A SONG AGAINST RUIN (113k words) is an adult fantasy perfect for fans of Swordspoint, C. L. Polk, and scheming sapphics. #PosterPit #Q #F #A #LGBT

From my queer political fantasy A SONG AGAINST RUIN, for today's #FridayFling word, "whisper". #amquerying

This should be the headline in every newspaper.

Gregory Sievers, American (1951- ), The Theater, oil, 36 x 24 in, private collection

Chicagoooo 🚫👑

Folks are marching at the No Kings event in Austin, Texas. Go Texas!!!

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

A new #AgentsGuide to A SONG AGAINST RUIN, a queer adult fantasy perfect for fans of Swordspoint, C. L. Polk, and scheming sapphics. Querying now! #amquerying #fantasy #LGBT

poems with titles longer than the poem vs poems with a title so tucked and short it feels hardly there at all

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

Ah, we've reached the "banning same-sex marriage is not discrimination because everybody has an equal right to marry somebody of another sex" stage of recycling homophobic arguments to hurt trans people with

This is the exact same argument uses against gay marriage. "Gay people still have the equal rights to marry the opposite sex" or however they worded it. Just a pedantic, bigoted word game rather than a substantive argument, but that's all that anti-queer bigotry has ever been or will ever be.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

I recently moved from central Texas to Chicago. I don't think I'll ever stop missing breakfast tacos.

The 2024/2025 SFF books I absolutely loved, in no particular order: The Everlasting (Alix Harrow) Notes From a Regicide (Isaac Fellman) The Raven Scholar (Antonia Hodgson) The Siege of Burning Grass (Premee Mohamed) Asunder (Kerstin Hall) Saint of Bright Doors (Vajra Chandrasekera)

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

I will also shout out TENT and the Texas freedom network. And I will also just suggest filtering bsky.app for state + trans + help, and finding just a trans person who is struggling here and giving them money directly.

If trans people want/need to leave, that is worthy. It’s also worthy to stay and fight, or to need to stay and still need rights. Queer folks in red states need and deserve our support at least as much as the work being done from “safer” states

If you can, donate to queer/trans rights groups in red states!! There are so many queer people in red states who need our supoort, and who can't leave. I left Texas for a blue state last year, but still donate monthly to Equality Texas: they fight tirelessly for queer Texans.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

5 women authors I've read at least 5 books by: Naomi Novik Emily St. John Mandel Ali Smith Malinda Lo Ann Leckie

bananas. (they're okay when they're still a little green, but the riper they get the worse they get in flavor, texture, everything.)

If you, like me, have Peacock for a limited time so you can watch the Olympics and Paralympics, give yourself the gift of watching We Are Lady Parts as many times as possible before you cancel your subscription. We Are Lady Parts. Just over and over again. Your life will improve.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

1) Jean Grey (always thought she had bi vibes!) 2) Faramir (but, like, book Faramir) (who is also bi!! he was 100% crushing on Aragorn) 3) Wonder Woman ( obviously bi, not to mention 6 feet tall and gorgeous!!) 4) I don't know much star trek, but to keep it on theme.....who's bi lol

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

So much profound harm has been done by the inane, ultra-popular notion that talent is innate, fixed, and semi-mystical

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.

I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !

CHICAGOANS!!!! Voting is open for the annual snowplow naming contest. And “Abolish Ice” is one of the options. You know what to do (vote): chicagoshovels.org

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #Q #SF #A #R #LGBT

Commoner best friends Lor and Firmen don't have wealth or magic—just ambition and each other. But when they align with rival noble houses, they don't realize they're sabotaging each other—or that one's ambition could mean the other’s ruin. THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x C.L. Polk #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

BRIDGERTON X DIVERGENT In this social season, debutantes vie for positions of power, not proposals. The only things standing in Genevieve Tiel's way? Her ruined name in every scandal sheet, her traitorous brother, and the steaming allure of the Lady's Guard. #questpit #q #F #NA

Firmen, a clerk for a wealthy noble house, is drowning in debt. So he sells the only valuable thing he has: his employers' secrets. But when he falls in love with a man the nobles are blackmailing, he must find a way to save them both. THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x WITCHMARK #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

OUABH x Studio Ghibli A young pianist travels through purgatory-in-the-clouds alongside the God of Time’s Apprentice to save her dying sister 🧡 YA romantic fantasy 🕰️ identity & self-acceptance 🌠 sister-story 🌥️ gods based on human psyche 💌 whimsy island in the sky #questpit #YA #RF #F #AG #OS soon

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #QuestPit #A #F #DF #H #W

With the bodies piling up and their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted, Andy realizes they’re being hunted by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s stolen the life they’re desperately trying to leave behind. #QuestPit #AG #YA

Now querying A SONG AGAINST RUIN (119k), queer political fantasy with romance. RAVEN SCHOLAR x THE UNBROKEN x WITCHMARK 🌈queer best friends 🎹 high-stakes auditions 💔sapphic pining 📝magic contracts 👨‍❤️‍👨m/m friends to lovers 💃villain as love interest 🔪eat the rich #questpit #Q #A #F #LGBT

Querying now! Virtuoso organist Lor plans to dazzle noble society with her musical skill—and win back Veren, the noblewoman who broke her heart four years ago. But Lor doesn't realize that Veren is at the center of a deadly political conspiracy. THE RAVEN SCHOLAR x THE UNBROKEN #questpit #Q #F #LGBT

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I say all this with love and in the hope young creators won’t burn themselves out or feel bad they can’t emulate this, because the real secret of any artist is often their partner’s full time job (and sometimes THEY are their partner’s full-time job—or they just have rich parents, sigh)

Mural of Alex Pretti in Seattle, Washington. Artwork by Topsy.

This sounds incredibly fun!! Bridgerton meets BSG (but with lesbians) sounds like a book written specifically for me! 🤩

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.