An image with a dark blue background, and the cover for a new “Queer YA Fantasy Short Story” available only on itchio. In which… A group of magical teenagers recruit a grumpy war hero to climb a sacred mountain and hold a now-banned ritual. It has a determined Sushine Trans Girl and an Aroace Grumpy Vet".

The team: teenagers with misfunctioning magic
The plan: climb Mt. Kuhri to celebrate the now-banned Keyhole Festival
The "ace in their sleeve": a grumpy war veteran ... from the war they lost

Perfect!

THE KEYHOLE SHRINE is a 8200 queer fantasy story ❄️

claudiearseneault.itch.io/the-keyhole-...

I do not want to be on guard when I read manuscripts. I do not want to be on guard when I read slush. I do not want to be on guard when I listen to music, when I look at visual art, when I WATCH A FUCKING COMMERCIAL. I hate Altman so much I burn with it. He and his kind have stolen the WONDER.

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

I'm pretty sure it wasn't and yes: 🫠🫠🫠🫠

I think it's imoortant for context that it's thr bsky advisor who three his phone in water to cool it off 😂 real competent man

Been reading through the site. Definitely a good option, worth looking into as an aggregate distributor.

Quick things of note (for me anyway):

XinXii's royalties for their own sales pages (vs. distributed channels as set by those retailers) are 70% for titles over $0.99, 40% for $0.99 titles. 1/?

Trying out XinXii for ebook distribution. It gets Amazon, Apple, B&N, Casa del Libro, Kobo, Google Play, Tolino, Everand, and maybe a few more. Seems to do audiobook too. The UI isn't great, but it's *free*.

Is it Mark Carney or is it AI | CBC News That’s a question thousands of Canadians who receive a letter back from Canada’s prime minister may be asking in the not-too-distant future as the government contemplates a plan to replace some of the...

‘They will need some sort of quality control and editorial function," [Wernick, former Privy Council clerk] said. "But it is not like the first drafts produced by human staff were perfect.”’
Perfection is the wrong standard for assessing the use of genAI to answer constituents’ correspondence.

Oh hey, go through to the thread so you can see the contents list, and you may see someone you recognise... As well as getting all the details on how to support this fab anthology of aro-ace rep!

#ShortStory #WritingCommunity

Lol tremendous work here

the framing about who these authors are makes it even worse imo

A screenshot of the progress on my Kickstarter that shows $3422/3800 and 101 backers, with 9 days left

Holy shit. Only 300-something dollars left till we fund this anthology 😱

LETS FREAKIN GOOOOOO
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An image with a dark blue background, and the cover for a new “Queer YA Fantasy Short Story” available only on itchio. In which… A group of magical teenagers recruit a grumpy war hero to climb a sacred mountain and hold a now-banned ritual. It has a determined Sushine Trans Girl and an Aroace Grumpy Vet".

The team: teenagers with misfunctioning magic
The plan: climb Mt. Kuhri to celebrate the now-banned Keyhole Festival
The "ace in their sleeve": a grumpy war veteran ... from the war they lost

Perfect!

THE KEYHOLE SHRINE is a 8200 queer fantasy story ❄️

claudiearseneault.itch.io/the-keyhole-...

I knoow haha it's part of why it's the top of my list. I figured you might have known some I didn't XD I've started tagging them for myself in storygraph so I can keep track. Backlist might make them more common but also harder to confirm I'd bet

The Queersar Not An Award 2021 For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2021

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists.

Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s.

2021 is here, and... 1/2

no romance (look. I am who I am XD)
weird body-sharing setups
sff heists
books with strong animal motifs/characters (i.e. Black Wings Beatings)

With all this talk about birds I want to be sure everyone knows about the Birds Feed. All birds all the time, posted by real photographers and artists and no AI slop!

uugh. Every now and then when I click on a youtube video through a third party app like discord it also AI-voiceover-translates the thing and it makes me want to scream. I do nto want this!! ever!!

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

We’re at 89% funded!

It’s time. If we tick over 100% before the end of the Kickstarter, I’m pleased to say that my publisher is on board for including author’s notes for each story in the anthology!

Think of them as DVD extras! www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

UGH yes

IT'S LIVE, go check it out !!

That's gorgeous wow

So strange what the brain sometimes goes to when it's been stuck or neers to shake off some of the rust. Last time I had to change language entirely

Running off of memory here but pretty similar? Unless you want to run on Kickstarter then use BackerKit for fulfillment, then you'd be better with BK fee wise I think

$8 to tip this campaign over to the $10k mark 👀👀👀

Beautiful graphic with the text "The Biggest Week presents Birder Prom sponsored by Birds and Blooms, featuring performing artist and birder Bonner Black!" The graphic shows two birds anthropomorphized into human body shapes, with a Cerulean Warbler in a blue dress and a Blackburnian Warbler in a suit.

Obsessed with the unintentionally(?) queer illustration for birder prom that has both species in male-type plumage. A female Cerulean Warbler would be more yellow-blue than that pure soft blue, and the beautiful orange is a male Blackburnian Warbler.

like 200% more likely to participate now

yes, 100%, I do that too

I think a *lot* of us can, too

More and more I am seeing "I would never use it for anything creative but I generative AI seems fine for coding" and I wonder if people realize that coding is also a creative field and the generated code is also coming from scraped and plagiarized human code, please don't give coding a special pass

A promo image of the lesbian pride flag with books on top. The text reads SFF Books for Lesbian Visibility Week.

This week is Lesbian Visibility Week, and we're celebrating with 20 indie and self-published SFF books by lesbian and queer women authors! 🏳️‍🌈

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