Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

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I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE SMASHWORDS SALE

The annual Smashwords sale has begun, and my ebooks are all 75% off - meaning dozens of them are completely FREE, with longer novels only a dollar or so apiece. And Smashwords makes it very easy to send gift copies, too, so send away! Browse here: www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #BookSky

All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here. Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.

oops!!!! i forgot to mention i am doing an end of year sale lol get the deals on smashwords (www.smashwords.com/profile/view...), or head over to my website (hellostarshinepub.com/product-cate...) with coupon code WINTERSALE2025 for 25% off. (psst my website has my complete catalogue 😉)

From here I will be calling this exact strain of right-wing Christofascist dispensational premillennialist apocalyptic evangelical supersessionist covenentalist Biblical-inerrantist evangelicalism that's merged almost fully with right-wing cultural issues and the US civil religion "the US heresy".

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

Changed my username to @bogwyrm

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

It's always a bit awkward when ectoplasmic puppet strings sprout from the ceiling and meld to my flesh. I'm not always in the mood for doing a little jig on the stovetop, you know?

Once again a total Norwegian dominance in the men's 20k skiathlon. Sigh. I'm sure that's very fun for Norway, but it makes for such a bummer of a watch. Zero tension.

OKAY YES—when I used to train new designers coming in, I would tell them a variation of this. Like you MUST not let your ego be tied to the work. It is tempting, but at the end of the day how well the work does/doesn’t do isn’t personal but you *will* take it personally if you don’t learn to let go.

Maybe my wishlist should be BUY MY BOOK (bc I published my 1st this September) but guess who is always forgetting I published a book? My memory is terrible, the brain fog is attacking me, and my time-blindness is out of control. I have no fucking clue what I did this year.

Mithqal's family need help, if anyone is looking for places to donate!

Wishlist! Bc why not? So I have a #Wishlist on #throne. I recently revamped it completely: all new wishes, properly organized by collection! I love the results so much, even just from a visual standpoint 😍🥰 Look at it! It's so pretty!! throne.com/drowsy It's got books and bookbinding materials!

the night belongs to them. #oc #ocsky #elfenjoyers

the final commission bell tolls! simplified spot illustrations, done in an "artists choice" style. relay to me your characters references, their hearts and hardships, and I will editorialize them. $250 for a fullbody (or) two half-bodies! opening tomorrow: friday, december 5th @ 8PM EST.

This month is... oof. So I've decided to run a 50% off sale in my Kofi shop. All books that aren't free+ are on sale if you use this link. I get paid directly from each purchase. #discountbooks ko-fi.com/shaneblackhe...

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Isn't Netflix bleeding money? (At least according to the shareholders) Isn't that why it's always whining about password sharing and raising the price and adding ads and whatnot? How the fuck can it afford to buy those at once? Also, that feels like an anti-trust violation

Apparently Smashwords royalties are changing as of January 1, 2026. Books under $2.99 will get 40% list; books $2.99 or over get 75%. (Amazon KDP, for context, is generally 35% and 70% respectively) Draft2Digital owns Smashwords, so if you publish via D2D it's easy to add ebooks there. 💙📚

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Bookbinding is so fun!!! 🔥 😳

🗺️Submissions are now open for our May issue on the themes of QUESTS & QUARRELS!⚔️ We are looking for fantasy short fiction up to 7.5k words and cover illustrations. Deadline 31 May 2026. For details visit our website at www.silversunbooks.com

Money Marriage Pussy ....okay

The Sapphic Book Advent Calendar has started! jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book... From today until December 25, you get to open a new door every day, revealing: 🎁 a free ebook 🎁 a book giveaway 🎁 or a book on sale by one of the 110 participating authors!

Mastercard is REALLY trying to pass the buck off onto banks (who, granted, ARE part of the problem but its still mostly MC and Visa) do as Ana says here and tell them your bank told you to contact THEM. easy way to tack on more time in the call stop-paypros.neocities.org

This is what you risk when you do non-union work, folks. Your voice gets turned into whatever the hell *this* is, and you get thrown out onto the streets.

Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.

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SKI SEASON HAS BEGUN

So many sales and like I don't have money left for any of them. My budget is very dead this month, lol.

DISCOUNTS! GET YER INDIE-PRESS-SUPPORTING DISCOUNTS HERE!

I feel like I haven't written a thing this month

What we’d love to see in our submissions box for our Ruins & Rituals issue (by 28 Feb): - fantasy horror set in the ruins of civilisation - ⁠forgotten rituals turned folklore - ⁠tricksy protagonists - ⁠swoony romance and queer HEAs - ⁠nothing that isn’t fantasy! - ⁠also cats www.silversunbooks.com

It's Creator Day on Itchio! Today 100% of earnings go to indie creators, so it's the perfect day to stock up on ebooks. Gift them to friends for the holidays, hoard them for later, read them immediately, have books ✨🖤 All my books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io 3 for $9.99: itch.io/s/146541/ard...

It's live!! payhip.com/marsadler

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Happy Black Friday! Both of these sapphic e-books are on sale. Providence Girls Unholy With Eyes Like Wolves

Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.

If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.

Its been like a week or 2 since I finished the first draft of *heartsick* and my brain has switched from crowing about how awesome it is to yelling about EVERYTHING BAD ABOUT IT ...GUYS THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS 😱

This video essay has been going around all week and it articulates what I've been mentally calling "that streaming look (derogatory)." Even good actors, gorgeous costuming, and real sets being shot in a way that makes them look cheap and mass produced. Literally lacking depth.

from my WIP *Lungs*, an mm contemporary novella! i'm line editing this baby rn and am super proud to have gotten this far <3 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #MMRomance

#ReadsWithRachel www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Lu...

Our Kickstarter to fund our anthology of queer monsterfucking stories, Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, has crossed the 80% funded line - less than $2k from our goal. Thanks to those who've helped us get this far. Meet two more contributors! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

porn & erotica deserve to exist on their own merit without needing to be justified by what may or may not happen later on to not-pornographic and not-erotic works