The Royal Blue Network
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An
#LGBT
blog dedicated to telling quality queer stories.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.bio.link/
pinned post!
Did this on the X app, and now I wanna do it here too, so here’s a thread of
#LGBTQIA+
couples!
10 months ago
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Giving In- Now that the competition has finally ended, Corey and Adriana are able to give in to what they really want.
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Giving In
The Contestant#31 Wait, wait, wait, before you begin reading this story, have you read 'The Knee Never Lies'? Also, if this is your first time on the site at all, and you wanna start this series from the beginning, click HERE. Adriana sat on the bench in the backyard of the Airbnb her parents had rented. Looking up at the night sky, she watched the blue of the sky fade into swirls of pinks, reds, and oranges, as the sun made its descent from its place in the sky.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/08/01/giving-in/
about 2 months ago
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A trans man gets roped into playing what he thinks is a never-ending game of chess. But the game does end, at a grave cost.
#WriteLGBTQ
#WriteTransTales
#RoyalPrompt
2 months ago
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Any
#WordPress
#bloggers
out there? Drop the
#links
below. Bonus points if your
#blog
is made up of
#shortstories
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2 months ago
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Jason Liegois - Author
2 months ago
You know what to do, everyone. 🙂🤟🏻
#authorshelpingauthors
#writing
#writingcommunity
#writersofbluesky
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The Knee Never Lies The Contestant#30 Wait, before you dive into this story, have you read 'No More Game' Adriana stood in the same spot, right in the middle of the backyard, where she had met Jess. Standing up tall, she watched as Brock strutted into the backyard. He had that same confident,…
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The Knee Never Lies
The Contestant#30 Wait, before you dive into this story, have you read 'No More Game' Adriana stood in the same spot, right in the middle of the backyard, where she had met Jess. Standing up tall, she watched as Brock strutted into the backyard. He had that same confident, sexy swagger that he’d oozed all the way back at the beginning of this competition.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/07/25/the-knee-never-lies/
2 months ago
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No More Games The Contestant#29 Wait, before you dive into this story, have you read 'Joy Ride' Katy dropped her phone onto her bed and shook her head, she couldn’t believe her husband. She told Tyson several times, not to spend any alone time with any of the contestants. Tyson was the king of…
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No More Games
The Contestant#29 Wait, before you dive into this story, have you read 'Joy Ride' Katy dropped her phone onto her bed and shook her head, she couldn’t believe her husband. She told Tyson several times, not to spend any alone time with any of the contestants. Tyson was the king of extraverts; when they were in school, every time Katy turned around he was showing up with a new friend.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/07/18/no-more-games/
2 months ago
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Joy Ride The Contestant#28 Wait, before you dive into this story, have you read 'The Stretch'? Corey awoke from their sleep around four in the morning. Since high school, they’d always awaken in the middle of the night, dying of thirst, at four on the dot. It didn’t matter how much water they…
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Joy Ride
The Contestant#28 Wait, before you dive into this story, have you read 'The Stretch'? Corey awoke from their sleep around four in the morning. Since high school, they’d always awaken in the middle of the night, dying of thirst, at four on the dot. It didn’t matter how much water they consumed before bed; if they went to sleep any time before three thirty am, then right at four, Corey would be wide awake, looking to quench their thirst.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/07/11/joy-ride/
3 months ago
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The Stretch The Contestant#27 Before you start reading this story, have you read 'Playing With Fire'? Adriana pulled the door of her grandparents’ room flush against the door jamb before twisting around. She’d missed them and having them here now reminded her of just how much she needed, wanted,…
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The Stretch
The Contestant#27 Before you start reading this story, have you read 'Playing With Fire'? Adriana pulled the door of her grandparents’ room flush against the door jamb before twisting around. She’d missed them and having them here now reminded her of just how much she needed, wanted, to slow down. Getting to be with her father’s parents in their final years of life was worth more than gold to Adriana, and she wanted to do the same with her mother’s parents.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/07/04/the-stretch/
3 months ago
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Playing With Fire The Contestant#26 Before driving into this story, have you read 'Nana and Papa G' "Giovani! Tell me you didn’t gamble away our grandson’s college fund!” Sophia said, giving her husband a stern look. “Not all of it! You already know this! I told you every time I dipped into his…
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Playing With Fire
The Contestant#26 Before driving into this story, have you read 'Nana and Papa G' "Giovani! Tell me you didn’t gamble away our grandson’s college fund!” Sophia said, giving her husband a stern look. “Not all of it! You already know this! I told you every time I dipped into his college fund.” Giovani said, throwing his hands in the air.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/06/27/playing-with-fire/
3 months ago
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Nana and Papa G The Contestant#25 Wait, before you start this story, have you read 'Chugging Along' "Why’s there fucking maple syrup in the fucking bathroom?” Jess shouted. Corey frowned, their eyebrows bunching together as they looked over at Brock before looking back at the bathroom door. …
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Nana and Papa G
The Contestant#25 Wait, before you start this story, have you read 'Chugging Along' "Why’s there fucking maple syrup in the fucking bathroom?” Jess shouted. Corey frowned, their eyebrows bunching together as they looked over at Brock before looking back at the bathroom door. “Maple what?” Corey asked. The door of the bathroom opened, and out walked Jess, and sure enough, clutched in her hand was a bottle of maple syrup.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/06/20/nana-and-papa-g/
3 months ago
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Chugging Along The Contestant#24 Before you dive into this story, have you read 'The Airport' Adriana stared up at the wall containing the headshots of all of the remaining contestants. Every Friday, she would stand in the study of the mansion and reflect on all her connections and eliminate the…
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Chugging Along
The Contestant#24 Before you dive into this story, have you read 'The Airport' Adriana stared up at the wall containing the headshots of all of the remaining contestants. Every Friday, she would stand in the study of the mansion and reflect on all her connections and eliminate the ones she felt where the weakest. Dwindling twenty-one contestants down to sixteen, and then sixteen down to ten was pretty easy; and now standing in front of the wall again, preparing to cut the ten down even more, Adriana was a little shocked.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/06/13/chugging-along/
4 months ago
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The Airport The Contestant#23 Hold up, wait a minute! Before you start reading, have you read 'Lucky's'? Adriana leaned back into Corey, laughing hysterically as Ian told the story of the first time he and Corey ever got drunk. “No, that’s not how that happened! Adriana don’t listen to this…
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The Airport
The Contestant#23 Hold up, wait a minute! Before you start reading, have you read 'Lucky's'? Adriana leaned back into Corey, laughing hysterically as Ian told the story of the first time he and Corey ever got drunk. “No, that’s not how that happened! Adriana don’t listen to this fucking loser! Ian, don’t fucking forget, I know all your dirty little secrets.” Corey said, pointing a stern finger at their cousin.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/06/06/the-airport/
4 months ago
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Lowkey...
I Think I Might Have A Gambling Problem
https://open.substack.com/pub/cephinisem/p/lowkey?utm_source=app-post-stats-page
4 months ago
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Lucky’s The Contestant#22 Wait, wait, wait! Before you dive into this part of The Contestant Series, have you read 'Small World'? The limo pulled up to Lucky’s, a small restaurant that sat at the end of a dead-end street. The cozy ma and pa restaurant sat right beside the beach; in fact, if you…
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Lucky’s
The Contestant#22 Wait, wait, wait! Before you dive into this part of The Contestant Series, have you read 'Small World'? The limo pulled up to Lucky’s, a small restaurant that sat at the end of a dead-end street. The cozy ma and pa restaurant sat right beside the beach; in fact, if you sat on the patio, you could hear the waves crashing into the sand.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/05/30/luckys/
4 months ago
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Small World The Contestant#21 Wait, wait, wait! Before you start reading this, have you read 'I Think She’s Got A Favorite' "So who’s your second favorite?” Claudette, Adriana’s cousin, asked with a wide grin as she laid across the bottom half of Adriana’s bed and propped her head up with her…
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The Contestant#21 Wait, wait, wait! Before you start reading this, have you read 'I Think She’s Got A Favorite' "So who’s your second favorite?” Claudette, Adriana’s cousin, asked with a wide grin as she laid across the bottom half of Adriana’s bed and propped her head up with her hand. “What?” Adriana asked as she placed the cap back on her lipstick and turned around to look at the other woman.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/05/23/small-world/
4 months ago
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This Post Is A Mess
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This Post Is A Mess
The Livest Live Journal
https://open.substack.com/pub/cephinisem/p/this-post-is-a-mess?r=2eqpxz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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A
#transman
turns his van into a music studio, and starts travels around the country, making songs with up and coming artists and posting the making ofs to Tik Tok.
#WriteTransTales
#RoyalPrompt
#QueerStoryPrompt
4 months ago
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#WritersofBlueSky
anyone here do any kind of fictional freelance writing, not
#freelancewriting
that’s fake, but writing fiction for pay?
4 months ago
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Any
#Substackwriters
out there?
4 months ago
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A.D.🍀🦩
4 months ago
Good morning✌️🍀
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Lake Bellion
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Lake Bellion
Cause I’m Just A Fish On A Line
https://open.substack.com/pub/cephinisem/p/lake-bellion?r=2eqpxz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 months ago
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As a business of one, scheduled is a make-or-break for me... even if a site can drive a crap ton of traffic back to my site, not being able to schedule posts is enough to make me not wanna use the site...
4 months ago
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My Mom
Giver of A Gift and a Curse
https://open.substack.com/pub/cephinisem/p/my-mom?r=2eqpxz
4 months ago
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#TheContestantSeries
is the most enjoyable series I've written thus far. No forcing anything, just sitting down, and letting the words come out. Wrapping up the writing, but the stories are just getting started over on
#TheRoyalBlueNetwork
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The Contestant – The Royal Blue Network
Posts about The Contestant written by Cephinise
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/category/corey-and-adriana/
4 months ago
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I Think She’s Got A Favorite The Contestant#20 Stop right there! Before you start reading this, have you read 'Papa Vinny' "What the hell do you mean you ‘don’t go grocery shopping’?” Adriana asked in disbelief. Corey laughed. “Exactly what you just heard.” They said as they leaned back on…
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The Contestant#20 Stop right there! Before you start reading this, have you read 'Papa Vinny' "What the hell do you mean you ‘don’t go grocery shopping’?” Adriana asked in disbelief. Corey laughed. “Exactly what you just heard.” They said as they leaned back on the beach towel. Adriana looked at Corey like they’d lost their mind. “So what, like you get Instacart or something?” She asked.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/05/16/i-think-shes-got-a-favorite/
5 months ago
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#WritingCommunity
, do you have any experience turning your stories into audio? Not like hiring a voice actor and making an audiobook, but using software to turn your text into audio for things like
#TikTok
and
#YouTube
.
5 months ago
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Barbara Nicholson
5 months ago
Good morning. In times of trouble, it sometimes helps to escape to an imaginary world…
#Author
#WritingCommunity
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Venning Bellasis
5 months ago
Just three chapters to finish until my first book is done! I am excited now. The opening chapter was tough but it's now completed; just needs its first proofread. No doubt the first of many.
#writingcommunity
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Velyrhorde
5 months ago
Write about a gossip at a media gathering
#prompts
#writingprompt
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Literally me all day, every day 😂.
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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Not Really A Fan Anymore
Becoming Disillusioned
https://open.substack.com/pub/cephinisem/p/not-really-a-fan-anymore?r=2eqpxz
5 months ago
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A
#transman
and six of his best friends create a podcast where they watch things and describe them for the visually impaired.
#WriteLGBTQ
#WriteTransTales
5 months ago
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Papa Vinny The Contestant#19 Stop right there! Before you start reading this, have you read 'Up Late' “Did you win yet?” Vinny asked the second he accepted the call. Corey laughed as they walked along the beach, watching the tide rise and fall. “It hasn’t even been two weeks yet.” Corey…
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Papa Vinny
The Contestant#19 Stop right there! Before you start reading this, have you read 'Up Late' “Did you win yet?” Vinny asked the second he accepted the call. Corey laughed as they walked along the beach, watching the tide rise and fall. “It hasn’t even been two weeks yet.” Corey laughed into the phone. “Ahh, don’t worry, you’re gonna win, I can feel it in my knee.” Vinny said.
https://theroyalbluenetwork.lgbt/2025/05/09/papa-vinny/
5 months ago
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#WritingCommunity
, how do you know when a story has unfolded to quickly?
5 months ago
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A black
#bisexual
coffee connoisseur and their wife start a coffee cruise business.
#WriteLGBTQ
#WriteBisexualTales
5 months ago
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All the problems in this country, and instead of choosing one to tackle, lawmakers wanna make up factious issues and infringe on people’s rights… and for what??
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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Erin Reed
6 months ago
We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
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GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation
The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-lawmakers-introduce-bill-that-could-ban-hairdressers-from-giving-gender-nonconforming-haircuts/
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Ego Rodriguez
5 months ago
Wednesday doodle Watercolour+ink
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Still available
#art
#queerartist
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Looking for
#LGBTQIA+
#storyprompts
as well as LGBT stories? Check out
#TheRoyalBlueNetwork’s
#BuyMeACoffee
page! All stories and story prompts are available FOR FREE!
buymeacoffee.com/TheRoyalBlueNet
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The Royal Blue Network is creating LGBT stories
The Royal Blue Network is a media company all about inclusivity and telling the stories of the LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 community.
https://buymeacoffee.com/TheRoyalBlueNet
5 months ago
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@jooddart.bsky.social
he, just wanted to know, what are your feelings about your art being shared in other places, i.e links to your post being shared on Tumblr, Pinterest, etc? I make sure to always say where it came from but I wanna be sure that I’m being respectful.
5 months ago
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MattyDrawsMore
5 months ago
Trade A fairly rough sketch, mainly as a practice with lighting, based on a reference photo of model Claudio
#illustration
#malefigure
#malefigureart
#lifemodel
#lifemodelreference
#artsky
#gayartist
#queerartist
#homoeroticart
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matviy
8 months ago
yupp
#artvsartist
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BONEBURGER
5 months ago
(wip) they r so spoons
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Hark
5 months ago
#sketch
#illustrator
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Aster ⭐️ (TotW out now)
5 months ago
Working on my neocities page for my comic. I’ve been working on other things too but have been too overwhelmed at the idea of social media to post or even log on lately. Working title for my comic is Turn of the Wheel btw and here’s the cover.
#art
#artist
#webcomic
#transartist
#queerartist
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Julia-Huda Nahas
5 months ago
Quit by all means. Just make sure you do it for the right reasons 💪🏽 ✨Quote of the day✨
#writingcommunity
#schreibsky
#writersky
#quoteoftheday
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Emmi Khor - Writer
5 months ago
How is it May already?? Back to working on the novel outline. Will this novel ever be finished? I need to drop procrastinating with short stories 😅 Wishing you all a productive
#writing
session!
#5amwritersclub
#writingcommunity
#writesky
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After getting royally screwed on by her record label, a
#transwoman
starts a nonprofit law firm where she reviews other people’s contracts for free.
#WriteTransTales
#RoyalPrompt
5 months ago
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A
#nonbinary
motel supervisor starts making a lot of money when a drug lord moves in.
#WriteLGBTQ
#RoyalPrompt
#WriteNonBinaryTales
5 months ago
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#WritingCommunity
how do you feel about ChatGPT; from “writing the entire book” to helping you flesh out the idea, where do you fall on the spectrum? Do you think it should not be used at all? Don’t care, or use it in your own work.
5 months ago
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