Over a million people now seeing and hearing what Nigel Farages constituents really think of him. Keep spreading the word! 👇🏼

Writing About the Past to Talk About the Present with @jessicalucci.bsky.social @robin-s-writes.bsky.social @pretensesoup.bsky.social @gideonmarcus.bsky.social & @thomaswrightson.bsky.social

Please, please, do not give into the "post [X] or horrible things will happen" posts and spread them about. Random people on Bluesky do not have the power to give you bad luck, it's a stupid gimmick for attention. Next time I see someone I follow spreading these, even a friend, I'll unfollow.

Duck Prints Press, indie publisher founded by fancreators to help fancreators publish their original LGBTQIA+ work, needs YOU! 🫵 Seeking: new backers for our Patreon! People who boost our post about it a chance to win a book! Learn all the many details on our webpage: tinyurl.com/mus57v48 🌈📚 📚💙

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Today marks the 50th anniversary of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. More than just a midnight movie, RHPS became a crucial gathering place for queers, punks, theater kids, and so many others looking for their place...and each other. Irreverent? Yes. Wild? Always. Nonetheless: Don't dream it, be it.

Reading the zine about mad scientists and monsters that I bought a few weeks ago at Pride, and there's a poem called "I'm just a Modern Prometheus, of course I've had it in the ear before" and I had to put the zine down for a moment to just be in awe of the mind that came up with that combination.

Do you need help developing your original characters and lore? Have I got a list for you! Please 🔁 this post for your creator friends! #originalcharacter | #OC | #OCsky

"We Funded" confetti, my beloved!!!

WE DID IT! THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE WHO BACKED!

I GOT MY BAT STICKERS!!! 🙏🙌🏻❤️ go get this awesome, very popular anthology of cozy academia. You have…13 minutes! 😂

We just hit the stretch goal with a mere 17 minutes to go!!!! A huge thank you to the folks on here, and everywhere else, who helped. :D Now is probably not the moment for me to announce another stretch goal, right? 🤣

Last hour to back Scholarly Pursuits and we're $298 away from that second stretch goal that would triple author pay! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... Meeting the stretch goal would also mean backers (who aren't ebook-only) get bat stickers!

I am not going to rank them, but, in no particular order, Ann Leckie, Terry Pratchett, Ursula Le Guin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, T.Kingfisher.

$402 from the stretch goal as of when I'm typing this! Authors get a raise, backers with physical Stuff get a sticker! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

There's a real chance of hitting the second stretch goal (triple pay for authors! bat stickers for backers!) but it's by no means guaranteed... I think we can do it. And this isn't just me wanting more money, there's A LOT of amazing authors in here who deserve it.

7 hours left and we're a bit over $1k from the second stretch goal, are you for real?? www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Seeing us stuck on 299 backers is driving me crazy, who's going to be the 300th?

Last day to get your pledges in!! To celebrate, here’s a “meet the characters” I put together for my story (and some fan casts! 🤭)

We're in the home stretch on our crowdfunding campaign! Learn more about the crowdfunding campaign for "Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories" now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... Alternative: signal boost this and be my hero. <3 🌈📚 📚💙

Zel ( @deathbycoldopen.bsky.social ) also did the gorgeous wrap-around artwork that will be featured in the journal we're offering as a campaign reward!

We’re currently open for general submissions: send us your horrors, up to 6000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don't agonise over your cover letter (really, don’t). You MUST submit via our Moksha portal (link in reply). We don’t accept email submissions.

Just under 3 days left on www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... ! If you were thinking about backing, now's the time - we're about $600 away from doubling author pay as a stretch goal.

Today we share excerpts from 2 more of the 22 stores in SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES. You can read the excerpts, learn about the authors, and check out the Kickstarter for the whole anthology here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

We’re about halfway to our first stretch goal for Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories! At that goal, backers receive the cover art as a digital file – and we’ll double pay to our authors! Meet two of those authors in today's update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Our Kickstarter for "Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories" has 7 days left. We're $2300 from our first stretch goal. You can help by checking out the campaign and by signal boosting our posts! Meet today's authors and read excerpts: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Stretch goal time, bb!!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

🎉 🎉 WE'VE HIT OUR FUNDING GOAL!!! 🎉 🎉 Now we aim for stretch goals, which let us get our backers more Stuff and raise author pay! Learn more about the campaign for SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES and meet 2 our authors today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

Now we're under $500 from our goal!

Our KS campaign to fund publishing SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES has 10 days left, and we're less than $700 from our goal!!! Sounds like a perfect time to share excerpts from two more of our contributors… bios and excerpts here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Less than $800 to our goal!

We are so close ($1.2k) from funding! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... A whole book full of cozy queer academia stories, and to get it to print we just need you! (and if you really want to make our day, help us toward that milestone of 2x author pay). Also, add-on stickers. So many stickers!

UK here!

My first published original story, The Case of the Lost Grimoire, is coming out in the anthology Scholarly Pursuits, published by @duckprintspress.com ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

In case anyone is trying to DM me, I can't see it as Bluesky has decided that I, an adult with a master's degree and a job, look underage.

Crowdfunding now! SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES is our latest general imprint anthology, featuring 22 cozy takes on the "dark academia" genre. The world is dark enough, bring on the fluff! On KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... boosts appreciated! 🌈📚 📚💙

I'm in this!

Didn't get a #writerbingo in April but got a lot of writing done, both fanfic and original, and got accepted into another anthology!! Which means I'll be doing a LOT of writing in May

I'm terrible at remembering to post my #writerbingo : here's the one for March, I promise I didn't circle anything I did in April on here!

This is really making me realise how little trans rep I've encountered in published books instead of fanfic or short online stories. (I have read stories with bi MCs, sapphic stories, etc that WEREN'T trans, but I didn't want to count them here.) I need to read more trans books!

Realised I forgot to share my #writerbingo for January, so here's the January and February ones! February was a bit of a low motivation month...but I think March is going to be good.

Ok, Bsky - a MISSION for you. We want as many subs to Wrath Month as possible, from as diverse an array of voices as possible. POC voices, disabled voices, neurodiverse voices, trans voices, ace and aro voices - everyone. Scream it from the rooftops, folks!

Update: this anthology is amazing.

Just bought the queer pulp anthology "I Want That Twink OBLITERATED!" ( @bonabooks.bsky.social ) and the first words of the first story are "The great stone phallus", so that's promising.

Reviving the ways of The Old Web will be critical for small businesses from now on. Thus, I'm looking for folks interested in joining an indie press web ring! Run a press and want in? Link below! Don't run a press but want this to happen? Spread the word! duckprintspress.com/resources/du...