#QueerPrompts Day 8 Collllliiiiinnnnnn~~~

Pyreans tend to be spiritual (believing in Fates and the spirits) but it's often as a built-in aspect of daily life rather than a formal/ceremonial experience. Alan is less so, especially since coming to Earth, but he is a star sailor and even human star sailors are on the superstitious side...

Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor are shockingly good, EA or no and 1) Merrin is too cool for Cal but I still ship them because she’s clearly a dweeb-sexual and I support her lifestyle, and 2) I also ship Cal and Bode (duh), and I’m just glad the games gave the dweeb a nice girlfriend and boyfriend both.

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! N.I.C.E.F. - sci-fi space opera with mechs! Oppressed minority rises up for their rights! Demon King Daughter Book 1 - contemporary fantasy blending slice-of-life and action-adventure. All buy options: linktr.ee/pjc_cahill

Movie you've watched more than six time with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. My go-to is Aliens, so to mix things up...

Movie you've watched more than six time with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. Easy to avoid the bigs, hard to find gifs for the movies I fixate on 😅.

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Clary was Princess of Alsceance. And with the stroke of her hand, she was Queen of Midgrim. But was she traded for nothing more than the falling sand in an hourglass? Paperback, ebook, KU: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWSGDTL/

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! "Alan Beringer’s day takes an unexpected turn when he’s kidnapped by alien space pirates." For anyone wanting a queer normative space opera that's Terry Pratchett meets 90s anime with gay space pirates! linktr.ee/gmgraywrites

Could I perhaps entice you to read Songs of Broken Bells with these incredibly niche ‘tropes’? Also inside you’ll find: 🔥 Rich worldbuilding 🔔 Queernormative setting 🔥 Found family 🔔 Meddling saints 🔥 Magical corruption Buy it from your preferred online bookstore! buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij

Honestly thought I’d have less traction in the open air art market yesterday than the local book fair today, but I was wrong! Well this one is indoors (bonus) and I have nothing but time to draw (bonus).

I still think we can win this fight: I think we can overturn the nonsense; but we cannot win this by being foolish. You have to make your calls, send your e-mails and letters, and you have to stay informed and talk to others. You cannot be silent about this. You have to join us NOW.

#DeckTheHalls Chariot is strength of will in an active/yang sense, so it has to be Hildegarde or her ship, the Crimson Raptor. Canonically Gate ships aren't atmosphere-grade, but I'd want to do an 80s style anime shot of her sitting on the outside forecastle with the ship landed in a golden field.

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Also available on the End-of-Year Indie Fantasy Mega Bundle!: itch.io/b/3409/end-o...

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! A bloodthirsty Priestess of Aphrodite accepts a blasphemous contract to escort a princess back to her parents. But not everything is as it seems, and sometimes the heart has its own schemes. linktr.ee/NicoleHidalg...

#DeckTheHalls Fool was one of the first I envisioned! Sven stands on a cliff, sword slung over a shoulder. Eric on his head or shoulder. Not only is Sven a fool, he has Holy Fool qualities too like his unexpected wisdom, and his bullshit schemes working as well as Alan's meticulous plans.

#DecemberWorldbuilders 6 I'm kicking myself, but I haven't built symbiosis into anything, which is criminal given how much I like lichen and mutualism in general 😩. Something to build into a short story or something at some point...

#DecemberWorldbuilders 5 I don't discuss interworld diseases because that just...complicates the space travel/worldhopping, so assume it's not an issue lol. That said, a key plot point is some genetic illness (unspecified) that killed Alan's mother, so I guess medicine isn't completely bulletproof.

#DeckTheHalls Sven's ship, the Merry Swallow, would be Wheel of Fortune. In the Rider-Waite deck, the card has karmic/fate connotations, and what better invokes a sense of Fate than a ship that changes the stars?

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My 36th Birthday and 5 year Affiliate Anniversary Stream starts now! www.twitch.tv/LillyNightsh... #Birthday #Twitch #trans #transrightsarehumanrights

N.I.C.E.F. - sci-fi space opera with mechs! Oppressed minority rises up for their rights! Demon King Daughter Book 1 - contemporary fantasy blending slice-of-life and action-adventure. All buy options: linktr.ee/pjc_cahill #yafiction #scifi #fantasy #mecha #demons #sapphic 📢📚

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#SFFChat Outro: Wishlist my upcoming game After Work on itchio! It's about being the last person in the office. cornonthecob.games

#SFFChat Thanks for hosting! I am once again plugging my high fantasy, cozy but not cozy novel about found family and corrupt magic. (I really need to make a new pinned post for this, oops)

Thank you for this one!! I'll come back with excerpt once my computer hasn't locked me out of social media (was on bsky too much today) #SFFChat Since I talked so much about Nerezia, here are my JRPG-inspired fantasy novellas: claudiearseneault.com/nerezia/

Thanks again for another fun chat. I don't have anything specific to share but I will have a new short story coming out soon, so keep eyes on my store. (All links here bio.link/emmajuned) It's a prequel to All Vamps, No Stakes called All Portals, No Keys #Sffchat

#SFFChat Outro. Thanks for hosting and tackling this theme, Steve, this was fun! I've recently shared another, more slice-of-life short story for Chronicles of the Realms, and this one can be read without reading Eternal Flame: archiveofourown.org/works/74763051

#SFFChat The Wings of Ashtaroth is part of the Fantasy Mega Bundle over on Itchio at the moment (along with a ton of other SFFChat friends' books!): itch.io/b/3409/end-o...

