#urbanfantasy — Public Fediverse posts
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Meet Caroline from Her Borrowed Grave.
Caroline Walters would be using her week to finish her tapestry, based on an unfinished Old English poem, but for some reason, the universe has decided to use her week without childcare responsibilities to drop her headfirst into situation beyond her understanding.
#UrbanFantasy
coming 8th October -
Hex Appeal
https://sm.farook.org/hex-appeal/Hex appeal or mixed appeal? What did you think if you read this one?
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#phantastikprompts 20.8.
Was würdest du deiner Hauptfigur zum Geburtstag schenken?Fabian aus "Hexen in Hamburg: Vergoldet" würde von mir ein Freundschaftsarmbändchen bekommen - für ihn sind Freundschaften genau so wichtig wie andere Beziehungen.
Link zur Buchreihe:
https://amalia-zeichnerin.net/hexen/#Freundschaft #Hexen #HexenInHamburg #UrbanFantasy #Lesen #Buch
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 12: Post 126, 1,802,701 CE, Middlesex, UK
#Wss366 Classic #TimeTravelAuthors 08/19 Many
It was a #classic problem. I had too #many options.
#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Sapphic #Slowburn
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'busy' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain can tell he's going to have his hands full any time now. He really would like to get some idea of what's going on here first.
The Green Man's Debt will be published by Wizard's Tower Press on 10th September 2026
You can find pre-order links for a wide range of UK, US and international retailers here https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/books-by-juliet-e-mckenna/the-green-mans-debt/
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Is #urbanfantasy inherently #queer ? I think there is an argument that media like twilight, buffy, supernatural, the dresden files, etc. are "accidentally queer".
The metaphor of the supernatural living amongst the "normal people", and either hiding it or embracing who they are is literally what queer people deal with in their own lives. I don't think the creators of this media necessarily realized this, but it would explain why they resonate so strongly with queer audiences.
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Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost (2nd Edition)
Chapter 18 EP 5: Late Jurassic Era, Swiss Highlands
Illuminati or Elder Races is not the choice you want to have.
Plus: #DinosaursTags: #TimeTravel #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #LightNovel #Romance #Queer #Sappfic #Serial
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 12: Post 125, 1,802,701 CE, Middlesex, UK
#Wss366 Tremor #TimeTravelAuthors 08/17. Does anyone travel to the future? What did they (or would they) think of it?
I made my way back into the meadow at the forest’s edge and sat down where I could see both the woodland path and the trampled circle below. Strawberries gleamed in the nearby grass, and I idly picked a few.
When I sampled one, a tart sweetness spread across my tongue, reminiscent of wild Écouves berries.
The Écouves Forest; that was an odd detail to remember. Even though I had forgotten my past, I still had access to a lot of random information. I understood that was common for people with amnesia.
The fruit was truly delicious, better than ones I’d had at fancy restaurants, like on the Hindenburg.
I stopped, and a #tremor passed through me: another memory! It was just a brief glimpse, but I could extrapolate from it. The Hindenburg crashed in 1937. I didn’t know what the current date was, but nothing like the sphinx had existed in the history I “knew.” This must be the future. Given the age of the monolith, it was the far future!
None of this made sense. Maybe none of it was real. Was I a psychotic patient in a mental ward?
I looked around for any sign that I was hallucinating. I pinched myself. It was a cliché test, but the pain reassured me. My chaotic memories were bizarre, but the world was stable, unlike a delusion or dream. The majestic trees appeared ageless, yet otherwise mundane. There was no sinister overlay to the oaks, ash, and pines. The grass smelled fresh and green. A wind with the subtle scent of summer brushed my cheek. It seemed idyllic. Nothing like the ravings of a mad person. Rather lonely, though.
I gave up on my speculation and followed the flow of my thoughts. I wished Emily were there with me. Yes, Emily! A vague image of a woman arose. She had bobbed, short, black hair, brilliant blue eyes, and a slight Asian cast to her features.
“Emily, Emily, Emily,” I said to myself. Was she my girlfriend, partner, or coworker? Whoever she was, she was important to me.
The last strawberry went into my mouth. She would have loved these. I almost heard her say, “They’re peachy; the cat’s pajamas.” Her deep-timbered voice blended with the sound of flutes.
At first, I thought I’d imagined the music. But no, the wind from the woods was carrying it to me. I wasn’t alone!
#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Sapphic #Slowburn
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Her Borrowed Grave has always been the story of a crime committed in 6th Century York, that was only resolved in the 21st Century. It is one of those books that built up over time. The first draft of the story began in 2004, when I wondered what archaeology the repair of the flood defences in the centre of York. It added folklore and ancient gods. Unfinished Anglo-Saxon poems, and more recently forensic science and tapestry.
More here https://www.vanessajknipe.com/my-new-book
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 56
#Wss366 Welcome #TimeTravelAuthors 8/16 WhateverBeyond the archway stood a body of water, several paths, and a passage in the wall. One of my friends, a big bill, was enjoying the pool. I hoped he got leprosy.
Mistress looked around and said, “Hum?”
What did the mountain shaman mean by saying it would be easy to climb to the fourth floor of the fortress? It would be a major feat to even reach the castle, which loomed ahead, off to our right.
My opinion of Sumika’s prior incarnation plummeted. No wonder Glinda-chan was such a pigeon.
While I stewed, she moved into an alcove where no one would overhear us and reached into her robe.
“A map,” she said, pulling out a printed sheet and waving it in front of me. “And you thought I was a silly starling!”
“I’m impressed. My fledgling is growing up to be a wise crow like me. I knew joining your murder was a brilliant idea!”
“First, I am not yours! But thank you. That is the first nice thing you’ve said to me, even if you’re confused about who’s mistress here.”
“You’re #welcome, Mistress.” I suppressed my laugh as too noisy for our current situation.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 12: Post 124, 1,802,701 CE, Middlesex, UK
#Wss366 Visit #TimeTravelAuthors 08/15. Saturday excerpt (optional word: match/same)
As rapidly as the image of my mother arose, it disappeared. I guess my appendix scar had come in useful. I had a name again, as well as the hope that I would remember more.
As I rubbed the sphinx’s plaque, I thought about the vision, trying to use it as an entry point into my lost memories. It proved useless. All I came up with was that my mother visited me when I had my appendix removed and a warm feeling for ma mère.
Eventually, I gave up and refocused on the bronze plate. Corrosion blurred the image, but I still made out a naked man with winged shoes and helmet: Hermes. Below, in Latin, it read, “In memory of Prince Henry XI of Greater Albion.”
I stopped and stared. I didn’t know Latin! Yet I read it easily. And the figure… Hermes… Mercury… It #matched a mural I’d seen in a dim tunnel. Right, I’d been in a passage along with my companion Emily. She wasn’t an illusion.
“I had a dream!” I exclaimed out loud.
I desperately reached to recall it. There’d been a pink Eye of Providence and blue dragonflies. Rabbits with guns and swastikas. If I thought fairies unrealistic, then what about these Hieronymus Bosch images?
As hard as I tried, I couldn’t remember.4 more I threw down the rag. I wouldn’t find anything more here.
#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Sapphic #Slowburn
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 55
#Wss366 return #TimeTravelAuthors 8/14 What everI’d pictured that once we entered the castle’s gate, we would cross a yard and enter the main citadel, much like a European castle. There was indeed a large courtyard, but I already saw things would be more complicated than I’d assumed. Ahead rose buildings, walls, and sprawling paths. Above us, my nosy, big-billed cousins circled, so I couldn’t even scout.
Sumika unhesitantly followed one of the broad avenues that led around a vast green. I hoped it was the right way.
As if reading my mind, Mistress said, “I visited Himeji when I was a kid. This part’s easy, but it turns into a maze later. I got lost on the #return trip; what a nightmare! Someone found me crying in a dead-end courtyard. So embarrassing.”
I managed a soft coo. “Ohooo oh.” I could picture it. Even though I hated kids, it touched my heart.
“There’s another gate ahead,” she said after walking a good way and navigating two more intersections.
We slipped through this barrier as well, then stopped.
“This is where it starts getting complicated,” Sumika said.
“Starts,” I thought. “I’m already lost.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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Urban Fantasy
https://sm.farook.org/urban-fantasy/The series that I've tried - asking for your recommendations for ones you loved.
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Konrad findet Dinge. (Sogar Menschen, aber das macht er nicht gerne.)
Doch was passiert, wenn ein Ding nicht gefunden werden will?
Der verschollene Drache - eine Konrad Kurzgeschichte.
