BEYOND excited to have signed a publishing deal for Community Witch and its sequels. Community Witch will be rereleased early next year, with subsequent books in the series to follow on an aggressive release schedule varuspublishing.com/meet-ash-kre... #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, JOLEEEEEEEEEEENE

Help me out, Bluesky. I need a new fidget game for my Android phone - IE smthn I can play instead of doomscrolling when I have odd bits of time The playstore boosts pay to win crap and drowns the good shit Yes: RPGs, roguelikes, puzzles No: nonograms, action combat, bullet hells, idle, merge

I realised the other day that not everybody knows this. Scroll down through any game listing in the Steam store, and if they've disclosed the use of AI within their game, it'll be above the System Requirements section. Now you can avoid supporting the use of AI in game development!

God dammit. One of my favorite silly music artists online actually called CK's wife performative forgiveness of the shooter 'Christ-like' after previously posting about CK's 'good work' and yeah no. bye.

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

I've had Dropout for years and it's the only subscription I'll never drop.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

For fans of cozy fantasy like "Legends & Lattes" (& Star Trek slash...), @ashthestampede.bsky.social's queer erotic romantasy novella will definitely hit all the right notes. www.instagram.com/p/DOveFSRCBv0

this is some bullshit, Mr. Frodo, and no mistake

look I'm lazy and don't want to make graphics so this bundle will be solely marketed on memes anyway, the secondary worlds bundle is live! get your speculative fiction set in a place that isn't Earth! itch.io/b/3254/new-w... #BookSky 🩵📚 📦📚

honestly did not think i was going to make a new brush so soon but the pentel floatune 05 is such a beautiful analog experience i wanted to replicate it for ipad. I think I got the smoothness of drawing with it down. free for the week but as always tips welcome! ko-fi.com/s/c9fa7ed658

I'm putting together an (all genre) Ace Pride Book Week #itchio bundle; more info in the form 👇 but tldr * Runs Oct 19-25 * Preference given to ownvoice rep, but both ace authors and ace characters (not written by ace authors) welcome 🔗 forms.gle/tnMw4xRxDkvC... 📦📚 📚💙 🌎📚🌈

THERAPIST: and what do we do when we’re sad? ME: get another used cat? THERAPIST (nodding): get another used cat

Conjured Ink is a community of creatives, developers, and supporters building software, support structures, and curated documentation to make it easy for people who make things to be able to share it or sell it independently, without relying exclusively on large platforms.

Its only 10 days till my CPTSD combatting, autistically handicapped Rarkin and his education in emotional regulation, social skills & combatting monsters, at a SciFi-Fantasy school, is out. I'm not sure I'm quite ready. Rarkin sure as hell isn't 😉 ♠️🌈📚🪐📚💙 elisecarlson.com/sythe-series/

Charlie Kirk wanted me and many of my loved ones to suffer violent deaths, and I'm supposed to feel bad about his death because he had a wife and kids? Fuck that.

Meant to share this link to help Gretchen and the lost revenue from losing her book.

Oop.

Don't have money to support your favorite creator but still wanna help out somehow? 💸 - Tell someone about them & why you like them - Share some of their content - Send them an encouraging comment on one of their posts or in their streams - Draw fanart, or create something with them as inspiration

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

It fucking astonishes me how many people go into child facing professions (teaching, child psychiatry, etc) who clearly don't like children My kid's ADHD assessment today was a fucking disaster. Doctor straight up talked over my kid, misgendered them, fucking gaslit them

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

the new account created today with 6 followers and 0 posts and 12 replies that is replying to you with bullshit is a troll and if you aren't blocking on sight you lost the game cmon yall don't waste the energy, don't engage especially in other people's mentions

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

Today has been so full of internal screaming frustrated, excited, anxious, exhausted not actual screaming, I've been too busy adulting, but... yeah. It's been a rollercoaster Fingers crossed that the possible good thing actually works out this time.

the ultimate role of the liberal is to make sure minorities don't scratch any of the paint while the fascists drag them away

If we can get big dog publishing companies to go knocking at paypros' doors then that would be a huge boon for us. Flood the publishers as concerned customers, get them to see what's happening!

Man, I'm really getting sick of the new scam of bots/scammers leaving GUSHINGLY positive comments on new AO3 fics and then asking to take a message exchange to another platform (usually Discord) where they hard-sell you on commissioning art. Happened AGAIN w another new fic today and it suuuuucks

Tieflings, elves, and horny gay shapeshifters

Bride-King revisions continue. It's messy work but I'm fucking proud of this sentence: "She was practically ebullient compared to Elistin's other parent, who looked like what would happen if a blizzard came to life, became a person, and decided they wanted to murder you, personally."

Very excited to be speaking on this panel about a topic that has been near and dear to my heart lately #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

It is INSANE how hard it is to get a kid diagnosed ADHD I got my diagnosis in my mid-30s after doing a questionnaire that was 1 side of 1 sheet of paper, and they were like 'yo, wanna do meth adjacent chemicals about it?' My kid, tho. Everyone who has ever met them is like 'this kid is not NT'...

I know almost no one who could meet the standards set above. It feels like a deliberate attempt to hurt us. So again, please, contact your local reps about this, contact new sources, and send in complaints to paypros! stop-paypros.neocities.org#contactinfo yellat.money

Age verification? Knowing how to fix a cassette tape with a pencil

every horrible person who does this wants to "flood the zone" and subject us all to hot garbage bc they're hoping people won't make the effort to wade through their bullshit to get to actual good things made by humans so pleaseeeee support creators *now*

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Sometimes when an abuser decides to kick someone out of their fold, they will work hard to break any ties that person has to the community in order to prevent their own reputation from being tarnished

Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #WriteSky #BookSky

Every time you want to give the democrats a pass on trans issues, ask yourself if you would be ok if they threw black, Latino, lgbtq or women under the bus the same way. The answer always has to be no. Period.

The kid being back in school means I have to move my sleep schedule back 1.5/2 hours and goddddddd my body is Not Having It but someone has to supervise them in the morning to make sure they dress for the weather and leave the house on time 😭

My cats are Very Perturbed by the rabbit currently sitting in the back yard

The AI bubble is already here. I was a senior social media and content marketer laid off in April last year. I applied for 160 jobs and interviewed with 6 companies, and I'd bet only half of those 6 jobs were real. CEOs have drunk the Kool aid on AI and aren't hiring marketers

They say "use AI!" now, "it'll make your art, summarize your books, respond to you", but at the end of your life, when you think "I wish I had taken the time to make art. I wish I had read books. I wish I had listened to people." they will not be there to give you back the life you wish you'd lived

As a former social media marketer, the marketing that authors are expected to do is MORE THAN A FULL TIME JOB

Slightly diminish a book The Mid Gatsby

My YA magical girl #shortstorycollection, "Stay Magical," is OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED TODAY!🎉 Share this with any magical girl fans and #readers seeking stories of friendship, perseverance, and a little bit of magic. ✨ Thanks for your support, and happy reading! 📖 books2read.com/u/38wBlr #writesky