Sun Hesper Jansen
@sunhesper.bsky.social
Author of To Tune the Beast (fantasy) and Fairy of Disenchantment (poetry). My magnificent familiar is Claudio. 🐈⬛ they/she/he
https://www.sunhesperjansen.com/
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Sun Hesper Jansen
@sunhesper.bsky.social
· Feb 12
A belated intro post! I write poetry and dark romantic fantasy informed by nature, magic, science, music, queerness, and life with chronic illness (MS, depression). I’m also a visual artist; my familiar is a frequent muse. 🐈⬛ Some sample pages from my novel & poetry debuts:
My budget only allows so much vinyl but this was one I knew I had to have & it’s the prize of my collection. Every time I hear this label streaming on BBC (& it happens often!) I’m so proud to be a midwesterner. Cheers @intlanthem.bsky.social & here’s to another 10 years of groundbreaking music!
Link to listen and/or purchase 𝘎𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 on 2LP, CD, and digitally: tinyurl.com/ymjp49cv
Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem, by Gilles Peterson
29 track album
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July 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My budget only allows so much vinyl but this was one I knew I had to have & it’s the prize of my collection. Every time I hear this label streaming on BBC (& it happens often!) I’m so proud to be a midwesterner. Cheers @intlanthem.bsky.social & here’s to another 10 years of groundbreaking music!
The most wonderful time of the year: Missing Witches #Reparations Fundraiser time! No, we are not in this for the prizes but the prizes get more rad every year… www.missingwitches.com/reparations-...
Reparations Fundraiser 2025
Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Native Women’s Shelter or Indigenous Support Org or DONATE to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal. Take a screen shot of your receipt and email it to mi...
www.missingwitches.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The most wonderful time of the year: Missing Witches #Reparations Fundraiser time! No, we are not in this for the prizes but the prizes get more rad every year… www.missingwitches.com/reparations-...
Today’s unexpected mission: finding a new home for my novelette “Away From the Machine”. By making that story open-access I was thinking of *human* creators/collaborators… 🤦
Well that’s me deleting my #Soundcloud account this weekend
Absolutely insane story developing in real time right now: SoundCloud updated its TOS to allow AI to train on EVERYTHING ANYONE UPLOADS, and its users are just finding out now.
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
May 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Today’s unexpected mission: finding a new home for my novelette “Away From the Machine”. By making that story open-access I was thinking of *human* creators/collaborators… 🤦
If you’re celebrating Independent Bookstore Day today, both of my books are available at Bookshop.org or you can order them through your most beloved indie bookseller! I hear the unholy A-Z is running its own book sale today but we are far too smart to fall for that ☺️ bookshop.org/contributors...
Books by Sun Hesper Jansen - Bookshop.org
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April 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
If you’re celebrating Independent Bookstore Day today, both of my books are available at Bookshop.org or you can order them through your most beloved indie bookseller! I hear the unholy A-Z is running its own book sale today but we are far too smart to fall for that ☺️ bookshop.org/contributors...
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I’d add to “supporter” “& tacit accomplice.” As a progressive human I struggle to find anything to say to my Republican representative about the current attacks on our rights that won’t make him think “Mission accomplished!” But there are 20,000 #MSwarriors in Wisconsin and all those people vote!
I hold each & every trump supporter responsible for the deficit they have placed on this continued research. Research that could spare me & the million others in the US with multiple sclerosis from the devastating effects of this disease.
#MS #BreakthroughPrize
#MS #BreakthroughPrize
How The Epstein-Barr Virus Causes Multiple Sclerosis – And Where Science Is On A Cure
Leading researchers in the field have just been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
www.iflscience.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I’d add to “supporter” “& tacit accomplice.” As a progressive human I struggle to find anything to say to my Republican representative about the current attacks on our rights that won’t make him think “Mission accomplished!” But there are 20,000 #MSwarriors in Wisconsin and all those people vote!
On the blog: the conclusion (?) of my series about my 2.5 year experience applying for SSDI, written mainly for people with #MS but perhaps more generally useful, especially where taxes are concerned! thefairyofdisenchantment.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/t...
The Messer’s Guide to Social Security Disability, Part Five: Taxes and Where to Get Help with Them
First, some links to the previous installments of this guide: Part One – Part Two – Part Three – Part Four I was going to write something more creative but I realized a while ago …
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April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
On the blog: the conclusion (?) of my series about my 2.5 year experience applying for SSDI, written mainly for people with #MS but perhaps more generally useful, especially where taxes are concerned! thefairyofdisenchantment.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/t...
