Maiden voyage. For a newly crafted and experimental aethership, I felt as though it should have had some reverence. Some pomp. Not skulking through cloud banks, surfacing or diving below cover for moments at a time to check bearings. Not an immediate rush to hunt. #WIPSnips

I stopped calling my House reps and Senators when daily contact became necessary. I switched to email and save my most often-used scripts. I worry it doesn't have the impact but I just can't call every single day. On dayjob days it takes too much time. On days off it costs too much morale.

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

What character permanently altered your brain chemistry? The spark that helped me accept that being intersex isn't so weird, I'm not some cast-off ikiryo, and maybe I could be myself.

#LesFicFri Hurt "Convince them to leave in any way you like. Lie, use a charm spell, it doesn’t matter so long as you don’t hurt them or endanger yourself. This will be included in your grade." I reached for the shears and returned my focus to mandrake leaves only to be interrupted once more.

In-universe newspaper worldbuilding, but still: "Government sources insist peace talks are having a profound effect despite the obvious political quagmire. A decline in skirmishes and shelling was cited as evidence. However, private reports paint a very different picture along the border." #WIPSnips

Y'all I'm so bad at the bug game #silksong #bugyuri

Well. Torque Borg looks amazing.

Missing my kitten But fully support her work Priorities, bah! 😁 #Tea #Haiku #Senryu

Oak table musings with friends last night. Perfectly innocuous, but my dreams were filled by your urn – only my offerings nearby. In the light of day a soap maker brought me to tears. She looks so much like you the day you rescued me from foster care. I purchased everything from her I could afford.

Presenter: hey you should use AI? Me:

She watched hungrily, eyes roving over every detail. When I reached for her wrist she inhaled sharply and froze – eyes wide, tea halfway to her lips with one hand while I held the other. Green leaves unfurled within her cup. #WIPSnips

Share your favorite black and white movie

Kitchen, on her knees My leg over her shoulder She looks so happy #Haiku #Senryu 😏

I love the Great Filter discussions around #AlienEarth but Gloomy Geek's T. Ocellus = space takoyaki just had me genuinely laughing out loud

Cartographer Wife

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

I need to wash that pillowcase but I don't have the heart to move miao didi just now. One more hour... #VoidCats

She's incredibly cute. I've daydreamed her more than once in a maid uniform with a lace-border apron and short crinoline skirt. 💖 She's also outrageously clever – one of the more versatile fiction writers I've known. She appreciates a good story. Do I tell her she was in my kinky dreams last night?

I was immediately enveloped by the sounds of skilled labor. Hammers, spell incantation, and the thrum of newly crafted arcane buoys might have felt like a silk dujin coat on any other day instead left me squinting through my headache. My own damned fault for buying the cheap durian liquor. #WIPSnips

If you’ve been enjoying #QueerWriters, #QueerWritersChat, @queerwriters.bsky.social, and/or #LGBTQWriteAThon, now’s an excellent time to show your appreciation for Amara and all the work and planning they put into it! (And if you haven’t been … join us and toss a coin in advance!)

gods, I really am turning into a mommy domme

Can confirm this shirt is comfy and gets thumbs-up from so many folks around Seattle. Proceeds go to TransOhio, because we know it's bad everywhere, but Ohio is a special circle of transphobic hell.

My "respectable" pen name sold $200 worth of ebooks this month with zero new significant references online? wth? Some book club checking out obscure hard-scfi? Are we finally recovering from the Great Debezosing following the US election?

Subtly downgrade a band Laura Jane Clumsy

Dairy before 40: She taunts her allergic wife with pizza 😢 milk-batter chicken and chips 😭 and petrol-station hot dogs with sauerkraut, chili, and nacho cheese 🤢 Dairy after 40: She nukes a transphobe's bathroom from orbit 🤭 or wants her almost-always frisky wife 😇 to leave her alone for a night

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025 I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves! Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship Silence is compliance!

List's been updated. Yo, go commission artwork, but particularly that good good nsfw stuff, especially right now. Defiance of the puritanical dorks isn't going to be one legendary hero. It's going to be thousands upon thousands of everyday folk like me and you.

Prepped for #Spelljammer today. I'm running a bit trom Monty Cook's Planebreaker. This is my version off The Titan of War. #TTRPG

Meanwhile, in the furry version of this US administration: 🦔 The tipsy hedgehog requires all visitors to his manky hedgerow paw print a document stating they won't tell anyone about the paintings on the wall depicting humans playing poker

Getting back into Tyton after a week-long migraine and corresponding work backlog, and I 💘 this story so much. Marine St. Jean makes it seem like her characters are just running off with the story on their own. And the tone! Even sentence structure serves the feel of the chrome-noir. 👌 10/10 so far.

Dearest wife: Come home for lunch. I just wrapped up a project and made really tasty tofu. Also, it's mid-September in the Northern hemisphere. The weather is turning. Your cute, sensitive ears are likely cold, but my thighs are soft and warm. We can make this work.

No. Fuck off. Eat all the shit. I don't think I've switched terminal emulators so fast in my life. I already spend far too much day job time cleaning up after multiple LLMs. I want none of it in my personal projects. Zero. gtfo my life #iTerm and #FuckAI

This Catgirl Goddess Wants Me to Rob a Museum With Her and I Can't Say No? Or, even worse: Sekhmet’s Big Score

#LesFicFri: Remember I seethed behind a mask of calm but remembered the woman with Gardner. His pastrami and mustard was potent, as was his awful cologne, but I can still scent her. Leather boots, wheat beer with citrus, and sandalwood. It's enough. The wolf inside likes beer. She can follow beer.

Smart, emotionally mature women are so hot

A murmur ahead grew to the unmistakable hubub of a work-yard. Commands were shouted and replies mumbled. Masts loomed through thinning trees. We wound our way through a wide path in the stones to a sandy beach where a behemoth aethership squatted in a makeshift stone and lumber dry drock. #WIPSnips

Dani's stories most assuredly do not suck, at least not in bad ways. 😏 Invest in Yuri.

Name that country based on a clause from their constitution (answer in alt text)

Finished my Baund doc custom Gunpla. This was the original idea I had for a Lolita mobile suit but the gogg was easier. Saw the skirt waist and thought it looked like a dress so I made it maid colors. Real happy with how this turned out. #Gundam #Gunpla #lolita #egl

just a small portion of what people spend on giant corporations like Disney would change the average indie author/artist/musician/etc.'s life this is why I ask you all to spend money supporting those of us who create outside the system and work to give voice to the things corporate America won't

Masts, aftcastles, fittings, and hulls I'd been forced to memorize and bring to life littered the ocean floor. None were remotely whole or recognizable as individual aetherships. I became less and less sure I could find the Red Oath or properly identify it if I saw it. #WIPSnips

How do I get to the timeline where mecha pilot Harris fights nanobot fart-swarm Donny in a duel for the presidency of the USA? Or immortal good-witch-of-the-bay Tamara Ching curses JKR thinner-style? I'd settle for robot-body Biden head-in-a-jar repeatedly punching zombie Charlie Kirk in the balls.

Recommending N.I.C.E.F. to a few coworkers complaining that there isn't enough over-the-top, crazy-anime-plot #Mecha fiction. Girl, I got you.

She looked like a raven made human – wrapped in dark synthwool with her hair soaked. Well, almost human. She reminded me of our differences by lifting one hand and flipping it to again display her pale, soft wrist and a tiny scar. #WIPSnips

I'm writing in three very dystopian settings lately. The romance and worldbuilding are the joy that make the stories worth exploring.

I don't think she understands just how fucking hot she is when I've asked for her opinion on Exoplanet x or y and she opens stellar catalogs and maps coordinates and leads me through half a dozen possible scenarios. And, knowing my pchem background, she stops to ask my opinion based on spectroscopy.

Reasons we get along no. 16 Her, fawning over the new hair conditioner: Yay, my hair will be soft and luscious. Me, in the shower the next day, looking at the old conditioner: Yay, new shave gel. Now the skin near my landing strip can smell vaguely like *squint* rosemary and mint. Works.

The raven-haired girl seated in the desk ahead scribbled furiously with a pencil. I leaned forward to glimpse a figure holding a netball or helmet. Was that my helmet? She suddenly looked up and shoved away her notepad, covering it with both hands. "It was just practice." #Yuri #WIPSnips

The door shut and sealed automatically on our heels as pale lights flickered overhead. I was briefly reminded of warm grass between my toes after a Summer sunset, the scent of after-dinner coffee, and chasing tiny insects. Fireflies. That was another thing I missed. #WIPSnips