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@victorianations
Florida horror writer & biologist. Gothic horror & monsters with emotional baggage. ππ©Έππ³οΈβπ π@Mdnight_Society & #Netherworld 4ever. HWA/SFPA/SFWA. She/her. https://linktr.ee/VictoriaNations
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Time has NOT run out, & each of us can make an impact on recovering our ecosystems & reducing our use- through our time, through our effort, through our political engagement, through our thoughtful conversations with loved ones. #2026MMM
And wars of greed, hate, & empire, cough, I mean current and expanding military conflicts, threaten people, wildlife, & landscapes in increasingly catastrophic ways. #2026MMM therevelator.org/war-harms-wi...
Even USAID that HAD BEEN the leading purchaser of food grown by American Farmers, helped support wildlife protection by investing in people, parks, & communities in the ecotourism sector. THESE ESSENTIAL USES OF THE PUBLIC ENDOWMENT HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING DISMANTLED #2026MMM
Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.so... β’ 19m The Bone Collector Caterpillar is drawn to the ant carcasses on Assassin Bug... another easy meal! #2026MMM Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.so... β’ 18m The Assassin Bug is drawn to the prominent ant head attached to the Caterpillar... ants are the most preferred meal! #2026MMM
When my horror and insect loves collide. The wild card matchup of #2026MMM is brilliant!
Stylized "wild card" cards of both insects wearing their corpse suits (described in coming battle).
FIRST & ONLY UP TONIGHT: Bone Collector Caterpillar (Hyposmocoma) vs. Assassin Bug (Acanthaspis petax) #2026MMM
Now, for the singing of the Animal Anthem, played annually for this Wild Card event since 2013... Three Dog Night with "Joy to the World" www.youtube.com/watch?v=as8K... #2026MMM
Bracket for March Mammal Madness
Got my #2026MMM bracket done! I love my invertebrates (and a plant!), but I always end up Team Mustelid.
Check out March Mammal Madness to make your own bracket
@mmmletsgo.bsky.social
Photo of the cover of EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU with a person in a gingham dress, holding a pie and a knife. A screen porch and sunny woods are in the background.
Just finished EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU, a tradwife murder mystery, and watching How To Get To Heaven From Belfast. Both fun romps with insidious little secrets.
What are yβall reading and watching this weekend?
Some fabulous #horror folks are part of Read for Pixels 2026, fighting violence against women worldwide. Check out the link for panels, readings, AMA's, and other goodies. ππ©Έ
Photo of a page from the novel, Dracula: The Escaped Wolf Lucy Westenra's Diary. 17 September.βFour days and nights of peace.
Today's DRACULA bibliomancy was hopeful.
Photo of two cats sitting on different levels of a bench, staring intently at a wooded yard and bird feeder
Sunday morning on the porch with poetry and an audiobook, while the cats watch bird TV.
Baby brittle stars dislodged from their sponge home.
TONIGHT! The Creative Expression Club and the Library invite you to Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word Night! Students, faculty, staff and community are welcome! Read your own work or share something that you love, or just come listen and cheer folks on. Food and drinks will served. Free parking is available next to the Viking Center. February 23 5:30-7PM St. Johns River StateCollege, Viking Center (V Building) 2990 College Dr, St. Augustine, FL
TONIGHT! The Creative Expression Club and the Library invite you to
Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word Night!
Food and drinks will be served. Free parking is next to the Viking Center.
February 23
5:30-7PM
St. Johns River State College
Viking Center (V Building)
2990 College Dr, St. Augustine, FL
Manatee coming up for air in a clear, spring fed river
Florida gar in a clear, spring fed rive
Anhingas sunning themselves by a clear, spring fed river
Twisted pine in a flatwood forest
Hanging by a spring, ogling wildlife, never gets old.
A wonderful camping weekend with my sweetie.
If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. Weβve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. Weβre currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk
March Mammal Madness is nearly here! @mammalssuck.bsky.social (who had one of the best biology handles ever) has shared the #2026MMM teaser trailer below!
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the TaΓnos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
OUT TODAY @titanbooks.bsky.social ! So grateful to tell the stories those who came before me couldnβt or were not permitted to. I do believe we are here for ourselves and for our ancestors. Writing is more than a book for me.
THANK YOU READERS!
Grab a copy
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maria-the-...
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
Photo of a white and gray tabby cat sitting on top of a shelf with a skull wearing a hair band, a spinner with a skeleton girl in the middle, a lamp with a tree branch shade, a piranha, and various other spooky knickknacks
Photo of a brown tabby cat sitting on a black bookshelf filled with the best of horror anthologies, with a shelf above him with a pink skull and other horror books
That peaceful time of the morning in the writing chair, trying to ignore cat shenanigans.
Look at the lineup at @nighttidemag.bsky.social !
π¨Submissions are now openπ¨
Between Feb 1βJuly 31, Slashic Horror Press will be accepting submissions for novels and novellas in any horror sub-genre. The only pre-requisite? It has to be QUEER.
Slashic has always, and will always, only publish queer horror.
You inspire me AND you're hilarious. I'm so glad to know you, poison toad warrior!
Photo through a microscope ocular of diatoms in a star pattern
Photo through a microscope ocular of a chain of diatoms with setae
Photo through a microscope ocular of a singular, sharp diatom
Photo through a microscope ocular of planktonic material
Lost in the beauty of diatoms and other plankton this morning.
Some fabulous #horror folks are part of Read for Pixels 2026, fighting violence against women worldwide. Check out the link for panels, readings, AMA's, and other goodies. ππ©Έ
I'm heartened today by the exceptional resistance by Twin City folks, reported by @margaret.bsky.social.