Tarot has long been an integral tool in my writing and life but I have to give a shout out to @megjoneswall.bsky.social for always bringing community into an otherwise personal practice. This latest workbook has everything I love about her approach & vindicates my own minor-arcana-heavy practice 🖤
(psssssst: if you're like "but meg, none of my skills are useful to the collapse of empire and the reimagining of a new world" — first of all that definitely isn't true, and second of all i have a new thing that can help)
ocean's 16: what is your particular set of skills?
looking for a new way to see court cards, your community, and yourself? this 36-page workbook is packed with journaling prompts, insightful questions, and tarot exercises to help you dive deeper into ...
www.3amtarot.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Tarot has long been an integral tool in my writing and life but I have to give a shout out to @megjoneswall.bsky.social for always bringing community into an otherwise personal practice. This latest workbook has everything I love about her approach & vindicates my own minor-arcana-heavy practice 🖤
Thanks to @publicdomainrev.bsky.social we can all enjoy the obsessive entomological genius of Ladislas Starevich! My late mate and I were so lucky to see this classic several years ago with the Hot Club of San Francisco playing a live score… 🦗🪲✨ publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: *The Cameraman’s Revenge* (1912)
Perhaps the first work of puppet animation, featuring a cast composed of dead bugs.
publicdomainreview.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thanks to @publicdomainrev.bsky.social we can all enjoy the obsessive entomological genius of Ladislas Starevich! My late mate and I were so lucky to see this classic several years ago with the Hot Club of San Francisco playing a live score… 🦗🪲✨ publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...
I’m glad too. And frustrated on yet another level by the dark ages we’re being sent back to. One of the first things I’d investigate is how many cases of adenomyosis feature a severe reaction to hormonal BC cuz I’ve been there. This article is definitely refueling my fight for answers.
I’m so glad USA Today covered adenomyosis. I struggled with this “silent disease” for decades. It caused my infertility and because I had go on hormonal birth control (which contributed to my DVTs) it nearly killed me. We need better treatments, even as Trump/DOGE is killing uterine health research.
Adenomyosis, the 'silent illness' plaguing their lives, goes undiagnosed for decades
This 'silent disease' plagued these women's lives for decades. One woman lost her dream job. For another, the diagnosis came after her hysterectomy.
www.usatoday.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’m glad too. And frustrated on yet another level by the dark ages we’re being sent back to. One of the first things I’d investigate is how many cases of adenomyosis feature a severe reaction to hormonal BC cuz I’ve been there. This article is definitely refueling my fight for answers.
I probably follow more photography accounts here than anything else & as a devotee of storms have to say my favorite is @lorigrace.bsky.social. Wishing all the chasers a stellar season!⛈️
I deleted my Twitter account with 40K followers. I'm posting less and less on Meta's FB, IG and Threads. BlueSky is where I'm sharing more of my best, prettiest, hardest works now. I feel a peace here and in storms like you see below.
March 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I probably follow more photography accounts here than anything else & as a devotee of storms have to say my favorite is @lorigrace.bsky.social. Wishing all the chasers a stellar season!⛈️
Added 6 new albums to my collection this #bandcampfriday & the absolute highlight was the listening party for this release. Thank you @alabasterdeplume.bsky.social & @intlanthem.bsky.social —without going into the griefspace I’ve been existing in, everything about this music is balm. 🙏🏻
www.songlines.co.uk/features/ala... A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole @intlanthem.bsky.social @atlesmusic.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Added 6 new albums to my collection this #bandcampfriday & the absolute highlight was the listening party for this release. Thank you @alabasterdeplume.bsky.social & @intlanthem.bsky.social —without going into the griefspace I’ve been existing in, everything about this music is balm. 🙏🏻
A new post on the Fairy since it’s been a while for a lot of things including any new poetry at all… thefairyofdisenchantment.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/m...
Message from Spring
An earthy cup of pu-er, brewed in a kettle of cast iron steeped in wood smoke, sipped in the safety of a sun-soaked kitchen at winter’s scrappy end— feels like a message from a very near future whe…
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March 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A new post on the Fairy since it’s been a while for a lot of things including any new poetry at all… thefairyofdisenchantment.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/m...
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Dropping everything to let my eyes pet this for half an hour or so…
Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart
February 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Dropping everything to let my eyes pet this for half an hour or so…
Gods & ghosts, what a high bar @porkbellypress.bsky.social sets for micropresses! Just 👀 this hyperpersonalized package presentation! They had me at hand-stitched, but these books (@robertokaji.bsky.social’s “Texas Flood” & Tina Mozelle Braziel’s “Rooted by Thirst”) are literal enchantment.
