I've hit $2k in vet bills and they're still climbing, so I'm here for my semiannual reminder that I have an Etsty shop, a patreon, AND a monthly pin club! Please check them out! www.etsy.com/shop/SpookyB... www.patreon.com/c/thesetumbl... www.patreon.com/c/spookybutter/membership

I think I figured out the A Plot of 1664. Which would be more helpful if I wasn't planning to write that one after 1661 and 1662.

finished my work thing! here’s another part of it (filtered to all hell)

#AwesomeCharacters I haven't done this yet in The Duel, BUT I have striven to minimize the cast as much as possible from the outset (it's still pretty big, 32 named speaking roles). In 1661's outline I'm currently trying to compress 2 roles into one character, but they've been resisting me…

Whipped this up for #WormMoonMania 🪱🌑🪱 I am literally obsessed #WormMoon

I'm two months out of work, and a job I really wanted declined to move forward. I'm trying to to support myself through writing so I don't have to rely on an employer. #writesky #smutsky My #Ream page: reamstories.com/zackprince If you want to buy single copies of my #books, they are linked below.

On my current page 97, the second sentence here was the one I wanted to share, but my writing style is such that that single sentence was over character limit for Bsky. 🤪

I kinda have to work in order because I end up hooking stuff together so much by exact word choice, metaphor, callback etc. This has made revision agonizing! 😩

A reminder that you can sign up to the pre-order Kickstarter for my graphic novel adaptation of Orlando, out through @averyhill.bsky.social in June - it launches in April! I have worked so hard on this book and made it a real labour of love, so please sign up if you're interested!

Trying something new, I'm opening up commissions for quick portraits!! I've been having a blast making these in my own time, I'd love to kidnap some people's characters to make more :)) Info in the pic and in bio! [ #art #commissions #fantasyart #oc ]

Good morning #writingcommunity! My insomnia is your gain! I got sick of the scammers targeting authors with their "wow what genre? dm me, i will beta read for u" or "i do illustration, dm me" bullshit, so I made a moderation list. Feel free to @me whenever you find one to add to the list!

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

There's 50% off selected queer books at Proud Geek this month to make more room on the shelves for new stock in 2026! Go grab a bargain while you can at proud-geek.co.uk/sale #queerbooks #booksky

"jestermaxxing" should not mean "flirting with girls by being funny" it should, minimum, involve humbling your lord

Hello #AwesomeCharacters, did you design tonight's question for me? 🥰 All 3 antagonists have important details of dress, but I'll do a long yap about Lord Blackthorne. Blackthorne speaks LOUDLY with his clothes, just like Alexander does—when they first meet, Alexander reads him head to foot: +

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🎉 Live on Kickstarter! 🎉 We've Always Been Here: A multicultural art book celebrating queerness throughout history, with illustrations from over 50 incredible artists! 🌈 Get the book and limited edition merch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap... #ZineSky #Zines #LGBTQ #LGBTQArt #QueerArt

I’ve opened up some new commission slots! Orders available through my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/Manage/ Sheets with prices and examples below 👇 Shares always appreciated 💖💖 #dnd #ttrpg #commissionsopen

any agents feel like requesting my full manuscript today 😊🌸 it has a sad wet trans man for a main character 😩 and his cool and hot crush who is a civil engineer designing medieval floodworks 😎 and her hot husband (also MC's crush) who has a special interest in Hunting (and also in his wife and MC)

Absolutely no way the lunar eclipse was called the Worm Moon Eclipse Necromancer levels off the charts All malevolent incantations are 25% off kinda vibe I can feel the corpse paint applying itself to my entire head

Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciation with freaked-out cat, 1534-35, Oil on canvas, 166 x 114 cm (Pinacoteca Civica, Recanati)

The artist Tischbein (1751-1829) once mistook 'Grey Horse' c1646 by Philips #Wouwerman (1619–1668) for a Rembrandt due to the use of light. He said 'Wouwerman could probably have made a picture that seemed to be by Rembrandt; but Rembrandt could not paint a horse like Wouwerman'.

This book is excellent! Highly recommend if you enjoy crime thrillers and/or Lovecraftian type horror! Also, morally dubious but very hot MCs 😂

If you read my Febchantment blahblahs, where I talked about "purity of motive" as an empowerment factor for swashbucklers, here is an example of it for today's #WIPSnips.

