Art by Bruce Pennington‬ for The Day of Their Return by Poul Anderson (Corgi, 1978)

Honestly, I feel like millennials as a group are being denied ambition and dreams, at least beyond that of being a code monkey or a service worker. -Science is getting cut to the bone -Ditto health and law -It's the worst time to be a creative or an artist in living memory

📢 Hey friends and fiends! 📢 I'm (finally) working on the 2026 Queer SFF Book list and I want to make sure I don't miss YOUR book! So if you have a adult SFF book coming out this year (2026) that has a queer MC, please take this opportunity to SHOUT IT OUT in the comments or QTs!! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

I need us allllll to understand that there are a million different ways to have a positive impact on your community after having "a past" that do not include insisting on holding an elected office. If having a positive impact is your endgame and not just having power.

"you have to know how to use AI or else!" it's literally made for idiots too dumb to come up with ideas. If the invented scenario where I HAVE to use it comes to pass, which it hasn't, I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to draw with those crayons.

& the same reason predatory people date young. They don’t know better. They say yes to covers, say yes to a ton of work, burn themselves out. I chaired a young writer whose book was #1 in the country & she was wrecked & worrying about having to make a TikTok. ‘You do NOT have to do that’ I yelled.

Crunchy bits of newsy news if you follow on main, you may have already seen that BY THIEVESLIGHT finally has a cover! I am getting print proofs this coming week and I am Cautiously Excited! to be getting this out there very soon

“THEY WERE ROOMMATES?!?”

There's no respect for life without respect for death. In a pandemic era where we're told to move on from grief, return to normal, we're coerced into believing life is endlessly reproducible if we can just bring people back from the dead. Life is not an infinite resource to be profited from.

Quote with your purple art! 💜 oldie but goodie #arttrain

Want to write, or draw, or make music but think you don’t have the skills or tools to do so? There have always been solutions: build those skills, obtain those tools, or build new ones, collaborate with somebody else. AI mimics those skills, tools, and collaborations, but robs you of the art.

It’s my birthday! 💜🎉 Thank you guys so much for accompanying me on my art journey and for all the amazing friends I have made in the artist community! I would be very grateful if you could share my art for my birthday 🥹💕

This is a Terryl Whitlatch appreciation post. If you are a creature fan and don't have "The Wildlife of Star Wars" book, you need it asap! #starwars

Happy Ed Balls Day! Remember to keep the true spirit of Ed Balls Day alive in your heart, and avoid the overcommercialisation of Ed Balls Day.

I'm still fundraising for the increased costs of my cancer treatment. I also need new glasses, which aren't cheap here. More details are at the link, but if you could toss a coin to your writer for my birthday next Tues, I'd be grateful. Thanks & please share! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

part two of the @mdmcd.com commission duo — Ilwyn. You know it’s My Kind of Commission when the brief explicitly says the beefy guy runs around sleeveless. #artcommissions #fantasyart #characterart

Ilwyn and Vencario are very much drawn from some of my favorite flavors of messy queer.

My forthcoming "The Nature of the Sword" for Shatter the Sun is my first pro short story sale, and through the magic of my Little Treat protocol, i had cause to commission some fun art of those terrible fellows Ilwyn & Vencario! @jkasonetc.bsky.social captured their dynamic really well!!

@mdmcd.com was awesome / brave enough to be my first commissioner! This the first of a pair of commissions I’ve done of the titular couple in their Bladesmith & Brigand world. (Vencario is said brigand).

tweaked some of my freelance editing services and added a "beta reading" option. I am currently open to new clients! authors, publishers...hit me up! www.interrobangbus.com/editorial-se...

You've used 98% of your REM limit · /upgrade to keep dreaming

"If we treated animals like this, we'd all be arrested" Congresswoman Adelita Grijelva Arizona describes horrific conditions at ICE camp

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

unrelenting

Imagine a world where, if a company’s product contributed to someone’s death, there were consequences for the people running that company.

Long Rest Acrylic on wood This piece will be with me at Dragon Con later this year!

