We're here, we're Queer & Disabled! 🏳️‍🌈♿ Our books are mostly Fantasy & or SciFi, with some contemporary. This book bundle is on now till July 11th! 🌈📚🧠📚🪐

Attention Melbourne Writers ⬇️

Having seen the 'PM changes mid-term' show multiple times in Australia (on both sides of politics), with its final episode of Scotty From Bloody Marketing/ Scummo, and the grass being a different shade of shit... erm... Crossing my fingers and wishing you well in the UK! Especially my trans kin!!!

Seeking trans joy for the upcoming issue! Send your Pride joy and recent euphoric moments my way please! Also down to feature art and projects 🥰 transjoy.ghost.io/contribute Reposts appreciated 🌟 #TransJoy #HappyPride #We’reOutHere

For the last week of Pride & 1st week of Disability Pride (July), I give you a bundle of books by Queer AND Disabled (including Neurodivergent) authors. You'll find plenty of Queer & Disabled characters here too, like my aro-ace, gay, autistic, CPTSD MC Rarkin. 🌈📚🧠📚💙 itch.io/b/3669/we-ex...

This is what's wrong with the NDIS cuts. Supposed 'providers' exploiting the system for financial gain. Disabled people whom the government -out of willful ignorance- deems 'not disabled enough' are NOT the problem. (A gas tax would help fund the NDIS, but fossil fuels matter more right?) #auspol

For the last week of Pride & 1st week of Disability Pride (July), I give you a bundle of books by Queer AND Disabled (including Neurodivergent) authors. You'll find plenty of Queer & Disabled characters here too, like my aro-ace, gay, autistic, CPTSD MC Rarkin. 🌈📚🧠📚💙 itch.io/b/3669/we-ex...

The only shame involved in mutual aid is: 1. That governments aren't giving people the support they deserve to live their lives. And 2. That we don't have a system to make sure they're all instantly funded. That's it.

I hope you like photos, because it would appear my current ADHD interest is posting ones related to various prompts. Also; nature is calming.

A sunny pic from a crisp winter afternoon last year, for #StunDay and the solstice. I got lucky with my location in a garden in the Dandenongs (Victoria, Australia), when the sun chose to peer out from between mountain ash trees. #NaturePhotography #Photography

Autumn has finally arrived in my backyard, barely in time for evidence of it to be presented alongside my wish of; Happy Winter Solstice! (Yeah, we're having sunshine, clouds, and rain, usually all on the same day in Melbourne 😉.)

Pain levels are down, fatigue easing off and my energy is starting to return. Might be able to go for a walk AND cook dinner on the same day soon 😄 Note to self: in future take fibro nerve pain killers nightly for at least the last 2 weeks of the teaching term, if not 3!

View down one side of Mt Macedon, Victoria, Australia for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #curves.

Despite falling into my end-of-teaching-term fibro fatigue slump, I still managed to draft the first 6 pages of the new version of Skirting the Fires of Revolution. And made it more than halfway through a beta read 😄 #LGBTQWriteAThon

Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Disabled Authors, If you've got a book on Itch with a significant character Figuring Out their queer/ ND identity, and or Figuring Out how to manage their neurodivergence/ disability, you've got 6 more days to enter this bundle!

Some people may think (or feel) that signing petitions or emailing a relevant MP 'doesn't do much.' This article proves just how much good they can do. This is the Australia I want to live in.

February: NSW police brutally assault genocide protesters & assault Muslims in prayer. Pride Month: NSW police in Sydney's gay district intimidate and humiliate by strip searching people in the street. Seems NSW coppers love abusing their power over marginalised groups. Bet it comes from the top.

Avoiding Even Discussion of Sexual Activities, But Discovering that Hugs & Maybe Kisses from your Enby, Platonic Partner Are Nice Actually? While Using Healing from Childhood Trauma to Save a Revolution's Arse, & Trying to Follow Orders & Play By the Rules of BOTH Sides. #LGBTQWriteAThon

This could turn out to be very, very bad. Takehome message: "If you see multiple sick or dead birds or other animals. Please take photos or record it from a safe distance. Record your location and go to birdflu.gov.au to report it."

SA is just the beginning, this is a campaign launch that will sweep the whole country. If you give @anthonyzougras.bsky.social a follow, he's well informed and presents key events succinctly, snort laughs are a bonus! #auspol

So being autistic AND queer, do I get to be doubly proud today 🤔 Happy Autistic Pride Day! ♾️🏳️‍🌈

A pair of black swans crossing a creek with their signets, for #BirdOfTheDay.

Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Otherwise Disabled Authors with books on Itchio, This bundle is OwnVoices, for books with a significant character identifying as & or learning to manage queer/ neurodivergent/ disability life/ non-fic. See graphic for eligibility. Let me know if you'd like the sign up form!

Socially challenged autistic, aro-ace gay guy & child abuse survivor is recruited by vigilante sorceress engineering a revolution. Also works for international peace keeping/ monster containing force likely to oppose her. Nah, 'Skirting the Fires of Revolution' is WAY easier! #LGBTQWriteAThon

A pair of black swans crossing a creek with their signets, for #BirdOfTheDay.

Autistic truths here. I'm rarely hungry. I just get poor cognition, struggle to complete tasks, then eat. I'm rarely thirsty. Headaches tell me to drink more in winter (I mostly drink tap water & its cold/ less appealing.) I know my back is sore if I groan when sitting/ standing/ bending.

