Just in case it wasn't clear: If I click on your profile and see that you've used AI to make something, you get blocked.

good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete sex scenes are craft! goddammit!

hii we’re the women behind this upstart book app taking on Goodreads (owned by Amazon, bleh) & yes you know we’re indie and humans because we literally turned our pets into avatars you can choose when you create your pagebound profile 😂

Since we're all divesting from our billionaire overlords... what a great time to switch from Goodreads to indie-owned (+ much cuter, cooler, social) Pagebound? Hi #booksky 👋 we're Pagebound, a new social reading site (think: if Goodreads and Reddit had a baby). Come read with us !

a childhood favorite! I watched the film from the '70s a lot growing up and it's perfect to me--hope this works as a miniseries too. It's rather light on plot for 4 episodes.

Corporate-owned outlets that answer to billionaires are increasingly showing they’re not built for this moment. Independent media is filling the gaps and building something new. Help us keep building for another year with a gift subscription to one of these awesome outlets:

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

THE KING MUST DIE has been out for a whole month! To celebrate, I’m giving away 3 signed + personalized author copies. To enter, repost this and comment below with the last great story you read!

WHAT WE ARE SEEKING got a starred review in Library Journal! A perceptive one, too. Bujold's ETHAN OF ATHOS is definitely a book I thought about while writing it

one of my favorite things to do with extra cash around the holidays! "Transanta is a mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift-givers with trans youth who are unhoused, in foster care, or otherwise without crucial support they need to thrive." www.transanta.com

A singer-songwriter friend would like people to know that while boycotting Spotify is great, it was also 16% of their income that is now cratering. So if you're cancelling Spotify, please pair that with buying music, merch, or live tickets directly from your favorite artists

Thank you, ALL, who supported the BCS Patreon or donated this week and shared word! We really appreciate it. All Patreon support and donations go to pay our authors a pro rate, our artists, and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing personalized comments in all submission replies.

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

but seriously, watch it

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

ICYMI we revealed the cover for BEING ARO last week! Illustrated by Sam Prentice-Jones and designed by Rosie Stewart! BEING ARO releases form Page Street May 26th 2026! www.rosieethor.com/being-aro

If anyone's got a moment to give indie authors feedback on what does/ doesn't work for you as a reader re. Itch book bundles, please answer these 9 questions. (They're mostly multiple choice 😉).

my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them

Remember as you gear up for family gatherings this week, if anyone asks “are you still doing that writing thing?” you ARE entitled to challenge them to single combat.

I guess it's about that time of the year where I should mention I've got a short christmas fairytale for you to read. I wrote it back in highschool almost 20 yrs ago and found it by accident a few years back, gave it a basic edit, and here you go. It's free on Ko-Fi and Itch! ko-fi.com/s/5f3400a90d

thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲 thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support 🙏🏻🖤💀 if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link: psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...

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Hi, have a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

If no one in your timeline is grieving the loss of Alice Wong today then you’re not hearing from enough disabled people or even people who listen to disabled people. That’s a massive segment of society to which you will likely belong some day. Might want to turn an ear toward them sooner than later

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

Donate to support Women of Color Unite (WOCU Hollywood)! Several major studios and networks have recently withdrawn their annual donations and sponsorships. Combined with a fundraising gala that did not meet its goals, this loss has put many essential programs at risk. www.every.org/wocunite/f/2...

Book rec! I received an ARC of Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han and LOVED IT. Lyrical, sorrowful, suspenseful; wounding, wounded, magical—it is one of my top reads of 2025 and will be a regular on my recommendation lists moving forward. You can pre-order it now! bookshop.org/p/books/hone...

Defeating book promotion scams by not having a published book.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Frankenstein by @realgdt.bsky.social is such a sumptuous delight and should be seen on a massive screen to take in all the details. Pity it isn't showing more places—I know I'd go again and again and again.

Google doc with Know Your Rights zines/cards in multiple languages, excellent additions to whistle packets if you want to make them drive.google.com/drive/folder...

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm Helen, A freelance Illustrator inspired by art nouveau. I love mythology and folklore, dark creepy things, and Queer love. I'd love to work on more TTRPG, Book covers/comic book covers, Posters, packaging illustration Portfolio: helenmask.com 📧 [email protected]

Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Kim a fantasy artist looking for gigs and commissions. I can do mages, mages, and a few other things but mainly mages~ Let me draw the elaborately designed mage of your dreams~ kstramat.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/c/kstramat vgen.co/kstra

THIS. find your best time to create and protect that time. for me, it’s very early while everyone is asleep and my mind is a clean slate. yes, I can write in the afternoon, but I have to sort through noisy brain and it’s harder to block out distractions. everyone is different. experiment!

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Wanna see a man get squelched?

Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Good for Jane!