Ragheiyont buys whatever looks good at the time and doesn’t mind at all about a budget. #awesomecharacters

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

It’s pronounced tah-RYE-eh-lah and yes their language needs spelling reform.

The door opened, and Caspar emerged. Tempest took in his full length velvet coat, with gold braid and delicate filigree buttons, and he grinned. “You’re going to swelter in that.” “Says the man who wears black for every occasion.” #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #excerpt #Balances #writesky

Enoch has been studying culinary arts since the Bronze Age. He is arguably the best in any world. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Ragheiyont is just learning what a quesadilla is. #writingcommunity

kill the part of you that cringes

Had a wild week at the day job, got almost a scene done for Tools of the Trade, still waiting on $ to buy ISBNs. I did not set out to draw, but I did it anyway. #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters #queerwriters

Akieryon promises to people he trusts & he’ll do everything he can to keep a promise, but he doesn’t trust easily. Tempest throws promises around casually but like fae bargains: you can never be certain whether or not fulfillment of a promise will end in (messily) upending lives #awesomecharacters

Writing and drawing #dailyocs

I write stories that I want to read.

How can you have the biggest impact? Always bring a friend! Calling your electeds? Get a friend to do it too! Writing a letter to the editor? Get a friend to do it too! Attending a school board meeting? Well, you get it. Multiply your impact. Bring a friend to every action!

There is a legendary smith who forges ideas into blades. One of their most famous, Warbringer, is a sword made of righteous rage. …its current owner is a cat demon. #januaryworldbuilding #writesky #writingcommunity

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

Was this poem really about a [dragon] woman eating her sons for disagreeing with her? That had to be wrong. #favelinefriday #writesky #writingcommunity

I heard it was Appreciate a #dragon day so I sketched Tharaiyelagh and North. Don’t worry about it. #OC #characterart #traditionalart #myart

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Balances is queer fantasy literary fiction. Just to be clear about the genre. #writesky #writingcommunity #queerSFF

A knock at the door jolted his heart into his throat and sent the blood in his body to hammer inside his skull. Pressing a hand to his brow as though that might keep his brains inside his head, Akieryon levered himself upright. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky #excerpt #migrainemood #Balances

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

I’m an excellent chaos wrangler, and good at creative problem solving.

If you don’t care enough to engage with the creative process, I don’t care enough to engage with the result.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Tempest is an iceberg of a character: most of his lore lies below the surface. He *will* tell anyone anything about himself if they ask, but that usually only adds to the confusion. #oc #writesky

All Demonslayers carry three swords, and are trained to use various other weapons, but Akieryon only grapples and uses magic in Balances. Tempest can use a sword. He can shoot a bow. He can vaporize people with magic. He prefers daggers (he likes to get messy). #januaryworldbuilders #writesky

The camp errupted into pure joy, so fervent and so abundant it nearly knocked Akieryon off his feet. He lost track of Tempest, but he saw Varz hugged enthusiastically by a man who wore a red velvet ribbon across his brow. The king, or captain, depending on who you asked. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity

Sitting here thinking "what would Murderbot do" in any of the hundred horrible situations happening in the states right now. Probably do something to help an individual or small group, while trying not to have a system shutdown. No wonder we identify with these books. #Murderbot @marthawells.com

I can never overstate how much I want to spend most of my days simply reading and writing.

My books include a couple of races of dragonfolk who start out looking like elves with dragon details and develop more and more traditional dragon morphology as they age. For some reason I was today years old before I realized I should tell this fact to furries and monsterfuckers. #marketingfail

All told, everything was quiet and normal and unremarkable until the day the letter arrived. #onelinewed #WIPWednesday

Akieryon: Kingdom Hearts. He’d love the complicated lore that makes no sense. Tempest: Minecraft. Caspar: the Sims. Marek: Untitled Goose Game. Dani: Hades. Jynn: Baldur’s Gate. These are all characters in a fantasy world. #awesomecharacters #swritingcommunity #writesky

Akieryon watched them: his old life and his new life, speeding through the twists of the canyon, twirling like leaves on the air currents. He felt a warm blossom of contentment. Whatever the future may hold, it would more sunny afternoons spent with people who made him smile. #WIPSnips #writesky

#bluepit📖 post number TWO If you enjoy rural gothic settings, small town horror, teeth, dreams, and fake psychics (but real magic!), maybe you can check out In All My Dreams I Drown #YA, #H, #PN, #P, #LGBT and #ND that are #OV, #POC

Hey @hillarymonahan.bsky.social and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com can you signal boost the homie’s shop? Single mom making some excellent abolish ICE bracelets!

i will never consider my fellow authors to be competition. I hope we all make it big.

