I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

a title change for the debut novel forthcoming with @titanbooks.bsky.social in 2026 👀‼️ 🎭🪷☁️AN EMPIRE IN THE CLOUDS ☁️🪷🎭 a Chinese-inspired science fantasy set on a drowning continent of royal siblings striving to survive in a climate of murder and corruption.

Hi friends I just spent $130 I didn’t really have in order to replace my tires, only for one of them to go flat before I even got home. So. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Any commission work would be deeply appreciated right now.

Convincing you to read CAT/MOUSE by the first sentence:

✨️My End of Year Sale is Live! ✨️ Ends January 2nd ❤️All comms are $15 off❤️ ❤️Anything on my inprnt is 10% off on top of their sales or with code UO30NCSU if no sales❤️ (code works through December 11th I'll post a new one then) Here are my links! littleevil0ne.carrd.co #art #artsky #myart

Things that exist in this book: •weird dream sex •lesbian polycules •eldritch abomination vampire •anarchists •the word "y'all"

#WIPSnips No burgers, but we do have pork buns 🥟(this dumpling looks suspiciously like an empanada) From Chapter Nine of DeadGirlsWIP 💙📚

Knew I was going to draw #Frankenstein fan art the minute I finished it… as with everything @realgdt.bsky.social LOVED the visual aspect of it and especially The Creature’s design - that mix of grotesque and gentle - which inspired this

I told my Senators that the message Senate Dems are sending is that if we vote for Democrats resoundingly in an election, they’ll promptly fold. Is this what they want us to take from this?

Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!! And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar

I would not say the voicemails I just left for Wyden and Merkley were particularly charming or articulate but I do think my panic was clear, as a freelancer who only has access to healthcare at all because the ACA exists

Until SNAP benefits are restored, I'm offering FREE digital copies of my sci-fi novella, CAT/MOUSE, to anyone who donates $5 or more to my local food bank. No limit! No asterisks! Just email me proof of your $5+ donation, and I'll send you back an EPUB. 💙📚 Donate here: www.akroncantonfoodbank.org

⭐COMMS NEWS⭐ I will be out of work 12/15 - 1/12 so I'm seeking editing & beta reading projects to fill that time 💙📚 I specialize in SFF, romance, & erotica. I'm currently accepting work of all lengths, AND you get 50% off using the link below! Book now! ko-fi.com/elizamares/l...

Today, allow me to your sense of safety. Do you know what your cat girls are reading? I do. 📚💙💕 #bsnm 🌈🚀💫 #BookSky 🌈📚 Signed copy: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb Amazon & get me a pretty banner: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus Everywhere else: books2read.com/opus

Writers are so afraid of writing bad art they’ll write nothing which is so much worse.

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Some states have stepped in to cover SNAP benefits. Texas, which has a multibillion-dollar rainy-day fund, has not. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-human-toll-of-the-suspension-of-snap

#HopePit is tomorrow! See below for rules and follow @hopepit.bsky.social to learn more! Open to WIPs and writing and other types of media featuring #hopepunk, #clifi, #solarpunk, #indigenousfuturism, and other "-punk" style media! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #IndieDev

Early reports from the front lines of right-wing media tonight are starting to trickle in. We’re being told “hoes mad”

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

#WIPSnips The end of Chapter Seven from DeadGirlsWIP 💙📚

My commissions are still open! Use this link to get 50% off any editing or beta reading service! ko-fi.com/elizamares/l...

Bisexuals keep winning.

🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each. 💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency

Spread the word!

After being ORDERED by a judge, the executive branch has agreed to restore "50% funding" to SNAP. That isn't good enough for me. I'll keep offering free books for food bank donations until every penny of this life-saving (taxpayer-funded!!!) assistance is distributed to hungry Americans. 💙📚

This thread rules.

Experiencing secondhand stress from the amount of students who are coming in to see us with 0 sources and 0 direction for their research papers that are due this Sunday.

I signed up. You can hit me up via DM/email and get any of my books for just a $3 donation. OR, you can pay TWICE as much via my itchio reverse sale, where 100% of proceeds go to Puerto Rico's only (non-Salvation Army) food bank. 🇵🇷✊🏽 itch.io/s/163645/hal...

If you are an author and you're offering a free eBook in exchange for a donation to a foodbank, please reach out to me to have yourself added. Link to form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Happy Halloween to all my ghouls and goblins!! 🎃 As part of Itch's Halloween Sale, CAT/MOUSE ebooks are 50% off this week! That means you can read 18,000 words of morally gray lesbians romping about on a space station for only $1.49 💙📚 Sale ends 11/4! Find it here: itch.io/s/162711/hal...

Had a weird Monday, on track to having a weird Tuesday.

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Seeing a homeless person doesn't harm you in the slightest. The only person harmed by being homeless is the homeless person. And here you are wanting to punish that person for being homeless. The government shouldn't punish people for being poor. It should make them not poor anymore.

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

BOO! Surprise Halloween ebook sale, only on Itchio! From now until November 4th, you can get BLOODY SPADE and BLEEDING HEART for a dollar each, or grab the bundle containing both for just $1.50 🎃 itch.io/s/165271/halloween-sale-2025

This is a thread worth reading and heeding. If you don't buy it, it will disappear. If you're not giving modern sci-fi a chance, you're missing out on very special stories. [And you really should pick up anything A.D. Sui writes.]

Sharing again for morning (for me at least) folks. I have a Halloween sale on my already out books. And since all of November will be devoted to promoting the novella prior to its debut, this will likely be the last time I spotlight these books for a while.

If you want to prevent crime, eliminate poverty. If you want to prevent violent crime, eliminate poverty and provide universal healthcare. Emma Goldman was almost right when she said every society has the criminals it deserves. In reality, every society has the criminals it creates.

America's Culture of Credulity and Grift.

#WIPSnips Can I say, I love the Halloween colors this week!!! I bring you a snip from Chapter 15 of THE DEVIL'S BIND, my free-to-read Wattpad serial about a 1950s secretary and the Demon Lord she is bound to after a cult tries to use her as a blood sacrifice. 💙📚

Editing is not about rewriting, but about helping a story be the best version of itself. That can mean making things clearer for the reader, but it can also mean making them less clear.

Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?

🆘🚨🆘🚨 Help is desperately needed!!! There has been no movement on this, and Maya REALLY needs our help to survive and stay safe. Let’s not let them fall through the cracks like too many have and are. We have to be here for each other! Reposts can make a huge difference even if you can’t donate!