"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Gersande La Flèche @gersande.com Drôle de gouine nonbine qui hockey post sur la Victoire LPHF 🏒 Gym bro. Chronically ill avec zéro chill. Photographe et peut être un jour je terminerai mon roman.
photos.gersande.com
Madona Skaff @madonaskaff.bsky.social Mystery & SF Author
Leesha Hannigan @leeshahannigan.bsky.social Artist for Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons
Art Director for Humblewood, Daggerheart
https://www.leeshahannigan.com/
Saladin Ahmed @saladinahmed.bsky.social I get paid to make Wolverine cry.
tonia laird @tonialaird.bsky.social Writer of novels and video games. Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Everlove: Rose. Novels: Seventhblade, Black Dog (book 1/3) (2027), Michif living in Treaty 6.
No kings, only kin.
www.tonialaird.com
Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social Producer and consumer of the written word. Casual photographer. Liker of cats, cameras, fast cars, and faster apertures.
Radicalized by Basic Decency
Cameras: binaryfossils.blogspot.com
Cars: carsgoneby.blogspot.com
Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social queer & genderqueer 💖 Associate Professor 🎓 creative writer 📓 backpacker 🍄 knitter, spinner, sewist 🧵 leftist ⭐ I teach LGBTQ Studies! 🌈 fuck AI forever, read a real book 📘 rural Ohio, USA 🍀
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Kjipuktuk|Halifax. Inventor #DSPBposts. @tricon-hfx.bsky.social exec. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. Salty. I turn tea into words: steampunk Pride and Prejudice reimagining AETHER AND EGO, Sept 2026, Inanna. https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social Former visual artist. Occasionally still a musician. Mostly writing SF/horror these days, with excursions into amnesiac memoirs. Disabled, keen indoorsman, BLOCKS WITH GAY ABANDON. You were warned. He/him
www.amnesiana.com
Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com ✨ science meets art
🔭 planetary astro PhD + artist
🎨 space-inspired paintings & sci comm
🪶 bird nerd • gamer • cloud watcher
⬇️ art shop, email list, contact
https://stellerarts.com/collections/minis
YouGov America @today.yougov.com YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviors from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks.
https://today.yougov.com/
Join our panel and share your opinion: account.yougov.com
For press inquiries: uspress@yougov.com
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. 💗💜💙
AI is not welcome here
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Bipolar Viscountess @sharilyn.bsky.social Painter, photographer, cyclist, cineaste, journalist
Alcohol-free since 2013. Anti-capitalist views are my own. DMs are open. #bancars
art on IG: @sharilynneidhardt
photos on IG: @johnnieutah
co-founder of @transcenderart.bsky.social
Elias the Extraterrestrial @eliasvarden.bsky.social I bring posts from outerspace
🎃oslowe🎃 @oslowe.bsky.social He/him neurospicy leftist queerdo stoner elder, cat daddy and horror historian. Occasionally funny. Always gorgeous. Over ten years sober! Partnered for almost 30 yrs!I have friends everywhere.1312 🤘🏻🖤🇵🇸
Dena Hankins @denahankins.bsky.social Writer of queer erotica, romance, and SF; sailor traveling the world with James and Beluga Greyfinger on a Baba 30 converted to electric propulsion
ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com bugs and shrews, critters with booze
https://ascalaphid.com
https://bowelfly.tumblr.com
stickers: https://ko-fi.com/ascalaphid/shop
Yeri Martinez-Vallejo @yerivallejo.bsky.social Founder, Realms Media | Psychological thriller & horror filmmaker | Character-driven genre cinema | Bellgrave 2026
@marcus-wood.bsky.social @marcus-wood.bsky.social 
Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social National correspondent for CTV News. Politics. Investigations.Trying to report with empathy. Working mom. Terrible cook. Former refugee. Canadian.
Peter Adrian Behravesh @behravesh.bsky.social Miller Award-winning writer of Persian monstrosities and naftpunk. BFA-winning and Hugo/Ignyte-nominated audio producer. Co-editor of IRAN+100. ایرانی He/him.
