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oarditi, to bookstodon
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The heart of this collection is an excoriating and hilarious satirical novella about the post-war American comics industry, but my favourite was ‘Hypothetical Lizard’, a stunningly beautiful queer secondary-world fantasy.
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historyshapes, to histodons
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Something fishy is going on...

...your food 🐟 🏺

Check out garum, the ancient Roman condiment made from fish guts left out in the sun ☀️

https://www.historyshapes.com/featured/garum/

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GuyDudeman, to comicstodon
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The in was just fantastic. Also, the Ugnaughts, er, I mean "Gnomes" make another appearance.

Really looking forward to the new series from @jamesgunn (especially if it resurrects this style/humor).

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fictionable, to bookstodon
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After triumphing at the @BBCRadio4 , Naomi Wood picks her top five short stories, running the gamut from tenderness to trash talk.

Catch it at https://fictionable.world/blogs/my-top-five-short-stories-naomi-wood

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'Flowers are useful to no one.' Catriona Bolt stitches a growing obsession in her mycological short story, Bloom.

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projektmyra, to buchstodon German
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Teil 1 (auf dem Balkon bei Sonnenuntergang): & , aus der Reihe der , von . Von , Zeichnung - zugleich nicht verknüpft zeigen doch beide Geschichten, wie eng verknüpft alle griechisch-römischen Mythen sind. Echo, Nemesis, Galathea, Paphos (die Großmutter von Myrrha)... und immer wieder Hybris. @buchstodon Relevanz: so wie im Bild ist es wenn CHA20+ vorbeigeht.

Zwei Frauen schauen dem schönen Narziss hinterher: "Da ist er" - "Was für ein Glück! Wären wir später gekommen.."

fictionable, to bookstodon
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Annie's watching telly in the staff flat and wondering when her life will really start in Matching up the Pattern at the Join by Shauna Mackay.

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Image: Forbes Johnston

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projektmyra, to random German
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Abendlektüre auf dem Balkon: - aus der Reihe der von Luc Ferry, von und - wieder schon gemacht und grossartig gezeichnete - - @buchstodon

Zeichnung Königspalast Theben

fictionable, to bookstodon
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When Lowe applies for an internship, he’s offered a job. Seán Padraic Birnie calculates profit and loss in The Medical Room.

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Delighted to announce that my book about superheroes, their fans, and the radical imagination has been published by punctum books, an independent non-profit press, and a rather brilliant one at that!

It's open access with 3 easy ways to grab a copy (link below)!

  • buy a copy (a great way to support me and punctum books)

  • donate and download a copy

  • download a free copy (and, if you enjoy it, buy a copy and support an awesome OA press)

https://ellenkirkpatrick.substack.com/p/unmakingworlds

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CommonMugwort, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I don’t read a lot of horror, almost none. But Beasts of Burden never disappoints #comics

fictionable, to bookstodon
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When we offer a stranger help, where should we draw the line? Irena Karpa tests the boundaries in Fellow Traveler, a short story translated by Kate Tsurkan.

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A series of letters arrives on sheets of old paper in I Can't Tell by @mjohnharrison But what are they communicating?

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Image: Sherrie Thai

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