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Natalia Kaśkiw
@nataliakaskiw.bsky.social
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🖤 Gothic fantasy writer | Drafting: #littledeath
🌹 Fairy tale heroine weaving dark tales of magic, horror, and romance.
💌 Lover of fem gaze fiction and women's art!

🔗 nataliakaskiw.carrd.com

PFP art: me by @afterblossom.bsky.social‬
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Natalia Kaśkiw @nataliakaskiw.bsky.social · Nov 30
always posting the same one but hey, you can't go wrong with a classic #meiga
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So happy to be part of the street team for LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE by @jelenawrites.bsky.social ❤️ One of my most anticipated books of 2026!

This novel will be released on 7 April 2026 by Dark Matter Ink.

#lovelethaldeathdivine #thediviners #2026releases #streetteam #darkfantasy #slavicfolklore
September 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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trailer for ‘War and the Maiden’, my 72-page fantasy comic for this year’s h@shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥⚔️
September 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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jelenawrites.bsky.social
It's two years since my debut novel, Dark Woods, Deep Water was published, and one year since my novella, Ghost Apparent came out.
When you're an indie author, you don't stop to celebrate, because you're always chasing new goals. But I think these books deserve to be celebrated.
September 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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from Starving Souls, my medieval horror #WIP #amwriting
“What is your name?” she asked. His eyes took on that same unfocused look as before, as if his own memories were new and unknown to him. “I don’t have one.” “You don’t have a name?” “I don’t remember it,” he answered, “if I had one. I don’t remember it.” She looked at him intently. His pale hair was so soft and fine that it reminded her of the bakehouse cat. Not alive, not clawed and vital. But how she and Lea had found it that morning — dead and lying on its side, its fur frozen at odd angles, its pink nose softened to a bloodless grey. “Witte Kat,” she said. That’s what he reminded her of, a dead cat whose fur was as white as the snow that had cradled its corpse. “Witte,” she repeated, “your name is Witte.” She wanted to reach out and stroke the soft hair along his temples as if he were the cat itself. She blushed at the impulse, and kept her hand at her side.
September 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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It’s set in the 13th century Low Countries. A baker who witnesses miraculous visions meets a boy only she can see. Her closest friend is found murdered the same day the rood cross bleeds at Mass. The miracle draws her into a web of pilgrims and politics as the boy puts her on the killer’s trail. 🐝
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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#oc Valentin🌹Elena #art
August 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Ellen at the window
#nosferatu
August 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
nataliakaskiw.bsky.social
I need this book right now!! I'm so excited 😍
jelenawrites.bsky.social Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · Aug 3
Alright, I want to try this!

1 like = 1 fact about Love Lethal, Death Divine, my new book (coming in spring 2026)

🖤💀
ladzwriting.bsky.social Ladz @ toxic vampire yuri @ladzwriting.bsky.social · Aug 2
1 like = 1 fact about The Fealty of Monsters
(requests are also welcome)
August 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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jelenawrites.bsky.social
Alright, I want to try this!

1 like = 1 fact about Love Lethal, Death Divine, my new book (coming in spring 2026)

🖤💀
ladzwriting.bsky.social Ladz @ toxic vampire yuri @ladzwriting.bsky.social · Aug 2
1 like = 1 fact about The Fealty of Monsters
(requests are also welcome)
visceralhit.bsky.social V @visceralhit.bsky.social · Aug 2
1 like = 1 fact about Beyond Bringers
August 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Death strikes in the experimental independent film DANSE MACABRE (1922), synchronized to Camille Saint-Saëns' music with special player piano roles. Dudley Murphy had ambitious plans for more "Visual Symphonies" and announced an upcoming lineup but the series ended abruptly.
July 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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My short story, BLOOMING 🌹 is now available to read in Four Tulips! I hope you enjoy my tale about girlhood, monsters, and the sweet passion of first love 💐

The print issue will be out in September. More details: www.instagram.com/p/DMS4gqAihh...

🔗 Read here: www.fourtulips.com/archives/blo...
July 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Vampire series commission!
🌟☀️🌟
January 2025
July 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The Japanese artist Shinji Nakaba is a master of creating skulls and other anatomical forms from pearls no larger than the end of a finger tip. Nakaba considers these works “wearable sculptures,” as each pearl takes the form of a ring, necklace, or pin.
Tiny little pearl skulls arranged in a pattern that resembles a heart.
July 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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I barely go here these days but the whole thing is so deliciously meta I am tickled pink. 2016 me would’ve lost it. Utterly insufferable, completely unstoppable, megaphone ON. Genuinely the most supportive fandom I had the pleasure of being in, with the most creative, incredible people. STAY WINNING
July 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Congrats to the Reylo community whom I believe stay winning
July 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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My Rapunzel painting made it into the long list of this year's Folio Society Book Illustration contest!

I'm very honored to find it among so many beautiful, creative interpretations of this fairy tale. 💙
July 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Little Death 💀❄️🖤🔪🥚

#littledeath
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · Jul 17
#authorsofbluesky!

