Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare @bbo-falstaff.bsky.social Sir John Falstaff. Knight errant. Cupbearer of chaos.
From @bitbardofficial.bsky.social Shakespeare Troupe—where 5 characters toast the absurd.
Scenes on BitBard · I mostly reply here · explore.bitbard.io
Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social THE EYE OF LEVIATHAN July 14th! Author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent. Also one half of M.A. Carrick. She/her.
Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social Drawing. Previously for Two Graves, Black Canary, Hawkeye, The Venture Bros. and other things.
anniewuart.com
anniewuart@gmail.com- A Adam Strong-Morse @ahstrongmorse.bsky.social Game designer, entrepreneur, lawyer (but not your lawyer), and general geek. Founder (no longer involved) of Choice of Games and Hosted Games.
Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social Cartoonist/Nerd. Creator of FoxTrot
Mae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com Creator of Real Life Comics way back in 1999, and occasionally since then. Old™ of some repute. Involuntary Delightful.🏳️⚧️ she/her.
Paul Gadzikowski 🔞 @sc4rfm4n.bsky.social cartoonist
he/him
12 years old since 1971
creator of The Hero Of Three Faces http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/aaaa.htm
and of Arthur King Of Time And Space (concluded) http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com
blogging, reposts, and art, mine & others', some NSFW
Katherine Monasterio @katherinewashere.bsky.social editor, author, and oxford comma advocate || easing back into professional-adjacent sosh meeds with occasional fandom yodelings || she/her || https://linktr.ee/katherinemonasterio
Hana Das is writing & illustrating @hanawrites.bsky.social Indofuturist • Author • Illustrator • Sindhi-Bengali writing queer SFF set along the Silk Roads • 30 years in fandom, fashion designer/corsetier by trade • she/sir • 🏳️🌈 #DECOLONIZE #BIPOC #ActuallyAutistic #hEDS♿ #InvisibleDisability FKA Hana Soh
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Erik Larsen @eriklarsen.bsky.social Savage Dragon perpetrator
Greg Nix @chortle.blog Head Hog @ Chortle Blog
www.chortle.blog
Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social Writer of books, short stories, comics, and other things. Friend to cats and sometimes people. She/her. https://www.kathowardbooks.com/ and https://epigraphtoepilogue.substack.com/
Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social Speculative writer, reader, marketing coach, tea drinker | SFWA | VP '23 | Stories in Strange Horizons, Haven Spec, Trollbreath, Ghastling |
Digging: hibiscus tea, space opera, summer peaches | she/her #specfic #sff
linktr.ee/allisonpottern | pottern.com
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social mayor of drawing lesbians
she/her | concept artist @UbisoftParis | comic artist (working with Oni Press, Titan, Lifeline Comics) | IG : @chlo_wski
no AI 🚫
Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social Mapmaker by day, spec fic writer by night. Opinions my own. Codex. She/her. A RIVER WIDE (horror novella) coming SEPTEMBER from Interstellar Flight Press. Currently raising a toddler, so I have ten whole brain cells.
http://amandajmcgee.com
Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social Fantasy illustrator. She/her. Kingston, ON.
Portfolio at https://kimsokol.com
Commissions at http://commissions.kimsokol.com
https://linktr.ee/kimsokol
Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social Writer. Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul. Rings of Power. Several pilots lost to the whims of a fickle system.
Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social Web serialist & author, first book Quill & Still (cozy queer slice of life portal fantasy). SF Area software engineer, reader, gamer, she/her dad, liberal atheist half-Arab Jew. Gender is complicated, Blåhaj is soft.
https://aaron.sofaer.net/
Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social Cartoonist and skiffy writer. 2022 Inkpot winner. Narbonic, Skin Horse, Willowweep Manor, Steam. Repped by Brent Taylor.
https://www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon
Rebecca Bact @rebeccabact.bsky.social Tree hugger, dog lover, letter writer, New Englander.
Ryka Aoki @rykaaoki.bsky.social USA Today and LA Times bestselling author and stuff. ✨🎻🍩🚀🎵💖 Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff.
Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social Author. Many books, including SABRIEL, the five other Old Kingdom novels; THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and sequels; THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM series, lots more. And stories. Adult SF/horror MASSIF out Sept 2026. www.garthnix.com
vicky 🌻 @crowwkui.bsky.social ✍️ doodles
🚫 no AI
print shop: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/crowwkui/
Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social Nat-sec professional, dog and cat lover, martial artist, external processor, Balloon Juice's emergency back up food goddess (I have a tiara and everything!). You can find me here: https://balloon-juice.com/category/silverman-on-security/
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social Multi-award-winning reporter at @kotaku.com. Formerly: @ign.com, @gibiz.bsky.social, and more. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. Email: rvalentine@kotaku.com Signal: duckvalentine.47
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social Galatians 5:12. Abolish ICE.
