For y'all who haven't seen yet, please enjoy some fanart for the effervescent @ryanlasala.bsky.social 's good books

My queer oceanic horror novel is out! THE DEAD OF SUMMER 🪸🌊⚓️ 🪼 A beautiful island harboring insidious secrets rising from the waves 🐚A depressed teen with conspiracy theories 🪸Contagious coral zombie bachelorette parties! 🦑Eco horror, but gay!!! Out everywhere now 🪼👄🪼

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

too cute not to try a little queer story #the_color_wheel

If you're trans thank you for existing btw

Fundraiser updates: Chibi commissions helped raise $113 for Freedom for Immigrants, and "Survive" sticker sales helped raise $36.75 for the SD LGBT Center. Thanks to all who have shared and bought!

Art for @bughunterbug.bsky.social 's Hook saga!! I love the toxic pneumatic ethics yaoi 🥰

Announcements on announcements this week! Calling all ARTISTS: We're searching for next year's cover art contributors! Check out the sub page for details and how to submit your portfolio: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥

I can finally share the piece I did of Brides of High Hill by @nghivo.bsky.social ! It was such a treat and an honor to be included in this year's @ofszine.bsky.social next to such talented artists 💛

preview of my piece for @ofszine.bsky.social! i drew a scene from one of my favorite books, peter darling by @essaychant.bsky.social 🏴‍☠️

In case y'all haven't seen: Good art from a ton of cool people, trans and nonbinary characters*, supporting a good cause, all for $3 ❤️❤️❤️ #queerzine #bookzine #transart ( *From a bunch of good books of all genres to add to your ever-growing to-read list) A couple small previews of my piece:

Yooooo! Guess who won a Hugo for Best Series!!! Thank you to each and every one of you who voted. You made a difference and I will be forever grateful. Now let me catch this 6:30 AM flight and head on home and back to work. Had a blast #worldcon #concurrentseattle . Let’s do it again sometime.

recommended pairing for these stickers: Kara's post about crabs and gender bsky.app/profile/auth...

Whatever topics you're looking for in YA, there's a good chance they're actually being published. They're just being done by marginalized authors and you're not reading them. But the fewer people who read and promote those books, the less likely we are to see them again. Read more widely!

squad, I haven't even finished this book and it's already my top read of the year

i love you beginner artists. i love you even if you're trying to learn art in your 60s. sharing your art can be scary if you are new to art and learning, but don't ever let mean people stop you. your art is important and beautiful because it's yours. keep creating, now more than ever.

"There’s the gagging ouroboros of history... you’re beating your fists against a wall that bears the indents of countless fists, going back forever." Over in Autostraddle, I write about queer generational trauma: how it works, and how to tell stories about it. www.autostraddle.com/what-is-quee...

Only one slot left!! Y'all are coming throughhh 💛

vengeance, dark sapphic mermaids, and a cover by Micaela Alcaino??? HOOKED

that thing people say about taking swords from strange women in lakes #art

Reading my fav passage from Lessons in Magic and Disaster, out Aug 19 💖

New sticker!! ko-fi.com/s/692c2a9955 All profits are going to support the San Diego LGBT Center thecentersd.org which provides necessary care and support for me and thousands of other queer residents and is facing severe budget cuts

Cis people being weird about trans people makes me think about king crabs. Bear with me for this one because it will make sense. You know king crabs, right? Giant crab, lives up north, has long legs, very expensive and tasty, featured on many a mukbang Did you know they are technically not crabs? 1/

Officially launched !

Only one slot left!! Y'all are coming throughhh 💛

Chibi commissions open! ko-fi.com/fourthleaflu... All profits are going to Freedom for Immigrants www.freedomforimmigrants.org

"It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer" Can we talk about how BRILLIANT Noma Dumezweni was in Murderbot??

a bunch of fabulous artists and I are in here!! Y'all are in for a TREAT Get some good gay art and support queer folks in the southern US ✨

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

The amazing @aceofjests.bsky.social drew a scene from The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social for our charity zine all about trans and enby books Characters ✨🏳️‍⚧️ . On sale this Saturday 🌈📚 . #fanzine #Queerzine #transright #enby #Queerbooks

*Tapping the sign* If you want to find books with aroace characters in them, all you need is THE AROACE DATABASE!!! www.aroacedatabase.com

Dearest fans of Gothy, Steampunky, Vintage & Neo-Victorian accessories, most 1-of-a-kind, I just found out I need to help a family member out of a pinch, so if you like a goodie via this link, procuring it would be a huge mutual aid help right now! 🖤 Https://torchandarrow.etsy.com

nooo my drawing tablet died. back to my finger painting era for now i guess 🥲

SNEAK PEEK: The talented @fourthleafluckart.bsky.social drew their favorite scene from Brides of High Hill by @nghivo.bsky.social 💖🏳️‍⚧️ The special edition of the OFS zine will be on sale soon and all profits will go to @southernequality.bsky.social #fanzine #Queerzine #transright #enby #Queerbooks

Look at the stickers I bought from @fourthleafluckart.bsky.social 👀 I was incredibly excited and surprised to find Oliver and Felipe in the pack with the stickers I ordered 😂 Thank you, Lucky!

Simran & Vina from The Isle In The Silver Sea by @tashasuri.bsky.social it comes out in october and is soooo good. made for me #TheIsleInTheSilverSea #art

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

Happy Disability Pride month, y'all. If you're disabled, share your links (arts, crafts, books, zines, ko-fi, mutual aid, what have you) so we can share it! Non-disabled folks, like, share, & buy/donate! Let's uplift some voices and help some folks!

behold the art in question, drawn by the incredible @fourthleafluckart.bsky.social and shared with their permission! this is Kas from The Weight and the Measure, due out from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social in 2026, and yes: this depicts a canonical scene 😁😏

Look what I was given on tour! They're the most adorable stickers of Cleric Chih and Jordan Baker, made by the phenomenally talented @fourthleafluckart.bsky.social, and I love them so very much!

Maybe they've been there since birth, or maybe they found family later in life. Maybe they're doting and nurturing, or a bit unhinged in their love. No matter what, they'll do whatever it takes for their kids.

THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 3 books with 💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes 🫀An autistic necromancer ⚰️His reanimated lover 🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC 🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance 🔗⬇️Available wide! #romancelandia 🌈📚 #booksky

Happy pride! If you see this, qrp with queer art! (Benny + Río from When the Tides Held the Moon)

just finished Mouthful of Dust (which was horrifying and fabulous) and realized I forgot to post the stickers I made for @nghivo.bsky.social a couple months ago of Cleric Chih and Jordan Baker!

To my international followers: Recently, I was unable to work properly due to anxiety/depression. Things got better work-wise when I started taking some meds, but I wasn't able to buy this month. I ask for help to cover it as I'll hopefully be paid soon. Thanks so much! <3 ko-fi.com/haileykaas

Our standard three-act story structure tells us that things will get worse and worse, until some massive confrontation — after which they'll be great. This expectation is really bad for us, especially when during this current traumatic moment. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

absolutely ADORED this book by the brilliant @mishiiarts.bsky.social , so here, have a fan cover

This is a great article from @xuetingni.bsky.social exploring Chinese #sci-fi and how writers are drawing from the past to better explore stories of the future.