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S.M. Shrike

@smshrike

Gay, disabled Horror Fantasy Writer. Lover of all things strange. They/them. https://linktr.ee/S.M.Shrike https://vgen.co/Cryptiscabaret

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“Crips for eSims for Gaza
Alice Wong, Forever” in bubbly fuzzy black text

“Year of the Horse x Ramadan Update 02/18/26 63,258 eSims + top ups purchased $3.28 million CAD ($2.4M USD) raised 20K+ eSims activated in total 4894 eSims currently active” in Knock Out Cruiserweight font 

Three orange-, blood-orange- grapefruit-coloured SIM cards, the second one upside down, both with green and white kufiya patterns inside where the SIM chip is. Inside the last SIM card is a green QR code. 

a background of scalloped layers resembling a gradient in different shade of teal “Crips for eSims for Gaza Alice Wong, Forever” in bubbly fuzzy black text “Year of the Horse x Ramadan Update 02/18/26 63,258 eSims + top ups purchased $3.28 million CAD ($2.4M USD) raised 20K+ eSims activated in total 4894 eSims currently active” in Knock Out Cruiserweight font  Three orange-, blood-orange- grapefruit-coloured SIM cards, the second one upside down, both with green and white kufiya patterns inside where the SIM chip is. Inside the last SIM card is a green QR code. 

Ramadan Kareem and happy new year (not to be confused with Gregorian new year)!

🏇May the year of the fire horse bring energy in the form of rebellion and revolution. 🔥

🧧 Send us 红包 so we can keep our eSIMs topped up and begin sending new ones again. 🤳🏼

bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

18.02.2026 22:14 👍 87 🔁 95 💬 0 📌 6

Night Spider, my next novella, will be available in June!

17.02.2026 05:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I don't want to read a book written by AI.
I don't want to read a book half written by AI.
I don't want to read a book narrated by AI.
I don't want to read a book with an AI cover.
I don't want to read a book written by somebody who supports AI.

26.02.2026 13:45 👍 1125 🔁 475 💬 12 📌 5

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

26.02.2026 22:49 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 6

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

26.02.2026 23:25 👍 63 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 0

To be 100% clear, my survival does not depend on my book income. It helps, but I’m pretty safe.

A lot of trans authors are one stroke of bad luck away from the street.

One bad law away from prison.

Pay them directly if you can!

Buy their books!

Commission their art!

Boost their crowdfund!

26.02.2026 22:37 👍 43 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1

Why would you attack me so thoroughly?

23.02.2026 19:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asia… Named by the New York Public Library as one of the best…

I'm thrilled to see Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora on the final ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards. Huge congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, all of her brilliant authors, and to all of this year's nominees.

Read it: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

23.02.2026 15:34 👍 61 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 6

My friend Sama'a has kept her family fed and sheltered through the bitter cold of the Gazan winter, but the cost of doing so is unimaginable in emotional and physical terms. Please give what you can to support her.

chuffed.org/project/157569

23.02.2026 17:49 👍 86 🔁 154 💬 3 📌 9

I really love x-files and totally didn't steal Mulder's gender or anything.

23.02.2026 19:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know I'm a stranger, but your art is important and beautiful. I've loved it for a while and I'm sending love and support from afar.

23.02.2026 19:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Actually now IS the most important time for you to make art.

Show people what's possible. Show others the depth of their own agency.

Show the world they have a soul that yearns for something more than output, over stimulation and productivity.

21.02.2026 16:27 👍 228 🔁 94 💬 2 📌 0
Dark painting in classical style, depicting a woman in a white dress with her back facing the viewer, wrapped in red fabric. The face of a man peaking through the darkness, near the woman's bleeding neck.

Dark painting in classical style, depicting a woman in a white dress with her back facing the viewer, wrapped in red fabric. The face of a man peaking through the darkness, near the woman's bleeding neck.

Book mockup of the first illustration.

Book mockup of the first illustration.

The Dracula cover I worked on is finally revealed.

I am very stoked about this project, because doing a cover art for a classical book is a dream I didn't know I had, and also because they agreed to have the cover art minimalistic and elegant, and I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT.

20.02.2026 19:05 👍 2879 🔁 741 💬 97 📌 14

listen. i'm a beast. you must approach slowly, with a low tone, and your hands visible. call me nice things. offer me a light snack. one question per visit. one visit per week.

20.02.2026 14:15 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Night Spider, my next novella, will be available in June!

17.02.2026 05:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A moodboard that includes four photos. These are a painting of a woman with a monster behind her, the spines of antique books, a hand submerged in water, a foggy lighthouse and a human hand reaching down to hold a monster's hand. Behind the photos is a green background and white text in the center reads "Bronagh."

A moodboard that includes four photos. These are a painting of a woman with a monster behind her, the spines of antique books, a hand submerged in water, a foggy lighthouse and a human hand reaching down to hold a monster's hand. Behind the photos is a green background and white text in the center reads "Bronagh."

Bronagh, has recently suffered the loss of her beloved mother to plague. She has received work at an ancient House of Fire far away from her home village which she took swiftly. Now she is dealing with isolation and a spirit within the house she does not know how to live with.

#fantasy #sapphic

17.02.2026 05:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

17.02.2026 02:22 👍 3911 🔁 1092 💬 14 📌 51
The cover of Night Spider by S.M. Shrike, surrounded by text that states various themes and tropes in the book. These include... 
-Beauty and the beast inspired
- sapphic monster
- fantasy horror 
- traumatized protagonist trying to create a home 
- horror of isolation

The cover of Night Spider by S.M. Shrike, surrounded by text that states various themes and tropes in the book. These include... -Beauty and the beast inspired - sapphic monster - fantasy horror - traumatized protagonist trying to create a home - horror of isolation

Night Spider is my next novella. This Beauty and the Beast inspired dark fantasy explores grief, isolation and the desire for connection.

#darkfantasy #sapphichorror #fantasyhorror #griefhorror

11.02.2026 18:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Get more from Jeremy Creature on Patreon fabric art, weird little guys, puppets

Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word about my Patreon? My goal for the day is one new patron.

Patrons help support my art and my existence. You'll receive positive affirmations from Felmer, etiquette advice from Mothman, and other fun posts.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

16.02.2026 18:26 👍 16 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"

Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...

12.02.2026 01:37 👍 3203 🔁 1045 💬 31 📌 17

Say fuck you to ICE and get a fuckton of games in the process!
Seriously, I got the bundle and it's *48 pages* of stuff made by the bestest people 🤩

I dare you to get the bundle and not find something you like. Can't be done.

11.02.2026 18:15 👍 39 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
The cover of Night Spider by S.M. Shrike, surrounded by text that states various themes and tropes in the book. These include... 
-Beauty and the beast inspired
- sapphic monster
- fantasy horror 
- traumatized protagonist trying to create a home 
- horror of isolation

The cover of Night Spider by S.M. Shrike, surrounded by text that states various themes and tropes in the book. These include... -Beauty and the beast inspired - sapphic monster - fantasy horror - traumatized protagonist trying to create a home - horror of isolation

Night Spider is my next novella. This Beauty and the Beast inspired dark fantasy explores grief, isolation and the desire for connection.

#darkfantasy #sapphichorror #fantasyhorror #griefhorror

11.02.2026 18:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The cover for Hazel E. Baumgartner's "The Woods: A Horror Novel". The book's title is in white text over a black background with the subtle texture of coarse hair. In the middle, a black and white photograph of a misty coniferous forest.

The cover for Hazel E. Baumgartner's "The Woods: A Horror Novel". The book's title is in white text over a black background with the subtle texture of coarse hair. In the middle, a black and white photograph of a misty coniferous forest.

My pinned post disappeared again so HI! If you like gorey monster stories, suspenseful mysteries, supernatural thrillers, cryptid horror, and books where the killer in the woods is a metaphor for grief, you should check out my debut novel, "The Woods: A Horror Novel", out now!

a.co/d/6dTmubc

19.08.2025 06:05 👍 35 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 4

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.

16.05.2025 16:30 👍 6350 🔁 2851 💬 54 📌 38
Mood board with a background of roiling clouds. Three images are in a diagonal line. The highest is a cloudy lighthouse, followed by a woman with burning candles on her shoulder and finally a painting of a woman whose neck is being held by some sort of monster.

Mood board with a background of roiling clouds. Three images are in a diagonal line. The highest is a cloudy lighthouse, followed by a woman with burning candles on her shoulder and finally a painting of a woman whose neck is being held by some sort of monster.

Mood board for one of my upcoming projects! Night Spider is a novella loosely inspired by Beauty and the Beast that takes place in an ancient lighthouse between a very lonely woman and a house spirit.

04.02.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Puppet.

06.02.2026 06:16 👍 198 🔁 49 💬 1 📌 0
Mood board with a background of roiling clouds. Three images are in a diagonal line. The highest is a cloudy lighthouse, followed by a woman with burning candles on her shoulder and finally a painting of a woman whose neck is being held by some sort of monster.

Mood board with a background of roiling clouds. Three images are in a diagonal line. The highest is a cloudy lighthouse, followed by a woman with burning candles on her shoulder and finally a painting of a woman whose neck is being held by some sort of monster.

Mood board for one of my upcoming projects! Night Spider is a novella loosely inspired by Beauty and the Beast that takes place in an ancient lighthouse between a very lonely woman and a house spirit.

04.02.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE is buying massive warehouses with the intention of converting them into immigration jails in nearly two dozen communities

03.02.2026 13:11 👍 98 🔁 55 💬 5 📌 8

This month I'll be releasing a PDF of my novellete A Crown Atop a Skull as well as an introduction to the world of my patreon exclusive cozy fantasy romance series!

www.patreon.com/posts/149775...

02.02.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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They tell me to have a strong hook

Page 2: 
That I only have 10 seconds before people scroll away

Page 1: They tell me to have a strong hook Page 2: That I only have 10 seconds before people scroll away

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I don't want to be some shady salesman, forced to hook in an audience

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I want to share stories

Page 3: I don't want to be some shady salesman, forced to hook in an audience Page 4: I want to share stories

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I want to meet people

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and hear theirs

Page 5: I want to meet people Page 6: and hear theirs

Cover:
Hook & Line

Back:
Made by Micho 2026

Cover: Hook & Line Back: Made by Micho 2026

Made my first teeny tiny zine, Hook & Line🐟

#myart #michotalk #zine

03.02.2026 17:10 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1