Punchyninja @punchyninja.bsky.social Video Game Artist by day, Comic Artist at Night 
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Evidence, law teaching, crosswords, jokes.
Keith Ammann @themonstersknow.com ENNIE-winning author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing, Making Enemies and other stuff. Humanist, antifascist, curmudgeon. ✶✶✶✶
Home: spyandowl.com
Blog: themonstersknow.com
Newsletter: onefootinfairyland.com
Mastodon: dice.camp/@KeithAmmann
Dr Artyom Trakhanov @vor-bokor.bsky.social (Sometimes Tucović)
Comics:
The 7 Deadly Sins/First Knife/Slavic Nihilism/SHARP EYE
Games:
Cantata/Dread Delusion/ENTROPY
bio.site/ohotnig
OR
patreon.com/ohotnig
ohotnig.itch.io / ohotnig.gumroad.com
inprnt.com/gallery/ohotnig
buymeacoffee.com/ohotnig
Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social Hugo award winning illustrator/designer (and sometimes cosplayer) in Aotearoa 🌼 I love fantasy, fungi & books!
she/her
layaroseart.com/links
overgrowncomic.com
Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social Create. Investigate. Celebrate.
Writer, Producer, & friend of Muppets
Pitter Patty Finds Another Day, 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest Winner,2019 BFF Author of the Year, #ViableParadise 23
Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social GM and producer and music composer for Crudely Drawn Swords, lead guitarist for The Patient Wild, Game Designer for The Hallowed Walk and Trilogy, Programmer, Horse Trainer, dork-ass-loser and now apparently novelist? 
E. B. Gross @ebgross.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social Work at Eastern Michigan University. I like to teach, I like to talk, I research gender, families, values & ethics.
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social the tallest child in the world!! https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/the-french-drain-i-dug-back-in-2019
Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social Hyper local in Somerville, MA. FOIA requests & long threads live-tweeting city meetings. Also @fdmts- B Bravo @bravolimapoppa.bsky.social SF&F fan, fencer, dog lover, cook, long Covid sufferer
FightinCowboy @fightincowboy.com Content Creator, variety streamer, and professional weeb. I probably guided you through Elden Ring. Business Inquiries: fightincowboy@screenwavemedia.com
Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social The game designer behind Star Crossed, For the Queen, Precious Little Animal, POP!, Hero Dog Saves Town, Our Time on Earth, Rat Trash Party, and more. helloalexroberts.carrd.co please send inquiries to helloalexroberts at gmail
Shen Tao @dragons.bsky.social USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poet Empress
https://linktr.ee/ThePoetEmpress
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com
https://courtney-floyd.com
🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com
✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
🚫a👁️
Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social Author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. Freelance consultant on science policy, policy science, and the future of democracy, governance, and networks. Queer Jewish parent, foodie, cognitive science nerd, collective decision-making wonk.
김성일 Sung-il Kim @sung-il-kim.com SF/판타지/호러 소설가; SF 어워드 수상 (단편 1, 장편 1). SFFH writer. Blood of the Old Kings, Blood for the Undying Throne out now, published by Tor. Crawford Award 2025 Honour List, Locus 2026 finalist. Represented by grb@grb-agency.com.
Laura Cranehill @lauracranehill.bsky.social Strange motherings and odd bodies. Weird horror written by a weird horror. 🌈
WIFE SHAPED BODIES out now from Saga Press
Lauracranehill.com
Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
https://www.danieljoseolder.net/
Skylight Social @skylight.social ✨Join Skylight, report bugs, suggest features:
https://beacons.ai/skylight.social
to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social cats not cops • she/her
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social voice actor | represented by CAA | prozdkp@gmail.com
Pop Heist @popheist.com Hi. We’re Pop Heist, a worker-owned media company stealing pop culture back from the algorithm.
popheist.com
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. Also a boatload of occasionally award winning/losing short fiction. coined the term "omelas hole."
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com Free now of the chains of Twitter, traveling the world and doing good. Dispensing the best dating advice on the Internet. Send your dating questions to doc@doctornerdlove.com.
Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social Atlanta baseball fan. Music lover. American Jew.
M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
Sebastian Deken @sebsational.bsky.social I owe you one, so I'm gonna jam up your opera!
Author of FINAL FANTASY VI for @bossfightbooks.com: bit.ly/final-fantasy-vi
Contributor and executive officer @popheist.com
he/him/homo
Tochi Onyebuchi @tochitruestory.bsky.social Dope writer, mid gamer.
Riot Baby (2020)
Captain America: Symbol of Truth (2022-2023)
Goliath (2022)
Harmattan Season (2025)
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet (2025)
Substack: tochionyebuchi.substack.com
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...😜
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Huēhuecacalli @unrequitedjoy.bsky.social Enby Gremlin, aspiring storyteller and gamescrafter, amature millennial, goggles-spouse.
