Who am I to ignore the words of the gods?

A bit different, here's a pitch: BEERS, BEARS & BEARDS When his lifelong companion and love is dragged into the mountain's deadly depths during a mining disaster, a dwarf must descend into darkness to rescue him so their beards may finally be braided together. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity

From a backburnered May-December literary #MMRomance, "Still Waters." (Not a literal bear.) "An older ginger bear living alone in a house full of antiques and art sounded like a man Ken definitely wanted to get to know better. Much better." #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts 🌈✒️

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It’s so bizarre that the person who shot up the ICE facility was some edgy 4chan classical Ron Paul libertarian with a fixation of video games and somehow, the FBI is still considering him a “leftist”.

Change a movie by adding a word. Back Pain to the Future Mars Bar Attacks Love Handles, Actually Saving Private Equity Ryan Plan 9 from Outer Personal Space Bacon Grease Star Wars: Return Policy of the Jedi Good Morning Breath, Vietnam The Music Therapy Man Like Water for Like Chocolate

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Correspondence from "We Who Walk in Shadow." No "mire," so I went with "muck". #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #FantasyWriters 🌈✒️

Make no mistake, this kind of crackdown is coming to the USA if we don't stop Trump and the Project 2025 steamroller. #QueerRights #LGBTQIA+Rights #FreedomOfSpeech #Silence=Death #Homophobia #ImpeachNOW

All my Midwest mind can think is, "What do they do when it rains?"

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I once told my brother (who said I was 'insensitive' to expect others 'acting on their principles' not to oppose my marriage rights) that we are literally fighting for our lives. This is what I mean. We *must* change this society if we are to survive. #LGBTQIA+Rights #transrights #fightfascism

No "flurry," but how about "blizzard"? From "Fables of Fire," my cozy small-town gothic supernatural #thriller inspired by Hansel and Gretel and chock full of queer rep and fairy-tale allusions. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #FairyTaleRetellings

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Follow Mike. You'll be glad you did.

@bsky.app — I urge you to rethink these guidelines. You have a unique opportunity to stand against the creeping encroachment of prudish sterility, and instead foster human creativity. Don't squander it.

“Show me the man and I’ll find the crime” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

TEA ALERT: this morning's #tea is Blackcurrant Berry from Ash and Oak Apothecary. As you were.

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A post to illustrate the premise that skills in art don't develop simultaneously. And also a little story about my art journey that might be inspiring for some. These are my pre-covid attempts at digital art. By that time I was quite decent with watercolour by digital art was a terra incognita

Tea alert: This morning's #tea is Barooti Assam with cacao nibs and spearmint. You may now return to your usual activities.

So ... I've been away a few days. Work has been using up all my spoons lately. This is my busiest time of year by a long shot. Hoping things will smooth out over the next couple of weeks and I'll be back to posting regularly.

study ✨ #art

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Someone start up the cocktails, because the queer men in the audience (me very much included) are tired. We don't ask for much: Amplify our voices, treat us like human beings and not sex objects, and be respectful. But ya'll cis women out here still doing the most.

Tomorrow is the big day! Big burl bears with all the feels. Chatty bartender meets grumpy recluse in this small town romance. Can't wait for everybody to read "the" scene. AAAHHHHH!!!! #mmromance #gayromance #booksky #gaysky #bearsky

Considering how right he was about us going all in on his version of Second Life, imagine how right he'll be about this

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No "award" so rolling with "granted"...close enough 😬 In this, Elara gets something she doesn't really want #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #sff #amwriting #WritingPrompts

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"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech...."

The Pip.

Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title. Literally American Pie Climb Literally Every Mountain Fly Me Literally to the Moon Literally the Only Living Boy in New York Love Is Literally a Battlefield I've Got You Literally Under My Skin

But it's supposedly only the rhetoric of the "radical Left" that leads to violence. Uh-huh.

Not souch something if change, but something I'd flesh out more: I've always regretted not giving a clearer idea of what MC Cabot does for a living, in "Clueless Cabot." Ah, well, next edition. #TBBChat #BookBazaar25 #Writing #Writesky

Oh, I definitely have opinions on dessert. Best pie: rhubarb Best ice cream: butter pecan Best doughnut: apricot filling with white icing Best bar: fudgy brownie Best cake: flourless dark chocolate with raspberry glaze Best other: strawberry pretzel salad

Had a fun afternoon with the hubby @moondog247.bsky.social at the local #ComicCon, and came away with a nice haul of books by @findingdeefish.bsky.social, @core-author.bsky.social, and Alan McGill. Also enjoyed a terrific sushi buffet afterward.

From "Fables of Fire," a small-town gothic supernatural #thriller, inspired by Hansel and Gretel and chock full of queer rep and fairy-tale allusions. (Rhodie calls Jonny "Dudley" because he's a goody-two-shoes like Dudley Do-Right.) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Just in case anyone was under the delusion that only the Trump administration was blatantly disappearing LGBTQIA+ information....

This. So much this. The only people I feel sad for in this are his children. And let's be frank—either they'd have grown up monsters themselves with this man for a father, or they'd someday be writing a tell-all memoir of escaping his toxicity. Still, no child should ever lose a parent so young.

She faced no repercussions for this violent rhetoric. No condemnation or handwringing… Just silence. The double standards are nauseating.

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

If you’re a Christian Nationalist and you think the place Christians end up after bodily death is Valhalla, um, I’m gonna need you to pick that Bible up one more time.

"Greatest Love of All"

An FBI Director saying “see you in Valhalla” about Charlie Kirk isn’t just cringe, it’s ignorant. Valhalla is sacred myth twisted by white supremacists as extremist code. The nation’s top cop should know better than to echo the language of the very groups the FBI is supposed to stop.

So this is apparently how it goes these days: (violence occurs) TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this! (perpetrator revealed not to be trans) TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -

For anyone wondering why there isn't a "straight pride month", or who think LGBTQIA+ people enjoy "special rights", come back to me when 85%, or even 8.5%, or even 0.85%, of elections have a candidate running on an anti-straight platform.