Have a Hua Pi inspired piece in this I'm excited to share 😈

I'm in this one!!! Check it out! :D

Purple background, white text, which says Social acknowledgement of the protagonists' genders is treated with paramount importance throughout the narratives of both [novels]... The speculative settings remove several possibilities from their trans characters, but this services the nuanced social webs contained within them. "Trans Possibilities in the Speculative Works of Andrew Joseph White" -- Leo Astrum

In which @leoastrum.bsky.social splits gender transition and affirmation into three categories, and examines whether they're feasible in the novels of Andrew Joseph White.

Subscribe now to read - AUD30/year (~GBP16 or USD22).

www.speculativeinsight.com/subs

It will be pain but you got this. 🥳

The Free Speech Coalition is serious about starting an adult industry credit union. Part of this is being able to show regulators that enough people would use it, so please fill out this form if you're interested!
(Yes, credit unions can issue credit cards!)
www.freespeechcoalition.com/survey

Blurbs are evil 🙈

And I'm in it!!!!

Want to read my take on "The Little Mermaid" (original version) meets "The Cold Heart"? Also queer?

Then save the project today and be the first to know when it goes liiiiive.

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And I'm in it!!!!

Want to read my take on "The Little Mermaid" (original version) meets "The Cold Heart"? Also queer?

Then save the project today and be the first to know when it goes liiiiive.

Go! Click! ⬇️

Crop of a larger artwork, showing a light-skinned merperson adjusting her hair and waving toward a fisherwoman in the foreground, who has darker skin and black hair pulled back with a bandana.

We'll be launching the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS: QUEER FANWORKS INSPIRED BY FOLKLORE AND FAIRY TALES in May!

Today, meet the contributors - duckprintspress.com/2026/04/18/m...
and follow the pre-launch page - www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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“Smartphone adoption took years!” Yeah because they were ludicrously expensive. Nobody was breaking into our houses and leaving smartphones on our tables.

Fellow ghost story aficionados, I need your help. I read a short story years ago that I *believe* dates to the very early 20th c about a skeptic who goes to a seance and ends up being haunted by an invisible entity that feels like a hairless animal and has a musky smell. I can't find it anywhere.

My performance reliability hit 60 percent and I could talk again. I said, “Fuck you, ART.”

I have ✨ writing news! ✨ Thrilled to announce that my story “Clowder” will appear in an upcoming issue of Small Wonders Magazine. I admire @smallwondersmag.com so much, and it’s an honor to be published by them!

Putting out an a list of books for Autism Acceptance month for @blog.readindiefantasy.com (yes I know I'm late lol) if you're an autistic indie or self-pubbed author with a SFF book, link it here and I'll try to include it!

Speaking of…

MAEJ. High fantasy novel. Long and complex and strictly for nerds and maniacs. I wish you'd read it.

Published by @traumbooks.bsky.social back in 2024. But books aren't mangoes, they don't spoil, so maybe still worth reading.

traumbooks.com/maej/

Poster for The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle. Indie Ink Award Finalist. Cryptid0hunting YouTuber investigates weird small town. DNFed in basically all other contests. Starring characters who look vaguely like Ben Whishaw, Amanda Seyfried, Steven Yeun, and Giancarlo Esposito. "It Doesn't Matter If You Believe in Monsters When They Believe in You." Reviews: “Hypnotising and lyrical prose . . . a sort of fever dream-like reading experience.” - Esmay Rosalyne, Before We Go Blog , “It's a crime this book doesn't have more exposure.” - Al Hess, author of Key Lime Sky, and “If there were Oscars for books, this one would win ‘Best Ensemble Cast’ as well as a host of others.” - Paul, Queen’s Book Asylum. Rated R for Course language, graphic violence, graphic sex, and that one scene* *you know the one

A cryptid-hunting YouTube darling follows a video of his presumed-dead mom to an isolated island that was once a gay conversion camp & may house the monsters he swears aren't real

AVAILABLE NOW!: books2read.com/u/boB9YL

steve-westenra.itch.io

Queer TWIN PEAKS x Grady Hendrix

#PosterPit #A #H

Are you ready for an evening of LGBTQIA+ fantasy stories and poems with the BFS in Manchester? I’m coming over from Bradford specially with my Asexual Fairy Tales. 💜🖤🤍

Please get your tickets in advance so the shop owners can sleep at night.🌛

"why are they doing this?"
To kill open source ventures like Linux distros because the cost of adhering to this law is too much to expect these projects to pay and maintain, forcing everyone to use windows and train their AI/farm metadata

They'll say it's for protecting kids or something tho

Premade cover with the placeholder title of "Coffee for your Thoughts" and "Author name" at the bottom. It shows a woman with olive skin, dark eyes and dark curly hair tied in a ponytail, dressed in a yellow apron and black shirt and pants, smiling and handing a cup of coffee to a white woman with long red hair and brown eyes, wearing a blue dress with a pink flower pattern at the hem. The white woman is by a table at the supposed coffee shop, the balcony and coffee machine are in the backgroun in green.

So here's my first premade cover! I'm selling it over on vgen! For $99 (or you can pay +$50 to turn this into a print cover), this baby is yours! I can fully customize all colors as well ^^

vgen.co/maybarros/pr...

#art #ForSale #PremadeCover

Purple background, white text, which says White's novels exist, temporally, on two different sides of a setting where medical transition would be possible - Silas is too early and Benji is too late for the world where they might be able to access this type of care. Neither novel reaches for a happy ending in which this type of gender-affirming care would be possible, either... "Trans Possibilities in the Speculative Works of Andrew Joseph White" -- Leo Astrum

New subscriber essay just dropped! Leo Astrum looks at fantasy and science fiction by Andrew Joseph White, and compares the possibilities for trans characters in those situations.

Read it now by subscribing (AUD30/year: ~GBP16 or USD22).

www.speculativeinsight.com/subs

Illustration of the profile of a woman with short curly hair, red glasses, red shirt, denim shorts and red tennis shoes, sitting looking at phone with a galaxy around her. Beneath her, the words "lost in fanfiction"

Painting of a cloudy sunset over the ocean, sky goes from a dirty blue through a grayish pink hue to a light yellow, clouds have dark purple shadows, orange tones and light yellow highlights, sea is greenish blue with yellow reflected highlights and the sand is brown

An illustration of a forest scene with a fairy in the center, sitting on some rocks by a stream. She has pink short hair, wings and eyes, and is wearing plain shirt and pants.

Illustration of a band of three girls, the one on the left is Arashi, short brown hair with blueish/greenish colored tips, wearing a performance outfit that is mostly green,blue and gold, she has blue eyes, light skin and freckles; the one in the middle is Yuki, she has long wavy blond hair, super white skin and wears a performance outfit that is mostly green and gold; the one on the right is Ame, she is black, with long dark curly hair with pinkish tips, wearing a performance outfit that is mostly purple and gold, her yes are dark and purplish. Yuki is holding Arashi's face and smiling, eyes closed; Arashi has a faint smile and is looking at Yuki; Ame has one arm over Yuki's shoulder and is looking at her with an open mouth smile.

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm May, a queer Brazilian artist, writer and game dev! I focus on fantasy stories with queer characters!

My commissions are open!

✨ patreon.com/naiveheart
✨ ko-fi.com/maybarros
✨ vgen.co/maybarros
✨ catarse.me/maybarros
✨ naiveheart.itch.io
✨ naive-star.itch.io

Imagem de divulgação do evento IndieCon2, que acontece na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, na Biblioteca Parque, no dia 26/04 das 12h às 18h; com a minha foto e uma foto de alguns dos produtos que vai estar na minha mesa. Minha foto: sou uma pessoa de pele clara, com cabelo castanho cacheado na altura da bochecha, que usa óculos de armação roxa e estou usando uma blusa branca com um cordão que sai do enquadramento da foto. Atrás de mim, tem um bosque e eu estou sorrindo. Produtos: O livro Estudo sobre Magia e Cristais, cuja capa mostra Talita, uma princesa de pele negra, cabelo afro, usando um vestido amarelo e jóias de cristais, fazendo um cristal levitar entre suas mãos, Marcela, uma humana de pele clara e cabelo preto chanel, usando uma blusa transparente preta, e Solis, uma fada de cabelo, asas e olhos rosa, usando uma blusa cinza claro e uma calça verde; um bottom com os dizeres "Own the Magic in You e uma lua e uma estrela ilustradas; duas ilustrações tamanho A6, uma que mostra Solis sentada numa clareira na floresta e a outra mostra Solis com Talita e Marcela andando de mãos dadas numa floresta; e uma cartela de adesivos de tamanho A6, os adesivos são ampulhetas, dados de RPG, corações, flores brancas e rosas, ramos de folhas e balões de fala com coração, ponto de interrogação e ponto de exclamação.

Estarei no IndieCon2 no domingo 26/04! O evento acontece na Biblioteca Parque no centro do Rio de Janeiro e os ingressos estão a venda no link:

www.sympla.com.br/evento/indie...

Se puder, vem me dar oi!

Photo of the products for the first theme of the sticker club: a sticker sheet with fanfic themed cats, an illustraded postal card with a woman sitting in a void, looking at her phone and a galaxy behind her, with the text "Lost in Fanfiction", a vynil sticker of the postal card illustration and a vynil sticker of a cat reading a book

Here's what you get if you pledge to my sticker club before May 1st!

patreon.com/naiveheart
ko-fi.com/maybarros

A flowerpot full of my cat

Absolutely amazing what starts growing in your garden and you'd swear you never planted it.

Trans Possibilities in the Speculative Works of Andrew Joseph White is a short essay about the author's SFF YA work, which possibilities are available to trans characters in those imagined worlds, and how the books' audiences might influence those writing choices!

bsky.app/profile/spec...

Graphics 13 of 13. Text of a haiku on a light blue background with a light gray decorative circle and a graphic of a red, ringing alarm clock. The haiku reads: I procrastinat- ed writing this and now it. is not very good. — Nina Waters

HAPPY HAIKU DAY!

by Nina Waters (that's meeeee, this is my dumb haiku)

I procrastinat-
ed writing this and now it
is not very good

The cover for JD Rivers' "The Wish of a Dragon", second book in the Otar's Universe trilogy. The main colors are purple, pink and dark blue. We have one of the main characters, Andres, facing the audience with his back, while we see the POV character Otar, only with his hand at Andres' neck, a bot of his blonde hair, and the other hand holding up a ball of flight behind Andres' back, holding a sleepong dragon. There are also more lights around it. In the upper part it reads the title: The Wish of a Dragon, down below is the author: JD Rivers. The illustrator/artist is planetsandmagic the typesetter is: Hermit-writes

Otar's story continues in "The Wish of a Dragon"!
Buy today!

🐲 dragons! in space!
🛣️ more roadtrip
🏛️ more ruins
⁉️ archaelogy! in space!
❤️ idiots in love

Buy:
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TBR:
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TSG: tinyurl.com/ya34yu4w

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That they do 😃

Ahh nice and unfortunate. Wish you best of luck on the quest, may the soil dragons be with you.

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"