Vagaries of Mine
@vagariesofmine.bsky.social
Art, reading, writing, the thoughts from my head, folklore, folk horror, the macabre, the uncanny, the absurd. ADHD. Alt text enjoyer. Trans Rights Are Human Rights. They/them. Kate.
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A moment if you please for one of the many high heels that struck the streets lending tempo and beat to the night parade of the merry & messy has fallen. No more click clack catch on cobble & stone on the journey home, now it lies in a gutter at the side of a road in the pale, cold light of morning.
Garbles thread- I see something (often abandoned shoes, apparently) and then garble something about it.
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A couple of weeks ago we gained access to the home of my Uncle Owen, who died last January. My dad found a couple of USB drives with documents my uncle had written about older generations of the family pieced together from his own memory and the stories his parents and grandparents had told him 1/5
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A couple of weeks ago we gained access to the home of my Uncle Owen, who died last January. My dad found a couple of USB drives with documents my uncle had written about older generations of the family pieced together from his own memory and the stories his parents and grandparents had told him 1/5
A couple of weeks ago we gained access to the home of my Uncle Owen, who died last January. My dad found a couple of USB drives with documents my uncle had written about older generations of the family pieced together from his own memory and the stories his parents and grandparents had told him 1/5
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A couple of weeks ago we gained access to the home of my Uncle Owen, who died last January. My dad found a couple of USB drives with documents my uncle had written about older generations of the family pieced together from his own memory and the stories his parents and grandparents had told him 1/5
If you ever feel like you're living in your sibling's shadow, just think about Sophia Lane Poole who wrote a whole-ass book, only for her brother to be named and have his book plugged on the title oage, but she is only credited as "his sister" 💙📚
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you ever feel like you're living in your sibling's shadow, just think about Sophia Lane Poole who wrote a whole-ass book, only for her brother to be named and have his book plugged on the title oage, but she is only credited as "his sister" 💙📚
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As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.
The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds.
Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.
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Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people.
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Public Consultation on Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds | Commonplace
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October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
As a frequent user of the ponds, it disgusts me that terfs are taking a beautiful place and pouring their hate into it. Please fill in this survey if you want to protect this space for all women and make trans women feel. PS the ducks think terfs suck. And the friendly fox. And the crows.
Running a charity 2ndhand bookshop has taught me that generally ppl are not good at estimating book numbers. "200+ books" turns out to be 80. "Huge" donations come in at anything between 50-150 books. Not this one. This one is actual huge - decently over 1000. I'm going to need more bags 💙📚 #hubris
October 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Running a charity 2ndhand bookshop has taught me that generally ppl are not good at estimating book numbers. "200+ books" turns out to be 80. "Huge" donations come in at anything between 50-150 books. Not this one. This one is actual huge - decently over 1000. I'm going to need more bags 💙📚 #hubris
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Solidarity with Jewish people affected by anti-semitic terror *and* unceasing protest against the genocide in Gaza
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Solidarity with Jewish people affected by anti-semitic terror *and* unceasing protest against the genocide in Gaza
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dark comes earlier
the little boat of the moon
capsized in the clouds
the little boat of the moon
capsized in the clouds
September 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
dark comes earlier
the little boat of the moon
capsized in the clouds
the little boat of the moon
capsized in the clouds
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Well don't I feel stupid
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well don't I feel stupid
The thing I'm most looking forward to about Short Reads Club tomorrow is hearing a middle-aged French woman dropping F-bombs over the concept of entropy (again). Always a treat. Feels properly intellectual, somehow. We're reading J G Ballard's The Voices of Time and The Garden of Time 📚💙
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The thing I'm most looking forward to about Short Reads Club tomorrow is hearing a middle-aged French woman dropping F-bombs over the concept of entropy (again). Always a treat. Feels properly intellectual, somehow. We're reading J G Ballard's The Voices of Time and The Garden of Time 📚💙
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There are now 3 full chapters (that's 106 pages!!) of completely free-to-read KEEPING TIME, the queer, slow burn between two former friends and now current bandmates who - for better or worse - fall in love.
#KeepingTime #webcomics
🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
#KeepingTime #webcomics
🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There are now 3 full chapters (that's 106 pages!!) of completely free-to-read KEEPING TIME, the queer, slow burn between two former friends and now current bandmates who - for better or worse - fall in love.
#KeepingTime #webcomics
🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
#KeepingTime #webcomics
🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
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Event organizers: heads up that authors are getting absolutely inundated by AI-generated spam inviting them to be "featured" in pay-to-play "book groups." If you're a *real* book group, I recommend being specific in your email—mention something about their work a bot couldn't get by scraping a bio!
September 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Event organizers: heads up that authors are getting absolutely inundated by AI-generated spam inviting them to be "featured" in pay-to-play "book groups." If you're a *real* book group, I recommend being specific in your email—mention something about their work a bot couldn't get by scraping a bio!
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Give me weird girl horror or give me death
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Give me weird girl horror or give me death
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THE CABAL SHALL START ITS SERMON IN AN HOUR! Fellow shadow dwellers, it is almost time! And I'm VERY honoured to helm this week's #HorrorWritersChat for you all!
The theme? Curses & hexes. 😈
The theme? Curses & hexes. 😈
September 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
THE CABAL SHALL START ITS SERMON IN AN HOUR! Fellow shadow dwellers, it is almost time! And I'm VERY honoured to helm this week's #HorrorWritersChat for you all!
The theme? Curses & hexes. 😈
The theme? Curses & hexes. 😈
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Just about one week left to submit to TRUNK.