Rated PG-13 due to sequences of monster action, violence and destruction, and for some language.
Towering Clam, the Blue Sky @toweringclam.bsky.social Sexy horror clown. she/her. Trans and queer. Reluctant MILF. Vaguely Jew-ish. Rakdos-Marduist. Veteran but don't thank me. Occasional content creator
Diablo Graves @diablograves.bsky.social Just a guy with some cats.
Sam Justice @illumas.bsky.social 
TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social A community project delivering you new pose reference packs monthly.
Both free & premium!
⦿ Learn More: trueref.io
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⦿ All posted refs are free to use.
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)
https://www.patreon.com/one_true_sentence
Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social Author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, the Seven Kennings, and more. Into nature photography, metal, and beard maintenance. https://kevinhearne.com Newsletter: https://wordsandbirds.ink
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov Your U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Product safety info, data, and recalls. Standing for safety since 1972. Official account of the USCPSC. HQ: Bethesda, MD.
Subscribe for recall emails on CPSC.gov.
Report unsafe products on SaferProducts.gov
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com Recently: Seek the Traitor's Son (dystopian fantasy)
Next: The Sixth Faction (a Divergent alternate universe story)
FT @fucktheory.bsky.social Here we go again. History is fractal.
linktree.com/fucktheory
www.patreon.com/fucktheory
Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/dynamicsymmetry
@flglmn.bsky.social @flglmn.bsky.social 
Geonn Cannon @geonncannon.bsky.social old-school village idiot.
innocent bystander.
writer.
He/him
https://linktr.ee/geonncannon
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Tansy Gardam @tansyg.bsky.social chaotic foolish. writer, critic and recovering TV producer. host of Going Rogue, a podcast about troubled films and the industry that makes them, if you even care.
Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social He/Him, Husband to Sandra Tayler, Father of Four, Fully Vaxxed, #mecfs/#LongCovid, howardtayler.com, schlockmercenary.com, writingexcuses.com. This feed is 100% artisanal human me.
Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social all the people want fire. maybe it's time they meet the dragon.
geoffreythorne.com
https://www.youtube.com/@ThorneIdentity
patreon.com/winterman
https://geoffreythornebooks.com
Avani @avani.bsky.social ML/Systems researcher with delusions of neuroscience and cryptography. Currently @Cloudflare and Emory. Dilettante SFF writer. Fellow of Odd Salon. I like to play the drums. #vp2023 #cw2026.
https://linktr.ee/circumviso
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Ryan North @ryannorth.ca You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The Fantastic Four / Flash / Squirrel Girl guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?
Look... I'm a lot of guys
🔗 ryannorth.ca
ConFusion Michigan @confusionmi.bsky.social ConFusion 2026, "MAGICAL CONFUSION," will take place from January 30 to February 1, 2026 at the Sheraton Hotel in Novi, Michigan.
https://2026.confusionsf.org/
#ConFusionSF #ConFusionMI
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social Science Fiction/Fantasy author and English professor; shorts in Analog, F&SF, BCS, and elsewhere. Author of The Saga of the Redeemed and If Wishes Were Retail and also Faceless Galaxy; website aahabershaw.com
Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social
He/Him
Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social A damp, drizzly November soul 🐳 Writer and Dork. Viable Paradise 2022. Fiction in Otherside.
If you feel like throwing me a buck:
https://ko-fi.com/ishmaelcat
Ian McLean @mrthewalrus.bsky.social Fond of real science and imaginary worlds, cursed with a knowledge of software engineering.
Staff Engineer for state government.
Might have coined the term 'Dire Millennial'. He/him.
brian j. @talkwordy.bsky.social kit kat enthusiast. former journalist, always editor. founder of Fireside Fiction Company. i delete my old skeets on the regular. he/him
Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social Satire is my business. NY Times bestselling author of 19 novels, including Lamb, Fool, Noir, Razzmatazz, and Anima Rising (released May 2025).
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
Shanna Germain (she/her) @shannagermain.bsky.social The she-devil you know.
Schrodinger's brat. Vorpal blonde. Bisexual brainlicker. Prince of a Thousand Enemies. Expletive infixator.
Award-winning game designer and writer.
Fuck is my favorite word and I think you're amazing.
www.shannagermain.com 
Scott H. Andrews @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social Writer, editor, chemistry lecturer, guitarist, builder, connoisseur of aqueous solutions of malted barley.
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com YA and Romance Author/Anthologist. LGBTQReads founder. Macaron aficionado. SOON BY YOU out now from SMP. Rep: Patricia Nelson. She/her. Update your website.