February 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Gods & ghosts, what a high bar @porkbellypress.bsky.social sets for micropresses! Just 👀 this hyperpersonalized package presentation! They had me at hand-stitched, but these books (@robertokaji.bsky.social’s “Texas Flood” & Tina Mozelle Braziel’s “Rooted by Thirst”) are literal enchantment.
A beautiful review of ‘the Beast’ has made it to World Literature Today and I’m just speechless. This is a journal you pretty much need an institutional subscription to and my prime objective is to get the book into as many #LIBRARIES as I can, so I fervently hope it catches the right readers!
February 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A beautiful review of ‘the Beast’ has made it to World Literature Today and I’m just speechless. This is a journal you pretty much need an institutional subscription to and my prime objective is to get the book into as many #LIBRARIES as I can, so I fervently hope it catches the right readers!
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Sentry
Kindness. Gentleness. Empathy.
These things are fires shining in the forest night.
They must be tended,
but in tending them we are illuminated.
We become a target for things that thrive in darkness.
So, as ever, love is risk.
And, as ever,
worth the danger.
Kindness. Gentleness. Empathy.
These things are fires shining in the forest night.
They must be tended,
but in tending them we are illuminated.
We become a target for things that thrive in darkness.
So, as ever, love is risk.
And, as ever,
worth the danger.
February 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sentry
Kindness. Gentleness. Empathy.
These things are fires shining in the forest night.
They must be tended,
but in tending them we are illuminated.
We become a target for things that thrive in darkness.
So, as ever, love is risk.
And, as ever,
worth the danger.
Kindness. Gentleness. Empathy.
These things are fires shining in the forest night.
They must be tended,
but in tending them we are illuminated.
We become a target for things that thrive in darkness.
So, as ever, love is risk.
And, as ever,
worth the danger.
A belated intro post! I write poetry and dark romantic fantasy informed by nature, magic, science, music, queerness, and life with chronic illness (MS, depression). I’m also a visual artist; my familiar is a frequent muse. 🐈⬛ Some sample pages from my novel & poetry debuts:
February 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A belated intro post! I write poetry and dark romantic fantasy informed by nature, magic, science, music, queerness, and life with chronic illness (MS, depression). I’m also a visual artist; my familiar is a frequent muse. 🐈⬛ Some sample pages from my novel & poetry debuts:
Thanks I was needing sign inspiration for the President’s Day day of action (Feb. 17, noon, your nearest Capitol) 🐕
Whoever drew this, I want to buy you a pizza or send flowers. You bring me joy.
#TakingBackDoge #VeryCoupWow
#TakingBackDoge #VeryCoupWow
February 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thanks I was needing sign inspiration for the President’s Day day of action (Feb. 17, noon, your nearest Capitol) 🐕
Trying not to let my mind run on the prospect of Elon Musk having access to my SSDI (the likeliest part of Social Security he’d get away with cutting) by focusing on the new growth on my plants and the fact that Claudio can coexist with them peaceably. #caturday
February 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Trying not to let my mind run on the prospect of Elon Musk having access to my SSDI (the likeliest part of Social Security he’d get away with cutting) by focusing on the new growth on my plants and the fact that Claudio can coexist with them peaceably. #caturday
Agreed; excited the way only word nerds can be. I just spent the exactly right amount of time at the intersection of “carmine” and “cochineal”. ♥️
January 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Agreed; excited the way only word nerds can be. I just spent the exactly right amount of time at the intersection of “carmine” and “cochineal”. ♥️
Good night Marianne Faithfull, who now rests in “That spot which no vicissitude can find.” My favorite album of hers will always be “She Walks in Beauty”, a labor of love & survival. Beauty was what she made it, all through her life. youtu.be/c0KPacNDY84?...
Marianne Faithfull - Surprised by Joy (Lyrics Video)
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull
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January 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Good night Marianne Faithfull, who now rests in “That spot which no vicissitude can find.” My favorite album of hers will always be “She Walks in Beauty”, a labor of love & survival. Beauty was what she made it, all through her life. youtu.be/c0KPacNDY84?...
It’s so nice to be able to buy ebooks from Bookshop now - and yes I looked for my books first 😅. For some reason the Fairy is not available (yet?) but the Beast is! bookshop.org/beta-search?...
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January 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It’s so nice to be able to buy ebooks from Bookshop now - and yes I looked for my books first 😅. For some reason the Fairy is not available (yet?) but the Beast is! bookshop.org/beta-search?...
There are poems that make you want to carve out a whole morning to inhabit it. Here’s one of those poems. 🌊
January 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
There are poems that make you want to carve out a whole morning to inhabit it. Here’s one of those poems. 🌊