y'all, it's possible to uplift queer books without only contextualizing them around queer joy some of us want bad things to happen to terrible people

The Blue-Whale Mermaid floats elusively across the ocean - for Mermay! 🌊🐋🐋🐋🐋

With the new release date, there's only one week left to get 50% off Galeas preorders! Now with more platforms as well ⚔️ This is my disabled dyke retelling of The Fisher King (with a splash of Lí Ban and Parzival) 🌊 riengray.shop/b/cZt4g riengray.itch.io/galeas-the-k... books2read.com/u/m2goyr

#queerwriters It's the last week of May so I'll still be writing something every day. My goal is 8k for the week, finish current project, and get a chapter or two of THE DRAGON'S LOVER drafted. I also want to start planning marketing for next month

#queerwriters I wrote every single day this week and I hit my 10k word count goal! I didn't finish the project I'm working on, but I only have one chapter left to go!

Hello everyone! I know we're still in May but I thought I'd get this going now so folks would get a chance to get ahead of the game. I'm throwing an event in August for all your fauxcest needs. Come join the fun and show off all your filthy fantasies. #incest #fauxcest #fandomevent #augcest

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

HR 2616, a national "Don't Say Trans" bill, has passed the House. Here's what it is, what it means, and what you should do right now to help kill the bill intended to bully children and erase trans people from public schools. bookriot.com/hr-2616-dont...

It's like pulling teeth, but it's happening. I do need to read more romance though. I've been reading mostly horror lately

Look, if it doesn't make you disgusted *and* horny, I'd hesitate to call it Gothic

Horrible time to learn that the smut muscle has atrophied when you sit down to write smut

Aloy, Despite the Nora 🏹 Horizon Zero Dawn fanart, 2023

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Last year's mermay art! ❤️

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I'm in this!!! If you've been wanting to grab my comic Pick Your Poison, this is a GREAT CHANCE to get it along with a BUNCH of other fantastic work 🙏 AND you will be supporting an independent project to give 🔞 artists a safe place to do business :)

I have already reached 4k out of my 10k word count goal for this week

Full offense, but we shouldn't have to stop, hold your hand, and say, "That was a sad choice, wasn't it? Can you help think of a better one?" when writing for adults

Writing IS the process. "AI" writing doesn't make sense to me. It's not writing; it's throwing words in a blender, while writing is putting your own pain, memories, joy, and perspective through a sieve until something worth showing the world remains. How is this not obvious?

RUN DON'T WALK!!!

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

I'm not perfect, but I do know one thing: I would never fumble Megan Thee Stallion

i think more people should write things explicitly with the intent of not explaining them to the majority. i think sometimes readers should have to learn and understand on their own. i think we should write more things for our own people and not the masses.

#queerwriters I'm going to try the 10k goal again this week, and finish the current project I'm on so I can work on other stuff. I hit the goal early, then I'm gonna tack on 5k more. And of course, keeping to my write every day this month goal as well

I hit 9k because I banged out 4k today. Depending on how I feel later, I might try and get that last 1k before bed, but I'm not unhappy with how much I got done this week despite Aunt Flo showing up early and throwing a fit

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Watching DMC thrust me back into listening to Evanescence a shit ton and honestly, Amy Lee I'm so sorry I thought I could ever move on from you

A bunch of engineers spending a couple decades denigrating any field involved with soft squishy feelings has led to the literal inability to craft a narrative the average human wouldn't recoil from in horror.

Is that Chekhov’s Gun in your pocket or will you just be pleased to see me later?

he has never met a human before, but they seem fun #teratophilia

It's mom's bday so she chooses what we watch, and she decided on starting the new season of DMC. Only partway into the first episode and the music makes me feel like I'm back in high school

This was fun to think about! Alannah starts as a healer and then respecs into a druid. Makenna is a sorcerer that later becomes a specific kind of sorcerer but I can't say because spoilers. Deirdre is almost a warlock, given powers so long as she considers becoming a divine vessel.

Maybe I could get an actual diagnosis now since I was refused one not for having the cysts

Another day, another platform deciding to capitulate to censorship instead of pushing back. Whatever happened to "fuck you, make me"

#queerwriters Rather than trying to get a specific amount of chapters, I want to get 10k words across all of my projects, and there's one project I really want to get close to knocking out. Would also like to do a creative thing beyond writing but I haven't decided what yet

Happy Mother’s Day

IF I SELL EIGHT (8) COPIES OF FEALTY FROM MY SQUARE SHOP, I can catch up on Witch Hat Atelier I get: the full context on my new favorite white-haired lunatic (Qifrey) You get: a new emotional support white-haired lunatic (Sasza)

I have picked the winners and will be reaching out today! Sorry it took so long. I had wanted to do a little video but I look and feel like I've been run over so I am mostly resting today. Thank you to everyone who participated and boosted!

The death of the mid-list as a way for talented dedicated people to make a reliable middle class income … across all fields … is a calamity (and yes one attributable directly to our extractive economic systems).

The world is becoming harsher for transgender people right now. Darkness stretches before and behind them, and the pain is growing. Their wish remains simple — to love who they love and live true to themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 This is why we must join hands and change the world with compassion.

#queerwriters I've accomplished writing something every day this week but I didn't meet all my targets. That's okay. I had a doctor's appt and it was hard to focus before and then I crashed after. There's still tomorrow to get stuff done

Today's going to be one of those sentence days because I used up all of my energy on a doc appt this morning

Finally started watching season three of Yellowjackets. I miss grown up Natalie

#QueerWritersChat 5: It's #mermay so obligatory reminder I have a pirate/merman gay romance novel that should be taken about as seriously as OFMD, which is to say, not at all. The audiobook is pretty awesome to imho. There's also a prequel! books2read.com/intothedeep books2read.com/intothesky

#QueerWritersChat Thank you @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social! Pre-Order are open for Fairy Seasons! For a limited time only! Love whimsy? Horror? Weird little guys? Then you'll love Fairy Seasons! fairy-seasons.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

#QueerWritersChat The inspiration for today’s theme, the epilogue of Mage By Blood is out TODAY! The whole story is up! It’s fantasy with a trans MC, free to read: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1453... Also, my art series of trans mythical creatures is up for Kofi supporters! ko-fi.com/transcendrag...

##queerwriterschat I'll be hard at work messy drafting THE DRAGON'S LOVER this weekend but the first book THE DRAGON'S KEEPER is on sale for $1.99 on all platforms. If you're looking for the first book in a fantasy book that gets darker with each entry, UNBOUND is $.99 for the month! 🔗 in bio

#queerwriterschat I really only find them necessary if I'm trying to lead into another story otherwise I prefer to wrap everything up in the main story