Just 24 hours until we launch on Kickstarter!! Remember: If you want early bird discounts, they will only be available for the first day (and while slots are still available). Get notified when we launch ⤵️🎉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap... Art by @thistlearts.bsky.social #QueerArt #ArtZine

Uh… spoilers 🤐 Alexander's father sustained a back/hip injury volunteering for the Protestant cause in the 80 Years War (see author trying to say 's-Hertogenbosch), 16 years before his son was born. So Alexander's main (tho not only) male authority figure growing up is disabled. #AwesomeCharacters

I'm shutting down my Kofi at the end of the month. I don't like doing it but I don't have much of a choice for reasons I can't comfortably get into. Before I do that, I'd like some help with stocking up on groceries. You can get my stories on itchio or help me directly on Kofi: vincentlore.itch.io

historical inaccuracies in fiction make people on the internet really, really angry, so you should include as many as you possibly can

It's the Smashwords weeklong ebook sale and The Steer Queer Series is 50% on their storefront! Snag some #queer #historicalromance or any other featured book that catches your fancy! #queerbooks 📚💙

Do it 👀 Did I devour The Devouring in 3 days, or did it devour me?

New artwork from Nush! Here we have Lungidus and Loyenie, two souls deeply in love with each other, living their best lives in Monoceros, the crystalline, tropical capital of Aloutia, where Lungidus is a guard and Loyenie is an assassin. They are the parents of Tynan, my next book's MC

Given that I am currently writing a farce, I am including a lot of silly things 😁 But even in relatively serious projects I enjoy a bathos/pathos superposition, physical comedy, intrusion of fleshly concerns, narrator makes a meta aside, and ✨completely unnecessary subject verb inversion✨

"Sorry, but I will not click on your substack" does not mean "I'd like to be tricked into clicking on your substack", folks…

Happy March, everyone! We asked the HQP crew for their favorite theories about @professoremily.bsky.social 's Gods of Atalantis series. Why? No particular reason...👀 👀 #indiepublisher #hqpress #writingcommunity #writesky

Alexander's step-cousin/guardian/uncle-figure's first impression of him, for today's #WIPSnips.

March is my anniversary, and so it's the perfect time to pick up my cosy achillean fantasy about two disaster husbands trying to save the world while learning what marriage means to both of them. And it's currently only 99cents in the US kindle store for this month only!

If you didn't see this (& new Alexander art fop) during WSPit—draft 2 is officially DONE and open for β-reads! I got a lot of kind interest but if you want in too, just lmk! I would like to work on draft 3 in May/June, but no strict deadlines. Not paid (i'm trans. u pay me.) but I can trade reads!

Hey Bluesky friends! Just another reminder that I'm currently looking for ARC readers for my book THE GODS OF ATALANTIS - coming soon! Slow-burn romance! Fantasy politics! Magic crystals!✨ If you like things like ATLA & FMA:B, this is for you! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#AwesomeCharacters Though friendly and charismatic, Alexander easily gathers enemies; he's rigidly moral, prideful, excesively defensive of his masculinity and honor. He would have LOADS if his family didn't shelter him so much; his first unsupervised jaunt in the City he gets into a streetfight……

oOOooooOOO you wanna preorder this book that i had the honour of illustrating the cover for OOOOOOOO 👀🌿💛

Me: I’m gonna go back and finish incomplete Novmemeber prompts this month in prep for Mememay! Looks like I never did #1: Introduce yourself with predictive text, “I’m _ and I write about—“ Me: *immediately called out by my phone*

I'm with the others in camp "never say never"… Like, I hate the Fake Rake trope. Then I wrote a Fake Rake. Shadow Daddy? ABO? Referring to Alexander as "Xander"? Like I'm PRETTY sure but my hubris has been proven before.

I know that's a ray of God touching her from the left, but I can't help but read this as Mary missing Gabriel with a laser beam as he ducks and weaves through the pillars.

I've got 178 faces! I'll share the 2nd and 3rd ones in the book—"Klein's prophecy" again for today's #WIPSnips.

i haven't any work at the moment so while i'm job searching, any and all help is much appreciated, thank you so much! (rts = 💖) ko-fi.com/nooska

Like Rembrandt, Philips #Wouwerman (1619–1668) used light and shadow in a similar way in his landscapes and, like Rembrandt, the landscape was most often an imagined mix of natural and architectural features and not a real one. As in this 'The Hare Hunt' c1665 (Museo del Prado).

It's just me and the hundreds of specks of dust on my glasses against the world

this is ✨35✨

It’s Women’s History Month, with the theme “leading the change”, and I want to celebrate all the unsung women who innovated, resisted and risked their lives to pave the way for the freedoms we cherish today. My book introduces 12 of these women from the C17th but there many more stories to be told