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Dan F. Bispo
@barrows.itch.io
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Professional word extruder. Author of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy.

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AI/NFT serial blocker. He/him. DMs open.

Website: danfbispo.carrd.co
Books: barrows.itch.io

Writing FIRST LIGHT, a SF series about space communism.
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Dan F. Bispo @barrows.itch.io · 1d
Fuck Amazon!

Buy my book.

It's got:

🐺 werewolf special agents
🧙‍♀️ childhood friend hedge witches
🧚 terrifying Fae Folk
🦉 THE MOTHMAN
👓 and the troubled female MC whose gaze pierces all veils

More storefronts and The Paperback (tm) coming (back) soon, stay tuned.

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Luminous Tapestry by Dan F. Bispo
An Urban Fantasy
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Love takes time. (Get the new Greeting Card here: gricklemart.com/witch-and-wi... ) #grickledoodle #love #witch #wizard #greetingcard #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
A cartoon illustration of a witch and wizard walking their pet bat dog while holding hands. Caption reads "They had definitely had their differences over the centuries, but the Witch and the Wizard had made it work despite it all."
February 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Reasons to be excited:

Indie.
Steampunk.
Written by Jared, who is COOL and RAD and a fantastic writer.
jaredgoring.com Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 3h
Away from home but still want to do a little raising of awareness for my upcoming #indie #steampunk #novel!

Share a link to the Kickstarter (or this post, etc.) and you'll be entered in the draw to win an ebook and Audiobook copy! <3

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jra...
The cover of the book. A dark silhouette of an airship soars through stylized hyper-colourful clouds, amidst some floating simplistic gears. The title "Fight or Flight" spans the top, arched like a bridge over a gulf. Below this reads "The first book of the series: Flight of the Fates". At the bottom, in similar font, "By Jared Goring". The font is greyish, with serifs and narrowing spans. The title and author's name are shadowed to look as if they are embossed.
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Making a new #promosky !
✩Looking for moots with similar interests!✩

⚠️ MDNI! ⚠️

Currently drafting "The Silver Moros"
A dark romantasy about twins, forbidden magic, love, and a 30 day countdown to death 👀
• Mythology
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• Introverts
• Cozy Gaming
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• DnD
• Cats
February 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00!

itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
February 12, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Well, friends, I have reached a milestone this week and soft-launched my author website at camalin.net

If you felt like being encouraging, perhaps you might drop by and even consider subscribing to my newsletter? 😐🙏💙

Website feedback also welcome and appreciated!
Cameron A Malin - Author of Historical Fiction & Fantasy
Find out more about Cameron's books, read his articles, subscribe to his newsletter and discover his social media channels
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February 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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SPHEAL

#art #pokemon #spheal #タマザラシ
#sealeo #トドグラー #walrein #トドゼルガ
#ditto #メタモン #dewgong #ジュゴン
February 12, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Oh look, it's me. I guess they want to kick me out of the country I've been paying taxes in for five years. Should have known, really.
bethkesh.bsky.social E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes @bethkesh.bsky.social · 9h
Direct link to the consultation for ref: www.gov.uk/government/c...

NB some of the questions attempt to weasel you into agreeing with poor premises. Use your free text options to object to the framing rather than agree / disagree, so that they cannot use the numbers and ignore the text.
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
February 12, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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#WIPSnips - Defense

Here's an excerpt I wrote just yesterday! An alien wants to stay at the Trilo.

Spare him? Flush him?

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
The Tellari uttered something—a sentence, if it could be called that, opening with a percussive rhythm, then fading into a much quieter whine. “Xyd asks if he may peruse our food replicators and rooms/homes/defensible locations. He states that he has been in a state of sleep/death for an embarrassing/dangerous amount of time, and would prefer not to pollute our ship with his corpse.” “Oh, of course. Tell him to follow me, I’ll lead him to my quarters—I think they’re a bit roomier than the crew ones, he should be able to move more freely there.”
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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💜🐻 COVER REVEAL 🐻💜

Bear My Heart is a cozy sapphic romance novella and the first in an interlinked series about unlucky women searching for better fortune and finding love on the way.

🐻 Bear shifter
💜 sapphic romance
🐻 old, nature religion
💜 neurodivergency
🐻 zero spice (not even a kiss)

1/2
Promo photo for Bear My Heart. Background of starry sky. Ebook cover in green with the outline of a bear in the middle with mountains and a moon within the body. Text on cover: Daughters of Divinity 1. Bear My Heart. Karen lykkebo Text on promo: Bear My Heart. A cozy sapphic novella. Coming April 2026.
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Today I found a new least favorite word: archetypally.

I found it by putting it in my WIP, then looking up if it was a real word, finding out it was, then audibly going "EUGH".

And no, I'm not cutting it.
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Thank you for this.
cmrosens.com C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 1d
Author Spotlight: Sci-Fi Author Anna Verner

Meet indie author Anna Verner who sells her work via Itch.io. Find out more about her fantasy novels and consider supporting her.
Author Spotlight: Sci-Fi Author Anna Verner
Meet indie author Anna Verner who sells her work via Itch.io. Find out more about her fantasy novels and consider supporting her.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Post a tree you photographed
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Fuck Amazon!

Buy my book.