#bluepit📖 #F #LGBT #W probably #OV but I’m not too clear on that For entertainment of the night crowd, here’s the pretentious version: #Balances is an aspec interrogation of home, family, and what it means to belong, told through the lens of an angel coming to live among humans. Better version ⬇️

And bumping this one #bluepit📖 #writesky #wip

THE SUBTLE KNIFE X THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS ⚙️ Mystery Soldiers 🚪 A Magic Hallway 🐈‍⬛ An Immortal Shapeshifter 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 A Missing Sister 🌻 A Girl With No World 🐟 A Psychic Fry Cook 🌀...and the fate multiverse at stake. THE ENDLESS HALLWAY #BluePit📖 #YA #Q #SP #SF #F

❗ An epic adventure told from the perspectives of side quest givers. ❗ Legends & Lattes ✖️ When the Moon Hits Your Eye 👀 multi-POV 🌈 #LGBT 🎲 TTRPG inspired ✉️ epistolary chapters 🗣️ chapters in conversation 👑 royal generational trauma 💸 money squabbles 🗡️ mafia 💀 death cult #F #A #Q #BluePit📖

The Serpent’s Rise is a mythological thriller intended for ages 10+. It stars a shapeshifter by the name of Jorden Casillas who is pulled into a plot far larger than himself when he’s tasked with stealing a powerful magical artifact. #BluePit📖 #F #P #MG #YA

RARE MAMMALS Haunted House x Hunter Becomes Hunter x Nature’s Revenge What happens when a sentient hotel hunts its own guests…for sport? Forget a fever dream, this is the kind of nightmare that only malaria medication-induced hallucinations can produce. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #H #D

ASK FIRST, NORA! After finding all of their tomatoes shriveled up one morning, the farmers set a trap and catch - a vampire? Relieved to find that Nora prefers tomato juice to blood they agree to share, as long as she asks first! #BluePit #BluePit📖 #PB #Q

A bitter, sassy boy marries a (usually drunk) princess in order to usher her to his royal-killer father, but winds up accompanying her on a dangerous quest for lost saintly relics. Enemies-to-besties, ace #OV, ancient magic, & a darkly religious world. #BluePit📖 #Q 📝 #F #YA #A crossover #LGBT #DIS

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS x THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE - Vesper is disabled, divorced and depressed, ready to give up on the worst Halloween of her life. Then she falls through an open grave into a dark world of magic and second chances. #BluePit📖 #Q #A #F #R #H #OV #LGBT #DIS #novella

Running an intergalactic show's a tough gig for a teen who's scared of the stars--the ones in space, not the celebrity kind. But Hale will have to deal w/ his celebrity BFF's wild plans if he wants to save the show...& face his star phobia if he wants to save his crush #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF #LGBT

Alice Isn't Dead x The River Has Roots When Melody's sister Lyra is abducted, if Melody wants her back she must put her trust in two strangers: one claiming to be an angel and Lyra's girlfriend who can't tell them apart. #BluePit📖 #BluePit #Q #A #OV #LGBT #ND #F #SP

We were talking about GrayCris here, whose company motto seemed to be “profit by killing everybody and taking their stuff.”

DR HORRIBLE x STARS & SMOKE x RENEGADES 🦸🏼‍♀️ Kickass shapeshifting heroine 🧑🏻‍🎤 Celebrity villain 🗣️ Unreliable narrators 💥 Superhero action 🖤 Obsessive love ✅ Jumping through League’s hoops 👫 Supportive BFF (maybe LI?) 🎤 Voicey POVs 🚪 Scooby Doo doors 😜 Hero & villain share a body? #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF

ALIEN X WHAT MOVES THE DEAD An isolated space station. A mysterious scientist. A trio of government inspectors. A “false” distress signal. An omnipresent AI. A zoo of animal test subjects. What could go wrong? UNINTENDED DESIGNS is a sci-fi horror full of dark secrets. #BluePit #Q #SF #H #LGBT #OV

It's nearly noon here so let's do post #2. Such Sweet Sorrow is a grief horror - it focuses on loss. Loss of loved one, loss of community, loss of connection. Leaving something that you can no longer return to, no matter how much you want to. Can Rebecca persevere? #BluePit 📖 #A #PN #H #W #LGBT

*slaps cover of EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER* this one's got everything: 💞MFM triad romance 😢sad wet bi trans man MC ⛈️climate change=horror 😶‍🌫️the fae are invisible & unknowable 🦌weird AF deer 🌌hallucinatory time loop bullshit GREEN KNIGHT x THE EVERLASTING, querying Feb 2026. #bluepit📖 #A #F #W #TR #LGBT