I haven't worked on this wip for years, so its hard to recall what happens in specific chapters, except this one. Chapter ??: In which entire cities go dark, all communication is cut off, and the most efficient coups in history install a revolutionary government. #LGBTQIAWriteAThon

So being autistic AND queer, do I get to be doubly proud today 🤔 Happy Autistic Pride Day! ♾️🏳️‍🌈

I’m proudly Greek Australan. Proud the ASRC welcomes refugees from more than 80 countries, powered by staff & volunteers from over 60 nations who speak more than 40 languages under 1 roof. We are all united in being Australian. Show that love not hate wins donating to the ASRC: donate.asrc.org.au

Lovely to see white, able bodied, cishet men speaking out publicly against a fascist dictator. (Such an Aussie approach to the problem 😄.)

Thought⬇️was an excellent burn of a raging Islamophobe, but our Special Envoy To Combat Islamophobia is earnest "When elected representatives repeatedly portray a minority community as a threat, they contribute to a climate in which hostility, discrimination & even violence become easier to justify"

We're celebrating Pride Month with queer indie and self-published SFF authors based on the colours of the Pride flag! Here are 30 authors, 5 per colour, across the vast spectrum of LGBTQIA+ SFF books: www.readindiefantasy.com/indie-sff-bo...

June is MND (Motor Neurone Disease) awareness month. This year I am fundraising for the very worthy cause. I would appreciate any donations, big or small, via the below site. I will also be hosting a “Cup of tea for MND” event.

Uncertain whether I should lie down and attempt to sleep, or go for a walk. (It's probably watch tv till I fall asleep, but I'm so overtired its hard to tell.) ADHD meets fibro fatigue is whole other levels of TIRED and WIRED 😉

1/ A lil🧵collecting the illuminating public interest reporting of Pauline Hanson nemesis—"trashy journo" Sarah Martin Rinehart puppet, "Pauline Hanson & her chief of staff, James Ashby, flew to Florida on Gina Rinehart’s private jet in October & stayed at the mining magnate’s Palm Beach mansion"

The 'wisdom' of gen ai marketers/ scammers... I should have been using "series book 1" in keywords on book stores! That won't turn up millions of search results, or bury my books in them! And we all know "rogue second boss" is a popular search, as is 'syther team,' which exists outside my books 😬

When the National Press Club talk could have been a billboard.

She wants; -monoculture -negative gearing -abortion bans -Segregated trans bathrooms -Slash migration to 'solve' housing affordability 🙄 -'Islamic extremism' as Australia's enemy -Coal, gas, Gina! Hanson Trumpette everyone! And women of colour have to share a bathroom with this white supremacist!

Criteria Change: It's now YA & Adult Fiction -including NSFW- to get more books in the bundle. Please keep reposting to help unite more stories of LGBTQIA/ Neurodivergent/ Disability self-discovery in this bundle! (In any genre, though I'm personally keen for SFF stories, as my entry will be 😉.)

Funny how One Nation's polling tripled around the time Gina Rinehart started bankrolling them 🤔 Lots of info about Gina here, including how reporting of her interests is limited, &a tv series about her family was cancelled, as she likes suing people, no threat to Aussie democracy, I'm sure😬 #auspol

Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Otherwise Disabled Authors with books on Itchio, This bundle is OwnVoices, for books with a significant character identifying as & or learning to manage queer/ neurodivergent/ disability life/ non-fic. See graphic for eligibility. Let me know if you'd like the sign up form!

#Connect2Nature #Birds #BirdofTheDay The theme today is #YourChoice. I chose this Eastern Screech Owl since I am rarely able to hike where her nest is, and she is only rarely there when I do so. Seeing her is a great joy. Burlington Ontario Canada

I notice its free choice on #BirdOfTheDay, a good excuse to share my love of rainbow lorikeets. One chews at a banksia tree for dinner on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Meanwhile, further inland, a pair peer curiously back at a big silly two legged creature staring at them.

Fibro pain management plan: 1. Take nerve pain meds before bed. 2. Walk in the afternoon. 3. Recover from worsening back & hip pain in recliner chair, watching tv for 2 hours. 4. Epsom salt bath. 5. Glass or 2 of red wine with dinner. Note: probably not sustainable 😆. Worked well today 😄

The real story is not that our #Socceroos squad comes from 15 different cultural & ethnic backgrounds nor that our stars would never have been allowed to come to Australia under One Nation, because Pauline Hanson wants us to withdraw from the Refugee Convention.

My excerpt containing 'support' is Rarkin's Captain delivering a mission briefing, midway through Skirting the Fires of Revolution. #LGBTQWriteAThon

If you'd like to stay in touch with/ support the Greens in combatting (Aussie) NDIS cuts, which incidentally will force family-member carers out of the workforce during a cost of living crisis, or trap disabled people in our homes, or damn us to hospitals unsuited to long term care...

I didn't quite understand the regional CFA protests. But reading between the both-sides-ism of this unclear reporting; regional CFA are partially dependent on conducting their own fundraisers, to afford equipment to fight fires. On the charity of farmers, hit hardest by rising petrol costs. #auspol

Last call for Aussie, NZer & all Asia-Pacific Authors wanting to catch the start of an Author Group DM (yes I can add you after it starts, midday tomorrow!). Focus: local author Q & A, publishing knowledge, events & collaborations of any kind you'd like to organise (including Itch bundles).

I spoke to 3AW yesterday as to why I was peacefully protesting One Nation in my city. They have a right to hold their events as we live in a democracy and we as Melburnians have the right to peacefully protest them to send a message that we welcome migrants & refugees & reject the politics of hate.