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Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers. Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in The Daily Tomorrow, Old Moon Quarterly. She/her. No AI. www.elizabethmorrissey.com
Zeynep and Kawtar by Luana Saitta. A muscle-bound woman with a sword and a classic pinup beauty with a long braid.
A little sword and sorcery pinup @minillajovovich.bsky.social
Moore is spec fiction royalty, but she isn't read to the same level as her male contemporaries. The omission of Moore (and many other women) from discussions on the weird leads to a false idea that women were not writing the weird (or spec in general) until very recently.
Author picture of Graham Wilcox.
βοΈ WELCOME GRAHAM WILCOX!βοΈ
Graham, of @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social, will have a brand new story in one of this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! π www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
I've worked in five different preschools in three countries, and only once was there another man
I think we face a deep societal problem because not enough men do
it creates an unhealthy dynamic where energetic young boys see only women setting healthy boundaries for them, and zero +ve role models
Drawing in brown pencil of a red-crowned crane (a kind of 'self portrait') with wings raised, head thrown back as though uttering a cry, standing on the back my character, #PudgyHorse, a baroque type horse with luxuriant mane and tail and deliberately exaggerated proportions, including an extremely generous girth and short, delicate legs with dainty hooves, who in turn is standing upon a burning pyre of books and art materials, issuing stylised flames and smoke. The drawing is a deliberate tribute to Arthur Rackham's illustration of BrΓΌnhilde riding her horse, Grane, onto Siegfried's funeral pyre, from the book, Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods.
This was drawn a few years ago but might as well be apt for how I'm feeling this #YearOfTheHorse. Riding #PudgyHorse onto a pyre of my sketchbooks and materials. π
Obvious nod to Arthur Rackham's 1911 illustration of BrΓΌnhilde's immolation scene from GΓΆtterdΓ€mmerung.
#ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear
ra ra Raspoutine
icon of Quebec cuisine
Cropped art by Jimmy Makepeace of the Mongol nomad Goatskin standing at combat ready, a friend at her back, as the disembodied head of a statue spews violet light from its eyes. Overlaid are captions. Along the top reads "Just Launched on Backerkit. New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 is live" Along the bottom reads "Share this post to unlock bonus stories".
βοΈTHE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVEβοΈ
Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...
The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!
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i actually just re-read this one i liked it so much. if you ever wished the keanu reeves Constantine movie was set in rural france on the eve of the revolution--
I TRIED RISO PRINTING
computers used to be, are, could be again, very cool things. but these bastards have made the computer suck. itβs reprehensible. i love the computer! stop making it bad!
If you want to write anything good, you cannot afford to be afraid of your reader.
Ramadan starts tonight, so wishing all my friends and colleagues αΉ£awm maqbΕ«l and Ramadan karim!
Some of the other comments have said this as well, but I think somehow high collar but plunging at the same time. Or high collar but backless.
this is an important step in all good research:
A vinyl sticker featuring a drawing of a glazed donut oozing custard filling, superimposed with the text "wet ass pΔ czki." Shown here on an endgrain wood background.
Happy Mardi Gras / Carnaval / PΔ
czki Day / Pancake Day!
Wet Ass PΔ
czki stickers are available from willburrows.art/shop
hello, everyone. I am trying to do a new project, in (somewhat) coordination with my local dems -- the idea is to keep track of the news during the week and then to do a news roundup at the beginning of the week.
We're calling it the Watch-Fire, from a lyric in Battle Hymn of the Republic
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Title: Blooming Desiderium The first piece of a Duotycht. A large gargoyle is crouched on a terrace wall overlooking a landscape of prairie and farm fields. The gargoyle crouches with its head down and its arms wrapped around itself in profile. In one huge claws hand it delicately cups a rose, its petals a color somewhere between pale blue and lilac. A snarl of rose bramble grows up the gargoyles back, producing similar blooms.
Title: Blooming Desiderium The second piece of a Duotycht. High on a ridge a large crumbling house in the early prairie-style grows overgrown and decays. Forlorn bay windows of leaded glass show no light and lonely chimneys stand crooked and without hearth smoke. Below the house a bramble of roses grows, blooming in a pale color between light blue and lilac. In the sky a moon with a wistful ecpfsssjon looks on.
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In the grottos of masonry and high up on the chimney stacks of Goblin Hill, the rare Rosa Desiderium blooms the color of deep longing, illuminated only by the moon.
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I want to write a Sword & Sorcery poem help me out
#manuscriptwishlist #mswl I want sci-fi with the same spacefarers-as-seafarers feel as the best Star Trek series. Master and Commander but in space. Drama on the bridge. Mutiny in the lower decks. Emotions (mostly) repressed because the chain of command doesn't allow for them.
Four books on a floral bandanna. Glitter + Ashes Unfettered Hexes Luminescent Machinations The Crawling Moon
This βqueer talesβ series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019.
GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDNβT DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title fromβ¦
Levine did not have concerns while making the movie but has developed a fuller understanding of the trans experience in the ensuing decades. "It's just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks, and understanding a bit more about the culture and the reality of the meaning of gender.", says the actor, "It's unfortunate that the film vilified that, and it's fucking wrong. And you can quote me on that.".
I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter.
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Please check out this kickstarter. I want to read it, I want to submit a story to it, but most importantly I want the fancy scarf add on π
Some of the other comments have said this as well, but I think somehow high collar but plunging at the same time. Or high collar but backless.
and then go help fund WHAT ELEGANT STARS, the next antho in the queer tales series!!!! it's very important! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
Look, if sword & sorcery isn't for kink, what is it for? What is it for???