Celebrating ロックの日 by getting into some intense dueling battles 🎸🎸

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

🚨 New WIP alert! This is the opening to an untitled Sapphic mystery / thriller about the reaction of the town moms when a teenage boy goes missing The plot came to me in a dream and I've had the outline, but I was struggling to find the voice in which to tell the story, so I'm excited #WIPSnips

Imo, it's easy to forget that writing is an art. An artist can study to learn the basics and improve their craft, but everything they learn is a tool to support their own imagination and skill, not a bunch of hard rules.

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Hey friends! I am a panelist at the WriteHive Annual Conference this year, for "A Few Strange Things: The World of an Unreliable Narrator," scheduled for Saturday, June 11 at 7:30 PM EDT. Registration is free, so come on by! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#LGBTQWriteAThon 9 I think my MCs will be the biggest draw: Black-coded elves who are messy, flawed people trying their best. They go through some real shit and make horrible mistakes, but I don't think it's misery for misery's sake. Also the worldbuilding is pretty fkn solid imo

"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

trying to find art of a gender swapped Harrier Du Bois for reasons, and it seems like everybody makes him a hot anime girl instead of a burned out divorcee in her 40s. If she doesn't reek of tobacco and have inexplicable stains on her shirt, that is a completely different character.

Reposting! It remains Caribbean Hertiage and Pride month. I will say, while I've seen a lot of SFFH outlets talk about Pride, (Yay) I've barely seen any SFFH outlets mention Caribbean Heritage Month. Which kinda makes me sad. The region does produce great spec fic. Buy our books! Mines are gay!

It kinda broke my heart, if I'm honest. But he's not ready, and that's okay. I hope he is one day. But today is not that day. So it's okay if you're not ready. Maybe one day you will be. The books are always here. They will be waiting for you when you are ready. 7/7

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

unbridled joy is stored in drawing the queer body, the disabled body, the fat body, the body in all its colors, its curves and its angles and its insides in states of undress, of action, of desire. freedom is in the drawn figure. love, love, love to the body in all of its fictional iterations.

[ 🌻 oc, f/f ] just between us

This is obscene. Mamdani literally ran on opposing this kind of capitulation. He went to the protest at NYU, who made the EXACT same decision for the EXACT same reason. It's notable there is NO federal law that pulls funding right now. The Kennedy Declaration is blocked in ocurt.

Monster Encounters! Some redesigns I made for a Final Fantasy XVII main scenario document.

i'm a little stupid and shared a wip lol. here's the actual finished artwork #artsky #tarot

Portals #1 drops in October and will open to submissions on June 22nd! It will be co-edited by the incredible Angel Leal and Jess Cho, who are looking for horror fiction/poetry by trans authors. All proceeds from sales of this installment will go to Trans Lifeline. 🏳️‍⚧️ (3/8)

I describe smells a LOT in this story, but I usually don't use the word "smell," funnily enough. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

By my calculations, that's today!

An interesting 🧵 on finding and working with a cover designer. I wrote a detailed post on how a cover comes together. It goes through the whole process, from writing a brief, to development, to uploading to KDP, and should be in interest to anyone starting down that path.

#LGBTQWriteAThon 8 Finishing edits for part 3 of my current novel. It's only two chapters! It can't be that bad! Also making progress on some owed critique/beta reading. Two that are more line-by-line, one that's just general thoughts.

Sagely scholar

#LGBTQWriteaThon 7 I don't wanna spoil any of the very slow-burn bits from my current project so have this awkward moment instead.

✨🌟✨ARCs & RELEASE DATE✨🌟✨ My queer sci-fi romance, The Stars Will Be Our Ocean, featuring gorgeous cover art by @aowna.bsky.social, is going to be available *JULY 14TH*, which is both Bastille Day, and... SHARK & RAY AWARENESS DAY! 🦈😆 More details and ARC sign-ups below.