Story game designer for MTG at Wizards of the Coast. Opinions are my own. #WotCStaff
Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social 🐙 | Everything you don’t know about Cephalopods
🧬 | Molecular Biologist & Artist
💌 | mmindlinart@gmail.com
⬇️ | Join my sticker club!
bio.site/invertebabe
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. He/him. Views my own. Enemy of AI slop. The photo is me, not some random bloke. Background image from Ymer Island, north-East Greenland.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧
Larisa LaBrant @larisa-labrant.bsky.social She/Her/Hers
Immune Deficient Cat Lady Crone
3rd Gen Coloradoan
I block anyone who supports anti-vaxxers.
If there's a long stream of posts I'm trapped under 1-2-3 cats, and can't move to do anything else (alas, alack, woe)
licia @astra99.bsky.social 
John D Stanway @johndstanway.bsky.social Son of a preacher man. Waiting for the great leap forwards. Happy when it rains. Toronto ⚜️🍁
Caligan Blue @caliganblue.com Web developer, writer, reader, keeper of cats, SF&F fan.
caliganblue.com
Marcia @time2spare.bsky.social Books
Baking
Knitting
🩷
Winnipeg 🇨🇦
StoryGraph: timetospare
Ravelry: Marcia123
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer, manic pixie night hag. Copy editor, Hugo-nommed @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website: pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. No AI. She/her. Rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, occasional arts journalist, rider of adult tricycles, traveler, sports fan, Duolingo addict.
Maya @mayamurphy.com Actor of voice, stage, and screen. Queer chaos gremlin.
SAG-AFTRA.They/She
www.mayamurphy.com
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Marin T. Kael @marin-t-kael.de Fantasy-Autor (er/ihm). Mein Debüt »Das vierte Feld« ist erschienen, Band 1 der Saga »Prägungen des Reiches«. In Varin sind Worte Wirklichkeit.
Daneben ein offenes Forschungslabor: was Sprachmodelle aus einem Roman lesen.
marin-t-kael.de/varin
Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social Eisner & Ringo winning writer: ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN, BUFFY, ANGEL, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN LIVES, BLACK CLOAK, THE CULL, BLACK WIDOW, STORYKILLER, TGWWBK, etc. Co-creator of JEFF THE LANDSHARK 🦈 REPS: Art/Work Ent & Verve. She/Her.
Fern Ally @fern-ally.bsky.social Unabashed biodiversity lover.
Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social A Pole in Hong Kong. Posts about Museums, Pterosaurs and History of Palaeontology 🦴 Dinosaur Doodler 🦖
Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social Author KA Silva: UF, romantasy, horror comedy. Fiction editor. Enby transmasc, he/they, occasional frog. Strange love celebrated, weirdness vindicated. Avatar by Sally Jackson, WENDIGOGO. https://www.graythornpub.com
Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social Author of 14+ fantasy books, including A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON, YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION, and RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND. They/them. Represented by Britt Siess.
Other socials: linktr.ee/alexandrarowland
Matthew @mapoochoo.bsky.social Creator of anthropeum.com (daily artifact guessing game) Coin collector. UW ’27.
History + fishtanks + code
Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social Bestselling, award winning writer, editor, film producer, podcaster, and showrunner. Board of Directors for Scares That Care charity.
Dog & Wolf Press @dogandwolfpress.bsky.social Sideways fantasy and cozy horror from the hour between dog and wolf — when you can't tell the tame thing from the wild one. A press in the making; for now, notes from the workbench. Night is falling.
Hisses with Geese @dasparky.bsky.social Award-winning resting murder face.
Computer toucher, and angry about it.
She/her, but plenty say he/him. All good, don't subscribe to either.
Be a good person.
Erica (they/them) @sickfemme.bsky.social Hi there! I'm an artist and writer. I have chronic pain and debilitating fatigue. I'm 39 and a white person on Lenape land near New York City. I love to crochet, pen pal, and write poetry. Let's be buds!
https://greenowlcrochet.etsy.com
the bat 🦇 (aka Beth) 🐈⬛🏴☠️🏳️🌈 @the-bat.bsky.social She/her. Some flavor of queer. Kitchen witch, cat mom, music lover, book appreciator, TV & movie watcher (Supernatural, Doctor Who, OFMD, horror). #longCOVID #glutenfree #sober
Lily @occultsoup.bsky.social Wife, mother, cook, reader of esoteric and mundane tomes. Occasional agent of chaos. Queer in every sense of the word. She/They
David Altenburg @gensym.bsky.social Chicagoan in SoCal.
Programming, rock climbing, mountain rescue.
