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ceibarosario.bsky.social
named nsha in dreams
@ceibarosario.bsky.social
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they/them bori 🇵🇷 fantasy + gothic horror stories and illustration. zelda, lotr, and earthsea enthusiast
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the concept of decolonizing your tbr by reading an author incapable of class analysis, a transphobe, and a misogynist
a TikTok's screenshot of a person's face. the text on top reads "not liking rf kung is lowk spiritually israeli" while the text on the bottom reads "this is mainly a joke but also if they can't manage to read kuanf then they're probably not reading Baldwin, Fanon, adichie, adulhawa, or el Akkad either 🤔 #rfkuang #woketok #booktok #decolonial #decolonizeyourtbr"
September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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From ‘A Woman’s Liberation’ in Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K Le Guin, originally published in 1995
“‘Literacy is irrelevant,’ one of our group said sorrowfully. ‘The chiefs have jumped right over our heads into the postliterate information technology.’”
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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since everyone is sharing their #1stLinePit here: The Bitter Sea, an #Adult #fantasy #wip
an illustration with geometric borders. the center text reads “Before the moon was the moon, Auehe was surrounded by the children of the sea”
August 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Le Guin did a whole talk in 2002 about the devaluation of the word creativity by reducing it to profitability and she says it can hardly be degraded further... in the year two thousand and two...
screenshot of Jason Mendoza from The Good Place in which a picture of Ursula K Le Guin has been shopped in. the text reads "Oh, Ursula, we're really in it now."
August 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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sneaky peekys at the protag portraits
close up screenshot of the bottom half of a face divided by a line. the lips are two toned, while the neck and chest have heavy geometric tattooing close up screenshot of a face divided in half by a line. the right half is paler and looks a little more distressed, while the left half is darker and smiling slightly. there is tattooing on the face and chest in sweeping lines the bottom half of a face with swirling white body paint. some of the designs are also hatched or netted
August 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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haven't actually posted anything here yet but #1stLinePit is as good a reason as any to start
screenshot of an instagram profile. the username is ceibarosariopalma, and the profile picture is of a glowing eye. the display name reads "ceiba is (still) drafting". the bio is "fantasy + gothic horror illustration + stories; lotr, loz, earths enthusiast"
August 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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THE BITTER SEA
🏃🏽 running from their own grief and guilt
💕 learning to love again
🏝️ re-immersing themselves in nurture of place and people
🌋🦑 feuding gods
#PosterPit #A #F #W
a retro style poster with four boxes. one is large and centered, while the other three are below it in a horizontal line. the large box has a young man with curly dark hair and tanned skin. the first small box to the left has another young man with wavy dark hair and tanned skin. the middle box has a young woman with wet wavy dark hair and brown skin. the final box has a young woman with straight dark hair and brown skin. The text from top to bottom reads: THE BITTER SEA A novel by Ceiba Rosario Palma MoanaxHunThou Adult Fantasy in a Tropical World Wenai, Iamoukēa, Ausure, Ātau
August 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Ausure and Wenai are dying — and so are their gods. Tiborey, god of the depths, has been relentless and vicious and hungry, and it seems he’s about to win.
Wamikena is the enemy, a child of the moon, though, like the moon, she is not what she seems.
#PosterPit #F #A #W
A poster with a neutral background with alternating diagonal stripes. At the bottom is a bunch of coconuts, and below that a woven mat. The text from top to bottom reads: By Ceiba Rosario Palma THE BITTER SEA For eleven years, a parasite has been living dormant within Ausure, biding its time. For five years, there has been a dying god sheltered within Wenai’s body, hoping to survive. In a month, an eclipse threatens to end the world.
August 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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THE BITTER SEA

After many long, dark months, Wenai has finally escaped from the clutches of the Queen of Sirens. But the eclipse that eats the sun is only a month away. Is it too late for him to save the world?

#PosterPit #F #A #W
A poster that features a large moon as the bottom half, with a dark ocean as the top half. the text from top to bottom reads: A Novel by Ceiba Rosario Palma THE BITTER SEA When there is a dying god inside of you, will you answer the moon's call? Adult Fantasy - Tropical Islands - Strange Moon Magic - Oceanic Cult - Magical Creatures
August 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Ausure and Wenai would be difficult because the face casts are models, not actors, so I don't really know who to replace them with, BUT for Ātau and Iamoukēa I'd have Suyane Moreira and Pana Hema-Taylor
August 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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- ursula k le guin, "Facing It" (1982)
"If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do."
August 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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"Crumbling on my tongue: honey-sugar, lemon, poppy seeds, spices I’d never known the name of... In my hands, images: ocean, cliffs, coves with twisty pines, a whitewashed village, spilling pink flowers, a vivid, cerulean sky—" happy book bday @steelhester.bsky.social!!!
The world flickered, like the connection was bad. Crumbling on my tongue: honey-sugar, lemon, poppy seeds, spices I’d never known the name of; a little stale, must have been weeks in the mail, but still rich and sweet. In my hands, images: ocean, cliffs, coves with twisty pines, a whitewashed village, spilling pink flowers, a vivid, cerulean sky—
August 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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wahilo wahilooo
wahile wahileeeee
foreva foreva
fore foreva
gif of kayla nicole jones in red sweatpants, a red silk cap, and a black sports bra stiffly twerking and jumping around
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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me after seeing Sinners
picture of danny devito with the caption “i get it now.”
May 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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alita de 🐓
a gray cat sleeping on a green blanket. the cat is folded up in such a way that she looks almost exactly like a chicken wing
April 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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not done yet but this is still a major milestone i’ve only reached with one other project
screenshot that reads “90,365 words”
April 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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excerpt from The Operating Instructions (2002), in Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Home, imagined, come to be. It is real, realer than any other place, but you can’t get to it unless your people show you how to imagine it — whoever your people are. They may not be your relatives. They may never have spoken your language. They may have been dead for a thousand years. They may be nothing but words printed on paper, ghosts of voices, shadows of minds. But they can guide you home. They are your human community. All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.”
February 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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39 already…
art of toon link (a blonde child in a green tunic and hat) standing on a beach. he has been drawn with his mouth very wide open and tears running down his face
February 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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would it be really controversial if i said frazetta’s asses are actually kinda ugly…
screenshot of a wildlife cam with an extremely close up polar bear taking up the right half of the picture
February 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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igual le puedes añadir un borde a las letras pa que se vean mas gordas. algo asi. se lo puedes hacer doble tambien y usar el espacio entremedio para algun diseño o patron
February 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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gracias
the eye of sauron with blush and bashful hands pointing at each other
February 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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My first protagonist vs my latest:

Meluara vs Ausure
a digital drawing with two people framed by an arc. the first is a white woman with curly brown hair wearing a brown dress and a black cape, with minimal gold embroider on the edges of the sleeves and skirt. her arc looks like stonework carved with florals and leaf-like motifs. the other person is wearing a green skirt held up by a woven belt dyed black as well as an undyed palm leaf visor; they have cotton armbands and leg bands, and extensive red body paint, with minimal tattoos. their arc is full of geometric shapes
February 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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realized i was slacking with my nonfiction reads so i made up for that today
a picture of four book spines, from left to right: Dark Laboratory by Tao Leigh Goffe, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman, Decolonial Marxism by Walter Rodney, and Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds
January 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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i was today years old when i found out ralph bakshi and i graduated from the same high school
white puppy with drawn on black eyebrows to make it look mildly surprised
January 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you #artshare

(we’ll pretend this is a finished piece)
an unfinished drawing, which features a person with four arms with swirls on their skin, and a cape and loincloth lined with beads and feathers. there is also an outline of a lichen in the background filled in with dots
January 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM