Etsy ... Etsy, why are you gendering my wool?

Calling all #booksellers! Emily O'Malley Liu's gardencore romantic fantasy WINE FOR ROSES comes out April 14. Wholesale available via Ingram. More info at shirakipress.com/wfr

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu comes out April 14! Preorder now at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

Jorna is an #ex-vangelical, type A scientist who is making the world a better place one plant at a time. But she can’t out-run her past. If you need a reminder too- you’re the only one you have to convince to give yourself a second chance… shirakipress.com/age might be your next favorite read.

A little self promo for this time of year: I wrote a short story ft. my three pagans that I love very, very much. It is very Spring™ and I hope you'll like it! Read and/or listen below👇 🌈🚀💫 More to come! :D #sff #magic #lgbtq #poly #gardens #solstice

These are beautiful golden torc rings from the @coriniummuseum.bsky.social in Cirencester. They relate to one of my favourite LGBTQ+ entymology facts: The words 'Queer' and 'Torc' share an origin with the Latin word 'torquere'. 1/

Let's start this week off with a list story, "The Things You'll Wish You'd Known" by Kristen Koopman . This is a story which makes the most of the term "mixed state" in many, many ways:

This Must-Have Monday I have TWENTY-FOUR new books to ft! Incl ⛓️a return to the sci-fantasy Nine Lands with @mhayinde.bsky.social! 🪽a world stratified by flight by @marieparks.bsky.social! 🐉queer pirates in Southeast Asian fantasy from @jolantru.bsky.social!

If you're a Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or InDesign user, you can cancel Adobe right now, download Affinity for free, and replace virtually your entire workflow at comparable or better quality overnight. Just sayin'.

Hehe, I have a bit of a pattern it seems. In both TRISKELION and Light&Earth&Marrow, and in my current WIP, the villains (even the fake ones) are villains alright, but they ain't the actual problem ..... (dunn, dunn, DUNN 😱😱) #AntagonistApril

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

If you haven’t joined my community Discord yet, it’s a great place to share your writing, art, the books you’re reading, links you need boosted and to ask any questions you have about indie publishing! 1100+ members! 🎉 All AI content is banned. 🚫 Link in my profile 🔗💖

🔥A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST🔥 by @mhayinde.bsky.social is a phenomenal, genre-redefining epic that plays the reader like you've never been played. If you're looking for something wildly unique, deliciously intricate, that'll take you by surprise over and over? HI, READ THIS IMMEDIATELY!

"Students need to learn how to prompt AI, they'll be bad workers otherwise" WRONG, they need to learn how to be GOOD at their CRAFT; they need to know its ins + outs & have instincts & know BETTER than the plagiarism machines. KNOWING HOW TO PROMPT DOES NOT DO THAT! Nodding is not learning! PLEASE!

A little self promo for this time of year: I wrote a short story ft. my three pagans that I love very, very much. It is very Spring™ and I hope you'll like it! Read and/or listen below👇 🌈🚀💫 More to come! :D #sff #magic #lgbtq #poly #gardens #solstice

I'm having a 20% discount on my INPRNT store for Easter weekend ✨ Special code - NYJ9UFN7 www.inprnt.com/gallery/thom...

The weather today.

Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again to all my Easter Witches! 🌼 🌸 🐰 🐣

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

For Autistic People's Month, I've gathered 34 fellow autistic authors, many with an autistic main character, some also queer led. Our books feature monsters, friendship, an invisible library, a shipwreck, ravenous crabs, hope/ horror, romance & more! Mini blurbs in 👇 🧠📚🌈📚🪐 itch.io/b/3598/autis...

Trying out wool dying with my garden's very own woad. Let's see ...

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

It’s poetry month! And I have a poetry book! TIME TRAVEL IS EASY examines Deep Time, queerness, childhood traumas, dinosaurs, and the dread of the late Anthropocene. It includes my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings.” Available here: mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

Damn, does this exist in print, bc I found myself reaching for highlighters and pens like seven times throughout this text. Spot on.

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

This rebirth of the prologue discussion has gotten under my skin. Stay tuned for my full thoughts

"They say ..." "I heard...." "People are wondering ..." "Everybody thinks that ..." PLEASE. PLEASE NOTICE WHEN OUTLETS ARE TRYING TO SNEAK-NORMALISE THINGS. NOTICE. RECOGNISE. RESIST. PASS IT ON.

