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arielle 🦇
@ariellemdevito.bsky.social
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writer, seamstress, freelance editor, theatre worker. philadelphia.

aspiring to become a mouse with a tiny helmet and sword 🐁 🗡️
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arielle 🦇 @ariellemdevito.bsky.social · Jan 31
a treat for this last day of an almost-eternal january: my short story "tell me how it tastes" is out today from @hfr.bsky.social! if you like road trips, toxic lesbians, and dead people who come back wrong, check it out now—
heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/01/31/h...
Fiction for Side A: “Tell me how it tastes” by Arielle M. DeVito
Tell me how it tastes Mia’s dead ex-wife turns up in the middle of the night, dripping. She’s soggy with the smell of the lakebed and gets stinking mud all over the mat. Mia doesn’t know what to do…
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bcsmagazine.bsky.social
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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erikgrove.com
I have news! My debut novel is coming soon!
Text of a Publishers Marketplace announcement: Fiction: Debut Erik Grove's THE LONG RED TOMORROW, a science-fiction noir that follows an investigator searching for a missing person through the lowest bars to the highest penthouses in a dust-choked martian colony on the verge of revolution, to Julie Constantine at Podium Publishing, by Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky Literary Agency.
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
the beast does not want me to finish this chapter
Photo of a fluffy caramel-coloured cat standing on a secretary desk, blocking the view of a writing tablet. Also on the desk are a journal, a pair of wire-framed glasses, a teapot, and a cup of tea. Photo of the same cat lying beside a small pillow on a wooden desk chair. Because of how fluffy she is, she takes up all of the space on the chair.
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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thetransfemininereview.com
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤

We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️

#tdor
Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
we can still finish this book by the end of 2025 folks!! i believe
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
well, i've rather fallen off of my plans!tech week turned out to be tech-two-weeks, and i had to drive across several states for a family emergency, so writing has taken a backseat.

i'm not tracking weeks, but i have gotten back to writing in the last few days, finishing chapter 24 and starting 25!
Photo of a tablet at a café table, with a glass of hot chocolate to one side and a notebook with cursive handwriting to the other. Photo of a cat on an armchair. The cat is curled up, sleepy and extremely fluffy, with a caramel and brown coat and black on the bottoms of her feet. Next to the chair is a brown accordion case, and some pieces of art are visible on the walls, including a print of many leafless trees. Photo of a tablet on a reddish wood desk, with an empty blue ceramic mug to one side and a notebook to the other. In the desk shelves a laptop is visible, as are a roll of pencils and another notebook.
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
why is she doing this
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
blep
Photo of a cat sitting in a chair at a dining table. The cat is grey, extremely fluffy, and is sticking out her little pink tongue sort of sideways. The same cat viewed from above, with big green eyes looking up and her tongue still out.
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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thinginthedirt.bsky.social
butch joan of arc from last year

