Silentsword 🔜 Otakon! @cinderforgsword.bsky.social Cosplay tailor, musician, and NY/PA/DE attorney. Cosplay progress pics, assorted musings. SMT, SaGa, Atelier, FE, Touhou. Pronouns: He. Icon credit: @kariavalon.bsky.social
Anime Home Video Museum @animevidmuseum.bsky.social A collection and showcase of the history of anime home video releases and AV equipment. https://www.animehomevideomuseum.org/
Curated by @TheGreatSG.bsky.social
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Otakon @otakon.bsky.social Otakon is a yearly convention for East Asian culture in Washington DC, USA. Our next event is July 31-Aug 2, 2026.
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Duotrope @duotrope.com Duotrope is an award-winning writers' resource. Search for publishers and agents, track your submissions & more! https://duotrope.com
@duosuma.com is our submission manager.
GreatSG @thegreatsg.bsky.social Is this thing on? I just want to sleep.
The host of Awesomely Bad Japanese Music Videos, the Anime Home Video Museum, and many other panels at east coast cons.
The Vampire Lestat @annerice.amc.com Vampires are real. Tell your mom.
Oze @ozthemagnificent.bsky.social 42 he/him. Just a run of the mill wackadoo. I'm here to have fun and do my best to make the world a better place with the time I have been given.
Wendy @thistleandmoss.com Trans woman, Druid priestess, polyam queer kin 🌾
Tending a hearth for the burned-out and the becoming. Earth magic, queer joy, dispatches from the edges.
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A.M. Giddings @gyromita.bsky.social (She/Her) Scientist, author, independent filmmaker, and cellist.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Mocha Memoirs Press @mochamemoirspress.bsky.social Bold, Fearless Fiction. Amplifying marginalized voices in speculative fiction since 2010.
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Philcon @philconconvention.bsky.social The world's first & longest-running conference on science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Join us LIVE, November 20-22, 2026!
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Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️ @miamurphy.com Chief Policy Officer, Michigan Association of State Universities.
Trustee, Library of Michigan.
MSU 06 / UChicago CIR 07 / MSU HALE PhD 24.
She/her, but I grew up with pockets. Former husband & current wife of a wife. Personal account, skeets are my own.
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. Blue checks happen to other people.
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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov Delaware's Congresswoman.
Congresswoman Sarah McBride and her congressional staff use this page to share news & services relevant to Delaware. This is her official government Bluesky page.
Max (the artist) @madebymaxdesigns.bsky.social North Carolina based multimedia artist making stickers, enamel pins, stained glass, and whatever else I feel like.
Open for comissions!
He/they queer 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
oceans_of_mona 🏳️⚧️ @vanillablue.bsky.social They/She
Queer + trans + non-binary
Tri-Cities, WA ➡️ Bellingham ➡️Columbus
AuDHD
Seattle Seahawks
Columbus Crew + Blue Jackets
Film dork/Blankie
Born into indie rock, moulded by it
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Dark Swarm Publications @darkswarmpub.bsky.social Indie Horror Press. Both English and German translations. Starting soon. Editing services and Translation imprints.
Based in Austria, America and England.
Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social Covers of comics, duh. I do not own this artwork, and I mostly do not own these pictures.
(Avatar: Detail from the cover of Marvel Graphic Novel 2: Michael Moorcock's Elric: The Dreaming City, by P. Craig Russell.)
Cloaked Press @cloakedpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of SciFi/Fantasy/Horror dedicated to lifting unique stories to excite your imagination.
https://linktr.ee/cpllc
Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social Quarterly indie digital magazine featuring weird fiction, science fiction, fantasy & fact.
Editor-in-Chief: @esraye.bsky.social
Issue 6: Summer 2025 live now. Get it free at https://perseidprophecies.ca/
gertymactacular @gertymac.bsky.social Gerty, Gert, Gretchen, Gretchen Evans, billiethepoet.
Spends a lot of time on the internet, reads and writes for fun, asks questions for money. She/her.
Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press.
“A Good Story Will Haunt You”
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Apocalypse Party @apocalypseparty.bsky.social A heavy metal acid trip via literature. Publishing books for the end of the world.
