Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

queer artists drawing bellies, drawing broad shouldered women, happy trails, the curve of arm fat, wrinkles, scars, stubble, girl dick and t dick, cellulite. I see so many things that we're supposed to be ashamed of rendered lovingly, with intent, not just "all bodies are beautiful" but with desire

Now this? THIS is art.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

39) Track your wins. Make sure other people know about 'em. This is especially important if you're a traditionally overlooked demographic. Because if you fall for the fiction you should be modest and downplay your own accomplishments? Certain types will LEAP at the opportunity to help you w/that.

I recently read REST by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, which looks at different studies about work, rest, and productivity. The overall conclusion is that if you work in a creative field, the best thing you can do is work <4 hours a day and spend the rest of your time napping, exercising, and playing.

Scotland, 1925: A gentleman thief, a lonely demon hunter and a married sorceress embark on a glittering heist to bring down the English occult. Forbidden passions, demonic conspiracies, and their own ambition threatens to bring them down. Bi rep, ace rep, mf, mmf, mm #queerpit #a #f

Tremendous.

Some of the Years Best Eco Fiction and Years Best Weird Fiction all in one place! You could spend over $50 to read these stories separately so why not spend $4.47 to read them together.

Has anyone made a business card to promote a newsletter? What did it look like? I can't make mine not look like a wall of text.

I’m working a novella about a werewolf who has a lot of internalized shame about her wolf. And then she kisses a plant witch so good it makes flowers bloom. I have all my metaphors figured out but hell if I know if it’s going to be actually fun to read.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

My book needs to get published ASAP so I can make jokes about Cornelius' slutty little glasses

Everyone who likes historical gossip, preorder this! Caroline was a mess of epic proportions

Here's a look at what I've been working on these past couple weeks!! Rainbow Raven, a collection of pride flag coloured formline stickers!! 🌈🪶 #formline #telekitneticart #pridemonth #indigenousart 🌈🪶

Unbound/Boundless who no longer have the rights to sell my book are still selling it for FUCKING $4 on Amazon. Talk about some shady fucking shit. Trying to burn through the inventory THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SELL before they are forced to send me the remaining stock. Weasels.

I'm reading about 15th c Florentine sodomy laws and I'm having the time of my life. Top/Bottom discourse has a long, long tradition.

#transartists #transmusic I would like to put together a playlist of only trans musicians for my current project. Who is your favorite? My tastes lean more folk/mellow but I'll listen to anything once

Lander deserves a ton of respect for his willingness to subordinate his desires to blow up a genuinely evil man's campaign.

Cosigned, there are no excuses left, swing the fucking pendulum already cuz the people have fucking had enough

Due to the extreme heat I have to cancel my plans of cleaning my kitchen floor (and house) during my vacation. Instead, I will be FORCED to read romance books and eat a lot of cheese. It will be difficult sacrifice.

a quick comic to dispel the demon of having not made a comic

once you realize that fiction is a cosmic force that shapes reality, everything related to fandom seems like a dangerous heresy

Who the fuck cares what Baptists think, they don't make the laws. (I know about lobbying power and public pressure, don't explain it to me)

the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.

Pride month is in full swing and my little Queer Indigenous Beadwork business has been going non stop creating more pride pieces! Here is what I currently have available! 🫶🏼🌈 beadworkbykay.etsy.com

Happy Pride! Please read a book by a trans author, and then read another and another and another, don't stop There is a whole dingdang list here, please click to open replies of books you're intrigued by, go find them, buy them and then reply, I bought it! can you post the link to your newsletter?

Wheat Field in Rain - 1889 #artbots #vangogh https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14712

Good thread from me one month ago

Thanks to the American Military Complex, I get to spend the day writing about trans rights and the trans right to get dicked down 😌

I love when I’m 30% of the way into a manuscript and everything is going perfectly and my main character is happy and completely ignoring anything bad that might be lurking on the horizon.

If you don't enjoy writing, maybe being a writer isn't for you. That's okay! Most people are not writers. People become writers because they like to write. Otherwise they do other things with their time. AI will never solve the fact that you do not like to write.

This series has been a life-saving passion of mine for the last 4 years. I launch on the 20th! Two days! I hope we can make this happen. It'll still release in October whether or not the Kickstarter is a success. Plans will just be a little different.

Please, for the love of god, don’t start your new newsletter on Substack. There are so many better and cheaper alternatives who don’t run a business model of platforming the worst among us. You can get a self-hosted Ghost newsletter up and running for <$10/month.

And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

I have always thought of myself as a vampire girlie, but I’m writing a fairy book right now and I might have converted myself. They’re tricky little fuckers and it’s so fun to write.

obviously screeching about trans people's genitals at deafening volume on every public platform available to you is hateful, cruel and dangerous but we must always remember the equally important fact that it is also HUGE loser behavior

Life feels really hard right now. What are you doing to make things feel easier? I will take all suggestions from magic spells to grocery delivery. I need someone to tell me what to do.

concept: one of those special-edition book subscription boxes but their editions are cheap mass market paperbacks with lovingly airbrushed 90s cover art

ok girls we’re gatekeeping this one. let’s get the big gate ready

alright time to burn every internet capable device i own

I am SO excited!!! @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

24 excellent stories for 99 cents? Do yourself a favor and grab it before the sale ends this week!

Hello #Portfolioday I'm Helen Mask, a pdx based freelance illustrator. I enjoy making book jackets, comic book covers, packaging illustration/design and interior illustrations. I am an art nouveau inspired artist with a love of nature and decorative details. helenmask.com [email protected]

NEW YEAR, NEW YOU is the little anthology that could! Its writers have been winning accolades and the book itself has received so much love from readers and reviewers! See what all the fuss is about: the ebook is on mega sale this week at only $0.99! 🪐📚https://books2read.com/newyearnewyoustories

Ebook flash sale! 👀

here’s my protest take: stop being snarky about people doing literally anything we need all of it even if it’s not your thing