Describe your story/WIP in 5 emojis!!

#emojiday #authors

🌈📚 📚💙
July 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
nataliakaskiw.bsky.social
Oh she got me. I'll be reading
katieshepardbooks.bsky.social Katie Shepard @katieshepardbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17
I would have been too powerful if god had given me graphic design skills in addition to the ability to fix fictional men so I made this to ask you to read my next book.
So you like your men morally gray and doomed by the narrative? Pictures of Kylo Ren, Dongfang Qinchang, Astarion, Solas, and Cassian Andor follow I can fix him. Photograph of author holding book—the Younger Gods
July 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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This is a vaguepost. You don't understand it now, but you will later.
a man and a woman are hugging each other in a room with candles .
Alt: The Goblin King from Labyrinth (1986) dancing with Sarah.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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A T-Shirt design from 2024 for SteamyLit Romance Bookshop 🌺✨ Still a favourite 👍
July 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Look inside this book with me ❤️ www.instagram.com/p/DL7-rKJCzn...
July 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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piamo.bsky.social
i sincerely hope that nobody conflates my own views with my protagonists' 🥴 just cuz they're a protag doesn't mean i agree with even a lick of what they say or do. i just think they're funny li'l guys
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Jul 10
Do any of your protagonists hold views that make sense for their character but don't align with you as the author? What are they? #WritingPrompt
July 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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My contract with Blizzard ends in September. If anyone needs a senior writer/narrative designer with 8 years of experience in AAA game development, I’m here!
July 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Hi #PortfolioDay
I'm Anya. I draw illustrations like these! Always open for work and would love to work on book illustrations, art for TTRPGs or any other project suitable for my style. I also accept personal commissions!
✉ anya.chalina.illustrations@gmail.com
Portfolio: anyachalina.myportfolio.com
"Nurture" The image shows a room with a woman sitting in the center holding a sleeping fawn. The woman has ginger hair and wears a red and pink dress and has big decorated head piece around her head. There are arched windows behind her and two cages. One cage is empty and another one has red snakes and a pale pink heart inside. The heart is floating above the snakes. There are three skeletons in the image. Two are on both sides of the woman and one is sitting on the ground reaching towards a deer. The floor is covered with roses and there are two deer on the floor. There are long blue columns on both sides of the image with pink snakes curling around the columns. There are two large skeletons on both sides of the image. They have the same hair as the woman and have snakes curling through their ribs. Red hearts float above them. The artwork is mostly blue and pink with some red accents. "Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige. "The Duel" The image shows a scene with bright towers, Jinn that looks like a skeleton, the Queen and the angel from my previous illustration "Angel's Whisper" and chessboard floor with chess piece on it. The story is about the Jinn who can duplicate themselves to play mind games with the Queen. There are mirrors in the middle ground showing intrusive thoughts to hurt the Queen. One image shows the angel stabbing the Queen, second one shows the Jinn kissing the angel, another image shows the angel become a skeleton and the last image shows the Jinn try on Queen's crown. The Queen and the Jinn in their material form are facing each other. The Queen is holding a sword and the Jinn is riding a bright red horse. The floor looks like chessboard with red and blue chess pieces. The artwork has a frame stylized in a similar way as the towers in the background. The artwork is mostly dark with green, blue and red accents. "Angel's Whisper". The image shows a room decorated with tiles and murals with a pool in the foreground. There's a queen sitting in on the throne in the center of the image. There's an angel standing next to her closely. There are two white peacocks in the room and two swans swimming in the pool. The artwork is mostly grey-blue.
July 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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anyachalina.bsky.social
It's time for a new pinned post with some of my recent work.
Hi! I'm Anya! I draw fantasy illustrations like these. I am open for work and also accept private commissions.

📩: anya.chalina.illustrations@gmail.com
prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya...
portfolio: anyachalina.myportfolio.com
"Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige. "Angel's Whisper". The image shows a room decorated with tiles and murals with a pool in the foreground. There's a queen sitting in on the throne in the center of the image. There's an angel standing next to her closely. There are two white peacocks in the room and two swans swimming in the pool. The artwork is mostly grey-blue. "The Dressing Room". The illustration shows a woman with long black hair sitting in front of the mirror. There are people behind her holding and brushing her hair. There are flowers around the woman and behind the wall in the middle ground. There's a statue of a man on the right and some flowers and herons near it. There are broken plates and vases in the foreground. There are eggs in some plates. In the background there are buildings that connect to each other. The artwork is mostly pastel with pinks, blues, turquoise and purples. "Sojourn". This artwork is inspired by "Picnic at Hanging Rock". The artwork shows a ruin with young women sitting and standing around it. There are two teachers among them. They are skeletons. One is holding a chihuahua and another one is reading a book. The young women participate in different activities such as reading books, drawing, sharing secrets with each other, playing flute and admiring the surroundings. There are two dogs in the foreground and a bird that one of the characters is drawing. There are trees in the background and some rock formations. Two young women are walking towards the rocks. The artwork is mostly green and brown with some white and light blue accents.
May 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM