Polenth Blake

@polenth.bsky.social

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Fantasy and science fiction writer/artist with a tendency towards ecology and quietly strange things. Keeper of invertebrates and fish. Enjoys walking simulators and Second Life. Multiply marginalised. Website: http://www.polenthblake.com

The quiet space. A liminal tunnel with a concrete floor, painted walls, and strings of light bulbs zigzagging the ceiling. The end has steps leading up to daylight.
Promo graphic with a photo and text surrounded by book covers. The text reads: Friendship Centred SFF Book Bundle, 37 Books, Feb 1st-15th, Photo by Helena Lopes, itch.io. The photo shows four friends with their backs to the camera and arms around each other. Covers: The Unidentified Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys Walking the Knife's Edge Bonkpocalypse Bad Grains A Spark in Space The Damsel An Uncommon Curse Courage Is the Price Puppetry Duckett & Dyer, Dicks For Hire The Old Goat and the Alien Spirits of the Relentless Without Wings Clipped Sing In Me, Holy One, and Through Me The Lucky Machine The Lost Star Chart Werecockroach Rescue from the Orc Fortress Riyati Ripple Wherever the Stars Call The Crows Woodspell Common Accord Awakenings River of Crows A Study on Magic and Crystals Once Upon A Wave of Witches Fortitude Waters Dust & Lightning The Re-Emergence
A screenshot from the indie game "Everything". The player is a herd of low polygon unicorns rolling across a purple planet (they don't have animations, they just roll along). A giant bacteriophage virus is next to the unicorns. Various alien trees are in the distance.
A graphic with 16 covers with text "Narratess Indie Book Sale August 2025. Sci-Fi Bundle" Wasteland Heart by Al Hess Secrets of PEACE by T. A. Hernandez Debunked: Volume One of the Terravenum Chronicles by Dito Abbott Walking the Knife’s Edge by Elise Carlson Werecockroach by Polenth Blake The Warm Machine by Aimee Cozza Unburnt by A.M. Weald Cat/Mouse: An Allied Space novella by Eliza Mares Moral Laundry by Conrad Altmann The Edge of a World by JD Rivers Mechanical Heart by Beverly Anne Michel Kotov Syndrome by S. Morgan Burbank Bridges of Smoke by Julie March In Spite of the Inevitable by Morgan Biscup Ancient as the Stars by Maya Darjani A Spark in Space by Janina Franck
Part of an unfolded paper map of the Discworld.
The DVD box of Source Code (2012 Hugo finalist) showing Jake Gyllenhaal pushing through weird shiny code squares.
A person holds an electric guitar and is dressed in grunge fashion with a flannel shirt, ace pride unicorn shirt, woolly hat, and purple scarf over their face. Their greying hair is messy wavy curls, in the true grunge fashion of trying to look like hair brushes are for other people.
Pages showing Edward Lear poems, focusing on an image where a man hits another man with a hammer. The limerick reads: There was an Old Person of Buda, Whose conduct grew ruder and ruder; Till at last, with a hammer, they silenced his clamour, By smashing that Person of Buda.
The book cover of Captain Eco and the Fate of the Earth. An angry superhero with Earth for a head points at pollution. Children look on. On the Earth model thing by them, various climate disasters are shown and there are planes. I placed a rubber band around one of them.
The top of a bronze statue showing a person dressed for cricket holding a cricket bat up, as though just after hitting the ball. An ice cream van and a shopping centre can be seen behind the statue.
A maroon hot drink takeaway cup for Costa Coffee. It sits on a tray with a blurred street behind it.
A wall made by stacking gum pieces like bricks. They're stuck together with icing. A gum container for Wrigley's Extra Refreshers is behind the wall.
The disk case and booklet for Microsoft Office, Student and Teacher Edition 2003. The case has a very 2000s office with wood floor, beige walls, and one bright yellow accent wall. The computer monitor is an old CTR monitor. The booklet shows a more casual sofa office, also with a bright yellow accent wall.
A rough pink stone (rose quartz) candle holder with a lit candle on a purple background.