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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Indie/horror/LGBT/classics. 2021 HWA Specialty Press Award. 'Valancourt's publications may be just what you're looking for.' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.com (He/They) Sunday Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Wretch
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Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social indie publisher of amazing horror
Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social Minneapolis-based publisher of short horror and Weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer. Shirley Jackson Award-winning press.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
HornsandRattlesPress @hornsandrattles.bsky.social Indie Press - est. 2023 - Tulsa Oklahoma
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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is a award-winning, San Francisco-based independent publisher specializing in speculative fiction.
Nicole Givens Kurtz @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social Award-winning author of cyberpunk noir, SF mysteries, Fantasy suspense and weird westerns.
Theresa - Use Resistbot. Text RESIST to 50409 @theresaglover.bsky.social writer. misfit. geek. weirdo (the good kind). she/her pronouns.
https://theresaglover.wordpress.com/
Associate publisher at Falstaff Books, an independent genre press in NC. www.falstaffbooks.com
Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social We're an indie press specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, run by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney
(Skeets by TC/N, occasionally SME)
We like intersectional feminism. A lot
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UnderbellyBooks @underbellybooks.bsky.social Indie publisher that explores the dark underbelly of fiction. Currently closed to submissions.
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social https://ghoulish.rip
Award-winning small press specializing in transgressive horror fiction for perverts. Based in Minneapolis.
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
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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
Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
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Projects from @calvindemmer.bsky.social
Horror Writers Association, New York Chapter @hwany.org We’re the horror and dark literature authors from the Tri-State area. Our chapter hosts meetings and local events. We are committed to the professional development and growth of our members. Find out more here:
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J. Yamil @yamilyamilyamil.bsky.social 🇵🇷
RPG editor/writer in Durham, NC
IGDN member / Con Committee of
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Pro GM @ Startplaying.games
Tales from the Tape Deck
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social American-Canadian fantasy author, fashion historian, medievalist, Arthurian, gardener, perfume nerd 🌺 ADHD, she/they, queer 🏳️🌈 👑 | rep: Stacey Graham | My Books --> https://bit.ly/m/nataniabarron
Darin Kennedy - Author @darinkennedyauthor.bsky.social Doctor by Day, Novelist by Night
Author of Fugue & Fable, The Pawn Stratagem, Songs of the Ascendant, Carol, and The April Sullivan Chronicles
Michelle Iannantuono 🐀 🐙🎮🎬 @octopunkmedia.bsky.social Director/Writer of LIVESCREAMERS, LIVESCREAM, & DETROIT EVOLUTION.
Unreal Engine Cinematics Artist
George Romero Fellow.
Loves video games a Normal Amount.
Ace 🌈 She/Her. Charleston SC.
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Morgan Brice/Gail Z. Martin @morganbrice.bsky.social As Morgan Brice I write urban fantasy MM paranormal romance. As Gail Z. Martin, I write epic and urban fantasy. Conrunner for ConTinual. Obsessed fan of Supernatural/J2.
Gold Dust Publishing @gdpub.bsky.social Providing an avenue and safe place for LGBTQIA+ authors to share their artistic talents through fiction or non-fiction writings with the world.
https://linktr.ee/GDPub
Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
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Az Emeritus-Darkblade @azemeritus1986.bsky.social Writer. Artist. Cat parent. Metalhead. 30+ Elder Millennial Mega Nerd that still plays with a Sega Genesis and can do a great impression of AOL Dial Up noises. 
✨️Zombie✨️@ drawing comics @zombieisok.gay Robin Higginbottom/Zombie 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 He/him
✦ I'm gay and so is my art. Often NSFW🔞
✦ 30+ and pursuing my own vision of masculinity 💪💅
✦ available for cover work
zombieisok@gmail.com
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Huxley and Hiro Bookstore @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social Huxley and Hiro: Bookseller in historic downtown Wilmington, Delaware
Mercury Stardust @mercurystardust.bsky.social The Trans Handy Ma'am
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Tally Johnson, THE ghost story guy @tallyjohnson.bsky.social Storyteller, folklorist, author. Expert in all things ghostly in South Carolina and I can hold my own throughout the Southeast. THE ghost story guy at cons! Library branch manager. Proud southern liberal.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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William C. Tracy @wctracy.bsky.social Writing Strange Worlds and Interesting People. Karate Teacher, Cat Wrangler, Beekeeper, and SFWA Member. Bi/Pan, He/Him
https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/
The Mummer's Dansky @rdansky.bsky.social Award-winning narrative expert for video games, writer of fiction and TTRPGs. Author of THE VIDEO GAME WRITER’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING AN INDUSTRY THAT HATES YOU. Former Ubisoft/Crytek/Romero. Lover of scotch, books, Sasquatches, baseball, and cats.
