You guys, nominating the person who earned the most votes is now an “ideological purity test.”

Watch me use up a year's supply of exclamation points in a single blog post as I announce the new edition of my Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner, Tales from Rugosa Coven. Forgive me—I've been waiting for this day a long time.

Book Release Day! Places to Buy Tales from Rugosa Coven, With Links! | Sarah Avery

You can buy an ebook of Tales from Rugosa Coven and start reading it immediately now. If you pre-ordered a paper copy, it's already on its w

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Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

#books #BookSky #sff #fantasy #fiction #pagan #witch #bookawards Winner of the 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, long out of print, now back!

@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's here! @sarahavery.bsky.social 's revised edition of Tales From Rugosa Coven is out today! Jennifer Stevenson at A Green Man Review called it "Charming, engrossing, authentic, highly recommended." (Link to us, but it's at all the usual suspects.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/tales-f...

Friends ask where the most helpful place is to buy my book. All sources help in different ways. For instance, if you order from Amazon and later decide to write a review, Amazon weights that review more heavily when it calculates how many stars to award a book. 1/

Happy book (re)birthday to @sarahavery.bsky.social and Tales From Rugosa Coven!

@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's here! @sarahavery.bsky.social 's revised edition of Tales From Rugosa Coven is out today! Jennifer Stevenson at A Green Man Review called it "Charming, engrossing, authentic, highly recommended." (Link to us, but it's at all the usual suspects.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/tales-f...

I'd never heard of a duress passcode before the DOJ filed these charges. Now I really want one. I bet a lot of people are having that same day today.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2w ago

New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

And your state, county, and municipality can all play Robin Hood.

warrior cop@wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 5d ago

Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry

If you want to a little window into the FDA, here's someone well worth following.

@niemandbesonders.bsky.social · 3w ago

A recent article in the Pink Sheet said that CDER hired more people than left in 3rd quarter 2026. All very well, except: 1. They didn't say what the status of the FDA overall is. CBER is still losing people in net and I know for certain that some of the "gains" in CDER are transfers from CBER.

*standing up on the plane* Listen to the words of the Great Mother, who of old was called Artemis, Astarte, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Diana, Arionrhod, Brigid, and by many other names: Whenever you have need of anything, once a month, and better it be when the moon is full, you shall a

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu

*shouting to be heard over all the other self-declared Spartaci* No, I'm Spartacus!

CE (Catie) Murphy@cemurphy.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the same plane* *I* AM SPARTACUS!

*wandering the airport, stopping one of three* The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and h...

Alex Knapp@thealexknapp.bsky.social · 6d ago

*standing up on the plane* Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days,   everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Only   stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times...

Thankyou Americana Highways americanahighways.org/2026/07/26/m...

Music Review: The Waterboys’ Excellent ‘Atlantic Rain: The Lost Fisherman’s Blues Recordings’ • Americana Highways

More than a decade after they supposedly released everything from their prolific "Fisherman's Blues" period, the Waterboys unearth more great music from that era.

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Setting aside the fact that vaccines do not cause autism, this assumes the existence of a child with autism is such a bad outcome that it’s preferable for a child to die of measles encephalitis.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last wk.

Trump is pushing RFK Jr. to move faster to cut the number of vaccines kids get and to advance the science on autism.

#IrishindieStats The Waterboys @waterboysmusic.bsky.social Atlantic Rain 🇮🇪 @chrysalisrecs.bsky.social No.1 selling indie physical LP in Ireland No.5 selling indie LP (incl.streams) in Ireland No.5 overall selling physical LP in Ireland

If you're a strategist for the Democratic Party blaming the far left for the Dem losses, it's you, you're the problem, it's you.