#illustration #joanofarc
a medieval style illustration of joan of arc. she has short hair with a halo, wears a full suit of armor, and holds a sword and rosary. she stands in a room with fleur de lis wallpaper and 2 windows through which flames are seen blazing. above her is an illumination with poppies. the whole piece contains shiny gold elements.
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
hit 40,000 words today! thank you to the bust of william shakespeare that sits on the top of the writing-desk at @philaathenaeum.bsky.social for encouraging me 🪶
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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ddmgembala.bsky.social
A great resource! This is also a very accessible work by Ojibwe & Black geographer Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles - www.societyandspace.org/articles/the...
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
In this essay, I position the logics of settler colonialism and the logics of space exploration dominion over both space on earth, and interplanetary space at the expense of Indigenous peoples. I then...
www.societyandspace.org
August 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
There's this book called "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" that I've been giving away a lot of late, it helped me with the history of why this is so deeply embedded in this genre. Conflation of space and westward expansion is a big taproot. And it's very 'air we breath' to some.
"Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" cover showing two aliens pointing an old camera at two humans inside a zoo cage, one of the men dressed in colonial khaki uniform.
August 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene and we're on 'da bridge, down near the laid back chairs where one would navigate the ship. But the bridge is EMPTY OF OTHERS except for Dr Crusher. Where is everyone? We'll never know. Back to Bev, she's standing in the first picture and then in the second frame sits in the chair looking puzzled and stressed, while red alert lights shine all around. Closed caption reads, "If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with the universe." Alt in picture one!
August 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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houndsaint.bsky.social
“Saturn,” carved way back in 2018.
a linocut of a capricorn in a confined frame impaled by a harpoon. its head is arched over its back and its tail fills the frame. The carved block of the same image
August 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
very confusing when i am outside and she is stuck inside behind the window screen. if she can see, smell, and hear me, why no touch?
Photo of a fluffy cat behind a window screen, with her ears flattened back and her green eyes very wide.
August 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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brklyndragon.bsky.social
To be an author, you must write. There is no way around or under. There is no cheating the devils in your hand or the ones in your head. You change the blank page and be changed by it. If you are not doing that, then why are you even here?
August 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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thejordache.bsky.social
All of this is to say, that I know QueryManager gives a lot of stats and data to querying authors now and while it's useful information, don't spend too much time trying to decipher the data. Each agent tackles their query inbox differently.
August 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Three years ago, @davidagranoff.bsky.social discussed parallels between Severance and the works of Philip K. Dick. Now he turns to season two:

#Severance

reactormag.com/i-am-a-perso...
I Am a Person and You Are Not: Philip K. Dick Themes in Season Two of Severance - Reactor
The world of Severance might look awful familiar to fans of PKD...
reactormag.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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awfulagent.bsky.social
FACELESS GALAXY by @aahabershaw.bsky.social hits stores tomorrow! If you haven't pre-ordered it yet, what are you waiting for? awfulagent.com/ebooks/facel...
The cover of Auston Habershaw's FACELESS GALAXY
August 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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filiphdz.bsky.social
I’ve been reading stories for escape pod for three years now and this is one of my favourites in that time. read it! (or listen to it)
escapepod.org Escape Pod @escapepod.org · Aug 1
Greetings, sophonts! Today, we've reached deep into the Vat to bring you a story of cloning, identity, and goblins -- okay, no goblins, but still! Please experience "The Girl Who Came Before" by David von Allmen, and mind the trilobites.

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Escape Pod 1004: The Girl Who Came Before
When me and my family pulled into our driveway, my five best friends were waiting in our front yard, waving glittery poster-board signs that read “Welcome Home Sam!!!” and jumping around with full-on…
escapepod.org
August 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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tomfreeman.bsky.social
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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vaahlkult.bsky.social
❔️Omen❔️
August 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
ariellemdevito.bsky.social
you folks might actually enjoy some slightly better pictures of the new writing-desk. yesterday i gave it a thorough cleaning, and when i find the time, i'll wax the wood and polish the metal to get it all shining. i've been looking for a new desk for ages so was thrilled to find this!
Photo of a wood secretary desk with four large drawers up against a wall. The desk has carved detailling and decorative metal drawer pulls. Sitting on top of it is a paper organizer, a large blue mug, and a small cauldron with pens and quills in it. Beside the desk is a standing lamp, and above it is a houseplant on a windowsill. The same desk, open, with a book and a notebook laying open on its surface. The notebook has an uncapped fountain pen resting on it, and on the shelves of the desk there is a tape dispenser, a jar of green salve, a laptop, a notebook, bottles of ink, and several wax seal stamps.
July 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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dieselbrain.bsky.social
I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can
July 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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nullconvention.bsky.social
I said I could not fathom a world where we are PRACTICALLY worse off for having MORE educated people, and that worthless certs were a problem of treating education as a commodity and not as a learning place or even a training institution. The idea of devalued education is a sick one, isn't it?
July 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM