Goodnight from Cynthia Ash, scratching sigils into the lanes’ sun-baked mud to ensure nothing follows her home after business at the crossroads. Goodnight from Rosalind Witt, too nervous to investigate the pale light radiating from her copy of ‘The Bone Border’. Goodnight from Hookland.

The Reanimator's Heart and a ton of other fantastic books by disabled authors are in this bundle! Snap it up before the 17th!

#SummerOfStories 1: Ahoy! I'm Finn, I'm a disabled transmasc butch SFF writer, and my main WIP is my queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy serial Argentum in Aqua. As for a fun fact... let's see: I'm a lapsed fire juggler (contact staff and staff-spinning, specifically)

10 of 40 down! Who is up next?

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The absolute worst attack of this I ever had started with me idly mentioning kippers on a breakfast table and ended with a whole pile of deeply complex stuff about oceanic currents that I then looked at, shook my head, and went 'it's fantasy, I don't have to explain *any* of that if I don't want to'

On the one hand, the way I worldbuild does send me down some really interesting research alleyways, since it's often prompted by something coming up in-story that I'd not previous considered. On the other, it can very much turn into distraction central if I let it, especially given my brain xD

As always, thank you for doing this! Going to share an older story today - specifically (and appositely given the time of year) how one of the crew from my ongoing serial found his name and his freedom: saranadosfiction.com/2021/02/13/c...

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This is the cause that I am auctioning off a custom wallet from me for. The money goes to Vote Riders and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. VoteRiders is dedicated to eliminating ID barriers to voting. SCSJ has several programs you can read about here: southerncoalition.org

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I was sort of head-down in finishing Pride & forgot to post up that I am donating a custom item for @romancingthevote.com! These kitsune start at $60 & customs usually start at $80+ - they take multiple days of fiddly work between mold prep & finishing/painting the finished piece.

Thank you to everyone who purchased a book or snagged a pre-order in June! We were able to donate $55 to the Advocates For Trans Equality! You can check them out here: transequality.org For July, we'll be donating 10% of all shop sales toward mutual aid efforts in Venezuela! More info coming soon.

WELCOME TO “ZOOM BOOK CLUB FOR HATERS,” it is going to be a great fucking time. bring your friends

We live in a country where a former refugee can be DOCTOR WHO. That make me proud to be British.

One of the true glories of modern Britain; a Somali refugee can arrive, be naturalised, be elected Lord Mayor and we then force him to dress up in a costume that is almost 700 years old for the lols And he's part of a relatively unbroken tradition going back almost a thousands years.

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Popularly known as the "safe water mark", this means there's no longer anything to crash into. Mostly.

And finally the fairway buoy marks the end of a marked channel.

The are two other common marks that aid navigation. The "special mark" doesn't necessarily mark a hazard. Sometimes it does though. This one specially wanted you to miss that old breakwater there.

i *know* some of y'all have been obsessing over my patchwork pride book sleeves. NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO GET ONE AND HELP SAVE DEMOCRACY OMG

Couple of blatantly obvious ones here: That Archer, despite being a noble, spent a decade as a pirate (and is perfectly capable of fighting dirty). That Sabbat, despite being born in a brothel in the slums, is a very good self-taught research magician (and also literate at a very high level).

Yep, though it doesn't really crop up until the third book - both Fest (shown here looking characteristically nervous) and Anneke (shown here looking characteristically cheerful) are trying to figure themselves out sexuality-wise, culminating in a kiss that doesn't quite work out (in a positive way)

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Actually managed to get words down on the next chapter for the first time in several weeks! Not many, but they're there, and that I'll fucking take. (Pain flare rolling through into heatwave ate my ability to write entirely for a while there, which was Not Great)

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

"But Dread," you ask. "If I ignore these and it all goes wrong, is there a convenient buoy to warn everybody not to clatter into my wreck?" Well I'm glad you asked, my handily hypothetical reader. That one's a whole story in itself:

Thank you! I'm a trans guy who writes (mostly) about trans guys. You can get my three horror short stories for free on itchio! Or you can get my sword and sorcery novella Island of the Baboon God for half off in the Summer Sale this week! vincentlore.itch.io

And for isolated dangers there's, er, the isolated danger mark. The top mark for this buoy reminds us of the potential for a balls up.

The red and green lateral marks are supplemented by cardinal marks trying you to stay north, east, south or west of them. Here in Bembridge the yacht has correctly stayed west of the cardinal. Unfortunately just a bit too far west...

However on the USA it's arsey-versey and the colours are the other way around. The penalty for screwing it up remains the same, however.

The other key aids are buoys, and here in IALA A land that means keeping the green ones on your right hand side when traveling in the direction of buoyage.

The most obvi- Oh for heaven's sake. Just stay away from lighthouses, okay?

The most obvious aid-

But if we're really talking aids to navigation, the most obvious aid is a light-

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

I’m a writer and pixel artist. I’m on mobile so I can’t post much but here is some of my work. Also my portfolio (which I need to update) is in my bio. bsky.app/profile/robi...

Thanks, Johannes! I’m Avery and I write a lot of queer & trans (often kinky) fantasy/monster erotica & erotic romance. I have a novella that released + monthly PWYW shorts on itch and a free M/M/M serial! I also make adult-themed stickers that are available on ACGgoods :>

Monthly Trans Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #WriteSky

I'm at @portalbookshop.bsky.social in York tomorrow at 7pm, being interviewed by @aknighton.bsky.social, it's free to attend, just book a ticket at this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mike-brook...

Big thanks to everyone who came to the launch event for This Is Where The Future Bleeds at Nottingham Waterstones last night! And thanks to Waterstones for organising, @johnfrench.bsky.social for the question, and Emma for this photo!

Good morning July! Got 23 days to go until my birthday, and 30 pendants to hit my goal. Can I interest you in a spiral or two? oishiny.etsy.com #Handmade #Goals #DisabledArtist

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The witch in legend of the Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border turned herself into an elder tree. Local lore held that if the tree was cut it bled. #WyrdWednesday

#JulyWorldbuilders 1: So narrowing this down to Sacaan otherwise we'll be here all day - the main cultural thing you'll notice on Sacaask clothes is the ever-present embroidery (yes, Sabbat's gear *is* embroidered, just subtly) (Art, as always, by the wonderful @illustratedjai.bsky.social)

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