The cover of WERECOCKROACH by Polenth Blake is at an angle on a green background. The cover has hand drawn letters and a hissing cockroach drawn in brown and black wax crayon. Captions surround the cover in a childish messy font with arrows pointing at things. Captions pointing at the cockroach: wiggly antennae, cute face, little feets, tough outside, squishy soft inside, danger attack spikes, more little feets. Captions pointing at the title: i love wax crayons, beautiful hand drawn letters. Captions for the book: friendship, this book is ace, aliens wearing hats, gentle, full of yay, sarcastic, buy this book (trust me i'm a professional).
The cover of EVERYDAY ALIENS by Polenth Blake is on a black background. The cover has a complex doodle of alien life in rainbow colours on black, drawn by the author. The title and author are in a black box in the centre, with an alien worm separating the two. Captions surround the cover in the same rainbow font. Captions pointing at the book cover read: Xenofiction, Weird, Flash Fiction, Citations, Speculative Biology, Slice-of-(Alien)Life, Poetry, Starfish Aliens and Very Alien Aliens. A caption points across the cover to the worm which reads: Fred.
Four gingerbread unicorns. They're light brown and decorated with sweets and glitter icing. They have side symbols (sweets) like My Little Pony. Everything is dusted with silver powder glitter. They're clearly homemade and each one is a bit different.
Two book covers. Left is a colourful squid drawn in chalk pastels on a black charcoal background. The text reads "Rainbow Lights" and "Polenth Blake" in a formal serif font. Right is a blue/purple blue jay bird illustration with vines. The eroded san-serif font reads "The Bigfoot Mysteries #1", "Sunstruck" and "Polenth Blake".
A small aquarium with tiny transparent danio fish fry. Starts with an open shot of the fry darting around in open water. Ends with a fry swimming by a tangle of aquatic moss and hair algae. Filter humming sounds.
A kaleidoscope fractal where the repeating sections are a closeup photo of a black and white cat face. Infinite pink cat noses at every scale.
A black writing desk photo taken at an angle. A keyboard with rainbow lights is on the keyboard shelf and a monitor showing my author website is on the main desk. Other items include various colourful stim toys, plushies, dowsing pendulums, a fiberoptic flower ball, a rusty steampunk lamp, sweets and a mug of tea with owls on it. Work items are pots of pens, pencils, paint brushes and feathers, plus various notebooks. A cuddly owl sits in the in-tray because he hasn't been processed yet. It's tidy and free of dust. The bookshelf in the background is not.
A rough hand-drawn comic. Panel 1: "I MADE A COMIC" filled with branching lines. Panel 2: "IT HAS" and crosshatching. Panel 3: "PANELS" and wavy lines. Panel 4: A large panel filled with colourful eyeballs. Their irises are the only colour in the comic. The top says "AND EYEBALLS" and the bottom "WHICH MAKES IT THE BEST".
A photo with two wax crayons in a cardboard egg box. The crayons are worn down from use. Slightly blurred in the distance is a toast sandwich on a chipped plate.
A promo picture with the cover of Werecockroach (a cockroach in wax crayon). The text around the cover reads: Kraken Collective & Friends. Rin moves into a new flat on the day the aliens arrive, only to find that something odd is going on with their new flatmates. 99 cents. www.krakenfriends.claudiearseneault.com
A silly horse that looks like it was drawn badly with a mouse in a graphics program. It has a round fuzzy black body with purple spots. The legs, head and tail stick outwards from the body. "Mind Horse" is written above the horse and one leg has the artist signature of Pol '22. There is nothing majestic or realistic about the horse.
A rainbow cat painting. The cat is sitting and facing the viewer with his tail wrapped around his feet. He looks happy. The art is black ink outlines with acrylic painted fur in patches of rainbow colour. Like a tortie only more rainbow.
The cover of WERECOCKROACH by Polenth Blake is at an angle on a green background. The cover has hand drawn letters and a hissing cockroach drawn in brown and black wax crayon. Captions surround the cover in a childish messy font with arrows pointing at things. Captions pointing at the cockroach: wiggly antennae, cute face, little feets, tough outside, squishy soft inside, danger attack spikes, more little feets. Captions pointing at the title: i love wax crayons, beautiful hand drawn letters. Captions for the book: friendship, this book is ace, aliens wearing hats, gentle, full of yay, sarcastic, buy this book (trust me i'm a professional).