E.D.E. Bell
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Fantasy author. Editor @AtthisArts.com. Organizer @PubProsABB.bsky.social. Vegan. Mama. Queer. Michigander. Mentally disabled. Blue Ajah. Hasty Ent. Quests in heals. Shkode-kwe. Aήττητη. she/her or e/em. Emily or E. 🧄.
Speak plainly and stand together.
Speak plainly and stand together.
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E.D.E. Bell
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African Translation Project / Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2920, 58% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is currently off...
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The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
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Would really, really love to see this project reach its funding goal.
The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2920, 58% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is currently off...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Would really, really love to see this project reach its funding goal.
Also a lot of people here are confusing (whether intentionally or not) the concepts of fail versus fold.
I've failed, thus far, to make change within the genre power structure.
But I didn't fold.
Again, this is a *strong* theme in African storytelling. I strongly recommend you read more of it.
I've failed, thus far, to make change within the genre power structure.
But I didn't fold.
Again, this is a *strong* theme in African storytelling. I strongly recommend you read more of it.
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Also a lot of people here are confusing (whether intentionally or not) the concepts of fail versus fold.
I've failed, thus far, to make change within the genre power structure.
But I didn't fold.
Again, this is a *strong* theme in African storytelling. I strongly recommend you read more of it.
I've failed, thus far, to make change within the genre power structure.
But I didn't fold.
Again, this is a *strong* theme in African storytelling. I strongly recommend you read more of it.
If any white people within the North American Anglosphere genre community are still following me (not a joke) is this how you want to be viewed?
Your circles are reassuring each other they're in the right, but this is the sort of language I hear EVERY DAY from BIPOC and from around the world.
Your circles are reassuring each other they're in the right, but this is the sort of language I hear EVERY DAY from BIPOC and from around the world.
Pretty much like upper caste Indians when they’re called out. It’s the same playbook.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If any white people within the North American Anglosphere genre community are still following me (not a joke) is this how you want to be viewed?
Your circles are reassuring each other they're in the right, but this is the sort of language I hear EVERY DAY from BIPOC and from around the world.
Your circles are reassuring each other they're in the right, but this is the sort of language I hear EVERY DAY from BIPOC and from around the world.
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And they respond, "But are you saying I'm a racist?" like they've got the DARVO instruction guide sitting in their hands.
And everyone just lets them.
And everyone just lets them.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And they respond, "But are you saying I'm a racist?" like they've got the DARVO instruction guide sitting in their hands.
And everyone just lets them.
And everyone just lets them.
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It's happening across North American Anglophone genre.
They want their tie-in deals and con access, so they all just get in the back seat.
We could be taking the wheel. There are more of us.
They write about bravery then pretend they don't know it's an option.
They want their tie-in deals and con access, so they all just get in the back seat.
We could be taking the wheel. There are more of us.
They write about bravery then pretend they don't know it's an option.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It's happening across North American Anglophone genre.
They want their tie-in deals and con access, so they all just get in the back seat.
We could be taking the wheel. There are more of us.
They write about bravery then pretend they don't know it's an option.
They want their tie-in deals and con access, so they all just get in the back seat.
We could be taking the wheel. There are more of us.
They write about bravery then pretend they don't know it's an option.
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Don’t let the racists take the wheel.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Don’t let the racists take the wheel.
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What I mean is, if you're white, and you're seeing the rallying cries, and you're thinking - we should be winning but then, why aren't we? Why did Dems cave so hard? Why is there no push?
It's because we, white America, acquiesce to constant squelching.
Turn it UP.
It's because we, white America, acquiesce to constant squelching.
Turn it UP.
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
What I mean is, if you're white, and you're seeing the rallying cries, and you're thinking - we should be winning but then, why aren't we? Why did Dems cave so hard? Why is there no push?
It's because we, white America, acquiesce to constant squelching.
Turn it UP.
It's because we, white America, acquiesce to constant squelching.
Turn it UP.
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The fight is against the silence and against the complicity.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The fight is against the silence and against the complicity.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
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The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2920, 58% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is currently off...
ko-fi.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
Oh! I saw Wolf was writing a blurb, but I didn't know it was for *me*.
This is awesome! 🙏🏻
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This is awesome! 🙏🏻
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Sexy Garlic
Collected short works by E.D.E. Bell.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Oh! I saw Wolf was writing a blurb, but I didn't know it was for *me*.
This is awesome! 🙏🏻
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This is awesome! 🙏🏻
(+😭)
Trigger settings that will simply hide grotesque or torture-like elements, in both graphics and text.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Trigger settings that will simply hide grotesque or torture-like elements, in both graphics and text.
