there are more serious problems with generative ai but the one that upsets me on the most visceral level is it being used to create cute animal contentslop. destroying THEIR environment and using their innocent likenesses and they don't even KNOW it makes me nauseous

DUDES ROCK: A CELEBRATION OF QUEER MASCULINITY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION, is an anthology of short stories, edited by @jelliclejay.bsky.social, and my contribution has sexy Jews in space. What does masculinity mean to you? Available in eBook or paperback here: www.amazon.co.uk/Dudes-Rock-C...

Hello! My name is Johannes T. Evans (he/him), and I am a gay, transgender, disabled author of fantasy, romance, horror, and erotic fiction based in West Yorkshire. I write a huge array of fiction and non-fiction, and lots of it is available to read for FREE on my website: www.johannestevans.co.uk

messy eater

I am usually in the camp of 'all reading is good' but in some very rare cases an absolute dunderhead will pick up a book and be like "the hobbits are a direct endorsement of fascist racial supremacy" and I don't think it's really helping them or anyone else, like maybe reading actually isn't for you

i can't believe i got to see plane jane, mistress isabelle brooks, irene the alien, and TRIXIE MATTEL all at the same halloween show. i love boston!!

WOOO so proud to have a story in this now award-winning anthology

omggg we won AGAIN!!! so proud of our book, the artists and writers that contributed fiction and illustrations did not pull their punches, just killer work every page 😈 Art here by @jeffreykam.bsky.social, Cho-Hyun Kim, BOLZAK (Arturo Mestre), and @leslekieuart.bsky.social 🔥

Have read some of this. You WANT this book in the world. Someone pick this up, it's the good shit.

this sounds amazing as hell (complimentary)

SUMMER SONS x CAMP DAMASCUS BLESSED BE THE FLESH is an adult horror romance about an amnesiac cult escapee and the lonely trucker who picks him off the side of the highway. Remembering his past may destroy him, but what he's forgotten will destroy the world. #DVpit #A #H #LGBT

Didn't realize I was into gay trucker apocalypse cult stories until just now

they're calling me stupid on twitter they're saying my brain must leak out of my ears when i sleep

Elton is running, he just can't remember from what. When he runs into lonely trucker Beck, they learn together what it takes to rebuild a person, but dark things from his fractured past are on his trail. Remembering may destroy him, but what he's forgotten may destroy the world. #DVpit #A #H #LGBT

Jay has such a compelling narrative voice and his passion is so clear in everything he writes!! I’m still working my way through the manuscript bc I’m a slow reader </3 but already it is such a strong work of horror, cannot recommend him and Blessed Be The Flesh enough!

this novel is gloomy and hypnotic and everything anyone could want from an appalachian gothic horror (abusive dads, fucked up animals, and everything else)

Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up an attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road plunges him into a battle for the world’s survival. #DVpit #OWN #POC #LGBT

The internet created space for people to put words to their queerness and find community where they feel they can't find it irl, but I worry this is a stopgap that keeps many in a kind of arrested development who would pre-internet be forced to go out and find in person community

can someone give me sixty five american dollars so i can submit my anthology to the lammys 🙏

crazy to query a magazine about a submission and get hit with the "OBVIOUSLY we've finished selecting for this issue" lol. if it was obvious then i wouldn't be querying now would i?

petty queers, sad boys, and big diaspora feelings are all things i think my followers are experts in 👀

can u believe the government is trying to distract us from the much more important news that foundation was renewed for s4???

New at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: Gretchen Felker-Martin speaks out about DC Comics cancelling Red Hood, and her comments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "I had no regrets."

Let me get this straight: 2 elected Democratic officials in Minnesota murdered 2 months ago - hardly any coverage Charlie Kirk murdered 2 hours ago - nationwide attention and our Nazi leader advocating for flags at half mast for it School shooting moments after Kirk's death - *crickets*

lol at a leftist irl posting “remember before posting anti-gun propaganda that it was initially used to disarm the black panthers.” crazy to see such a clear representation of the political equivalent of sitting at the kiddie table

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

ppl who can become obsessed with one single person and dedicate their entire internet presence to them are so cool to me. i don’t think i’ve ever been that passionate abt anything in my life and i wonder if my experience of the world is poorer for it

so sad to announce that writing this epic fantasy series i’ve had outlined for years and kept procrastinating bc the idea of creating a fully fledged secondary world was scary is in fact just as difficult as i was afraid of. i feel like i’m chewing iron nails with every sentence

hey how the fuck do u write epic fantasy lol

being able to say “i think it depends on the situation” is something that no one online seems to be able to do and it’s exciting to start seeing it on bsky! the mark of a true social media platform!

QueerPit may be over, but my book still exists!

Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up a very attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road ends up plunging him into a battle for the world’s survival. #QueerPit #H #SPF #A

Lonely trucker Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he can’t be too surprised when picking up a very attractive amnesiac cult escapee off the side of the road ends up plunging him into a battle for the world’s survival. #QueerPit #H #SPF #A

CAMP DAMASCUS x SUMMER SONS An emotionally underdeveloped trucker and an amnesiac cult escapee walk into a bar (well, a rest stop, actually). Neither of them know the fate of the world rests on their shoulders, but it’s the requested explanation of this meme. #QueerPit #A #H

weapons lowkey the best horror movie since hereditary

me if flirting with men 30+ y/o by making fun of their age so they get mad at me then asking if they want to spank me was illegal

it’s v amusing when ppl say “queer men are still men 😤” like it’s some sort of profound statement when the vast majority of queer men are obsessed with letting u know they’re men in my experience (which is a purely neutral statement as there is no moral value assigned to gender)

Fighting tyrants is an ugly business that makes us all uglier in the process. Man, Foundation is so good.

agents please… my book… it’s dying…. only u can save it….

one thing i regret about becoming a writer is that reading is much more fraught than it used to be. if i read a good book on a bad day i'll become extremely depressed about my own skill instead of just enjoying the feast of words i'm presented with. something to look inward on!

would love to be informed if there's a way to attend writing workshops as a working class student writer completely dependent on my bf for housing other than continuing to sadly apply to scholarships

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Friday update time! Reading: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Watching: Foundation (2021-) Playing: MTG Arena Writing: Weird solarpunk-ish short story What y'all got?

me during the day vs. at night in ptown 😇

one left!!! last signed copy of DUDES ROCK in the world!!!

how many more testimonials does foundation need for y’all to finally start watching it 😭😭😭

if you think this isn't a compliment, you don't know me at all

Foundation is Jupiter Ascending's true heir

CAMP DAMASCUS x SUMMER SONS my pitch for BLESSED BE THE FLESH consists of: the above comps and the below meme, mashed together into a story about an amnesiac cult escapee and the trucker who definitely didn't mean to fall in love with him. bc The Horrors, yknow? #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Beck knows that beautiful boys are trouble, so he only has himself to blame when picking one off the side of the road pulls him into a battle for the world's fate, but it still would've been nice if the interdimensional angels waited until after his sexual awakening to attack. #QuestPit #A #H #Q