You don't need to change for anyone in the new year. Don't hide your fangs behind a thin smile. Don't hide your wings under a tattered cardigan. Show everyone your claws and dark determination. Make the world change for you.

Sweet & Wild, is out now! 🐝💛🍃 Sweet & Wild is a MM Fantasy Romance featuring nature magic, a sunshine MC, and mysterious spirits in the forest! Universal Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9 Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild Cover by the wonderful @northyme.com

This was a fully dismal Little Free Library find and shall be released back into the wild; it's definitely not for me. Why oh why do Germans always choose tte doomiest, gloomiest, bleakest, most hopeless stories for "of today" collections??

Could I ask all my followers to please take a moment to vote for Mrs Dragons of Wales’s entry in the BCA Awards. Thank you. 🙏

Here we gooooo ~✨ trashcatlit.com/the-tell-tai... #sff #cat #haunting #lgbtq 🌈🚀💫

What if ...a house, but also a housebreaker? What if Cat ...but also Devil? Read "THE TELL-TALE TAIL" in @trashcatlit.bsky.social's winter pop-up issue! 😼😈 #ssf #lgbtq #cat #pet #writing trashcatlit.com/feline-flash...

went to the hospital 3 times this month and rent is due tomorrow... there has never been a better time to grab a shirt 🫶

... Something Wicked This Way Comes! 📚👀 🌈🚀💫 #witches #sff #horror #sapphic #folklore #magic #lgbtq #writing

For me? I sew, I crochet. Mostly I do collage. Notice how you've never seen my collage notebooks. Because it's art I make just for me. Not as presents. Not as content. Its art I make just to make art. This is important. We all need that, to be honest. But definitely those in the creative industries.

I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES!! 🥳 #sff #sapphic #horror #witches #writing #novella #book 🌈🚀💫 📚👀

Stirring my cauldron, adding a few spices and sampling the brew ...* *editing

Ordered a test set of non gender segregated perfumes. Now, we wait!

I read a lot more books by trans authors last year and I'm so glad I did (it also involved dipping into a lot of genres I don't often read, which was also fantastic). Looking forward to reading many more in 2026! Here are some that I read--I just wish I'd had more time for reviewing this year. 🏳️‍⚧️📚

What if ...a house, but also a housebreaker? What if Cat ...but also Devil? Read "THE TELL-TALE TAIL" in @trashcatlit.bsky.social's winter pop-up issue! 😼😈 #ssf #lgbtq #cat #pet #writing trashcatlit.com/feline-flash...

A new year and we've a new issue of fabulous feline flash for you. So, go outside and come in again. Demand snacks. Scratch the carpet. Then get your paws on this link: trashcatlit.com/feline-flash... Devour, savour, ask for more. Trash Cat let the cats in the bin and it's smashing 🦝

In this new essay, Christine Sun discusses the politics of translation, with a particular focus on a simultaneously published Chinese and English anthology of SFF stories. Read it now, for free! www.speculativeinsight.com

British citizens and UK-based folks: please consider signing and sharing this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... #RefugeesWelcome

Two people buried at two different sites in England in the 7th century CE have been shown to have West African ancestry, probably a paternal grandfather in both cases. Remember this if someone says that a historical novel set in the UK is "unrealistic" because it includes characters of color.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

2025 may be over, but it had some really amazing books! Check out this bundle of the best 2025 had to offer! 📚💙💕🌈📚🖤♿📚🌈📚🪐📚🌈♠️ #booksky #queersky

By The Pricking Of My Thumbs ...... 📚👀 #sff #sapphic #writing #horror #soon

The one, the only: the ✨UNMISSABLE SFF of 2026✨ list! 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 🎆 aka all the fantasy and sci-fi that should definitely be on your tbr, how are these not on your tbr already??? you poor unfortunate soul, let's fix that! buff.ly/IWTR8A6

By the power vested in me by the Dark Mother, I declare 2026 the Year of the Trans Author Behold the Thread, a bold list of trans authors writing across all genres! Here you will find some of the best books you've ever read, by authors you've not yet heard of! Ia! Ia! Trans Books! 🏳️‍⚧️

Thanks #SFFChat! I'll share this Fantasy Books Giveaway, which Ruarnon Trilogy Book 1 is in. It's open for entry for 4 more days on: cravebooks.com/giveaway/fan...

