I suspect we'll break 30,000 responses today! :) Is your gender homemade, artisanal and/or gluten-free? Please check out our language survey: survey.gendercensus.com #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #survey

Gender Census@gendercensus.bsky.social · 3w ago

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

'I have come to the conclusion that, while not just anything can be Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Sorcery can be anything. There could be no more varied a collection of stories—varied in tone, in setting, in protagonist, in subject—yet all easily fit within the brawny, welcoming arms of the sacred genre'

Nathan Long@nathanrlong.bsky.social · 7d ago

Woo!!! Swords and Sorcery Magazine just published the omnibus review I wrote for the four @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social novellas (and one novelette!) that @obrackenbury.bsky.social is releasing this year. Head on over, and have a look! (spoiler: I loved them all)

Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, marking a major step toward restoring the species in the Ili River delta https://ow.ly/3ETK50ZvKjS #WildlifeConservation #TigerRestoration #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #Tigers

Kazakhstan Releases First Tiger into Wild in More Than 70 Years - The Times Of Central Asia

Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, beginning the practical phase of a long-running program to restore the

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Per latest Locus, the Feminist Press will be publishing the Collected Stories of Joanna Russ. I am so delighted.

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2026 Otherwise Awards Recommendations « Otherwise Award

Recommend works here for the Otherwise Awards jurors to consider!

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Get your Goatskin at newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-tag/... @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Mongol-world Sword & Sorcery

Bryn Hammond@brynhammond.bsky.social · 3w ago

Goatskin in your pockets? @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

I can't, it's Unrevealed Art 😀 Soon

Dr ShinyGoth@ghostingdani.bsky.social · 3d ago

No cheating post your lock screen. Phone photo of a total solar eclipse!

I love that there is an entire genre that is woman holding Michelle Yeoh and beaming like a couple

Dyazonium@dyazonium.bsky.social · 2w ago

Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, famed Polish palaeontologist, discovering key Cretaceous dinosaurs and mammals. Along with her family, awarded Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jewish women, notably Romana Laks, who became neurologist. Young Zofia was a part of anti-Nazi Polish paramilitary.

#selfpromosaturday with a re-share of my latest Tarskia story, "To Meet Death Standing"! swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/to-meet-deat... You wanna read about a bunch of shitty gangsters get their faces wrecked with a spiked mace in the hands of a fat queer woman? I got you covered.

NESS is great, and I'm not just saying that. Help @obrackenbury.bsky.social in his quest for delicious subs (stories and his eternal quest for the best sandwich in Canada). A wonderful team, communicative, friendly, and builders of a great community!

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 4d ago

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

Swords Against! #1 is ordered! We're inches from the finish line, but it feels good to be officially done with the magazine. And the flipzine with @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social! Still time to preorder! swords-against-the-swords-sorcery-fiction-magazine.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

I just absolutely loved this. Queer Biblical horror; when the horror premise gets revealed, it's genuinely audacious, but it actually manages to get across something deeply profound and moving by the end.

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Some Queer Short SFF - June 2026 | Charles Payseur

Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part

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Reading Troilus and Criseyde again. Astonishing thing. How did Chaucer do it.

this is really excellent, even if you're not interested in the politics of translation. the last line hits like an arrow to the heart. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · Ah, how miserable! Three New Oresteias

Misogynist tropes often involve present­ing women as interesting in precisely the ways that Aeschylus’ female...

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Woo!!! Swords and Sorcery Magazine just published the omnibus review I wrote for the four @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social novellas (and one novelette!) that @obrackenbury.bsky.social is releasing this year. Head on over, and have a look! (spoiler: I loved them all)

one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon

this is a great way to put it: even if other eras have different ethics from our own, characterizing the views that win out and surface in an area or an era is different from categorizing the range of them bsky.app/profile/ebra...

Eric Brandom@ebrandom.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes! And as I have read you arguing, we need to approach every era or moment not as a system of values but as a dynamic conflict between such systems

why do I like the word 'detritus' so much, I have used it as often in this as in the last, which I knew was too often. Get over 'detritus'.

New from Jonathan Karam Skaff whose previous Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors threw a new light on things ... about entanglements, cultural and political, and getting into the nitty-gritty of case study. This look grounded, too, in material history press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Silk Roads, Steppe Roads

An innovative study of medieval Chinese tombs that provides new insights into the history of Eurasian cultural contact and exchange

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TARSKIA RETURNS! Now with her companion and chronicler Aminde in tow, the Hammer of the Starklands steps in when a racketeer sets his sights on the good people of Tohren's waterfront. Can the Blonde Bull withstand the full force of a rising criminal empire?

Swords & Sorcery Magazine@curtissandsm.bsky.social · last wk.

"To Meet Death Standing" by William Adcock swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/to-meet-deat...

wonderful review from E.M.

E.M. White, load-bearing grad student@emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · last wk.

Reviewed What Rough Beast? by @brynhammond.bsky.social. Marvelous prose borders on the poetic; we get to better know Goatskin the nomad herself during her compelling journey; and best of all, we see nomads written as whole people, cognizant of the histories and power dynamics they reckon with.

Mail call! I got my set of four New Edge Sword & Sorcery novellas from the Brackenbury Books crowdfunding campaign. They are **adorable**! The size reminds me of the old Endless Quest (legally distinct Choose Your Own Adventure) books put out by TSR back in […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

snow leopard meets Snow Leopard @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social @draq.bsky.social

If one finds that last bit about nomads written as whole people sounds especially compelling, well, I'm a little unsure what other work of Bryn's I wouldn't recommend. But I'd start with Bryn's previous novella Waste Flowers and then check out more Goatskin stories:

Reviewed What Rough Beast? by @brynhammond.bsky.social. Marvelous prose borders on the poetic; we get to better know Goatskin the nomad herself during her compelling journey; and best of all, we see nomads written as whole people, cognizant of the histories and power dynamics they reckon with.

Review by e_m_white - What Rough Beast?

No need for a half- or quarter-star rating for this one; What Rough Beast? was a treat the who...

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Planetary Alignment 11x14 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

I read all the Hugo novella nominees; I was, I’m afraid, a little disappointed. He’s my roundup talking about why.

Nerds of a Feather@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · last wk.

Reading the Hugos: Best Novella 2026 A roundup of this year's novella nominees. @chloroformtea.bsky.social has our roundup at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/hugo... #booksky #blueskybooks