Have a safe and happy holiday, everyone, whatever you may celebrate!

Dialogue can be difficult. Struggling to make it sound natural? Try people watching.

Just an urge to repost this cos it tends to piss off bigots. Yes <gasp> aces exist and <double gasp> we're queer 🏳️‍🌈 Yes, even if we fuck. And yes, even if we dress "sexy". Deal with it 💃

Here are a bunch to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social it's a digital magazine publishing short stories and poetry by Black SFFH authors for going on *counts on fingers* 10 years? Good lord. Co-founded it. Won a Hugo. Etc. go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

Promo graphic with text and a rainbow in bisexual colors (pink, purple, blue). Text reads: Bi Visibility Week Itch.io Mega Bundle. 50 books by Bi and Pan Authors for $50 Across multiple genres including Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance, Horror, and Literary Fiction.

A promotional graphic featuring 3D mock-ups of Bloody Spade and Bleeding Heart's, surrounded by a list of tropes/themes that appear in the Cardplay Duology. Text reads: Abundant hurt/comfort, inky body horror, hot-tempered fire wielder, bird girl with plant magic, a celestial deity with a penchant for murder, a budding QPR, returned magic, slow-burn romantic subplot, asexual panic, monsters born from malice, softhearted scythe-wielding girl, snarky cat-eared thief. Bloody Spade's cover depicts a black silhouette of a short-haired cat-eared boy with a glowing purple spade in front of him. Bleeding Heart's depicts a white silhouette of a girl with deer antlers and long flowing hair with a glowing heart in front of her.

The Bi Visibility Week Mega Bundle is officially LIVE, and BLOODY SPADE (ft. my snarky pansexual cat-eared MC) is just one of the many books you'll find inside! 💗💜💙

itch.io/b/3263/bi-visibility-week-mega-bundle | #BookSky #WritingCommunity

House of the Dead
CarnEvil
Area 51

Time to watch a Bailey Sarian vid, a @kenniejd.bsky.social vid, and then get some rest.
Crime, laughs, and makeup are how you end a day right.

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GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN by Jadzia Axelrod, Rye Hickman and Jodie Troutman

Y'all, I am *thrilled* to have none other than the illustrious @longtalljodie.com join me and @ryehickman.bsky.social on Team GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN!

To have an all-trans team on this extremely trans book fills me with such joy!

Release Day image for Thistlewood House by Robin Pine. Over a background of a field sparkling with morning dew, the book cover features a handsome twink with long auburn hair, a reddish plaid shirt, and a hint of a smile, beneath the green leaves of a tree. Text on the cover reads: Thistlewood House. Robin Pine. A Marrow Creek Romance.

✨RELEASE DAY!!✨

Publishing is weird right now. The world is fraught — including the publishing world — but today, my gay little romance book about Autistic and Trans joy is out there. And I’m celebrating! 🍾

Read it now: www.robinpine.com/books/thistl... #booksky #books #newrelease #romancebooks

Blurb of The Dragon Shifter’s Mate: a lesbian fantasy romance by eel lovesick: Koivulotta has a problem that can only be solved with blood. After returning to her homeland for mating season and discovering a lack of sapphic females, she has to shift into her seldom used humen form to escape her mating instincts. Only the blood of a humen allows her to shift.

It’s #LesFicFri and you’re looking for a book to read? Well do I have a rec for you 💕

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✨ Meet the author ✨

I’m a F24 queer indie author from the Southern US 🌎

My standalones & series all take place in the BrónachVerse, a fantasy world I created over a decade ago 😳

And bc I’m an angsty bitch, you KNOW each character is more broken than my hope for the future 🥹 HEA guaranteed tho 💜

Do you like your MM Romance served with smol twink tops and tall twunk bottoms? If so, you're in luck! THISTLEWOOD HOUSE is out now. 🏳️‍⚧️💖

Grab it here: www.robinpine.com/books/thistl...

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It costs exactly one dollar to help me slay Odin 🙏

Photo of a grey kitten beside a laptop.

I told her she can’t gallop across my keyboard.

HALLOO if anyone is interested, i have emote comms now open!! feel free to hmu on either ko-fi or vgen!

links can be found below!
#VGenComms #commissionsopen

The cover for Nothing So Powerful As Truth featuring Raj, Darla, and Quill. Surrounding the cover are the tropes: magic, romance, wyvern, found family, action, winged people, spicy scenes, and battles. Below the cover is the linktree.

Is this the fantasy you are looking for?
Swoop into the third book of the series and find your well-earned HEA.

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What is the best book you have read this week?

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So many amazing indie books.
Not enough lifetimes to enjoy them all.

Some of you didn't grow up being traumatized by The Neverending Story and Where the Red Fern Grows, and it shows.

We really need help today! 🙏🖖

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PayPal.me/WyldWish
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Thanks for your boosts & (even small) donations that have kept us alive thus far!
#MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025

I NEED AN ANIME FOR THEM ALL

A drawing of Byron and Inarora in the kitchen together. Byron looks like he's in his late 20s and has a dad bod going. He's cutting up a vegetable and showing Inarora how to cut up veggies. Inarora is a tiny 6 year old and she is just watching him in pure adoration and it's honestly the most precious shit ever.

A drawing of Seri (an elf) holding a baby Inarora and Lysander (a cat person who is a ghost). Seri has a bittersweet smile on his face

I'mma be a lil extra and share my itch but also ko-fi and payhip since I've recently worked on them/building it. Plus my recent artwork! I have free samples of Inarora's Excursion on all three! Ch1-2! 🥰

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That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

Hey, buddy. Are you tired? Are you allowing the state of the world to steal some of your light and your peace? Have you strayed and become insanely bitter even towards those who love you? Hey. Please rest and don't give up on everything just yet. There's still goodness here.

What is writing advice that you heard as a novice that didn't work for your process?

○~Always plot.
○~Don't edit as you go.
○~ Follow the genre formula.
○~Outline your chapters.

What did you hear that just didn't make sense for you personally?

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