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S. M. French-Byrne | writer, knight-enjoyer and unrepentant project-starter | find my work in DEAD HORSE, Vulture Culture, and forthcoming in Kaleidotrope or listen to VOYAGE OF THE AUGUST on your favorite podcast service
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knightsalvage.bsky.social
Elated to receive my copy of the We/Ourselves: Twenty-Five Plays Celebrating Gender Diversity today, featuring my play Distaff! It’s a ten-minute play about two trans kids sneaking into a holy cave where a goddess sleeps (maybe). You can pick up a copy anywhere books are sold!
May 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
knightsalvage.bsky.social
a non-exhaustive list of things I have noticed about wearing and fighting in 14th-century** style armor once a week for a year 🧵 ⚔️
May 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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elleisanisland.bsky.social
In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much

(Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)
An ancient manuscript. Along the left margin is a drawn-on octopus whose tentacles point out important sentences on the page.
March 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
knightsalvage.bsky.social
The Lady of Shallot is close to my heart and I am in love with Hannah’s depiction of her in all her carefully-woven misery - it was a delight writing the words to this piece.
agarthanguide.bsky.social Hannah @agarthanguide.bsky.social · Mar 31
It's March to Camelot prompt #4- ENVY
My partner/tame writer is @knightsalvage.bsky.social
The March to Camelot challenge is hosted by @mortiscausa.bsky.social
An illustration of a lady weaving a tapestry on the left, contrasted with a lively joust on the right. The text reads- Elaine weaves Sir Lancelot in thread-of-silver and envy. What joy, to touch the world; to wield lance and sword and feel the silvery crack of a blow against a foe’s armor, to taste the verdant summer-sweet spring, even to feel the sharp red of a wound. The world is all threads of color for the Lady of Astolat; no touch, no taste, no feeling is allowed in the walls of her tower. The want that clenches in her chest when she sees the flash of his lance-point must be love; what else could she call it?
April 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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agarthanguide.bsky.social
It's March to Camelot prompt #3- Family
My partner/tame writer is @knightsalvage.bsky.social
The March to Camelot challenge is hosted by @mortiscausa.bsky.social
An illustration of a knight, Lancelot, with his head in the lap of the Lady of the Lake. The text reads- Son of the Lake, they call Lancelot, and he knows what it is to be weightless. There had been death in the Lake, but not the ensnaring crush of armor and duty and breath. When the scales tip, when duty to king and lady and faith become a yoke he cannot bear, when he cannot fit one moment against the next, he flees to his truest family, to the Lady who will always welcome him back. This is your home no longer, she whispers. For I am not your purpose.
March 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
knightsalvage.bsky.social
Galehaut and Lancelot is one of my favorite Arthurian stories - to love a man so much to give up your crown for the sake of being close to him! When Galehaut receives prophecy of his death if he doesn’t keep Lancelot close, he refuses to tell Lancelot for fear of putting obligation on him.
agarthanguide.bsky.social Hannah @agarthanguide.bsky.social · Mar 9
Prompt #2 in this #MarchtoCamelot challenge is RUIN. @knightsalvage.bsky.social is my writer/partner in this quest.
And illustration of a knight, crouching in a field of dripping blood. The knight looks across the field at another knight, holding a banner. The text reads- “Galehaut meets his ruin on the battlefield where he meant to earn his crown; a silver-gilded knight, fighting carefree amidst the wrack. Ruin comes not from the hand of a foe, not with his flesh split or bones broken; but it is arrow-sharp, cutting him so deep he will bleed for Sir Lancelot until the end of his days. Ruin is: anything. I will give anything to be loved by him.”
March 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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rosemaxwell.bsky.social
so excited for my story “echolocation” be featured in this anthology with work by so many other amazing authors! can’t wait until it’s out and I can read all the other solarpunk stories ☀️🐋
wishusdonna.bsky.social Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social · Mar 7
Vivid Worlds ToC and Cover Reveal

I hope you had a great World Book Day yesterday. Here at The Slab Press, we're having our Vivid Worlds Book Day today instead, because I get to announce the writers and stories that will be featuring in our upcoming solarpunk anthology - plus reveal the cover…
Vivid Worlds ToC and Cover Reveal
I hope you had a great World Book Day yesterday. Here at The Slab Press, we're having our Vivid Worlds Book Day today instead, because I get to announce the writers and stories that will be featuring in our upcoming solarpunk anthology - plus reveal the cover designed by Northampton artist Paul Alex Condie. It is still quite an auspicious day to announce the ToC, because March 7th is, very aptly the start of the 5th World Conference on Climate Change and Global Warming in Vienna, which is just the sort of event where they will be discussing the very sorts of ideas and innovations that the solar punk genre concerns itself with. 
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March 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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havenspec.bsky.social
We've added 11 new backers today and broken 100 overall!!!

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Kickstarter so far and who has been helping to spread the word!

We only need $700 more by Friday, and I know we can do it!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
Haven Spec Magazine, 2025
A digital science fiction and fantasy magazine publishing five issues in 2025 and featuring fiction and poetry for the 21st century!
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March 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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agarthanguide.bsky.social
Close ups!
An illustrated page done in the style of an illuminated manuscript; on the right, it shows a blue forest scene, with two figures in pink: a pale-haired man in 14th century clothes atop a horse, watching a man on foot draw back a bow. On the left, the following text: A hunt had been Lancelot’s proposal, spoken in his blunt, halting way. Since Gawain had laid eyes on the Flower of Chivalry, he knew the knight to be his match. In the full light of day, when the sun is high and strong and his strength is at its peak, Gawain can meet him blow-for-blow; but at dusk, Lancelot often surpasses him in arms. But the Gawain’s domain. I may never match him in arms, thinks Gawain, lifting his bow. Therefore I must love him. An illustrated page done in the style of an illuminated manuscript; on the right, it shows a blue forest scene, with two figures in pink: a pale-haired man in 14th century clothes atop a horse, watching a man on foot draw back a bow. On the left, the following text: A hunt had been Lancelot’s proposal, spoken in his blunt, halting way. Since Gawain had laid eyes on the Flower of Chivalry, he knew the knight to be his match. In the full light of day, when the sun is high and strong and his strength is at its peak, Gawain can meet him blow-for-blow; but at dusk, Lancelot often surpasses him in arms. But the Gawain’s domain. I may never match him in arms, thinks Gawain, lifting his bow. Therefore I must love him.
March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
knightsalvage.bsky.social
Hannah is such a master of Arthuriana and I am DELIGHTED to be her partner in crime in #MarchtoCamelot this year!
agarthanguide.bsky.social Hannah @agarthanguide.bsky.social · Mar 3
I’m participating in #MarchtoCamelot, and the first prompt is Hunt. If you’ve not had the pleasure, please meet my friend/tame writer/Arthuriana expert @knightsalvage.bsky.social, my partner in this venture.
An illustrated page done in the style of an illuminated manuscript; on the right, it shows a blue forest scene, with two figures in pink: a pale-haired man in 14th century clothes atop a horse, watching a man on foot draw back a bow. On the left, the following text: A hunt had been Lancelot’s proposal, spoken in his blunt, halting way. Since Gawain had laid eyes on the Flower of Chivalry, he knew the knight to be his match. In the full light of day, when the sun is high and strong and his strength is at its peak, Gawain can meet him blow-for-blow; but at dusk, Lancelot often surpasses him in arms. But the Gawain’s domain. I may never match him in arms, thinks Gawain, lifting his bow. Therefore I must love him.
March 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
knightsalvage.bsky.social
me on any given Wednesday night
March 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM