Rhiannon Rasmussen

Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History

27 Nov 2025

THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT collects dark tales that run the speculative genre gamut, concluding with the epic 16,000 word titular novella "The Maidens of Midnight." 12 eerie stories, 13 interior illustrations, 168 pages, limited to 150 copies. Coming December 2025. Pre-order now: bit.ly/3XyScs6

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@smmnh.bsky.social

Titanus giganteus is the world's largest beetle! They can grow up to 7 inches long and are native to tropical forests in South America.

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Dim Shores

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Let’s go… First time vending in years, hope folks show up. 1. Those are real copies of Suffering the Other, arrived from the printer yesterday. Orders will start shipping next week! 2. That is my duplicate copy of The October Film Haunt. I love @michaelwehunt.bsky.social! Read him if you haven’t.

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John Wiswell

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18 Sept

Need some unsettling transformation vibes in your morning?

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whats up? its a gnarly short short dark fantasy story out today: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

lightspeedmagazine.comThe Dragon, the Scarab, the Wolf, the Dragon - Lightspeed MagazineÁnar’s bootheels echoed on the iron floor. What a groundbreaking honor this ceremony was for a landless tenant like him—joining old house Veivilkas, of the wolf. Such an honor that it made him leaden ...

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17 Sept

whats up? its a gnarly short short dark fantasy story out today: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

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buy my book

@nmamatas.bsky.social

10 Sept

U up? Pre-order THE BLACK TAPES from Barnes & Noble for 25% off! PREORDER25 All killer no filler—tales of dead and lost media! Edited by me and @libbycudmore.bsky.social. New stories by @carrievaughnco.bsky.social @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @docbrite.bsky.social @mollytanzer.bsky.social and more!

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Bree "Werwulf by Robert Eggers" Wolf

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1 Sept

Buy my friend's weird fiction!

Rhiannon Rasmussen@charibdys.bsky.social

1 Aug

nostalgia: a country you can never return to (dragonball)

rhiannonrs.comRhiannon Rasmussen

30 July

it took four days but my placeholder website is UP. real website later but now you can read my name, click on a link to get to itchio or bluesky, and sign up for the newsletter i don't update if you want! rhiannonrs.com

Matt Procedural ★8️⃣6️⃣4️⃣7️⃣★

30 July

to be clear the GOAT @luciaretamales.bsky.social made this lovely landing page, the four day struggle was entirely me fighting with DNS to get the host to talk to the domain. i have learned.... a lot. maybe....... too much

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@proceduraltexture.bsky.social

29 July

When the mesh is so fine, but the grids don't align, that's a moiré.

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Marie Enger @ pax u

@soengery.bsky.social

29 July

No data centers, no ai, NO BILLIONAIRES Fave commission so far this year.

29 July

always about the new weird and the old weird, never about the middle weird

littlepuss.netPlastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen — Debut trans romantasy — LittlePuss PressA time-skipping quick-quipping trans romantasy supernova! "An utterly essential, astounding new voice." —Charlie Jane Anders

26 July

i picked this up because i have a fatal weakness for books with heavy use of design and it turned out this book not only has super fun design, it is also, in fact, great. and there's crazy toku mechs in it! i recommend a print edition

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

You all may not have heard since I talk about it so rarely, but I wrote a novel. It's very good. Of course I would say that, but if I hadn't written it, I would still be obliged by hater's code to admit that that that uppity-ass quirk chungus bitch actually wrote a great novel.

26 July

@mbhare.eurosky.social i am gonna go ahead and tag you directly in on this one you will understand why

12 July

i was a fool dazzled by the opening matches of the world cup. i thought maybe this time would be different... but no, FIFA was just waiting to double down

25 July

update: in case you were wondering, after many travails the sport of football did finally win in the end

lightspeedmagazine.comFETSPACE - Lightspeed MagazineLOGIN CREATE ACCOUNT username: squirglover46 password: **************** for security reasons your password must contain minimum 1 number, 1 diacritic, 1 universal babelkey and at least 8 distinct phon...

25 July

Miss when the internet was a bunch of disorganized forums full of oddballs instead of endless short-form videos? Read my weirdo little SF flash fiction up at Lightspeed! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/fets...

25 July

I'm very happy that this story finally found a home in Lightspeed. In good humor, I will share prior rejections: "just reads like the real internet, who wants to read this??" and "this is exactly the type of story we want to publish. Please send something else instead"

20 July

i don't write eco-positive fiction or solarpunk because my stance of "stop deforesting. plant and steward a lot more native trees" is two sentences long and a very unexciting narrative

20 July

i've been doing the Honeywood Daily readalong of the Honeywood File by H.B. Creswell, an exact accounting of the travails of freelancing for the last century or so, so i'm sure other writers can get more drama out of agricultural zoning law bureaucracy

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Graf

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19 July

Replying to @charibdys.bsky.social

sometimes the sentences catch you, fillet you, grill you, and eat you. mostly the sentence catches you and you go to a reader processing plant, and then you're in a supermarket frozen reader section

reading Building Sentences to (in theory) brush up on my sentences but have been completely derailed by the author comparing sentences and readers to fish and fishermen. these sentences are out here fighting for their lives man

Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read is the full title. some interesting stuff, but absolutely the kind of professor i would have spent all class arguing with over statements like "sentences usually have more at stake than fish"

unless it's the readers who are fighting for their lives? maybe the sentences are the ones, like fishermen, out for blood

this is not my beautiful FFXIV house. this is not my beautiful FFXIV wife

bafflingmag.comStrike The Sun — Baffling Magazineby Rhiannon Rasmussen “Give up, Jazz. Take your hands off the controls.”

16 July

the title is a fragment of a line ahab says in moby dick! the rest of the words are mine. ages ago i was informed there's a longstanding tradition of pulling snippets from older works for short story titles, so basically elbowing in to the centuries-long literary conversation

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spaced that this was out here is a short short about MECHS AND KAIJU and GAY BREAKUPS: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

16 July

perhaps borrowed depth, but it's fun. these kinds of oblique inspirations are also why i enjoy short story collections with afterword commentary from the author, or liner notes. in this case, i wanted to evoke consuming rage

bafflingmag.comStrike The Sun — Baffling Magazineby Rhiannon Rasmussen “Give up, Jazz. Take your hands off the controls.”

15 July

spaced that this was out here is a short short about MECHS AND KAIJU and GAY BREAKUPS: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

11 July

the movie junk head is incredible. gotta watch junk world next

@giantrobotfm.bsky.social

11 July

turned the "reality creation" setting on my TV off but it keeps showing me implausible things anyway

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garin | comms open

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29 Sept 2025

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Giant Robot FM

10 July

Gotta little treat for y'all! We commissioned friends of the show, Mr. and Mrs. @sadmilk.bsky.social, to translate some interviews from the The Collection of Gunbuster Complete Art Book. This week: Haruhiko Mikimoto & Yoshiyuki Sadamoto! This interview can be read FOR FREE on our Patreon!

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5 July

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

lightspeedmagazine.comLightspeed Magazine, Issue 194 (July 2026) - Lightspeed MagazineWe have original science fiction by Max Gladstone (“The Assumption of Maria”) and V.M. Ayala (“If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “You, Me, Us” from Oye...

3 July

My space fetish comedy FETSPACE is in July's issue of Lightspeed Magazine! It'll be free-to-read starting 7/23 but the whole issue is available to buy and read RIGHT NOW and this little flash is in some good company: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/light...

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Derf Backderf

@derfbackderf.bsky.social

2 July

The Prairieland cartoonist/zinester who got 30 years for making a zine. Still short of the goal for funding his fight against this total travesty of justice. A gullible rural jury brainwashed by rightwing media, and the most fascist judge in the country. Donate & push this over the finish line.

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itchio has the capability to make bundles for paid items, which can then be put on sale (or "reverse sale"). The bundles cannot contain free items, which seems like an oversight. I guess a workaround would be to make a new paid listing which is a collection of free work?

just trying to puzzle out how to put all the various short stories together to make an "all my writing on itchio" bundle. individual listings for releases makes sense from a video game and zine publishing platform standpoint, but fiction collections are convenient and popular for a reason.

(actually, i really like collections of short video games also)

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piper bly

@piperbomb.bsky.social

i am still open for #commissions!! here's some more b+w client work from over the years. all #penandink with digital color, #noai, ever. more work samples, rates & info at piperbly(dot)com (link in bio) or email piperbomb(at)protonmail(dot)com (RT, boost, and share <3) #hireme #art #queerart

piper bly@piperbomb.bsky.social

still looking for work! here's some more client work samples. all pen and ink with digital color. #noAI, ever. help a queer artist keep the lights on: #hireme for your next project!! rates + info below or email piperbomb (at) protonmail (RT, boost, and share <3) #commission #art #queerart

charibdys.itch.ioThe Wasp Child by Rhiannon Rasmussena dark science-fiction novella about corporate colonialism and bug aliens

26 June

The Wasp Child ebook and PDF are 69% off (nice) until July 12th in the itchio Summer Sale: charibdys.itch.io/wasp-child that's less than a dollar to read a novella about an awkward kid finding his sense of self via body horror in a capitalist space colony! this book has so much gender in it

26 June

SF novella The Wasp Child and horror mini-anthology The Midnight Games are available in paperback at Common OBJECTS, the Common Area Maintenance bookstore, in Seattle!