The Crepuscular banehulk, a ray like dragon, ''gentle'' would be a way of describing them. #intothedeadlands #creatureart #monster #art #aquatic #dragon

trying a new artstyle for Deadlands, its a bit experimental but i like it honestly Basilisks, they're big and gnarly. They use their plated jaws to crush bones and feed on carrion like hyenas. #intothedeadlands #monster #art #dragon #creature

If anyone is looking for a cool indie press to feature on their blogs, articles, podcasts, etc. please reach out! 👋🏾 Word of mouth and enthusiasm keep small presses like ours alive and able to make more books.

Do flightless birds dream of wings?💫 #BirdArt #FantasyArt #Illustration #KiwiBird #OriginalArt

From Captive to Crimson Countess. www.patreon.com/posts/155550...

If a yellow jacket does sting you, remember to display no reaction at all and definitely to not swat at or kill the insect as that will bring the others. I once stepped on a ground nest by mistake, was stung once and remained calm and peace returned to the day. (Caveats for those allergic etc.)

As yellow jackets begin to show up, it's worth noting they have great facial recognition software and if you are calm and slow around them, you soon fade into the backdrop. I love them, but if you must remove a groundnest, place peanut butter at entrance at dusk and critters will find, eat the nest.

I fucking hate the term “content” because it presupposes my intellectual work exists to feed into some machine.

a couple ✨goils✨ having their afternoon tea ☕️ 🌿

"You mourn what you don't have when it's happening, even if you don't realize that's what you're doing," she continued on. - my WIP, When Morning Comes #WIPSnips

#LGBTQWriteAThon 6 After not doing much for the last couple of months, I managed to blitz through editing 8 chapters! Almost 80% through a final draft (pending critique partner feedback) and I'm pretty hyped! Don't overthink your writing. Vomit words onto a page! That's what editing is for!

Despite four hours of sleep I've made it to #StokerCon. I've been living in Pittsburgh for years now and I had no idea this was a thing!

BOOKISH WEIRDOS (and assorted other folk)—in this ep I introduce the world to my lifelong productivity system OPPRESSED SOCIALIST WORKER which will 💯help you get that WIP done. Probably. The revolution may not be televised, but it will be written.✊SOLIDARITY NOW! #podcast #writingcommunity #writesky

One of the greatest parts about art is that everything you see was a choice, either done subconsciously, consciously or in terms of skill or talent. Meaning there is something to talk about, think about and engage with beyond the visual of the medium.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Happy #PitchYaGame! What if you side with the monsters in a dungeon? 🧹 Become a dungeon janitor 🧌 Talk to monsters 🔨Clean up and decorate quarters 🕵️ Investigate a conspiracy 🃏 Battle with cards Wishlist and play demo! Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2851050/... #Godotengine #indiegame #dungeon

I'm engaged in a private conversation on how unreliable AI "detectors" are and also that publications that utilize them could be infringing on the writer's intellectual property rights by "feeding" an unpublished story into a machine to "check" it. (DON'T DO THIS, EDITORS.) This is just to say...

Thinking enemy and boss designs in games like Sekiro, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, and Onimusha, and I wish more European fantasy embraced the weirdness of early depictions of demons, animals, and folklore creatures. Give more monsters that look like marginalia or work by artists like Dürer!

I painted the trans sea.

#LGBTQWriteAThon 5 "Because you were nice to me" to rehab to lovers to enemies to annoyances to friends to ??? Mid-life crisis at 300 There are, in fact, two beds Post-apocalyptic fantasy road trip buddy comedy Hurt/if you don't let me comfort I will break your fucking kneecaps, now sit down

Today is my birthday! 🎂 My portfolio is here should you be in the mood to share it wolfskulljack.com And also should you wish to donate to a charity to help me celebrate my birthday I would love to support the ME/CFS charity here meassociation.org.uk/literature/i...

We're happy to have Thirsty Suitors as part of We Will Always Be Here Pride Month Bundle along with some other great titles supporting the Trevor Project. www.humblebundle.com/games/we-wil...

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

it is with a heavy heart that I inform you all that the people targeting writers with AI spamslop have discovered guilt-tripping