Jeanna Cammarano @wordrat.bsky.social Writer of stories. Drinker of beer. Newly minted Canadian. She/her.
Former game dev. || Assistant Editor at Flash Fiction Online. || Words in On Spec Magazine, Podcastle, Pseudopod, Flash Fiction Online, Adventitious, and more.
🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social @Swilua
"An inspiration to bog witches everywhere"— @jermsguy "Ms Frizzle IRL”— @ElleMaeGal “The funniest person I know on Bluesky"—@cstark “Cranky and Annoyed"— @washingtonpost she/fae kerrycoran.com
Timothy Harvey @timothyharvey.bsky.social Just some guy what likes books, movies, music & comics. I try with varying degrees of success to have my opinions not be embarrassing. Has 2 1/2 cats. Indy filmmaker, training coordinator, graphic designer, and occasional website guy.
Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social Bone Jail
I draw comics i think that’s a nice way to spend my time
instagram.com/roryblank
patreon.com/roryblank for my monthly print zine
roryblank.bigcartel.com for cool shirts
https://rawpaw.ink/collections/rory-blank (reprints of a few shirts)
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social Romance novelist, bringing you imaginary history and queer joy. Also known as Alice Degan. (She/her) AI hater.
Buy my books at sextonscottage.com for the cozy yet spicy treat you have been craving! 😉
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Disco Barrington 🏳️⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social Queer dystopian horror author
THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, out now!
British-Trinidadian 🇬🇧🇹🇹 | Trans 🏳️⚧️| Disabled
He/they | Also on TikTok | No GenAI 🚫
discobarrington@gmail.com
Buy my book ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/discobooks
https://discobarrington.carrd.co
Wynn @oddlywynn.bsky.social Oliver Wynn
(he/they) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Illustrator of all things spooky and cozy.
I draw a bird called Lemon and a cat called Lime.
Always shouting about my friends' books.
🚫AI | proudly supporting and making human made art!
oddlywynn.carrd.co
Honey Badger, M.Div. @sondrarbrooks.bsky.social Ordained heretic. Gardening and botanicals. Chunky cyclist. Mother of dogs/hens/deer/bees.
Author of: Not Good Enough Girl. Gold Medal: Poynter Global Ebooks. Silver Medal: Nautilus Book Awards. Silver & Bronze Medal: 2025 North American Book Awards.
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com He / Him - Icelander in Norway
https://linktr.ee/olafurw
L.R. Hockley @wonderandawe83.bsky.social I write*, I code**, I stim***.
*In progress historical dark fantasy
**Python and SQL
***Like a crazy person
John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
https://jconcagh.weebly.com
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social 🔸️writing fantasy & sci-fantasy🔸️living real life adventures🔸️marveling at the mundane & the majestic🔸️breathing courage into your embers
🔸️GentlyRowan on AO3 & Tumblr (HZD)
🔸️photography by me & my husband
🔸️🥔
📷 close up of my hands, green valley beyond
Sarah @academiablues.bsky.social Born to write, paid to therap. Introvert, AI hater, blanket fort maker, order muppet, plant owner, happy in a liminal space. She/her. 🏳️🌈☕🌱⚜️⚡
www.clinpsychsarah.com
Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social Journalist covering the universe and its inhabitants.
Science reporter for Canada's national newspaper The Globe and Mail.
Piano player with an inordinate fondness for E♭.
Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social 15 years in video games, 37 in TTRPGs. 15 Ennie awards. 3 Origins awards. Creator of (or for): Delta Green, The Black Company RPG, GODLIKE. Magic: The Gathering. PROTOTYPE. 🇨🇦 Stop assuming I live in your shit-hole. Thanks.
https://delta-green.com
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social #Queer #Canadian author; Most Recent: DOGS DON’T BREAK HEARTS (queer hi/lo ya), UPON THE MIDNIGHT QUEER (queer holiday collection), TRIAD MAGIC (queer contemp fantasy); He/him 🏳️🌈; Prepare for #Husky photos; 🦖 "Trans Rights or I Bites" 🚫 LLM/GenAI/Substack
âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
Moira Kurtin @moirakurtinwrites.bsky.social Short story and poetry writer, aspiring novelist. 🖤🩶🤍💜
Fondness for the whimsical and the macabre.
