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A promotional graphic featuring THE HOWLING DARK's concept cover against a blurry photo of mountains, surrounded by a list of some tropes/themes that appear in the book. Text reads: Eclipse-born werewolf (i.e, special in fucked-up and beautiful ways); post-nuclear Earth-like setting; were-caracal bounty hunter; fugitive werewolf brother; a dash of M/M spice and romance; messy, messy relationships; corrupt space government; Brother Bear x Wolf's Rain; doomed siblings; ragtag rebels; elements of botanical horror. Cover depicts a young man with soft, long features in a fur-lined hooded jacket holding a spear, peering through leafless tree branches. He has long slightly wavy hair, white on one side and black on the other. His right eye is blue, left is brown. He has a scar over his left eye.

A moodboard with nine images. From top to bottom, left to right: an rusty abandoned car covered in moss; snow-covered evergreens with mountains in the distance; a close-up shot of a bright blue wolf eye; arid grasslands with mountains in the distance; a red eclipsed moon; a wood cabin in the middle of a snowy evergreen forest; snarling wolf jaws; northern lights over a wintry landscape; an overgrown road clogged with abandoned, rusted-out cars

It's #WerewolfWednesday! Who else is writing or has written werewolf/wolf-shifter books? QRP/comment with yours!🐺

My 2026 post-apoc SFF is about fugitive werewolf brothers who band together with ragtag rebels on their journey home, pursued by the government and huntsmen.

#booksky #writingcommunity

Companion movie come out not in theaters WHENNNNNN

met multiple new people this week at work and heard a lot of "I have heard so much about you and how amazing you are! I'm so excited to work with you!" and I'm like ....me???????

Photo of 5 dog figurines in profile facing to the left in a staggered line. The closest one is reddish, the three in the middle are beige, and the furthest is dark grey. Each one has a cuneiform inscription on their side.

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.

On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.

dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”

munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”

mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

the sailor saturn storyline in sailor moon is so sad and i forgot thanks

The bottom 50% of households hold just 2.4% of U.S. wealth.

The top 1% control 42% of the wealth.

So cool. The library from MEXICAN GOTHIC.

An illustration of several rabbits dancing in a circle around a pedestal. On the pedestal is a single rabbit, lying with eyes closed, as its spirit rises to meet a large celestial figure.

sendoff

The cover for THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT, a new horror book by Caitlin Starling. An anatomical drawing of a human with the front of their throat and chest opened, with a red window and the silhouette of a figure in place of lungs/internal organs.

Cover reveal!

Treatment for THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT begins October 2025.

“That thing in the bed. Is that me?

Is it?”

bit.ly/GRACEVIEWPAT...

US and UK hardcover of SO LET THEM BURN

UK paperback of THIS ENDS IN EMBERS

Cover love for the Divine Traitors duology~

Five years after using divine magic to save her island from dragons, Faron must choose between unleashing an evil god to break her sister's bond with a dragon or saving the world again—even if it means killing her sister.

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In 1938, Leah Moncure made history by becoming the first woman in Texas to earn a professional engineering license. Moncure went on to work for the Texas Highway Department for 32 years, specializing in research, right-of-way and road design. www.txdot.gov/about/newsro...

Annoyed that working out has been better for my mental health than obsessively stewing over the stupidity of everything while sedentary

I wonder how many upper-class British dudes in history had severe inattentive-type ADHD and no one ever noticed it because they had neurotypical valets

Wildfire evacuation zone grows, unclear if 5,000-person jail complex will evacuate The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly 5 miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The sheriff's department has struggled with a shortage of buses to transport inmates.

Thousands of people in jail are not evacuated as Hughes fire burns www.latimes.com/california/s...

Dude if you get art for free from an artist friend, that shit is a gem. Like, treasure it, because that time and effort went 100% into making you happy.

Don't take it for granted, man. And please, for the love of god, don't like... abuse that relationship.

I DID

I MAY HAVE GOTTEN MY USERNAME HERE THO (someone else had it so i had to add a dash but….)

"One in ten respondents were laid off last year, with roles in game narrative being the most affected at 19%"

I've known anecdotally that writers were hit hardest, but it's wild to see the hard numbers. Over 3x the layoffs of business & finance

logo that reads "Otome Games Celebration!" on top of a pink and purple outlined heart. balloons and party banners surround it.

Announcing... the first ever Otome Games Celebration, a Steam festival just for otome games! 💖

We're happy to announce we've been approved for an otome-oriented festival on Steam in May. Developer sign-ups are open until March 7th!

More info: crystalgameworks.com/otome-games-...

#otome #otomegame

listen i’m gonna try to be more active here but it’s hard 😭

QotD: Do you have a favorite anime?
Hola readers!
Day 1 of Indiecember and I'm here to scream about the Cardplay Duology by @bmwillows.bsky.social.
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I liveskyed the 2024 Martial Law Declaration of Korea.

This is the thread.

Be the politician scaling the walls of the National Assembly to overturn martial law that you want to see in the world goddamn

Thyme Travellers (Edited by Sonia Sulaiman), The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimr (Translated by Marcia Lynx Qualey), Lifta volumes: Future Palestine, Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba (Edited by Basma Ghaliyini), Reworlding Ramallah: Short science fiction stories from Palestine (Edited by Callum Copley)

#readpalestineweek starts today! Here are some of my recommendations if you would like to explore Palestinian speculative fiction. I've just received my long-awaited copy of Thyme Travellers, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and can't wait to dive into it this week! What will you be reading?

We have officially sorted out scheduled posting for here. Thank creator @mouse-reads.bsky.social or whatever.

“How did AI invade so much of society so fast and why didn’t anybody yell about it sooner?!” ummm artists did. We’ve warned against dangers of generative AI from the start and how it would harm more than just art industries. We were told we were “scaremongering” or ignored altogether. 🤷🏼