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Ichor Magazine @ichormagazine.bsky.social An amateur magazine of sword and sorcery touched by the sublime. A home for new authors dipping their pen into the violet ink of unknown horror.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
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Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
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Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
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https://jonathanedwarddurham.substack.com
Pixelsaber @pixelsaber.bsky.social Some guy with not enough time for all his interests.
27 He/They
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Alex Puncekar @alexpuncekar.bsky.social Writes SFF and horror. Games writer. Assistant editor at @nightmare-magazine.com and reviewer at @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social.
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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog Pen name. Writing and reviewing dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social Main site at https://prokopetz.net
Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social #Logician, #Onomast, #Medievalist, #AcademicMama, #Author, #Immigrant, founder of SFFReviews.com and @EllipsisImprint. Co-president of @ducu. Own views. Robot.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3702100/The_Secret_of_Weepstone/
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
@samroyal.bsky.social @samroyal.bsky.social 
Thomas Grayfson @thomasgrayfson.bsky.social Author of the Pigborne series. Writes dark fantasy shaped by sword and sorcery traditions. Published in CQ Quarterly, S&S Magazine, and Rogues in the House Presents.
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
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https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance.
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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social Artist, RPGer, manga & horror fan. Creator of Mangaka, Cartooner, D&D walkthrough maps, Manga The Complete Guide, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath GN. Spouse & parent. Current project is Dreamland RPG at dreamrpg.com. 
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Bad Computer @badcomputer.bsky.social Game developer currently home-brewing for the SEGA Master System/Mark III.
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EmmyKtz 🐙 The Pink Hydra 🔞 @thepinkhydra.com Emmylou Kotzé, she/her, demi-bi writer of SF, F, ⛓️🖤romance and poetry. Editor of The Pink Hydra. Novella PARTNERS IN CRIME with OMAM Publishing out now! Proudly 🇿🇦. Links at linktr.ee/emmyktz. Check out my Feeds! ✨⚔️
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www.tkillustration.com
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Adam @helpcomputer0.bsky.social Pixel artist.
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Game dev as Badcomputer: https://badcomputer0.itch.io/
Veronica Steiner @vsteiner.bsky.social Watercolor Artist - Wildlife Surrealist
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social Award-winning author of novels and short stories. New novella AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER: out now! GenAI/LLM disliker. Abolish ICE. (she/her)
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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social French Canadian tabletop RPG illustrator
She/her 🤘🏳️⚧️ (ace) old
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https://evlyn.itch.io/
https://evlynsphere.straw.page/
Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social Toronto-based solo-ish game dev of The Crimson Diamond: store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/
Also Strange Scaffold artist www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator (pixel art)
Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social sunflower/human hybrid
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🌱 tenacious earth creature channeling the resilience of nature as inspiration for healing ✨
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The Merry Mushmen @themerrymushmen.bsky.social Olivier, publisher of Knock and stuff at themerrymushmen.com
olivier@themerrymushmen.com
The Reliable Rogue @thereliablerogue.bsky.social Vi Lyons (she/her/they)
Full time artist, dicesmith, mischief maker and rogue.
Part time bard on Sundays.
https://thereliablerogue.com
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markcarney.ca 
Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
Forbidden Fae Dice @forbiddenfae.com ForbiddenFae.com consists of two people who really love making and talking about dice.
https://linktr.ee/ForbiddenFaeDice
⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social promoting all that is wild, dark & enchanting 🌲 supporting animal rescue, rights & welfare 🐾 antifascist ⚔️, vegan Ⓥ, female-run ✨ http://fiadh.bandcamp.com
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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social Wilderness EMT/mountain man/drawer of critters. Illustrated for PBS Eons, NPS, & others. Views are my own.
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Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Fernmage @fernmagemusic.bsky.social 🎹 🏰Fantasy Synthesizer Music 🏰🎹
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Brendan Elliott @brendanelliottart.bsky.social I'm a fantasy artist from Portland, Oregon.
Need an album cover or some art for your next RPG project? I'm open for commission!
Danny Schwartz ➡️ SCG Con Baltimore! @dannyschwartzart.bsky.social Illustration // Character Design // Stories
(Artist for Magic: The Gathering, The Witcher, many assorted Tarot Projects, etc)
http://www.dannyschwartz.com
John R. Fultz @johnrfultz.bsky.social Author
https://www.amazon.com/author/johnrfultz
Caster @darianvjones.bsky.social Animator, Songwriter, Game Dev
They/them
I sell commissioned artwork and asset packs. Links below.
Hope Desiderata @hopedesiderata.bsky.social 
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Abby @arobertswrites.com BSFA-nominated essayist. SFF author you’ve never heard of. SocDem. Tolkien nerd. Relapsed Catholic. Armchair medievalist. She/her. Header by chorischia.bsky.social.
Website: arobertswrites.com
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Betty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social teapot, fannish, she/her
gnaw 𓍊𓋼𓍊 @gnawconwood.bsky.social 30s, they/them, infp, drawing fungus to learn. very friendly to people, but i block grift and ai accounts sorry. pls don’t use my art or text to train models or you’ll be cursed
Ben @bengardi.bsky.social TriAPA contributor, writer, reader.
I love da movies.
Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social Sword & Sorcery Scribbler; overview of publications at https://luanawrites.carrd.co/
Kaiju Konnassoor, co-host of Defend Your Trash Movie; podcast at https://rss.com/podcasts/trashmoviepod/
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social Musician in a love affair with poisonous plants. They/them. Queer, autistic, enby. https://lesliehudson.com
Silú de Mordomoire @silu-de-mordomoire.bsky.social ⚔️ https://dame-silu-de-mordomoire.bandcamp.com/ ⚔️
☄️ dungeon synth / epic black metal / ethereal voices ☄️
🖤 watercolor, digital art, animation 🖤
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🐙 skeptic / rationalist 🐙
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Illustro Obscurum @illustro-obscurum.bsky.social Obsessed with monsters in literature, folklore and mythology from all over the world. Wobbly, taphophile. No gods, no masters.
🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇾🇪
Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social Sparrow, lichen, music fan account
Bird guide in the BC Cariboo
Occasional scholar of of religious history
Exile from the Salish Sea
Gilead @gileadart.bsky.social I draw and paint Sword & Sorcery illustrations and signs and animals and birds and nudes and stuff.
Here's my Linktree https://linktr.ee/gileadartist
Matthew John @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social Matthew John is a writer, game designer, and host of the Rogues in the House Podcast. He's sold fiction to Savage Sword of Conan and Tales From the Magician's Skull, and recently published, ‘To Walk on Worlds.’ Sadly, Crom doesn't care about any of this.
Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social aka Max Alper. Composer, sonic arts educator, and audio worker with opinion. “The Nadia Boulanger of Ableton weirdos.”
Founder of @klangacademy.bsky.social.
Co-host @criticallistening.bsky.social. Based in Hudson Valley. peretsky.xyz
Jeffrey Rosenthal @jeffski.bsky.social Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto, Canada, and author of "Struck by Lightning". Info at: http://probability.ca
MABUSECAST 🔞 🏳️🌈 @mabusecast.bsky.social just a godzilla, horror,sci fi fan starting a podcast devoted to genre films from germany and the dr mabuse series, MABUSECAST! also a monsterfucker and Bisexual
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxslGqhqC0vGIPgG12v9E3Q?view_as=public
Matt Gomez @mxgomez78.bsky.social Writer, pulp fiction ninja, cat dad
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social The Network in Canadian History & Environment.
NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history.
niche-canada.org
Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social mayadeane.com.
I wrote Wrath Goddess Sing, a book that drags other books behind its chariot and boasts about it.
Layssa 🪴🍎 @walayssa.bsky.social brazilian illustrator and dog mom 🐶🌼 she/her
📬: layssavcosta@gmail.com // http://instagram.com/walayssa.art
normal-wife @category-fury.bsky.social I have a PhD in maths. I don't know what any of this shit is and I'm fucking scared. SF6 cfn: normal-wife
Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & £. Re-enchantment is resistance.