Morgan L Ventura (Dr HMVL)
@morganvl.bsky.social
Writer, archaeologist | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Curating a repatriation @UniExeter | MA QUB, PhD UChicago | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI SIAP 2025
Arts Council of NI SIAP 2025
Pinned
🏺 An extremely important article from @morganvl.bsky.social about archaeology’s complicity in the current genocide of Palestinians and why archaeologists - and the organisations that claim to represent them - must speak up and refuse to stay neutral. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Why archaeologists must speak up for Gaza
Archaeology is often a mechanism of power. As such, its scholars have an obligation to speak up against oppression.
www.aljazeera.com
I haven’t posted in a while, but now back after deleting my X in Sept. I’m a writer, poet, & anthropologist of heritage. My piece in @aljazeera.com on the destruction of Palestinian heritage & archeology as a mechanism of power says all you need to know about my views
Síguelos! 🔥
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Síguelos! 🔥
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
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📓Pre-orders now open for our latest #poetry book #ThePosthumousBookofShahrazad! Orders made through our online shop receive a custom design enamel pin featuring the pelican on the cover. Publishing on 21 March, @unesco #WorldPoetryDay, gift-wrapped and posted to you!🦢
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The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad
‘A remarkable testament to all that is found in translation: a collection of poems, a matrilineage, the Asturian poetic tradition, and a reminder that every storyteller since Shahrazad keeps …
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February 7, 2026 at 1:13 PM
📓Pre-orders now open for our latest #poetry book #ThePosthumousBookofShahrazad! Orders made through our online shop receive a custom design enamel pin featuring the pelican on the cover. Publishing on 21 March, @unesco #WorldPoetryDay, gift-wrapped and posted to you!🦢
skeinpress.com/product/the-...
skeinpress.com/product/the-...
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Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍
From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.
Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
February 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...
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Searching for reads with disabled heroes? I wrote stories and co-edited stories!
#Disability #DisabilityRepresentation #BookSky
#Disability #DisabilityRepresentation #BookSky
Searching for #SFF reads with #Disability and #LGBTQIA representation? I wrote or edited these!
- Speculative Shorts, books2read.com/spec-shorts
- Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space, books2read.com/iatcS1
- Nothing Without Us, books2read.com/nwu
-Nothing Without Us Too, books2read.com/nwutoo
- Speculative Shorts, books2read.com/spec-shorts
- Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space, books2read.com/iatcS1
- Nothing Without Us, books2read.com/nwu
-Nothing Without Us Too, books2read.com/nwutoo
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Searching for reads with disabled heroes? I wrote stories and co-edited stories!
#Disability #DisabilityRepresentation #BookSky
#Disability #DisabilityRepresentation #BookSky
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
February 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
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Our February link round-up is live!
Wow! Signal: February 2026
Jake Casella Brookins I’ve got a somewhat shorter list this month: partially because a few other venues were just flooding the zone with good articles (looking at you, LARB & SH), partial…
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February 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Our February link round-up is live!
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This GoFundMe to help us obtain the finances to cover expenses for my corrective eye surgery. Insurance will only cover so much. I'm nearly blind in my right eye. I desperately want to be able to see out of both eyes again. Anything will help. Please share. Thank you www.gofundme.com/f/fund-dawns...
Donate to Fund Dawn’s Eye Surgery for a Brighter Future, organized by Dawn Colclasure
My name is Dawn Wilson and I am Executive Editor at Twisted Dreams Press… Dawn Colclasure needs your support for Fund Dawn’s Eye Surgery for a Brighter Future
www.gofundme.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
This GoFundMe to help us obtain the finances to cover expenses for my corrective eye surgery. Insurance will only cover so much. I'm nearly blind in my right eye. I desperately want to be able to see out of both eyes again. Anything will help. Please share. Thank you www.gofundme.com/f/fund-dawns...
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If you were at a geographical disadvantage and couldn’t make it to Toronto, you can still get yourself a copy of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Great turnout at my book launch today. 🚀 (Those chairs didn’t stay empty for long). Thanks to everyone who braved polar weather to be there. And thanks to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social for hosting.
February 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
If you were at a geographical disadvantage and couldn’t make it to Toronto, you can still get yourself a copy of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
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When the boomers are gone, there will be nobody left to print out the Internet.
February 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
When the boomers are gone, there will be nobody left to print out the Internet.
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Once again sharing the art my dad drew on our backyard wall, to show that you don’t need Ai or an education or permission to be creative or to make art.
He did this for no one but himself. He said he could see the faces in the stones.
He did this for no one but himself. He said he could see the faces in the stones.
February 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Once again sharing the art my dad drew on our backyard wall, to show that you don’t need Ai or an education or permission to be creative or to make art.