Eine Woche noch für 99ct in meinem Store:
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The timing of the death of Gloria Creena could not have been any worse. Not only did the death of the woman responsible for the 1994 Crisis interrupt an important Agency Division investigation into a leaked copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts, but the National Police Force refuse to let the case out of their teeth. Now, Agency's Man In Black enforcer, Vidcund Därk, must conspire against a rising star homicide detective, Niles Clayton, to both solve the crime and keep Clayton in the dark as to its true nature.
After all, we can't have an important state secret like the existence of magic leak out, now, can we?
#readers #bookstodon #dystopia #urbanfantasy #adventure #action #thriller #series #books
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August - one last chance to take that California trip!
If you can't make it in person, join a crazy #squirrel & inch-high #gnome on an epic quest to promote true love along the highways and byways of the Golden State!
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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 9.1: 2024 Arkam Mass. (Side Story)
#Wss366 Dominant / International Left Hander's Day/Bon JP #TimeTravelAuthors 08/13. Advice your character would give about time travel
Professor Henrietta Dubois looked out over her class. Not one student looked like they were worth her time. Some were there because they thought it was a joke. It wasn’t. Others were there for an easy grade. They were going to be disappointed. A few may have thought it was a literature course. They would be let down as well. And some were just flakes. None of them would make a promising metaphysics student.
“Time-travel,” the professor started. After all, it was the subject of the class. “How many of you would visit another time if you could?”
Half the students raised their hands.
Ms. Dubois nodded. "According to 'Faustus Pact,' 'Pompilius Spiegel,' and the anonymous 'La Main Tauche du Temps,' at least one of which will be required reading, the #dominant belief among time-travelers is that those of you with your hands down are the wise ones."
The professor paused, letting those who could decipher what she had said ruminate on the arcane names and reading requirements. “Let’s make sure they know this is no joke but a serious and rigorous class,” she thought.
She continued: “In other words, don’t.”
Note: “La Main Tauche du Temps” means “Time’s Left Hand.”
#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Serial
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A collection of three ready-to-play mysteries for Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game, two set in London and one in the Home Counties. #rpgPdfSpotlight #rpgs #benAaronovitch #riversOfLondon #chaosium #urbanFantasy
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/rpg-pdf-spotlight-rivers-of-london-no-place-like-home?utm_source=mastodon -
What is Her Borrowed Grave about?
An uncanny storm rolls over York —
A teacher encounters a man who should not exist.
A reporter’s dog sniffs out the first in a series of bodies, each marked by a bizarre death.
The forensic results make no sense.
And somewhere, a poem written over a thousand years ago waits for its final line.Find out more on my Website https://www.vanessajknipe.com/my-new-book
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August - one last chance to take that California trip!
If you can't make it in person, join a crazy #squirrel & inch-high #gnome on an epic quest to promote true love along the highways and byways of the Golden State!
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City streets, vampires, and werewolves. Ashai hunts down the arsonist to her blood bar, willing to do whatever it takes, until a local gang brings the city into an all-out war.
https://books2read.com/ug
https://azaleaforrest.itch.io/the-underground
💙📚 #books #supernatural #urbanfantasy #writing -
Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost (2nd Edition)
Chapter 17 EP 5: Late #Jurassic Era, Swiss Lowlands
Back to the age of #dinosaurs.
Tags: #TimeTravel #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #LightNovel #Romance #Queer #Sappfic #Serial
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In case you didn't see, what with being busy, and time zones and such, this week on the blog, there's a bit about The Green Man's Debt, coming 10th September 2026 -
https://www.julietemckenna.com/the-green-mans-debt-cover-art-and-publication-date/And some more, plus pre-order links via Wizard's Tower Press.
https://www.julietemckenna.com/the-green-mans-debt-pre-orders-are-open/
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Are you in Wyoming? Do you want to read my book for free? I’m in the Wyoming Virtual Library! https://virtuallibrary.overdrive.com/virtuallibrary-80-234/content/media/11081870
#bookstodon #vampirebooks #historicalfantasy #urbanfantasy @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon
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Die Hexe Fiona aus "Berlingtons Geisterjäger" hat quasi als Begleittier (englisch: familiar, ich kenne keine gute deutsche Entsprechung) die Elster Maggie, mit der sie mithilfe von inneren Bildern kommunizieren kann.
Diese Elster wird in einer längeren Szene in Band 1, "Anderswelt", Zeuge eines für die Handlung wichtigen Ereignisses und ist in dieser Szene die Perspektivträgerin.
Link zur Buchreihe:
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