The Times could have written a story that said, "These Woman-Hating Lunatics Have the Ear of Powerful People. You Should Know What They Believe So You Can Resist Them." That's...not what this story does.

"Spanking with a belt"—also known as whipping? Here's the only mention of how much violence, rape, & murder wives suffered from their "Lord" husbands in the good ol' days these lunatic woman-haters & their insane cults want to revive. The story presents their sick view exclusively in its best light

Hate to keep nagging about this, but *it is really hard* to make people aware of the fact that without their help I'm *fucked*. It is not a situation I'd wish on anyone. STILL 1865/3500 - 65/1000 Weekend Goal! paypal in bio, sepa info in dms, ko-fi at ko-fi.com/standplaatsk..., boosties = <3!

The actor overlap between the X-Files and Stargate is frankly delicious

I wrote a book that's got prologue, epilogue, and other supplemental materials-- BUT NO STORY-- simply to spite these assholes. It's called The Bone Clock. bsky.app/profile/lagu...

‼️ Bitte Rehpost🦌💌 ‼️ Der Gemeinsame Bundesausschuss hat erstmals Medikamente für den Off-Label-Gebrauch zur Symptombehandlung von Long-/Post-COVID freigegeben. Sie werden zukünftig von den Krankenkassen übernommen, ohne aufwändige Einzelanträge! #ME/CFS #longcovid #postcovid

Oooh, cover reveal for VIRGINIA FANTASTIC, a speculative flash anthology set in the Old Dominion & filling it with all things SFF 📚👀 Preorders OPEN! amzn.to/3O9znuz Got a story in here & also ARC copy access, so if you wanna grab one, hmu 🫶 🌈🚀💫

those beautiful naked women have made a compelling argument i'm going to steer this ship into the rocks

If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

No foolin', there are 98 installments of Some Queer Short SFF so far, and you can go back and check them all out for free over on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/collection/1...

Here's the book deal announcement in full. Many thanks to @helenlane.bsky.social of @kiagency.bsky.social and TJ of @zandoprojects.bsky.social It's an honour to work with both and I can't wait to share these novels with you all! 📚💙🏳️‍🌈 #EvilTwin

This is a fantastic book and you should buy it imho. Buy two. Buy six. Hand them out like hot cakes 🫶

To celebrate #AutismAcceptanceMonth, buy my book! Buy it for your friends and family with Autistic children. Buy it for your Autistic friends. Request it from your local library. Leave a positive review! Write a gushing critical review in a major publication! Get a COLOR TASTE TEXTURE tat!

*QUEER AUTHORS OF BLUESKY!* Are you looking for an affordable, experienced editor? I'd LOVE to work with you! 📑 Here's my services sheet as well as an FAQ detailing what you can expect from me! 🧙 Any help with visibility is immensely appreciated. 💝 #editing #bookssky #queerwriters

Eine Gesundheitsreform zu Lasten der Frauen, die nicht mehr mitversichert werden sollen, weil Care-Arbeit leisten. Währenddessen steigen die Milliardäre in der Anzahl und ihrem Vermögen. Das ist so abgrundtief BÖSE!

I need us all to see thru the "Everyone is using AI" ruse, please. It's the cheapest possible group psych bullshit used by companies desperate for people to adopt their shit product - "everyone does it, so you should too / so it's ok to use it / DON'T MISS OUTTTT" Pure manipulation. Disgusting.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-three... Its really difficult for trans people right now so please share this and help, we also need help paying late bills and rent for this month. Things are extremely difficult right now please don't ignore this! we need $700 for rent and $200 for bills paypal.me/vvaite

It has begun! The Prompt Generator is now on until 6th April. Get your prompts and start percolating story ideas. Subs open on the 21st April. That's Trash Cat's prompted stories challenge - have a go! 🦝 Get prompted here: trashcatlit.com/prompted-pop... #submissioncalls #litsubmissions

In other news, I am now a chef because I pushed the button on the office vending machine!!

This is a wonderful way to bring more trans joy into your life, while supporting many trans and queer artists!! :D

The Need for Dandelions is now available! 🌸 MM Fantasy Romance ⚔️ Queer Normative World 🌸 Flower Symbolism ⚔️ Falling in love during a crisis 🌸 Forced Proximity ⚔️ Fighting Government Corruption 🌸 Oh. *Oh.* Buy today! Uni: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: bit.ly/3N1RDWk Kofi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...