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

#WriterShareWednesday! If you like MM Fantasy with forced proximity, flower symbolism, and taking down a corrupt government, check out The Need for Dandelions! Available today! ‪ Uni: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: bit.ly/3N1RDWk Kofi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Cover by: @nooskadraws.bsky.social

Cis people should never, ever, ever, EVER be put in charge of any program designed for trans people. They will always move to put up walls, gatekeep, and limit accessibility all in the name of "helping" us.

Do you own Dread Delusion on Steam? Did you like the soundtrack? Good news! You can buy it now. store.steampowered.com/app/4530310/...

Hey pals, we’re getting closer to GRIEF EATER’s book birthday! Very excited for you all to read my bloody, vengeful, revenge book. 🖤✨ Boosts humbly appreciated!

This whole thread, but goddamn, yes. Trans rights are human rights, and trans kids, like all kids, have every right to be safe and healthy and grow up into the adults they choose to be.

friendly reminder: april fools day isn’t an excuse for you to make shitty & harmful “jokes” to your friends. 👏🏻 be silly, but DON’T BE WEIRD! 😤

I do love a good prank 🤭

i’m gonna tell the flowers what you did. and then they’ll tell the bees and the bees will tell the birds. good luck next time you come to the meadow bro

🏳️‍⚧️🌿HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY!🌿🏳️‍⚧️ i'm viktor, a trans man illustrator from the u.k (unfortunately), and historical fiction, fashion, and fantasy is my cup of tea 🍵 look upon my visible self and artworks (and hire me) 🏳️‍⚧️ #tdov #transdayofvisibility

The Need for Dandelions is now available! 🌸 MM Fantasy Romance ⚔️ Queer Normative World 🌸 Flower Symbolism ⚔️ Falling in love during a crisis 🌸 Forced Proximity ⚔️ Fighting Government Corruption 🌸 Oh. *Oh.* Buy today! Uni: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: bit.ly/3N1RDWk Kofi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...

the computer was supposed to do the technical work so humans could be creative but they done invented a kind of computer that's so bad at math that they have to pretend it's creative

"One always has the impression that evil is comparative, and what seems indescribably awful to us may be perfectly normal to cats." —C. L. Moore to R. H. Barlow, 29 Jul 1936

We need to stop viewing art as a product, especially independently produced art. Expecting artists to just churn out work quickly because you want it is not only extremely selfish, but also deeply undermines all of the work that goes into making art good. You can’t rush art.

I know it has some legitimate uses but as someone with a non computer job my experience with ai is mostly not be able to believe most things I see online. Even cute animal videos, one of the last wholesome things we had.

The thing about AI is that I understand there are tasks you would like technology to do for you, makes all the sense in the world, but I have no idea why any of those tasks would be “write a book” or “perform a song” or “act in a movie” or a lot of the rest of this shit

Visibility feels very not needed. I'd rather make trans books visible, especially if they have a trans main character(s)! So drop us your trans book recs! If you're a trans author & or have a trans MC; give us a description, link & graphic of your own books! 🌈📚💙🏳️‍⚧️ Boosts appreciated!

I feel like the concept of April Fools Day is a relic from a pre-2016 world.

It's TDOV. I'm a trans women, I edit books about trans women, I offer big savings for trans women authors. Help support me: lilitufraywrites.crd.co

HEY book readers and people who COULD be book readers soon! I'm a trans author of SFF & horror. My queer horror comedy about a cryptid-hunting YouTuber is #free today for the #transrightsreadathon & #tdov ( #transdayofvisibility ). You can find it at the links below! #transhorror #transbooks

had some composition ideas to test out Not sure if i want to render them more painterly or leave them sort of rough-handed cel shaded but it has a sufficient amount of charm to be a proof of concept for now The final will be in greyscale for print so this is just a fun color variant test for me

You bet I am disrespectful of anyone who would claim using AI Slop as cover art is even kind of acceptable, but especially of the claim that it's in some way essential or even a net good for authors! I am so much more than merely disrespectful of that sanctimonious and self serving horseshit!

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

To publishers, authors, & others posting about illustrated books, including covers that have illustration: Please credit the ILLUSTRATOR. This not only helps boost the illustrator, but also shows that you value HUMAN illustrators. #PicturesMeanBusiness