern Finland after being hunted to local extinction in the 19th century. Using satellite imagery and field data, scientists tracked the mammal's recovery and found that…
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July 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM