Finally saw my book on the shelves at one of the branches of my city library! Writers, consider donating a copy of your book to your local library. Readers, a great way to support us writers is to request that your local library carry our books. Costs you nothing, but means the world to us.

Absolutely adorable fan art of Echo drawn by @morningsolaris.bsky.social

Anyone else wonder why autistic rep is almost always unofficial/non-canon? Like Futaba (Persona 5), Dr. Brennan (Bones), and several characters from Bob's Burgers. It's obvious to us neurodivergents that a character is most likely autistic, but we'll never be told for sure.

My Gàidhlig phrase of the week: "Bu toil leam uisge" - "I would like (a) water." A simple phrase that can be used to order/request food or drink. "uisge" - "water" can be replaced with your request of choice. Note that Gàidhlig lacks the indefinite article (a/an).

More books with women leads that aren't romance when?

Finally got around to getting an actual custom profile pic instead of just using my novel's main character. Credit to @sollizyy.bsky.social, my company's resident lead artist

My Gàidhlig phrase of the week: "Mach à seo!" - "Out of here!" Good for telling someone to get out.

What makes a female character a good, strong lead?

Dear #BookSky, #Booktok, readers, et al, Buying an author's work is nice. Welcome, even. But telling them how much you enjoyed it, or leaving a kind review? That keeps an author going far more than the pittance they get from royalties. Signed, A Struggling Indie Author

Times like these, I find myself strongly wishing SCP-2578 was real. (As opposed to SCP-113, which I always wish was real)

Make sure you buy banned books. Get a library card and borrow banned books. Read banned books.

Me: "I have some free time, I should write on my next novel." Also me: "My party just hit a really fascinating point in my campaign, so I should load up Foundry and create some custom items and lore docs."

Heyla and well met! My name is Opalin Hubay Pickens, though I tend to go by TheKeeper in most parts of the internet. I'm a writer with my debut novel slated to come out at the end of January 2025. I'm also part owner of a book publishing company called Phosphor Press. Very pleased to meet you!

I've noticed I tend to be more eloquent in writing the more depressed or miserable I am. My writing is going to be amazing these next couple of years.

SMT 5 drinking game: Take a shot every time Aogami says "young man" and you feel the urge to continue by singing YMCA. (Don't actually do that, you might die before you get past the first area of Da'at)

Whether or not you cared about TikTok, it gave a career boost to a lot of indie authors. So maybe go buy a book by an indie author today.

"So, you're basically a twink who does the fusion dance with a buff guy to become Super Twink and then you try to replace God." -Me explaining SMT5 to my partner

Scoring how much of a challenge each of the MCU Avengers would be in a fight against Psychostorm out of 10.

Sometimes I get bummed out that nobody is horny for my characters but then I remember Echo and I'm suddenly quite okay with the lack of horny.

So, I've decided that if I manage to hit 100 followers, I'll be giving away 1 free signed eBook of my novel. So if you like free stuff, you should follow me.

Still amazed at the cultural propaganda that results in people finding haggis disgusting but will happily eat hot dogs and sausages. Like, haggis is just sausage but fewer mystery ingredients and fillers. I bet this was started by the English back in the day.

autism is like *squints* it appears the rules of conversation have changed again

You know you work in STEM when the newest macro program to use in your job has a fatal flaw where it breaks if the Excel tab isn't set to a hyper specific name so you have to do an elaborate ritual dance in the sheet so you can get the job done while still having all the needed tabs.

I wonder if any other religions have problems with megachurches and televangelists or if it's just Christianity.

Been really wondering whether to consider the MC of my novel to be canonically autistic. She was originally based on me (though luckily grew into her own person with time), but before I even was questioning if I had autism. And her only notable autistic trait is poor emotional regulation.

"What are you on?" The autism spectrum, shithead.

Today I had to explain to my therapist what a TERF is and I've never been more jealous of someone.

I should really get to writing my novel's sequel (Psychostorm: Vengeance), but I'm struggling hard to find the motivation as well as how to start it.

Thinking back to how before I got my autism diagnosis, I would have regular mental breakdowns where I'd ask myself "what's wrong with me?" and now I don't really have those anymore because I have an explanation that helps me make sense of myself.

If the protagonist of SMT5 has gas problems, does he take a Nahobeano?

Anyone else wondered what's going to happen when AI can do those "prove you're not a bot" things better than most or all humans?

Something I really hate about being a trans woman is that when I try to use myself as an example to counter misogynistic generalizations, I just get told "you're not a real woman, you don't count".

It's been a long standing dream of mine to have a pic of my MC, Psychostorm, absolutely decking Trump like Captain America did to Hitler back in the day. Bonus would be if there was a second image where she's complaining that she got bronzer on her custom gloves.

To all my fellow authors out there, it's perfectly valid to not write deep, high-concept literature. Not every story has to have intricate meaning within it. If you enjoy writing stories whose purpose is just to be a fun, relaxing read, go write those stories.

I've decided I'm going to start calling it a "necronym" instead of a "deadname". Carries much more power that way, which we could all use these days.

I find it both interesting and depressing that the majority of successful trans creators have supportive family.

Autistic kids are being turned trans against their will, claims a woman who’s never tried to feed an autistic child a vegetable. thedailytism.com/autistic-kid...

There should be a dating site catering to nonbinary people called Mx and Match

One of the most interesting things about deconstructing from religion is seeing just how pervasive Christianity is in modern Western culture. It's in everything, down to everyday speech.

LAST DAY FOR THIS SALE BTW

If an autistic person infodumps about something to you, chances are it means they feel very comfortable around you

So many things are pointlessly gendered, but I'll never get over the ultimate pointless gendering: gendered nouns in a lot of languages. Like, why did anyone ever decide that a chair had to be masculine or feminine? What was the reasoning?

If you'd like to support your fave authors in 2025 but you're skint, you could: - make a social media post about the book, just as basic as "i enjoyed this" and a picture (don't forget alt-text) - rec it in a relevant reddit thread or Goodreads forum or Facebook group Word of mouth has an impact!

I don't know if this is an autistic-brain thing, but one of the thing that really freaks me out about the current reality is that I really deeply and fundamentally don't understand why anyone would ever choose cruelty over problem-solving.

100% free ways to support authors you love: - share their social posts - recommend their books - leave reviews - order their books at your library - request their appearance at events - drop them an encouraging line - exhort the will of ancient gods in dark rituals to ensure their success thanks!

Financial statement today reminded me HOW GREAT IT IS when folks request that their libraries acquire books. 😍 Seriously, if you want a totally free-to-you way to help an author, submit a request with your local library. Those sales help us so much, in whatever format.

We need a different prefix for some days besides "Happy" unpleasant days that have been memorialized. Because it feels wrong saying "Happy Insurrection Day" (Jan 6) or "Happy Trans Day of Remembrance" (Nov 20).

It’s just as dumb as it looks