The fight is against the silence and against the complicity.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The fight is against the silence and against the complicity.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
I'm so convinced.
People on Bluesky are speaking. BIPOC have been speaking.
But in lots of white communities, hell, look at genre, the hushing prevents us from rumbling the bleachers.
When public sentiment turns, like TURNS, we can go.
The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2920, 58% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is currently off...
ko-fi.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation
My new collection releases on the 3rd! It's even got a blurb now. (A really wonderful, special, one, too.)
Sexy Garlic
Collected short works by E.D.E. Bell.
www.atthisarts.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
My new collection releases on the 3rd! It's even got a blurb now. (A really wonderful, special, one, too.)
Wrapping up posts about the trip, which was so needed. The toughest part was not being able to overcome the blade. I can feel it, a cold spot that can't be happy again. Yet, I continue. And all the wonderful people at WFC gave me warmth, hope, and resolve. I have work to do, and smiles to share.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Wrapping up posts about the trip, which was so needed. The toughest part was not being able to overcome the blade. I can feel it, a cold spot that can't be happy again. Yet, I continue. And all the wonderful people at WFC gave me warmth, hope, and resolve. I have work to do, and smiles to share.
Shopping for gifts? Don't forget we have both Ulla Thynell's Faraway Dreaming and their 2026 calendar available! 💜
2026 Ulla Thynell Calendar - Atthis Arts
Beautifully illustrated hanging wall calendar, designed and illustrated by Ulla Thynell. Now shipping!
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November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Shopping for gifts? Don't forget we have both Ulla Thynell's Faraway Dreaming and their 2026 calendar available! 💜
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Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social 🥕
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ex Partum by @slashnburnett.bsky.social 🥕
What I am noticing in NA is that when white men write on progressive topics, there tends to be more reassurance and fewer provided solutions. They are received better but then nothing substantive changes.
WQTI even start to say the same thing and get maligned and dismissed.
WQTI even start to say the same thing and get maligned and dismissed.
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What I am noticing in NA is that when white men write on progressive topics, there tends to be more reassurance and fewer provided solutions. They are received better but then nothing substantive changes.
WQTI even start to say the same thing and get maligned and dismissed.
WQTI even start to say the same thing and get maligned and dismissed.
Almost every frustrated post with a bunch of likes that expresses a rhetorical question of when or how could be answered with: When white people stop silencing non-compliant women.
I'm very serious about this.
I'm very serious about this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Almost every frustrated post with a bunch of likes that expresses a rhetorical question of when or how could be answered with: When white people stop silencing non-compliant women.
I'm very serious about this.
I'm very serious about this.
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This is my work visibility post!
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
There Be Monsters
From mermaids to spies and everything in between, May’s Sunday Morning Transport stories are ready to entice you.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is my work visibility post!
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...
If you aren't yet used to "Long Memory" I suggest you get acclimated.
Until harm is repaired it does NOT get forgotten.
Until harm is repaired it does NOT get forgotten.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If you aren't yet used to "Long Memory" I suggest you get acclimated.
Until harm is repaired it does NOT get forgotten.
Until harm is repaired it does NOT get forgotten.
Sitting here listening to @chrisbell.atthisarts.com call our Michigan Senators, speaking with truth and fury about the impact of their decisions on his life threatening disease.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Sitting here listening to @chrisbell.atthisarts.com call our Michigan Senators, speaking with truth and fury about the impact of their decisions on his life threatening disease.
Anyway, I'm still sitting on two non-press 2026 surprises and I think both are awesome.
And the press community? Oh, we've got 🔥 on the way.
So, I smile, I go on, I've got this. We've got this.
And the press community? Oh, we've got 🔥 on the way.
So, I smile, I go on, I've got this. We've got this.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Anyway, I'm still sitting on two non-press 2026 surprises and I think both are awesome.
And the press community? Oh, we've got 🔥 on the way.
So, I smile, I go on, I've got this. We've got this.
And the press community? Oh, we've got 🔥 on the way.
So, I smile, I go on, I've got this. We've got this.
We really have to start admitting we have two right-wing parties, and no, that doesn't mean you vote fascist or don't do what you need to do.
But it'd sure cut back on Dems and supporters guilting and harassing people into silence.
And we could focus on empowering the people we do need.
But it'd sure cut back on Dems and supporters guilting and harassing people into silence.
And we could focus on empowering the people we do need.
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We really have to start admitting we have two right-wing parties, and no, that doesn't mean you vote fascist or don't do what you need to do.
But it'd sure cut back on Dems and supporters guilting and harassing people into silence.
And we could focus on empowering the people we do need.
But it'd sure cut back on Dems and supporters guilting and harassing people into silence.
And we could focus on empowering the people we do need.
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✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️