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August Hare
@august-hare.bsky.social
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🦇 #Author of spooky #romance and folk/eco-horror.
Mainer 🦞
#Artist. #NoAI
#cat lover 🐈‍⬛
#Sapphic
Elder Goth Witch 🦇
Magneto was right.
Married to @josee-hare 🌈💕
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august-hare.bsky.social
My #MM #Halloween book is available for pre-order AND ARC signups! It's a series of interconnected stories in the tradition of movies like Trick R Treat. Art by Lorandesore.
Pre-order:
mybook.to/BareandTwisted
ARC Signup:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#booksky #Romance #paranormal
A handsome, dark-haired young man with glowing eyes stands in front of a spooky forest at sunset.
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
august-hare.bsky.social
We met these two on our way home.
#deer #nature #wildlife #woodslife #witchlife #greenwitch #newengland
August 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
august-hare.bsky.social
Check out my goth remodeling/spooky crafts/chaos gardening channel! youtube.com/@hauntings_o...
Hauntings on Hare Hill
Elder goth witches making magical and spooky things, remodeling our old New England house, and raising our family of black cats. We are artists, amateur decorators, and gardeners who love books, music...
youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
august-hare.bsky.social
I did the thing.

#starterpack #illustration #selfportrait #drawing #noai #noaiart
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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sadiehartmann.bsky.social
I’m obsessed with this book! And yes I’m in my jammie pants and drinking my second mug of earl grey
ROOT ROT by Saskia Nislow
Polka dot jammies and a book with fungus on the cover
March 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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sadiehartmann.bsky.social
A little, curated reading list featuring books with folk horror, gothic vibes, superstitions, curses, rural isolation, hag stones & witch bottles. Join my Patreon (you can just buy the list too) with my commentary & access to these books
Hag Stones & Witch Bottles
"hag stones & witch bottles" "folk horror, gothic, superstition, and rural isolation" A GOOD HOUSE FOR CHILDREN WITCH BOTTLE WAKENHYRST SOMETHING IN THE WALLS
February 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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sadiehartmann.bsky.social
And King taught me at a very early age about the horrors of bullies, capital “B”
stephenking = 14m Janet Mills stood up to Trump today: "See you in court." Made me proud to be from Maine. We don't need a Bully to tell is what to do.
February 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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stephenking.bsky.social
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist
February 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
august-hare.bsky.social
Breakfast for my crows.
#crows #wildlife #winter #newengland #witchsky #witchlife
February 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
august-hare.bsky.social
The deer have decided to just move in to our yard.
#deer #wildlife #nature #maine #witchsky #witchlife
February 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
august-hare.bsky.social
#WIP (He’s a kitty cat.)
My OC.
#illustration #spookyart #characterdesign #Halloweenart #romancelandia #booksky
Illustration of a young man in an autumn woods. He is holding a pumpkin and has bright green eyes.
February 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
august-hare.bsky.social
My wife and her #art for our local #witch festival. #witchsky #newengland
A woman in a black dress beside an illustration that shows a witch and seagulls flying over the ocean.
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
ABA It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform. Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong. It is also contrary to the rule of law. The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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cerberusxt.bsky.social
Based Hellboy.
February 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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ckohwrites.bsky.social
Gentle reminder most #artists & creatives on B'Sky dislike AI art, which is made scarped from STOLEN ART
I find this AI Image Labeler useful to subscribe to. It's all human-curated so if your profile was mistakenly marked as using AI, let them know! bsky.app/profile/aimod.social

#deathtoai #notoai
February 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
Jersey.
February 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
Let me be clear about something. The goverment does not give a shit that you write closed door romances. At the end of the day, the crackdown on Romance is not about sex. It's about control.
ingloriousgigi.bsky.social Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · Feb 4
I am seeing a lot of pornography bans come up in a lot of states and shocker romance is not exempted. Your need to protest loudly that romance is not porn is 1) not true because you are selling a romantic fantasy with added sexual fantasy on top of that. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...
Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers proposes bill to ban all pornography: What to know about SB593
A bill proposed by Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, seeks to raise punishment for child pornography but also aims to ban pornography altogether.
www.oklahoman.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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handle.invalid
hey is it a good idea to piss off all old people in the US by raiding their social security?
ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SCOTT BESSENT, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Treasury, et al., Defendants.
February 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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bogiperson.bsky.social
Let's do this!

It has just been announced that my newest short story collection, Power to Yield and Other Stories, is on the Locus Recommended list.

This is a very trans & intersex book & I feel like it didn't get a lot of reviews.

Ping me for a review copy!

If you don't review books, repost 🥰
The cover of Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács, with art by Galen Dara. Art with bright and striking colors: A turquoise person in a purple robe in front of a bright green background, among red paper airplanes pointing downward.
February 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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shiftercat.bsky.social
Mothman would be 100% on board.
A picture of the Mothman looming menacingly over a downed man. This picture is inside a circle stamped with, "Good Night Alt-Right". Text below reads, "West Virginia's Legendary Mothman is America's First Urban Legend to Take an Official Position Against Racism."
February 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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nihilistgf.bsky.social
may jouissance be the blessed flame that guides us into the void.
"Jouissance Despite its gloomy connotations, the commitment to pure negation finds its most interesting manifestations as a joyful, creative, and limitless project. Most notably, Bæden utilizes the French word jouissance, [108] which directly translates to "enjoyment," but takes on a variety of connotations related to "uncivilized desire," those aspects of our existence which "escape representation," a "shattering of identity and law," and that which "shatters our subjective enslavement to capitalist civilization. [109] Jouissance is an ecstatic energy, felt but never captured, that pushes us away from any form of domination, representation, or restraint, and compels us towards fierce wildness and unmitigated recalcitrance. It is "the process that momentarily sets us free from our fear of death" and which manifests as a "blissful enjoyment of the present," or a "joy which we cannot name."[110] Jouissance is the richness of life evoked by resistance, the spirit that allowed Mária Jakobovics to continue her acts of sabotage despite the sting of the club or the threat of the noose, and the spirit that perhaps allows many of us to lead lives of resistance in absolutely overwhelming circumstances. It is the visceral experience of negation as ecstatic liberation." - Text from blessed is the flame
January 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
august-hare.bsky.social
Another of my #book Holy Grails. I’d LOVE to find a reasonably priced used copy of this beauty!
#books #booksky #gothic #horror
A copy of the book “The Forest and the Ecogothic.” It shows a dark forest and trees with twisted roots.
January 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM