If the crushing injustice of the world seems unbearable and you feel absolutely powerless, just $3 can help a Gazan have hot food and clean water. If you have $3 you can help keep people alive. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

My moot @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social made a super cool quiz that sorts you into the sci-fi subgenre most like your personality and you should check it out because it's very fun uquiz.com/quiz/a6pF1I/...

Hawks photographed mid-scritch are so endearingly ridiculous 🪶🌿 Red-shouldered, taken in Fallbrook, CA.

so much for elbows up, eh?

2026 Goals and Hopes : A Year for Steadfastness look. i have .. a lot of plans.. and projects... I started a lot in 2025 or before that will be continuing! Busy busy schedule. Discussed all of these and more over on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/may-gu...

How about a promo day? If you're a non-American author that has been in any way affected by American imperialism please share your work and how best to support you under this thread. ❤️ #WritingPrompt

Actually kind of wild yo try and confirm what everyone is (rightly) incensed about and finding nothing but posts about Groenland. Half of this place just skipping straight over LatAm to wring hands about the next target huh

If you’re thinking of reducing your dependency on Amazon but you don’t want to give up your ebook subscription, why not try out KoboPlus in 2026? There’s a plan for audiobooks too. If you’re on the fence: Kobo are WAY friendlier and fairer to indie authors, and you can trial 14 days free. 📚💙

the perk of being my own publisher is that I can always do this (and I do) they're so great! tons of readers have thanked me for them! Highly recommend!

Claudie's 2025 in Review! You can get all details on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/busy-2... Goodbye 2025; you exhausted me, for good and bad reasons, but we forge always onward. XD

I got through a lot of reading this past December, so here is part one of some mini-reviews focusing on indie books! All of these are queer fantasy. 💙📚 🌈📚

I can tell I actually managed to unplug over the last week because I have no idea where to start working again

What I think gets lost in the writing to market discussion is the definition of the market. There are 2 markets: 1. the general market of readers. Who is the biggest pool that spends money and what do they read 2. your ideal readers and what they like about YOUR work in particular. 2/

I was watching a video about an author who uses AI, and one of the things that stood out to me was how she talked about writing to market and how, as an author, writing what you want takes a backseat to the market when you get "serious" about it, and I vehemently disagree. 🧵 1/

Keza both starts and finishes them, LOL Though Rumi will start plenty of his own, and now at least has Keza to back him up

Claudie's 2025 in Review! You can get all details on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/busy-2... Goodbye 2025; you exhausted me, for good and bad reasons, but we forge always onward. XD

Cannot say enough about how much I love this reading challenge. I’ve participated for the past three years and have learned so many new things that are useful to me as a writer and as a person. #Booksky

serial posting to patreon as usual for this time of year XD Between the year's review, the look forward, and the many readings I wanted to talk about, it's been a flurry!

Yesterday I posted a full length look at my many many projects and hopes for 2026 on Patreon ~ These will eventually be snazzy little images to post on socmed but the details is there www.patreon.com/posts/may-gu...

One of my art goals this year is to do the Bird Whisperer every month

The 2025 Chace Verity's Cats Awards! (This will be a thread)

REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

Happy new year. May 2026 be filled with UBI, the eradication of billionaire wealth and power, death to AI, and a surge in socialists achieving positions in governments.

That's fucked uo, man

As someone who has a little bit of experience in crisis PR/comms, this is exactly right and it’s a playbook used in the higher ed and nonprofit world as well.

Having to be constantly on alert for AI sludge is exhausting. If you wanted to invent a technology to suck the joy out of as many parts of life as possible you'd struggle to do better than this LLM shite.

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All the book covers I designed and illustrated this year 🖤

A gentle reminder, from 1990: "Anything That Moves" (a bi magazine produced by the Bay Area Bisexual Network published the "Bisexual Manifesto."

!! 💜 glad you enjoyed (QT because you can look at the top post's replies for a ton of indie books to read!)

Recruitment for authors to contribute to our next short story anthology BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, featuring tales of asexual characters in outer space, will run from Jan 10 - Jan 31 2026! Learn all the many details by visiting our webpage today: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g... 🌈📚 💙🌈

the situation has escalated

Here it is, a Busy 2025 in Review for patrons! I do intend to make nice little images with some numbers to post online later, but this is the extended review, with actual thoughts about things XD www.patreon.com/posts/146927...

Just three newly-met friends going on an adventure that will change their lives. THE CHRONICLES OF NEREZIA is a classic quest story full of all the things I love: queer found families, board/card games, side quests, and funky worldbuilding! buy.bookfunnel.com/1fbixxop4u #QueerAdultSFF ♠️🌈📚 💙📚

you’re so right, comic from 1925

*whispers* it's really deserving of these three categories, just saying 💙

slowly putting together a longer year review for Patreon and suddenly I understand why I feel so exhausted :')

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Hitchcock's The Birds. My memory is fuzzy, but somewhere at 6-8 y.o. I walked in on it because I couldn't sleep, and that combined with Redwall gave me a wide variety of recurring killer bird nightmares that lasted well into teenager years

Fucking co-signed

I can't believe this is how I learned chalet is not cabin, it's cottage. Or that this is what cottage means at all. The contextual variations in colloquial word usages is so rough sometimes 🫠🫠

🥐 Queer fantasy that'll make you hungry! 🥐 With bits of mystery, bits of cozyness, BAKER THIEF brings you into the lively city of Val-de-mer, a setting that truly has my whole heart. buy.bookfunnel.com/xtyrwsdcf6 🌈📚 #QueerAdultSFF #fantasy

they're beautiful ducks, your honour

Seeing all the Nerezia covers lined up in a row is my favourite thing ever. Hashtag my ducks 🦆

- Published three novellas - Published Painted Flock - Kickstarted and worked on Common Bonds - signed teo secret cool things - wrote my first interactive fiction - sold 1 short story - removed my ebooks from amazon entirely

✨ Centipede Knight 🌙

If you're an avid reader who loves monthly subcriptions, you can get all my books in Kobo Plus (alongside many other indies!). We love a subscription service that doesn't ask exclusivity from its authors ~ www.kobo.com/ca/en/plus

Happy Boxing Day to all the cats who celebrate boxes!