I wrote a thing about cultivating beginner's mind and the inevitable failure of film adaptations back when Peter Jackson's first film of The Hobbit came out. Rereading it now with Nolan's Odyssey in mind, I think my piece holds up pretty well: blackgate.com/2012/12/27/t... #TheOdyssey #Tolkien #SFF

I think this is onto something. The fixation on lethality, testosterone, hypermasculinity—all that—makes those fixated want to look away from what the Iliad and Odyssey show us about combat trauma. Nolan's film makes me want to reread Jonathan Shay's Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America.

Boston Tom Levenson@tomlevenson.bsky.social · last wk.

Saw The Odyssey last night and realized there’s another reason the right’s rage furbys are foaming at their mouths over the film. It is deeply antiwar, making an argument that builds incident by incident. Nolan’s sin: making explicit the vicious destructiveness of “heroic” ambition and violence.

“Ultimately, Magic Mike XXL isn’t a hero’s journey, because it doesn’t believe in heroes... Instead of heroes, sexy dancing. Instead of telling the story of why the king is the king, sexy dancing” How have we had weeks of Odyssey discourse without citing this @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social banger?

Magic Mike XXL Is Basically "The Odyssey," But With Butts - Electric Literature

The quintessential stripper road trip film both follows and transcends Joseph Campbell’s traditional Hero’s Journey

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In fact, I am in the market for a vehicle. Younger Kid is a drummer and needs a vehicle big enough to carry his whole percussion instrument collection so he can start gigging. Won't be looking at anything from #GeneralMotors.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.

This Must-Have Monday I have TWENTY-FIVE new books to ft, incl 👹Hong Konger demon hunters vs British fables by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social! 🌹the Rugosa Coven is BACK with @sarahavery.bsky.social! 👅 a queer folktale collection from @marsadler.bsky.social et al!

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Hungry ghosts, queer covens, and semi-sentient hair!

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Can't believe we missed this when it appeared! Another excellent review for @sarahavery.bsky.social's Tales from Rugosa Coven - which comes out August 1. (This is the old cover, but that's ok. :-) file770.com/review-of-ta...

Review of Tales from Rugosa Coven by Sarah Avery

Review by Jennifer Stevenson: It’s been a long, long time since my witchy days, but these three novellas bring it all back like riding a bicycle. At least, the parts where the gang are clowning, co…

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Since #crabs and #crustaceans are trending, here’s my favorite crab-related post:

Sarah Avery@sarahavery.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Court Sculptors of Nimrud: Behold the mighty King of Assyria, conquering the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, so full of life! Behold his armies, presenting the heads of his enemies to the Royal Clerk to be counted! Me, a Marylander: Ooh look, a crab! #Art #Sculpture #Mesopotamia #BritishMuseum

When my post-pandemic-homeschooling-burnout-plus-OMG-my-91yo-FIL-might-move-in turned into a full depressive crash, one of the things that saved my life was K.C. Davis’s book How to Keep House While Drowning.

Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

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Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · last wk.

Good morning

I don’t trust the DNC’s taste in candidates, so my campaign donations go directly to candidates and to orgs like The Leaders We Deserve. The DNC is nothing but an incumbent protection program.

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · last wk.

Woof. This is like 90% of the job. Wonder if big donors are just doing PACs or their own moneyball picks — or not donating. archive.is/Q10In

Hey, #FridayReads folks, my book that won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award will be back in print on August 1st. I laughed every day while I wrote Tales from Rugosa Coven.

@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 2w ago

@skiffyandfanty.com called @sarahavery.bsky.social's award-winning Tales From Rugosa Coven "one of the most grounded-feeling urban fantasies I’ve ever read." It's out August 1, but you can preorder it now. Link to Amazon, but it's up at all the usual suspects.) www.amazon.com/Tales-Rugosa...

I want to see this woman kick Benny Hill's ass.

𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

Older Kid, recounting the safety briefing for his impending trip to Philmont Scout Reservation: "You will be issued bear repellent. You will be issued bear spray. You will be issued a very loud bear horn, you will be issued a bear-proof canister..." Younger Kid: "You will be issued a bear."