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
CLM 🚫🧊 @yaboimanj.bsky.social Elaine : she/her 💗 30+ Chem-E 🥽🧪⚗️
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Please talk to me about CR 🥺
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social An unofficial bot that spits out a random curated #quote from Frank Herbert's six #Dune books, even though spit is a terrible waste of water.
Originally on Twitter/X: https://x.com/dunequotebot
By: @jasonweiser.com
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Samantha Bryant | She/her @samanthabwriter.bsky.social Samantha Bryant is a multigenre author, best known for her Menopausal Superhero series of novels through Falstaff Books. WFWA, HWA. http://dangerouswhenbored.com
Ret-con @retconnc.bsky.social Ret-con is a fan-run not for profit Speculative fiction and fandom convention. https://www.ret-con.org/
Captain Blue Hen Comics @captainbluehen.bsky.social captainbluehen.com
280 E. Main St., Newark, DE
The oldest comic book store in Delaware. Voted Best Bookstore in Newark, Delaware in 2024 and 2023. Voted Best Comic Book Store in Delaware for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and Best Bookstore in 2014.
@rainbowrecords.bsky.social @rainbowrecords.bsky.social 
Shore Leave Convention @shoreleavecon.bsky.social We are a Sci-Fi/Pop Culture Fan run convention based out of Lancaster, PA. Check us out at https://www.shore-leave.com/
Author T.G. Joye @authortgjoye.bsky.social Trans man, cat dad, author, and occasional solo ttrpg designer.
https://linktr.ee/author.tgjoye
Sword of the Voivode released 10/19/2024
Last Wolves of Paris out 10/26/25
Oddity Prodigy Productions @oddityprodigy.bsky.social Oddity Prodigy Productions is a publisher and creative collective, dedicated to giving voice to writers and dreamers
Our latest anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK, a collection of over 30 superhero prose stories, will be available November 2025!
Dark Harbor Magazine @darkharbormagazine.bsky.social Dark Harbor Magazine is dedicated to publishing high-quality horror fiction and non-fiction that nods to the genre’s iconic roots. Managed by Jimmy Blakemore. Submissions: Open.
NECKSNAP MAGAZINE @necksnapmag.bsky.social Issue Three: FRINGE 🦇 out now!
Horror lit mag with a love for Gothic haunts, body horror, strong experimental voices, and even stronger characters. EIC: johnhanleywrites.bsky.social
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Crone Girls Press @cronegirlspress.bsky.social Crone Girls Press is an indie horror micropress. Come to the shadows, we have good books!
https://linktr.ee/cronegirlspress
AJ Hartley @authorajhartley.bsky.social New York Times Bestselling novelist, Shakespeare professor, fan of Japanese rock music, collaborator with Blink-182's Tom DeLonge, hobbyist, creator, annoyed
author site: www.ajhartley.net
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlh2jTxFoqs&t=10s
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Kyoko M. @misskyokom.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of The Black Parade urban fantasy series, the Of Cinder and Bone science fiction series, The Starlight Contingency (#1), Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda anthology, and Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson anthology.
Michael G. Williams 🏳️🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social I write queer horror & sci fi. Gay, Appalachian native, infosec professional, 2020 Manly Wade Wellman winner, co-host of Arcane Carolinas. He/him. michaelgwilliamsbooks.com #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #SFWA #HWA #LGBTQ #FuckICE
Syrinx @thetemplesofsyrinx.com Music Mixologist of THE TIME WARP ✭ Rhythm Infusionist for Musicians ✭ Sorcerer of Soundscapes for Illusion of Persona ✭ Head of Station Partnership Content and Development for OutWorld Fleet Radio ✪ https://thetemplesofsyrinx.com 
TransMediaWatch @transmediawatch.bsky.social Helping the media report on transgender issues with accuracy, dignity & respect. Helping trans people who are receiving media attention. We tackle the bullies!
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
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