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Bryn Hammond
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| Writer. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novellas Waste Flowers, What Rough Beast? Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
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Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social · Sep 9
On the blog: What Rough Beast?
amgalant.com/what-rough-b...
About my new Goatskin novella. With an excerpt, a reading of the first chapter, an interview at Black Gate
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hemask.bsky.social
I really love a light source and other artist's abilities to make the viewer feel emersed in a time and place. So I'm playing with colors and glow a bit rather than working completely flat. (I still love experimenting, learning and changing)
Will-o-wisp illuminates the face of a fea that has been shot protecting the boar in the background.
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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rblemberg.bsky.social
There's a lot happening here, and a lot of it is JUST REALLY WEIRD in a way that most writers (including myself) don't dare to, or maybe don't care to dare to imagine! This book makes it seem like being infected by a planetful of spores and/or or a sporeful of a planetoid is ... AWESOME?? It is so!
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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One of the things I've always admired about Bogi's writing (yes even before we got together, which was forever ago) is the sheer cheerful wildness of their imagination. This book showcases it, and then some.

SPORES! Linguistics! A trans Chassidic shapechanger! A grumpy insectoid grandma! Politics!
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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#34: Lake Mungo

Shocked, as a horror fan, that I hadn’t seen this before. Lake Mungo spooks you out in an understated way for much of the runtime, before pulling the rug in an incredibly well-earned jump. Genuinely terrifying and — even more so — genuinely tragic. Best horror I’ve watched in years.
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
brynhammond.bsky.social
Work! Work is the answer! Work!
I like this story now. I'd been a bit lazy in my sword & sorcery; I just had to apply an ethic from my historical fiction
(that boils down to 'work')
(do you know how many drafts I did of Amgalant)
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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@juliebozza.bsky.social I read this for Rumble Fish
mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20h
"These are young men who love without qualification or care for gender norms—time and again Ponyboy observes and remarks upon his brothers’ and friends’ beauty. It’s not sexual, but can be if that’s how you want to read it."—@alishamgl.bsky.social on S.E. Hinton! www.rogerebert.com/features/rig...
Set photo from the 1983 film version of SE Hinton's novel The Outsiders, about the clash between rich kids and poor kids in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 1960s. From left to right, in period bluejeans, T-shirts, and denim jackets,: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise.
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Burnt beyond veggie sausage was an offering to Euripides to kickstart a weekend of posting Trojan Women
Complete Euripides in 5 uneven volumes w empty candles and a dnd candle on top w cactus to left. I did burn the veggie sausage cause they make you skillet vs microwave
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I read Bird Swallowers by Sumitra Singham in @templeinacity.bsky.social, a fabulist tale of voicelessness, oppression and community. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...
I Read Stories: Bird Swallowers by Sumitra Singam
Bird Swallowers by Sumitra Singam in Temple In A City After the men cut their voice boxes out, women take to swallowing birds. This i...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.

“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —

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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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[WIP] I managed to sketch out another knight earlier than expected ~ The mighty and fearsome Lioness of the South.

Which colour scheme do you like best? 🦁🛡️⚔️
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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One last visit to The Bookshop Darlinghurst to see my book buddy Noel. It's been an awesome few decades! I'll miss you all so much. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙 Smiles and sadness...
Selfie of Noel and Julie at The Bookshop Darlinghurst.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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👀
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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butch on the bridge
Fat butch in a tank top and overalls tied around the waist leaning over a railing with a cigarette in hand.
July 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
Don't know who Janrae Frank is or why S&S fans should care?

Keep an eye out for profile on Frank in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6! Coming soon...
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Pre-order New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2025 on BackerKit
Sword & Sorcery magazine featuring short fiction, non-fiction, and gorgeous art. Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! Luxurious hardcover, clas...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
"Unfortunately, it seems there's only one issue of the magazine (No. 16) in the Internet Archive. But at least it contains an article about Amazons by Janrae Frank. ⚔️"

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November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Im InternetArchive scheint es leider nur eine einzige Ausgabe des Magazins (Nr. 16) zu geben. Aber die enthält immerhin einen Amazonen-Beitrag von Janrae Frank. ⚔️
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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My Online Shop will be Reopening next week 🦇Friday 28th Nov-14th Dec🦇 with US Shipping available again + a 10% OFF Black Friday Weekend Sale 🖤

(Sorry I’ve been so quiet on here! 🙏 Life, work & running my family’s shop has been keeping me busy!)

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Photo of one of my VHD prints available from my online shop
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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carlc75.bsky.social
Bombarded with "Holiday gifts for HIM/HER" which are full of scented candles and hot sauce? HELL NO.

Get them HEART-RACING SPINE-TINGLING LOIN-GIRDING fiction of the genre which will be filling bookstores next decade.

Be better than bleeding edge. Be NEW EDGE.

newedgeswordandsorcery.com/shop/
Shop – New Edge Sword & Sorcery
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November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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davevriser.bsky.social
Psst you dont have to be a conventional scholar to participate--the Queer Horror Conference also accepts presentations from artists and other creative practitioners, as well as grads, undergrads, independent scholars, and established faculty.
White text on a purple backgrounds reads: “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 We take our inspiration for this year’s theme from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—a foundational text for the horror and science fiction genres, a feminist exploration of patriarchal hubris and violence, and a critical commentary on our technocratic present. We also seek to engage with the broader questions inherent within Shelley’s text, from the profound to the playful: What makes a monster? White text on a purple background reads: What are the risks (and rewards) in claiming monstrosity? What does it mean to be an unholy creation–and what does it mean to be someone who creates something "unholy"? Where are the limits of technological progress, and what are the consequences for those who overstep? How does horror continue to engage with and inspire works of self-creation and transformation? Where are the linkages between horror, DIY practices, crafting communities, and other forms of reinvention?
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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🔸-Curious-🔸

#Art #ArtSky #OC #OCsky
A being with an elongated neck and bird-like mask is intrigued by a wispy spirit. The creature is decked out in a multitude of patterned clothing and accessories.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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mimulus.bsky.social
Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
Cover art for my book Time Travel Is Easy. It depicts the skeleton of an Archaeopteryx against an abstract tree design, with a dragonfly and feathers around it.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I currently write trans-themed short fiction for @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social , and will also have a wrestling fantasy novella available next year. Readers can learn more about my work at breadsonja.wordpress.com
Cover by John Golden for Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker Illustration by Matthew Spencer for A Serpent from the Ash by June Orchid Parker Title illustration by Matthew Spencer for How Many Deaths Till Vengeance? by June Orchid Parker Photo of the author June Orchid Parker
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
brynhammond.bsky.social
OMG I love this book.
The first scene might be Waste Flowers, if you'll excuse me, with a derelict wall, nomads who eschew it, and phantom bells of camels.
Then we reach the town of Proof Rock which, being KJ Bishop, you know at once is Prufrock.
No wonder I wanted to write this book when I met it.
The second page of KJ Bishop's The Etched City, on a Kobo screen.
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM