Idk when I see a post that's like "trans people are officially being genocided according to genocide scholars" and all the replies are "protect the dolls" "save trans women", like I genuinely have to wonder if you just want the rest of us to die. Like it absolutely triggers a panic response.

When the NYT asks to use your footage:

I actually find it kind of devastating when kids & teens disparage things for being "unrealistic", "immature", or other low-brow critiques leveled at fiction. That kind of cynical pessimism is not natural. It's learned. Wtf happened to you that you feel that way at 12?

*Sees disinfo and more racial ignorance on the skyline* *Goes to correct it* *Deep sigh* Forget it, I'll write it into a book so at least I get paid 😮‍💨

Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.

Did I...actually get good news today?? En este economia???

No, legit tho, I am slowly making peace with this and it's making me dangerous...

Books. Music. Drawing. My dog. Other people's dogs. Birds. Most animals, tbh. The smell of flowers when I walk my block. Ice cream. Boba. The feeling of seeing my friends' books in a bookstore. Cosplaying. Coffee, smelling & drinking it. Thick gel pens. Soft pants. Cute to-do lists. Halloween. Sex.

The regime has announced two proposed rules intended to make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need. Your public comments probably won't sway this transphobic regime, but they will be very important for future lawsuits:

My new rule of thumb for Insta, is if a post starts with anything remotely click-baity, I'm already gone. "Three reasons I would NEVER" continue watching this reel "These are the WORST MISTAKES--" can't be worse than wasting more time on this post

Finally got my settings right

i thought of another one. nice has got a bad rap lately due to kind being more important than nice. i don't disagree. kind is more important. but nice is also kinda good and there's nothing that says we can't do em both

If you pick up my books purely for my OCs, you should know that you probably have to wait like 40-100 pages to meet them. 98% of the characters I talk about the most are the antagonists 💀

My online shop will launch NEXT WEEK Jan 14th! Debuting with it are the Commander Rao and And We Love You Anniversary Editions - definitive editions of the indie comics that made a whole nation cry. I'll also have select prints available at launch :) Prelaunch: fell-hound-shop.fourthwall.com

It really is telling how, when I post about the joys of indie publishing, it's pretty quiet on here but the one post I make that can be misread as implying trad is better than indie gets strangers pouring out of the woodwork for it. The Trad Dream is the American Dream of steroids 😬

I've not yapped about it but it is really fucking insane that we spent the summer fighting against paypros for our right to buy a videogame with a penis in it and another megacorp is currently just creating terabytes of CP openly and proudly and working with paypros to do it

Apparently Ingram is now screwing over bookstores, not just authors, so if you're an author thinking of setting up direct wholesale to bookstores, your time may be coming 😂

I deleted the post about my 2025 sales bc it had waaaay too many likes, like it broke containment & was getting recommended on the Discover feed? I feel weird about random strangers getting hype about the post saying my indie sales were worse than trad but missing where I say the money's better

If you want an example of right wing propaganda masquerading as feminism, this is it. Saying famous women aren’t allowed to dress the way they want or must act in a certain way so that all women cannot be sexualised is pushing purity culture rooted in religious fundamentalism.

Books are better when you don't read the blurb. I don't even think we really need blurbs. Like, pick it up, read through it a bit, and if you aren't vibing, walk away. But you really don't need to know "what it's about". Finding out is the journey.

Casual reminder that Itch stole my money & I can no longer sell there, meaning I can't promote with my friends or participate in bundles & other opportunities. I'd really appreciate if y'all could help me get more discovery for my books on here instead! 100% human made, 100% queer creative team!

my first offering for this year: Dorm Days color sketches 🥺🤲🏾💖

If we're talking weird interests, I gotta address the elephant in the room: the inherent homoeroticism of being a priest. You're *married to the Church*?? You're a *servant to the Lord*??? You're full of self-loathing because you see your entire existence as *sinful*??? Pretty much writes itself.

I gotta say, I really hate the way people platform "classics" purely for the sake of being high-brow. That's not to say classics aren't good, but rather to say that most people think classics are good because they're more intellectual when they're actually good because they were fucking weird.

Just two days left in my sale/bundle celebrating "Magica Riot" winning a TFR award for best audiobook - you can get any individual audiobook for a discount or get all three bundled for a discount. Just $25 for the set. They're fantastic and fun and you should check them out itch.io/s/177864/mag...

My one author flex 💪🏼is that I've never done an event where no fans showed up 😎 (I bring my roommate to everything and they're my biggest fan 🥹)

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

LRP: I can't imagine "generating" a book you, yourself, don't actually want to read. I literally reread my own books just for fun. If you can't even reread the book Al shat out for you long enough to notice you left the prompt inside, why should that book even exist? You *proved* it's unwanted.

Someone made a good point about finding prompts left in AI books: they expect you to read what they didn’t read themselves. Their argument is that they have the vision but lack the skills. Wouldn’t you want to read your vision? Just ridiculous.

I am once again asking everyone to post more about the weird shit you like instead of joining ridiculous fights

Despite Kickstarter more recently saying they "support adult projects" it seems that Stripe is taking down projects way more liberally then they used to. I know everyone is tired; but we have to keep up yelling at payment processors: stop-paypros.neocities.org

The best romantic pairing is two people who are so downright fucked up that the only way to protect the world from them is to sic them on each other

A few trends that are kind of interesting regarding my indie books: 1. Forget Me Knot sells WAY better in person than Don't Drag This Out, but DDTO sells better online 2. People love when FMK is on sale but don't bat an eye with DDTO is on sale 3. DDTO is profitable, FMK is still at a loss

It's that time of the year again! I am seeking reviewers for my next Chronicles of Nerezia novella, LOST TRADITIONS. eARCs will go out on January 15. You can get previous novellas, too. forms.gle/8GuNRhkbUq4Q...

Nothing sadder than when I see a book cover that has me like "HOLY SHIT THIS IS MY JAM!!!" just to read the description and be like "holy shit, this is so not my jam... 😬"

Healing is being able to see the account of someone who used to trigger you, think "ew", block, and move on.

2-40 hours, depending on the piece 😂

I wanna start a list of Central/East European indie authors. If you are one or know someone who is, please respond to this post :) rp for more people to see this

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Anybody using Pixelfed? And do you like it?

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The best romantic pairing is two people who are so downright fucked up that the only way to protect the world from them is to sic them on each other

For like 4 years, I thought I lost all ability to write a short story. Then I realized short stories can exist in the same worlds as my novels. Now I have infinite short stories.

Idk man, I just think that like... if people are doing something kinda weird, it doesn't really matter. And if people are kinda uncomfy about people acting kinda weird, it doesn't really matter. And maybe we can just like... focus on protecting vulnerable people or something.

Woo! Just over 1% of the way to my year word goal of 1 million words. I know this means that I'm technically behind, but also I'm very much not because I'm technically still on vacation 😅

here's a thread with a bunch of suggestions for Things-You-Can-Actually-Do. its not the be all end all but its a place to start. As you do things and, ideally, interact with people, you will find additional opportunities to help present themselves to you bsky.app/profile/dist...

It's been said better by better people, but I beloath how this era of "every website acts like it's illegal to draw fictional cartoons having weird sex" coincides so seamlessly with "every person in power pretends AI generating CSAM & porn of real nonconsenting adults is just artistic expression"

You know the pairing I'm writing are endgame if Character A just 😳🫠 at the sound of Character B saying their name