🚫AI
I will block anyone I suspect is a bot
No DMs please, I'm not interested in what you're selling
https://moirakurtin.com/
Lora Mitchell (max_servant on Ao3) @maxservant.bsky.social She/They, Writer, Educator, Political Organizer, Armchair Decolonizing Theologian, Unapologetically Black/Queer, A League of Their Own enthusiast, #BlackLivesMatter #KeepTransKidsSafe, #HealthcareisaRight, #NoOneDeservestobePoor, #FreePalestine, #SaveALOTO
Connor Mockett @connormockettwx.bsky.social Canadian Storm Chaser based in Eastern Ontario. For media licensing, please email forecastingbyconnor@gmail.com.
Facebook: Connor Mockett, Storm Chaser and Photographer.
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Britt Ghiroli @brittghiroli.bsky.social MLB reporter for The Athletic. SNY contributor. On IG: @brittghiroli
Read my stories: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/brittany-ghiroli/
Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social Paleontologist & 2-time World Fantasy Award winning F&SF author. McWane Sci. Center & University of Ala. research assoc. (mosasaurs, turtles, PETM). Humanist. Classical liberal. Irish Appalachian. Math nerd. Anti-fascist. Trans; LGBTQ+ They/them/she/her.
Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social Small press specializing in horror, sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, zines, poetry, and reprints. Voted best small press by our EIC's mom. We used to be From Beyond Press. agitapublishing.com
Writeups.org @writeups.org One of the classic tabletop role-playing game resource websites, profiling thousands of published characters from various media (but mostly superhero comics).
#TTRPG / #comics / #MECFS / #DCHeroes #Mutantsandmasterminds
T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social Author of The Wildcraft Drones (2026 @stelliform.press), The Cursed Blade of Wek (2027 @neonhemlock.bsky.social) and numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories, with more on the way. Newsletter, events & stuff: tkrex.wtf
🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social @beneprism.rip's pre-wife and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry
Semiotics, Assyriology, Kuhn, literature, writing, and border collies.
Liberal. Words mean how they're used. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
Pixie @pinkpunkpixie.bsky.social Emo poetry and chaos.
Friends of the Merril Collection @merrilfriends.bsky.social A volunteer organization to support and promote the Merril Collection of SciFi, Speculation, and Fantasy, a public access collection in Toronto.
https://friendsofmerril.org/
juniper fiona apple rust: myriadic migraine edition @juniperriver.bsky.social Cat and fiber arts enthusiast. Semiferal hypermobile autistic.
She/her.
🕯️ ice must be destroyed 🕯️
Nato Green @natogreen.bsky.social Comedian union organizer writer dad Frisco. he/him https://linktr.ee/natogreen
shalea @shalea.bsky.social Mostly reposting art. (she/her)
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
Jenn Jefferys @jennjefferys.bsky.social larry david trapped in the body of a protestant woman in her thirties. mostly on twitter still due to masochism. blocker of all slop.
(personal account/views mine)
📍 ONTARIO, CANADA
Mountain & Myth Fantasy Cartography @mountainandmyth.bsky.social Bringing your fantasy world to life! We create hand drawn maps for your D&D/Pathfinder or other ttrpg games.
Commissions are OPEN: https://tally.so/r/obEbob
https://mountainandmyth.com
https://ko-fi.com/mountainandmyth
Into the Weird @intoweird.link Lover of SF art, comic books, cult cinema, weird fiction, and old cartoons. ITW is also a blog, podcast, and newsletter. Views: Liberal. All posts by Herm 💫
Website: https://intotheweird.art
☕️: https://ko-fi.com/darklongbox
Bozhinski Handmade @bozhinskihandmade.bsky.social Master of yarn, thread, and fabric - dabbling in my own designs with knitting, crochet, and sewing. Creating handcrafted, sustainable fashion from my cozy corner in sunny California!
🛍️ https://rb.gy/e8o9b5
🧶 www.bozhinskihandmade.com
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social It's like "ANGER" but with an E. Cartoonist & Illustrator. Creator of DEATH TO THE WIZARD KINGS and CASKET LAND, Dirt-slinger fired to Cone 6. Open to cartooning, visdev, & illustration work. They/Them ∅. No NFTs, No AI. Chicago via StL. www.so-engery.com
Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social I design & write stories about online society, virtual embodiment and the technocapitalist future. game dev, presenter, consultant et al
Everything is narrative design
mean lesbian 🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/leighalexander