PS It's not a big deal, but to those of you who provide the info we ask for and format your titles the way we like, I see you and thank you for saving me time and trouble.
PS It's not a big deal, but to those of you who provide the info we ask for and format your titles the way we like, I see you and thank you for saving me time and trouble.
Feeling rejected? Send your story to us for TRUNK: stories that took the long way.
This anthology of SFF stories with 20+ rejections (10+ for novelettes) is open for submissions now.
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This anthology of SFF stories with 20+ rejections (10+ for novelettes) is open for submissions now.
books.metaphorosis.com/calls/
Calls
Open/Upcoming TRUNK: stories that took the long way Concept: Stories that met with many rejections before being published. This can include both reprint or original stories. In either case, …
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September 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Just about one week left to submit to TRUNK.
PS It's not a big deal, but to those of you who provide the info we ask for and format your titles the way we like, I see you and thank you for saving me time and trouble.
PS It's not a big deal, but to those of you who provide the info we ask for and format your titles the way we like, I see you and thank you for saving me time and trouble.
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Hello, friends! We're Monarch Queer Literary Awards, a project of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. Monarch is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. 🦋
Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay
Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay
August 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hello, friends! We're Monarch Queer Literary Awards, a project of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. Monarch is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. 🦋
Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay
Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay
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Winter Haunts returns this November, and we have another stellar line-up of ghost story and Gothic fiction writers taking part in our range of interviews, workshops and panels! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #ghoststory #ghoststories #gothic #gothicfiction #writing #writers
September 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Winter Haunts returns this November, and we have another stellar line-up of ghost story and Gothic fiction writers taking part in our range of interviews, workshops and panels! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #ghoststory #ghoststories #gothic #gothicfiction #writing #writers
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Horrible to discover, midway, through my, edit that I actually don't understand, how to use, commas.
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Horrible to discover, midway, through my, edit that I actually don't understand, how to use, commas.
The real suburban horror is discovering you only have a ten inch cake board left, which won't fit into the box you're going to use to transport an eight inch cake, and then one of the cake layers splitting in half when you transfer it from the cooling rack
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The real suburban horror is discovering you only have a ten inch cake board left, which won't fit into the box you're going to use to transport an eight inch cake, and then one of the cake layers splitting in half when you transfer it from the cooling rack
I read This is Where We Live by Kate Hardie yesterday. It was an impulse buy & based on the blurb. I thought it was going to be more of a distinct gory werewolf creature feature horror juxtaposed with the mundane struggles of parenthood with clear feminist allegory. I was hoping the wolf was 💙📚 1/5
September 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I read This is Where We Live by Kate Hardie yesterday. It was an impulse buy & based on the blurb. I thought it was going to be more of a distinct gory werewolf creature feature horror juxtaposed with the mundane struggles of parenthood with clear feminist allegory. I was hoping the wolf was 💙📚 1/5
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Taking Submissions: Christmas Ghosts Short Stories
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Deadline: September 28th, 2025
Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints
Theme: Seasonal ghosts and spirits for Christmas
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
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Deadline: September 28th, 2025
Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints
Theme: Seasonal ghosts and spirits for Christmas
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Taking Submissions: Christmas Ghosts Short Stories
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Deadline: September 28th, 2025
Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints
Theme: Seasonal ghosts and spirits for Christmas
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
horrortree.com/taking-submi...
Deadline: September 28th, 2025
Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints
Theme: Seasonal ghosts and spirits for Christmas
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
The weird thing about cream of tomato soup is I would fully retch at the thought of eating something else the same gloopy texture & one of the reasons I hate ketchup is that it's too sweet, but slam all that sugar into a hot, viscose tomato(ish) slurry & I will fight a bitch for seconds
September 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The weird thing about cream of tomato soup is I would fully retch at the thought of eating something else the same gloopy texture & one of the reasons I hate ketchup is that it's too sweet, but slam all that sugar into a hot, viscose tomato(ish) slurry & I will fight a bitch for seconds
A very cosy evening to you! At them moment, I'm reading a couple of J G Ballard's short sci-fi stories for bookclub, and an anthology of horror shorts called Of the Flesh for me
Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading (and likely will be all week!) The Big Book of Cyberpunk Volume 2 edited by Jared Shurin. What are you reading at the moment?
September 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A very cosy evening to you! At them moment, I'm reading a couple of J G Ballard's short sci-fi stories for bookclub, and an anthology of horror shorts called Of the Flesh for me
Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title.
Everybody Literally Hurts
Everybody Literally Hurts
Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title.
Literally Untouchable
Literally Untouchable
Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title.
That Girl is Literally on Fire
That Girl is Literally on Fire
September 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title.
Everybody Literally Hurts
Everybody Literally Hurts
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📢The Folklore Society President’s Prize 2025: deadline 30 Sept 2025📢 The Prize is awarded to a folklore studies essay by a student on a relevant undergraduate or post-graduate or equivalent course at a university/institution of HE or FE in the UK or Republic of Ireland. tinyurl.com/423xwexv
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
📢The Folklore Society President’s Prize 2025: deadline 30 Sept 2025📢 The Prize is awarded to a folklore studies essay by a student on a relevant undergraduate or post-graduate or equivalent course at a university/institution of HE or FE in the UK or Republic of Ireland. tinyurl.com/423xwexv
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Horror Flash Fiction anthology I have a short piece in - launching 30 Sept 😱📚🩸 #Horror #IndieAuthors #BookSky
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September 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Horror Flash Fiction anthology I have a short piece in - launching 30 Sept 😱📚🩸 #Horror #IndieAuthors #BookSky
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