It's got:

🐺 werewolf special agents
🧙‍♀️ childhood friend hedge witches
🧚 terrifying Fae Folk
🦉 THE MOTHMAN
👓 and the troubled female MC whose gaze pierces all veils

More storefronts and The Paperback (tm) coming (back) soon, stay tuned.

barrows.itch.io/luminous-tap...
Luminous Tapestry by Dan F. Bispo
An Urban Fantasy
barrows.itch.io
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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This would surprise me way more if Puzzle Agent wasn't still one of the best games ever made.
February 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Title: What I think will happen everytime I ask "can I join" Picture: Drawing of a sheep who's been thrown at by a bunch of tomatoes
February 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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#WIPSnips: Vibe

There was no chance there would be one of these in #FirstLight, but vibes for vibes are aplenty! In this scene, Diodorus describes an old Extali contact.

Can we blame them for their xenophobia, when our vibes are just so rancid?

(yes.)

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
“Poor souls,” Diodorus spoke up. “They probably thought they could spike in and out before they were noticed. I have never known the Despotate to take prisoners, either.” “Are you at all familiar with the Extali, Diodorus?” He rolled his shoulders, a heavy motion, a rusty cog’s first spin. “I occasionally traded with a political exile in the Scrapsea in Bayinnaung,” he said. “A difficult spirit, but from what I could gather, much softer than its kin back home. It lived in the Scrapsea out of choice, in burrows of its own making—claimed that it considered the density of non-Extali in the residential layers ‘a gnawing, a splitting, a rotting of the soul’.” “Charming. When charting the course, let’s make sure we stay clear of Extali systems.”
February 11, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Six in shambles.
February 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Nah, screw it. I can't bear to have any of my work on Amazon anymore. I thought boycotting it going forward was enough, but no, I can't half-ass this. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

I took the one book I had on Amazon off. I'll move it to other marketplaces soon.

No more evil site for me.
squidward from spongebob squarepants is standing in front of a door and holding a blue box .
Alt: Gif of Squidward from Spongebob, looking disappointed/bored, folding his beach chair and going back inside
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February 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Everybody needs to check out this rad cover for Alyssa's book.
5feetofredfury.bsky.social Alyssa Lauseng 🖕🏻🧊 @5feetofredfury.bsky.social · 2d
🐉🐲 COVER REVEAL for TALISMANS OF SIN (Poison and Opium, Act II) 🐲🐉

Lady Shadow’s plans for conquest are slowly taking shape, meaning more Demons of the Between Realm will awaken. But will she get to offer her blood oath first, or can Daisuke and Obito step in before she has the chance?

#BookSky
A blurred out book cover A clear book cover Trope map! Mutual pining Sabotage Betrayal Blood bonds Shadow magic Queer af Political intrigue
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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A Xena movie taking place a few decades after the show ended. Xena and Gabrielle, now married, must go on one final epic adventure. On the way they meet up with their old allies Iolaus and a Hercules that looks like a completely recast actor, how odd? Anyway they're probably married too.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · Nov 25
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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I am actually livid at how advanced these bots are getting. Out there making AI art fake book covers to pass off as real authors.

Stay safe out there, y'all, and remember, Profile -> Replies is your friend. If all they do is ask questions, that's a robot you're talking to.
February 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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#TBRuary Day 10: New Horizons

I'm pretty sure I've never been to Arcadion, Tropos, or even Porky's Palace (sadly), but I'm still eagerly waiting for the Rebel Planet graphic novel.

As a sci-fi author, Rebel Planet is THE inspiration.

#booksky #readingcommunity
#writesky #writingcommunity
Cover to the Fighting Fantasy gamebook "Rebel Planet", depicting an armored human fighting a reptilian alien in a futuristic setting.
February 10, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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#WIPSnips for today is "liquid". I had it but it was a snippet I shared maybe three times since January, so you can have this use of "fluid", instead.

Extali, being annelids, use tubes instead of corridors. Rook goes for a crawl.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Something reflected the light they shone down, as a single dot, at the bottom of the dead end. At first it seemed dormant, but then, as if stirred by their presence or disturbed by the lights, it returned to jittery life. At first it looked like a small spiral of sorts, cute, almost, Rook thought, as most mechanical entities of its size tended to be. As it raised its little sensor array to meet their eyes, it unfurled itself with great difficulty, sparks emerging from its segmented plates of metal, thick fluid dripping in heavy globs from its sides. As it scanned, an assortment of little claws and scraping tools emerge from the gaps between segmented metal. Rook found these obvious maintenance tools to be a reassuring sight—the first objects with a comprehensible purpose Rook had seen since entering the station. A maintenance drone. It was comforting to think that even Extali concerned themselves with housekeeping, in a way.
February 10, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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If you see this re-share, cause I can use some commissions~~

A spooky story as a gift for valentine's day, when it's Friday the 13th just before? It's a perfect time to dooo eeeet!

#Gifts #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BSNM
lucidillusions.in The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 27d
I love writing short stories, so commission me to write something — it can be a gift to self or for a loved one!

I could write a Slice of Life or an Eldritch Horror, you decide ^_^

𝐩.𝐬. 𝟒 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐲 𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

💸💕 #SelfPromo #BNMS #ReaderSky #WriterSky #Share
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM