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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐
@mythopoetica.bsky.social
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Author. Poet. Gothic Academic. PhD. she/her

Codex Writers Group, MLA

Published in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, BCS, Uncanny, Lightspeed (POCDSF) etc

Website: www.mythopoetica.com
Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/
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If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Album cover for Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone. White/light grey background, a maroon convertible with a barefooted Neko Case (a redhaired with long hair) in a long-sleeved short black dress. She has one hand on the convertible while the other hand is thrusting a sword into the air at an angle.
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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November selfie. Wanted to show a pair of new earrings (lavender coloured daisies!) but hard to get them in focus. You’ll have to settle for my face. 🫣
photo of a long haired asian woman with tortoise-shell framed glasses and a black blouse. She is smiling. In the background are some messy bookshelves that are in the midst of being rearranged.
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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I don't remember what year this was, 2013? 2012? But here's a picture of us on a cliff overlooking the South China Sea. I think it was the northernmost tip of borneo or something like that. The view was amazing.
Picture of a middle-aged Sri Lankan Tamil doctor in a light blue shirt. Behind him is a thirty-something long haired woman who is his daughter.
October 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Picture of me being an awkward potato during the awards ceremony. A colleague-friend sent it to me.
I am the goofy and awkward academic standing next to our new Vice Chancellor (the silver hair gentleman standing next to the other lady) on a red carpet in front of the stage. I am holding my award, the certificate and a huge cardboard cheque.
September 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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It’s so pretty! And omg the Vice Chancellor actually came down the stage to present it to me. 🫣🫣🫣

That was so incredibly kind of him.

Watermyth’s award!
A photo of a crystalline award on a banquet table. The words read “Anugerah Bitara UKM 2025”.
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Picture from yesterday’s adventure.
Indoor ice-skating rink at Sunway Pyramid.
September 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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That one strand of white hair got prominent enough to photograph.
picture of a 50 year old asian academic with tortoise-shell design glasses and long hair, standing in front of some ancient bookcases.
July 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The threshold has been crossed.
Picture of a classical guitar and sheet music (Dowland’s Can She Excuse). The text reads “What I was/am doing as the clock turned to midnight and I crossed ths threshold. Officially 50.
June 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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If you're looking for a thick mythic fantasy to read this weekend, here's a handy dandy little graphic I made to help you decide if Watermyth is the book for you! 💙 📚

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#BookSky #mermaids #fantasy #myth #sirens #mythology
A trope map of Watermyth. The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo. The tropes are: Mermaids, An alternate venice founded by Renegade Mer-Princes, Culinary magic, Timey-wimey mindbending hijinks, Cupid and Psyche retold, Slow burn romance, High Seas Hijinks, Sentient Mushroom Homes, Unreliable Narrators, Found Family, Sirens, Dark Academia Vibes.
June 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Been taking small detours and alternate routes on my commute home from work for the sake of my stupid mental health.
Picture of trees and greenery from the car.
June 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Hello I did my first trope map did I do it right?

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💙 📚 #Booksky #Romancelandia #Mermaids #writingcommunity
A trope map of Watermyth. The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo. The tropes are: Mermaids, An alternate venice founded by Renegade Mer-Princes, Culinary magic, Timey-wimey mindbending hijinks, Cupid and Psyche retold, Slow burn romance, High Seas Hijinks, Sentient Mushroom Homes, Unreliable Narrators, Found Family, Sirens, Dark Academia Vibes.
June 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Post your first cell phone.

Well, I forgot which Motorola model but this looks pretty close.

I will always have a soft spot for Motorola phones. I also had a Motorola flip phone at some point.
A silver Motorola Timeport cellular phone.
June 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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What are you wearing to the Bluesky prom?
Titania Sleeps, a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper. A woman in a gold and dark green dress is lying asleep in the woods.
May 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Fancy a read this weekend set in a universe with multiple merkingdoms, loving descriptions of kitchens and communal preparations of food, ornate interiors and overlapping fairytale/mythology retellings? 🧜‍♀️ 🧜‍♂️ 🧜 🏰 ☄️ 🌊
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#Booksky 💙 📚
The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.
May 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Sigh, I have to lock up and continue my work at home, so here’s today’s fit.
A middle-aged asian woman academic with long black hair and tortoise-shell patterned glasses is sitting in front of bookshelves in her office. She is wearing a green pussybpw tie blouse with fitted long sleeves. Not pictured is the long denim skirt.
May 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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What if Psyche was a Gen-X Malaysian transplanted from her home because of an otherworldly visitation? What if there were a race of Cupids? Read on to find out more in this mythic fantasy with cozy vibes, found family and dark academia overtones.

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#BookSky
The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.
May 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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WATERMYTH : A literary revisioning of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped siren storyteller who discovers things about herself and the people around her as she weaves through sonar and mer-time. Found family, cozy vibes, dark academia etc. 🧜‍♀️

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The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo. Cover art and design by J.K. Cheney
April 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Extremely sleepy but rallying.
Sheet music for Walton’s Bagatelle # 2
March 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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My Chuck Taylor’s, my ratty socks, and me. Saying hello respectfully to the White Horse of Uffington. No, I did not walk or deface the nice horsey. I just said hello. In 2014 I climbed four hills in the UK. In the beforetimes when I was more ablebodied although still Girl With A Broken Back.
Red Chuck Taylors (shoes) attached to rambling feet seated next to a white chalk horse.
February 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Here’s one of the margin notes that amused me because it was a Gothic Lit book in the fricking Radcliffe Camera. My week of bliss reading rare Gothic Lit monographs at the Bodleian in 2014.
A page of a literary Gothic monograph in the Radcliffe Camera. Defaced, with a Monty Python reference in the margin.
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Oldest selfie in my phone. Tintern Abbey, August 2014, during my epic solo roadtrip.
An asian woman with long hair and black glasses wearing a jeans jacket standing in front of Tintern Abbey.
January 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
A photo of the French Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida. He is wearing a grey suit with a pinstripe shirt and a floral tie. His hair is white.
January 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A memory-wiped mermaid-siren rehearsing for her storyteller exams tries to piece together events from the past, present and future while around her wars between merkingdoms are fomenting. 🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♂️

Check out Watermyth!

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The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.
December 29, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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The City by the Sea (1997-??)

This was a rough pencil and ink concept sketch of the Ferahia (in Watermyth), done in 1997 and later I digitally coloured it and added text. I never got around to doing art of the mer-kittings/sea-kittings but here’s a mer-feline gargoyle!
A digitized drawing in pencil and ink (1996) depicting a city and a mer-feline gargoyle
December 13, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Once You Walk Out That Door…

This was a very emotional painting for me and was part of processing trauma as a longterm survivor of abuse + emancipation.
A faerie in a lavender gown has her hands braced on a doorway in the background. In the foreground the same faerie in street garb, wielding a weapon.
December 12, 2024 at 8:46 AM