For We've Always Been Here, Guoldu ( @guoldu.bsky.social ) is painting Indigenous queer love with two northern Sámi lesbians in a lavvu, a traditional type of cold-weather shelter that supported their nomadic lifestyle following reindeer herds. #Sami #Indigenous #IndigenousArt #LGBTQArt

Editors do not use generative AI. Not to write their emails or editorial letters, not to review your manuscript, not for any purpose regarding your books. Ask editors about AI and their stance on it upfront, while you're shopping around. It's a question legit editors are happy to answer.

It's finished. After 3+ years and over 200,000 words, my Steddyhands series "The Depths" is complete. The final chapter and epilogue of "The Great Below" went up just now, so if you've been waiting for it to be complete to start reading, have at it! archiveofourown.org/works/529418...

If you want to support me and have some spare change, a coffee always keeps me perky! 🥰 ko-fi.com/rjcrunden

@jeffrosenstock.bsky.social singing the phrase “Fucking dingus” is something that can be so personal

I won't move 🌞 . Characters from Heated Rivalry by @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social . #heatedrivalry #hollanov

MY BOOOOOYYYY (left) Leofric was a side character in bright spring. I loved him so much I wanted him to be happy. But I also needed to inflict upon him the world’s worst pansexual menace to society (right). It is not always good to be beloved of the writer 😂😬 Art by @justmissart.bsky.social

“Fuck generative AI” means exactly that. It doesn’t mean fuck it…but it’s cool if you use it for (insert thing here). It’s not about you or me; it’s about us. Writing. Painting. Music. Book covers. All of it. We stick together.

Went to a @scottlynch78.bsky.social book signing several years ago and was so sick I had to run out of there … crashing into Mr lynch on the stairs in my fevered flight out into the snow to barf. Mr strange got my book signed for me & it says “sorry you weren’t feeling well” 🥰

I've somehow surpassed 40.1K followers, so if anyone is looking for groovy folks in the creative community to follow, I have these two starter packs! (I will eventually make more, I promise lmao.) bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack...

💛🐝GIVEAWAY🐝💛 I'll pick a winner on January 3rd! The winner will receive a signed physical copy of Sweet & Wild, my MM Fantasy Romance, and a few other goodies! Second place will get a digital copy! To enter: 💛Like this post! 💛Repost it! 💛Follow me! 💛For an extra entry, comment below!

@bree343.bsky.social Ack! Help me pick something! 😈 It's way too hard to decide.

In progress 🎶

I don’t care what anyone says, I think this show has some queer subtext 🤔🤔🤔🤔

where i create from

extensive worldbuilding, butch transfems, nonbinary characters, body horror, bodily autonomy, characters embracing their mutations and living proudly as themselves, weight gain as transition, badass fat people, not letting trauma or grief consume you, abolition of monarchy, transformation

Gremlin/minder pairings. As in, one is straight-laced and a little uptight, and the other is high-energy, eccentric, and just one excuse away from infodumping about their special interest. Doesn't even have to be romantic, so long as they're each other's special people. I just love the dynamic. :')

1. I try my best to make my gal characters as rich as I can, because in my genre they’re usually side characters— somewhat by default. 2. fun side characters (see above)! I have always loved side characters & they usually end up being my faves 3. the occasional anachronism for the bit

Me sketching some festive fanart of the Bleaken:

his Hair might be green but there is absolutely NO moss growing on Cedras #nsfw #smutcember

me too, Marge. me too.

I love writing both sex scenes and fight scenes. the process for both is very similar!

Sometimes I really feel like it’s just me, @billcorbett.bsky.social & Vince Gilligan against the world Me after this week’s Pluribus:

An AI bot just tried to take my order at Wendy’s. I drove away.

trans kids deserve the goddamn world and when we swing this pendulum back in the enemy’s face i hope there’s thousands of them who feel safe and supported enough to come out. liberation and justice for all. fuck the haters.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

🎸HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEITH RICHARDS!🎸 Keith is 82 today! May he live 82 more 🥳 Here's a portrait I drew of him for his special day 💖 #KeithRichards #TheRollingStones #RollingStones

This!!!

Well I was about to say touch but I think taste and smell are also a big part of my setting the scene, as it were. 😈 here Faro is teaching Cedras something new…#nsfw

Bloodborne AU is going to eat my brain, I have no regrets -- #jayvik #arcane #bloodborne #bloodborneAU #fanart #digitalart

If money was literally no object I would be paying whatever it took to be able to ^happily ^comfortably commission @crossroadart.bsky.social for some illustrated editions 🥰😍💕 idk if that counts as merch but COME ON LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL COVER

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

A mothman making a new friend I guess #nsfw #nsfwart #terato #teratophilia #cryptid

#Romancelandia #CallToAction (and if you go, "well, I write ~clean~ romance, so it doesn't affect me", please know that fascism never runs out of targets/enemies, and that it *will* affect you sooner rather than later)

Writer friendos: have you ever read one of your own books in paperback (or otherwise a physical form)? how did it make you feel? I’m doing it for the first time right now and it’s kind of wild!!

Oh, climbing some more! Thank you! 😁❤️Last stretch. mybook.to/xmascarols

nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.

so glad I live in a time where a single item purchase results in five emails

So if you've got a Kindle, don't use Recaps. Don't ask the fucking book ANYTHING. Reach out to Kindle support (don't ask me how, I don't have an Kindle) and tell them you're unhappy with these changes. And next time you're shopping for an eReader, get one by a different company.

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

Me: *joins a lively Discord group for artists because hey that sounds nice!* Also me: *gets overwhelmed by the number of people there and the fast-moving, overlapping chats and becomes a silent lurker in the corner*

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

Fanart of #Olrox and Vampire #Mizrak from #CastlevaniaNocturne 💚 [ #art #fanart #castlevania ]

Antisemitism is evil White supremacy is evil Misogyny is evil Racism is evil Ableism is evil Homophobia and transphobia are both evil Intolerance is evil Violence is evil Anything that denigrates the value, dignity and humanity of another person is evil All of it All of it

The horrors persist but so do I, but also could the horrors like. slow down perhaps

Not so friendly reminder to cancel your Disney plus subscription!

alternative headline options considered: I am morally, intellectually and creatively bankrupt! Can this machine help me pretend I’m not?