He did this for no one but himself. He said he could see the faces in the stones.
He did this for no one but himself. He said he could see the faces in the stones.
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Reposted by Morgan L Ventura (Dr HMVL)
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- A vial of Heretic Parfum’s Nosferatu
- Three to five red lipsticks
- A gold pen, almost out of ink
- 1 can of cherry Bubly
- A vial of Heretic Parfum’s Nosferatu
- Three to five red lipsticks
- A gold pen, almost out of ink
- 1 can of cherry Bubly
Loot that drops after defeating me:
-Region-free bootleg Blu-Ray of THE DEVILS (original cut, restored)
-Cheese knife
-Black cardigan
-A bunch of 3d-printed miniature dinosaurs
-Region-free bootleg Blu-Ray of THE DEVILS (original cut, restored)
-Cheese knife
-Black cardigan
-A bunch of 3d-printed miniature dinosaurs
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
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I am one of those bosses who has a *third* stage, and after the stage ends, it's a new story chapter where your protag is suddenly alone in a sub-universe for a while without any of their inventory
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- A vial of Heretic Parfum’s Nosferatu
- Three to five red lipsticks
- A gold pen, almost out of ink
- 1 can of cherry Bubly
- A vial of Heretic Parfum’s Nosferatu
- Three to five red lipsticks
- A gold pen, almost out of ink
- 1 can of cherry Bubly
February 7, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I am one of those bosses who has a *third* stage, and after the stage ends, it's a new story chapter where your protag is suddenly alone in a sub-universe for a while without any of their inventory
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Dolly Pynchon
Stellan Kierkesgård
February 7, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Dolly Pynchon
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New book review:
“A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home
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anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...
“A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home
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anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...
“A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home
In 1980s Chile, a young boy grows up in a Santiago suburb, the son of a carefully apolitical pair of parents. One day, his neighbour Raul’s niece – Claudia – recruits him to perfo…
anenduringromantic.wordpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
New book review:
“A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home
—
anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...
“A strange and imprecise sadness”: Alejandro Zambra’s Ways of Going Home
—
anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...
Aubrey Plaza
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Aubrey Plaza
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Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Statement on ICE Operations in the USA
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US facing these conditions.
strangehorizons.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- A vial of Heretic Parfum’s Nosferatu
- Three to five red lipsticks
- A gold pen, almost out of ink
- 1 can of cherry Bubly
- A vial of Heretic Parfum’s Nosferatu
- Three to five red lipsticks
- A gold pen, almost out of ink
- 1 can of cherry Bubly
Loot that drops after defeating me:
-Region-free bootleg Blu-Ray of THE DEVILS (original cut, restored)
-Cheese knife
-Black cardigan
-A bunch of 3d-printed miniature dinosaurs
-Region-free bootleg Blu-Ray of THE DEVILS (original cut, restored)
-Cheese knife
-Black cardigan
-A bunch of 3d-printed miniature dinosaurs
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
- a turquoise necklace
- a tattered notebook
- a bag of coffee beans (stale)
- Werner Herzog’s entire filmography
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There’s still time to join me in Toronto tomorrow! Click the link for more info on the SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL launch party. 🚀
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
Bakka-Phoenix Books
Science Fiction and Fantasy specialty bookstore since 1972
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
There’s still time to join me in Toronto tomorrow! Click the link for more info on the SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL launch party. 🚀
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com
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"Medusa's Ship, or the Thing About Bodies" is out now! Formally Experimental Greeks in Space, anyone? www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/medu...
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social also did an incredible job podcasting the story. Listen, I am in awe: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social also did an incredible job podcasting the story. Listen, I am in awe: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies by Natalia Theodoridou
—she the ship recalls stories she never read of women and men in rivers weighed down their pockets full of stones she wonders at her cavities and hollows wonders am I an I am I my cargo does the I I a...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
"Medusa's Ship, or the Thing About Bodies" is out now! Formally Experimental Greeks in Space, anyone? www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/medu...
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social also did an incredible job podcasting the story. Listen, I am in awe: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social also did an incredible job podcasting the story. Listen, I am in awe: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/audio/bcs-35...
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I will be doing a remote workshop on submitting to short SFF markets for this workshop—and if these last three tickets get bought, I'll be there in person too 🚀 Let's hang out in Albuquerque!
I'm going to be giving critiques on 5,000-word submissions and teaching a class on mining your personal history at the third annual Sandia Starforgers retreat for SFF writers. All topics by instructors are now listed on the event page. Only 3 tickets left, and doors close March 10. starforgers.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I will be doing a remote workshop on submitting to short SFF markets for this workshop—and if these last three tickets get bought, I'll be there in person too 🚀 Let's hang out in Albuquerque!