Hey peeps, this is the Kickstarter by a friend of a friend, about a lovely children's book. It's close to its end and could use some help to cross the finish line. www.kickstarter.com/projects/299...

Nightborne has been unleashed! Here are a few of the shinies I made for it that you might dig. These poison-green skull earrings: www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Our house is a very, very, very fine house with two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy - Vasalisa what the FUCK are you doing here Anyways this is available now www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page... HEY stop counting poppy seeds, WTF Vasalisa seriously -

We're liiiiiiiive!

you have just under one hour to shop before we shut the shop down for the Nightborne Collection launch at 1pm! there are plenty of goodies to be got before then ✨🍃🧚🌿✨ www.peculiarityshop.com

Hillary, Lauren, and Vavia are spending today adding the last items to Nightborne. I'd refresh the page a few times today. Just saying... www.peculiarityshop.com/nightborne

PSST. Clearance extended through 10/5/25, and new stuff added! We don't ever put Boneyard stuff on sale bc it's already really discounted, but I need it out of my house so I can install the printer that'll let us make cheaper, better t-shirts, so please buy it? Use code GO2025 to B2G1 on:

I'm sorry I keep asking for help, but I literally have nowhere else to turn. I am doing my best to get back on my feet, both literally & metaphorically, but that will be exponentially harder if I lose my apartment. I desperately need $482 for rent & enough utilities to avoid shut off. Please.

I've taken all* my craft supplies out and organized them into type -of-craft piles. Now I have to... *checks notes* ... put them away? Seems like bullshit. *in this room.

Circling back around to this. Folks, these are OLD friends of mine. Like 20+ years friends. We've seem some shit together. They're good people, working hard to make the world a more progressive place. Hannah works with a DV org to help victims. 500 bucks is not a huge ask. Can we do this?

The library is one of the best things this country has to offer and everyone should be taking advantage of their local branch. Also librarians are some of the best people who will consistently fight for your right to read. (More ways to support libraries here: ilovelibraries.org)

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Psst. Our Capybara Pronoun Pins from our 2023 Kickstarter are discontinued, and we need them out of our shop so we have the room for new stuff. Want two pins for $8? Go get 'em. They're buy one, get one, no code needed, as long as they last. (gotta put 2 pins in your cart for the discount to show.)

I have older pieces from reptile shows and craft fairs on Etsy, and gotta make room for new beads and pieces that meet a very high bar! Clearance sale exclusive to BlueSky: 50% off with code BSKY50! Get a great deal and help me get even cooler new beads. #bsnm #jewelry varanidparadise.etsy.com

✨Cover Reveal✨ and… a wild cozy fantasy romance Kickstarter appears! 💖 This is for THE QUIET LIGHT, the first book in a brand-new trilogy. There is *so* much cozy goodness planned for this. Check out the Kickstarter to see all the juicy details: 🥰 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cas...

Reminding myself that I have all the things I really need to get started with bookbinding already, and no, I do not have to source archival quality whatevers when I am *learning* and making things for fun. Anyway, cute notebooks incoming soon, in theory.

Christian extremists in LA raise a stink over a kid's book. Why? It's "pornographic." Because it says some kids have two mommies. Well LA school board president Goldberg has a few choice words about =that=. Wow. Just wow. Madam President, take a bow. 💐💐💐 #lgbtqia+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjaa...

Maybe Baba Yaga wants to live in a cute house, has no one thought of that??? Anyways I'm doing @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Nightborne work on this holiday weekend.

It is I, but a humble queermosexual, asking that you peruse my goods perchance because I'm short on bills this month. Someone had 1k in vet bills, Matilda, and a $630 dollar electric bill. Halp? www.peculiarityshop.com/hillary-s-co...

Do you like scaly things? Do you like shiny things? Rachel has scaly shinies for you at her freshly-launched shop!

Game Changer ARG! Come for the minigames, stay for the QR code fragment comprised entirely of tiny cartoon buttholes.

When we fight, we win. The vast majority of ALL Americans disagree with book banning. So grateful to be a part of @authorsabb.bsky.social (and esp @massaabb.bsky.social) so that we can fight for everyone's right to read freely!

GUILLOTINES, GET YOUR GUILLOTINES HERE. (chop chop) (Thank you 🥰 we have the very best customers)

My car wouldn't start this morning. Between paying for a new battery and lost wages, I'm down $400 for the week. It's a great time to buy my jewelry if you've been on the fence. I have guillotines I can list, or DM for dragonscale earrings in other pride colors www.peculiarityshop.com/becky-s-corner

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE alert!🚨 SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!

I think this is my favorite piece for a long while, if not ever. nerdykeppie.com/products/chr...

Ooo thanks for the heads up! Super proud of the work we did here so check it out if you haven’t

Trying to knit through my stash. (Stop laughing, fiber artists. I know you know where this is going.) Start a new shawl! Skein runs out, shawl not done. Nothing in stash with correct weight/fiber/color. It's an indie dyer's colorway, from last year.

It's so damned pretty in person. <3

Pssst, @peculiarityshop.bsky.social is having a sale. Everything is 15% off! www.peculiarityshop.com Some shinies you might want to consider for yourself or someone you think is keen coming in 3...2...1...

The second part of the Oberon's Court collection is liiiiive! www.peculiarityshop.com/oberons-court Have at it, fellow magpies!

Jewelry for swamp witches, lost mortals, imaginary creatures, fae darlings, fae devils, and everyone in between 💙

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

Psst. 15% off.

Donations and shares appreciated for one of my staff, Mari: gofund.me/48ac058e On Sunday night her apartment complex caught on fire, the ceiling was destroyed in her unit, and everything got covered in insulation and drenched in water.

I'm thrilled to share that the Green Bone Saga is being adapted into a TTRPG by @evilhat.bsky.social. Yes, now you too can be a jade warrior prowling the streets of Janloon. More info & sign up to playtest at the link below 👇

Holy smokes, one of my favorite fantasy trilogies (1930’s Shanghai-style gangsters with jade infused wuxia powers in John Woo/ Johnny To family power struggle with big swings at anti-colonialism) now as a fun TTRPG by one of my favorite companies. Check the books out, the game, or ideally both.

ALERT, ALERT, WE ARE BACK IN BUSINESS. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. SHINIES HAVE BEEN FREED FROM PURGATORY.

Your quarterly nag to donate platelets which is not just a public good by affords a glorious two hours where you can blow off calls and emails with moral high ground.

We're liiiiiive! Get your faerie shinies!

T-MINUS FIVE MINUTES TO LAUNCH

Ayotte's veto of HB 324 in New Hampshire is a huge victory for the right to read. www.momsrising.org/blog/victory...

Oops! All Bards

had the big brain realization that you could just whip up a whole D&D cast/NPC list from Whose Line prompts alone

Hi! Everything on the shop is 15% off because we have a collection drop coming up and I want to get this stuff out of here. Small LGBTQIA+ business, the named crafter takes 70% of the cut. Thank you for eyeballing us/sharing us! www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Alt text. This is pretty awful, but probably what has to be done to preserve the service at all. IMLS still has a chance- please make sure to show support.

My incredible @clarionwest.bsky.social classmate and fellow @viableparadise.bsky.social alum @kwonley.bsky.social is running a fundraiser for MetroWest Writers’ Guild, a wonderful nonprofit writing community. Please consider checking it out and spreading the word! tiltify.com/metrowest-wr...

Who's got a teleporter I can borrow?

I've seen some posts suggesting day drinking to deal with today's news, and I want to offer some suggestions for how to get through today if you don't want to drink, or use drugs. I'm going to suggest these things as someone who hasn't drank or taken drugs in over 9 years. I hope they help.