@adventitiouswords.bsky.social
Do you know which way to go? www.adventitious.net
Why can't I just buy all the stories?
17.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Poetry.
17.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0look when AI starts selling off its own code to support a debilitating phonics addition I'll perhaps reconsider if it can produce art.
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“Imagine a Changeling, I said, once upon a different day, long before that. Sweep her out of her cradle and carry her to Elfhame and put her in a little room where she can read every book that has ever been written (and several that never will be), but let her never once hear the nightingale sing or the little breezes whistle. But now you must set her a task, and you will write the instructions on your little paper tapes and feed them through the letter-slot in the door of her room, and you may not sing to her when you do so. She will take up your instructions and, following them by rote, she will be able to convert a page of music from A-flat major to the key of the West Wind—if your rules are clearly written and if you have chosen a clever enough changeling. But. But! She will never be moved to tears by the symphony she has altered, because she does not know what music is, let alone that she can hold it in her hand. I can teach a caveworm to dance if he hears the word blue, but that does not mean he has ever seen the sky. And Alan asked, neither laughing nor serious: And I am the caveworm in this scenario? And I laughed, and said, all over teasing, that he was the sky.”
This story by @aimeeogdenwrites.com in @strangehorizons.bsky.social, about Alan Turing seduced by a faerie lord, is beautiful and elegiac and made me tear up on the way home from a wedding
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny
a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
15.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 12628 🔁 2832 💬 123 📌 110Hug.
16.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not sure how to feel about this.
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Roses are Red apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...
A cosmic bloom of bright young stars sitting atop a stem of glowing hot gas. The rose’s blue-white speckles are among the most luminous stars in the galaxy, with some burning millions of times brighter than the Sun.
Superman with a mustache and sombrero.
Weird.
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NGC 147 and NGC 185 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...
Dwarf galaxies NGC 147 (left) and NGC 185 stand side by side in this deep telescopic portrait. The two are not-often-imaged satellite galaxies of M31, the great spiral Andromeda Galaxy, some 2.5 million light-years away.
Illustration by Morris Meredith Williams from The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth W. Grierson, Philadelphia, 1910. #booksky #artsky
15.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Grab your heart medication. "What a Name Does Is Let You Leave" by @spocksbrain.bsky.social has got:
🤖robot + human romance
🌋the sulfur-spitting volcanoes of Io
❤️Jovian appreciation
🛰️Unauthorized spacewalks
🧠an AI prison warden
🌑a planetary prisonbreak
www.adventitious.net/stories/what...
The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.
We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!
The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social
Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social
We're so excited to tell a brand new story.
"What follows is a brief history of the Muppets’ literary entanglements. How did our favorite furry arm candy come to find themselves, over and over, in the stacks?"
12.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Music for the day:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l65...
In this haunting Nebula nominee, a battle-scarred interplanetary exorcist hunts ghosts across hostile world until one possession exposes a secret powerful enough to erase the rules that keep the dead contained.
www.adventitious.net/stories/what...
Image shows a retro-style background of rockets launching next to the cover of SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL. Under the words "What readers are saying..." there's a quote that reads: "A fun futuristic read with impeccable vintage vibes. Captivating from beginning to end. Absolute 10/10. no notes."
Now that SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is out in the world, I thought I'd share some of the things readers have been saying. Get your copy: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
@starsandsabers.bsky.social
Charmer!
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Wrote about why I love Stephen King's Holly Gibney and how her "do no harm but take no shit" ethos can be a model for the times we live in for @reactorsff.bsky.social
reactormag.com/how-a-stephe...
PSA: this is about great writing, not about the 🎉EVENTS🎉of 2025. :)
11.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please support this invaluable resource!
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locus magazine cover, person touching their face on blue background
If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror you MUST already subscribe to Locus Magazine... Right?
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
link in bio!
Damn. Just won the Time War even after reading that instruction manual.
10.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Illustration by John R. Neill from Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper from The Children's Red Books, Chicago, 1908. #booksky #artsky
10.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
This isn’t an ocean wave.
Its more than a 1,000-mile long cold front.
Stretching over southern Chile and Argentina 🌍
Seen from space.
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
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Like smudges on a cave wall.
10.02.2026 02:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excellent, clever, and unsettling work from the great @spocksbrain.bsky.social.
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NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics
astrobiology.com/2026/02/nasa... #astrobiology #Mars
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