#SFFChat Q4 Soooo I actually have a Triple Strike short story called Bad Access, which features Colin playing online hero shooters, which you can find here (plus excerpt below) 😁 gmgray.itch.io/bad-access/

#SFFChat Q3 Game storytelling is so unique in general. Even the whole "hur hur MGS is just a movie/cutscene" discussion completely misses the point. They don't work as movies because the interaction between narrative and player mechanics/dynamics is the crux of both the pacing and why they're fun.

#SFFChat Q2 One of my goals for 2026 is to build out a Triple Strike Investigations visual novel, which is basically Phoenix Wright style cases featuring Alan and Colin. Triple Strike would also work as an FTL style rogue-like but omg I'd cry every time I blew them up 🤣.

#SFFChat Q1 Okay, full disclosure, the main dating sim I've played is Hatoful Boyfriend but I'll given it my best shot. Alan's the tsundere, Sven's the golden retriever, Ian's the grizzled old man, and Colin's the yandere.

#SFFChat Oooh! 👀 I wanna join! I'm G.M. and besides writing and video games, I enjoy many things such as drawing, combat sports, cooking, and being in nature.

My partner started playing Just Communication from the other room and I could feel my soul literally teleporting back to 1995…

ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita... I am ordering copies with the map to sell as soon as I can, but for now I gotta get rid of these pretty, mapless books on my shelf! #SigilsOfMalice #BookSky💙📚 #Sale #HalfOff #SFF

"I believe my friends, that Caravans of Rockets will lead us forward from star to star" Itch: laikalgagarin.itch.io/cosmonaut Paperback: mybook.to/Cosmonaut1LL...

After a brief hiatus, I'm relaunching @noumenonedits.bsky.social on BlueSky! If you're interested in reserving an editing slot or you just want to know more about the process, please feel free to message me 💜 #amwriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Horror #Fantasy #Scifi #Romance #BookSky #Fiction

Omg y'all, someone picked up all four books in Triple Strike from Lark and Owl Booksellers in Georgetown, TX 🥺. I was just despairing how my books don't do well in bookstores and maybe I should give up on consignment, but now I have the emotional fortitude for another round of marketing trenches 😅.

if you see this, post your favorite pokemon ✨ Grubbins is my fave, because I asked my partner what to name him and he said "Snoot" but I typed "e" accidentally then hit enter instead of backspace so he became "Snee" and from that moment forth, he was my most precious bug son 😌.

#DecemberWorldbuilders 4 Triple Strike is a far future with infinite energy and FTL space ships, but no social media lol. Pyreans skipped fossil fuels and went straight to wind and solar, then fission, then fusion. Their communication/information age also happened before their industrial age. (1/2)

I've always loved writing. The same with drawing. Creating things is satisfying, and I like getting people to laugh. In high school Latin class, one of my essays was parts of Ovid's Metamorphoses retold as a Jerry Springer episode. I guess I've always been up to my shit. #LoreOutLoud

Chilly enough to bust out the elephant mug 🐘

You know what? I will celebrate the not-sex/not-weed number...

Please buy my books. I would love to get a lot of sales. My Amazon Page for YA Queer Fantasy books & strong Female MC's: a.co/d/13oZy6T #WritingCommunity. #readingcommunity.

When Miriam is captured to be sacrificed to the Shadow across the Sun, she thinks her life is over. But when the Archangel Michael choses a new Paladin, Miriam finds herself pulled along on a quest to save the world from encroaching darkness. www.patreon.com/collection/1...

#DecemberWorldbuilders 3 None of the cast are chemists, but chemistry is a critical area of science in TS. The material science around wormholes, keeping ships/aquaponic gardens as closed loop as possible, bio-medical and genetic engineering...all of these things are happening in the background.

IngramSpark's price increase just in time for book 5 to be the longest yet 🙃. *turns to characters* All right, you assholes. No more feelings. From here on out, just keep it in. All space battles and duels will be off screen until further notice too. No adverbs either. Just noun verb noun bay-bee.

Thank you! I have a release coming out in 10 days. Opus (full name Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina) is a trans self-discovery novella I wrote a few years back and am finally publishing. My hope is that someone likes it. anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus ko-fi.com/anotherindie...

Last week I published a free read on Itch. Wandering rogues Kestrel and Scar must race against time to complete a set of clandestine deliveries in Five and Twenty Ponies: a-j-roberts.itch.io/five-and-twe...