Currently reading the diary of a French 11 year old in 1793 & loving it Summary: Hate having my portrait done, so boring Went to the palace and saw a really mangy rabbit, YUCK My tutor tells me I've got to stop picking my nose Also Marat has been murdered

Boombride is also on kobo plus 👉🥺👈

1660 had the really cool "triune patriarch" antagonist structure. 1661 is more… vague. In part because it's a lighter story with less evil. There's 3-4 antags depending on how you reckon. Broadest interpretation, everyone gets a turn at antag! since most conflict is family drama. #AwesomeCharacters

The general fission-fusion writing community here on Bsky, and the close writing friends I've made since joining here, are SO important to me. 🥹 Writing is such a lonely endeavor. Friends are great for feedback and learning but also just for having companions on this grueling road! #SummerOfStories

Fuck yes, go get yourself off KU and onto Kobo Plus instead

Don't talk to me or my misshapen daughter ever again

So, if you've looked at my patreon, you may have noticed the bulk of it is a 75,000+ word novel. And though it's free to read, that can be intimidating. So perhaps try my short story: Hunted in the Wolf Wood and see if my style is to your liking. www.patreon.com/collection/8...

"Because back in my days we never had the genders." Actually back in the days:

Hey y'all, so if you know me, you know that my finances are, uh, nonexistent. So to mitigate that, I'm opening fiction writing commissions. 2 slots! If you like the kind of prose I write, and would like me to write something for you, please check my comm info here: danfbispo.carrd.co#services

🫂 Charlie My entire book is this, so I blanked a bit trying to pick out one thing. 🤣 But I can announce that I've figured out how to include the canonical, on-page, Blackthorne eats ants scene. #AwesomeCharacters

The Nothing About Us Without Us bundle is live on itchio! Go check it out! #books #itchbundles @dwritersvoices.bsky.social itch.io/b/3783/nothi...

I am currently querying ☺️ Realistically, my chances are vanishingly low, but I am giving it an earnest go for the sake of the book's discoverability. I really want to give it the best chance possible to get in the hands of someone who would be saved by it. #SummerOfStories

Interest check! I'm opening up commissions in August. If you want to reserve a slot, drop a 💜 in the comments. I'll make an official post in August. The services that will be opened are the B/W Bust Portraits and the Halfbody Portraits, see below. vgen.co/Autumnchild Reposts appreciated! 😊

Someone said to me they can only assume I look like the pfp I use everywhere (Man Writing a Letter by Gabriël Metsu). But the truth is that I use that for Alexander and story vibes, while I myself more closely resemble a sort of hairy gay Millennial gnome. I created this self-portrait to illustrate

Me: "I should really ease back into writing." 🧠 "Okay. But what if we make this instead?"

Random question: What's your favourite villain moment in any film?

if you don't have any money, you too can support artists by liking and sharing their work, telling your friends about them, reminding them to eat, taking out their trash, doing their dishes, watering their plants, feeding their pets, please help i need adult supervision—

Does anyone know of (preferably queer-focused) literary magazines that publish erotica? I will always publish my novellas myself, but I have much shorter pieces and I do kind of want the validation/experience. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

📖 I'm looking for self-pubbed book recs that contain these traits - epic/high fantasy ft queer characters (esp trans) - NOT erotica, but I'm ok w/ sexual content as long as it's not the focus of the story - prefer M/F or F/F dynamics but all genders ok - aro/ace-spec rep b0ts get blocked 🪓

It looks like I have exactly one hit for #WIPSnips across 1660 and 1661. IYKYK…

3/3 Gilded silver ship automaton by Hans Schlottheim for kunstkammer of Rudolf II, born OTD 1552. Canons actually fire, so be careful where you're seated at the table!

This sort of behavior is why Alexander (17+) doesn’t really like taverns and prefers the coffee-house. In general he’d skedaddle, but if weapons come out he may feel obliged to get involved and try to stop it with minimal bloodshed. But his weapons and build aren’t ideal for it.😬 #AwesomeCharacters

Oh won't you give me depth of viewwwww

Duel was born during an awakening to the power of genre, cliche, and trope. And swashbuckler is among the top genreiest genres. I really love a corny one, and I couldn't think of anything better for my goal of writing a syringeful of concentrated Feel Better Juice. #SummerOfStories (🧵1/3)

I just love that jimothy is just a lil cryptid 🦝

WANTED: recs for indie books with trans and/or nonbinary main characters published in the last year or two My bent is romance but any genre is ok

Today's #WIPSnips from 1661, the backstory of Alexander's family in its present form. I hope this is not too obscure for people who don't have background but will make people who DO know the history scream 🤣

Horned Lark Press is doing a Summer Reading Sale; you can get several paperbacks (including of COYOTE RUN) for $10USD apiece (plus shipping) until 7/31. It's a great deal!

Daily reminder that if you enjoyed Stupid Space Book 1 and want more of that (and 👽🪱!), there is a Stupid Space Book 2 for you to read! And if you haven't picked up Stupid Space Book 1 yet, well, I made a bundle with both of them in it so you can get right into it! itch.io/s/195896/the...

I swear to god, Jane and Bingley live in a completely separate dimension populated entirely by Precious Moments figurines.

I had this insight early in planning that the worse I made the MC, the better he became, lol. An arrogant, spoiled, conceited, vain, belligerent, entitled little shit of a hero. I think the magic is that you can laugh at his failures yet cry at his pain and cheer for his triumph. #SummerOfStories

Today's #WIPSnips from 1660. Implied at the end of Sable's last line, "ya dum-dum." These are of the general design we call "Queen Anne pistols" (tho of course Anne is 40 years later). There's a story about Prince Rupert wowing Charles I with the accuracy of a rifled turn-off pistol.

Testosterone gives me the power of the mighty silverback gorilla

In Alexandre Dumas' 1846 novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, the titular Count "hacks" the telegraph system, a novel technology at the time, as part of his plan to avenge himself against the Baron Denglars. Thus, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is canonically a progenitor of cyberpunk. In this essay I will

Impulsive art sale to help fund the medical bills I've racked up this summer yay 🎉 I've got bookish art, goofy art, and disability pride art if any of that sounds like it's up your alley! ko-fi.com/juliemarchbo...

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

Well, 1660 is sort of about everything that Alexander looks forward to being taken away, cause his family can only imagine a trans life as one of hiding and avoidance. It's in that environment that he replaces all his lost dreams with just one: DESTROY THAT ONE MAN. Healthy??? 😬 #AwesomeCharacters

Click links. That's it. You see a Kobo link here? Click it. Kobo is transparent about how their rankings work--it's a dynamic system, sorting books by "temperature". Sales very much matter! And also: clicks. All this contributes to a book's "temperature".

My attempts at humor about the situation aside, I really do need the laptop. It was an honest lifeline. Even if you can't buy books from my shop or donate, sharing this would greatly help me. I'm trying to find full time work, but motherhood and my autism make it hard. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Titanic Voyage is still 25% off on Smashwords! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

🫣 Not only do I have a crystal-clear picture of what my series would have as an OP if it was an anime, I wrote a track for it! It's one of the first things I wrote since trying to learn composing as a hobby so it's very basic and cringe. Now that I'm more skilled maybe I should try doing a remake.

Lord Aldridge is me.

Rise and grind

Bought a commission today and the artist told me that I’d basically just paid their bills for the week so always remember that having artists draw porn of your favorite characters is a noble cause

UTENA TV!!! Rose of Versailles TV? 1660 is VERY The Three Musketeers (1973), plotwise and tonally. 1661 is more Austen (maybe one of the Emma adaptations, since there isn't a town phase). It's tough to answer "plot", I can think of a lot more vibes comps. #SummerOfStories

I originally made this for a prompt and then when i went back and re-read the instructions I realized this wouldn't work (reading comprehension, who art thou) but I still wanna share it without the hashtag. Little bit of Dogwood marketing beta run??

From 1661 ch2 for today's #WIPSnips. I thought I posted this earlier but that seems to have been a hallucination, so apologies if this is a double post 😅

Gonna make a thread to collect all of these

Born on this day in 1723, in Plympton, Devon, Sir Joshua Reynolds. Painter of portraits. Here taking a good look at himself for his own portrait at age 24.