Hello #SFFChat! My first traditionally published short story is available now in New Edge Sword and Sorcery Issue #6 and you can find it here in digital and paperback!: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... The True Tale of Yehawellon Son of Serpents is set in a mythic past & features an

TRISKELION (coming THIS year! ✨🙌) ends in ... ...yeah, my three pagan darlings really have to fight to uncover that arcane plot and get their non-murdered HEA 😅 #SFFChat

Ohh boy, namedropping, my "forte" (okay, focus, FOCUS) Pratchett's Night Watch comes full circle in a delicious way; KJ Charles' The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal pulls all its narrative threads in, HIGHLY satisfying; This Is How You Lose the Time War did too & squeezed my heart, bittersweet

I know the ending in advance, write towards it, then pull a Hansel&Gretel and breadcrumb my way from beginning to end. A good setup/lead-up is ✨SATISFYING✨ to me even if I didn't clock it at the time; see TETK by out dear host @stevewestenra.bsky.social or the GN Les Indes Fourbes #SFFChat

Honestly ...even knowing how much work goes into the journey, I feel vaguely disappointed if the story doesn't stick the ending. There are MANY ways of doing that! But if an adventure story just ...shrugs to an end, or if a long riddle has a non-solution, my brain pouts lol #SFFChat

Hello #SFFChat! I'm Jeannie, scribbling eco garden hag from Europe. Last year I submitted twice as many times as I did in 2024! ...not that I had twice as many acceptances, mind! 😅 But I pushed myself & dared more, arts-wise too. And the work I REALLY hoped would be accepted got a yes, so ...🙌

30 mins into my 2026 and I receive a rejection email! 😆

It's so lovely when the neighbours KNOW you have a dog that absolutely panics at fireworks, yet they light them at 7pm, 8:15, 9:33, 22:48 ... right next door. 🤬

Happy New Year, writer and reader friends! It's so good to know you and chat with you and cheer you on! May 2026 bring you ALL the words!! 🫂 #writing #sff #horror #books #reading #booksky #amwriting #lgbtq #fantasy #scifi

New Year's Resolution: get rid of the blasted kink in my upper back--please feel free to kink-shame it out of existence btw

Ihr erinnert euch an den unsäglidhen Vorschlag eines Registers für unsere Trans-Geschwister? Der liegt noch auf dem Tisch, daneben liegt aber auch eine Petition an den Bundestag, bitte zeichnet zahlreich. epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

Dear newcomers to Bsky, in the early days of this site, we collectively decided that blocking and not engaging is better than bringing some shit to your feed by quote dunking. Quote dunking is a faux pas here. Don't do this. See someone who's wrong on your feed? Block them and move on.

I don’t expect people to know all the bad stuff about every originally famous for non-political stuff person, and think people should react to the ignorance like an evil version of this XKCD, but I do want people to act like Ms. Roan when they’re informed instead of getting defensive/combative.

Hey US and UK friends, if you have a Mars choc bar on hand, could you post a pic of the ingredient list? I'd like to test a hypothesis ...

ai? Oh, you mean the brain melting machine? The stuff turning you into soup? The beep booping you need to come up with ideas for you? Inspiration for you? Research and learn for you? You yearn for the slop? Our ancestors etched drawings onto stone walls, and yet here you are, generating. Pathetic.

New review!! This time of Niranjan's secondary world, Urban Fantasy novella, Blue: beforewegoblog.com/review-blue-... #novella #indiebooks #indiefantasy #indieauthor 🌈🚀💫 🌈📚

I WILL READ ONE BOOK PER HOUR I SHALL SNAP MY FINGERS AND DISAPPEAR THE VERY *IDEA* OF PRIVATE JETS I WILL CHOKE MY ENEMIES WITH DAD JOKES I SHALL TRANSMUTE THE WEALTH OF THE RICHEST 1% INTO TREES

a few days late, but still: How about some YULE BOASTING instead of unachievable new year's resolutions—

30.000 werden gebraucht. 6.500 sind es bisher. Noch 17 Tage. OB IHR DA JETZT ENDLICH MAL UNTERSCHREIBEN WOLLT HAB' ICH GEFRAGT??!? 🤬

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

Two works of erotic gay horror for ridiculous prices. godless.com/collections/...

No fucking shit sherlock